README.md

The Nonce-nce of Web Security: an Investigation of CSP Nonces Reuse

Code to check for CSP nonces reuse for the paper "The Nonce-nce of Web Security: an Investigation of CSP Nonces Reuse".

How to run it

• Install the dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt

On a single website

Run the script: python3 nonce-nce.py -s <site>

Script arguments

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s SITE, --site SITE  Target site
  -m MAX, --max MAX     Maximum number of URLs to crawl (Default: 5) for each domain/subdomain
  -d DOMAINS, --domains DOMAINS
                        Maximum number of (sub)domains to crawl (Default: 10)
  -t TIMEOUT, --timeout TIMEOUT
                        Timeout for http requests (Default: 30)
  -u URL, --url URL     Do not crawl the website, just test the given URL(s)
  -r, --reproducible    Reproducible mode
  --retest              Retest the URLs that were already tested. Warning: this will overwrite the previous results!
  -q, --quiet           Quiet mode
  -D, --debug           Debug mode

On a list of websites

Run the script: python3 launcher.py --sites <sites_file>

The launcher will test the websites in the file concurrently (up to the maximum number of concurrent tests).

Launcher arguments

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s SITES, --sites SITES
                        Sites list
  -m MAX, --max MAX     Maximum number of sites to test concurrently (default: 5)
  -a ARGUMENTS, --arguments ARGUMENTS
                        Additional arguments to pass to the crawler (use with = sign: -a="--arg1 --arg2")
  -t, --testall         Test also already tested sites
  -c CRAWLER, --crawler CRAWLER
                        Alternative crawler script name to launch
  -d, --debug           Enable debug mode

How it works

High-level overview of the methodology. Note that this is a simplified version as we also use the Cache Header Heuristics to identify caches.

Authors

This code was developed by me and Francesco Bonomi.