From 786df62181ded8f5bda75887707478c64e564994 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Emlyn David Thomas
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:03:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Digest improvements: - disable caching of authenticated user
in session by default - track server rather than client nonces - better
handling of stale nonce values
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk@1377794 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
.../authenticator/DigestAuthenticator.java | 127 +++++++++++-------
.../util/ConcurrentMessageDigest.java | 90 +++++++++++++
.../TesterDigestAuthenticatorPerformance.java | 42 +++---
webapps/docs/config/valve.xml | 12 +-
4 files changed, 194 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 java/org/apache/catalina/util/ConcurrentMessageDigest.java
diff --git a/java/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/DigestAuthenticator.java b/java/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/DigestAuthenticator.java
index 0d9c69862e2c..6e7af2f2e80d 100644
--- a/java/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/DigestAuthenticator.java
+++ b/java/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/DigestAuthenticator.java
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ public class DigestAuthenticator extends AuthenticatorBase {
public DigestAuthenticator() {
super();
+ setCache(false);
try {
if (md5Helper == null) {
md5Helper = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
@@ -81,16 +82,16 @@ public DigestAuthenticator() {
/**
- * List of client nonce values currently being tracked
+ * List of server nonce values currently being tracked
*/
- protected Map cnonces;
+ protected Map nonces;
/**
- * Maximum number of client nonces to keep in the cache. If not specified,
+ * Maximum number of server nonces to keep in the cache. If not specified,
* the default value of 1000 is used.
*/
- protected int cnonceCacheSize = 1000;
+ protected int nonceCacheSize = 1000;
/**
@@ -120,13 +121,13 @@ public DigestAuthenticator() {
// ------------------------------------------------------------- Properties
- public int getCnonceCacheSize() {
- return cnonceCacheSize;
+ public int getNonceCacheSize() {
+ return nonceCacheSize;
}
- public void setCnonceCacheSize(int cnonceCacheSize) {
- this.cnonceCacheSize = cnonceCacheSize;
+ public void setNonceCacheSize(int nonceCacheSize) {
+ this.nonceCacheSize = nonceCacheSize;
}
@@ -231,17 +232,19 @@ public boolean authenticate(Request request, HttpServletResponse response)
// Validate any credentials already included with this request
String authorization = request.getHeader("authorization");
DigestInfo digestInfo = new DigestInfo(getOpaque(), getNonceValidity(),
- getKey(), cnonces, isValidateUri());
+ getKey(), nonces, isValidateUri());
if (authorization != null) {
- if (digestInfo.validate(request, authorization)) {
- principal = digestInfo.authenticate(context.getRealm());
- }
+ if (digestInfo.parse(request, authorization)) {
+ if (digestInfo.validate(request)) {
+ principal = digestInfo.authenticate(context.getRealm());
+ }
- if (principal != null) {
- String username = digestInfo.getUsername();
- register(request, response, principal,
- HttpServletRequest.DIGEST_AUTH, username, null);
- return (true);
+ if (principal != null && !digestInfo.isNonceStale()) {
+ register(request, response, principal,
+ HttpServletRequest.DIGEST_AUTH,
+ digestInfo.getUsername(), null);
+ return true;
+ }
}
}
@@ -252,11 +255,9 @@ public boolean authenticate(Request request, HttpServletResponse response)
String nonce = generateNonce(request);
setAuthenticateHeader(request, response, nonce,
- digestInfo.isNonceStale());
+ principal != null && digestInfo.isNonceStale());
response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED);
- // hres.flushBuffer();
- return (false);
-
+ return false;
}
@@ -314,7 +315,14 @@ protected String generateNonce(Request request) {
ipTimeKey.getBytes(B2CConverter.ISO_8859_1));
}
- return currentTime + ":" + MD5Encoder.encode(buffer);
+ String nonce = currentTime + ":" + MD5Encoder.encode(buffer);
+
+ NonceInfo info = new NonceInfo(currentTime, 100);
+ synchronized (nonces) {
+ nonces.put(nonce, info);
+ }
+
+ return nonce;
}
@@ -382,7 +390,7 @@ protected synchronized void startInternal() throws LifecycleException {
setOpaque(sessionIdGenerator.generateSessionId());
}
- cnonces = new LinkedHashMap() {
+ nonces = new LinkedHashMap() {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private static final long LOG_SUPPRESS_TIME = 5 * 60 * 1000;
@@ -394,7 +402,7 @@ protected boolean removeEldestEntry(
Map.Entry eldest) {
// This is called from a sync so keep it simple
long currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
- if (size() > getCnonceCacheSize()) {
+ if (size() > getNonceCacheSize()) {
if (lastLog < currentTime &&
currentTime - eldest.getValue().getTimestamp() <
getNonceValidity()) {
@@ -415,7 +423,7 @@ private static class DigestInfo {
private final String opaque;
private final long nonceValidity;
private final String key;
- private final Map cnonces;
+ private final Map nonces;
private boolean validateUri = true;
private String userName = null;
@@ -427,16 +435,17 @@ private static class DigestInfo {
private String cnonce = null;
private String realmName = null;
private String qop = null;
+ private String opaqueReceived = null;
private boolean nonceStale = false;
public DigestInfo(String opaque, long nonceValidity, String key,
- Map cnonces, boolean validateUri) {
+ Map nonces, boolean validateUri) {
this.opaque = opaque;
this.nonceValidity = nonceValidity;
this.key = key;
- this.cnonces = cnonces;
+ this.nonces = nonces;
this.validateUri = validateUri;
}
@@ -446,7 +455,7 @@ public String getUsername() {
}
- public boolean validate(Request request, String authorization) {
+ public boolean parse(Request request, String authorization) {
// Validate the authorization credentials format
if (authorization == null) {
return false;
@@ -460,7 +469,6 @@ public boolean validate(Request request, String authorization) {
String[] tokens = authorization.split(",(?=(?:[^\"]*\"[^\"]*\")+$)");
method = request.getMethod();
- String opaque = null;
for (int i = 0; i < tokens.length; i++) {
String currentToken = tokens[i];
@@ -501,10 +509,14 @@ public boolean validate(Request request, String authorization) {
response = removeQuotes(currentTokenValue);
}
if ("opaque".equals(currentTokenName)) {
- opaque = removeQuotes(currentTokenValue);
+ opaqueReceived = removeQuotes(currentTokenValue);
}
}
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ public boolean validate(Request request) {
if ( (userName == null) || (realmName == null) || (nonce == null)
|| (uri == null) || (response == null) ) {
return false;
@@ -547,7 +559,7 @@ public boolean validate(Request request, String authorization) {
}
// Validate the opaque string
- if (!this.opaque.equals(opaque)) {
+ if (!opaque.equals(opaqueReceived)) {
return false;
}
@@ -566,7 +578,9 @@ public boolean validate(Request request, String authorization) {
long currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
if ((currentTime - nonceTime) > nonceValidity) {
nonceStale = true;
- return false;
+ synchronized (nonces) {
+ nonces.remove(nonce);
+ }
}
String serverIpTimeKey =
request.getRemoteAddr() + ":" + nonceTime + ":" + key;
@@ -586,7 +600,7 @@ public boolean validate(Request request, String authorization) {
}
// Validate cnonce and nc
- // Check if presence of nc and nonce is consistent with presence of qop
+ // Check if presence of nc and Cnonce is consistent with presence of qop
if (qop == null) {
if (cnonce != null || nc != null) {
return false;
@@ -607,21 +621,18 @@ public boolean validate(Request request, String authorization) {
return false;
}
NonceInfo info;
- synchronized (cnonces) {
- info = cnonces.get(cnonce);
+ synchronized (nonces) {
+ info = nonces.get(nonce);
}
if (info == null) {
- info = new NonceInfo();
+ // Nonce is valid but not in cache. It must have dropped out
+ // of the cache - force a re-authentication
+ nonceStale = true;
} else {
- if (count <= info.getCount()) {
+ if (!info.nonceCountValid(count)) {
return false;
}
}
- info.setCount(count);
- info.setTimestamp(currentTime);
- synchronized (cnonces) {
- cnonces.put(cnonce, info);
- }
}
return true;
}
@@ -648,19 +659,31 @@ public Principal authenticate(Realm realm) {
}
private static class NonceInfo {
- private volatile long count;
private volatile long timestamp;
-
- public void setCount(long l) {
- count = l;
+ private volatile boolean seen[];
+ private volatile int offset;
+ private volatile int count = 0;
+
+ public NonceInfo(long currentTime, int seenWindowSize) {
+ this.timestamp = currentTime;
+ seen = new boolean[seenWindowSize];
+ offset = seenWindowSize / 2;
}
- public long getCount() {
- return count;
- }
-
- public void setTimestamp(long l) {
- timestamp = l;
+ public synchronized boolean nonceCountValid(long nonceCount) {
+ if ((count - offset) >= nonceCount ||
+ (nonceCount > count - offset + seen.length)) {
+ return false;
+ }
+ int checkIndex = (int) ((nonceCount + offset) % seen.length);
+ if (seen[checkIndex]) {
+ return false;
+ } else {
+ seen[checkIndex] = true;
+ seen[count % seen.length] = false;
+ count++;
+ return true;
+ }
}
public long getTimestamp() {
diff --git a/java/org/apache/catalina/util/ConcurrentMessageDigest.java b/java/org/apache/catalina/util/ConcurrentMessageDigest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..37104b7f7da6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/java/org/apache/catalina/util/ConcurrentMessageDigest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.catalina.util;
+
+import java.security.MessageDigest;
+import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Queue;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentLinkedQueue;
+
+/**
+ * A thread safe wrapper around {@link MessageDigest} that does not make use
+ * of ThreadLocal and - broadly - only creates enough MessageDigest objects
+ * to satisfy the concurrency requirements.
+ */
+public class ConcurrentMessageDigest {
+
+ private static final Map> queues =
+ new HashMap<>();
+
+
+ private ConcurrentMessageDigest() {
+ // Hide default constructor for this utility class
+ }
+
+
+ public static byte[] digest(String algorithm, byte[] input) {
+
+ Queue queue = queues.get(algorithm);
+ if (queue == null) {
+ throw new IllegalStateException("Must call init() first");
+ }
+
+ MessageDigest md = queue.poll();
+ if (md == null) {
+ try {
+ md = MessageDigest.getInstance(algorithm);
+ } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
+ // Ignore. Impossible if init() has been successfully called
+ // first.
+ throw new IllegalStateException("Must call init() first");
+ }
+ }
+
+ byte[] result = md.digest(input);
+
+ queue.add(md);
+
+ return result;
+ }
+
+
+ /**
+ * Ensures that {@link #digest(String, byte[])} and
+ * {@link #digestAsHex(String, byte[])} will support the specified
+ * algorithm. This method must be called and return successfully
+ * before using {@link #digest(String, byte[])} or
+ * {@link #digestAsHex(String, byte[])}.
+ *
+ * @param algorithm The message digest algorithm to be supported
+ *
+ * @throws NoSuchAlgorithmException If the algorithm is not supported by the
+ * JVM
+ */
+ public static void init(String algorithm) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException {
+ synchronized (queues) {
+ if (!queues.containsKey(algorithm)) {
+ MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance(algorithm);
+ Queue queue = new ConcurrentLinkedQueue<>();
+ queue.add(md);
+ queues.put(algorithm, queue);
+ }
+ }
+ }
+}
diff --git a/test/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/TesterDigestAuthenticatorPerformance.java b/test/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/TesterDigestAuthenticatorPerformance.java
index 40f064bd6221..923b390c4a4d 100644
--- a/test/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/TesterDigestAuthenticatorPerformance.java
+++ b/test/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/TesterDigestAuthenticatorPerformance.java
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@
package org.apache.catalina.authenticator;
import java.io.IOException;
-import java.security.MessageDigest;
-import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
@@ -33,6 +32,7 @@
import org.apache.catalina.deploy.LoginConfig;
import org.apache.catalina.filters.TesterResponse;
import org.apache.catalina.startup.TestTomcat.MapRealm;
+import org.apache.catalina.util.ConcurrentMessageDigest;
import org.apache.catalina.util.MD5Encoder;
public class TesterDigestAuthenticatorPerformance {
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ public class TesterDigestAuthenticatorPerformance {
private static String REALM = "TestRealm";
private static String QOP = "auth";
+ private static final AtomicInteger nonceCount = new AtomicInteger(0);
+
private DigestAuthenticator authenticator = new DigestAuthenticator();
@@ -60,9 +62,11 @@ public void doTest(int threadCount, int requestCount) throws Exception {
TesterRunnable runnables[] = new TesterRunnable[threadCount];
Thread threads[] = new Thread[threadCount];
+ String nonce = authenticator.generateNonce(new TesterDigestRequest());
+
// Create the runnables & threads
for (int i = 0; i < threadCount; i++) {
- runnables[i] = new TesterRunnable(requestCount);
+ runnables[i] = new TesterRunnable(nonce, requestCount);
threads[i] = new Thread(runnables[i]);
}
@@ -100,6 +104,8 @@ public void doTest(int threadCount, int requestCount) throws Exception {
@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
+ ConcurrentMessageDigest.init("MD5");
+
// Configure the Realm
MapRealm realm = new MapRealm();
realm.addUser(USER, PWD);
@@ -118,15 +124,14 @@ public void setUp() throws Exception {
// Make the Context and Realm visible to the Authenticator
authenticator.setContainer(context);
- // Prevent caching of cnonces so we can the same one for all requests
- authenticator.setCnonceCacheSize(0);
authenticator.start();
}
private class TesterRunnable implements Runnable {
- // Number of valid requests required
+
+ private String nonce;
private int requestCount;
private int success = 0;
@@ -136,12 +141,11 @@ private class TesterRunnable implements Runnable {
private HttpServletResponse response;
// All init code should be in here. run() needs to be quick
- public TesterRunnable(int requestCount) throws Exception {
+ public TesterRunnable(String nonce, int requestCount) throws Exception {
+ this.nonce = nonce;
this.requestCount = requestCount;
request = new TesterDigestRequest();
- String nonce = authenticator.generateNonce(request);
- request.setAuthHeader(buildDigestResponse(nonce));
request.setContext(authenticator.context);
response = new TesterResponse();
@@ -152,6 +156,7 @@ public void run() {
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
for (int i = 0; i < requestCount; i++) {
try {
+ request.setAuthHeader(buildDigestResponse(nonce));
if (authenticator.authenticate(request, response)) {
success++;
}
@@ -172,25 +177,25 @@ public long getTime() {
return time;
}
- private String buildDigestResponse(String nonce)
- throws NoSuchAlgorithmException {
+ private String buildDigestResponse(String nonce) {
- String ncString = "00000001";
+ String ncString = String.format("%1$08x",
+ Integer.valueOf(nonceCount.incrementAndGet()));
String cnonce = "cnonce";
String a1 = USER + ":" + REALM + ":" + PWD;
String a2 = METHOD + ":" + CONTEXT_PATH + URI;
- MessageDigest digester = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
-
- String md5a1 = MD5Encoder.encode(digester.digest(a1.getBytes()));
- String md5a2 = MD5Encoder.encode(digester.digest(a2.getBytes()));
+ String md5a1 = MD5Encoder.encode(
+ ConcurrentMessageDigest.digest("MD5", a1.getBytes()));
+ String md5a2 = MD5Encoder.encode(
+ ConcurrentMessageDigest.digest("MD5", a2.getBytes()));
String response = md5a1 + ":" + nonce + ":" + ncString + ":" +
cnonce + ":" + QOP + ":" + md5a2;
- String md5response =
- MD5Encoder.encode(digester.digest(response.getBytes()));
+ String md5response = MD5Encoder.encode(
+ ConcurrentMessageDigest.digest("MD5", response.getBytes()));
StringBuilder auth = new StringBuilder();
auth.append("Digest username=\"");
@@ -257,6 +262,5 @@ public String getQueryString() {
public String getRequestURI() {
return CONTEXT_PATH + URI;
}
-
}
}
diff --git a/webapps/docs/config/valve.xml b/webapps/docs/config/valve.xml
index 91e71ae4c259..0b6f1760bdcf 100644
--- a/webapps/docs/config/valve.xml
+++ b/webapps/docs/config/valve.xml
@@ -847,12 +847,6 @@
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.DigestAuthenticator.
-
- To protect against replay attacks, the DIGEST authenticator tracks
- client nonce and nonce count values. This attribute controls the size
- of that cache. If not specified, the default value of 1000 is used.
-
-
Controls the caching of pages that are protected by security
constraints. Setting this to false
may help work around
@@ -870,6 +864,12 @@
and/or across a cluster.
+
+ To protect against replay attacks, the DIGEST authenticator tracks
+ server nonce and nonce count values. This attribute controls the size
+ of that cache. If not specified, the default value of 1000 is used.
+
+
The time, in milliseconds, that a server generated nonce will be
considered valid for use in authentication. If not specified, the