How to set Samesite=none and secure in react application? - cookies

For login through google authentication. it is not allowing to get data from a thrid party website. I am learning to build a website from youtube and I don't know how to set the cookies in this application. I have to set samesite=none;secure.
I am getting the below error message
"Because a cookie’s SameSite attribute was not set or is invalid, it defaults to SameSite=Lax, which prevents the cookie from being sent in a cross-site request. This behavior protects user data from accidentally leaking to third parties and cross-site request forgery.
Resolve this issue by updating the attributes of the cookie:
Specify SameSite=None and Secure if the cookie should be sent in cross-site requests. This enables third-party use.
Specify SameSite=Strict or SameSite=Lax if the cookie should not be sent in cross-site requests."
Thanks in advance.

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Cookie on same domain (First party) inside iframe not sending or saving

I have a SPA which uses a session token stored in a cookie for authentication with an API.
The SPA is on spa.domain.com, and the API is on api.domain.com; they share a common TLD.
The SPA sends a request CSRF token to the API, then sends a login request with the CSRF token and credentials to authenticate and create the cookie which is sent with subsequent requests.
This all works fine.
The problem I'm facing is that the SPA has an iframe, to which the src points back at a separate section of the SPA (The need for this is not the point of my question, i know it's convoluted but needs must).
The document loaded in the iframe has the same subdomain as the parent, i.e. spa.domain.com loads an iframe of spa.domain.com/iframecontents.
The page within the iframe skips cookies in Chrome and FF (Safari sends them an it works fine). I've looked at various threads about SameSite and Secure cookies and 3rd party vs first party but it is my understanding that this should simply be a first party cookie, i own the domains etc. (Although I have just realised locally the API is on one port and the SPA is on another port so that might account for different domains... just did a bit more reading, port is not included just the hostname)
It seems the cookies it already has for that domain are not being sent with the request
This cookie was blocked because it had the "SameSite=Lax"" attribute and the request was made from a different site and was not initiated by a top-level navigation.
and the cookies it receives to replace the ones the server thought were missing appear to be being ignored too
This attempt to set a cookie via a Set-Cookie header was blocked because it had the "SameSite=Lax" attribute but came from a cross-site response which was not the response to a top-level navigation.
The cookies look like this
path=/; domain=localhost; secure; httponly; samesite=lax
If I change samesite to none then it does work, but then I assume that means I'm just opening up my session cookies to being stolen by third parties in xss attacks? Seems nonsensical to me.
Why is an iframe on the same domain not working with lax and how might I work around this issue?

Does setting cookies 'SameSite=none; Secure' and providing CSRF-TOKEN suffice to prevent CSRF in embeddable web application?

My web application (myApp further) is embedded in iframe of a single third-party webpage. MyApp sets cookie Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=38FE580EE7D8CACA581532DD37A19182; Path=/myapi; Secure; HttpOnly for maintaining users sessions. Sometime ago it stopped working in Chrome since https://blog.chromium.org/2020/02/samesite-cookie-changes-in-february.html update changed treating default behaviour for cookies without SameSite attribute from None to Lax.
I'm going to send cookies from myApp host with SameSite=None; Secure. Also X-CSRF-TOKEN header is included in every response. myApp javascript gets X-CSRF-TOKEN and puts it in header of every XHR request to myApp host. Does this suffice to prevent CSRF attack?
Should Access-Control-Allow-Origin: third-party-webpage header be added in responses?
I did more research and thought I would post my conclusion here.
I had misunderstood how the Antiforgery middleware worked.
The cookie configured by AddAntiforgery does not actually transmit the token to the client.
Instead it appears to be the encrypted or hashed token that is used to validate the token which must be provided in the header.
This allows the validation of the token to be done statelessly as the browser will pass the value of this cookie back with each request.
I refer to this cookie as the "validation cookie" below.
The middleware does not automatically transmit the token itself to the client.
That must be done by calling GetAndStoreTokens and providing the RequestToken value to the client to be set as a header for subsequent requests.
In our application we do that with a separate cookie (I call this the "token cookie" below).
Here's the Microsoft article demonstrating this technique.
I have determined that it is safe to use SameSite=None for the validation cookie and for the token cookie.
The SameSite setting does not have any effect on who can read the cookie value, it just determines whether or not the cookie will be sent to the server with future requests.
The validation cookie must be sent back to the server with future requests so that the token provided in the header can be validated.
It is acceptable that this cookie is sent even for cross origin requests since those requests will only validate if the token is provided in the header.
It is also acceptable for the token cookie to use SameSite=None since we are only using this cookie to provide the value to the client.
We never read this value from the cookie on the server when validating the token, the middleware reads the token from the header.
The value of the token cookie cannot be read by a different origin regardless of the SameSite property so that remains secure.
I also that realized that this exact pattern was employed by the Antiforgery middleware long before SameSite=Lax became the default value for cookies by chrome in 2020.
Prior to this the default behavior for the validation cookie would have always been None.
So I think it is reasonable to conclude that this technique is just as secure now with SameSite=None as it was before Lax became the default.
NOTE: There appear to be some browsers that don't handle SameSite=None correctly so the antiforgery process might fail for these browsers when the app is hosted in an iframe.

CORS requests are not contains the samesite cookies

I'm having a website that allows for CORS sharing, and that's an intended behavior from them,
However, when I try to send a Cross-Origin request the "SameSite" cookies won't be set for the request,
After digging deeper for this I've found if any website sends a normal form request to the targeted website and then went back and resend it the "SameSite" Cookie will be set for the second request. as example :
Create a post form to http://devs.aaa.com
Submit the request and the cookies won't be set
Click on go back on the browser and re-submit the request
The cookies will be sent with the request
I tried to make a CORS that will help me to do the steps above with XMLHTTPRequest or any alternatives, that re-send the request but I've terribly failed !!
SameSite cookies aren't set on cross-site POST requests.
You should use SameSite=None; Secure if you need to support cross-site AJAX requests.

SameSite attribute in cookies

I have a website a.com that has third party app point to apps.b.com. When I login to a.com, I'm also authenticated to apps.b.com in the background using the same credentials. This is so the users do not have to login to access apps.b.com. I understand that browser sends all the cookies to apps.b.com when making the request to it. This is how it works now. Reading the article https://web.dev/samesite-cookies-explained/ in regards to SameSite attribute, it appears apps.b.com is third party site.
Now do I have to configure web server on a.com to set the cookie to SameSite=none;Secure OR do I have to set the SameSite=none;Secure on web server on apps.b.com?
Any time you are making a cross-site request that needs cookies, then those cookies need to be marked SameSite=None; Secure.
So, for example if the user is on a.com and you have an <iframe> or fetch() to apps.b.com that expects cookies, then the apps.b.com cookies need SameSite=None; Secure.
Vice versa, if the user is on apps.b.com and you are making requests to a.com to check their auth status by relying on the a.com cookies, then those cookies need SameSite=None; Secure.
Essentially the pattern you're looking for is when the site in the browser location bar is different to the site that needs the cookies, then those are the cookies that need marking. So, depending on your set up, it may be one or both.