Get auth from topdesk site being opened within iframe - api

I have a topdesk board, and connected external site via url, so my site is opened within iframe from topdesk.
My task is to get logged in user (at least its email) from topdesk.
I have found so far this api: https://developers.topdesk.com/explorer/?page=supporting-files#/Persons/getLoggedInPerson
But it requires to get auth key from login/password, but I do not user login/password from UI side.
So I do not see any straightforward solution, but maybe I could somehow to get cookie from parent topdesk view or something like that.

What you're trying to do is not possible, as it would be an enormous security vulnerability. If you would be able to go into an iFrame and interact with the embedded document, or go from an embedded page to its parent and interact with its document (e.g. retrieve the session cookies, read the contents of the page, etc.) it would become really easy to take over someones session and do malicious things.
For instance, as a malicious actor, I could place a small iFrame on my site in which I load TOPdesk. If you were already logged in into TOPdesk, you would also be logged in in the iFrame on my site. If I would be able to interact with the cookies within that iFrame, I could retrieve your session cookies and impersonate you.
Therefore, you can only interact on this level with iFrames that are on the same origin, also known as the Same origin policy.
However, even if you would be on the same origin, you would still not be able to read TOPdesk's session cookies, because they are set to HttpOnly. This means the cookies can only be used by the browser itself, and can't be interacted with from JavaScript.
So, to me, it sounds like the only option you have is to interact with the API in the official way, through an application password. However, that might not be possible with what you are trying to achieve. Can you tell a little bit more about your use case?

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Keycloak - Multi/2FA Factor - OTP - QR Code - Custom Login Screen - Rest API

I have my own Login page where user enters username/password.
This username/password are used to login through Keycloak Rest API.
http://localhost:8080/auth/realms/Demo/protocol/openid-connect/token
input - {username,password,grant_type,client_secret,client_id}
And in response i get access token.
Now i wish to enable Authenticator (Google Authenticator). I have enabled it from backend. Now if user wishes to login thorugh my application, my login page i need to get below details.
1.) Somehow i need to include QR Code that appears on keycloak login page post username/password validation to show on my login screen for the first time login once user enter username/password. So do we have any API which return Keycloak QR code image in response.
2.) Subsequent login i will have OTP field, so need a REST api to pass OTP along with username/password.
Please help with REST API if keycloak has any. Integrating through Javascript.
Similar flow as described in use case 1 here
Just want to use keycloak as a database, doing all operation for me, input will be my screen. I do want redirection of URL's while login in and yet should be standalone deployed.
I've managed to implement this through the rest API of Keycloak. To realize this, you need to extend Keycloak yourself with a SPI. To do this create your own Java project and extend org.keycloak.services.resource.RealmResourceProvider and org.keycloak.services.resource.RealmResourceProviderFactory. You can find more information in the official docs (https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_development/#_extensions), github examples and other stack overflow posts how to do this.
Once you got this up and running you can implement it like this:
#GET
#Path("your-end-point-to-fetch-the-qr")
#Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
public YourDtoWithSecretAndQr get2FASetup(#PathParam("username") final String username) {
final RealmModel realm = this.session.getContext().getRealm();
final UserModel user = this.session.users().getUserByUsername(username, realm);
final String totpSecret = HmacOTP.generateSecret(20);
final String totpSecretQrCode = TotpUtils.qrCode(totpSecret, realm, user);
return new YourDtoWithSecretAndQr(totpSecret, totpSecretQrCode);
}
#POST
#Path("your-end-point-to-setup-2fa")
#Consumes("application/json")
public void setup2FA(#PathParam("username") final String username, final YourDtoWithData dto) {
final RealmModel realm = this.session.getContext().getRealm();
final UserModel user = this.session.users().getUserByUsername(username, realm);
final OTPCredentialModel otpCredentialModel = OTPCredentialModel.createFromPolicy(realm, dto.getSecret(), dto.getDeviceName());
CredentialHelper.createOTPCredential(this.session, realm, user, dto.getInitialCode(), otpCredentialModel);
}
The secret received with the GET must be send back with the POST. The initial code is the one from your 2FA app (e.g. Google Authenticator). The QR code is a string which can be displayed in an img with src 'data:image/png;base64,' + qrCodeString;
I know this is an old question, but I've recently been looking at something similar, and so thought it would be potentially valuable to share what I have found for others who may be looking into this and wondered what the possibilities are.
TL;DR
You can only really use the existing Keycloak actions to do this or embed the user account management page found at https://{keycloak server URL}/auth/realms/{realm name}/account in an iframe. That's it, I'm afraid. In my opinion it is currently best to just assign actions directly to accounts or use the Credential Reset emails to assign actions; both of these can be done via the Admin API if desired:
Send Credential Reset email containing assigned actions:
https://www.keycloak.org/docs-api/11.0/rest-api/index.html#_executeactionsemail
Set actions directly on the account (include the actions in the requiredActions portion of the user JSON that you send in the body to the endpoint):
https://www.keycloak.org/docs-api/11.0/rest-api/index.html#_updateuser
Background is that as part of a project that I have been working on we wanted to see if we could have an integrated way for users to set up their initial password and OTP device when a new account has been created for them, since the default method of sending them an email from Keycloak using the "Credential Reset" functionality has the limitations that a) it doesn't provide a link to the application itself unless you override the theme, and if you have multiple instances of the application for different users you have no way of knowing which instance to provide the link for, so may have to end up including a list of them, and b) it often doesn't feel truly native to the application, even with changes to the theme. If you're sensible though, I'd suggest you stop and just use this functionality - please see the TL;DR section above for details.
So, in short there is NO API endpoint for receiving a QR code to set up an OTP device. There are two places, however, where the QR code can be retrieved from - the OTP device setup screen when you log in as a user who has had a "Configure OTP" action assigned to their account, and the user's own account management screen.
The first option of the Configure OTP action screen is a non-starter. It only shows up when you log in, and so by definition the user has to log in to Keycloak via the Keycloak login page in order to trigger the page to be displayed. At this point you're already on a Keycloak page instead of one of your app's pages, and so unless you can get very creative with changes to these Keycloak pages via a custom theme, tapping into this page isn't really an option.
The second option is more interesting, but far from ideal. Every user who has logged in has access to an account management page that can be found at https://{keycloak server URL}/auth/realms/{realm name}/account. This page allows you to do things like change your name, password, etc. and it also allows you to add an OTP device if you don't already have one, or delete any existing OTP devices associated with your account. This OTP device tab of the account management page can be reached directly via https://{keycloak server URL}/auth/realms/{realm name}/account/totp.
As I mentioned, there isn't an API that you can access to view the QR code that shows up on this page. The only way it is accessible is via the GET request to https://{keycloak server URL}/auth/realms/{realm name}/account/totp, which returns the HTML for the page I've already mentioned. Okay great, so can we scrape the QR code programmatically and then put it in our own page on our application? Err, no, not really. You see, whilst a lot of the Keycloak API endpoints rightly allow you to send a bearer token (e.g. access token) in the authorization header to access and endpoint, this page will not accept a bearer token as a means of authentication/authorization. Instead it uses a session cookie that is locked down to the Keycloak URL. This cookie is set when you log in to your application via the Keycloak login page, and so is available to this account management page when you navigate to it, having already logged in, and since the account management page uses the same server and domain name as the original Keycloak login page, it has access to the cookie and can let you in. This cookie cannot be sent by your application to e.g. your own REST API to then programmatically call the account management page and scrape the QR code, because your application doesn't have access to it for good security reasons. This might be something you can change in Keycloak somewhere, but if there is I would strongly recommend against changing it.
So if we can't scrape the page from our own server, can we do something on the front-end? Well, as mentioned, your application doesn't have access to the session cookie but if you make a request (e.g. using fetch or axios) in your front-end JavaScript to the account management page then that request will send the cookie along with it, so that could work right? Umm, well actually you will get hit with an error message in this scenario due to CORS. CORS is Cross-Origin-Resource-Sharing and in order to allow the Keycloak page to be accessed then you would have to open up the settings on the server to allow it to be accessed from your website's address. I've seen some articles that look at how you can open up your CORS settings on Keycloak if you wish but I'd be very nervous about doing this. I don't know enough about the internals of Keycloak and how it operates to comment on how much of a security risk this is, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it. There some information here (Keycloak angular No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present) on changing the "Web Origins" setting of your application's Keycloak client, but this opens up your application to some serious potential abuse. There is also the MAJOR issue that even if you scraped the QR code, the device isn't actually added to the user's account (even though it appears in the authenticator app) until you enter a code into the page that the QR code is on and click Save. Since there isn't an API endpoint that you can use to complete this operation, I therefore don't think that this option is viable either. I've tried out whether or not you can use the token retrieval endpoint at https://{keycloak server URL}/auth/realms/{realm name}/protocol/openid-connect/token to see if making a request with your username/password/otp code will somehow "register" your device and complete the process, but although you can get a token this way, and it doesn't complain about the otp code, it doesn't actually take any notice of the code because as far as it's concerned the user's account doesn't have a device registered with it. So we have to use the form on the account management page in order to complete this registration process.
So the final way of possibly doing this is.... an iframe. Sorry, yeah it's rubbish but that's all your left with. You can have the iframe point at your account management page, and because the user is logged in then they will be able to see the contents from your application's page. You can use relative positioning, fixed width and height and remove scroll bars to ensure that you ONLY show the QR code and the fields for the one time code, device name, and the Save/Cancel buttons. This, sadly, seems to be the only option at the moment, and due to how nasty and unreliable iframes can be in general - they certainly don't feel native to your application, and you'll need to override your Keycloak theme to get the page in question to look more like your app - I'd recommend steering clear of this and using the standard approach of using Keycloak actions and the Admin API instead.
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How do I secure my Microsoft Bot Framework iframe WebChat url

I would like to use 'https://webchat.botframework.com/embed/QuizHS?s=YOUR_SECRET_HERE' to integrate it with Web Application.
But, I would like to secure the conversation by passing token to it as Secret key is in querystring, so that no one can copy above link directly and use it in any other application as this data contain confidential data.
This was answered extensively by Dan Driscoll here: https://github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat/issues/428
For purposes of this discussion, we're going to treat secrets and
tokens to be the same thing. We can go into detail on those later if
you want. I'll refer to them as "secret/token" for now.
To access a conversation, you need the secret/token and a conversation
ID. These values are sometimes glued together, and are sometimes in
separate variables. Sometimes they're in the URL, and sometimes
they're stored in JavaScript in memory. These are similar to a user
token, stored in a user's cookie.
In all cases, these values are accessible to a user sitting at their
own computer. They can read their own URLs, they can read their own
JavaScript variable state, and they can read their own cookies.
If they send any of this information to someone else, that person can
impersonate them. If my bank emails me a password reset link, and I
share that with someone else, that person can reset my account
password and log in to my account.
Our iFrame uses URLs to pass these parameters, as that's an adequate
level of security in many cases. (Have you ever visited a website,
manually extracted the URL to an iFrame, sent it to someone else, and
expected your session to remain private? Probably not.)
If you want additional security, you can skip the iFrame and send your
own secret/token inside JS or a cookie. Your JS can extract that and
send it to the Web Chat JS object. Once Web Chat has the secret/token,
is exclusively uses HTTP Authorization headers to send those values to
the Direct Line service.

Multiple users logged in Dropbox

I need to log in a user into Dropbox using Core API. Then remember his/her access token and allow logging in with another credentials (looks like a second Dropbox user). But when I make request to https://www.dropbox.com/1/oauth2/authorize it automatically ends up with redirect page with first user's access token giving no chance to enter another credentials. I know I can revoke first access token but then I will not be able to silently come back to first user.
Does anyone know is the possible to implement?
You can set the force_reapprove parameter for the /authorize page to true to prevent the automatic redirect:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#oa2-authorize
Note that the /authorize page is hosted on www.dropbox.com though, so the user will get their www.dropbox.com session, even if force_reapprove=true is set. With that parameter set though, the user has the opportunity to switch accounts, using the dropdown in the upper right of the page, before authorizing the app.
If that's not sufficient for whatever reason, you can try to end the user's www.dropbox.com. The simplest way is to direct them to www.dropbox.com/logout first. Be sure to make it clear to the user what is happening though.
Or, if you control the entire browser, e.g., if it's an embedded web view in your app, you can clear the browser's cookies, which will clear the session, forcing users to log in again.

Is there a way to have a 'Google Sign In' button for google accounts that are not signed up with Google Plus?

I'm working on an internal website for the company I work for. The website will be only available to company staff. We use Google Apps for Business, so we would like authentication to be done using our google accounts.
I've gone through 'google sign in' samples from here: https://developers.google.com/+/
It works, but the problem we run into is that it requires the user to sign up to Google+. This is a speed bump we would prefer not to have.
Are there any ways around this? Thanks.
It shouldn't be too hard to roll your own sign in using the lower levels of Oauth, eg 'email' scope. It's hard to give a more specific answer because it depends on your architecture (eg. are you predominantly server-side or client-side) and what kind of session do you want to create by the sign in process. For example, if you are client/REST based, you probably don't want any session at all as REST encourages statelessness. On the other hand, if you are more web based, serving static pages, you will want a session.
In simple terms, you will be doing something that generates an access token, and then processing that access token to determine the email address (or Google ID) of the person who created it. You will then establish some sort of session (eg. using session cookies) that identifies future requests from that user.
Feel free to add some more detail to your architecture and I'll try to finesse the answer.
For simple http servlet sessions, it will be something like.
User requests a protected page
servlet detects that there is no session and/or session has no authenticated user
servlet redirects to an Oauth page to request an access code. something like
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?redirect_uri=xxx&response_type=code&client_id=zz&approval_prompt=auto&scope=email
NB research the exact URL, don't rely on this to be exact
If the user isn't logged on, he'll be prompted; if he has multiple logins, he'll be prompted; if he hasn't yet granted email access, he'll be prompted. If none of these conditions are met (the normal case) he won't see anything.
Browser will redirect to the redirect_uri, carrying an access token (or an auth code if this is the first time the user has used the app)
Post the token to the Google userinfo endpoint, and you will receive a decode containing the email address
Store the email into a session object (or retrieve your own user object and store that)
redirect back to the originally requested page. You can use the OAuth state parameter to pass that around
et voila. all future page requests from that user will be within a session containing some user identification.
NB This is just an outline and I may even have missed a step. You will still need to do your own OAuth research.
Apparently not:
(..) if a Google user who has not upgraded to a Google+ account clicks
on the Sign in with Google+ button, the same consent dialog that opens
will take the user into an account upgrade flow.
Weirdly the docs for OAuth2 states:
Google+ Sign-In works for all users with a Google account, whether or
not they have upgraded to Google+.

Recognize Website User without Login?

I'd like to create a piece of code that can be embedded on many different websites (widget).
Is there any way that my code can identify a user without them logging in? I.e, can I use any of the established identity mechanisms floating around the web to reliably identify them across instances of this widget?
I don't need to (nor should I be able to) tap into any information about this user, just identify them.
The websites will be heterogeneous; there's no guarantee that they will have any common aspects, so the widget code needs to be entirely self contained.
What you want to do is what cookies were invented for. But browsers have gotten wise to people being tracked without their permission, and now limit 3rd party cookies.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently put up a proof of concept for uniquely identifying a visitor based on attributes of their browser. It's uses things things like:
User-Agent string
http-accept values
timezone
screen resolution and color depth
the installed plugins
if cookies are enabled
It's not guaranteed to be unique, but my browser certainly is, and it will get you on your way to doing the bad things that people don't like.
OpenID is sort of a SSO for the whole internet, yet they still have to sign in to OpenID. Other than that, I can't think of a solution.
I would suggest Open-ID rather than some workaround like this, but if you don't like that solution you might consider something like this:
You can use a cookie from a single domain, then use that domain to redirect to the correct site adding user-id as a parameter or part of the URL-path
For instance a link to add a personal widget on the foo.com -site, could look something like:
http://bar.com/addwidget1?backtoo=http://foo.com/main/
bar.com would own the cookie, change the user preferences and then add user-id to the back-link before re-directing:
foo.com/user-id/
Issues with this approach includes
You need to rewrite every page dynamicly with the user-id.
It's a bit clumsy I think
You can't fully take advantage of web-caches around the net.
The user might loose their cookie.
Benefits
No login
Since you redirect a lot you get stats on the users movement across your sites.
Sounds like you want to implement a Single Sign On framework. Basically when you first see the user, if you don't know them, you redirect them to the single sign on server. Wich authenticates them and redirects them back to you with a authentication token. You verify the authentication token with a web service call to the SSO server. Ff it is valid then you mark that user as signed on.
EDIT
So thinking about it more and reading tovare's answer and your comments. Why not create some javascript code that works like an google ads? You put the javascript on the page and it does an a request to your central tracking server using a dynamic iframe.
Have your tracking server return an image tag with src of the unique id (its own session id) embedded.
<img src=contentserver.com/track.php?id=12345668>
The content server has a server side script (track.php above) that maps its local session id to the unique id received from the tracking server.
The unique id stays the same across all sites.
Edit2
Instead of using an image, use the javascript trick. The content server just requests a javascript file from the tracking server. but the file is a dynamic one generated on the server side. it returns a generated javascript function called unique_id() it returns the unique id from the tracking server. Call the track.php using ajax to determine if this is a unique user.
Use OpenID, or a simplified variant, with your own site as the identity provider. Redirect the user to your identifier site which sets or checks a cookie, then redirect the user back with the user's identity, which was indicated by the cookie, added as a URL argument.
Your identifier site can be an OpenID identity provider which doesn't require any user interaction to authenticate. The sites which receive this identity are probably not OpenID consumers, since they don't offer the user a choice of providers. You can probably do away with some of the signing required by OpenID if your cookie and identifier are signed.
Facebook provides something similar; a site can find the Facebook identity of a user (assuming the user has one) without any action on the user's part.