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Cross-domain cookie leakage in Guzzle

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 25, 2022 in guzzle/guzzle • Updated Feb 5, 2024

Package

composer guzzlehttp/guzzle (Composer)

Affected versions

< 6.5.6
>= 7.0.0, < 7.4.3

Patched versions

6.5.6
7.4.3

Description

Impact

Previous version of Guzzle contain a vulnerability with the cookie middleware. The vulnerability is that it is not checked if the cookie domain equals the domain of the server which sets the cookie via the Set-Cookie header, allowing a malicious server to set cookies for unrelated domains. For example an attacker at www.example.com might set a session cookie for api.example.net, logging the Guzzle client into their account and retrieving private API requests from the security log of their account.

Note that our cookie middleware is disabled by default, so most library consumers will not be affected by this issue. Only those who manually add the cookie middleware to the handler stack or construct the client with ['cookies' => true] are affected. Moreover, those who do not use the same Guzzle client to call multiple domains and have disabled redirect forwarding are not affected by this vulnerability.

Patches

Affected Guzzle 7 users should upgrade to Guzzle 7.4.3 as soon as possible. Affected users using any earlier series of Guzzle should upgrade to Guzzle 6.5.6 or 7.4.3.

Workarounds

If you do not need support for cookies, turn off the cookie middleware. It is already off by default, but if you have turned it on and no longer need it, turn it off.

References

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please get in touch with us in #guzzle on the PHP HTTP Slack. Do not report additional security advisories in that public channel, however - please follow our vulnerability reporting process.

References

@GrahamCampbell GrahamCampbell published to guzzle/guzzle May 25, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 25, 2022
Reviewed May 25, 2022
Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 25, 2022
Last updated Feb 5, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.460%
(76th percentile)

CVE ID

CVE-2022-29248

GHSA ID

GHSA-cwmx-hcrq-mhc3

Source code

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