Bug 51769 - False positive: Somebody try to hack into the site!!!
Summary: False positive: Somebody try to hack into the site!!!
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Tomcat Connectors
Classification: Unclassified
Component: isapi (show other bugs)
Version: 1.2.32
Hardware: PC Windows Server 2003
: P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List
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Reported: 2011-09-06 08:33 UTC by Stefan Lloyd
Modified: 2011-10-23 16:19 UTC (History)
1 user (show)



Attachments
Proposed fix to uri_is_web_inf function. (720 bytes, patch)
2011-09-07 16:38 UTC, Christopher Schultz
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Description Stefan Lloyd 2011-09-06 08:33:56 UTC
Messages such as the following are logged:

[Mon Sep 05 11:36:35 2011]  [jk_isapi_plugin.c (843)]: HttpFilterProc [/integrator/download/d2b3b4c1-5eb2-4c45-9ca6-2af7bdc286e3/teamtrainer/50/meta-inf.xml;jsessionid=4adfb2366e39fef63fda294d375f0273] points to the web-inf or meta-inf directory.
Somebody try to hack into the site!!!

and HTTP status 403 is returned on the request. This is a false positive. The file name is meta-inf.xml but it is not in the meta-inf directory.

A number of forum references can be found e.g. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-dev/200505.mbox/%3C1115929838.4283bcee5ca60@aragorntools.webappcabaret.net%3E but it does appear to have been previously raised as a bug.

Unfortunately this renders the ispai connector unusable with this Tomcat application. 

Reproduced on isapi at 1.2.32 (not available in pulldown list!). Cannot be reproduced in mod_jk connector.
Comment 1 Christopher Schultz 2011-09-06 20:17:01 UTC
Looks like jk_isapi_plugin.c::uri_is_web_inf is a little too liberal with it's check:

static int uri_is_web_inf(const char *uri)
{
    if (stristr(uri, "/web-inf")) {
        return JK_TRUE;
    }
    if (stristr(uri, "/meta-inf")) {
        return JK_TRUE;
    }

    return JK_FALSE;
}

Might make sense to check to see if the uri either ends with either of those two strings or explicitly has a "/" after either of them.

Obviously, requesting "/anything/meta-info-for-my-application" would cause a failure, here.

I can confirm that mod_jk does not enforce such checks, because without <Location>Allow/Deny</Location>, httpd will serve content out of WEB-INF and META-INF directories if an Alias is set up to point to the deployment directory.
Comment 2 Christopher Schultz 2011-09-07 16:38:50 UTC
Created attachment 27466 [details]
Proposed fix to uri_is_web_inf function.

I have neither a win32 compiler nor an IIS environment handy to compile and test this, so I'm attaching this as a patch in BZ instead of committing to trunk.

If someone could test, that would be great.
Comment 3 Rainer Jung 2011-10-23 16:19:47 UTC
Fixed in r1187916, will be part of version 1.2.33.

I used a slightly different solution as Chris choosing to add another function as a replacement for stristr. Should be functionally equivalent.

Regards,

Rainer