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melanie witt 781612b332 Reject open redirection in the console proxy
Our console proxies (novnc, serial, spice) run in a websockify server
whose request handler inherits from the python standard
SimpleHTTPRequestHandler. There is a known issue [1] in the
SimpleHTTPRequestHandler which allows open redirects by way of URLs
in the following format:

  http://vncproxy.my.domain.com//example.com/%2F..

which if visited, will redirect a user to example.com.

We can intercept a request and reject requests that pass a redirection
URL beginning with "//" by implementing the
SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.send_head() method containing the
vulnerability to reject such requests with a 400 Bad Request.

This code is copied from a patch suggested in one of the issue comments
[2].

Closes-Bug: #1927677

[1] https://bugs.python.org/issue32084
[2] https://bugs.python.org/issue32084#msg306545

Change-Id: Ie36401c782f023d1d5f2623732619105dc2cfa24
2021-05-14 17:26:00 +02:00
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notes Reject open redirection in the console proxy 2021-05-14 17:26:00 +02:00
source Update master for stable/wallaby 2021-03-26 07:17:21 +00:00