WebAPI/Security/WebTelephony

Brief purpose of API: Make and receive phone calls

• WebAPI:https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/WebTelephony
• B2G Meta telephony bughttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699235
• Web Telephony meta bug:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674726

General Use Cases: None

Inherent threats:

• Place calls to high cost numbers,
• Route calls through high cost network,
• Direct calls through MITM network (spying).
• Possibly with audio API, record phone calls, record touch tone signals (account numbers?).
• In addition, there is a high likelihood that this API will need to be controlled for legal reasons.

Threat severity: high to critical, confidential information disclosure and direct financial risk

Regular web content (unauthenticated)

Use cases for unauthenticated code: click on a phone number in an email or browser to dial

• Authorization model for uninstalled web content: explicit (web activities)
• Authorization model for installed web content: explicit (web activities)
• Potential mitigations: When user clicks on a phone number, app triggers a web activity to initiate the call. User interaction required to trigger.

Trusted (authenticated by publisher)

Use cases for authenticated code:

• Fun dialers (eg. rotary dialer)

Authorization model: explicit (web activities)

Certified (vouched for by trusted 3rd party)

Use cases for certified code:

• Handler for telephony web activities
• Replacement dialer
• Voice conference software (e.g. connect Voip with a mobile call)?
• Mediate incoming calls (accept/reject/merge)
• Query transceiver state

Authorization model: implicit Potential mitigations: none