python38/SOURCES/00360-CVE-2021-3426.patch

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From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
<31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 06:02:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-42988: Remove the pydoc getfile feature (GH-25015)
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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 | 18 ------------------
Lib/test/test_pydoc.py | 6 ------
.../2021-03-24-14-16-56.bpo-42988.P2aNco.rst | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-03-24-14-16-56.bpo-42988.P2aNco.rst
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index dc3377d68f8caa..afec613dd85a06 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -2364,9 +2364,6 @@ def page(self, title, contents):
%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()
@@ -2452,19 +2449,6 @@ def bltinlink(name):
'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."""
@@ -2556,8 +2540,6 @@ def get_html_page(url):
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 c80477c50f0980..72ed8a93b712b0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
@@ -1360,18 +1360,12 @@ def test_url_requests(self):
("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 00000000000000..4b42dd05305a83
--- /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.