# HG changeset patch # User Senthil Kumaran # Date 1469947146 25200 # Node ID a0ac52ed8f7918222603b584ec8fc93d9b7bc0a5 # Parent 4cb94e561e2db9865fb4d752f2bceefca4c6819a# Parent 3c19023c9fec5a615c25598468b44fade89049ce [merge from 3.4] - 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. diff --git a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst --- a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst @@ -538,6 +538,11 @@ setting up a `Basic Authentication`_ han through a proxy. However, this can be enabled by extending urllib.request as shown in the recipe [#]_. +.. note:: + + ``HTTP_PROXY`` will be ignored if a variable ``REQUEST_METHOD`` is set; see + the documentation on :func:`~urllib.request.getproxies`. + Sockets and Layers ================== diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -166,6 +166,16 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions: cannot find it, looks for proxy information from Mac OSX System Configuration for Mac OS X and Windows Systems Registry for Windows. + .. note:: + + If the environment variable ``REQUEST_METHOD`` is set, which usually + indicates your script is running in a CGI environment, the environment + variable ``HTTP_PROXY`` (uppercase ``_PROXY``) will be ignored. This is + because that variable can be injected by a client using the "Proxy:" HTTP + header. If you need to use an HTTP proxy in a CGI environment, either use + ``ProxyHandler`` explicitly, or make sure the variable name is in + lowercase (or at least the ``_proxy`` suffix). + The following classes are provided: @@ -275,6 +285,12 @@ The following classes are provided: To disable autodetected proxy pass an empty dictionary. + .. note:: + + ``HTTP_PROXY`` will be ignored if a variable ``REQUEST_METHOD`` is set; + see the documentation on :func:`~urllib.request.getproxies`. + + .. class:: HTTPPasswordMgr() diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py --- a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py @@ -225,6 +225,18 @@ class ProxyTests(unittest.TestCase): self.env.set('NO_PROXY', 'localhost, anotherdomain.com, newdomain.com') self.assertTrue(urllib.request.proxy_bypass_environment('anotherdomain.com')) + def test_proxy_cgi_ignore(self): + try: + self.env.set('HTTP_PROXY', 'http://somewhere:3128') + proxies = urllib.request.getproxies_environment() + self.assertEqual('http://somewhere:3128', proxies['http']) + self.env.set('REQUEST_METHOD', 'GET') + proxies = urllib.request.getproxies_environment() + self.assertNotIn('http', proxies) + finally: + self.env.unset('REQUEST_METHOD') + self.env.unset('HTTP_PROXY') + class urlopen_HttpTests(unittest.TestCase, FakeHTTPMixin, FakeFTPMixin): """Test urlopen() opening a fake http connection.""" diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py --- a/Lib/urllib/request.py +++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py @@ -2394,6 +2394,12 @@ 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 "proxy" is lowercase, it will still be used thanks to the next block + if 'REQUEST_METHOD' in os.environ: + proxies.pop('http', None) return proxies def proxy_bypass_environment(host):