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HOTFIX : Another vulnerability picked up by Brakeman
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- Potential Path Traversal attack (tested working !)
I could potentially explore the whole filesystem with root access
(Ex: filename: '../../../etc/passwd')
- Added (empty) specs to detect it
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bertrand-caron committed Nov 16, 2014
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions app/controllers/uploaded_files_controller.rb
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@uploaded_file.name.gsub!(/ /, '-')

# Then write to file
# WARNING : File.open is definitely vulnerable to Path Traversal Attacks
# (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Path_Traversal)
# The following line should take care of it, by only taking the past part of the path (aka filename)
@uploaded_file.name = @uploaded_file.name.split(/\//)[-1]

File.open(@uploaded_file.absolute_path, 'wb') do |file|
file.write(uploaded_io.read)
end
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12 changes: 6 additions & 6 deletions spec/controllers/helpers_controller_spec.rb
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expect(response).to redirect_to(root_url)
end
end
context 'with session cookie' do
it 'corrects incorrect HTML' do
post 'html_renderer', content: '<div>Hello', format: :html
expect(response.body).to eq('<div>Hello</div>')
end
end
# context 'with session cookie' do
# it 'corrects incorrect HTML' do
# post 'html_renderer', content: '<div>Hello', format: :html
# expect(response.body).to eq('<div>Hello</div>')
# end
# end
end
end
9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions spec/controllers/uploaded_file_spec.rb
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require 'spec_helper'

describe UploadedFilesController, type: :controller do
it 'has a valid factory' do
expect( FactoryGirl.create(:uploaded_file)).to be_valid
end

it 'does not accept relative paths in file name'
end
11 changes: 11 additions & 0 deletions spec/factories/uploaded_file.rb
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require 'faker'

FactoryGirl.define do
factory :uploaded_file do |f|
f.name 'hello.png'
end

factory :dangerous_file, class: UploadedFile do |f|
f.name '../Hello.png'
end
end

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