A. Tulshibagwale | |
T. Cappalli | |
Microsoft | |
M. Scurtescu | |
Coinbase | |
A. Backman | |
Amazon | |
J. Bradley | |
Yubico | |
June 8, 2021 |
OpenID Shared Signals and Events Framework Specification 1.0 - draft 01
openid-sse-framework-1_0
This Shared Signals and Events (SSE) Framework enables sharing of signals and events between cooperating peers. It enables multiple applications such as Risk Incident Sharing and Coordination (RISC) and the Continuous Access Evaluation Profile ([CAEP])
This specification defines:
This spec also directly profiles several IETF Security Events drafts:
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.
This SSE Framework specification defines a Subject Principal to be the entities about which an event can be sent by Transmitters and received by Receivers using the SSE Framework.
Subject Principals are the managed entities in a SSE Transmitter or Receiver. These include human or robotic principals, devices, customer tenants in a multi-tenanted service, organizational units within a tenant, groups of subject principals or other entities that are managed by Transmitters and Receivers. There may be other actors or resources that can be treated as Subject Principals, and event-type definitions SHOULD specify the range of principals addressed by the event.
Subject Principals are identified by Subject Members defined below.
A member of type Subject in an SSE event MAY have any claim name. Each Subject Member MUST refer to exactly one Subject Principal.
A Subject may be a simple subject or a complex subject.
A Simple Subject Member has a claim name and a value that is a Subject Identifier as defined in the Subject Identifiers for Security Event Tokens. Below is a non-normative example of a Simple Subject Member in a SSE event.
"transferer": { "format": "email", "email": "foo@example.com" }
Figure 1: Example: Simple Subject
A Complex Subject Member has a name and a value that is a JSON object that has one or more Simple Subject Members. The name of each Simple Subject Member in this value MAY be one of the following:
Additional Subject Member names MAY be used in Complex Subjects. Each member name MAY appear at most once in the Complex Subject value.
Below is a non-normative example of a Complex Subject claim in a SSE event.
"transferee": { "user" : { "format": "email", "email": "bar@example.com" }, "tenant" : { "format": "iss_sub", "iss" : "http://example.com/idp1", "sub" : "1234" } }
Figure 2: Example: Complex Subject
All members within a Complex Subject MUST represent attributes of the same Subject Principal. As a whole, the Complex Subject MUST refer to exactly one Subject Principal.
A Subject Identifier in a SSE event MUST have an identifier format that is any one of:
The following new subject identifier formats are defined:
The "JWT ID" Subject Identifier Format specifies a JSON Web Token (JWT) identifier, defined in [RFC7519]. Subject Identifiers of this type MUST contain the following members:
The "JWT ID" Subject Identifier Format is identified by the name jwt-id.
Below is a non-normative example of Subject Identifier for the jwt-id Subject Identifier Format.
{ "format": "jwt-id", "iss": "https://idp.example.com/123456789/", "jti": "B70BA622-9515-4353-A866-823539EECBC8" }
Figure 3: Example: 'jwt-id' Subject Identifier
The "SAML Assertion ID" Subject Identifier Format specifies a SAML 2.0 [OASIS.saml-core-2.0-os] assertion identifier. Subject Identifiers of this format MUST contain the following members:
The "SAML Assertion ID" Subject Identifier Format is identified by the name saml-assertion-id.
Below is a non-normative example Subject Identifier for the saml-assertion-id Subject Identifier Format.
{ "format": "saml-assertion-id", "issuer": "https://idp.example.com/123456789/", "assertion_id": "_8e8dc5f69a98cc4c1ff3427e5ce34606fd672f91e6" }
Figure 4: Example: 'saml-assertion-id' Subject Identifier
A SSE Receiver MUST make a best effort process all members from a Subject in an SSE event. The Transmitter Configuration Metadata defined below MAY define certain members within a Complex Subject to be Critical. A SSE Receiver MUST discard any event that contains a Subject with a Critical member that it is unable to process.
Additional members about an event may be included in the events claim. Some of these members are required and specified as such in the respective event types specs. If a Transmitter determines that it needs to include additional members that are not specified in the event types spec, then the name of such members MUST be a URI. The discoverability of all additional members is specified in the Discovery section.
The following are hypothetical examples of SETs that conform to the SSE framework.
{ "iss": "https://idp.example.com/", "jti": "756E69717565206964656E746966696572", "iat": 1520364019, "aud": "636C69656E745F6964", "events": { "https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/risc/event-type/account-enabled": { "subject": { "format": "email", "email": "foo@example.com" } } } }
Figure 5: Example: SET Containing a SSE Event with a Simple Subject Member
{ "iss": "https://idp.example.com/", "jti": "756E69717565206964656E746966696572", "iat": 1520364019, "aud": "636C69656E745F6964", "events": { "https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/caep/event-type/session-revoked": { "subject": { "user": { "format": "iss_sub", "iss": "https://idp.example.com/3957ea72-1b66-44d6-a044-d805712b9288/", "sub": "jane.smith@example.com" }, "device": { "format": "iss_sub", "iss": "https://idp.example.com/3957ea72-1b66-44d6-a044-d805712b9288/", "sub": "e9297990-14d2-42ec-a4a9-4036db86509a" } } "initiating_entity": "policy", "reason_admin": "Policy Violation: C076E82F", "reason_user": "Landspeed violation.", "event_timestamp": 1600975810 } } }
Figure 6: Example: SET Containing a SSE Event with a Complex Subject Member
{ "iss": "https://sp.example2.com/", "jti": "756E69717565206964656E746966696572", "iat": 1520364019, "aud": "636C69656E745F6964", "events": { "https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/caep/event-type/token-claims-change": { "subject": { "format": "email", "email": "foo@example2.com" }, "event_timestamp": 1600975810, "claims": { "role": "ro-admin" } } } }
Figure 7: Example: SET Containing a SSE Event with a Simple Subject and a Property Member
{ "iss": "https://myservice.example3.com/", "jti": "756E69717565206964656E746966696534", "iat": 15203800012, "aud": "636C69656E745F6324", "events": { "https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/caep/event-type/token-claims-change": { "subject": { "format": "catalog_item", "catalog_id": "c0384/winter/2354122" }, "event_timestamp": 1600975810, "claims": { "role": "ro-admin" } } } }
Figure 8: Example: SET Containing a SSE Event with a Proprietary Subject Identifier Format
This section defines a mechanism for Receivers to obtain Transmitter configuration information.
Transmitters have metadata describing their configuration:
TODO: consider adding a IANA Registry for metadata, similar to Section 7.1.1 of [OAUTH-DISCOVERY]. This would allow other specs to add to the metadata.
Using the Issuer as documented by the Transmitter, the Transmitter Configuration Information can be retrieved.
Transmitters supporting Discovery MUST make a JSON document available at the path formed by inserting the string /.well-known/sse-configuration into the Issuer between the host component and the path component, if any. The syntax and semantics of .well-known are defined in [RFC5785]. sse-configuration MUST point to a JSON document compliant with this specification and MUST be returned using the application/json content type.
A Transmitter Configuration Document MUST be queried using an HTTP GET request at the previously specified path.
GET /.well-known/sse-configuration HTTP/1.1 Host: tr.example.com
Figure 9: Example: Transmitter Configuration Request (without path)
The Receiver would make the following request to the Issuer https://tr.example.com to obtain its Configuration information, since the Issuer contains no path component:
GET /.well-known/sse-configuration/issuer1 HTTP/1.1 Host: tr.example.com
Figure 10: Example: Transmitter Configuration Request (with path)
If the Issuer value contains a path component, any terminating / MUST be removed before inserting /.well-known/sse-configuration between the host component and the path component. The Receiver would make the following request to the Issuer https://tr.example.com/issuer1 to obtain its Configuration information, since the Issuer contains a path component:
Using path components enables supporting multiple issuers per host. This is required in some multi-tenant hosting configurations. This use of .well-known is for supporting multiple issuers per host; unlike its use in [RFC5785], it does not provide general information about the host.
The response is a set of Claims about the Transmitter's configuration, including all necessary endpoints and public key location information. A successful response MUST use the 200 OK HTTP status code and return a JSON object using the application/json content type that contains a set of Claims as its members that are a subset of the Metadata values defined in Section 6.1. Other Claims MAY also be returned.
Claims that return multiple values are represented as JSON arrays. Claims with zero elements MUST be omitted from the response.
An error response uses the applicable HTTP status code value.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json { "issuer": "https://tr.example.com", "jwks_uri": "https://tr.example.com/jwks.json", "delivery_methods_supported": [ "https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/risc/delivery-method/push", "https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/risc/delivery-method/poll"], "configuration_endpoint": "https://tr.example.com/sse/mgmt/stream", "status_endpoint": "https://tr.example.com/sse/mgmt/status", "add_subject_endpoint": "https://tr.example.com/sse/mgmt/subject:add", "remove_subject_endpoint": "https://tr.example.com/sse/mgmt/subject:remove", "verification_endpoint": "https://tr.example.com/sse/mgmt/verification", "critical_subject_members": [ "tenant", "user" ] }
Figure 11: Example: Transmitter Configuration Response
If any of the validation procedures defined in this specification fail, any operations requiring the information that failed to correctly validate MUST be aborted and the information that failed to validate MUST NOT be used.
The issuer value returned MUST be identical to the Issuer URL that was directly used to retrieve the configuration information. This MUST also be identical to the iss Claim value in Security Event Tokens issued from this Transmitter.
This section defines an HTTP API to be implemented by Event Transmitters and that can be used by Event Receivers to query and update the Event Stream configuration and status, to add and remove subjects and to trigger verification.
This section is based on Management API for SET Event Streams.
+------------+ +------------+ | | Stream Config | | | Event <----------------+ Event | | Stream | | Receiver | | Management | Stream Status | | | API <----------------+ | | | | | | | Add Subject | | | <----------------+ | | | | | | | Remove Subject | | | <----------------+ | | | | | | | Stream Updated | | | +----------------> | | | | | | | Verification | | | <----------------+ | | | | | +------------+ +------------+
Figure 12: Event Stream Management API
It is OPTIONAL for Transmitters to implement a Management API, but it is RECOMMENDED that they implement it, especially the endpoints for querying the Stream Status and for triggering Verification.
Event Receivers manage how they receive events, and the subjects about which they want to receive events over an Event Stream by making HTTP requests to endpoints in the Event Stream Management API.
A Transmitter and Receiver MAY use the same Event Stream for updates about multiple Subject Principals. The status of the Event Stream MAY be queried and managed independently for each Subject Principal by Transmitters and Receivers.
The Event Stream Management API is implemented by the Event Transmitter and consists of the following endpoints:
An Event Transmitter MAY use the same URLs as endpoints for multiple streams, provided that the Event Transmitter has some mechanism through which they can identify the applicable Event Stream for any given request, e.g. from authentication credentials. The definition of such mechanisms is outside the scope of this specification.
Within an Event Stream, events related to different Subject Principals MAY be managed independently. A Receiver MAY request Subject Principals to be added to or removed from a stream by Updating the Stream Status and specifying the Subject in the request.
A Transmitter MAY decide to enable, pause or disable updates about a Subject independently of an update request from a Receiver. If a Transmitter decides to start or stop events for a Subject then the Transmitter MUST do the following according to the status of the stream
If the stream is:
An Event Receiver checks the current status of an event stream by making an HTTP GET request to the stream’s Status Endpoint.
The Stream Status method takes the following parameters:
On receiving a valid request the Event Transmitter responds with a 200 OK response containing a JSON object with an attribute status, whose string value MUST have one of the following values:
The following is a non-normative example request to check an event stream’s status:
GET /sse/status HTTP/1.1 Host: transmitter.example.com Authorization: Bearer zzzz
Figure 13: Example: Check Stream Status Request
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 Cache-Control: no-store Pragma: no-cache { "status": "enabled" }
Figure 14: Example: Check Stream Status Response
The following is a non-normative example response:
GET /sse/status?subject=<url-encoded-subject> HTTP/1.1 Host: transmitter.example.com Authorization: Bearer eyJ0b2tlbiI6ImV4YW1wbGUifQo=
Figure 15: Example: Check Stream Status Request with Subject
The following is a non-normative example request to check an event stream's status for a specific subject:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 Cache-Control: no-store Pragma: no-cache { "status": "enabled", "subject": { "tenant" : { "format" : "iss_sub", "iss" : "http://example.com/idp1", "sub" : "1234" } } }
Figure 16: Example: Check Stream Status Response
The following is a non-normative example response with a Subject claim:
Errors are signaled with HTTP status codes as follows:
Code | Description |
---|---|
401 | if authorization failed or it is missing |
403 | if the Event Receiver is not allowed to read the stream status |
404 | if there is no Event Stream configured for this Event Receiver, or if the Subject specified is invalid or if the Receiver is not authorized to get status for the specified Subject. |
Examples:
An Event Receiver updates the current status of a stream by making an HTTP POST request to the Status Endpoint. The POST body contains a JSON object with the following fields: 200 OK response containing a JSON representation of the updated stream status in the body.
On receiving a valid request the Event Transmitter responds with a
POST /sse/status HTTP/1.1 Host: transmitter.example.com Authorization: Bearer eyJ0b2tlbiI6ImV4YW1wbGUifQo= { "status": "paused" }
Figure 17: Example: Update Stream Status Request Without Optional Fields
The following is a non-normative example request to update an Event Stream’s status:
POST /sse/status HTTP/1.1 Host: transmitter.example.com Authorization: Bearer eyJ0b2tlbiI6ImV4YW1wbGUifQo= { "status": "paused", "subject": { "tenant" : { "format" : "iss_sub", "iss" : "http://example.com/idp1", "sub" : "1234" } }, "reason": "Disabled by administrator action." }
Figure 18: Example: Update Stream Status Request With Optional Fields
The following is a non-normative example of an Update Stream Status request with optional fields:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 Cache-Control: no-store Pragma: no-cache { "status": "paused" }
Figure 19: Example: Update Stream Status Response
The following is a non-normative example response:
Errors are signaled with HTTP status codes as follows:
Code | Description |
---|---|
202 | if the update request has been accepted, but not processed. Receiver MAY try the same request later in order to get processing result. |
400 | if the request body cannot be parsed or if the request is otherwise invalid |
401 | if authorization failed or it is missing |
403 | if the Event Receiver is not allowed to update the stream status |
404 | if there is no Event Stream configured for this Event Receiver, or if an invalid Subject is specified. |
Example:
An Event Stream’s configuration is represented as a JSON object with the following properties:
TODO: consider adding a IANA Registry for stream configuration metadata, similar to Section 7.1.1 of [OAUTH-DISCOVERY]. This would allow other specs to add to the stream configuration.
An Event Receiver gets the current configuration of a stream by making an HTTP GET request to the Configuration Endpoint. On receiving a valid request the Event Transmitter responds with a 200 OK response containing a JSON representation of the stream’s configuration in the body.
The following is a non-normative example request to read an Event Stream’s configuration:
GET /sse/stream HTTP/1.1 Host: transmitter.example.com Authorization: Bearer eyJ0b2tlbiI6ImV4YW1wbGUifQo=
Figure 20: Example: Read Stream Configuration Request
The following is a non-normative example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 Cache-Control: no-store Pragma: no-cache { "iss": "https://tr.example.com", "aud": [ "http://receiver.example.com/web", "http://receiver.example.com/mobile" ], "delivery": { "delivery_method": "https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/risc/delivery-method/push", "url": "https://receiver.example.com/events" }, "events_supported": [ "urn:example:secevent:events:type_1", "urn:example:secevent:events:type_2", "urn:example:secevent:events:type_3" ], "events_requested": [ "urn:example:secevent:events:type_2", "urn:example:secevent:events:type_3", "urn:example:secevent:events:type_4" ], "events_delivered": [ "urn:example:secevent:events:type_2", "urn:example:secevent:events:type_3" ] }
Figure 21: Example: Read Stream Configuration Response
Errors are signaled with HTTP status codes as follows:
Code | Description |
---|---|
401 | if authorization failed or it is missing |
403 | if the Event Receiver is not allowed to read the stream configuration |
404 | if there is no Event Stream configured for this Event Receiver |
An Event Receiver updates the current configuration of a stream by making an HTTP POST request to the Configuration Endpoint. The POST body contains a JSON representation of the updated configuration. On receiving a valid request the Event Transmitter responds with a 200 OK response containing a JSON representation of the updated stream configuration in the body.
The full set of editable properties must be present in the POST body, not only the ones that are specifically intended to be changed. Missing properties SHOULD be interpreted as requested to be deleted. Event Receivers should read the configuration first, modify the JSON representation, then make an update request.
Properties that cannot be updated MAY be present, but they MUST match the expected value.
The following is a non-normative example request to update an Event Stream’s configuration:
POST /sse/stream HTTP/1.1 Host: transmitter.example.com Authorization: Bearer eyJ0b2tlbiI6ImV4YW1wbGUifQo= { "iss": "https://tr.example.com", "aud": [ "http://receiver.example.com/web", "http://receiver.example.com/mobile" ], "delivery": { "delivery_method": "https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/risc/delivery-method/push", "url": "https://receiver.example.com/events" }, "events_requested": [ "urn:example:secevent:events:type_2", "urn:example:secevent:events:type_3", "urn:example:secevent:events:type_4" ] }
Figure 22: Example: Update Stream Configuration Request
The following is a non-normative example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 Cache-Control: no-store Pragma: no-cache { "iss": "https://tr.example.com", "aud": [ "http://receiver.example.com/web", "http://receiver.example.com/mobile" ], "delivery": { "delivery_method": "https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/risc/delivery-method/push", "url": "https://receiver.example.com/events" }, "events_supported": [ "urn:example:secevent:events:type_1", "urn:example:secevent:events:type_2", "urn:example:secevent:events:type_3" ], "events_requested": [ "urn:example:secevent:events:type_2", "urn:example:secevent:events:type_3", "urn:example:secevent:events:type_4" ], "events_delivered": [ "urn:example:secevent:events:type_2", "urn:example:secevent:events:type_3" ] }
Figure 23: Example: Update Stream Configuration Response
Pending conditions or errors are signaled with HTTP status codes as follows:
Code | Description |
---|---|
202 | if the update request has been accepted, but not processed. Receiver MAY try the same request later in order to get processing result. |
400 | if the request body cannot be parsed or if the request is otherwise invalid |
401 | if authorization failed or it is missing |
403 | if the Event Receiver is not allowed to update the stream configuration |
404 | if there is no Event Stream configured for this Event Receiver |
An Event Receiver removes the configuration of a stream by making an HTTP DELETE request to the Configuration Endpoint. On receiving a request the Event Transmitter responds with a 200 OK response if the configuration was successfully removed.
The following is a non-normative example request to remove an Event Stream’s configuration:
DELETE /sse/stream HTTP/1.1 Host: transmitter.example.com Authorization: Bearer eyJ0b2tlbiI6ImV4YW1wbGUifQo=
Figure 24: Example: Remove Stream Configuration Request
Errors are signaled with HTTP status codes as follows:
Code | Description |
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401 | if authorization failed or it is missing |
403 | if the Event Receiver is not allowed to update the stream configuration |
An Event Receiver can indicate to an Event Transmitter whether or not the receiver wants to receive events about a particular subject by “adding” or “removing” that subject to the Event Stream, respectively.
To add a subject to an Event Stream, the Event Receiver makes an HTTP POST request to the Add Subject Endpoint, containing in the body a JSON object the following claims:
On a successful response, the Event Transmitter responds with an empty 200 OK response. The Event Transmitter MAY choose to silently ignore the request, for example if the subject has previously indicated to the transmitter that they do not want events to be transmitted to the Event Receiver. In this case, the transmitter MAY return an empty 200 OK response or an appropriate error code. See Security Considerations.
Errors are signaled with HTTP status codes as follows:
Code | Description |
---|---|
400 | if the request body cannot be parsed or if the request is otherwise invalid |
401 | if authorization failed or it is missing |
403 | if the Event Receiver is not allowed to add this particular subject, or not allowed to add in general |
404 | if the subject is not recognized by the Event Transmitter, the Event Transmitter may chose to stay silent in this case and respond with 200 |
429 | if the Event Receiver is sending too many requests in a given amount of time |
The following is a non-normative example request to add a subject to a stream, where the subject is identified by an Email Subject Identifier.
POST /sse/subjects:add HTTP/1.1 Host: transmitter.example.com Authorization: Bearer eyJ0b2tlbiI6ImV4YW1wbGUifQo= { "subject": { "format": "email", "email": "example.user@example.com" }, "verified": true }
Figure 25: Example: Add Subject Request
The following is a non-normative example response to a successful request:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: transmitter.example.com Cache-Control: no-store Pragma: no-cache
Figure 26: Example: Add Subject Response
To remove a subject from an Event Stream, the Event Receiver makes an HTTP POST request to the Remove Subject Endpoint, containing in the body a JSON object with the following claims:
On a successful response, the Event Transmitter responds with a 204 No Content response.
Errors are signaled with HTTP status codes as follows:
Code | Description |
---|---|
400 | if the request body cannot be parsed or if the request is otherwise invalid |
401 | if authorization failed or it is missing |
403 | if the Event Receiver is not allowed to remove this particular subject, or not allowed to remove in general |
404 | if the subject is not recognized by the Event Transmitter, the Event Transmitter may chose to stay silent in this case and respond with 204 |
429 | if the Event Receiver is sending too many requests in a given amount of time |
The following is a non-normative example request where the subject is identified by a Phone Number Subject Identifier:
POST /sse/subjects:remove HTTP/1.1 Host: transmitter.example.com Authorization: Bearer eyJ0b2tlbiI6ImV4YW1wbGUifQo= { "subject": { "format": "phone", "phone_number": "+1 206 555 0123" } }
Figure 27: Example: Remove Subject Request
The following is a non-normative example response to a successful request:
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content Server: transmitter.example.com Cache-Control: no-store Pragma: no-cache
Figure 28: Example: Remove Subject Response
In some cases, the frequency of event transmission on an Event Stream will be very low, making it difficult for an Event Receiver to tell the difference between expected behavior and event transmission failure due to a misconfigured stream. Event Receivers can request that a verification event be transmitted over the Event Stream, allowing the receiver to confirm that the stream is configured correctly upon successful receipt of the event. The acknowledgment of a Verification Event also confirms to the Event Transmitter that end-to-end delivery is working, including signature verification and encryption.
An Event Transmitter MAY send a Verification Event at any time, even if one was not requested by the Event Receiver.
The Verification Event is a standard SET with the following attributes:
Upon receiving a Verification Event, the Event Receiver SHALL parse the SET and validate its claims. In particular, the Event Receiver SHALL confirm that the value for state is as expected. If the value of state does not match, an error response of setData SHOULD be returned (see Section 2.3 of [DELIVERYPUSH] or [DELIVERYPOLL]).
In many cases, Event Transmitters MAY disable or suspend an Event Stream that fails to successfully verify based on the acknowledgement or lack of acknowledgement by the Event Receiver.
To request that a verification event be sent over an Event Stream, the Event Receiver makes an HTTP POST request to the Verification Endpoint, with a JSON object containing the parameters of the verification request, if any. On a successful request, the event transmitter responds with an empty 204 No Content response.
Verification requests have the following properties:
A successful response from a POST to the Verification Endpoint does not indicate that the verification event was transmitted successfully, only that the Event Transmitter has transmitted the event or will do so at some point in the future. Event Transmitters MAY transmit the event via an asynchronous process, and SHOULD publish an SLA for verification event transmission times. Event Receivers MUST NOT depend on the verification event being transmitted synchronously or in any particular order relative to the current queue of events.
Errors are signaled with HTTP status codes as follows:
Code | Description |
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400 | if the request body cannot be parsed or if the request is otherwise invalid |
401 | if authorization failed or it is missing |
429 | if the Event Receiver is sending too many requests in a given amount of time; see related min_verification_interval in Section 7.1.2 |
The following is a non-normative example request to trigger a verification event:
POST /sse/verify HTTP/1.1 Host: transmitter.example.com Authorization: Bearer eyJ0b2tlbiI6ImV4YW1wbGUifQo= Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 { "state": "VGhpcyBpcyBhbiBleGFtcGxlIHN0YXRlIHZhbHVlLgo=" }
Figure 29: Example: Trigger Verification Request
The following is a non-normative example response to a successful request:
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content Server: transmitter.example.com Cache-Control: no-store Pragma: no-cache
Figure 30: Example: Trigger Verification Response
And the following is a non-normative example of a verification event sent to the Event Receiver as a result of the above request:
{ "jti": "123456", "iss": "https://transmitter.example.com", "aud": "receiver.example.com", "iat": 1493856000, "events": { "https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/sse/event-type/verification":{ "state": "VGhpcyBpcyBhbiBleGFtcGxlIHN0YXRlIHZhbHVlLgo=" } } }
Figure 31: Example: Verification SET
A Transmitter MAY change the stream status in reference to one or more Subjects without a request from a Receiver. The Transmitter sends an event of type https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/sse/event-type/stream-updated to indicate that it has changed the status of the Event Stream for a specific Subject.
If a Transmitter decides to change the status of an Event Stream from enabled to either paused or disabled, then the Transmitter MUST send this event to any Receiver that is currently enabled to receive events for the specified Subject.
If the Transmitter changes the status of the stream for a Subject from either paused or disabled to enabled, then it MUST send this event to any Receiver that has previously been enabled to receive events for the specified Subject.
The stream-updated event MAY contain the following claims:
{ "jti": "123456", "iss": "https://transmitter.example.com", "aud": "receiver.example.com", "iat": 1493856000, "events": { "https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/sse/event-type/stream-updated": { "subject": { "tenant" : { "format": "iss_sub", "iss" : "http://example.com/idp1", "sub" : "1234" } }, "status": "paused", "reason": "License is not valid" }, } }
Figure 32: Example: Stream Updated SET
HTTP API calls from a Receiver to a Transmitter SHOULD be authorized by providing an OAuth 2.0 Access Token as defined by [RFC6750].
The receiver may obtain an access token using the Client Credential Grant, or any other method suitable for the Receiver and the Transmitter.
It may be possible for an Event Transmitter to leak information about subjects through their responses to add subject requests. A 404 response may indicate to the Event Receiver that the subject does not exist, which may inadvertently reveal information about the subject (e.g. that a particular individual does or does not use the Event Transmitter’s service).
Event Transmitters SHOULD carefully evaluate the conditions under which they will return error responses to add subject requests. Event Transmitters MAY return a 204 response even if they will not actually send any events related to the subject, and Event Receivers MUST NOT assume that a 204 response means that they will receive events related to the subject.
SETs may contain personally identifiable information (PII) or other non-public information about the event transmitter, the subject (of an event in the SET), or the relationship between the two. It is important for Event Transmitters to understand what information they are revealing to Event Receivers when transmitting events to them, lest the event stream become a vector for unauthorized access to private information.
Event Transmitters SHOULD interpret add subject requests as statements of interest in a subject by an Event Receiver, and ARE NOT obligated to transmit events related to every subject an Event Receiver adds to the stream. Event Transmitters MAY choose to transmit some, all, or no events related to any given subject and SHOULD validate that they are permitted to share the information contained within an event with the Event Receiver before transmitting the event. The mechanisms by which such validation is performed are outside the scope of this specification.
A malicious party may find it advantageous to remove a particular subject from a stream, in order to reduce the Event Receiver’s ability to detect malicious activity related to the subject, inconvenience the subject, or for other reasons. Consequently it may be in the best interests of the subject for the Event Transmitter to continue to send events related to the subject for some time after the subject has been removed from a stream.
Event Transmitters MAY continue sending events related to a subject for some amount of time after that subject has been removed from the stream. Event Receivers MUST tolerate receiving events for subjects that have been removed from the stream, and MUST NOT report these events as errors to the Event Transmitter.
Event issuers and recipients SHOULD take precautions to ensure that they do not leak information about subjects via Subject Identifiers, and choose appropriate Subject Identifier Types accordingly. Parties SHOULD NOT identify a subject using a given Subject Identifier Type if doing so will allow the recipient to correlate different claims about the subject that they are not known to already have knowledge of. Transmitters and Receivers SHOULD always use the same Subject Identifier Type and the same claim values to identify a given subject when communicating with a given party in order to reduce the possibility of information leakage.
If SSE events contain new values for attributes of Subject Principals that were previously exchanged between the Transmitter and Receiver, then there are no additional privacy considerations introduced by providing the updated values in the SSE events, unless the attribute was exchanged under a one-time consent obtained from the user.
Data that was not previously exchanged between the Transmitter and the Receiver, or data whose consent to exchange has expired has the following considerations:
If a user has previously agreed with a Transmitter that they agree to release certain data to third-parties, then the Transmitter MAY send such data in SSE events without additional consent of the user. Such data MAY include organizational data about the Subject Principal that was generated by the Transmitter.
If a Transmitter intends to include data in SSE events that is not previously consented to be released by the user, then the Transmitter MUST obtain consent to release such data from the user in accordance with the Transmitter's privacy policy.
This section is a profile of the following IETF SecEvent specifications:
The RISC use cases that set the requirements are described in Security Events RISC Use Cases.
The CAEP use cases that set the requirements are described in CAEP Use Cases (TODO: Add reference when file is added to repository.)
This section provides SSE profiling specifications for the "Security Event Token (SET)" spec.
The signature key can be obtained through jwks_uri, see Section 6.
The subject of a SSE event is identified by the subject claim within the event payload, whose value is a Subject Identifier. The subject claim is REQUIRED for all SSE events. The JWT sub claim MUST NOT be present in any SET containing a SSE event.
The SSE event MAY contain additional claims within the event payload that are specific to the event type.
{ "iss": "https://idp.example.com/", "jti": "756E69717565206964656E746966696572", "iat": 1520364019, "aud": "636C69656E745F6964", "events": { "https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/risc/event-type/account-\ disabled": { "subject": { "format": "phone", "phone_number": "+1 206 555 0123" }, "reason": "hijacking", "cause-time": 1508012752 } } }
Figure 33: Example: SET Containing a RISC Event with a Phone Number Subject
{ "iss": "https://idp.example.com/", "jti": "756E69717565206964656E746966696572", "iat": 1520364019, "aud": "636C69656E745F6964", "events": { "https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/caep/event-type/token-claims-changed": { "subject": { "format": "email", "email": "user@example.com" }, "token": "some-token-value", } } }
Figure 34: Example: SET Containing a CAEP Event with Properties
SSE events MUST use explicit typing as defined in Section 2.3 of [SET].
{ "typ":"secevent+jwt", "alg":"HS256" }
Figure 35: Explicitly Typed JOSE Header
The purpose is defense against confusion with other JWTs, as described in Sections 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 of [SET]. While current Id Token validators may not be using the typ header parameter, by requiring it for SSE SETs a distinct value is guaranteed for future validators.
The exp claim MUST NOT be used in SSE SETs.
The purpose is defense in depth against confusion with other JWTs, as described in Sections 4.5 and 4.6 of [SET].
The aud claim can be a single value or an array. Each value SHOULD be the OAuth 2.0 client ID. Other values that uniquely identifies the Receiver to the Transmitter MAY be used, if the two parties have agreement on the format.
More than one value can be present if the corresponding Receivers are known to the Transmitter to be the same entity, for example a web client and a mobile client of the same application. All the Receivers in this case MUST use the exact same delivery method.
If multiple Receivers have the exact same delivery configuration but the Transmitter does not know if they belong to the same entity then the Transmitter SHOULD issue distinct SETs for each Receiver and deliver them separately. In this case the multiple Receivers might use the same service to process SETs, and this service might reroute SETs to respective Receivers, an aud claim with multiple Receivers would lead to unintended data disclosure.
{ "jti": "123456", "iss": "https://transmitter.example.com", "aud": ["receiver.example.com/web", "receiver.example.com/mobile"], "iat": 1493856000, "events": { "https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/sse/event-type/verification": { "state": "VGhpcyBpcyBhbiBleGFtcGxlIHN0YXRlIHZhbHVlLgo=" } } }
Figure 36: Example: SET with array 'aud' claim
The events claim SHOULD contain only one event. Multiple event type URIs are permitted only if they are alternative URIs defining the exact same event type.
Of particular concern is the possibility that SETs are confused for other kinds of JWTs. The Security Considerations section of [SET] has several sub-sections on this subject. The SSE Framework is asking for further restrictions:
This section provides SSE profiling specifications for the [DELIVERYPUSH] and [DELIVERYPOLL] specs.
Each delivery method is identified by a URI, specified below by the method metadata.
This section provides SSE profiling specifications for the [DELIVERYPUSH] spec.
This section provides SSE profiling specifications for the [DELIVERYPOLL] spec.
Subject Identifiers defined in this document will be added to the "Security Events Subject Identifier Types" registry. This registry is defined in the Subject Identifiers for Security Event Tokens specification.
[CAEP] | Tulshibagwale, A., "Re-thinking Federated Identity with the Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol", February 2019. |
[MGMTAPI] | Scurtescu, M. and A. Backman, "Management API for SET Event Streams", June 2017. |
[USECASES] | Scurtescu, M., "Security Events RISC Use Cases", June 2017. |
The authors wish to thank all members of the OpenID Foundation Shared Signals and Events Working Group who contributed to the development of this specification.
Transmitter Configuration Discovery is based on both OpenID Connect Discovery 1.0 and OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server Metadata.
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