Federated RBAC: Fortress, OAuth2 (Oltu), JWT, Java EE, and JASPIC
- 1. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Federated RBAC: Fortress, OAuth2, JWT, Java EE, & JASPIC
- 2. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Chris Harm (Manager of Software Infrastructure) Steve Moyer (Enterprise Software Architect) Shawn Smith (Director of Software Engineering) Shawn McKinney (Symas - Software Architect) “WE ARE” - Software Engineering
- 3. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Problem Statement • Our team is responsible for almost 100 applications (and growing) • Many hand coded specialized RBAC systems • Penn State is a large decentralized organization • Historically systems had considered Authentication == Authorization • Existing IAM evolved over many years • Legacy authorization is based primarily on LDAP groups
- 4. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Scope • Students 96k • Employees 26k • Campuses 24 • Locations > 100 • Departments 100s • Titles1 1000s 1. (Job descriptions, positions, etc)
- 5. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Implications • Centralized role and permission granting and revoking is impossible • Mapping “titles” to roles is impossible • Those who know how to map employees (and sometimes students) into roles are commonly not in an IT organization • We need a clear migration path from custom IAM to a common security system
- 6. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Existing IAM Infrastructure
- 7. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Goals • Functional Goals • End to end security chaining • Delegated role creation, granting and revoking • Course grained access control (method access) • Fine grained access control (data slicing) • Implementation Goals • Performant and Scaleable • Pluggable • Standards compliant
- 8. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security End to end security chaining webapp service service service DB S S O Token TokenToken
- 9. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Roles vs. Permissions Users Roles + permission permission operation permission objectUsers Roles role1 @RolesAllowed({“role1”}) public Calendar create(String id) @RolesAllowed({“role1”, “role2”}) public Calendar create(String id) @RolesAllowed({“permission1”}) public Calendar create(String id) role2 permission1 permission1 permission1 role2 role1 permission1 permission1 permission1
- 10. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Roles vs. Permissions HR Representation Bad Staff @RolesAllowed(“dimc.account.lock”) public void lockAccount(String userid) { …. }
- 11. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Roles vs. Permissions HR Representation Bad Staff @RolesAllowed(“dimc.account.lock.staff”) public void lockStaffAccount(String userid) { …. } @RolesAllowed(“dimc.account.lock.student”) public void lockStudentAccount(String userid) { …. }
- 12. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Roles vs. Permissions HR Representation Bad Staff @RolesAllowed(“dimc.account.lock.staff”) public void lockStaffAccount(String userid) { …. } @RolesAllowed(“dimc.account.lock.student”) public void lockStudentAccount(String userid) { …. } Admin Assistant Schedule Calendar By Building? By Department? By Organization? By Some Combination?
- 13. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Roles, Permissions, & Java EE Security // chris and jon allowed @RolesAllowed(“calendar.view”) public Calendar viewCalendar(String id) { … // only chris allowed @RolesAllowed(“calendar.create”) public Calendar createCalendar(String id, String name... chris user calendar_admin role User Permission Java EE Role chris calendar + view calendar.view chris calendar + create calendar.create jon calendar + view calendar.view calendar_user role jon user + permission view operation calendar object + permission create operation calendar object
- 14. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Delegated Role Creation Service Desk Security Account Manager Call Center Available Permissions dimc.read dimc.fps.edit dimc.wireless.lock ibis.modify ibis.delete security_role permission1 permission1 dimc.pw.* acct_mgr_role permission1 permission1 dimc.pw.lock call_center_role permission1 permission1 dimc.read Service Desk Manager
- 15. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Delegated Role Creation PermissionA PermissionB PermissionC PermissionD PermissionE PermissionF SomeRole Permission Specific Attributes Per User
- 16. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security What we’ve done...
- 17. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Authentication (OAuth2) Client Resource Server OAuth Server token Roles + Permissions S S O
- 18. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security 3 Use Cases How to obtain a token? • Service Account • Internal to Penn State - Trusted Access • External to Penn State - Authorized Access
- 19. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Service Accounts Client Resource Server OAuth Server token Client Credentials Flow POST /oauth/api/token HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:443 Accept: application/json Cache-Control: no-cache Content-Type: application/x-www-form- urlencoded grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=y78U6 uybc82P3AH88xZ39dT2XYUVr7Xu&client_secr et=4ue43PxZyc8YK7pBtY3C2CurEZnVHV9V
- 20. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Trusted Penn State Systems JWT Diagram Client Resource Server OAuth Server token S S O POST /oauth/api/token HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:443 Accept: application/json Cache-Control: no-cache Content-Type: application/x-www-form- urlencoded grant_type=urn%3Aietf%3Aparams%3Aoauth% 3Agrant-type%3Ajwt- bearer&client_id=7Cz22fmD6uKfabLJ83wcQt9 Q98av777E&client_secret=Jk9pZk7TfH47GwyT WaNMVa9Be6pehV4N&assertion=eyJraWQiOi JlMmMzZmMyNi1mY2M3LTQ5NzMtODI0OS02 M2RmOGQ1N2E5MmMiLCJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLC JhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJib2IiLCJhdW QiOiJodHRwOlwvXC9sb2NhbGhvc3Q6ODA4M Fwvb2F1dGhcL2FwaVwvdG9rZW4iLCJuYmYi OjE0Mzg5NTUyNzcsImlzcyI6IjdDejIyZm1ENnV LZmFiTEo4M3djUXQ5UTk4YXY3NzdFIiwiZXh wIjoxNDM4OTU1M...
- 21. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security JSON Web Tokens Header: { "kid": "7fa0d042-93ab-4354-bdcb-ca9d321c163e", "typ": "JWT", "alg": "RS256" } Payload: { "sub": "bob", "aud": "http://dev.apps.psu.edu:80/oauth/api/token", "nbf": 1444396380, "iss": "8EZygt3MuU9F6VUE7anj8Wvnf9D6adHe", "exp": 1444486380, "iat": 1444396380, "jti": "bafa86d2-2761-49f7-87aa-d6714eb966e2" } Signature: Digital signature of message using shared or public/private keys. JWT: eyJraWQiOiI3ZmEwZDA0Mi05M2FiLTQzNTQtYmRjYi1jYTlkMzIxYzE2 M2UiLCJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJib2IiLCJh dWQiOiJodHRwOlwvXC9kZXYuYXBwcy5wc3UuZWR1OjgwXC9vYXV0 aFwvYXBpXC90b2tlbiIsIm5iZiI6MTQ0NDM5NjM4MCwiaXNzIjoiOEVae Wd0M011VTlGNlZVRTdhbmo4V3ZuZjlENmFkSGUiLCJleHAiOjE0NDQ 0ODYzODAsImlhdCI6MTQ0NDM5NjM4MCwianRpIjoiYmFmYTg2ZDItM jc2MS00OWY3LTg3YWEtZDY3MTRlYjk2NmUyIn0.H3Ue5UL2Dq8387V r6CqUQW0GQn8PhjMlZU5aMoIbVYjtadn2_rJbej52xcGnp_9GFhq0HzS QDYd3WjcXgz3Wd- dBcCtCWqw5MIoeE1VC_gXTpVzR_ncCTz_sYa2G83BUok61cdMOWJ sNcDwlxeH4DJswQNFg0VX7SNkR0GZF5TIrU- X8TPboXrIel4RZIbV7ab_QVJ- Eg0QmrWWNl6L2DsQZUlHsA2v00NwA71F- SStndzJb8bIKJScaVgOmd2TIvPewHONHaoqjCP3uItqUAGuxq0YK_88 UaihsyxOaatYNAKhU6SaZzXu4asaNWqyMFiguO_AXgCdKKyOeIA8U Wg
- 22. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security 3rd Party External Systems Client Resource Server OAuth Server token The “Client” app would like to access...? Allow Deny Authorization Flows GET /oauth/api/authz?client_id=y78U6uybc82P3AH8 8xZ39dT2XYUVr7Xu&redirect_uri=https://www. getpostman.com/oauth2/callback&response_typ e=code&scopes=scope HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8080 Cache-Control: no-cache POST /oauth/api/token HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:443 Accept: application/json Cache-Control: no-cache Content-Type: application/x-www-form- urlencoded grant_type=authorization_code&client_id=y78U 6uybc82P3AH88xZ39dT2XYUVr7Xu&client_se cret=4ue43PxZyc8YK7pBtY3C2CurEZnVHV9V &code=805af3140c2732b626b35fd4a04cf09a&r edirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.getpostma n.com%2Foauth2%2Fcallback
- 23. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security How to Validate Access Tokens Access Tokens are opaque to the client, but the Resource Server and OAuth Server need to understand how to create and validate the tokens Options • Shared DB • REST Callback to OAuth Service • JWT encoded Access Tokens Client Resource Server OAuth Server
- 24. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security JavaEE Integration with JASPI Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers - JASPI(C) Implementation based off JavaEE 7 Samples Project (https://github.com/javaee- samples/javaee7-samples/tree/master/jaspic) Integrated with Wildfly Security Context propagates throughout entire container (Web tier to EJB tier)
- 25. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Using Standard Security Checks Standard Role Checks work as expected • Annotations • @RolesAllowed(“<PERMISSION_NAME>”) • Programmatic Checks • EJBContext.isUserInRole(“<PERMISSION_NAME>”) • HttpServletRequest.isUserInRole(“<PERMISSION_NAME>”) • User Principal • EJBContext.getCallerPrincipal() • HttpServletRequest.getUserPrincipal()
- 26. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security JASPI Wildfly Configuration Standalone.xml: jboss-web.xml jboss-ejb3.xml
- 27. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Enable JASPI within Application
- 28. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security ServerAuthModule
- 29. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Security Libraries (Client / Server) webapp service service service S S O token J A S P I J A S P I J A S P I Client Client Pluggable libraries abstract A&A from application developers JASPI Library to authenticate incoming requests and establish the security context OAuth2 Client Libraries to request and present tokens on outbound requests token token
- 30. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Audit As services proliferate it becomes more important to be able to audit the entire chain of authority through a single transaction.
- 31. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Authorization (Apache Fortress) Apache Fortress Overview * Apache 2.0 License * Sub-project of Apache Directory * Java Based Identity and Access Management * Permission-based Access Control Model (RBAC)
- 32. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Authorization (Apache Fortress) FourComponents: * Core – Java APIs + utilities * Realm – Java EE policy enforcement – Web – Administrative UI * Rest – APIs over HTTP interface LDAPv3 Compliant: * Works with OpenLDAP and Apache Directory Server by default. * Other possible
- 33. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Authorization (Apache Fortress) Fortress Overview (https://directory.apache.org/fortress/) Standards based and Open Source Identity Access Management system ANSI RBAC (INCITS 359) ARBAC02 (http://profsandhu.com/journals/tissec/p113-oh.pdf) JAVA and REST APIs Web Based management interface Role Based Access Control Role - Collection of permissions Permission (Object + Operation) Object - Resource in the system Operation - Access mode of the resource Users - Assigned to roles, which grants permissions
- 34. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Administrative - RBAC Administrative-RBAC provides administration of the RBAC data who can create new roles who can assign users to roles who can assign permission to roles etc… An admin role determines jurisdiction over a subset of RBAC and consists of Admin permissions (object + operation) User OUs - Groups of users Perm OUs - Groups of permissions Role Range - Slice of a role hierarchy
- 35. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security ARBAC Delegated Administration + permission calendar_user role jon user view operation staff User OU calendar_app Perm OU calendar object arbac_cal ARBAC Role bob user canAssign and canGrant ARBAC Permissions chris user Developer builds permissions and integrates into application User “bob” is a delegated admin with an ARBAC role “staff” User OU “calendar_app” Perm OU “canAssign” and “canGrant” permissions Bob can assign user “jon” to the “calendar_user” role Bob can NOT assign user chris into “calendar_user” role Bob can grant the “calendar.view” permission to the “calendar_user” role
- 36. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security We hit a wall
- 37. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Road Blocks //doesn’t restrict to a specific “id” @RolesAllowed(“calendar.view”) public Calendar viewCalendar(String id) { … RBAC Role ARBAC Role calendar_user ar-cal_user calendar_admin ar-cal_admin Fine Grained Access • Problem: RBAC only provides coarse grained access • Potential Solution: Permission Object OUs • Problem: Can’t delegate permissions to different ARBAC roles • Potential Solution: Change permission OUs to the operation level ARBAC Role Explosion • Problem: Need many ARBAC roles to administer RBAC roles • Potential Solution: Change ARBAC role range to Role OUs Bi-Directional Lookups • Problem: Not efficient to lookup certain types of relationships • Potential Solution: Add attributes on both sides of a relationship
- 38. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Road Blocks How do we draw the picture?
- 39. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Lessons Learned Doing fine grained security in a simple generic way is really hard!!!
- 40. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security (Almost) The End
- 41. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security We’re Hiring! Software Engineering - UI/UX https://psu.jobs/job/59211 System and Network Security Analyst https://psu.jobs/job/59541 Hardware Configuration Manager https://psu.jobs/job/59543 Software Configuration Manager https://psu.jobs/job/59542 Software Test Engineer https://psu.jobs/job/59670 Other jobs at Penn State https://psu.jobs/jobs
- 42. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Thank You Shawn Smith – ses44@psu.edu Steve Moyer – swm16@psu.edu Chris Harm – crh5255@psu.edu Shawn McKinney - smckinney@symas.com
- 43. Federated Role-Based Access Control Security Questions?
Editor's Notes
- #10: Talk to the simplification of binding methods to permissions. When the RolesAllowed references permissions, you can modify the permissions assigned to a role at runtime in order to change the system's configuration. Also, adding additional roles at runtime is possible without having to redeploy the application. Roles - Static assignment Permissions - Dynamic assignment Map Users to Permissions through roles. Grant Permissions to a role, and assign users into that role.
- #11: Talk to the simplification of binding methods to permissions. When the RolesAllowed references permissions, you can modify the permissions assigned to a role at runtime in order to change the system's configuration. Also, adding additional roles at runtime is possible without having to redeploy the application. Roles - Static assignment Permissions - Dynamic assignment Map Users to Permissions through roles. Grant Permissions to a role, and assign users into that role.
- #12: Talk to the simplification of binding methods to permissions. When the RolesAllowed references permissions, you can modify the permissions assigned to a role at runtime in order to change the system's configuration. Also, adding additional roles at runtime is possible without having to redeploy the application. Roles - Static assignment Permissions - Dynamic assignment Map Users to Permissions through roles. Grant Permissions to a role, and assign users into that role.
- #13: Talk to the simplification of binding methods to permissions. When the RolesAllowed references permissions, you can modify the permissions assigned to a role at runtime in order to change the system's configuration. Also, adding additional roles at runtime is possible without having to redeploy the application. Roles - Static assignment Permissions - Dynamic assignment Map Users to Permissions through roles. Grant Permissions to a role, and assign users into that role.
- #15: A delegated authority is assigned who can create roles, grant permissions to roles, and assign users into that role.
- #18: Preview the OAuth discussion SSO authenticates users at the webapp OAuth authenticates REST calls OAuth is delegated authentication delegated access for use in situations where the user is not present like a webapp authenticate the end user, but needs to call back end services that need to authenticate calls Application Grant changes based on who the user is, and which system is requesting the token.
- #19: Provide examples of each type Service Account - some backend process. Internal to Penn State - internal department application and also other trusted applications from other departments. Need to verify that those systems are trusted and follow best practices External to Penn State - student run organization or group wants to create a mobile app that can access the schedule of classes, your degree information, list of required classes and the real-time local bus data in order to create an optimized schedule and route you around campus. It’s not a Penn State sponsored app, but it needs access to a student’s data.
- #20: Clients must register with the OAuth server Clients receive a client_id (public) and client_secret (private) These can be used to obtain an auth token that represents the service account
- #23: Examples: Student mobile app that wants to access your course history and required classes to create an optimal schedule. Allow systems to refresh a token after it’s expired… Client must register with OAuth server before being allowed to auth. Possible approval process in place prior to allowing access.
- #24: Validate Options - OAuth Server and Resource Server team together in authentication. JWT option allows the RS to validate a token without calling the OAuth server, but increases the complexity of revoking a token Talk Caching of token-info at the RS. Increased overhead of calls to obtain tokens and validate tokens is limited to 2 extra calls per token lifespan (obtaining a token) / caching duration (validating a token)
- #25: Why JASPI? Two authentication cases, webapps and REST services PSU uses a SSO solution based on an Apache plugin to authenticate users We tried JAAS, but the solution was a bit awkward. HttpServletRequest.login(“username”, “password”) JASPI allows direct access to authenticate the HTTPServletRrequest - HttpServletRequest.authenticate() This allows us to access the SSO Headers and OAuth Headers directly in order to authenticate the request.
- #27: hack to enable security within Wildfly We’re using Wildfly 8. Tried using Wildfly’s JASPI Implementation, but rant into problems Wildfly Implementation - Wildfly bug that prevented principal from propagating into the EJB tier Wildfly JAAS SAM - picketbox JASPI SAM that delegated to a JAAS Login Module did as expected One solution worked but session caching broke. jboss-web.xml and jboss-ejb3.xml files enable the security interceptors in the web and ejb tiers DummyLoginModule doesn’t do anything but is required as a placeholder Monitoring Wildlfy future releases and are willing to go back to built in soldution at some point.
- #28: AuthConfigFactory.getFactory().registerConfigProvider() PsuAuthConfigProvider → PsuServerAuthConfig → PsuServerAuthContext → ServerAuthModule
- #30: Client library is responsible for Managing the clients shared secret with the OAuth server Requesting a valid token before making a request to the RS Adding the token into the HTTP Request in the Authorization header Managing the lifecycle of an auth token Handling errors and retrying when possible. Server Module is responsible for Extracting the token for every inbound request Determining if the token is valid Resolving the token to a user principal Looking up the roles/permissions associated with the user Establishing the security context within the application server