Use constant-time comparison functions when checking signatures

This limits the likeliness of timing attacks against the API.
See http://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/ for the
full rationale.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Yadav <rohit.yadav@shapeblue.com>

Conflicts:
	server/src/com/cloud/api/ApiServer.java
	server/src/com/cloud/user/AccountManagerImpl.java

(cherry picked from commit 9b4e39e837)
Signed-off-by: Rohit Yadav <rohit.yadav@shapeblue.com>
This commit is contained in:
Pierre-Yves Ritschard 2015-01-14 11:27:35 +01:00 committed by Rohit Yadav
parent 9a677595fa
commit 162c5af6f8
4 changed files with 44 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -908,9 +908,11 @@ public class ApiServer extends ManagerBase implements HttpRequestHandler, ApiSer
final SecretKeySpec keySpec = new SecretKeySpec(secretKey.getBytes(), "HmacSHA1");
mac.init(keySpec);
mac.update(unsignedRequest.getBytes());
final byte[] encryptedBytes = mac.doFinal();
final String computedSignature = Base64.encodeBase64String(encryptedBytes);
final boolean equalSig = signature.equals(computedSignature);
final boolean equalSig = ConstantTimeComparator.compareStrings(signature, computedSignature);
if (!equalSig) {
s_logger.info("User signature: " + signature + " is not equaled to computed signature: " + computedSignature);
} else {

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@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
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package com.cloud.api;
public class ConstantTimeComparator {
public static boolean compareBytes(byte[] b1, byte[] b2) {
if (b1.length != b2.length) {
return false;
}
int result = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < b1.length; i++) {
result |= b1[i] ^ b2[i];
}
return result == 0;
}
public static boolean compareStrings(String s1, String s2) {
return compareBytes(s1.getBytes(), s2.getBytes());
}
}

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@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
import org.apache.cloudstack.framework.security.keys.KeysManager;
import com.cloud.api.ConstantTimeComparator;
import com.cloud.exception.PermissionDeniedException;
import com.cloud.host.HostVO;
import com.cloud.server.ManagementServer;
@ -653,7 +654,7 @@ public class ConsoleProxyServlet extends HttpServlet {
mac.update(unsignedRequest.getBytes());
byte[] encryptedBytes = mac.doFinal();
String computedSignature = Base64.encodeBase64String(encryptedBytes);
boolean equalSig = signature.equals(computedSignature);
boolean equalSig = ConstantTimeComparator.compareStrings(signature, computedSignature);
if (!equalSig) {
s_logger.debug("User signature: " + signature + " is not equaled to computed signature: " + computedSignature);
}

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@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ import org.apache.cloudstack.managed.context.ManagedContextRunnable;
import org.apache.cloudstack.region.gslb.GlobalLoadBalancerRuleDao;
import com.cloud.api.ApiDBUtils;
import com.cloud.api.ConstantTimeComparator;
import com.cloud.api.query.vo.ControlledViewEntity;
import com.cloud.configuration.Config;
import com.cloud.configuration.ConfigurationManager;
@ -485,6 +486,7 @@ public class AccountManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements AccountManager, M
@Override
public void checkAccess(Account caller, AccessType accessType, boolean sameOwner, String apiName, ControlledEntity... entities) {
//check for the same owner
Long ownerId = null;
ControlledEntity prevEntity = null;
@ -2058,7 +2060,7 @@ public class AccountManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements AccountManager, M
mac.update(unsignedRequest.getBytes());
byte[] encryptedBytes = mac.doFinal();
String computedSignature = new String(Base64.encodeBase64(encryptedBytes));
boolean equalSig = signature.equals(computedSignature);
boolean equalSig = ConstantTimeComparator.compareStrings(signature, computedSignature);
if (!equalSig) {
s_logger.info("User signature: " + signature + " is not equaled to computed signature: " + computedSignature);
} else {