[pve-devel] [PATCH widget-toolkit/http-server/apiclient 0/4] Set SameSite=Strict on Auth Cookies

Max Carrara m.carrara at proxmox.com
Wed Mar 15 17:26:26 CET 2023


This series sets the `SameSite` attribute of authentication cookies
to `Strict` as per RFC 6265[1]. This prevents browsers from nagging;
for example, FireFox 102.8.0esr would complain in the following manner:

> Cookie “PVEAuthCookie” does not have a proper “SameSite” attribute 
> value. Soon, cookies without the “SameSite” attribute or with an
> invalid value will be treated as “Lax”. This means that the cookie
> will no longer be sent in third-party contexts. If your application
> depends on this cookie being available in such contexts, please add
> the “SameSite=None“ attribute to it. To know more about the
> “SameSite“ attribute, read https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Set-Cookie/SameSite

Since setting `SameSite` to `Strict` enforces that the cookie be only
sent in a first-party context - so, only to the web UI and no other
site - it seemed like the best thing to choose. I'm not aware of the
cookie being used in any other contexts; if that's the case, I'll
gladly provide a v2.

The attribute is set wherever it makes sense; the only repo in which
it's not set would be 'pve-client', as that one's apparently not being
used at all (it wouldn't even build). Please let me know if I have
missed any spots.

[1] https://httpwg.org/http-extensions/draft-ietf-httpbis-rfc6265bis.html#name-the-samesite-attribute


proxmox-widget-toolkit:

Max Carrara (2):
  toolkit/utils: set SameSite attr of auth cookie to 'strict'
  toolkit/utils: fix whitespace

 src/Toolkit.js | 513 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 src/Utils.js   |   6 +-
 2 files changed, 276 insertions(+), 243 deletions(-)


pve-http-server:

Max Carrara (1):
  formatter/bootstrap: set SameSite attr of auth cookie to 'strict'

 src/PVE/APIServer/Formatter.pm           | 2 +-
 src/PVE/APIServer/Formatter/Bootstrap.pm | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


pve-apiclient:

Max Carrara (1):
  lwp: set SameSite attr of auth cookie to 'strict'

 PVE/APIClient/LWP.pm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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