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PYSEC-2021-100

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2021-06-09 18:15 - Updated: 2021-06-22 04:54
VLAI
Details

FastAPI is a web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints. FastAPI versions lower than 0.65.2 that used cookies for authentication in path operations that received JSON payloads sent by browsers were vulnerable to a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. In versions lower than 0.65.2, FastAPI would try to read the request payload as JSON even if the content-type header sent was not set to application/json or a compatible JSON media type (e.g. application/geo+json). A request with a content type of text/plain containing JSON data would be accepted and the JSON data would be extracted. Requests with content type text/plain are exempt from CORS preflights, for being considered Simple requests. The browser will execute them right away including cookies, and the text content could be a JSON string that would be parsed and accepted by the FastAPI application. This is fixed in FastAPI 0.65.2. The request data is now parsed as JSON only if the content-type header is application/json or another JSON compatible media type like application/geo+json. It's best to upgrade to the latest FastAPI, but if updating is not possible then a middleware or a dependency that checks the content-type header and aborts the request if it is not application/json or another JSON compatible content type can act as a mitigating workaround.

Impacted products
Name purl
fastapi pkg:pypi/fastapi

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        "name": "fastapi",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/fastapi"
      },
      "ranges": [
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "fa7e3c996edf2d5482fff8f9d890ac2390dede4d"
            }
          ],
          "repo": "https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi",
          "type": "GIT"
        },
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            }
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        "0.43.0",
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  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-32677",
    "GHSA-8h2j-cgx8-6xv7"
  ],
  "details": "FastAPI is a web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints. FastAPI versions lower than 0.65.2 that used cookies for authentication in path operations that received JSON payloads sent by browsers were vulnerable to a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. In versions lower than 0.65.2, FastAPI would try to read the request payload as JSON even if the content-type header sent was not set to application/json or a compatible JSON media type (e.g. application/geo+json). A request with a content type of text/plain containing JSON data would be accepted and the JSON data would be extracted. Requests with content type text/plain are exempt from CORS preflights, for being considered Simple requests. The browser will execute them right away including cookies, and the text content could be a JSON string that would be parsed and accepted by the FastAPI application. This is fixed in FastAPI 0.65.2. The request data is now parsed as JSON only if the content-type header is application/json or another JSON compatible media type like application/geo+json. It\u0027s best to upgrade to the latest FastAPI, but if updating is not possible then a middleware or a dependency that checks the content-type header and aborts the request if it is not application/json or another JSON compatible content type can act as a mitigating workaround.",
  "id": "PYSEC-2021-100",
  "modified": "2021-06-22T04:54:55.863034Z",
  "published": "2021-06-09T18:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/commit/fa7e3c996edf2d5482fff8f9d890ac2390dede4d"
    },
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/security/advisories/GHSA-8h2j-cgx8-6xv7"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MATAWX25TYKNEKLDMKWNLYDB34UWTROA/"
    }
  ]
}



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