CRLF injection in httplib2
Impact
Attacker controlling unescaped part of uri for httplib2.Http.request() could change request headers and body, send additional hidden requests to same server.
Impacts software that uses httplib2 with uri constructed by string concatenation, as opposed to proper urllib building with escaping.
Patches
Problem has been fixed in 0.18.0 Space, CR, LF characters are now quoted before any use. This solution should not impact any valid usage of httplib2 library, that is uri constructed by urllib.
Workarounds
Create URI with urllib.parse family functions: urlencode, urlunsplit.
user_input = " HTTP/1.1\r\ninjected: attack\r\nignore-http:"
-uri = "https://api.server/?q={}".format(user_input)
+uri = urllib.parse.urlunsplit(("https", "api.server", "/v1", urllib.parse.urlencode({"q": user_input}), ""))
http.request(uri)References
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/93.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.parse.html
Thanks to Recar https://github.com/Ciyfly for finding vulnerability and discrete notification.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Open an issue in httplib2
- Email current maintainer at 2020-05
Software afectado
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| Plataforma | Paquete | Versiones vulnerables | Corregida en |
|---|---|---|---|
| Python (PyPI) | httplib2 | < 0.18.0 | 0.18.0 |
Referencias
- https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/commit/a1457cc31f3206cf691d11d2bf34e98865873e9e
- https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/security/advisories/GHSA-gg84-qgv9-w4pq
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc9eff9572946142b657c900fe63ea4bbd3535911e8d4ce4d08fe4b89@%3Ccommits.allura.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00000.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r23711190c2e98152cb6f216b95090d5eeb978543bb7e0bad22ce47fc@%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IXCX2AWROGWGY5GXR7VN3BKF34A2FO6J/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PZJ3D6JSM7CFZESZZKGUW2VX55BOSOXI/
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rad8872fc99f670958c2774e2bf84ee32a3a0562a0c787465cf3dfa23@%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r69a462e690b5f2c3d418a288a2c98ae764d58587bd0b5d6ab141f25f@%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4d35dac106fab979f0db75a07fc4e320ad848b722103e79667ff99e1@%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7f364000066748299b331b615ba51c62f55ab5b201ddce9a22d98202@%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11078
- https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/httplib2/PYSEC-2020-46.yaml
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IXCX2AWROGWGY5GXR7VN3BKF34A2FO6J
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PZJ3D6JSM7CFZESZZKGUW2VX55BOSOXI
- Vector CVSS
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N- Debilidad (CWE)
CWE-93- Plataforma
- Python (PyPI)
- Paquete
httplib2- Publicada
- 20.05.2020
- Actualizado
- 11.10.2026 15:17
Fuentes y licencias
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2020-46 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-gg84-qgv9-w4pq - CC BY 4.0
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