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pyLoad open redirect vulnerability due to improper validation of the is_safe_url function

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 5, 2024 in pyload/pyload • Updated Feb 14, 2024

Package

pip pyload-ng (pip)

Affected versions

< 0.5.0b3.dev79

Patched versions

0.5.0b3.dev79

Description

Summary

Open redirect vulnerability due to incorrect validation of input values when redirecting users after login.

Details

pyload is validating URLs via the get_redirect_url function when redirecting users at login.
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The URL entered in the next variable goes through the is_safe_url function, where a lack of validation can redirect the user to an arbitrary domain.
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The documentation in the urllib library shows that improper URLs are recognized as relative paths when using the urlparse function. (https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.parse.html#urllib.parse.urlparse)

For example, When an unusual URL like https:///example.com is entered, urlparse interprets it as a relative path, but in the actual request it is converted to https://example.com due to url normalization.

PoC

  1. In the next variable, insert the URL to which you want to redirect the user.
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  2. Check that it is possible to bypass url validation and redirect users to an arbitrary url.
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Impact

An attacker can use this vulnerability to redirect users to malicious websites, which can be used for phishing and similar attacks.

References

@GammaC0de GammaC0de published to pyload/pyload Feb 5, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 5, 2024
Reviewed Feb 5, 2024
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 6, 2024
Last updated Feb 14, 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
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
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:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.046%
(19th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-24808

GHSA ID

GHSA-g3cm-qg2v-2hj5

Source code

Credits

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