Re: [error-report-web] [PATCH] Post/parser: Use bleach to sanitse XSS input


Yi Fan Yu
 

On 3/22/21 1:56 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
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Instead of searching for "<", use bleach to sanity input to avoid
any XSS issues.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@...>
---
Post/parser.py | 26 +++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Post/parser.py b/Post/parser.py
index f411e02..536e872 100644
--- a/Post/parser.py
+++ b/Post/parser.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
# Licensed under the MIT license, see COPYING.MIT for details
import json, re
+import bleach
would need to add that to `requirements.txt`
i tested it quickly and it gave me bleach not found

from Post.models import Build, BuildFailure, ErrorType
from django.conf import settings
from django.utils import timezone
@@ -19,21 +20,6 @@ class Parser:
def __init__(self, data):
self.data = data.decode('utf-8')
- # returns true if the values contain '<' char
- # Ignore the failures field (which is an array anyway)
- # Ignore any non-str fields too [YOCTO #14208]
- def contains_tags (self, data):
- for key,val in data.items():
- if key == 'failures':
- continue
-
- if not isinstance(val, str):
- continue
-
- if '<' in val:
- return True
- return False
-
def parse(self, request):
build_fails_logged = []
@@ -42,8 +28,14 @@ class Parser:
except:
return { 'error' : 'Invalid json' }
- if self.contains_tags(jsondata) == True:
- return { 'error' : 'Invalid characters in json' }
+ # Bleach data going directly into the database so that
+ # displaying in any of the graphing doesn't introduce XSS
+ for key,val in jsondata.items():
+ if key == 'failures':
+ continue
+ if not isinstance(val, str):
+ continue
+ jsondata[key] = bleach.clean(val)
would it make more sense to bleach/sanitize the raw data before it got parsed into a json object so even 'failures' wouldn't contain any injection

b = Build.objects.create()
try:
--
2.30.2

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