GHSA-gg84-qgv9-w4pq
CRLF injection in httplib2
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
Attacker controlling unescaped part of uri for `httplib2.Http.request()` could change request headers and body, send additional hidden requests to same server.
Impacts software that uses httplib2 with uri constructed by string concatenation, as opposed to proper urllib building with escaping.
### Patches
Problem has been fixed in 0.18.0
Space, CR, LF characters are now quoted before any use.
This solution should not impact any valid usage of httplib2 library, that is uri constructed by urllib.
### Workarounds
Create URI with `urllib.parse` family functions: `urlencode`, `urlunsplit`.
```diff
user_input = " HTTP/1.1\r\ninjected: attack\r\nignore-http:"
-uri = "https://api.server/?q={}".format(user_input)
+uri = urllib.parse.urlunsplit(("https", "api.server", "/v1", urllib.parse.urlencode({"q": user_input}), ""))
http.request(uri)
```
### References
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/93.html
https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.parse.html
Thanks to Recar https://github.com/Ciyfly for finding vulnerability and discrete notification.
### For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
* Open an issue in [httplib2](https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/issues/new)
* Email [current maintainer at 2020-05](mailto:[email protected])
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/security/advisories/GHSA-gg84-qgv9-w4pq
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11078
- https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/commit/a1457cc31f3206cf691d11d2bf34e98865873e9e
- https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/httplib2/PYSEC-2020-46.yaml
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r23711190c2e98152cb6f216b95090d5eeb978543bb7e0bad22ce47fc@%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4d35dac106fab979f0db75a07fc4e320ad848b722103e79667ff99e1@%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r69a462e690b5f2c3d418a288a2c98ae764d58587bd0b5d6ab141f25f@%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7f364000066748299b331b615ba51c62f55ab5b201ddce9a22d98202@%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rad8872fc99f670958c2774e2bf84ee32a3a0562a0c787465cf3dfa23@%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc9eff9572946142b657c900fe63ea4bbd3535911e8d4ce4d08fe4b89@%3Ccommits.allura.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00000.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IXCX2AWROGWGY5GXR7VN3BKF34A2FO6J
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PZJ3D6JSM7CFZESZZKGUW2VX55BOSOXI