[midPoint] Password reset confirmation link contains invalid characters

[Oleksandr Nekriach]

Hello Gustav,

I will test it
Thank you

2017-09-26 17:09 GMT+03:00 Pálos Gustáv <gustav.palos at evolveum.com>:

> Hi Oleksandr,
>
> Please check your value policy configured for nonce and if is, remove
> special characters from here.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gustav
>
> 2017-09-26 16:01 GMT+02:00 Oleksandr Nekriach <o.nekriach at dynatech.lv>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have found that password reset confirmation link contains invalid
>> characters (for exp. |}{<> )  and could be exploited according to
>> CVE-2016-6816.
>> Such link does not work on tomcat server if the server has not a properly
>> configured option tomcat.util.http.parser.HttpParser.requestTargetAllow=
>>
>> Is there some workaround to bypass this issue?
>>
>> Example of invalid link
>> http://192.168.2.184:8080/midpoint/confirm/reset?user=Oleksa
>> ndr.Nekriach&token=FpX3{e5#.z%_
>>
>> Logs from catalina.out
>> 26-Sep-2017 16:41:00.370 INFO [http-nio-8080-exec-4]
>> org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service Error parsing HTTP
>> request header
>>  Note: further occurrences of HTTP header parsing errors will be logged
>> at DEBUG level.
>>  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid character found in the
>> request target. The valid characters are defined in RFC 7230 and RFC 3986
>>         at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11InputBuffer.parseRequestLine(
>> Http11InputBuffer.java:472)
>>         at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Proce
>> ssor.java:683)
>>         at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractPro
>> cessorLight.java:66)
>>         at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.
>> process(AbstractProtocol.java:868)
>>         at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun
>> (NioEndpoint.java:1455)
>>         at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketPro
>> cessorBase.java:49)
>>         at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPool
>> Executor.java:1149)
>>         at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoo
>> lExecutor.java:624)
>>         at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.
>> run(TaskThread.java:61)
>>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Oleksandr Nekriach | Identity and access management engineer
>>
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>>
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>> ,
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>> |
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Best regards,

Oleksandr Nekriach | Identity and access management engineer

Dynatech, Mednieku str. 4a, Riga, LV-1010, Latvia

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