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Unsafe handling of user-specified cookies in treq

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 30, 2022 in twisted/treq • Updated Jan 26, 2024

Package

pip treq (pip)

Affected versions

< 22.1.0

Patched versions

22.1.0

Description

Impact

Treq's request methods (treq.get, treq.post, HTTPClient.request, HTTPClient.get, etc.) accept cookies as a dictionary, for example:

treq.get('https://example.com/', cookies={'session': '1234'})

Such cookies are not bound to a single domain, and are therefore sent to every domain ("supercookies"). This can potentially cause sensitive information to leak upon an HTTP redirect to a different domain., e.g. should https://example.com redirect to http://cloudstorageprovider.com the latter will receive the cookie session.

Patches

Treq 2021.1.0 and later bind cookies given to request methods (treq.request, treq.get, HTTPClient.request, HTTPClient.get, etc.) to the origin of the url parameter.

Workarounds

Instead of passing a dictionary as the cookies argument, pass a http.cookiejar.CookieJar instance with properly domain- and scheme-scoped cookies in it:

from http.cookiejar import CookieJar
from requests.cookies import create_cookie

jar = CookieJar()
jar.add_cookie(
    create_cookie(
        name='session',
        value='1234',
        domain='example.com',
        secure=True,
    ),
)
client = HTTPClient(cookies=jar)
client.get('https://example.com/')

References

References

@twm twm published to twisted/treq Jan 30, 2022
Reviewed Jan 31, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 1, 2022
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 1, 2022
Last updated Jan 26, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.241%
(65th percentile)

CVE ID

CVE-2022-23607

GHSA ID

GHSA-fhpf-pp6p-55qc

Source code

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