[CKAN-Security] Vulnerabilities due to outdated sofware.

[Adrià Mercader]

Hi Gil,

Thank you very much for the report. We will discuss the best approach and
come back to you.

Best regards,

Adrià

On 28 September 2017 at 16:22, Gil Hilário <gil at civity.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’m contacting you to speak about some vulnerabilities that are related
> with outdated software in some CKAN dependencies (this was mainly
> identified on the version 2.6.2 but I think most things are still relevant):
>
>    - The pylons
>    <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/master/requirements.txt#L36> web
>    framework used by CKAN is outdated and vulnerable to cookie timing attacks
>    and XSS via the "Post Traceback". Issue that is solved
>    <https://github.com/Pylons/pylons/blob/master/CHANGELOG#L9> on the
>    most recent version.
>
> I know that you are currently busy with the migration to Flask
> <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/wiki/Migration-from-Pylons-to-Flask>, do
> you have any estimate time for the conclusion of that migration? are any
> known issues in upgrading the pylons version to the most recent
> <https://github.com/Pylons/pylons/releases/tag/v1.0.2>?
>
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>    - The html5lib
>    <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/master/requirements.txt#L18>
>    included in the requirements.txt (via bleach) is also outdated and
>    vulnerable to a XSS attack.  Bleach version being used is 1.5
>    <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/master/requirements.txt#L10> but
>    there is already a 2.0 version
>    <https://github.com/mozilla/bleach/releases/tag/v2.0> that mentions
>    that it “no longer supports html5lib < 0.99999999”.
>
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>
>
>    - The library moment.js version 2.10.3 has known security issues
>    <https://github.com/moment/moment/issues/2936>. Which is fixed
>    <https://github.com/moment/moment/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md#2112-fix-redos-attack-vector>
>    in the more recent versions.
>
>
>
>    - The Javascript file 'bootstrap.js' includes a vulnerable
>    <https://github.com/janl/mustache.js/pull/530> version of the library 'mustache.js'
>    (v0.5.0-dev)
>    <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/ef893419a5ff994ce5000c07aec4bbc0ec5b920a/ckanext/reclineview/theme/public/resource.config#L19>.
>    I’m also aware that CKAN core will switch to use Bootstrap 3, so this might
>    be solve with that…?
>
>
>
>    - The Angular installation v1.4.4, from 2015-08-13, is vulnerable to
>    conditions that may lead to XSS. (more info
>    <https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md>)
>
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>
>    - There are multiple outdated JQuery components (v1.10.2 and v1.7.1)
>    that are vulnerable to XSS while dealing with certain user input. For more
>    information: http://research.insecurelabs.org/jquery/test/. Vulnerable
>    components:
>          vendor/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js;
>
>       vendor/underscore/1.4.4/underscore.js;
>
>       vendor/backbone/1.0.0/backbone.js;
>
>        vendor/mustache/0.5.0-dev/mustache.min.js;
>
>       vendor/bootstrap/3.2.0/js/bootstrap.js
>
>
>
> Thanks for all the great work at the CKAN project. Hope this helps it a
> bit.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Gil Hilário
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