From b269a0063e9b10a6c88c92b24d1b92c7421950de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Natalia <124304+nessita@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:20:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fixed CVE-2023-43665 -- Mitigated potential DoS in
django.utils.text.Truncator when truncating HTML text.
Thanks Wenchao Li of Alibaba Group for the report.
CVE: CVE-2023-43665
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/django/django/commit/ccdade1a0262537868d7ca64374de3d957ca50c5]
Signed-off-by: Narpat Mali
---
django/utils/text.py | 18 ++++++++++++++++-
docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
docs/releases/2.2.28.txt | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
tests/utils_tests/test_text.py | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/django/utils/text.py b/django/utils/text.py
index 1fae7b2..06a377b 100644
--- a/django/utils/text.py
+++ b/django/utils/text.py
@@ -57,7 +57,14 @@ def wrap(text, width):
class Truncator(SimpleLazyObject):
"""
An object used to truncate text, either by characters or words.
+
+ When truncating HTML text (either chars or words), input will be limited to
+ at most `MAX_LENGTH_HTML` characters.
"""
+
+ # 5 million characters are approximately 4000 text pages or 3 web pages.
+ MAX_LENGTH_HTML = 5_000_000
+
def __init__(self, text):
super().__init__(lambda: str(text))
@@ -154,6 +161,11 @@ class Truncator(SimpleLazyObject):
if words and length <= 0:
return ''
+ size_limited = False
+ if len(text) > self.MAX_LENGTH_HTML:
+ text = text[: self.MAX_LENGTH_HTML]
+ size_limited = True
+
html4_singlets = (
'br', 'col', 'link', 'base', 'img',
'param', 'area', 'hr', 'input'
@@ -203,10 +215,14 @@ class Truncator(SimpleLazyObject):
# Add it to the start of the open tags list
open_tags.insert(0, tagname)
+ truncate_text = self.add_truncation_text("", truncate)
+
if current_len <= length:
+ if size_limited and truncate_text:
+ text += truncate_text
return text
+
out = text[:end_text_pos]
- truncate_text = self.add_truncation_text('', truncate)
if truncate_text:
out += truncate_text
# Close any tags still open
diff --git a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
index c4b0fa3..4faab38 100644
--- a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
@@ -2318,6 +2318,16 @@ If ``value`` is ``"Joel is a slug
"``, the output will be
Newlines in the HTML content will be preserved.
+.. admonition:: Size of input string
+
+ Processing large, potentially malformed HTML strings can be
+ resource-intensive and impact service performance. ``truncatechars_html``
+ limits input to the first five million characters.
+
+.. versionchanged:: 2.2.28
+
+ In older versions, strings over five million characters were processed.
+
.. templatefilter:: truncatewords
``truncatewords``
@@ -2356,6 +2366,16 @@ If ``value`` is ``"Joel is a slug
"``, the output will be
Newlines in the HTML content will be preserved.
+.. admonition:: Size of input string
+
+ Processing large, potentially malformed HTML strings can be
+ resource-intensive and impact service performance. ``truncatewords_html``
+ limits input to the first five million characters.
+
+.. versionchanged:: 2.2.28
+
+ In older versions, strings over five million characters were processed.
+
.. templatefilter:: unordered_list
``unordered_list``
diff --git a/docs/releases/2.2.28.txt b/docs/releases/2.2.28.txt
index 40eb230..6a38e9c 100644
--- a/docs/releases/2.2.28.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/2.2.28.txt
@@ -56,3 +56,23 @@ CVE-2023-41164: Potential denial of service vulnerability in ``django.utils.enco
``django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri()`` was subject to potential denial of
service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of Unicode
characters.
+
+Backporting the CVE-2023-43665 fix on Django 2.2.28.
+
+CVE-2023-43665: Denial-of-service possibility in ``django.utils.text.Truncator``
+================================================================================
+
+Following the fix for :cve:`2019-14232`, the regular expressions used in the
+implementation of ``django.utils.text.Truncator``'s ``chars()`` and ``words()``
+methods (with ``html=True``) were revised and improved. However, these regular
+expressions still exhibited linear backtracking complexity, so when given a
+very long, potentially malformed HTML input, the evaluation would still be
+slow, leading to a potential denial of service vulnerability.
+
+The ``chars()`` and ``words()`` methods are used to implement the
+:tfilter:`truncatechars_html` and :tfilter:`truncatewords_html` template
+filters, which were thus also vulnerable.
+
+The input processed by ``Truncator``, when operating in HTML mode, has been
+limited to the first five million characters in order to avoid potential
+performance and memory issues.
diff --git a/tests/utils_tests/test_text.py b/tests/utils_tests/test_text.py
index 27e440b..cb3063d 100644
--- a/tests/utils_tests/test_text.py
+++ b/tests/utils_tests/test_text.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
import json
import sys
+from unittest.mock import patch
from django.core.exceptions import SuspiciousFileOperation
from django.test import SimpleTestCase
@@ -87,11 +88,17 @@ class TestUtilsText(SimpleTestCase):
# lazy strings are handled correctly
self.assertEqual(text.Truncator(lazystr('The quick brown fox')).chars(10), 'The quick…')
- def test_truncate_chars_html(self):
+ @patch("django.utils.text.Truncator.MAX_LENGTH_HTML", 10_000)
+ def test_truncate_chars_html_size_limit(self):
+ max_len = text.Truncator.MAX_LENGTH_HTML
+ bigger_len = text.Truncator.MAX_LENGTH_HTML + 1
+ valid_html = "Joel is a slug
" # 14 chars
perf_test_values = [
- (('', None),
- ('&' * 50000, '&' * 9 + '…'),
- ('_X<<<<<<<<<<<>', None),
+ ("", None),
+ ("
", "", None),
+ (valid_html * bigger_len, "Joel is a…
"), # 10 chars
]
for value, expected in perf_test_values:
with self.subTest(value=value):
@@ -149,15 +156,25 @@ class TestUtilsText(SimpleTestCase):
truncator = text.Truncator('I <3 python, what about you?
')
self.assertEqual('I <3 python,…
', truncator.words(3, html=True))
+ @patch("django.utils.text.Truncator.MAX_LENGTH_HTML", 10_000)
+ def test_truncate_words_html_size_limit(self):
+ max_len = text.Truncator.MAX_LENGTH_HTML
+ bigger_len = text.Truncator.MAX_LENGTH_HTML + 1
+ valid_html = "Joel is a slug
" # 4 words
perf_test_values = [
- ('',
- '&' * 50000,
- '_X<<<<<<<<<<<>',
+ ("", None),
+ ("", "", None),
+ (valid_html * bigger_len, valid_html * 12 + "Joel is…
"), # 50 words
]
- for value in perf_test_values:
+ for value, expected in perf_test_values:
with self.subTest(value=value):
truncator = text.Truncator(value)
- self.assertEqual(value, truncator.words(50, html=True))
+ self.assertEqual(
+ expected if expected else value, truncator.words(50, html=True)
+ )
def test_wrap(self):
digits = '1234 67 9'
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