fapi-2-baseline July 2021
Fett Standards Track [Page]
Workgroup:
connect
Internet-Draft:
fapi-2_0-baseline-01
Published:
Intended Status:
Standards Track
Author:
D. Fett
yes.com

FAPI 2.0 Baseline Profile

Abstract

The Financial-grade API (FAPI) 2.0 Baseline profile is an API security profile based on the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework [RFC6749].

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Financial-grade API (FAPI) 2.0 is an API security profile based on the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework [RFC6749] and related specifications suitable for protecting APIs in high-value scenarios. While the security profile was initially developed with a focus on financial applications, it is designed to be universally applicable for protecting APIs exposing high-value and sensitive (personal and other) data, for example, in e-health and e-government applications.

1.1. Warning

This document is not an OIDF International Standard. It is distributed for review and comment. It is subject to change without notice and may not be referred to as an International Standard.

Recipients of this draft are invited to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent rights of which they are aware and to provide supporting documentation.

1.3. Notational Conventions

The keywords "shall", "shall not", "should", "should not", "may", and "can" in this document are to be interpreted as described in ISO Directive Part 2 [ISODIR2]. These keywords are not used as dictionary terms such that any occurrence of them shall be interpreted as keywords and are not to be interpreted with their natural language meanings.

2. Baseline Profile

OIDF FAPI is an API security profile based on the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework [RFC6749]. This Baseline Profile aims to reach the security goals laid out in the [Attacker Model].

2.1. Network Layer Protections

To protect against network attackers, clients, authorization servers, and resource servers shall only offer TLS protected endpoints and shall establish connections to other servers using TLS. TLS connections shall be set up to use TLS version 1.2 or later and follow [RFC7525].

Endpoints for the use by web browsers shall use methods to ensure that connections cannot be downgraded using TLS Stripping attacks. A preloaded [preload] HTTP Strict Transport Security policy [RFC6797] can be used for this purpose. Some top-level domains, like .bank and .insurance, have set such a policy and therefore protect all second-level domains below them.

For a comprehensive protection against network attackers, all endpoints should additionally use DNSSEC to protect against DNS spoofing attacks that can lead to the issuance of rogue domain-validated TLS certificates. Note: Even if an endpoint uses only organization validated (OV) or extended validation (EV) TLS certificates, rogue domain-validated certificates can be used to impersonate the endpoints and conduct man-in-the-middle attacks. CAA records [RFC8659] can help to mitigate this risk.

2.2. Profile

In the following, a profile of the following technologies is defined:

2.2.1. Requirements for Authorization Servers

Authorization servers

  1. shall distribute discovery metadata (such as the authorization endpoint) via the metadata document as specified in [OIDD] and [RFC8414]

  2. shall support the authorization code grant described in [RFC6749]

  3. shall reject requests using the resource owner password credentials grant or the implicit grant described in [RFC6749]

  4. shall support client-authenticated pushed authorization requests according to [I-D.ietf-oauth-par]

  5. shall reject authorization requests sent without [I-D.ietf-oauth-par]

  6. shall reject pushed authorization requests without client authentication

  7. shall support the authorization_details parameter according to [I-D.ietf-oauth-rar] to convey the authorization clients want to obtain if the scope parameter is not expressive enough for that purpose

  8. shall support confidential clients as defined in [RFC6749]

  9. shall only issue sender-constrained access tokens using one of the following methods:

  10. shall authenticate clients using one of the following methods:

    • MTLS as specified in section 2 of [RFC8705]

    • private_key_jwt as specified in section 9 of [OpenID]

  11. shall require PKCE [RFC7636] with S256 as the code challenge method

  12. shall require the redirect_uri parameter in pushed authorization requests

  13. shall return an iss parameter in the authorization response according to [I-D.ietf-oauth-iss-auth-resp]

  14. shall not transmit authorization responses over unencrypted network connections, and, to this end, shall not allow redirect URIs that use the "http" scheme except for native clients that use Loopback Interface Redirection as described in [RFC8252], Section 7.3,

  15. shall reject an authorization code (section 1.3.1 of [RFC6749]) if it has been previously used

  16. shall provide a means for resource servers to verify the validity, integrity, sender-constraining, scope (incl. authorization_details), expiration and revocation status of an access token, either by providing an introspection endpoint [RFC7662], by exposing signature verification keys, or by deployment-specific means.

  17. shall not use the HTTP 307 status code when redirecting a request that contains user credentials to avoid forwarding the credentials to a third party accidentally (see section 4.11 of [I-D.ietf-oauth-security-topics]);

  18. should use the HTTP 303 status code when redirecting the user agent using status codes;

  19. shall not expose open redirectors (see section 4.10 of [I-D.ietf-oauth-security-topics])

  20. shall accept its issuer identifier value (as defined in [RFC8414]) in the aud claim received in client authentication assertions.

NOTE: In order to facilitate interoperability the authorization server should also accept its token endpoint URL or the URL of the endpoint at which the assertion was received in the aud claim received in client authentication assertions.

NOTE: If replay identification of the authorization code is not possible, it is desirable to set the validity period of the authorization code to one minute or a suitable short period of time. The validity period may act as a cache control indicator of when to clear the authorization code cache if one is used.

NOTE: To enable an interoperable solution to consent management it is anticipated that future versions of this specification will reference the FAPI WG's Grant Management API.

2.2.1.1. Returning Authenticated User's Identifier

If it is desired to provide the authenticated user's identifier to the client in the token response, the authorization server shall support OpenID Connect [OpenID].

2.2.2. Requirements for Clients

Clients

  1. shall use the authorization code grant described in [RFC6749]

  2. shall use pushed authorization requests according to [I-D.ietf-oauth-par]

  3. shall support sender-constrained access tokens using one of the following methods:

  4. shall support client authentication using one of the following methods:

    • MTLS as specified in section 2 of [RFC8705]

    • private_key_jwt as specified in section 9 of [OpenID]

  5. shall use PKCE [RFC7636] with S256 as the code challenge method

  6. shall send access tokens in the HTTP header as in Section 2.1 of OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Usage [RFC6750]

  7. shall check the iss parameter in the authorization response according to [I-D.ietf-oauth-iss-auth-resp] to prevent Mix-Up attacks

  8. shall not expose open redirectors (see section 4.10 of [I-D.ietf-oauth-security-topics])

  9. if using private_key_jwt, shall use the Authorization Server's issuer identifier value (as defined in [RFC8414]) in the aud claim sent in client authentication assertions.

2.2.3. Requirements for Resource Servers

The FAPI 2.0 endpoints are OAuth 2.0 protected resource endpoints that return protected information for the resource owner associated with the submitted access token.

Resource servers with the FAPI endpoints

  1. shall accept access tokens in the HTTP header as in Section 2.1 of OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Usage [RFC6750]

  2. shall not accept access tokens in the query parameters stated in Section 2.3 of OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Usage [RFC6750]

  3. shall verify the validity, integrity, expiration and revocation status of access tokens

  4. shall verify that the scope (incl. authorization_details) of the access token authorizes the access to the resource it is representing

  5. shall support and verify sender-constrained access tokens using one of the following methods:

  6. shall identify the associated entity to the access token

  7. shall only return the resource identified by the combination of the entity implicit in the access and the granted scope and otherwise return errors as in section 3.1 of [RFC6750]

2.3. Cryptography and Secrets

  1. Authorization Servers, Clients, and Resource Servers shall adhere to [RFC8725] when creating or processing JWTs. In particular,

    • the algorithm-specific recommendations in Section 3.2 shall be followed,

    • and the none algorithm shall not be used or accepted.

  2. RSA keys shall have a minimum length of 2048 bits.

  3. Elliptic curve keys shall have a minimum length of 160 bits.

  4. Credentials not intended for handling by end-users (e.g., access tokens, refresh tokens, authorization codes, etc.) shall be created with at least 128 bits of entropy such that an attacker correctly guessing the value is computationally infeasible. Cf. Section 10.10 of  [RFC6749].

2.4. Differences to FAPI 1.0

Table 1
FAPI 1.0 Read/Write FAPI 2.0 Reasons
JAR, JARM PAR integrity protection and compatibility improvements for authorization requests; only code in response
- RAR support complex and structured information about authorizations
- shall adhere to Security BCP
s_hash - state integrity is protected by PAR; protection provided by state is now provided by PKCE
pre-registered redirect URIs redirect URIs in PAR pre-registration is not required with client authentication and PAR
response types code id_token or code response type code improve security: no ID token in front-channel; not needed
ID Token as detached signature - ID token does not need to serve as a detached signature
signed and encrypted ID Tokens signing and encryption not required ID Tokens only exchanged in back channel
exp claim in request object - ?
x-fapi-* headers - Removed pending further discussion
MTLS for sender-constrained access tokens MTLS or DPoP

2.5. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Takahiko Kawasaki, Filip Skokan, Dave Tonge, Nat Sakimura, Stuart Low, Dima Postnikov, Torsten Lodderstedt, Joseph Heenan, Travis Spencer, Brian Campbell and Ralph Bragg for their valuable feedback and contributions that helped to evolve this specification.

3. Normative References

[RFC6749]
Hardt, D., Ed., "The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework", RFC 6749, DOI 10.17487/RFC6749, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6749>.
[RFC7525]
Sheffer, Y., Holz, R., and P. Saint-Andre, "Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)", BCP 195, RFC 7525, DOI 10.17487/RFC7525, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7525>.
[RFC7636]
Sakimura, N., Ed., Bradley, J., and N. Agarwal, "Proof Key for Code Exchange by OAuth Public Clients", RFC 7636, DOI 10.17487/RFC7636, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7636>.
[I-D.ietf-oauth-par]
Lodderstedt, T., Campbell, B., Sakimura, N., Tonge, D., and F. Skokan, "OAuth 2.0 Pushed Authorization Requests", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-oauth-par-07, , <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-par-07>.
[RFC8725]
Sheffer, Y., Hardt, D., and M. Jones, "JSON Web Token Best Current Practices", BCP 225, RFC 8725, DOI 10.17487/RFC8725, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8725>.
[ISODIR2]
Standardization, I. O. F., "ISO/IEC Directives Part 2 -", , <https://www.iso.org/sites/directives/current/part2/index.xhtml>.
[RFC8659]
Hallam-Baker, P., Stradling, R., and J. Hoffman-Andrews, "DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Resource Record", RFC 8659, DOI 10.17487/RFC8659, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8659>.
[RFC8705]
Campbell, B., Bradley, J., Sakimura, N., and T. Lodderstedt, "OAuth 2.0 Mutual-TLS Client Authentication and Certificate-Bound Access Tokens", RFC 8705, DOI 10.17487/RFC8705, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8705>.
[I-D.ietf-oauth-dpop]
Fett, D., Campbell, B., Bradley, J., Lodderstedt, T., Jones, M., and D. Waite, "OAuth 2.0 Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession at the Application Layer (DPoP)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-oauth-dpop-03, , <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-dpop-03>.
[I-D.ietf-oauth-rar]
Lodderstedt, T., Richer, J., and B. Campbell, "OAuth 2.0 Rich Authorization Requests", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-oauth-rar-04, , <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-rar-04>.
[RFC6797]
Hodges, J., Jackson, C., and A. Barth, "HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)", RFC 6797, DOI 10.17487/RFC6797, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6797>.
[RFC6750]
Jones, M. and D. Hardt, "The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer Token Usage", RFC 6750, DOI 10.17487/RFC6750, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6750>.
[I-D.ietf-oauth-iss-auth-resp]
Selhausen, K. M. Z. and D. Fett, "OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server Issuer Identifier in Authorization Response", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-oauth-iss-auth-resp-00, , <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-iss-auth-resp-00>.
[OpenID]
Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., Jones, M., de Medeiros, B., and C. Mortimore, "OpenID Connect Core 1.0 incorporating errata set 1", , <http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html>.
[RFC8252]
Denniss, W. and J. Bradley, "OAuth 2.0 for Native Apps", BCP 212, RFC 8252, DOI 10.17487/RFC8252, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8252>.
[RFC7662]
Richer, J., Ed., "OAuth 2.0 Token Introspection", RFC 7662, DOI 10.17487/RFC7662, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7662>.

4. Informative References

[preload]
Anonymous, "HSTS Preload List Submission", , <https://hstspreload.org/>.
[RFC8414]
Jones, M., Sakimura, N., and J. Bradley, "OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server Metadata", RFC 8414, DOI 10.17487/RFC8414, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8414>.
[I-D.ietf-oauth-security-topics]
Lodderstedt, T., Bradley, J., Labunets, A., and D. Fett, "OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practice", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-18, , <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-18>.

Appendix A. Notices

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Author's Address

Daniel Fett
yes.com