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CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH option not cleared on change of origin

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 20, 2022 in guzzle/guzzle • Updated Jul 24, 2023

Package

composer guzzlehttp/guzzle (Composer)

Affected versions

< 6.5.8
>= 7.0.0, < 7.4.5

Patched versions

6.5.8
7.4.5

Description

Impact

Authorization headers on requests are sensitive information. When using our Curl handler, it is possible to use the CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH option to specify an Authorization header. On making a request which responds with a redirect to a URI with a different origin, if we choose to follow it, we should remove the CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH and CURLOPT_USERPWD options before continuing, stopping curl from appending the Authorization header to the new request. Previously, we would only consider a change in host. Now, we consider any change in host, port or scheme to be a change in origin.

Patches

Affected Guzzle 7 users should upgrade to Guzzle 7.4.5 as soon as possible. Affected users using any earlier series of Guzzle should upgrade to Guzzle 6.5.8 or 7.4.5. Note that a partial fix was implemented in Guzzle 7.4.2, where a change in host would trigger removal of the curl-added Authorization header, however this earlier fix did not cover change in scheme or change in port.

Workarounds

If you do not require or expect redirects to be followed, one should simply disable redirects all together. Alternatively, one can specify to use the Guzzle stream handler backend, rather than curl.

References

For more information

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References

@GrahamCampbell GrahamCampbell published to guzzle/guzzle Jun 20, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 21, 2022
Reviewed Jun 21, 2022
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 27, 2022
Last updated Jul 24, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.229%
(61st percentile)

CVE ID

CVE-2022-31090

GHSA ID

GHSA-25mq-v84q-4j7r

Source code

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