Bug 1222820

Summary: python-tornado: XSRF cookie allows side-channel attack against TLS (BREACH) [epel-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component: python-tornadoAssignee: Python SIG <python-sig>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: el6CC: orion, python-sig, tomspur
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URL: https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/issues/1447
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Attempt at backporting xsrf patch none

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-05-19 08:55:22 UTC
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Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-05-19 08:55:27 UTC
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Comment 2 Orion Poplawski 2015-05-27 19:59:32 UTC
Created attachment 1030781 [details]
Attempt at backporting xsrf patch

Here's a quick attempt at backporting the xsrf patch.  However the tests fail with:

+ python -m unittest discover -s tornado/test -p '*test.py'
...........................................................................................................WARNING:root:403 POST / (127.0.0.1): XSRF cookie does not match POST argument
WARNING:root:403 POST / (127.0.0.1) 0.45ms
WARNING:root:403 POST / (127.0.0.1): XSRF cookie does not match POST argument
WARNING:root:403 POST / (127.0.0.1) 0.41ms
..FFWARNING:root:403 POST / (127.0.0.1): XSRF cookie does not match POST argument
WARNING:root:403 POST / (127.0.0.1) 0.59ms
.WARNING:root:403 POST / (127.0.0.1): '_xsrf' argument missing from POST
WARNING:root:403 POST / (127.0.0.1) 0.35ms
.WARNING:root:403 POST / (127.0.0.1): '_xsrf' argument missing from POST
WARNING:root:403 POST / (127.0.0.1) 0.48ms
..........................................................................................
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FAIL: test_refresh_token (web_test.XSRFTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/export/home/orion/fedora/python-tornado/tornado-2.2.1/tornado/test/web_test.py", line 801, in test_refresh_token
    self.assertEqual(len(tokens_seen), 6)
AssertionError: 1 != 6

======================================================================
FAIL: test_versioning (web_test.XSRFTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/export/home/orion/fedora/python-tornado/tornado-2.2.1/tornado/test/web_test.py", line 815, in test_versioning
    self.assertNotEqual(v1_token, v2_token)
AssertionError: 'f91143889e31427f8fc6d9c9cacd2628' == 'f91143889e31427f8fc6d9c9cacd2628'

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so I don't think it's doing anything.  I don't know how backwards incompatible tornado versions are.  It may be worth updating to a somewhat newer tornado in EL6 first.

Comment 3 Orion Poplawski 2015-07-10 17:51:41 UTC
I've made a couple attempts at backporting this, but it's beyond me.  I don't think we can upgrade due to too many backwards incompatible changes as well.

Some notes from upstream:

I don't think there were any relevant changes to cookie handling between 2.2.1 and 3.2.2, so the diff should apply more or less cleanly. While you're applying the XSRF cookie changes in 3.2.2 you'll also want to pick up the signed cookie fixes from 3.2.1. These cookie changes are interesting from a backwards-compatibility perspective: they're API-compatible with the previous release, but they're still disruptive because deploying them will invalidate any existing cookies (applications will have to opt-in to cookie versioning to avoid disruption).

I would encourage you to upgrade to a more current release of Tornado but I don't think it would make a difference for this issue. A high-level summary: 2.3 and 2.4 are low-risk upgrades. 3.0 removed some deprecated features (including support for python 2.5), and 4.0 made some changes to thread-safety semantics (although I think the things that changed in 4.0 were new in 3.0, so you might be fine to jump straight to 4.x if you're crossing the 3.0 boundary).

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2020-11-05 16:53:26 UTC
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