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authorSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2021-02-15 18:15:02 (GMT)
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[3.8] bpo-42967: only use '&' as a query string separator (GH-24297) (#24529)
* bpo-42967: only use '&' as a query string separator (#24297) bpo-42967: [security] Address a web cache-poisoning issue reported in urllib.parse.parse_qsl(). urllib.parse will only us "&" as query string separator by default instead of both ";" and "&" as allowed in earlier versions. An optional argument seperator with default value "&" is added to specify the separator. Co-authored-by: Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> Co-authored-by: blurb-it[bot] <43283697+blurb-it[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> (cherry picked from commit fcbe0cb04d35189401c0c880ebfb4311e952d776) * [3.8] bpo-42967: only use '&' as a query string separator (GH-24297) bpo-42967: [security] Address a web cache-poisoning issue reported in urllib.parse.parse_qsl(). urllib.parse will only us "&" as query string separator by default instead of both ";" and "&" as allowed in earlier versions. An optional argument seperator with default value "&" is added to specify the separator. Co-authored-by: Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> Co-authored-by: blurb-it[bot] <43283697+blurb-it[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>. (cherry picked from commit fcbe0cb04d35189401c0c880ebfb4311e952d776) Co-authored-by: Adam Goldschmidt <adamgold7@gmail.com> * Update correct version information. * fix docs and make logic clearer Co-authored-by: Adam Goldschmidt <adamgold7@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Fidget-Spinner <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com>
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+Fix web cache poisoning vulnerability by defaulting the query args separator to ``&``, and allowing the user to choose a custom separator.