Log injection in uvicorn
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Jul 29, 2020
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Oct 2, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jul 27, 2020
Reviewed
Jul 29, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Jul 29, 2020
Last updated
Oct 2, 2023
This affects all versions of package uvicorn. The request logger provided by the package is vulnerable to ASNI escape sequence injection. Whenever any HTTP request is received, the default behaviour of uvicorn is to log its details to either the console or a log file. When attackers request crafted URLs with percent-encoded escape sequences, the logging component will log the URL after it's been processed with urllib.parse.unquote, therefore converting any percent-encoded characters into their single-character equivalent, which can have special meaning in terminal emulators. By requesting URLs with crafted paths, attackers can: * Pollute uvicorn's access logs, therefore jeopardising the integrity of such files. * Use ANSI sequence codes to attempt to interact with the terminal emulator that's displaying the logs (either in real time or from a file).
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