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Description

Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output vulnerability in elixir-tesla tesla allows multipart part header injection via unescaped Content-Disposition parameter values.

Tesla.Multipart.part_headers_for_disposition/1 interpolates each disposition parameter as #{k}="#{v}" with no validation of CR (\r), LF (\n), or double-quote characters. The values come verbatim from the caller via Tesla.Multipart.add_field/4 (the name parameter), Tesla.Multipart.add_file/3, and Tesla.Multipart.add_file_content/4 (both the filename parameter and other disposition opts). A " in the value closes the quoted parameter early; a \r\n ends the Content-Disposition header line and starts a new part header (such as a forged Content-Type), or, after a second \r\n, ends the entire part header block and prepends bytes to the part body. The default-filename path in add_file/3 derives the filename via Path.basename/1, which does not strip CR or LF, so any application forwarding a partially-attacker-controlled file path inherits the same issue.

This issue affects tesla: from 0.8.0 before 1.18.3.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-116 · Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-105 · HTTP Request Splitting MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / tesla Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

0.8.0 < 1.18.3 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:elixir-tesla:tesla:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.Tesla.Multipart'
source files lib/tesla/multipart.ex
routines 'Elixir.Tesla.Multipart':part_headers_for_disposition/1 · 'Elixir.Tesla.Multipart':add_field/4 · 'Elixir.Tesla.Multipart':add_file/3 · 'Elixir.Tesla.Multipart':add_file_content/4

Affected — GitHub / elixir-tesla/tesla Repository ↗

6ebfdb9 < bb1a2c3 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:elixir-tesla:tesla:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.Tesla.Multipart'
source files lib/tesla/multipart.ex
routines 'Elixir.Tesla.Multipart':part_headers_for_disposition/1 · 'Elixir.Tesla.Multipart':add_field/4 · 'Elixir.Tesla.Multipart':add_file/3 · 'Elixir.Tesla.Multipart':add_file_content/4

Workarounds

Validate disposition parameter values before passing them to Tesla.Multipart.add_field/4, Tesla.Multipart.add_file/3, or Tesla.Multipart.add_file_content/4, rejecting any value that contains \r, \n, or ".

Configurations

The application must pass untrusted input into a disposition parameter of Tesla.Multipart.add_field/4, Tesla.Multipart.add_file/3, or Tesla.Multipart.add_file_content/4.

References

Credits

Peter Ullrich Finder
Yordis Prieto Remediation developer
Jonatan Männchen Analyst

CVSS breakdown

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
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