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authorSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2016-07-30 23:34:34 -0700
committerSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2016-07-30 23:34:34 -0700
commit436fe5a447abb69e5e5a4f453325c422af02dcaa (patch)
tree6087c6640f2e39e4e8bd1e7b7b6490e8e0b7f324 /Lib/urllib
parentb7b5d35545d2d078e868cbda485bc4651edec4ff (diff)
parent4cbb23f8f278fd1f71dcd5968aa0b3f0b4f3bd5d (diff)
downloadcpython-git-436fe5a447abb69e5e5a4f453325c422af02dcaa.tar.gz
[merge from 3.3] Prevent HTTPoxy attack (CVE-2016-1000110)
Ignore the HTTP_PROXY variable when REQUEST_METHOD environment is set, which indicates that the script is in CGI mode. Issue #27568 Reported and patch contributed by RĂ©mi Rampin.
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-rw-r--r--Lib/urllib/request.py7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index 376bba4079..f769386e0e 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -2337,6 +2337,13 @@ def getproxies_environment():
name = name.lower()
if value and name[-6:] == '_proxy':
proxies[name[:-6]] = value
+
+ # CVE-2016-1000110 - If we are running as CGI script, forget HTTP_PROXY
+ # (non-all-lowercase) as it may be set from the web server by a "Proxy:"
+ # header from the client
+ if 'REQUEST_METHOD' in os.environ:
+ proxies.pop('http', None)
+
return proxies
def proxy_bypass_environment(host):