[PT-2013-63] Hash Length Extension in HTMLPurifier

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(PT-2013-63) Positive Technologies Security Advisory 
       Hash Length Extension in HTMLPurifier

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---[ Vulnerable software ]

HTMLPurifier
Version: 4.5.0 and earlier

Link:
http://htmlpurifier.org/

---[ Severity level ]

Severity level: Medium
Impact: Signature Forgery, Arbitrary Value Injection into Signed Data
Access Vector:  Remote


CVSS v2: 
Base Score: 5.0
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVE: not assigned

---[ Software description ]

HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. 

---[ Vulnerability description ]

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a vulnerability in HTMLPurifier that allows attackers to 
carry out a "Hash Length Extension" attack..

Class HTMLPurifier_URIFilter_Munge implements a URI filter that replaces all links with a formatted URL, for example, 
it can be used to rewrite links to pass them into redirection script. To prevent links from being altered HTMLPurifier 
allows specifying a secret key via "URI.MungeSecretKey" configuration directive. However, this signature generation 
method is susceptible to a hash length extension attack.

The vulnerability allows attackers to append an arbitrary value to the signed data without knowing the secret key. This 
may cause other vulnerabilities in the web applications, which use signature generated by HTMLPurifier to keep the 
links from being altered.

---[ How to fix ]

Update your software up to the latest version

---[ Advisory status ]

03.09.2013 - Vendor gets vulnerability details
30.11.2013 - Vendor releases fixed version and details 
04.12.2013 - Public disclosure

---[ Credits ]

The vulnerability was detected by Arseny Reutov, Positive Research Center (Positive Technologies Company)

---[ References ]

http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2013-63

Reports on the vulnerabilities previously discovered by Positive Research:

http://www.ptsecurity.com/research/advisory/
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/

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