Sessions on the web are fragile. They have been attacked successfully in many ways, by network-level attacks, by direct attacks on session cookies (the main mechanism for implementing the session concept) and by application-level attacks where the integrity of sessions is violated by means of cross-site request forgery or malicious script inclusion. This paper defines a variant of non-interference-the classical security notion from information flow security-that can be used to formally define the notion of client-side application-level web session integrity. The paper also develops and proves correct an enforcement mechanism. Combined with state-of-the-art countermeasures for network-level and cookie-level attacks, this enforcement mechanism gives very strong assurance about the client-side preservation of session integrity for authenticated sessions.

Client Side Web Session Integrity as a Non-Interference Property

KHAN, WILAYAT;CALZAVARA, STEFANO;BUGLIESI, Michele;
2014-01-01

Abstract

Sessions on the web are fragile. They have been attacked successfully in many ways, by network-level attacks, by direct attacks on session cookies (the main mechanism for implementing the session concept) and by application-level attacks where the integrity of sessions is violated by means of cross-site request forgery or malicious script inclusion. This paper defines a variant of non-interference-the classical security notion from information flow security-that can be used to formally define the notion of client-side application-level web session integrity. The paper also develops and proves correct an enforcement mechanism. Combined with state-of-the-art countermeasures for network-level and cookie-level attacks, this enforcement mechanism gives very strong assurance about the client-side preservation of session integrity for authenticated sessions.
2014
Information Systems Security - 10th International Conference, ICISS 2014,
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