authentication: use hidden form instead of referer

This also gives us some CSRF protection. Note that we make use of the
hmac to protect the redirect value.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

1 files changed, 121 insertions, 79 deletions

@@ -33,15 +33,28 @@ local secret = "BE SURE TO CUSTOMIZE THIS STRING TO SOMETHING BIG AND RANDOM"
 --
 --
 
--- Sets HTTP cookie headers based on post
+-- Sets HTTP cookie headers based on post and sets up redirection.
 function authenticate_post()
         local password = users[post["username"]]
-        -- TODO: Implement time invariant string comparison function to mitigate against timing attack.
+        local redirect = validate_value(post["redirect"])
+
+        if redirect == nil then
+                not_found()
+                return 0
+        end
+
+        redirect_to(redirect)
+
+        -- TODO: Implement time invariant string comparison function to mitigate timing attack.
         if password == nil or password ~= post["password"] then
-                construct_cookie("", "cgitauth")
+                set_cookie("cgitauth", "")
         else
-                construct_cookie(post["username"], "cgitauth")
+                -- One week expiration time
+                local username = secure_value(post["username"], os.time() + 604800)
+                set_cookie("cgitauth", username)
         end
+
+        html("\n")
         return 0
 end
 
@@ -54,8 +67,8 @@ function authenticate_cookie()
                 return 1
         end
 
-        local username = validate_cookie(get_cookie(http["cookie"], "cgitauth"))
-        if username == nil or not accepted_users[username] then
+        local username = validate_value(get_cookie(http["cookie"], "cgitauth"))
+        if username == nil or not accepted_users[username:lower()] then
                 return 0
         else
                 return 1
@@ -68,6 +81,9 @@ function body()
         html("<form method='post' action='")
         html_attr(cgit["login"])
         html("'>")
+        html("<input type='hidden' name='redirect' value='")
+        html_attr(secure_value(cgit["url"], 0))
+        html("' />")
         html("<table>")
         html("<tr><td><label for='username'>Username:</label></td><td><input id='username' name='username' autofocus /></td></tr>")
         html("<tr><td><label for='password'>Password:</label></td><td><input id='password' name='password' type='password' /></td></tr>")
@@ -78,81 +94,10 @@ function body()
 end
 
 
---
---
--- Cookie construction and validation helpers.
---
---
-
-local crypto = require("crypto")
-
--- Returns username of cookie if cookie is valid. Otherwise returns nil.
-function validate_cookie(cookie)
-        local i = 0
-        local username = ""
-        local expiration = 0
-        local salt = ""
-        local hmac = ""
-
-        if cookie:len() < 3 or cookie:sub(1, 1) == "|" then
-                return nil
-        end
-
-        for component in string.gmatch(cookie, "[^|]+") do
-                if i == 0 then
-                        username = component
-                elseif i == 1 then
-                        expiration = tonumber(component)
-                        if expiration == nil then
-                                expiration = 0
-                        end
-                elseif i == 2 then
-                        salt = component
-                elseif i == 3 then
-                        hmac = component
-                else
-                        break
-                end
-                i = i + 1
-        end
-
-        if hmac == nil or hmac:len() == 0 then
-                return nil
-        end
-
-        -- TODO: implement time invariant comparison to prevent against timing attack.
-        if hmac ~= crypto.hmac.digest("sha1", username .. "|" .. tostring(expiration) .. "|" .. salt, secret) then
-                return nil
-        end
-
-        if expiration <= os.time() then
-                return nil
-        end
-
-        return username:lower()
-end
-
-function construct_cookie(username, cookie)
-        local authstr = ""
-        if username:len() > 0 then
-                -- One week expiration time
-                local expiration = os.time() + 604800
-                local salt = crypto.hex(crypto.rand.bytes(16))
-
-                authstr = username .. "|" .. tostring(expiration) .. "|" .. salt
-                authstr = authstr .. "|" .. crypto.hmac.digest("sha1", authstr, secret)
-        end
-
-        html("Set-Cookie: " .. cookie .. "=" .. authstr .. "; HttpOnly")
-        if http["https"] == "yes" or http["https"] == "on" or http["https"] == "1" then
-                html("; secure")
-        end
-        html("\n")
-end
 
 --
 --
--- Wrapper around filter API follows below, exposing the http table, the cgit table, and the post table to the above functions.
+-- Wrapper around filter API, exposing the http table, the cgit table, and the post table to the above functions.
 --
 --
 
@@ -197,7 +142,7 @@ end
 
 --
 --
--- Utility functions follow below, based on keplerproject/wsapi.
+-- Utility functions based on keplerproject/wsapi.
 --
 --
 
@@ -211,6 +156,16 @@ function url_decode(str)
         return str
 end
 
+function url_encode(str)
+        if not str then
+                return ""
+        end
+        str = string.gsub(str, "\n", "\r\n")
+        str = string.gsub(str, "([^%w ])", function (c) return string.format("%%%02X", string.byte(c)) end)
+        str = string.gsub(str, " ", "+")
+        return str
+end
+
 function parse_qs(qs)
         local tab = {}
         for key, val in string.gmatch(qs, "([^&=]+)=([^&=]*)&?") do
@@ -223,3 +178,90 @@ function get_cookie(cookies, name)
         cookies = string.gsub(";" .. cookies .. ";", "%s*;%s*", ";")
         return url_decode(string.match(cookies, ";" .. name .. "=(.-);"))
 end
+
+
+--
+--
+-- Cookie construction and validation helpers.
+--
+--
+
+local crypto = require("crypto")
+
+-- Returns value of cookie if cookie is valid. Otherwise returns nil.
+function validate_value(cookie)
+        local i = 0
+        local value = ""
+        local expiration = 0
+        local salt = ""
+        local hmac = ""
+
+        if cookie == nil or cookie:len() < 3 or cookie:sub(1, 1) == "|" then
+                return nil
+        end
+
+        for component in string.gmatch(cookie, "[^|]+") do
+                if i == 0 then
+                        value = component
+                elseif i == 1 then
+                        expiration = tonumber(component)
+                        if expiration == nil then
+                                expiration = 0
+                        end
+                elseif i == 2 then
+                        salt = component
+                elseif i == 3 then
+                        hmac = component
+                else
+                        break
+                end
+                i = i + 1
+        end
+
+        if hmac == nil or hmac:len() == 0 then
+                return nil
+        end
+
+        -- TODO: implement time invariant comparison to prevent against timing attack.
+        if hmac ~= crypto.hmac.digest("sha1", value .. "|" .. tostring(expiration) .. "|" .. salt, secret) then
+                return nil
+        end
+
+        if expiration ~= 0 and expiration <= os.time() then
+                return nil
+        end
+
+        return url_decode(value)
+end
+
+function secure_value(value, expiration)
+        if value == nil or value:len() <= 0 then
+                return ""
+        end
+
+        local authstr = ""
+        local salt = crypto.hex(crypto.rand.bytes(16))
+        value = url_encode(value)
+        authstr = value .. "|" .. tostring(expiration) .. "|" .. salt
+        authstr = authstr .. "|" .. crypto.hmac.digest("sha1", authstr, secret)
+        return authstr
+end
+
+function set_cookie(cookie, value)
+        html("Set-Cookie: " .. cookie .. "=" .. value .. "; HttpOnly")
+        if http["https"] == "yes" or http["https"] == "on" or http["https"] == "1" then
+                html("; secure")
+        end
+        html("\n")
+end
+
+function redirect_to(url)
+        html("Status: 302 Redirect\n")
+        html("Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store\n")
+        html("Location: " .. url .. "\n")
+end
+
+function not_found()
+        html("Status: 404 Not Found\n")
+        html("Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store\n\n")
+end