Headline
CVE-2020-6817: regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) in BleachSanitizerFilter.sanitize_css gauntlet regular expression
bleach.clean behavior parsing style attributes could result in a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS). Calls to bleach.clean with an allowed tag with an allowed style attribute are vulnerable to ReDoS. For example, bleach.clean(…, attributes={’a’: [‘style’]}).
Impact
bleach.clean behavior parsing style attributes could result in a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS).
Calls to bleach.clean with an allowed tag with an allowed style attribute are vulnerable to ReDoS. For example, bleach.clean(…, attributes={’a’: [‘style’]}).
Patches
3.1.4
Workarounds
do not whitelist the style attribute in bleach.clean calls
limit input string length
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1623633
- https://www.regular-expressions.info/redos.html
- https://blog.r2c.dev/posts/finding-python-redos-bugs-at-scale-using-dlint-and-r2c/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6817
Credits
- Reported by schwag09 of r2c
For more information
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