Vulnerability CVE-2018-20852


Published: 2019-07-13

Description:
http.cookiejar.DefaultPolicy.domain_return_ok in Lib/http/cookiejar.py in Python before 3.7.3 does not correctly validate the domain: it can be tricked into sending existing cookies to the wrong server. An attacker may abuse this flaw by using a server with a hostname that has another valid hostname as a suffix (e.g., pythonicexample.com to steal cookies for example.com). When a program uses http.cookiejar.DefaultPolicy and tries to do an HTTP connection to an attacker-controlled server, existing cookies can be leaked to the attacker. This affects 2.x through 2.7.16, 3.x before 3.4.10, 3.5.x before 3.5.7, 3.6.x before 3.6.9, and 3.7.x before 3.7.3.

Type:

CWE-20

(Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Python -> Python 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00071.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00074.html
https://bugs.python.org/issue35121
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00022.html
https://python-security.readthedocs.io/vuln/cookie-domain-check.html

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