CVE-2019-18348: CRLF injection via the host part of the url passed to urlopen()¶

http.client allows to pass control characters like CRLF newlines which can be abused to inject HTTP headers.

Dates:

Disclosure date: 2019-10-24 (Python issue bpo-38576 reported)

Fixed In¶

Python 2.7.18 (2020-04-19) fixed by commit e176e0c (branch 2.7) (2020-03-19)
Python 3.5.10 (2020-09-05) fixed by commit 09d8172 (branch 3.5) (2020-06-20)
Python 3.6.11 (2020-06-27) fixed by commit 83fc701 (branch 3.6) (2020-03-14)
Python 3.7.8 (2020-06-27) fixed by commit 34f85af (branch 3.7) (2020-03-14)
Python 3.8.3 (2020-05-13) fixed by commit ff69c9d (branch 3.8) (2020-03-14)
Python 3.9.0 (2020-10-05) fixed by commit 9165add (branch 3.9) (2020-03-14)

Python issue¶

CVE-2019-18348: CRLF injection via the host part of the url passed to urlopen().

Python issue: bpo-38576
Creation date: 2019-10-24
Reporter: Riccardo Schirone

CVE-2019-18348¶

An issue was discovered in urllib2 in Python 2.x through 2.7.17 and urllib in Python 3.x through 3.8.0. CRLF injection is possible if the attacker controls a url parameter, as demonstrated by the first argument to urllib.request.urlopen with rn (specifically in the host component of a URL) followed by an HTTP header. This is similar to the CVE-2019-9740 query string issue and the CVE-2019-9947 path string issue. (This is not exploitable when glibc has CVE-2016-10739 fixed.). This is fixed in: v2.7.18, v2.7.18rc1; v3.5.10, v3.5.10rc1; v3.6.11, v3.6.11rc1, v3.6.12; v3.7.8, v3.7.8rc1, v3.7.9; v3.8.3, v3.8.3rc1, v3.8.4, v3.8.4rc1, v3.8.5, v3.8.6, v3.8.6rc1.

CVE ID: CVE-2019-18348
Published: 2019-10-23
CVSS Score: 4.3

Timeline¶

Timeline using the disclosure date 2019-10-24 as reference:

2019-10-23 (-1 days): CVE-2019-18348 published
2019-10-24: Python issue bpo-38576 reported by Riccardo Schirone
2020-03-14 (+142 days): commit 34f85af (branch 3.7)
2020-03-14 (+142 days): commit 83fc701 (branch 3.6)
2020-03-14 (+142 days): commit 9165add (branch 3.9)
2020-03-14 (+142 days): commit ff69c9d (branch 3.8)
2020-03-19 (+147 days): commit e176e0c (branch 2.7)
2020-04-19 (+178 days): Python 2.7.18 released
2020-05-13 (+202 days): Python 3.8.3 released
2020-06-20 (+240 days): commit 09d8172 (branch 3.5)
2020-06-27 (+247 days): Python 3.6.11 released
2020-06-27 (+247 days): Python 3.7.8 released
2020-09-05 (+317 days): Python 3.5.10 released
2020-10-05: Python 3.9.0 released