bpo-34866: Adding max_num_fields to cgi.FieldStorage (GH-9660)

Adding `max_num_fields` to `cgi.FieldStorage` to make DOS attacks harder by
limiting the number of `MiniFieldStorage` objects created by `FieldStorage`.
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matthewbelisle-wf 2018-10-19 05:52:59 -05:00 committed by Miss Islington (bot)
parent f081fd8303
commit 209144831b
5 changed files with 102 additions and 12 deletions

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@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ def unquote(string, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace'):
def parse_qs(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False,
encoding='utf-8', errors='replace'):
encoding='utf-8', errors='replace', max_num_fields=None):
"""Parse a query given as a string argument.
Arguments:
@ -649,11 +649,15 @@ def parse_qs(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False,
encoding and errors: specify how to decode percent-encoded sequences
into Unicode characters, as accepted by the bytes.decode() method.
max_num_fields: int. If set, then throws a ValueError if there
are more than n fields read by parse_qsl().
Returns a dictionary.
"""
parsed_result = {}
pairs = parse_qsl(qs, keep_blank_values, strict_parsing,
encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
encoding=encoding, errors=errors,
max_num_fields=max_num_fields)
for name, value in pairs:
if name in parsed_result:
parsed_result[name].append(value)
@ -663,7 +667,7 @@ def parse_qs(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False,
def parse_qsl(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False,
encoding='utf-8', errors='replace'):
encoding='utf-8', errors='replace', max_num_fields=None):
"""Parse a query given as a string argument.
Arguments:
@ -683,9 +687,21 @@ def parse_qsl(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False,
encoding and errors: specify how to decode percent-encoded sequences
into Unicode characters, as accepted by the bytes.decode() method.
max_num_fields: int. If set, then throws a ValueError
if there are more than n fields read by parse_qsl().
Returns a list, as G-d intended.
"""
qs, _coerce_result = _coerce_args(qs)
# If max_num_fields is defined then check that the number of fields
# is less than max_num_fields. This prevents a memory exhaustion DOS
# attack via post bodies with many fields.
if max_num_fields is not None:
num_fields = 1 + qs.count('&') + qs.count(';')
if max_num_fields < num_fields:
raise ValueError('Max number of fields exceeded')
pairs = [s2 for s1 in qs.split('&') for s2 in s1.split(';')]
r = []
for name_value in pairs: