RE: [ACTION-412][Fwd: Re: namespace wrapping attacks against XML Signature?]

Pratik Datta wrote on 2009-12-07:
> I read the paper, very interesting.
> The crux of the attack is that the XPath expression is considered a text
> node, so Exclusive Canonicalization does not consider any of the namespaces
> prefixes inside that as visibly utilized, hence it doesn't include them.

Yes, pretty much the same as the QName issue.

> Canonicalization 2.0 also looks at some prefixes that are embedded in
> content. Currently it only looks at prefixes in xsi:type attribute. We
> might consider extending it to prefixes in the IncludedXPath and
> ExcludedXPath elements.

That seems quite logical to me.

-- Scott

Received on Monday, 7 December 2009 18:50:41 UTC