ArchLinux: 202102-28: python-django: url request injection
Summary
The package python/cpython from 0 and before 3.6.13, from 3.7.0 and
before 3.7.10, from 3.8.0 and before 3.8.8, from 3.9.0 and before 3.9.2
are vulnerable to Web Cache Poisoning via urllib.parse.parse_qsl and
urllib.parse.parse_qs by using a vector called parameter cloaking. When
the attacker can separate query parameters using a semicolon (;), they
can cause a difference in the interpretation of the request between the
proxy (running with default configuration) and the server. This can
result in malicious requests being cached as completely safe ones, as
the proxy would usually not see the semicolon as a separator, and
therefore would not include it in a cache key of an unkeyed parameter.
The package python-django contains a copy of urllib.parse.parse_qsl()
which was added to backport some security fixes. A further security fix
has been issued in versions 3.1.7, 3.0.13 and 2.2.19 such that
parse_qsl() no longer allows using ; as a query parameter separator by
default.
Resolution
Upgrade to 3.1.7-1.
# pacman -Syu "python-django>=3.1.7-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 3.1.7.
References
https://snyk.io/blog/cache-poisoning-in-popular-open-source-packages/ https://bugs.python.org/issue42967 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24297 https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c9f07813ab8e664d8c34413c4fc2d4f86c061a92 https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/feb/19/security-releases/ https://github.com/django/django/commit/8f6d431b08cbb418d9144b976e7b972546607851 https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23336
Workaround
None.