OWASP CSRFGuard 3.0.0.336

(from Eric Sheridan)

It is with great pride that I announce the release of OWASP CSRFGuard 3.0.0.336 (ALPHA)! This is a development release of the v3 series that is in need of peer review, testing, and general feedback in preparation for BETA. There are several significant new features that are in need of testing in the enterprise development environments. Please contact me for support if you are interested in testing the latest release. Of course, I am always open to questions, comments, or feature requests!

Please check out the project home page (http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_CSRFGuard_Project) and User Manual (http://www.owasp.org/index.php/CSRFGuard_3_User_Manual) for more information about how to install, configure, and deploy the OWASP CSRFGuard library.

OWASP CSRFGuard has been completely rewritten to address the various feature requests and bug fixes submitted to me over the past couple years. No longer will CSRFGuard be referred to as just a "reference implementation". By addressing the performance and scalability issues plaguing older releases, OWASP CSRFGuard v3 is intended to serve as the de-facto standard prevention mechanism against CSRF attacks for JavaEE web applications. The following is a bulleted summary of the significant changes associated with the v3 release:

• OWASP CSRFGuard is now available under the much more liberal BSD license
• Owasp.CsrfGuard.properties file can be loaded from classpath, web context directory, or current directory
• Developers can implement a custom logger to be consumed by the library
• Experimental support for the rotation of CSRF tokens once the previous token is expired
• Experimental support for creating and verifying unique CSRF tokens per page
• Experimental support for Ajax through the verification of headers dynamically injected by CSRFGuard JavaScript
• Configurable actions including Log, Invalidate, Redirect, Forward, RequestAttribute, and SessionAttribute
• Unprotected pages can be captured using same syntax used by the JavaEE container in web.xml
• Library no longer intercepts HTTP responses produced by the web application
• Developers can manually inject CSRF prevention tokens using the JSP tag library
• Developers can automate injection of CSRF prevention tokens using dynamic JavaScript DOM Manipulation
• Tokens are only injected into HTML elements that submit requests to the current origin (planned for XHR)
• JavaScript token injection can be configured to inject into links, forms, and XMLHttpRequests

Please check out the following resources for more information regarding recent project updates:

Project Page - http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_CSRFGuard_Project

User Manual - http://www.owasp.org/index.php/CSRFGuard_3_User_Manual

Code Repository - http://code.google.com/p/owaspcsrfguard/

Blog - http://ericsheridan.blogspot.com/

-Eric