flashes are consumed by the jinja template calling get_flashed_messages
in flash_messages.html.
When you call `abort(403)` the 403 error page is rendered, with the
flashed message on it. However, the webauthn endpoints just return that
page to the ajax `fetch`, which ignores the response and just reloads
the page.
Instead of calling abort, we can just return an empty response body and
the 403 error code, so that the flashed messages stay in the session and
will be rendered when the `GET /two-factor-webauthn` request happens
after the js reloads the page.
the js fetch function is really not designed to work with 302s. when it
receives a 302, it automatically follows it and fetches the next page.
This is awkward because I don't want js to do all this in ajax, I want
the browser to get the new URL so it can load the page.
A better approach is to view the admin endpoint as a more pure API: the
js sends a request for authentication to the admin app, and the admin
app responds with a 200 indicating success, and then a payload of
relevant data with that.
The relevant data in this case is "Which URL should I redirect to", it
might be the user's list of services page, or it might be a page telling
them that their email needs revalidating.
this doesn't include timeouts or other errors on the browser side - the
main thing this catches is if the token doesn't belong to the user.
However I'm not entirely clear if that's something that will be caught
at this point, or if the browser would reject that key as it's not in
the credentials passed in to the begin_authentication process.
the js `fetch` function will follow redirects blindly and return you the
final 200 response. when there's an error, we don't want to go anywhere,
and we want to use the flask `flash` functionality to pop up an error
page (the likely reason for seeing this is using a yubikey that isn't
associated with your user). using `flash` and then
`window.location.reload()` handles this fine.
However, when the user does log in succesfully we need to properly log
them in - this includes:
* checking their account isn't over the max login count
* resetting failed login count to 0 if not
* setting a new session id in the database (so other browser windows are
logged out)
* checking if they need to revalidate their email access (every 90 days)
* clearing old user out of the cache
This code all happens in the ajax function rather than being in a
separate redirect, so that you can't just navigate to the login flow. I
wasn't able to unit test that function due how it uses the session and
other flask globals, so moved the auth into its own function so it's
easy to stub out all that CBOR nonsense.
TODO: We still need to pass any `next` URLs through the chain from login
page all the way through the javascript AJAX calls and redirects to the
log_in_user function
The flow of the code is roughly as follows:
user clicks button on webauthn page
js sends GET request
python reads GET request, sets up login challenge
python returns login challenge in response
js reads GET response, passes login challenge to browser
browser asks user to touch yubikey
browser returns yubikey challenge response data to js
js sends POST request with yubikey challenge response data
python reads yubikey challenge and compares with users creds from db
if its a match, python signs user in
The login challenge is a PublicKeyCredentialRequestOptions: [1]
The browser function we call is navigator.credentials.get(): [2]
The response to the challenge from the browser is a PublicKeyCredential: [3]
The python server does all the work setting those up and tearing them
back down again (and checking them against the values we have stored in
the database), but we need to do work to convert them to-and-from CBOR.
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PublicKeyCredentialRequestOptions
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CredentialsContainer/get
[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PublicKeyCredential
if user has `webauthn_auth` as their auth type, then redirect them to an
interstitial that prompts them to click on a button which right now just
logs to the JS console, but in a future commit will open up the webauthn
browser prompt
content is unsurprisingly not final.
without the need for verification.
This is for when the email takes too long to arrive and the service
users cannot update it as a result.
A more streamlined solution has been proposed where we could send
a link in the verification email to the users and clicking that
link would add/update reply-email-to address.
That would require a bit more work so right now I am proposing this
as a quick stop gap so that we don't have to go to the database
manually to add the reply-to email address.
This closes a security loophole, where the auth type of a Platform
Admin could be unwittingly changed when they accept an invite, or
by an admin of a service they are a member of.
when getting a list of security keys
Also test separately that we are correctly choosing key out of list
of security keys. Previously we have done it as a part
of testing pages where where we were calling API to get a list
of keys, but then choosing one of those keys based on id.
Also remove redundant second test credential after PR review
Also remove redundant return value from mocks in update name tests
When we are unable to delete security key because it's the last
one for that user, API throws an error. Here we catch that error
and display useful message to the user.
Use security key instead of webauthn credential
in user facing message - for consistency and readability.
We use security key term in user facing stuff and webauthn
credential in the code.
Previously we could only select a provider when using the test
channel, but this is also required for others channels when we
do tests on the production network with individual MNOs.
In order to reduce duplication and improve consistency, I've reused
the new broadcast_service_name_tag macro to show the setting.
At the moment if you’re invited to a live broadcast service you get the
training mode tour. This is misleading, and could make people think they
weren’t in danger of sending a real alert.
This commit adds a short, 2 step tour for users invited to a live
broadcast service.
Because we were redirecting in all cases the error message wasn’t being
shown.
This commit changes the endpoint to respond with content (including an
error message) if the `POST` is not successful.
We want people to be really sure before sending a live broadcast, not
just clicking through the green buttons.
This commit adds a checkbox which explains exactly the consequences of
what they’re about to do, tailored to the channel they’re on, and the
area chosen by the person creating the alert.
Previously we would raise a 500 error in a variety of cases:
- If a second key was being registered simultaneously (e.g. in a
separate tab), which means the registration state could be missing
after the first registration completes. That smells like an attack.
- If the server-side verification failed e.g. origin verification,
challenge verification, etc. The library seems to use 'ValueError'
for all such errors [1] (after auditing its 'raise' statements, and
excluding AttestationError [2], since we're not doing that).
- If a key is used that attempts to sign with an unsupported
algorithm. This would normally raise a NotImplemented error as part
of verifying attestation [3], but we don't do that, so we need to
verify the algorithm is supported by the library manually.
This adds error handling to return a 400 response and error message
in these cases, since the error is not unexpected (i.e. not a 500).
A 400 seems more appropriate than a 403, since in many cases it's
not clear if the request data is valid.
I've used CBOR for the transport encoding, to match the successful
request / response encoding. Note that the ordering of then/catch
matters in JS - we don't want to catch our own throws!
[1]: 142587b3e6/fido2/server.py (L255)
[2]: c42d9628a4/fido2/attestation/base.py (L39)
[3]: c42d9628a4/fido2/cose.py (L92)
This passes existing credentials in the server response, to allow
the browser to prevent re-registering the same key for the same
user. Registering the same key multiple times doesn't seem to be
an issue technically; the user has likely got their keys mixed up.
- Chrome says "you don't need to register it again".
- Safari exits with an InvalidStateError.
- Firefox exits with a DOMException.
This adds Yubico's FIDO2 library and two APIs for working with the
"navigator.credentials.create()" function in JavaScript. The GET
API uses the library to generate options for the "create()" function,
and the POST API decodes and verifies the resulting credential. While
the options and response are dict-like, CBOR is necessary to encode
some of the byte-level values, which can't be represented in JSON.
Much of the code here is based on the Yubico library example [1][2].
Implementation notes:
- There are definitely better ways to alert the user about failure, but
window.alert() will do for the time being. Using location.reload() is
also a bit jarring if the page scrolls, but not a major issue.
- Ideally we would use window.fetch() to do AJAX calls, but we don't
have a polyfill for this, and we use $.ajax() elsewhere [3]. We need
to do a few weird tricks [6] to stop jQuery trashing the data.
- The FIDO2 server doesn't serve web requests; it's just a "server" in
the sense of WebAuthn terminology. It lives in its own module, since it
needs to be initialised with the app / config.
- $.ajax returns a promise-like object. Although we've used ".fail()"
elsewhere [3], I couldn't find a stub object that supports it, so I've
gone for ".catch()", and used a Promise stub object in tests.
- WebAuthn only works over HTTPS, but there's an exception for "localhost"
[4]. However, the library is a bit too strict [5], so we have to disable
origin verification to avoid needing HTTPS for dev work.
[1]: c42d9628a4/examples/server/server.py
[2]: c42d9628a4/examples/server/static/register.html
[3]: 91453d3639/app/assets/javascripts/updateContent.js (L33)
[4]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55971593/navigator-credentials-is-null-on-local-server
[5]: c42d9628a4/fido2/rpid.py (L69)
[6]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12394622/does-jquery-ajax-or-load-allow-for-responsetype-arraybuffer
When showing what auth type user uses to sign in, add a text
for users with webauthn.
On password change or sign in, throw not implemented error
if user uses webauthn auth.
Only the test channel has the option to isolate messages to one network.
This commits makes the choices less confusing by only showing the
network choice to those who have selected the test channel.
It feels quite dangerous that it’s just one click to make an emergency
alerts service live.
This commit adds a confirmation step which explains the consequences of
what you’re about to do.
This adds a new platform admin settings row, leading a page which
shows any existing keys and allows a new one to be registered. Until
the APIs for this are implemented, the user API client just returns
some stubbed data for manual testing.
This also includes a basic JavaScript module to do the main work of
registering a new authenticator, to be implemented in the next commits.
Some more minor notes:
- Setting the headings in the mapping_table is necessary to get the
horizontal rule along the top (to match the design).
- Setting caption to False in the mapping_table is necessary to stop
an extra margin appearing at the top.
Do not allow platform admins to:
- create broadcasts
- approve broadcasts
- reject broadcasts
that is, unless they have a send_messages permission
for a given service.
This is so platform admins have the minimum permissions necessary
to cancel a broadcast that might have been sent out accidentally.
How this happens: a user starts to send a letter job, then in another tab starts a SMS
or email job, the sender_id is set in the session. Then the user goes
back to the letter job tab and creates the job. The sender_id is set in
the metadata of the csv file, and causes an exception when trying to persist
the letter notification.
This PR adds a check to ensure the sender_id is not set for letter jobs.
This will catch a small use case where the user has multiple tabs open
and has started sending an SMS or email job, then tries to send a letter
job.
For someone who has retrieved a template ID from their system the only
way to find it in Notify is:
- hack the URL
- click through every template, visually inspecting the ID shown on the
page until you find the right one
Neither of these is ideal.
This commit adds searching by ID, for those services who have an API
integration. This means we don’t need to confuse teams who aren’t using
the API by talking about IDs.
This is similar to how we let these teams search for notifications by
reference[1]
1. https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/3223/files
> Rule of three ("Three strikes and you refactor") is a code refactoring
> rule of thumb to decide when similar pieces of code should be
> refactored to avoid duplication. It states that two instances of
> similar code don't require refactoring, but when similar code is used
> three times, it should be extracted into a new procedure
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_programming)
Two reasons to not hide rejected broadcasts:
- if a broadcast was rejected by mistake then it’s useful to have an
audit of who did that
- it means you can still see old broadcasts without having to leave
in pending-approval, which is dangerous because they might
accidentally be approved
The API has a method to handle setting the default SMS free allowance. This will save a call to the API and remove some code duplication between the two apps.
Needs to be merged after https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api/pull/3197
