bpo-37463: match_hostname requires quad-dotted IPv4 (GH-14499)

ssl.match_hostname() no longer accepts IPv4 addresses with additional text
after the address and only quad-dotted notation without trailing
whitespaces. Some inet_aton() implementations ignore whitespace and all data
after whitespace, e.g. '127.0.0.1 whatever'.

Short notations like '127.1' for '127.0.0.1' were already filtered out.

The bug was initially found by Dominik Czarnota and reported by Paul Kehrer.

Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
https://bugs.python.org/issue37463

diff --git a/Lib/ssl.py b/Lib/ssl.py
index b12f8a1be60c27c2fca1ba002c2e480d08abe190..b89c9ad344822a3ff69c947733e60959d1e42a37 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/ssl.py
+++ b/Lib/ssl.py
@@ -243,12 +243,22 @@ def _inet_paton(ipname):
     Supports IPv4 addresses on all platforms and IPv6 on platforms with IPv6
     support.
     """
-    # inet_aton() also accepts strings like '1'
-    if ipname.count('.') == 3:
-        try:
-            return _socket.inet_aton(ipname)
-        except OSError:
-            pass
+    # inet_aton() also accepts strings like '1', '127.1', some also trailing
+    # data like '127.0.0.1 whatever'.
+    try:
+        addr = _socket.inet_aton(ipname)
+    except OSError:
+        # not an IPv4 address
+        pass
+    else:
+        if _socket.inet_ntoa(addr) == ipname:
+            # only accept injective ipnames
+            return addr
+        else:
+            # refuse for short IPv4 notation and additional trailing data
+            raise ValueError(
+                "{!r} is not a quad-dotted IPv4 address.".format(ipname)
+            )
 
     try:
         return _socket.inet_pton(_socket.AF_INET6, ipname)
@@ -262,14 +272,15 @@ def _inet_paton(ipname):
     raise ValueError("{!r} is not an IPv4 address.".format(ipname))
 
 
-def _ipaddress_match(ipname, host_ip):
+def _ipaddress_match(cert_ipaddress, host_ip):
     """Exact matching of IP addresses.
 
     RFC 6125 explicitly doesn't define an algorithm for this
     (section 1.7.2 - "Out of Scope").
     """
-    # OpenSSL may add a trailing newline to a subjectAltName's IP address
-    ip = _inet_paton(ipname.rstrip())
+    # OpenSSL may add a trailing newline to a subjectAltName's IP address,
+    # commonly woth IPv6 addresses. Strip off trailing \n.
+    ip = _inet_paton(cert_ipaddress.rstrip())
     return ip == host_ip
 
 

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ssl.py b/Lib/test/test_ssl.py
index 86f790b4a22ef3bf67722d437cd141d65a2b237d..4a61711f0ee6c43901e2d5194e9a5f583e2b65b0 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_ssl.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ssl.py
@@ -681,9 +681,14 @@ class BasicSocketTests(unittest.TestCase):
         cert = {'subject': ((('commonName', 'example.com'),),),
                 'subjectAltName': (('DNS', 'example.com'),
                                    ('IP Address', '10.11.12.13'),
-                                   ('IP Address', '14.15.16.17'))}
+                                   ('IP Address', '14.15.16.17'),
+                                   ('IP Address', '127.0.0.1'))}
         ok(cert, '10.11.12.13')
         ok(cert, '14.15.16.17')
+        # socket.inet_ntoa(socket.inet_aton('127.1')) == '127.0.0.1'
+        fail(cert, '127.1')
+        fail(cert, '14.15.16.17 ')
+        fail(cert, '14.15.16.17 extra data')
         fail(cert, '14.15.16.18')
         fail(cert, 'example.net')
 
@@ -696,6 +701,8 @@ class BasicSocketTests(unittest.TestCase):
                         ('IP Address', '2003:0:0:0:0:0:0:BABA\n'))}
             ok(cert, '2001::cafe')
             ok(cert, '2003::baba')
+            fail(cert, '2003::baba ')
+            fail(cert, '2003::baba extra data')
             fail(cert, '2003::bebe')
             fail(cert, 'example.net')
 

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-07-01-08-46-14.bpo-37463.1CHwjE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-07-01-08-46-14.bpo-37463.1CHwjE.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..4f4a62e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-07-01-08-46-14.bpo-37463.1CHwjE.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+ssl.match_hostname() no longer accepts IPv4 addresses with additional text
+after the address and only quad-dotted notation without trailing
+whitespaces. Some inet_aton() implementations ignore whitespace and all data
+after whitespace, e.g. '127.0.0.1 whatever'.