GHSA-fhpf-pp6p-55qc
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Summary: Unsafe handling of user-specified cookies in treq
Details: ### Impact Treq's request methods (`treq.get`, `treq.post`, `HTTPClient.request`, `HTTPClient.get`, etc.) accept cookies as a dictionary, for example: ```py 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: ```py 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 * Originally reported at [huntr.dev](https://huntr.dev/bounties/3c9204fc-a3d1-4441-8599-924c5f57e7ae/?token=06d930e37046c914bcb037e85cc227dc7b510b475989fc69837566562ba899277d46b0fb4b1e21cdcb6ddc1b7d9b1ded632cf3a3551ecb89afca16a63b34641284b50479d5195bba2ac09b116f3dd4fad27f54404c2de922c05c8c8b744aec27bb4d4d198cb8b3abf479af0c2d5fbaa10412da7922594ac3eb39) * A related issue in the handling of HTTP basic authentication was addressed in Twisted 22.1 ([GHSA-92x2-jw7w-xvvx](https://github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-92x2-jw7w-xvvx), CVE-2022-21712).
References: https://github.com/twisted/treq/security/advisories/GHSA-fhpf-pp6p-55qc, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23607, https://github.com/twisted/treq/commit/1da6022cc880bbcff59321abe02bf8498b89efb2, https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/treq/PYSEC-2022-26.yaml, https://github.com/twisted/treq, https://github.com/twisted/treq/releases/tag/release-22.1.0, https://huntr.dev/bounties/3c9204fc-a3d1-4441-8599-924c5f57e7ae/?token=06d930e37046c914bcb037e85cc227dc7b510b475989fc69837566562ba899277d46b0fb4b1e21cdcb6ddc1b7d9b1ded632cf3a3551ecb89afca16a63b34641284b50479d5195bba2ac09b116f3dd4fad27f54404c2de922c05c8c8b744aec27bb4d4d198cb8b3abf479af0c2d5fbaa10412da7922594ac3eb39, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00025.html
Affected packages
Package
Name: treq
Purl: pkg:pypi/treq
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
