[1.5.x] Prevented leaking the CSRF token through caching.

This is a security fix. Disclosure will follow shortly.

Backport of c083e3815aec23b99833da710eea574e6f2e8566 from master

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/cache/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/cache/tests.py
index cd7da4cece..6d38116b87 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/cache/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/cache/tests.py
@@ -18,11 +18,13 @@ from django.core import management
 from django.core.cache import get_cache
 from django.core.cache.backends.base import (CacheKeyWarning,
     InvalidCacheBackendError)
+from django.core.context_processors import csrf
 from django.db import router
 from django.http import (HttpResponse, HttpRequest, StreamingHttpResponse,
     QueryDict)
 from django.middleware.cache import (FetchFromCacheMiddleware,
     UpdateCacheMiddleware, CacheMiddleware)
+from django.middleware.csrf import CsrfViewMiddleware
 from django.template import Template
 from django.template.response import TemplateResponse
 from django.test import TestCase, TransactionTestCase, RequestFactory
@@ -1456,6 +1458,10 @@ def hello_world_view(request, value):
     return HttpResponse('Hello World %s' % value)
 
 
+def csrf_view(request):
+    return HttpResponse(csrf(request)['csrf_token'])
+
+
 @override_settings(
         CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS='other',
         CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX='middlewareprefix',
@@ -1696,6 +1702,27 @@ class CacheMiddlewareTest(TestCase):
         response = other_with_timeout_view(request, '18')
         self.assertEqual(response.content, b'Hello World 18')
 
+    def test_sensitive_cookie_not_cached(self):
+        """
+        Django must prevent caching of responses that set a user-specific (and
+        maybe security sensitive) cookie in response to a cookie-less request.
+        """
+        csrf_middleware = CsrfViewMiddleware()
+        cache_middleware = CacheMiddleware()
+
+        request = self.factory.get('/view/')
+        self.assertIsNone(cache_middleware.process_request(request))
+
+        csrf_middleware.process_view(request, csrf_view, (), {})
+
+        response = csrf_view(request)
+
+        response = csrf_middleware.process_response(request, response)
+        response = cache_middleware.process_response(request, response)
+
+        # Inserting a CSRF cookie in a cookie-less request prevented caching.
+        self.assertIsNone(cache_middleware.process_request(request))
+
 
 @override_settings(
         CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX='settingsprefix',