T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation
- Location
scripts/download_article_images.sh:29- Finding
Unrestricted Article URL Fetching Enables Server-Side Request Forgery
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/dev/null) ``` The documented workflow also encourages passing a user-provided article URL directly into this script: ```bash bash {baseDir}/scripts/download_article_images.sh "$ARTICLE_URL" /tmp/article-img/ ``` ### Technical Analysis The script passes an arbitrary user-controlled URL directly to `curl`. It does not validate: - The URL scheme. - The destination hostname. - The resolved IP address. - Whether the address is loopback, private, link-local, reserved, or a cloud metadata address. - Redirect destinations followed by `curl -L`. - The presence of URL credentials. - Whether the URL belongs to a supported public article domain. Substring checks in `detect_referer` only select a Referer value and do not restrict the actual request destination. Conseq ...[truncated 1861 chars]- Remediation
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