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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/urllib.request.rst4
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_urllib.py16
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_urllib2.py24
-rw-r--r--Lib/urllib/request.py27
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--Modules/_collectionsmodule.c2
6 files changed, 75 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
index 044339b..9a905c6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -650,6 +650,10 @@ HTTPRedirectHandler Objects
is the case, :exc:`HTTPError` is raised. See :rfc:`2616` for details of the
precise meanings of the various redirection codes.
+ An :class:`HTTPError` exception raised as a security consideration if the
+ HTTPRedirectHandler is presented with a redirected url which is not an HTTP,
+ HTTPS or FTP url.
+
.. method:: HTTPRedirectHandler.redirect_request(req, fp, code, msg, hdrs, newurl)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
index e39fa8d..11e5dad 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request
+import urllib.error
import http.client
import email.message
import io
@@ -206,6 +207,21 @@ Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
finally:
self.unfakehttp()
+ def test_invalid_redirect(self):
+ # urlopen() should raise IOError for many error codes.
+ self.fakehttp(b'''HTTP/1.1 302 Found
+Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:03:54 GMT
+Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
+Location: file://guidocomputer.athome.com:/python/license
+Connection: close
+Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+''')
+ try:
+ self.assertRaises(urllib.error.HTTPError, urlopen,
+ "http://python.org/")
+ finally:
+ self.unfakehttp()
+
def test_empty_socket(self):
# urlopen() raises IOError if the underlying socket does not send any
# data. (#1680230)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 69bcfa2..39447a8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import urllib.request
# The proxy bypass method imported below has logic specific to the OSX
# proxy config data structure but is testable on all platforms.
from urllib.request import Request, OpenerDirector, _proxy_bypass_macosx_sysconf
+import urllib.error
# XXX
# Request
@@ -1031,6 +1032,29 @@ class HandlerTests(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertEqual(count,
urllib.request.HTTPRedirectHandler.max_redirections)
+
+ def test_invalid_redirect(self):
+ from_url = "http://example.com/a.html"
+ valid_schemes = ['http','https','ftp']
+ invalid_schemes = ['file','imap','ldap']
+ schemeless_url = "example.com/b.html"
+ h = urllib.request.HTTPRedirectHandler()
+ o = h.parent = MockOpener()
+ req = Request(from_url)
+ req.timeout = socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
+
+ for scheme in invalid_schemes:
+ invalid_url = scheme + '://' + schemeless_url
+ self.assertRaises(urllib.error.HTTPError, h.http_error_302,
+ req, MockFile(), 302, "Security Loophole",
+ MockHeaders({"location": invalid_url}))
+
+ for scheme in valid_schemes:
+ valid_url = scheme + '://' + schemeless_url
+ h.http_error_302(req, MockFile(), 302, "That's fine",
+ MockHeaders({"location": valid_url}))
+ self.assertEqual(o.req.get_full_url(), valid_url)
+
def test_cookie_redirect(self):
# cookies shouldn't leak into redirected requests
from http.cookiejar import CookieJar
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index 53e8107..ebbebe9 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -545,6 +545,17 @@ class HTTPRedirectHandler(BaseHandler):
# fix a possible malformed URL
urlparts = urlparse(newurl)
+
+ # For security reasons we don't allow redirection to anything other
+ # than http, https or ftp.
+
+ if not urlparts.scheme in ('http', 'https', 'ftp'):
+ raise HTTPError(newurl, code,
+ msg +
+ " - Redirection to url '%s' is not allowed" %
+ newurl,
+ headers, fp)
+
if not urlparts.path:
urlparts = list(urlparts)
urlparts[2] = "/"
@@ -1903,8 +1914,24 @@ class FancyURLopener(URLopener):
return
void = fp.read()
fp.close()
+
# In case the server sent a relative URL, join with original:
newurl = urljoin(self.type + ":" + url, newurl)
+
+ urlparts = urlparse(newurl)
+
+ # For security reasons, we don't allow redirection to anything other
+ # than http, https and ftp.
+
+ # We are using newer HTTPError with older redirect_internal method
+ # This older method will get deprecated in 3.3
+
+ if not urlparts.scheme in ('http', 'https', 'ftp'):
+ raise HTTPError(newurl, errcode,
+ errmsg +
+ " Redirection to url '%s' is not allowed." % newurl,
+ headers, fp)
+
return self.open(newurl)
def http_error_301(self, url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers, data=None):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3f1bb34..1047046 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ Library
- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
that start with a leading underscore.
+- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
+ scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
+
- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.
diff --git a/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c b/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c
index 2391c0d..5545d1e 100644
--- a/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ static PyMethodDef deque_methods[] = {
PyDoc_STRVAR(deque_doc,
"deque(iterable[, maxlen]) --> deque object\n\
\n\
-Build an ordered collection accessible from endpoints only.");
+Build an ordered collection with optimized access from its endpoints.");
static PyTypeObject deque_type = {
PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL, 0)