Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy

Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy

October 1, 2020

Cross-Origin Resource Policy (CORP) is a web platform security feature that allows websites to prevent certain resources from being loaded by other origins. This protection complements CORB since it is an opt-in defense, whereas CORB blocks some cross-origin reads by default. CORP is designed to protect against both speculative execution attacks and XS-Leaks by allowing developers to ensure that sensitive resources cannot end up in attacker-controlled processes. Unlike CORB, this protection is enforced in the browser only if an application opts in to the protection. Applications can define which groups of origins (‘same-site’, ‘same-origin’, ‘cross-site’) are allowed to read their resources.

If an application sets a certain resource CORP header as ‘same-site’ or ‘same-origin’, an attacker is incapable of reading that resource. This is a very strong and highly encouraged protection.

When using CORP, be aware of the following facts:

  • CORP does not protect against navigational requests. This means that in browsers that do not support out-of-process iframes, a CORP-protected resource may still end up in another origin’s process if framing protections are not used.
  • The use of CORP introduces a new XS-Leak, which allows attackers to detect whether CORP was enforced in a certain request.

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