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OAuth 2.0 Cookbook

By : Adolfo Eloy Nascimento
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OAuth 2.0 Cookbook

By: Adolfo Eloy Nascimento

Overview of this book

OAuth 2.0 is a standard protocol for authorization and focuses on client development simplicity while providing specific authorization flows for web applications, desktop applications, mobile phones, and so on. This book also provides useful recipes for solving real-life problems using Spring Security and creating Android applications. The book starts by presenting you how to interact with some public OAuth 2.0 protected APIs such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Google. You will also be able to implement your own OAuth 2.0 provider with Spring Security OAuth2. Next, the book will cover practical scenarios regarding some important OAuth 2.0 profiles such as Dynamic Client Registration, Token Introspection and how to revoke issued access tokens. You will then be introduced to the usage of JWT, OpenID Connect, and how to safely implement native mobile OAuth 2.0 Clients. By the end of this book, you will be able to ensure that both the server and client are protected against common vulnerabilities.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Protecting the client against Authorization Code injection


This recipe talks about a security flaw that is extremely easy to mitigate, but unfortunately, there are many companies that still do not pay attention to this problem. That's about Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks, which allow anybody to inject a forged authorization code to compromise the Resource Owner's resources. This recipe shows the importance of state parameters when using the Authorization Code grant type (although it's also important when using the Implicit grant type).

Getting ready

To run this recipe, you will need Java 8, Maven, Spring Web, and Spring Security. If you want to run the examples to explore how to simulate an attack, you have to install Firefox and the NoRedirect add-on. To ease the project creation step, use Spring Initializr at http://start.spring.io/.

How to do it...

This recipe creates the project oauth2-provider-statefor OAuth Provider and client-state for the client application. Both applications...