CVE-2022-39348: Twisted vulnerable to NameVirtualHost Host header injection
(updated )
When the host header does not match a configured host, twisted.web.vhost.NameVirtualHost will return a NoResource resource which renders the Host header unescaped into the 404 response allowing HTML and script injection.
Example configuration:
from twisted.web.server import Site
from twisted.web.vhost import NameVirtualHost
from twisted.internet import reactor
resource = NameVirtualHost()
site = Site(resource)
reactor.listenTCP(8080, site)
reactor.run()
Output:
❯ curl -H"Host:<h1>HELLO THERE</h1>" http://localhost:8080/
<html>
<head><title>404 - No Such Resource</title></head>
<body>
<h1>No Such Resource</h1>
<p>host b'<h1>hello there</h1>' not in vhost map</p>
</body>
</html>
This vulnerability was introduced in f49041bb67792506d85aeda9cf6157e92f8048f4 and first appeared in the 0.9.4 release.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-vg46-2rrj-3647
- github.com/twisted/twisted
- github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/f2f5e81c03f14e253e85fe457e646130780db40b
- github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/f49041bb67792506d85aeda9cf6157e92f8048f4
- github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-vg46-2rrj-3647
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00038.html
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39348
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202301-02
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