From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 11:43:35 +0200

Subject: [PATCH] 00382: CVE-2015-20107

Make mailcap refuse to match unsafe filenames/types/params (GH-91993)

Upstream: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/68966

Tracker bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2075390

---

 Doc/library/mailcap.rst                       | 12 +++++++++

 Lib/mailcap.py                                | 26 +++++++++++++++++--

 Lib/test/test_mailcap.py                      |  8 ++++--

 ...2-04-27-18-25-30.gh-issue-68966.gjS8zs.rst |  4 +++

 4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2022-04-27-18-25-30.gh-issue-68966.gjS8zs.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/mailcap.rst b/Doc/library/mailcap.rst

index a22b5b9c9e..7aa3380fec 100644

--- a/Doc/library/mailcap.rst

+++ b/Doc/library/mailcap.rst

@@ -60,6 +60,18 @@ standard.  However, mailcap files are supported on most Unix systems.

    use) to determine whether or not the mailcap line applies.  :func:`findmatch`

    will automatically check such conditions and skip the entry if the check fails.

+   .. versionchanged:: 3.11

+

+      To prevent security issues with shell metacharacters (symbols that have

+      special effects in a shell command line), ``findmatch`` will refuse

+      to inject ASCII characters other than alphanumerics and ``@+=:,./-_``

+      into the returned command line.

+

+      If a disallowed character appears in *filename*, ``findmatch`` will always

+      return ``(None, None)`` as if no entry was found.

+      If such a character appears elsewhere (a value in *plist* or in *MIMEtype*),

+      ``findmatch`` will ignore all mailcap entries which use that value.

+      A :mod:`warning <warnings>` will be raised in either case.

 .. function:: getcaps()

diff --git a/Lib/mailcap.py b/Lib/mailcap.py

index ae416a8e9f..444c6408b5 100644

--- a/Lib/mailcap.py

+++ b/Lib/mailcap.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@

 import os

 import warnings

+import re

 __all__ = ["getcaps","findmatch"]

@@ -13,6 +14,11 @@ def lineno_sort_key(entry):

     else:

         return 1, 0

+_find_unsafe = re.compile(r'[^\xa1-\U0010FFFF\w@+=:,./-]').search

+

+class UnsafeMailcapInput(Warning):

+    """Warning raised when refusing unsafe input"""

+

 # Part 1: top-level interface.

@@ -165,15 +171,22 @@ def findmatch(caps, MIMEtype, key='view', filename="/dev/null", plist=[]):

     entry to use.

     """

+    if _find_unsafe(filename):

+        msg = "Refusing to use mailcap with filename %r. Use a safe temporary filename." % (filename,)

+        warnings.warn(msg, UnsafeMailcapInput)

+        return None, None

     entries = lookup(caps, MIMEtype, key)

     # XXX This code should somehow check for the needsterminal flag.

     for e in entries:

         if 'test' in e:

             test = subst(e['test'], filename, plist)

+            if test is None:

+                continue

             if test and os.system(test) != 0:

                 continue

         command = subst(e[key], MIMEtype, filename, plist)

-        return command, e

+        if command is not None:

+            return command, e

     return None, None

 def lookup(caps, MIMEtype, key=None):

@@ -206,6 +219,10 @@ def subst(field, MIMEtype, filename, plist=[]):

             elif c == 's':

                 res = res + filename

             elif c == 't':

+                if _find_unsafe(MIMEtype):

+                    msg = "Refusing to substitute MIME type %r into a shell command." % (MIMEtype,)

+                    warnings.warn(msg, UnsafeMailcapInput)

+                    return None

                 res = res + MIMEtype

             elif c == '{':

                 start = i

@@ -213,7 +230,12 @@ def subst(field, MIMEtype, filename, plist=[]):

                     i = i+1

                 name = field[start:i]

                 i = i+1

-                res = res + findparam(name, plist)

+                param = findparam(name, plist)

+                if _find_unsafe(param):

+                    msg = "Refusing to substitute parameter %r (%s) into a shell command" % (param, name)

+                    warnings.warn(msg, UnsafeMailcapInput)

+                    return None

+                res = res + param

             # XXX To do:

             # %n == number of parts if type is multipart/*

             # %F == list of alternating type and filename for parts

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_mailcap.py b/Lib/test/test_mailcap.py

index c08423c670..920283d9a2 100644

--- a/Lib/test/test_mailcap.py

+++ b/Lib/test/test_mailcap.py

@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ class HelperFunctionTest(unittest.TestCase):

             (["", "audio/*", "foo.txt"], ""),

             (["echo foo", "audio/*", "foo.txt"], "echo foo"),

             (["echo %s", "audio/*", "foo.txt"], "echo foo.txt"),

-            (["echo %t", "audio/*", "foo.txt"], "echo audio/*"),

+            (["echo %t", "audio/*", "foo.txt"], None),

+            (["echo %t", "audio/wav", "foo.txt"], "echo audio/wav"),

             (["echo \\%t", "audio/*", "foo.txt"], "echo %t"),

             (["echo foo", "audio/*", "foo.txt", plist], "echo foo"),

             (["echo %{total}", "audio/*", "foo.txt", plist], "echo 3")

@@ -205,7 +206,10 @@ class FindmatchTest(unittest.TestCase):

              ('"An audio fragment"', audio_basic_entry)),

             ([c, "audio/*"],

              {"filename": fname},

-             ("/usr/local/bin/showaudio audio/*", audio_entry)),

+             (None, None)),

+            ([c, "audio/wav"],

+             {"filename": fname},

+             ("/usr/local/bin/showaudio audio/wav", audio_entry)),

             ([c, "message/external-body"],

              {"plist": plist},

              ("showexternal /dev/null default john python.org     /tmp foo bar", message_entry))

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2022-04-27-18-25-30.gh-issue-68966.gjS8zs.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2022-04-27-18-25-30.gh-issue-68966.gjS8zs.rst

new file mode 100644

index 0000000000..da81a1f699

--- /dev/null

+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2022-04-27-18-25-30.gh-issue-68966.gjS8zs.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@

+The deprecated mailcap module now refuses to inject unsafe text (filenames,

+MIME types, parameters) into shell commands. Instead of using such text, it

+will warn and act as if a match was not found (or for test commands, as if

+the test failed).