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If I understand it correctly (I had some trouble wrapping my head around the exact attack vector): The problem here is that browsers allow redirecting users to
by lxgr 2y ago
If I understand it correctly (I had some trouble wrapping my head around the exact attack vector):
The problem here is that browsers allow redirecting users to the installed passkey implementation/"backend" in the same way that camera and dedicated QR scanner apps legitimately use to initiate cross-device authentication via (what used to be called) caBLE, right?
In other words, the attacker primes the user for an upcoming authentication on-device authentication, but in reality initiates an off-device authentication to their own device.
And the fix is presumably to not accept off-device authentication intents over anything that's not a QR scan, or at least filter them out in the browser?
- tadfisher 2y agoCorrect, the Chrome fix at least was to block fido:/ URL navigation, so the victim can't get redirected to their passkey application with the phished URL.