How to enable the Clickjacking Filter in SuccessFactors. Guide with screenshots.
What is Clickjacking?
ClickjacClickjacking, also known as a “UI redress attack”, is when an attacker uses multiple transparent or opaque layers to trick a user into clicking on a button or link on another page when they were intending to click on the top level page. Thus, the attacker is “hijacking” clicks meant for their page and routing them to another page, most likely owned by another application, domain, or both.
Using a similar technique, keystrokes can also be hijacked. With a carefully crafted combination of stylesheets, iframes, and text boxes, a user can be led to believe they are typing in the password to their email or bank account, but are instead typing into an invisible frame controlled by the attacker.
Examples
For example, imagine an attacker who builds a web site that has a button on it that says “click here for a free iPod”. However, on top of that web page, the attacker has loaded an iframe with your mail account, and lined up exactly the “delete all messages” button directly on top of the “free iPod” button. The victim tries to click on the “free iPod” button but instead actually clicked on the invisible “delete all messages” button. In essence, the attacker has “hijacked” the user’s click, hence the name “Clickjacking”.king
Hands on!
- In PROVISIONIGN Go to Company Settings.
- Select Enable Clickjacking Filter.
- Choose the option Same Original Domain Only.
- Save the setting.
After configuration, only framing from the domain of SAP SuccessFactors is allowed.
There are currently two options for customer to consider:
- When you don’t need to view SF application via iframe, you will need to select “Same Original Domain Only”. In this situation, the filter will never allow any untrusted domain iframe BizX application including customer’s site.
- If you need to view SF application via iframe, then the “Define Trusted Domain” option should be selected. For not supported browsers, it will not be totally safe from ClickjackFilter attack even enabling the filter due to the limitation of the browser header.