CVE-2024-43371: Ckan Potential Access To Sensitive URLs Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-g9ph-j5vj-f8wm",
  "modified" : "2024-08-21T18:27:12Z",
  "published" : "2024-08-21T18:27:11Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2024-43371" ],
  "summary" : "Potential access to sensitive URLs via CKAN extensions (SSRF)",
  "details" : "### Impact\n\nThere are a number of CKAN plugins, including [XLoader](https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-xloader), [DataPusher](https://github.com/ckan/datapusher), [Resource proxy](https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/data-viewer.html#resource-proxy) and [ckanext-archiver](https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-archiver/), that work by downloading the contents of local or remote files in order to perform some actions with their contents (e.g. pushing to the DataStore, streaming contents or saving a local copy). All of them use the resource URL, and there are currently no checks to limit what URLs can be requested. This means that a malicious (or unaware) user can create a resource with a URL pointing to a place where they should not have access in order for one of the previous tools to retrieve it (known as a [Server Side Request Forgery](https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Server_Side_Request_Forgery)).\n\n### Patches and Workarounds\n\nUsers wanting to protect against these kinds of attacks can use one or a combination of the following approaches:\n\n* Use a separate HTTP proxy like [Squid](https://www.squid-cache.org/) that can be used to allow / disallow IPs, domains etc as needed, and make CKAN extensions aware of this setting via the [`ckan.download_proxy`](https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/configuration.html#ckan-download-proxy) config option. \n* Implement custom firewall rules to prevent access to restricted resources.\n* Use custom validators on the resource `url` field to block/allow certain domains or IPs.\n\nAll latest versions of the plugins linked above support the `ckan.download_proxy` settings. Support for this setting in the Resource Proxy plugin was included in CKAN 2.10.5 and 2.11.0\n\n### References\n\n* [Blog post](https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/restricting-outgoing-webapp-requests-using-squid-proxy/) provides more details on how to configure a Squid proxy to prevent these issues\n",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
  }, {
    "type" : "CVSS_V4",
    "score" : "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "PyPI",
      "name" : "ckan"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "2.10.5"
      } ]
    } ]
  } ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/ckan/ckan/security/advisories/GHSA-g9ph-j5vj-f8wm"
  }, {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43371"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/382beaec98cb331f2a030459ef043c50eaf5ad53"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/8601183cc2fc87277ea5b33ff75c3a5610812ab5"
  }, {
    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/ckan/ckan"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-918" ],
    "severity" : "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2024-08-21T18:27:11Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : "2024-08-21T15:15:09Z"
  }
}