FIDO2 Attestation Validations¶

FIDO2 attestation validations allow you to further validate the FIDO2 authenticator data during the security key registration. MWARE IAM provides two means of validating the authenticator data during the security key registration.

• Advanced validations: MWARE IAM will perform some advanced validations for the device registration data. Examples include attestation type specific validations, certificate related validations, etc.
• Security Key/Biometrics (FIDO) metadata based validations: MWARE IAM will validate the device registration data against the FIDO alliance’s metadata.

By default, only the advanced validations are enabled for a given organization. Proceed with the next section of the documentation to learn more about these configurations.

FIDO2 Metadata Service (MDS)¶

MWARE IAM FIDO2 metadata service allows you to validate the security status of the FIDO2 security keys during device registration. MDS validations verify the genuineness of the device model as well as check for the device certification status and found security issues. This allows validating the authenticator attestation against the metadata statements published at the FIDO alliance’s metadata service (MDS).

Moreover, FIDO2 metadata service can be configured to validate the authenticator attestation against a set of manually provided metadata statements. You need to manually provide metadata statements to trust specific security key models. For example, if your organization distributes security keys to members for their internal login, and you need to allow registering those keys, you can enable FIDO2 metadata service and upload the relevant metadata statements.

Prerequisites¶

• Open the /repository/conf/deployment.toml file and add the following configurations to enable FIDO2 metadata service.

  [fido.metadata_service]
  enable = true
  mds_endpoints = [
      “<url>”
  ]

  Info

  • The <url> can be obtained from the FIDO alliance’s website https://fidoalliance.org/metadata/.
  • Please note that enabling this service will require internet access to this URL. If you’re hosting the identity server in an offline setup, you may have to host the metadata BLOB file internally and provide the necessary means to update it regularly.

• Additionally, the following configuration can be added to delay initializing the fido2 metadata service. The default value is set to 0.

  mds_scheduler_initial_delay = 30    # in seconds

• Create the required folder structure and upload the mds3 root certificate to <IS_HOME>/repository/resources/identity/fido2/security/MDS3ROOT.crt in order to trust metadata blob endpoints.

• If you are manually providing additional metadata statements, upload them into <IS_HOME>/repository/resources/identity/fido2/metadataStatements/ as json files.

• You are required to invoke management APIs to configure FIDO2 attestation validations. To access management APIs, first, you need to create a management application and obtain an access token from your organization with the below scopes.

  internal_config_mgt_update internal_config_mgt_view

The token obtained in this step will be referred to as the <access_token> in the next sections.

Configure FIDO2 attestation validations in your organization¶

By default, only the advanced validations are enabled for a given organization. Use the following cURL command format in your request to enable metadata based attestation validations.

curl -X PUT \
https://localhost:9443/t/<org_name>/api/identity/config-mgt/v1.0/resource/fido-config \
-H 'Accept: */*' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>" \
-D '{
    "name": "fido2-validations",
    "attributes": [
        {
            "key": "MDSValidation.Enable",
            "value": "true"
        },
        {
            "key": "AttestationValidation.Enable",
            "value": "true"
        }
    ]
}'

By sending this request you are creating a resource named fido2-validations with the given attribute values to store attestation validation configurations of your organization.

You are required to use the above cURL command when configuring FIDO2 attestation validations for the first time. There onwards you can use the following cURL command format in your request to update the individual configurations.

• To update metadata based validations:

  curl -X PUT \
  https://localhost:9443/t/<org_name>/api/identity/config-mgt/v1.0/resource/fido-config/fido2-validations \
  -H 'Accept: */*' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>" \
  -D '{
              "key": "MDSValidation.Enable",
              "value": "true"
  }'

• To update advanced validations:

  curl -X PUT \
  https://localhost:9443/t/<org_name>/api/identity/config-mgt/v1.0/resource/fido-config/fido2-validations \
  -H 'Accept: */*' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>" \
  -D '{
              "key": "AttestationValidation.Enable",
              "value": "true"
  }'

Use the following cURL command format in your request to view the attestation validation configurations of your organization.

curl -X GET \
https://localhost:9443/t/<org_name>/api/identity/config-mgt/v1.0/resource/fido-config/fido2-validations \
-H 'Accept: */*' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>"