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+title: "Oxen Security Fail"
+date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00
+draft: false
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+Lately I've been doing research on the Oxen Privacy Tech Foundation and their various projects. On 19 September while looking at Session, I noticed getsession.org was missing the Strict-Transport-Security header[1]. So I decided to also check the security headers for oxen.io[2], lokinet.org[3], and optf.ngo[4] and what do you know, they're also missing HTTP security headers.
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+The download links for each project are all vulnerable to network-level man-in-the-middle attacks[5]. They also load external resources with no CSP header. They're all missing X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, and a Permissions-Policy. This is the web security equivalent of leaving your front door open.
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+When I noticed the lack of security headers on getsession.org, I emailed support@getsession.org informing them of the issue the same day. Over a week later, it's still not fixed and I have no response. How long has their website been insecure like this? I'm left wondering whether I should take OPTF and their work seriously. How can crypto projects focused primarily on privacy and security overlook basic web security? OPTF has some explaining to do.
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+Their sites may have other security vulnerabilities I'm unaware of. I'm no web pentester and I have no interest in pursuing it further. I may ask a pentester friend of mine to look into it for me. I'm going to contact OPTF directly through their contact form[6] about what all I've already found. I'll update this entry later once they respond.
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+# Update (2021-10-02):
+I received a response the same day I contacted the OPTF. They let me know my original email to Session went to spam which is why they didn't see it. It probably got filtered because I put "URGENT" in the subject line. The issue was resolved by the next day and the CTO (Kee Jefferys) thanked me for the feedback.
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+Link(s):
+[1: getsession.org security headers](https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgetsession.org&followRedirects=on)
+[2: oxen.io security headers](https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Foxen.io&followRedirects=on)
+[3: lokinet.org security headers](https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Flokinet.org&followRedirects=on)
+[4: optf.ngo security headers](https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Foptf.ngo&followRedirects=on)
+[5: man-in-the-middle attack](https://wikiless.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack)
+[6: optf.ngo contact form](https://optf.ngo/contact-us/)