Our javaspring application (sp) allows SSO integration for the clients. We have planned to introduce SLO (Single Logout) as part of the security audit requirement.
I have a doubt, if our application request for SLO to idp then the particular customer's all other open app's get logged out ?
We don't want to make customer's other application get logged out due to our application.
Kindly advise. If the SAML SLO request will only impact the only the service provide which requests the logout or all the service provider which customer SSO logged in with?
Typically single-logout (SLO) will cascade from one SP to the IdP back to all related child sessions at the other SPs. Depending on what IdP you use, you may be able to control that / be more fine-grained but you have to be careful you're not opening yourself up to any attacks (on orphaned sessions).
As per SAML spec the IdP has to inform all other session participants.
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I have two service providers set up with one IdP and users are required to be authenticated twice to access both services at the same time. From my point of view, this is not "SSO" and I am thinking that there might have been settings done incorrectly and I would like to see if the community here can provide me with directions and/or possible solutions.
Just a thought - the behaviour for the authentication on each service looks valid as I understand that IdP is required to send signed SAML assertions to the providers in order to access the services. However, because I only have one IdP, can I not be authenticated just once and be able to access all the services?
Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks.
Typically in this scenario the user would authenticate once to the IdP when the first SP SSO's to it. There would be no authentication at the IdP when the second SP SSO's to it as there's already an authentication session at the IdP for the user.
However, there might be use cases where you want the user to be authenticated at the IdP even if they already have an authentication session. The SP can set the ForceAuthn flag in the SAML authn request sent to the IdP. This requests that the IdP authenticates the user regardless of whether or not they already have an authentication session.
ADFS also has a configuration option for relying parties (SPs) to always require authentication. Take a look at the AlwaysRequireAuthentication flag.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/adfs/set-adfsrelyingpartytrust?view=windowsserver2022-ps
I'm having an issue with SAML 2.0 single logout.
I have a SAML 2.0 environment with an IdP (identity provider) and a web application acting as SP (service provider).
As user I start a web application session in an user agent (browser). The user is authenticated using the IdP.
In a different browser (running on the same client machine) I start another session as the same user in the same web application, i.e. in the same SP in terms of SAML.
Now I have two independent web application sessions where the same user is authenticated.
When I then perform a single logout initiated by the IdP in one of the browsers the IdP issues only one logout request which terminates the session that is running in that browser. The element of the logout request issued by the IdP equals the one that was sent by the IdP in the attribute SessionIndex of the AuthnStatement of the Assertion sent to the SP using that browser (user agent).
Wouldn't it actually be necessary for the IdP to send logout requests for all open sessions in order to achieve a true "single logout"?
Short answer: The SAML spec allows for Single Logout (SLO) to behave the way you want but a typical implementation isn't that sophisticated.
From SAML Profiles spec, section 4.4 (Single Logout Profile):
Once a principal has authenticated to an identity provider, the
authenticating entity may establish a session with the principal
(typically by means of a cookie, URL re-writing, or some other
implementation-specific means). The identity provider may subsequently
issue assertions to service providers or other relying parties, based
on this authentication event; a relying party may use this to
establish its own session with the principal. In such a situation, the
identity provider can act as a session authority and the relying
parties as session participants.
If the SLO sequence were to be initiated by one of the session participants, this whole discussion would be moot. The spec requires the session participant to identify the "shared" session being terminated via a unique ID (aka session index) that was originally sent to the session participant by the identity provider. As required by the spec, this ID will be different in your SP session #1 vs SP session #2.
...but when the SLO sequence is initiated by the IdP, your scenario is possible. Section 4.4.4.1 talks about the rules around issuing and processing <LogoutRequest>:
If the requester is a session participant, it MUST include at least
one <SessionIndex> element in the request. [...] If the requester is a
session authority (or acting on its behalf), then it MAY omit any such
elements to indicate the termination of all of the principal's
applicable sessions
Translation: if you could somehow tell the IdP to issue a <LogoutRequest> without a <SessionIndex> and your SP is sophisticated enough to correctly interpret such request and the SP can terminate all sessions for a particular user via its backend, then you've won.
In reality, the combination of conditions above is a very tall order. Out of the box, most IdPs will not issue a <LogoutRequest> without a <SessionIndex>. The very few SPs that even bother implementing SLO will not accept a request without a <SessionIndex>. In an extremely rare case where you'll be able to come up with a correct <LogoutRequest> and SP won't choke on it, you'll be very, very lucky if the SP correctly identifies all IdP-initiated sessions AND will be able to terminate them via the backend.
I have a scenario where I have four to five web based application, which needs to have a common centralized authentication system, in this case how feasible is the SAML based approach i.e each time user want to access any of these web application the user is redirected to SAML server which in return redirects to the IDP, or is their some better solution for such architecture as I am new to the this domain
What you describe is exactly what SAML is designed to solve.
The user is normally only redirected to the SAML Identity Provider (Idp) on the first access to an application (a service provider (SP)). When the user is successfully authenticated by the Idp, the SP sets a cookie in the user's browser to handle authentication of subsequent requests.
I am using SAML based SSO for my application where IDP role is played by OpenAM. I have tested SP based SSO,SLO and IDP based SSO, all are working fine, but IDP based SLO is not working, when a user is logging out of IDP, I am getting a notification in my SP, but this request do not contain any user information or browser cookies, so wondering about two things:
Is these notification happening back channeled?
If not, how can I fetch my SP side session and invalidate when such notification comes?
also if their some sample implementation available in Java?
the request flow depends on the profile being used / configured ... see SAML profile spec section 4.4.
It's up to the SP how the SLO is handled, e.g. Spring Security based SAML SP has a bug where the local session is not clean up correctly (if you use this see my workaround on Spring JIRA).
Given:
PingFederate is a single-sign-on (SSO) solution, which allows users to be authenticated by 1-n applications using a single username and password.
High-Level Questions:
How does PingFederate's single-log-off (SLO) feature work?
And how does SLO work in general?
Given:
To begin the SLO process, we'd expect the user to request the SLO endpoint from the browser (i.e. https://[PingFederateInstance]/idp/startSLO.ping?PartnerSpId=[PartnerSpId]).
And we can assume that the PingFederate instance will issue a redirect after a succesful SLO invocation.
Specific Questions:
But what if you have multiple applications in multiple browser windows?
How could a federated identity provider tell multiple applications to terminate their user sessions?
Direct from the PingFederate Getting Started manual:
"The single logout (SLO) profile enables a user to log out of all participating sites in a federated session nearly simultaneously. The user may log out globally from any site, whether SP or IdP, as determined by respective Web applications. The associated IdP federation deployment handles all logout requests and responses for participating sites."
That said - PingFederate (acting as an IdP) knows which SPs you have federated with in a given session. When the user kicks off SLO (from the example you gave - at the IdP - it could also be initiated from an SP) the users browser (assuming a Redirect or POST binding) is sent to each SP with a SAML LogoutRequest.
If by "multiple browser windows" you mean independent browsers / browser sessions, then indeed PingFederate wouldn't know to logout of all the IdP's. You need to have some common session amongst them. So, if it's just multiple browser windows, but sharing the same session information (e.g.: cookies) this wil work fine.
For more information, you may want to consult section 4.4 of the SAML 2.0 Profiles spec: http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/v2.0/saml-profiles-2.0-os.pdf
Keep in mind PingFederate supports more than just SAML 2.0 - but not all federation protocols support SLO (e.g.: SAML 1.x). Also, many non-PingFederate SAML aware applications don't support SLO.