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authorVictor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>2021-03-29 12:40:40 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-03-29 12:40:40 (GMT)
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bpo-42988: Remove the pydoc getfile feature (GH-25015)
CVE-2021-3426: Remove the "getfile" feature of the pydoc module which could be abused to read arbitrary files on the disk (directory traversal vulnerability). Moreover, even source code of Python modules can contain sensitive data like passwords. Vulnerability reported by David Schwörer.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib')
-rwxr-xr-xLib/pydoc.py18
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_pydoc.py6
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 282a917..753ea97 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -2456,9 +2456,6 @@ def _url_handler(url, content_type="text/html"):
%s</head><body bgcolor="#f0f0f8">%s<div style="clear:both;padding-top:.5em;">%s</div>
</body></html>''' % (title, css_link, html_navbar(), contents)
- def filelink(self, url, path):
- return '<a href="getfile?key=%s">%s</a>' % (url, path)
-
html = _HTMLDoc()
@@ -2544,19 +2541,6 @@ def _url_handler(url, content_type="text/html"):
'key = %s' % key, '#ffffff', '#ee77aa', '<br>'.join(results))
return 'Search Results', contents
- def html_getfile(path):
- """Get and display a source file listing safely."""
- path = urllib.parse.unquote(path)
- with tokenize.open(path) as fp:
- lines = html.escape(fp.read())
- body = '<pre>%s</pre>' % lines
- heading = html.heading(
- '<big><big><strong>File Listing</strong></big></big>',
- '#ffffff', '#7799ee')
- contents = heading + html.bigsection(
- 'File: %s' % path, '#ffffff', '#ee77aa', body)
- return 'getfile %s' % path, contents
-
def html_topics():
"""Index of topic texts available."""
@@ -2648,8 +2632,6 @@ def _url_handler(url, content_type="text/html"):
op, _, url = url.partition('=')
if op == "search?key":
title, content = html_search(url)
- elif op == "getfile?key":
- title, content = html_getfile(url)
elif op == "topic?key":
# try topics first, then objects.
try:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
index 2f50262..3bc0e9e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
@@ -1374,18 +1374,12 @@ class PydocUrlHandlerTest(PydocBaseTest):
("topic?key=def", "Pydoc: KEYWORD def"),
("topic?key=STRINGS", "Pydoc: TOPIC STRINGS"),
("foobar", "Pydoc: Error - foobar"),
- ("getfile?key=foobar", "Pydoc: Error - getfile?key=foobar"),
]
with self.restrict_walk_packages():
for url, title in requests:
self.call_url_handler(url, title)
- path = string.__file__
- title = "Pydoc: getfile " + path
- url = "getfile?key=" + path
- self.call_url_handler(url, title)
-
class TestHelper(unittest.TestCase):
def test_keywords(self):