bpo-43285 Make ftplib not trust the PASV response. (GH-24838)

bpo-43285: Make ftplib not trust the PASV response.

The IPv4 address value returned from the server in response to the PASV command
should not be trusted.  This prevents a malicious FTP server from using the
response to probe IPv4 address and port combinations on the client network.

Instead of using the returned address, we use the IP address we're
already connected to.  This is the strategy other ftp clients adopted,
and matches the only strategy available for the modern IPv6 EPSV command
where the server response must return a port number and nothing else.

For the rare user who _wants_ this ugly behavior, set a `trust_server_pasv_ipv4_address`
attribute on your `ftplib.FTP` instance to True.
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Gregory P. Smith 2021-03-15 11:39:31 -07:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -102,7 +102,9 @@ class FTP:
sock = None
file = None
welcome = None
passiveserver = 1
passiveserver = True
# Disables https://bugs.python.org/issue43285 security if set to True.
trust_server_pasv_ipv4_address = False
def __init__(self, host='', user='', passwd='', acct='',
timeout=_GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT, source_address=None, *,
@ -320,8 +322,13 @@ class FTP:
return sock
def makepasv(self):
"""Internal: Does the PASV or EPSV handshake -> (address, port)"""
if self.af == socket.AF_INET:
host, port = parse227(self.sendcmd('PASV'))
untrusted_host, port = parse227(self.sendcmd('PASV'))
if self.trust_server_pasv_ipv4_address:
host = untrusted_host
else:
host = self.sock.getpeername()[0]
else:
host, port = parse229(self.sendcmd('EPSV'), self.sock.getpeername())
return host, port