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Sec Bug #77423 FILTER_VALIDATE_URL accepts URLs with invalid userinfo
Submitted: 2019-01-07 10:16 UTC Modified: 2021-02-15 10:28 UTC
From: jifan dot jf at alibaba-inc dot com Assigned: stas (profile)
Status: Closed Package: *URL Functions
PHP Version: 5.6.39 OS: linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: 2020-7071
 [2019-01-07 10:16 UTC] jifan dot jf at alibaba-inc dot com
Description:
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---
From manual page: https://php.net/datetime.formats.time
---


Test script:
---------------
<?php
	$a = "http://php.net\@aliyun.com/aaa.do";
	$b = parse_url($a);
	var_dump($b);
?>

use "str_replace("\","/",$b);" to fix it

Expected result:
----------------
for security, we will filter the host before using redirect($url) .
we'll test if the host of the url to redirect is in our whitelist(e.g. aliyun.com).
how ever, a attacker will use "http://php.net\@aliyun.com/" to bypass the filter.
-------
parse_url("http://php.net\@aliyun.com/aaa.do");
["host"]=> string(10) "aliyun.com"

-------
parse_url("http://php.net/@aliyun.com/aaa.do");
["host"]=> string(7) "php.net"

----------------
then we'll export the url to the webpage as "<a href="http://php.net\@aliyun.com/">" aaa</a>

then click the button, browser will open the "php.net".



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 [2020-02-13 14:37 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Duplicate
 [2020-02-13 14:44 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Duplicate +Status: Open
 [2020-02-13 16:06 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: stas
 [2020-02-13 16:06 UTC] cmb@php.net
Given that the documentation of parse_url()[1] states

| This function is not meant to validate the given URL, it only
| breaks it up into the above listed parts. Partial URLs are also
| accepted, parse_url() tries its best to parse them correctly.

I don't think this qualifies as security issue.  However, given
that filter_var($a, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) returns the URL (instead
of false), I think there is a security issue in php_url_parse_ex().

A possible fix would be recognize the userinfo only if it is valid
according to RFC 3986[2], which could look like
<https://gist.github.com/cmb69/180b63eea1c5163cb29440421007ba4a>
(this has been developed against PHP-7.4).

Stas, what do you think about this?

[1] <https://www.php.net/parse-url>
[2] <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-A>
 [2020-05-11 20:44 UTC] stas@php.net
-Summary: parse_url() will deliver a wrong host to user +Summary: FILTER_VALIDATE_URL accepts URLs with invalid userinfo
 [2020-05-11 20:44 UTC] stas@php.net
I think if userinfo is invalid FILTER_VALIDATE_URL definitely should not accept it.
 [2020-05-11 20:45 UTC] stas@php.net
We'd probably need a fix for this from 7.1 up.
 [2020-05-11 20:47 UTC] stas@php.net
Oops, I meant 7.2 of course not 7.1
 [2020-05-13 07:46 UTC] cmb@php.net
Ah, right!  Patch for PHP-7.2:
<https://gist.github.com/cmb69/449e29fa609cf2fd6b617cf5f41638e3>.
 [2021-01-03 01:48 UTC] stas@php.net
-CVE-ID: +CVE-ID: 2020-7071
 [2021-01-04 09:14 UTC] stas@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of cmbecker69@gmx.de
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=2d3d72412a6734e19a38ed10f385227a6238e4a6
Log: Fix #77423: parse_url() will deliver a wrong host to user
 [2021-01-04 09:14 UTC] stas@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2021-01-04 09:15 UTC] stas@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of cmbecker69@gmx.de
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=2d3d72412a6734e19a38ed10f385227a6238e4a6
Log: Fix #77423: parse_url() will deliver a wrong host to user
 [2021-01-04 09:15 UTC] stas@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of cmbecker69@gmx.de
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=2d3d72412a6734e19a38ed10f385227a6238e4a6
Log: Fix #77423: parse_url() will deliver a wrong host to user
 [2021-01-04 09:19 UTC] stas@php.net
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=b132da7f9df39c1774997f21016c522b676a6ab0
Log: Fix #77423: parse_url() will deliver a wrong host to user
 [2021-01-04 09:20 UTC] stas@php.net
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Log: Fix #77423: parse_url() will deliver a wrong host to user
 [2021-01-04 09:48 UTC] stas@php.net
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Log: Fix #77423: parse_url() will deliver a wrong host to user
 [2021-01-04 09:54 UTC] stas@php.net
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Log: Fix #77423: parse_url() will deliver a wrong host to user
 [2021-01-04 09:54 UTC] stas@php.net
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Log: Fix #77423: parse_url() will deliver a wrong host to user
 [2021-01-04 10:49 UTC] cmb@php.net
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Log: Fix #77423: parse_url() will deliver a wrong host to user
 [2021-01-05 13:31 UTC] carusogabriel@php.net
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Log: Fix #77423: parse_url() will deliver a wrong host to user
 [2021-01-27 07:52 UTC] gkamathe at redhat dot com
Hello,

Have we considered a case where the input has only "@" within the URL instead of "\@". A sample use case is below on latest version of PHP, where the hostname being returned is still incorrect (malicious).



$ php -v
PHP 7.4.14 (cli) (built: Jan  5 2021 10:45:06) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.4.14, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies
$ 
$ rpm -qa | grep -i php-7
php-7.4.14-1.fc33.x86_64
$ 
$ cat test.php 
<?php
	#$a = "http://php.net\@aliyun.com/aaa.do";
	$a = "http://php.net@aliyun.com/aaa.do";
	var_dump($a);
	$b = parse_url($a);
	var_dump($b);
?>
$ 
$ php -f test.php 
string(32) "http://php.net@aliyun.com/aaa.do"
array(4) {
  ["scheme"]=>
  string(4) "http"
  ["host"]=>
  string(10) "aliyun.com"     <<<<<<<<
  ["user"]=>
  string(7) "php.net"
  ["path"]=>
  string(7) "/aaa.do"
}
$
 [2021-01-27 08:05 UTC] stas@php.net
The hostname returned in this case is correct. Also, please don't comment on the issues' page about different issues, it makes it very hard to track things.
 [2021-02-01 17:25 UTC] ryan at association dot drupal dot org
Was this intended to be merged into the 7.2 branch? I thought that was out of support now?
 [2021-02-15 09:29 UTC] tomasnorre at gmail dot com
It looks like there is a regression regarding this fix.

https://3v4l.org/hGkQj

The fix is in: 7.3.26, 7.4.14 and 8.0.1 as wanted, but it's gone again in: 7.3.27, 7.4.15 and 8.0.2
 [2021-02-15 10:28 UTC] stas@php.net
The change to parse_url was intentionally reversed. The change in filter_url still there.
 [2021-02-15 10:31 UTC] tomasnorre at gmail dot com
Thanks for the info.
 
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