X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/a8c96a1418b4a4bb1f16c80d86f3ef2361b6d64b..bd7edde9d6e871a62299a4aa04853095f194e3bf:/doc/security.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/security.mdwn b/doc/security.mdwn index 055e1d006..e7770dd27 100644 --- a/doc/security.mdwn +++ b/doc/security.mdwn @@ -1,11 +1,16 @@ -Let's do an ikiwiki security analysis. - If you are using ikiwiki to render pages that only you can edit, do not generate any wrappers, and do not use the cgi, then there are no more security issues with this program than with cat(1). If, however, you let others edit pages in your wiki, then some possible security issues do need to be kept in mind. +If you find a new security vulnerability, please email the maintainers +privately instead of listing it in a public bug tracker, so that we can +arrange for coordinated disclosure when a fix is available. The maintainers +are [[Joey Hess|joey]] (), +[[Simon McVittie|smcv]] () +and [[Amitai Schleier|schmonz]] (). + [[!toc levels=2]] ---- @@ -363,9 +368,9 @@ allow the security hole to be exploited. The htmlscrubber did not block javascript in uris. This was fixed by adding a whitelist of valid uri types, which does not include javascript. -([[!cve CVE-2008-0809]]) Some urls specifyable by the meta plugin could also +([[!debcve CVE-2008-0809]]) Some urls specifyable by the meta plugin could also theoretically have been used to inject javascript; this was also blocked -([[!cve CVE-2008-0808]]). +([[!debcve CVE-2008-0808]]). This hole was discovered on 10 February 2008 and fixed the same day with the release of ikiwiki 2.31.1. (And a few subsequent versions..) @@ -378,7 +383,7 @@ parties. Cross Site Request Forging could be used to constuct a link that would change a logged-in user's password or other preferences if they clicked on the link. It could also be used to construct a link that would cause a wiki -page to be modified by a logged-in user. ([[!cve CVE-2008-0165]]) +page to be modified by a logged-in user. ([[!debcve CVE-2008-0165]]) These holes were discovered on 10 April 2008 and fixed the same day with the release of ikiwiki 2.42. A fix was also backported to Debian etch, as @@ -405,7 +410,7 @@ passwords in cleartext over the net to log in, either. This hole allowed ikiwiki to accept logins using empty passwords, to openid accounts that didn't use a password. It was introduced in version 1.34, and fixed in version 2.48. The [bug](http://bugs.debian.org/483770) was -discovered on 30 May 2008 and fixed the same day. ([[!cve CVE-2008-0169]]) +discovered on 30 May 2008 and fixed the same day. ([[!debcve CVE-2008-0169]]) I recommend upgrading to 2.48 immediatly if your wiki allows both password and openid logins. @@ -428,7 +433,7 @@ bypassed and used to read arbitrary files. This was fixed by enabling TeX configuration options that disallow unsafe TeX commands. The fix was released on 30 Aug 2009 in version 3.1415926, and was backported to stable in version 2.53.4. If you use the teximg plugin, -I recommend upgrading. ([[!cve CVE-2009-2944]]) +I recommend upgrading. ([[!debcve CVE-2009-2944]]) ## javascript insertion via svg uris @@ -453,7 +458,7 @@ Additionally, it was discovered that comments' html was never scrubbed during preview or moderation of comments with such a configuration. These problems were discovered on 12 November 2010 and fixed the same -hour with the release of ikiwiki 3.20101112. ([[!cve CVE-2010-1673]]) +hour with the release of ikiwiki 3.20101112. ([[!debcve CVE-2010-1673]]) ## javascript insertion via insufficient checking in comments @@ -463,7 +468,7 @@ used for an XSS attack. This hole was discovered on 22 Jan 2011 and fixed the same day with the release of ikiwiki 3.20110122. A fix was backported to Debian squeeze, as version 3.20100815.5. An upgrade is recommended for sites -with the comments plugin enabled. ([[!cve CVE-2011-0428]]) +with the comments plugin enabled. ([[!debcve CVE-2011-0428]]) ## possible javascript insertion via insufficient htmlscrubbing of alternate stylesheets @@ -475,13 +480,13 @@ This hole was discovered on 28 Mar 2011 and fixed the same hour with the release of ikiwiki 3.20110328. A fix was backported to Debian squeeze, as version 3.20100815.6. An upgrade is recommended for sites that have untrusted committers, or have the attachments plugin enabled. -([[!cve CVE-2011-1401]]) +([[!debcve CVE-2011-1401]]) ## tty hijacking via ikiwiki-mass-rebuild Ludwig Nussel discovered a way for users to hijack root's tty when ikiwiki-mass-rebuild was run. Additionally, there was some potential -for information disclosure via symlinks. ([[!cve CVE-2011-1408]]) +for information disclosure via symlinks. ([[!debcve CVE-2011-1408]]) This hole was discovered on 8 June 2011 and fixed the same day with the release of ikiwiki 3.20110608. Note that the fix is dependant on @@ -493,7 +498,7 @@ installed suid (not the default), and whose admins run `ikiwiki-mass-rebuild`. ## javascript insertion via meta tags Raúl Benencia discovered an additional XSS exposure in the meta plugin. -([[!cve CVE-2012-0220]]) +([[!debcve CVE-2012-0220]]) This hole was discovered on 16 May 2012 and fixed the same day with the release of ikiwiki 3.20120516. A fix was backported to Debian squeeze, @@ -501,7 +506,7 @@ as version 3.20100815.9. An upgrade is recommended for all sites. ## XSS via openid selector -Raghav Bisht discovered this XSS in the openid selector. ([[!cve CVE-2015-2793]]) +Raghav Bisht discovered this XSS in the openid selector. ([[!debcve CVE-2015-2793]]) The hole was reported on March 24th, a fix was developed on March 27th, and the fixed version 3.20150329 was released on the 29th. A fix was backported @@ -519,15 +524,90 @@ was discovered on 4 May by the ikiwiki developers, and the fixed version in progress. An upgrade is recommended for sites using -the CGI. ([[!cve CVE-2016-4561]], OVE-20160505-0012) +the CGI. ([[!debcve CVE-2016-4561]], OVE-20160505-0012) ## ImageMagick CVE-2016–3714 ("ImageTragick") ikiwiki 3.20160506 and 3.20141016.3 attempt to mitigate -[[!cve CVE-2016-3714]], and any +[[!debcve CVE-2016-3714]], and any future ImageMagick vulnerabilities that resemble it, by restricting the image formats that the [[ikiwiki/directive/img]] directive is willing to resize. An upgrade is recommended for sites where an untrusted user is able to attach images. Upgrading ImageMagick to a version where CVE-2016-3714 has been fixed is also recommended, but at the time of writing no such version is available. + +## Perl CVE-2016-1238 (current working directory in search path) + +ikiwiki 3.20160728 attempts to mitigate [[!debcve CVE-2016-1238]] by +removing `'.'` from the Perl library search path. An attacker with write +access to ikiwiki's current working directory could potentially use this +vulnerability to execute arbitrary Perl code. An upgrade is recommended +for sites where an untrusted user is able to attach files with arbitrary +names and/or run a setuid ikiwiki wrapper with a working directory of +their choice. + +## Editing restriction bypass for git revert + +intrigeri discovered that a web or git user could revert a change to a +page they are not allowed to edit, if the change being reverted was made +before the page was moved from a location where that user had permission +to edit it. For example, if a file is moved from `drafts/policy.mdwn` +(editable by less-trusted users) to `policy.mdwn` (only editable +by more-trusted users), a less-trusted user could revert a change +that was made to `drafts/policy.mdwn` prior to that move, and it would +result in `policy.mdwn` being altered. + +This affects sites with the `git` VCS and the `recentchanges` plugin, +which are both used in most ikiwiki installations. + +This bug was reported on 2016-12-17. A partially fixed version +3.20161219 was released on 2016-12-19, but the solution used in that +version was not effective with git versions older than 2.8.0. +A more complete fix was released on 2016-12-29 in version 3.20161229, +with fixes backported to Debian 8 in version 3.20141016.4. + +([[!debcve CVE-2016-10026]] represents the original vulnerability. +[[!debcve CVE-2016-9645]]/OVE-20161226-0002 represents the vulnerability +in 3.20161219 caused by the incomplete fix.) + +## Commit metadata forgery via CGI::FormBuilder context-dependent APIs + +When CGI::FormBuilder->field("foo") is called in list context (and +in particular in the arguments to a subroutine that takes named +arguments), it can return zero or more values for foo from the CGI +request, rather than the expected single value. This breaks the usual +Perl parsing convention for named arguments, similar to CVE-2014-1572 +in Bugzilla (which was caused by a similar API design issue in CGI.pm). + +In ikiwiki, this appears to have been exploitable in two places, both +of them relatively minor: + +* in the comments plugin, an attacker who was able to post a comment + could give it a user-specified author and author-URL even if the wiki + configuration did not allow for that, by crafting multiple values + for other fields +* in the editpage plugin, an attacker who was able to edit a page + could potentially forge commit authorship (attribute their edit to + someone else) by crafting multiple values for the rcsinfo field + +This was fixed in ikiwiki 3.20161229, with fixes backported to Debian 8 +in version 3.20141016.4. + +([[!debcve CVE-2016-9646]]/OVE-20161226-0001) + +## Authentication bypass via repeated parameters + +The ikiwiki maintainers discovered further flaws similar to CVE-2016-9646 +in the passwordauth plugin's use of CGI::FormBuilder, with a more +serious impact: + +* An attacker who can log in to a site with a password can log in + as a different and potentially more privileged user. +* An attacker who can create a new account can set arbitrary fields + in the user database for that account. + +This was fixed in ikiwiki 3.20170111, with fixes backported to Debian 8 +in version 3.20141016.4. + +([[!debcve CVE-2017-0356]]/OVE-20170111-0001)