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Prevent sending a header with unsafe characters [\r\n\0]
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Authored by 20after4 on May 4 2016, 7:23 PM.
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This change prevents a malformed filename from breaking things.
Due to the code in AphrontHTTPSink->writeHeaders.

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If you attach a file to a maniphest task, and that file has a
newline or null in the filename, you get the following error
when attempting to download the file:

"Declining to emit response with unsafe HTTP header"

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Here's some effort to muddle through the RFC's on this:

I think this is defined here:

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec19.html#sec19.5.1

And "quoted-string" is defined here:

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec2.html#sec2.2

And that basically says that escape sequences like \n and \r and such don't mean anything special: for example, you can not encode newline with \n or \x0A or anything fancy like that.

So the "correct" way to emit this header for "file\nwith\newlines" (with newlines) appears (???) to be:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file
with
newlines"

I trust approximately zero software in existence to parse that according to my reading of the spec since the defacto way you separate HTTP headers is by exploding them on newlines, so simply stripping these characters out seems like the most reasonable approach to me.

Technically, I think we're supposed to put a backslash before all octets in the range 0-31 and 127, too, but it's hard to imagine anything parsing that wrong.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 4 2016, 9:17 PM

rfc2616 is obsolete. You'll want to look at RFC7230 (low level details) and RFC7231 (headers).

Ah, thanks. RFC7230 appears to allow these characters to appear verbatim (the omission of %x22 is double quote, and %x5C is backslash):

%x09 (tab) / %x20 (space) / %x21 / %x23-5B / %x5D-7E / %x80-%xFF

And these to appear prefixed by backslash:

%x09 (tab) / %x20 (space) / %x21-7E / %x80-%xFF

So it looks like it's impossible (?) to encode \x00-\x08, \x0A-\x1F, and \x7F, and we should presumably strip all of these, then quote " and \\ (or vice-versa, quote/strip order shouldn't matter since the two sets are non-overlapping).

The most correct change is probably:

// Strip characters forbidden by RFC7230.
$filename = preg_replace('/[\x00-\x08\x0A-\x1F\x7f]/', '', $filename);
$filename = addcslashes($filename, '"\\');

But with testing, since I could easily have that preg_replace() syntax wrong.

This revision now requires changes to proceed.May 7 2016, 12:58 PM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 7 2016, 1:14 PM