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The checkin of new revision did not work sometimes. Everything worked but the final ci call seemed to be omited. After enabling STDERR in Sandbox::sysCommand() (line 316) the following could be seen:

Insecure dependency in exec while running with -T switch at /home/www/twiki/lib/TWiki/Sandbox.pm line 317.

The command to be executed was generated by Store::RcsWrap::_ci(). The tainted variable being $user. I tracked it down to Client::ApacheLogin::getUser(). If the returned value is untainted the error disappears.

I don't know if the following is correct and sufficient, but it works for me:

sub getUser {
    my $this = shift;
    my $query = $this->{twiki}->{cgiQuery};
    my $name;
    if (defined($query)) {
      $name = $query->remote_user();
      if ($name) {
        $name =~ /([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/ ;
        $name = $1;
      }
      return $name;
    }
    return undef;
}


I'm wondering if this is related to Item1559? Can you think of a way to reproduce this?

-- SP

Possibly caused by an old version of CGI.pm.

Untainted the user identity in Client.pm SVN 9163, SVN 9164

CC

Versions used by reporter:

  • CGI 3.01
  • CGI::Carp 1.27
  • CGI::Cookie 1.25
  • CGI::Session 4.03

TWiki:Main.UlfJastrow


Closed with the release of 4.0.2

KJL

ItemTemplate
Summary tainted username prevents exec()
ReportedBy TWiki:Main.UlfJastrow
Codebase

SVN Range build 8740
AppliesTo Engine
Component

Priority Urgent
CurrentState Closed
WaitingFor

Checkins 9163 9164
TargetRelease patch
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Topic revision: r8 - 2006-04-01 - KennethLavrsen
 
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