bpo-30458: Disallow control chars in http URLs. (GH-12755)

Disallow control chars in http URLs in urllib.urlopen.  This addresses a potential security problem for applications that do not sanity check their URLs where http request headers could be injected.

Author: gpshead

Lib/http/client.py

@@ -137,6 +137,16 @@
 _is_legal_header_name = re.compile(rb'[^:\s][^:\r\n]*').fullmatch
 _is_illegal_header_value = re.compile(rb'\n(?![ \t])|\r(?![ \t\n])').search
 
+# These characters are not allowed within HTTP URL paths.
+#  See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.3 and the
+#  https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-A pchar definition.
+# Prevents CVE-2019-9740.  Includes control characters such as \r\n.
+# We don't restrict chars above \x7f as putrequest() limits us to ASCII.
+_contains_disallowed_url_pchar_re = re.compile('[\x00-\x20\x7f]')
+# Arguably only these _should_ allowed:
+#  _is_allowed_url_pchars_re = re.compile(r"^[/!$&'()*+,;=:@%a-zA-Z0-9._~-]+$")
+# We are more lenient for assumed real world compatibility purposes.
+
 # We always set the Content-Length header for these methods because some
 # servers will otherwise respond with a 411
 _METHODS_EXPECTING_BODY = {'PATCH', 'POST', 'PUT'}
@@ -1079,6 +1089,10 @@ def putrequest(self, method, url, skip_host=False,
         self._method = method
         if not url:
             url = '/'
+        # Prevent CVE-2019-9740.
+        if match := _contains_disallowed_url_pchar_re.search(url):
+            raise ValueError(f"URL can't contain control characters. {url!r} "
+                             f"(found at least {match.group()!r})")
         request = '%s %s %s' % (method, url, self._http_vsn_str)
 
         # Non-ASCII characters should have been eliminated earlier

Lib/test/test_urllib.py

@@ -329,6 +329,55 @@ def test_willclose(self):
         finally:
             self.unfakehttp()
 
+    def test_url_with_control_char_rejected(self):
+        for char_no in list(range(0, 0x21)) + [0x7f]:
+            char = chr(char_no)
+            schemeless_url = f"//localhost:7777/test{char}/"
+            self.fakehttp(b"HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\nHello.")
+            try:
+                # We explicitly test urllib.request.urlopen() instead of the top
+                # level 'def urlopen()' function defined in this... (quite ugly)
+                # test suite.  They use different url opening codepaths.  Plain
+                # urlopen uses FancyURLOpener which goes via a codepath that
+                # calls urllib.parse.quote() on the URL which makes all of the
+                # above attempts at injection within the url _path_ safe.
+                escaped_char_repr = repr(char).replace('\\', r'\\')
+                with self.assertRaisesRegex(
+                    ValueError, f"contain control.*{escaped_char_repr}"):
+                    urllib.request.urlopen(f"http:{schemeless_url}")
+                with self.assertRaisesRegex(
+                    ValueError, f"contain control.*{escaped_char_repr}"):
+                    urllib.request.urlopen(f"https:{schemeless_url}")
+                # This code path quotes the URL so there is no injection.
+                resp = urlopen(f"http:{schemeless_url}")
+                self.assertNotIn(char, resp.geturl())
+            finally:
+                self.unfakehttp()
+
+    def test_url_with_newline_header_injection_rejected(self):
+        self.fakehttp(b"HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\nHello.")
+        host = "localhost:7777?a=1 HTTP/1.1\r\nX-injected: header\r\nTEST: 123"
+        schemeless_url = "//" + host + ":8080/test/?test=a"
+        try:
+            # We explicitly test urllib.request.urlopen() instead of the top
+            # level 'def urlopen()' function defined in this... (quite ugly)
+            # test suite.  They use different url opening codepaths.  Plain
+            # urlopen uses FancyURLOpener which goes via a codepath that
+            # calls urllib.parse.quote() on the URL which makes all of the
+            # above attempts at injection within the url _path_ safe.
+            with self.assertRaisesRegex(
+                ValueError, r"contain control.*\\r.*(found at least . .)"):
+                urllib.request.urlopen(f"http:{schemeless_url}")
+            with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, r"contain control.*\\n"):
+                urllib.request.urlopen(f"https:{schemeless_url}")
+            # This code path quotes the URL so there is no injection.
+            resp = urlopen(f"http:{schemeless_url}")
+            self.assertNotIn(' ', resp.geturl())
+            self.assertNotIn('\r', resp.geturl())
+            self.assertNotIn('\n', resp.geturl())
+        finally:
+            self.unfakehttp()
+
     def test_read_0_9(self):
         # "0.9" response accepted (but not "simple responses" without
         # a status line)

Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py

@@ -943,8 +943,13 @@ def test_unicode_host(self):
 
     def test_partial_post(self):
         # Check that a partial POST doesn't make the server loop: issue #14001.
-        with contextlib.closing(http.client.HTTPConnection(ADDR, PORT)) as conn:
-            conn.request('POST', '/RPC2 HTTP/1.0\r\nContent-Length: 100\r\n\r\nbye')
+        with contextlib.closing(socket.create_connection((ADDR, PORT))) as conn:
+            conn.send('POST /RPC2 HTTP/1.0\r\n'
+                      'Content-Length: 100\r\n\r\n'
+                      'bye HTTP/1.1\r\n'
+                      f'Host: {ADDR}:{PORT}\r\n'
+                      'Accept-Encoding: identity\r\n'
+                      'Content-Length: 0\r\n\r\n'.encode('ascii'))
 
     def test_context_manager(self):
         with xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(URL) as server:

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-04-10-08-53-30.bpo-36276.51E-DA.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Address CVE-2019-9740 by disallowing URL paths with embedded whitespace or control characters through into the underlying http client request.  Such potentially malicious header injection URLs now cause a ValueError to be raised.