Certificate Injection
Introduction
Attack subtypes
There are no attack subtypes for this attack.
Prerequisites
Target
The attacked Single Sign-On component is marked in red colour.
The attack uses the CSRF technique to enforce the victim to change changing configuration data without explicit user interaction.
Description
Mitigation / Countermeasures
Session Management schould include a protection against CSRF to mitigate the attack.
Practical Examples
In 2014, Mainka et al. analyzed 22 Software as a Service cloud providers and found out, that different frameworks were vulnerable to this attack: SAManage, Shiftplanning, BambooHR, IdeaScale, Howlr and CA Service Management.
References
C. Mainka, V. Mladenov, F. Feldmann, J. Krautwald, J. Schwenk (2014): Your Software at my Service: Security Analysis of SaaS Single Sign-On Solutions in the Cloud. In The ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW).