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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2021-03-29 06:08:00 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-03-29 06:08:00 -0700
commited753d94856213ae9fc028195f670e66a24e2334 (patch)
treed2418e91f49bd8e6e0a5a6210b822efec9aa454c
parent9a8e0780247acb256dd8b04c15b3dd0f59ef2fe1 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-ed753d94856213ae9fc028195f670e66a24e2334.tar.gz
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. (cherry picked from commit 9b999479c0022edfc9835a8a1f06e046f3881048) Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
-rwxr-xr-xLib/pydoc.py18
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_pydoc.py6
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-03-24-14-16-56.bpo-42988.P2aNco.rst4
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 35ef3ebdc6..ffa4b62c1f 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -2457,9 +2457,6 @@ 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()
@@ -2545,19 +2542,6 @@ 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."""
@@ -2649,8 +2633,6 @@ 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 ffabb7f1b9..0bbdc42c63 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):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-03-24-14-16-56.bpo-42988.P2aNco.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-03-24-14-16-56.bpo-42988.P2aNco.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4b42dd0530
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-03-24-14-16-56.bpo-42988.P2aNco.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+CVE-2021-3426: Remove the ``getfile`` feature of the :mod:`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.