SECURITY ALERT: Corrected a problem with the Admin media handler that could lead to the exposure of system files. Thanks to Gary Wilson for the patch.

This is a security-related update. A full announcement, as well as backports for 1.0.X and 0.96.X will be forthcoming.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@11351 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

3 files changed, 67 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/servers/__init__.py b/tests/regressiontests/servers/__init__.py
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diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/servers/models.py b/tests/regressiontests/servers/models.py
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diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/servers/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/servers/tests.py
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+"""
+Tests for django.core.servers.
+"""
+
+import os
+
+import django
+from django.test import TestCase
+from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIHandler
+from django.core.servers.basehttp import AdminMediaHandler
+
+
+class AdminMediaHandlerTests(TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.admin_media_file_path = \
+            os.path.join(django.__path__[0], 'contrib', 'admin', 'media')
+        self.handler = AdminMediaHandler(WSGIHandler())
+
+    def test_media_urls(self):
+        """
+        Tests that URLs that look like absolute file paths after the
+        settings.ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX don't turn into absolute file paths.
+        """
+        # Cases that should work on all platforms.
+        data = (
+            ('/media/css/base.css', ('css', 'base.css')),
+        )
+        # Cases that should raise an exception.
+        bad_data = ()
+
+        # Add platform-specific cases.
+        if os.sep == '/':
+            data += (
+                # URL, tuple of relative path parts.
+                ('/media/\\css/base.css', ('\\css', 'base.css')),
+            )
+            bad_data += (
+                '/media//css/base.css',
+                '/media////css/base.css',
+                '/media/../css/base.css',
+            )
+        elif os.sep == '\\':
+            bad_data += (
+                '/media/C:\css/base.css',
+                '/media//\\css/base.css',
+                '/media/\\css/base.css',
+                '/media/\\\\css/base.css'
+            )
+        for url, path_tuple in data:
+            try:
+                output = self.handler.file_path(url)
+            except ValueError:
+                self.fail("Got a ValueError exception, but wasn't expecting"
+                          " one. URL was: %s" % url)
+            rel_path = os.path.join(*path_tuple)
+            desired = os.path.normcase(
+                os.path.join(self.admin_media_file_path, rel_path))
+            self.assertEqual(output, desired,
+                "Got: %s, Expected: %s, URL was: %s" % (output, desired, url))
+        for url in bad_data:
+            try:
+                output = self.handler.file_path(url)
+            except ValueError:
+                continue
+            self.fail('URL: %s should have caused a ValueError exception.'
+                      % url)