GHSA-82vx-mm6r-gg8w
Bref vulnerable to Body Parsing Inconsistency in Event-Driven Functions
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
## Impacted Resources
bref/src/Event/Http/Psr7Bridge.php:130-168
## Description
When Bref is used with the Event-Driven Function runtime and the handler is a `RequestHandlerInterface`, then the Lambda event is converted to a PSR7 object.
During the conversion process, if the request is a MultiPart, each part is parsed and its content added in the `$files` or `$parsedBody` arrays.
To do that, the following method is called with as first argument the result array (`$files` or `$parsedBody`), as second argument the part name, and as third argument the part content:
```php
/**
* Parse a string key like "files[id_cards][jpg][]" and do $array['files']['id_cards']['jpg'][] = $value
*/
private static function parseKeyAndInsertValueInArray(array &$array, string $key, mixed $value): void
{
if (! str_contains($key, '[')) {
$array[$key] = $value;
return;
}
$parts = explode('[', $key); // files[id_cards][jpg][] => [ 'files', 'id_cards]', 'jpg]', ']' ]
$pointer = &$array;
foreach ($parts as $k => $part) {
if ($k === 0) {
$pointer = &$pointer[$part];
continue;
}
// Skip two special cases:
// [[ in the key produces empty string
// [test : starts with [ but does not end with ]
if ($part === '' || ! str_ends_with($part, ']')) {
// Malformed key, we use it "as is"
$array[$key] = $value;
return;
}
$part = substr($part, 0, -1); // The last char is a ] => remove it to have the real key
if ($part === '') { // [] case
$pointer = &$pointer[];
} else {
$pointer = &$pointer[$part];
}
}
$pointer = $value;
}
```
The conversion process produces a different output compared to the one of plain PHP when keys ending with and open square bracket (`[`) are used.
Let's take for example the following part:
```
------WebKitFormBoundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="key0[key1][key2]["
value
------WebKitFormBoundary--
```
In plain PHP it would be converted to `Array( [key0] => Array ( [key1] => Array ( [key2] => value) ) )`, while in Bref it would be converted to `Array( [key0] => Array ( [key1] => Array ( [key2] => ) ) [key0[key1][key2][] => value )`.
## Impact
Based on the application logic the difference in the body parsing might lead to vulnerabilities and/or undefined behaviors.
## PoC
1. Create a new Bref project.
2. Create an `index.php` file with the following content:
```php
<?php
namespace App;
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use Nyholm\Psr7\Response;
use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;
use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface;
use Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface;
class MyHttpHandler implements RequestHandlerInterface
{
public function handle(ServerRequestInterface $request): ResponseInterface
{
return new Response(200, [], var_export($request->getParsedBody(),true));
}
}
return new MyHttpHandler();
```
3. Use the following `serverless.yml` to deploy the Lambda:
```yaml
service: app
provider:
name: aws
region: eu-central-1
plugins:
- ./vendor/bref/bref
# Exclude files from deployment
package:
patterns:
- '!node_modules/**'
- '!tests/**'
functions:
api:
handler: index.php
runtime: php-83
events:
- httpApi: 'ANY /upload'
```
4. Replay the following request after having replaced the `<HOST>` placeholder with the deployed Lambda domain:
```
POST /upload HTTP/2
Host: <HOST>
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryQqDeSZSSvmn2rfjb
Content-Length: 180
------WebKitFormBoundaryQqDeSZSSvmn2rfjb
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="key0[key1][key2]["
value
------WebKitFormBoundaryQqDeSZSSvmn2rfjb--
```
5. Notice how the body has been parsed.
6. Create a `plain.php` file with the following content:
```php
<?php
var_dump($_POST);
```
7. Start a PHP server inside the project directory (e.g. `php -S 127.0.0.1:8090`).
8. Replay the following request after having replaced the `<HOST>` placeholder with the PHP server address:
```
POST /plain.php HTTP/1.1
Host: <HOST>
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryQqDeSZSSvmn2rfjb
Content-Length: 180
------WebKitFormBoundaryQqDeSZSSvmn2rfjb
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="key0[key1][key2]["
value
------WebKitFormBoundaryQqDeSZSSvmn2rfjb--
```
9. Notice the differences in the parsing compared to what observed at step 5.
## Suggested Remediation
Use the PHP function [`parse_str`](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-str.php) to parse the body parameters to mimic the plain PHP behavior.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/brefphp/bref/security/advisories/GHSA-82vx-mm6r-gg8w
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24754
- https://github.com/brefphp/bref/commit/c77d9f5abf021f29fa96b5720b7b84adbd199092
- https://github.com/brefphp/bref
- https://github.com/brefphp/bref/blob/2.1.12/src/Event/Http/Psr7Bridge.php#L130-L168