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SMF 2.0.16+ cookie changes
December 28, 2019, 03:31:53 AM Posted by Sesquipedalian on December 28, 2019, 03:31:53 AM in SMF 2.0.16+ cookie changes | 18 CommentsHello all!
With SMF 2.0.16 we have introduced an important security change for our cookies. This change will also be in the next release of SMF 2.1.
We now generate an HMAC for parts of the cookie using an authentication sercet only known by the server. This prevents forgeries of the cookie by any would-be attacker.
This change breaks backwards compatibility with cookies for 2.0.15 and below. Therefore, integrations and modifications that need to tap into SMF's cookie will need to be updated.
To support both the new and the old cookie hashes, you may use this code:
require_once($sourcedir . '/Load.php');
// Use strong cookie
if (function_exists('get_auth_secret'))
// Fallback for older versions
else
The get_auth_secret() function, which is part of Load.php, was introduced in 2.0.16 to ease the generation and retrieval of the authentication secret. If that function exists, your code will know that it should use the new password hash in the cookie. If it does not, your code should use the old hash.
Because we know that not all mods can be updated immediately, we've included a setting in the 2.0.16 admin control panel to allow the admin to disable the new cookie security for the sake of backwards compatibility with outdated mods. This setting is only available when a mod that uses the 'integrate_verify_user' hook is installed. This setting will be removed in future versions of SMF; it is only intended as a stop-gap measure until mod authors have time to update their code.
Thanks for reading!Comments
Skhilled on December 28, 2019, 09:05:03 AM saidThanks for your hard work.
-Rock Lee- on December 28, 2019, 09:01:19 PM saidThanks for all the work, I think so far I don't use any mod that uses those lines (I have to see if any will give problems).
Regards!
Rob Lightbody on December 29, 2019, 11:58:22 AM saidThanks for this post. It explains why my Coppermine Gallery has stopped working.
I want to temporarily use your function to disable the new cookie security, to allow me to get Coppermine updated - I can see the checkbox "Use basic cookie authentication" but its disabled ?
Keep up the good work team, and thanks for the support so far.
Shambles on December 29, 2019, 04:19:41 PM saidQuote
... I can see the checkbox "Use basic cookie authentication" but its disabled ? ...
Indeed - the new cookie stuff seems to have disabled TapaTalk access. How is this new authentication checkbox controlled?
SleePy on December 29, 2019, 04:58:10 PM saidThe setting is only supposed to be enabled if another integration has triggered 'integrate_verify_user'.
You can directly add it to your Settings.php though to bypass this:
$cookie_no_auth_secret = true;
You will be logged out again after changing this.
rbradbury on December 29, 2019, 05:25:02 PM saidThanks for the quick reply.
I added the code to Settings.php but the 'Use basic cookie authentication' checkbox remained greyed out
GL700Wing on December 29, 2019, 06:45:54 PM saidQuote from: SleePy on December 29, 2019, 04:58:10 PM
I made this change via Administration Center » Server Settings » Cookies and Sessions in the hope of also getting my Coppermine bridge to work again but now whenever I try to login to SMF I get the error message "You were unable to login. Please check your cookie settings."
The setting is only supposed to be enabled if another integration has triggered 'integrate_verify_user'.
You can directly add it to your Settings.php though to bypass this:
$cookie_no_auth_secret = true;
You will be logged out again after changing this.
The only way I could get back into my forum was to manually edit Settings.php and remove/comment out the line $cookie_no_auth_secret = 1;.
Edit: On another forum enabling this setting did not cause any issues as far as logging into SMF was concerned but it didn't resolve the Coppermine bridging issue ...
lurkalot on December 29, 2019, 07:18:56 PM saidQuote from: GL700Wing on December 29, 2019, 06:45:54 PM
Quote from: SleePy on December 29, 2019, 04:58:10 PM
I made this change via Administration Center » Server Settings » Cookies and Sessions in the hope of also getting my Coppermine bridge to work again but now whenever I try to login to SMF I get the error message "You were unable to login. Please check your cookie settings."
The setting is only supposed to be enabled if another integration has triggered 'integrate_verify_user'.
You can directly add it to your Settings.php though to bypass this:
$cookie_no_auth_secret = true;
You will be logged out again after changing this.
The only way I could get back into my forum was to manually edit Settings.php and remove/comment out the line $cookie_no_auth_secret = 1;.
Edit: On another forum enabling this setting did not cause any issues as far as logging into SMF was concerned but it didn't resolve the Coppermine bridging issue ...
Regarding the Coppermine bridge. There's two new bridge files you can download to resolve this, uploaded tonight. One for Coppermine 1.5.x https://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php/topic,80028.msg387612.html#msg387612
and one for Coppermine 1.6.x https://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php/topic,77951.msg387613.html#msg387613
KittyGalore on December 29, 2019, 07:27:09 PM saidQuote from: rbradbury on December 29, 2019, 05:25:02 PM
If you change it from disabled to enabled in the Mangeserver.php it won't be greyed out.
Thanks for the quick reply.
I added the code to Settings.php but the 'Use basic cookie authentication' checkbox remained greyed out
GL700Wing on December 29, 2019, 07:36:08 PM saidQuote from: lurkalot on December 29, 2019, 07:18:56 PM
Perfect - worked like a charm! Thanks!!
Regarding the Coppermine bridge. There's two new bridge files you can download to resolve this, uploaded tonight. One for Coppermine 1.5.x https://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php/topic,80028.msg387612.html#msg387612
and one for Coppermine 1.6.x https://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php/topic,77951.msg387613.html#msg387613
-Rock Lee- on December 30, 2019, 08:35:45 PM saidQuote from: SleePy on December 29, 2019, 04:58:10 PM
The setting is only supposed to be enabled if another integration has triggered 'integrate_verify_user'.
You can directly add it to your Settings.php though to bypass this:
$cookie_no_auth_secret = true;
You will be logged out again after changing this.
No effect, I could not log in (at least with a secondary account) I had to comment on the entire line to allow me to enter ... I would have to do tests with a new user if the same happens but only applies to old users.
Regards!
Sesquipedalian on December 31, 2019, 01:26:51 AM saidWe'll be simplifying the logic that controls this in 2.0.18.
In the meantime, if manually adding $cookie_no_auth_secret = 1; to your Settings.php isn't enough to make this work as you want, try also adding an entry for 'integrate_verify_user' to the settings table in your database, and give it a dummy value, as shown in the attached image.
-Rock Lee- on December 31, 2019, 07:58:33 AM saidIn a new forum it doesn't give me problems but if I update my site, doing tests if I put in value 0 there is no problem but when I can be on my computer I make the change you suggest me! Thank you @Sesquipedalian
aegersz on February 11, 2020, 11:48:54 AM saidI followed your instructions and disabled the checkbox as required but the SA Chat mod still failes to run.
Any thoughts ?
All I could think about were the cookie changes and I have posted in the mod.
Ulibka on June 05, 2020, 09:17:48 AM saidI'm have SMF 2.017, default theme
I;m register user with russian letters : Иван
When I attempt to login (quick login, all login and password correct), password is 1234
Login redirect to index.php?action=login2 and I'm see: incorrect password
I'm input login +password and I'm can see forum
May be you know solution ?
I B D on June 05, 2020, 11:17:46 AM said
Ulibka on June 05, 2020, 03:07:38 PM saidI'm try to ask https://www.simplemachines.ru/ but nobody don't know answer.
Problem is that if you have login with 2 bytes UTF-8 - you need to login twice.
Kindred on June 05, 2020, 03:13:50 PM saidWe know.
the fix has been published several times.
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