RTCWEB M. Perumal Internet-Draft Ericsson Intended status: Standards Track D. Wing Expires: April 30, 2015 R. Ravindranath T. Reddy Cisco Systems M. Thomson Mozilla October 27, 2014 STUN Usage for Consent Freshness draft-ietf-rtcweb-stun-consent-freshness-08 Abstract To prevent sending excessive traffic to an endpoint, periodic consent needs to be obtained from that remote endpoint. This document describes a consent mechanism using a new Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) usage. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. 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Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Design Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4.1. Expiration of Consent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4.2. Immediate Revocation of Consent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5. DiffServ Treatment for Consent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6. DTLS applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 7. API Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 10. Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1. Introduction To prevent attacks on peers, endpoints have to ensure the remote peer is willing to receive traffic. This is performed both when the session is first established to the remote peer using Interactive Connectivity Establishment ICE [RFC5245] connectivity checks, and periodically for the duration of the session using the procedures defined in this document. When a session is first established, ICE implementations obtain an initial consent to send by performing STUN connectivity checks. This document describes a new STUN usage with exchange of request and response messages that verifies the remote peer's ongoing consent to receive traffic. This consent expires after a period of time and needs to be continually renewed, which ensures that consent can be terminated. This applies to full ICE implementations. An ICE-lite implementation will not generate consent checks, but will just respond to consent checks it receives. ICE-lite implementation do not require any changes to respond to consent checks. Perumal, et al. Expires April 30, 2015 [Page 2] Internet-Draft STUN Usage for Consent Freshness October 2014 2. Terminology The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. Consent: The mechanism of obtaining permission to send to a remote transport address. Initial consent is obtained using ICE or a TCP handshake. Consent Freshness: Maintaining and renewing consent over time. Transport Address: The remote peer's IP address and UDP or TCP port number. 3. Design Considerations Although ICE requires periodic keepalive traffic to keep NAT bindings alive (Section 10 of [RFC5245], [RFC6263]), those keepalives are sent as STUN Indications which are send-and-forget, and do not evoke a response. A response is necessary for consent to continue sending traffic. Thus, we need a request/response mechanism for consent freshness. ICE can be used for that mechanism because ICE implementations are already required to continue listening for ICE messages, as described in section 10 of [RFC5245]. 4. Solution There are two ways consent to send traffic is revoked: expiration of consent and immediate revocation of consent, which are discussed in the following sections. 4.1. Expiration of Consent A WebRTC implementation [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-overview], which implements full ICE, performs consent freshness test using STUN request/response as described below: An endpoint MUST NOT send paced STUN connectivity checks toward any transport address unless the receiving endpoint consents to receive data. That is, no application data (e.g., RTP or DTLS) can be sent until consent is obtained. After a successful ICE connectivity check on a particular transport address, consent MUST be obtained following the procedure described in this document. Explicit consent to send is obtained by sending an STUN binding request to the remote peer's transport address and receiving a matching, authenticated, non-error STUN binding response from the Perumal, et al. Expires April 30, 2015 [Page 3] Internet-Draft STUN Usage for Consent Freshness October 2014 remote peer's transport address. These STUN binding requests and responses are authenticated using the same short-term credentials as the initial ICE exchange. Note: Although TCP has its own consent mechanism (TCP acknowledgements), consent is necessary over a TCP connection because it could be translated to a UDP connection (e.g., [RFC6062]). Initial consent is granted as a result of a successful ICE connectivity check on a particular transport address, and expires 30 seconds after an ICE candidate par has been selected. Once an ICE candidate pair has been selected, consent for the ICE candidate pairs lasts for 30 seconds. That is, if a valid STUN binding response corresponding to any STUN request sent in the last 30 seconds has not been received from the remote peer's transport address, the endpoint MUST cease transmission on that 5-tuple. STUN consent responses received after consent expiry do not re-establish consent, and may be discarded or cause an ICMP error. To prevent expiry of consent, a STUN binding request can be sent periodically. To prevent synchronization of consent checks, each interval MUST be randomized from between 0.8 and 1.2 times the basic period. Implementations SHOULD set a default interval of 5 seconds, resulting in a period between checks of 4 to 6 seconds. Each STUN binding request for consent MUST use a new cryptographically-random [RFC4086] STUN transaction ID. Each STUN binding requests for consent is transmitted once only. Hence, the sender cannot assume that it will receive a response for each consent request, and a response might be for a previous request (rather than for the most recently sent request). Consent expiration causes immediate termination of all outstanding STUN consent transactions. Each STUN transaction is maintained until one of the following criteria is fulfilled: o A STUN response associated with the transaction is received; or o A STUN response associated to a newer transaction is received. To meet the security needs of consent, an untrusted application (e.g., JavaScript or signaling servers) MUST NOT be able to obtain or control the STUN transaction ID, because that enables spoofing of STUN responses, falsifying consent. To prevent attacks on the peer during ICE restart, an endpoint that continues to send traffic on the previously validated candidate pair Perumal, et al. Expires April 30, 2015 [Page 4] Internet-Draft STUN Usage for Consent Freshness October 2014 during ICE restart MUST continue to perform consent freshness on that candidate pair as described earlier. While TCP affords some protection from off-path attackers ([RFC5961], [RFC4953]), there is still a risk an attacker could cause a TCP sender to send forever by spoofing ACKs. To prevent such an attack, consent checks MUST be performed over all transport connections, including TCP. In this way, an off-path attacker spoofing TCP segments can not cause a TCP sender to send once the consent timer expires (30 seconds). An endpoint that is not sending any application data does not need to maintain consent. However, the endpoint needs to ensure its NAT or firewall mappings persist which can be done using keepalive or other techniques (see Section 10 of [RFC5245] and see [RFC6263]). If the endpoint wants to send application data, it needs to first obtain consent if its consent has expired. 4.2. Immediate Revocation of Consent In some cases it is useful to signal that consent is terminated rather than relying on a timeout. Consent for sending application data is immediately revoked by receipt of an authenticated message that closes the connection (e.g., a TLS fatal alert) or receipt of a valid and authenticated STUN response with error code Forbidden (403). Note however that consent revocation messages can be lost on the network, so an endpoint could resend these messages, or wait for consent to expire. Receipt of an unauthenticated message that closes a connection (e.g., TCP FIN) does not indicate revocation of consent. Thus, an endpoint receiving an unauthenticated end-of-session message SHOULD continue sending media (over connectionless transport) or attempt to re- establish the connection (over connection-oriented transport) until consent expires or it receives an authenticated message revoking consent. Note that an authenticated SRTCP BYE does not terminate consent; it only indicates the associated SRTP source has quit. 5. DiffServ Treatment for Consent It is RECOMMENDED that STUN consent checks use the same Diffserv Codepoint markings as the ICE connectivity checks described in Section 7.1.2.4 of [RFC5245] for a given 5-tuple. Perumal, et al. Expires April 30, 2015 [Page 5] Internet-Draft STUN Usage for Consent Freshness October 2014 Note: It is possible that different Diffserv Codepoints are used by different media over the same transport address [I-D.ietf-tsvwg-rtcweb-qos]. Such a case is outside the scope of this document. 6. DTLS applicability The DTLS applicability is identical to what is described in Section 4.2 of [RFC7350]. 7. API Recommendations The W3C specification MAY provide the following API to provide feedback and control over consent: 1. Generate an event when consent has expired for a given 5-tuple, meaning that transmission of data has ceased. This could indicate what application data is affected, such as media or data channels. 8. Security Considerations This document describes a security mechanism. The security considerations discussed in [RFC5245] should also be taken into account. SRTP is encrypted and authenticated with symmetric keys; that is, both sender and receiver know the keys. With two party sessions, receipt of an authenticated packet from the single remote party is a strong assurance the packet came from that party. However, when a session involves more than two parties, all of whom know each others keys, any of those parties could have sent (or spoofed) the packet. Such shared key distributions are possible with some MIKEY [RFC3830] modes, Security Descriptions [RFC4568], and EKT [I-D.ietf-avtcore-srtp-ekt]. Thus, in such shared keying distributions, receipt of an authenticated SRTP packet is not sufficient to verify consent. 9. IANA Considerations This document does not require any action from IANA. 10. Acknowledgement Thanks to Eric Rescorla, Harald Alvestrand, Bernard Aboba, Magnus Westerland, Cullen Jennings, Christer Holmberg, Simon Perreault, Paul Kyzivat, Emil Ivov, Jonathan Lennox, Inaki Baz Castillo, Rajmohan Perumal, et al. Expires April 30, 2015 [Page 6] Internet-Draft STUN Usage for Consent Freshness October 2014 Banavi and Christian Groves for their valuable inputs and comments. Thanks to Christer Holmberg for doing a through review. 11. References 11.1. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC4086] Eastlake, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker, "Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086, June 2005. [RFC5245] Rosenberg, J., "Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE): A Protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal for Offer/Answer Protocols", RFC 5245, April 2010. [RFC6263] Marjou, X. and A. Sollaud, "Application Mechanism for Keeping Alive the NAT Mappings Associated with RTP / RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Flows", RFC 6263, June 2011. 11.2. Informative References [I-D.ietf-avtcore-srtp-ekt] Mattsson, J., McGrew, D., and D. Wing, "Encrypted Key Transport for Secure RTP", draft-ietf-avtcore-srtp-ekt-03 (work in progress), October 2014. [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-overview] Alvestrand, H., "Overview: Real Time Protocols for Browser-based Applications", draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-12 (work in progress), October 2014. [I-D.ietf-tsvwg-rtcweb-qos] Dhesikan, S., Jennings, C., Druta, D., Jones, P., and J. Polk, "DSCP and other packet markings for RTCWeb QoS", draft-ietf-tsvwg-rtcweb-qos-02 (work in progress), June 2014. [RFC3830] Arkko, J., Carrara, E., Lindholm, F., Naslund, M., and K. Norrman, "MIKEY: Multimedia Internet KEYing", RFC 3830, August 2004. [RFC4568] Andreasen, F., Baugher, M., and D. Wing, "Session Description Protocol (SDP) Security Descriptions for Media Streams", RFC 4568, July 2006. Perumal, et al. Expires April 30, 2015 [Page 7] Internet-Draft STUN Usage for Consent Freshness October 2014 [RFC4953] Touch, J., "Defending TCP Against Spoofing Attacks", RFC 4953, July 2007. [RFC5961] Ramaiah, A., Stewart, R., and M. Dalal, "Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks", RFC 5961, August 2010. [RFC6062] Perreault, S. and J. Rosenberg, "Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Extensions for TCP Allocations", RFC 6062, November 2010. [RFC7350] Petit-Huguenin, M. and G. Salgueiro, "Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) as Transport for Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)", RFC 7350, August 2014. Authors' Addresses Muthu Arul Mozhi Perumal Ericsson Ferns Icon Doddanekundi, Mahadevapura Bangalore, Karnataka 560037 India Email: muthu.arul@gmail.com Dan Wing Cisco Systems 821 Alder Drive Milpitas, California 95035 USA Email: dwing@cisco.com Ram Mohan Ravindranath Cisco Systems Cessna Business Park Sarjapur-Marathahalli Outer Ring Road Bangalore, Karnataka 560103 India Email: rmohanr@cisco.com Perumal, et al. Expires April 30, 2015 [Page 8] Internet-Draft STUN Usage for Consent Freshness October 2014 Tirumaleswar Reddy Cisco Systems Cessna Business Park, Varthur Hobli Sarjapur Marathalli Outer Ring Road Bangalore, Karnataka 560103 India Email: tireddy@cisco.com Martin Thomson Mozilla Suite 300 650 Castro Street Mountain View, California 94041 US Email: martin.thomson@gmail.com Perumal, et al. Expires April 30, 2015 [Page 9]