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== Repeated token revocation requests, can lead to service degradation or disruption ==
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=== Summary ===
 
There is currently no limit to the frequency of keystone token revocations that
 
can be made by a single user, in any given time frame. If a user repeatedly
 
makes token requests, and then immediately revokes the token, a performance
 
degradation can occur and possible DoS (Denial of Serice) attacks could be
 
directed towards keystone.
 
 
 
=== Affected Services / Software ===
 
All services using keystone.
 
Mitaka, Liberty, Kilo, Nova, Juno, Havana, Icehouse, Grizzly, Folsom, Essex.
 
 
 
=== Discussion ===
 
Token revocation can be self-served, with no restrictions enforced on the
 
number of token revocations made by any user (including service users).
 
 
 
If token revocations are made in quick succession, response times starts to lengthen, due
 
to the increasing entries made in the revocation_event table.
 
 
 
With no form of rate limiting in place, a single user can cause the OpenStack
 
auth service to become poor in response time, resulting in a DoS style attack.
 
 
 
A cleanup of revocation events does occur, based on token expiration plus
 
expiration_buffer (which is 30 minutes by default). However, with the default
 
token TTL of 3600 seconds, a user can potentially fill up  approximately several
 
thousand events during that time.
 
 
 
=== Recommended Actions ===
 
For current stable OpenStack releases (Mitaka and previous), operators are
 
recommended to deploy external rate-limiting proxies or web application firewalls, to
 
provide a front layer of protection to keystone.
 
 
 
The following solutions may be considered, however it is key that the operator
 
carefully plans and considers the individual performance needs of users
 
and services within their OpenStack cloud, when configuring any rate limiting
 
functionality.
 
 
 
==== Repose ====
 
 
 
===== Rate Limiting Filter =====
 
Repose provides a rate limiting filter, that can limit per IP address and
 
to a specific HTTP method (DELETE in relation to this OSSN).
 
 
 
The following config may be considered for a single node. For more complex
 
deployments, clusters can be constructed , utilizing a distributed data-store.
 
 
 
===== system-model.cfg.xml =====
 
 
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
<system-model xmlns="<nowiki>http://docs.openrepose.org/repose/system-model/v2.0</nowiki>">
 
    <repose-cluster id="repose">
 
        <nodes>
 
            <node id="repose_node1" hostname="localhost" http-port="8080"/>
 
        </nodes>
 
        <filters>
 
            <filter name="ip-user"/>
 
            <filter name="rate-limiting"/>
 
        </filters>
 
        <services>
 
        </services>
 
        <destinations>
 
            <endpoint id="keystone" protocol="http" hostname="<nowiki>http://idenity-server.acme.com</nowiki>" root-path="/" port="35357" default="true"/>
 
        </destinations>
 
    </repose-cluster>
 
    <phone-home enabled="false"
 
                origin-service-id="your-service"
 
                contact-email="your@service.com"/>
 
</system-model>
 
 
 
===== ip-user.cfg.xml =====
 
 
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
<ip-user xmlns="<nowiki>http://docs.openrepose.org/repose/ip-user/v1.0</nowiki>">
 
    <user-header name="X-PP-User" quality="0.4"/>
 
    <group-header name="X-PP-Groups" quality="0.4"/>
 
    <group name="ipv4-group">
 
        <cidr-ip>192.168.0.0/24</cidr-ip>
 
    </group>
 
    <group name="match-all">
 
        <cidr-ip>0.0.0.0/0</cidr-ip>
 
        <cidr-ip>0::0/0</cidr-ip>
 
    </group>
 
</ip-user>
 
 
 
 
 
* Note: Using the ip-user filter, will mean each IP address sending requests to
 
repose, will have its own rate-limit bucket. Therefore any IP exceeding the
 
limit, will be blocked - but only that IP. If you are sending NAT'ed connections
 
to repose, then you should consider, they will also be seen as a single IP, and
 
grouped accordingly.
 
 
 
===== rate-limiting.cfg.xml =====
 
 
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
<rate-limiting xmlns="<nowiki>http://docs.openrepose.org/repose/rate-limiting/v1.0</nowiki>">
 
    <request-endpoint uri-regex="/limits" include-absolute-limits="false"/>
 
    <global-limit-group>
 
        <limit id="global" uri="*" uri-regex=".*" value="1000" unit="MINUTE"/>
 
    </global-limit-group>
 
    <limit-group id="limited" groups="limited" default="true">
 
        <limit id="all" uri="/auth/token" uri-regex="/.*" http-methods="DELETE" unit="MINUTE" value="10"/>
 
    </limit-group>
 
    <limit-group id="unlimited" groups="unlimited" default="false"/>
 
</rate-limiting>
 
</code>
 
 
 
Key points to note with the above. The rate limit is limited to DELETE
 
requests (which is the http method used to revoke a token), and to the URI
 
/auth/token. Any IP which exceeds 10 revoke requests per minute, will be blocked
 
for 1 minute.
 
 
 
Further details can be found on the openrepose wiki:
 
 
 
https://repose.atlassian.net/wiki/display/REPOSE/Rate+Limiting+filter
 
 
 
 
 
===Other possible solutions===
 
 
 
==== NGINX ====
 
NGINX provides the limit_req_module, which can be used to provide a global rate
 
limit. Using a map, it can be limited to just the DELETE method.
 
 
 
=====nginx.conf=====
 
http {
 
      map $request_method $keystone {
 
      default        "";
 
      DELETE            $binary_remote_addr;
 
      }
 
      limit_req_zone $keystone zone=keystone:10m rate=10r/m;
 
      server {
 
            ...
 
            location /auth/token {
 
            limit_req zone=keystone;
 
            ...
 
          }
 
}
 
 
 
 
 
Further details can be found on the nginx site:
 
 
 
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html
 
 
 
==== HAProxy ====
 
 
 
HAProxy can provide inherent rate-limiting, using stick-tables, with a General
 
Purpose Counter (gpc)
 
 
 
=====/etc/init.d/haproxy.cfg=====
 
# Monitors the number of request sent by an IP over a period of 10 seconds
 
stick-table type ip size 1m expire 10s store gpc0,http_req_rate(10s)
 
tcp-request connection track-sc1 src
 
tcp-request connection reject if { src_get_gpc0 gt 0 }
 
 
 
Further details can be found on the haproxy website:
 
 
 
http://blog.haproxy.com/2012/02/27/use-a-load-balancer-as-a-first-row-of-defense-against-ddos
 
 
 
==== Apache ====
 
A number of solutions can be explored here.
 
 
 
===== mod_ratelimit =====
 
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_ratelimit.html
 
 
 
===== mod_qos =====
 
http://opensource.adnovum.ch/mod_qos/dos.html
 
 
 
===== mod_evasive =====
 
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-against-dos-and-ddos-with-mod_evasive-for-apache-on-centos-7
 
 
 
===== mod_security =====
 
https://www.modsecurity.org/
 
 
 
==== Contacts / References ====
 
* Author: Luke Hinds, Red Hat
 
* This OSSN : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossn/+bug/1553324
 
* Original LaunchPad Bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1553324
 
* OpenStack Security ML : openstack-security@lists.openstack.org
 
* OpenStack Security Group : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-ossg
 

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