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1 <h1 class="page_title">Content Security Policy (CSP)</h1>
2 <div id="pageData-showTOC" class="pageData">true</div>
3 <p>
4 In order to mitigate a large class of potental cross-site scripting issues,
5 Chrome's extension system has incorporated the general concept of
6 <a href="http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/content-security-policy/raw-file/tip/csp-specif ication.dev.html">
7 <strong>Content Security Policy (CSP)</strong>
8 </a>. This introduces some fairly strict policies that will make extensions
9 more secure by default, and provides you with the ability to create and
10 enforce rules governing the types of content that can be loaded and executed
11 by your extensions and applications.
12 </p>
13 <p>
14 In general, CSP works as a black/whitelisting mechanism for resources loaded
15 or executed by your extensions. Defining a reasonable policy for your
16 extension enables you to carefully consider the resources that your extension
17 requires, and to ask the browser to ensure that those are the only resources
18 your extension has access to. These policies provide security over and above
19 the <a href="manifest.html#permissions">host permissions</a> your extension
20 requests; they're an additional layer of protection, not a replacement.
21 </p>
22 <p>
23 On the web, such a policy is defined via an HTTP header or <code>meta</code>
24 element. Inside Chrome's extension system, neither is an appropriate
25 mechanism. Instead, an extension's policy is defined via the extension's
26 <a href="manifest.html"><code>manifest.json</code></a> file as follows:
27 </p>
28 <pre>{
29 ...,
30 "content_security_policy": "[POLICY STRING GOES HERE]"
31 ...
32 }</pre>
33 <p class="note">
34 For full details regarding CSP's syntax, please take a look at
35 <a href="http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/content-security-policy/raw-file/tip/csp-specif ication.dev.html#syntax">
36 the Content Security Policy specification
37 </a>.
38 </p>
39 <h2>Default Policy Restrictions</h2>
40 <p>
41 Packages that do not define a <a href="manifestVersion.html">
42 <code>manifest_version</code>
43 </a> have no default content security policy. Those that select
44 <code>manifest_version</code></a> 2, have a default content security policy
45 of:
46 </p>
47 <pre>script-src 'self'; object-src 'self'</pre>
48 <p>
49 This policy adds security by limiting extensions and applications in two ways:
50 </p>
51 <h3>Inline JavaScript will not be executed</h3>
52 <p>
53 Inline JavaScript, as well as dangerous string-to-JavaScript methods like
54 <code>eval</code>, will not be executed. This restriction bans both inline
55 <code>&lt;script&gt;</code> blocks <strong>and</strong> inline event handlers
56 (e.g. <code>&lt;button onclick="..."&gt;</code>).
57 </p>
58 <p>
59 The first restriction wipes out a huge class of cross-site scripting attacks
60 by making it impossible for you to accidentally execute script provided by a
61 malicious third-party. It does, however, require you to write your code with a
62 clean separation between content and behavior (which you should of course do
63 anyway, right?). An example might make this clearer. You might try to write a
64 <a href="browserAction.html#popups">Browser Action's popup</a> as a single
65 <code>popup.html</code> containing:
66 </p>
67 <pre>&lt;!doctype html&gt;
68 &lt;html&gt;
69 &lt;head&gt;
70 &lt;title&gt;My Awesome Popup!&lt;/title&gt;
71 &lt;script&gt;
72 function awesome() {
73 // do something awesome!
74 }
75 function totallyAwesome() {
76 // do something TOTALLY awesome!
77 }
78 function clickHandler(element) {
79 setTimeout(<strong>"awesome(); totallyAwesome()"</strong>, 1000);
80 }
81 &lt;/script&gt;
82 &lt;/head&gt;
83 &lt;body&gt;
84 &lt;button <strong>onclick="clickHandler(this)"</strong>&gt;
85 Click for awesomeness!
86 &lt;/button&gt;
87 &lt;/body&gt;
88 &lt;/html&gt;</pre>
89 <p>
90 Three things will need to change in order to make this work the way you expect
91 it to:
92 </p>
93 <ul>
94 <li>
95 The <code>clickHandler</code> definition needs to move into an external
96 JavaScript file (<code>popup.js</code> would be a good target).
97 </li>
98 <li>
99 The inline event handler definition must be rewritten in terms of
100 <code>addEventListener</code> and extracted into <code>popup.js</code>.
101 </li>
102 <li>
103 The <code>setTimeout</code> call will need to be rewritten to avoid
104 converting the string <code>"awesome(); totallyAwesome()"</code> into
105 JavaScript for execution.
106 </li>
107 </ul>
108 <p>
109 Those changes might look something like the following:
110 </p>
111 <pre>popup.js:
112 =========
113 function awesome() {
114 // Do something awesome!
115 }
116 function totallyAwesome() {
117 // do something TOTALLY awesome!
118 }
119 <strong>
120 function awesomeTask() {
121 awesome();
122 totallyAwesome();
123 }
124 </strong>
125 function clickHandler(e) {
126 setTimeout(<strong>awesomeTask</strong>, 1000);
127 }
128 // Add event listeners once the DOM has fully loaded by listening for the
129 // `DOMContentLoaded` event on the document, and adding your listeners to
130 // specific elements when it triggers.
131 document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
132 document.querySelector('button').addEventListener('click', clickHandler);
133 });
134 popup.html:
135 ===========
136 &lt;!doctype html&gt;
137 &lt;html&gt;
138 &lt;head&gt;
139 &lt;title&gt;My Awesome Popup!&lt;/title&gt;
140 &lt;script <strong>src="popup.js"</strong>&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
141 &lt;/head&gt;
142 &lt;body&gt;
143 &lt;button&gt;Click for awesomeness!&lt;/button&gt;
144 &lt;/body&gt;
145 &lt;/html&gt;</pre>
146 <p>
147 <h3>Only local script and and object resources are loaded</h3>
148 <p>
149 Script and object resources can only be loaded from the extension's
150 package, not from the web at large. This ensures that your extension only
151 executes the code you've specifically approved, preventing an active network
152 attacker from maliciously redirecting your request for a resource.
153 </p>
154 <p>
155 Instead of writing code that depends on jQuery (or any other library) loading
156 from an external CDN, consider including the specific version of jQuery in
157 your extension package. That is, instead of:
158 </p>
159 <pre>&lt;!doctype html&gt;
160 &lt;html&gt;
161 &lt;head&gt;
162 &lt;title&gt;My Awesome Popup!&lt;/title&gt;
163 &lt;script src="<strong>http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jq uery.min.js</strong>"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
164 &lt;/head&gt;
165 &lt;body&gt;
166 &lt;button&gt;Click for awesomeness!&lt;/button&gt;
167 &lt;/body&gt;
168 &lt;/html&gt;</pre>
169 <p>
170 Download the file, include it in your package, and write:
171 <p>
172 <pre>&lt;!doctype html&gt;
173 &lt;html&gt;
174 &lt;head&gt;
175 &lt;title&gt;My Awesome Popup!&lt;/title&gt;
176 &lt;script src="<strong>jquery.min.js</strong>"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
177 &lt;/head&gt;
178 &lt;body&gt;
179 &lt;button&gt;Click for awesomeness!&lt;/button&gt;
180 &lt;/body&gt;
181 &lt;/html&gt;</pre>
182 <h2>Relaxing the default policy</h2>
183 <p>
184 There is no mechanism for relaxing the restriction against executing inline
185 JavaScript. In particular, setting a script policy that includes
186 <code>unsafe-inline</code> will have no effect. This is intentional.
187 </p>
188 <p>
189 If, on the other hand, you have a need for some external JavaScript or object
190 resources, you can relax the policy to a limited extent by whitelisting
191 secure origins from which scripts should be accepted. We want to ensure that
192 executable resources loaded with an extension's elevated permissions are
193 exactly the resources you expect, and haven't been replaced by an active
194 network attacker. As <a
195 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack">man-in-the-middle
196 attacks</a> are both trivial and undetectable over HTTP, those origins will
197 not be accepted. Currently, we allow whitelisting origins with the following
198 schemes: <code>HTTPS</code>, <code>chrome-extension</code>, and
199 <code>chrome-extension-resource</code>.
200 </p>
201 <p>
202 A relaxed policy definition which allows script resources to be loaded from
203 <code>example.com</code> over HTTPS might look like:
204 </p>
205 <pre>{
206 ...,
207 "content_security_policy": "script-src 'self' https://example.com; object-src 'self'",
208 ...
209 }</pre>
210 <p class="note">
211 Note that both <code>script-src</code> and <code>object-src</code> are defined
212 by the policy. Chrome will not accept a policy that doesn't limit each of
213 these values to (at least) <code>'self'</code>.
214 </p>
215 <p>
216 Making use of Google Analytics is the canonical example for this sort of
217 policy definition. It's common enough that we've provided an Analytics
218 boilerplate of sorts in the <a href="samples.html#analytics">Event Tracking
219 with Google Analytics</a> sample extension, and a
220 <a href="tut_analytics.html">brief tutorial</a> that goes into more detail.
221 </p>
222 <h2>Tightening the default policy</h2>
223 <p>
224 You may, of course, tighten this policy to whatever extent your extension
225 allows in order to increase security at the expense of convenience. To specify
226 that your extension can only load resources of <em>any</em> type (images, etc)
227 from its own package, for example, a policy of <code>default-src 'self'</code>
228 would be appropriate. The <a href="samples.html#mappy">Mappy</a> sample
229 extension is a good example of an extension that's been locked down above and
230 beyond the defaults.
231 </p>
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