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bpo-42988: Remove the pydoc getfile feature (GH-25015) (GH-25067)
authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:40:53 +0000 (08:40 -0700)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>
Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:40:53 +0000 (11:40 -0400)
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>
Lib/pydoc.py
Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-03-24-14-16-56.bpo-42988.P2aNco.rst [new file with mode: 0644]

index b521a5504728c4bbf5f3657feeeb143f24d46efb..5247ef9ea27aa10c973949e376014d4890e43b1f 100644 (file)
@@ -2312,9 +2312,6 @@ 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()
 
@@ -2400,19 +2397,6 @@ 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."""
 
@@ -2504,8 +2488,6 @@ 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:
index 00803d3305cb53c0387d9d69a78471587b32b333..49bc3eb164b19c28fc1ae98afe49c601f5faf403 100644 (file)
@@ -1052,18 +1052,12 @@ 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 (file)
index 0000000..4b42dd0
--- /dev/null
@@ -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.