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Unauthenticated db-file-storage views

Low severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 12, 2023 in nautobot/nautobot • Updated Dec 18, 2023

Package

pip nautobot (pip)

Affected versions

>= 1.1.0, < 1.6.7
>= 2.0.0, < 2.0.6

Patched versions

1.6.7
2.0.6

Description

Impact

In Nautobot 1.x and 2.0.x, the URLs /files/get/?name=... and /files/download/?name=... are used to provide admin access to files that have been uploaded as part of a run request for a Job that has FileVar inputs. Under normal operation these files are ephemeral and are deleted once the Job in question runs.

It was reported by @Kircheneer that in the default implementation used in Nautobot, as provided by django-db-file-storage, these URLs do not by default require any user authentication to access; they should instead be restricted to only users who have permissions to view Nautobot's FileProxy model instances.

Note that no URL mechanism is provided for listing or traversal of the available file name values, so in practice an unauthenticated user would have to guess names to discover arbitrary files for download, but if a user knows the file name/path value, they can access it without authenticating, so we are considering this a vulnerability.

Patches

Fixes will be included in Nautobot 1.6.7 and Nautobot 2.0.6.

Workarounds

No workaround other than applying the patches included in https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/4959/files (2.0.x) or https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/4964/files (1.6.x)

References

References

@glennmatthews glennmatthews published to nautobot/nautobot Dec 12, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 12, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 13, 2023
Reviewed Dec 13, 2023
Last updated Dec 18, 2023

Severity

Low
3.7
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2023-50263

GHSA ID

GHSA-75mc-3pjc-727q

Source code

Credits

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