Service Workers

Execution Timing

October 1, 2020
Abuse Event Loop, Service Workers, Site Isolation, CSS Injections, Regex Injections, iframes
Category Attack
Defenses Fetch Metadata, SameSite Cookies, COOP, Framing Protections

Measuring the time of JavaScript execution in a browser can give attackers information on when certain events are triggered, and how long some operations take. Timing the Event Loop # JavaScript’s concurrency model is based on a single-threaded event loop which means it can only run one task at a time. If, for example, some time-consuming task blocks the event loop, the user can perceive a freeze on a page as a result of the UI thread being starved. ...