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[ZEPPELIN-6190] Prevent directory escape bypass through repeated URL decoding #4891

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Prevent directory escape bypass through repeated URL decoding
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20 changes: 19 additions & 1 deletion zeppelin-server/src/main/java/org/apache/zeppelin/service/NotebookService.java
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Expand Up @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
import static org.apache.zeppelin.scheduler.Job.Status.ABORT;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URLDecoder;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.text.ParseException;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -239,7 +240,7 @@ String normalizeNotePath(String notePath) throws IOException {

notePath = notePath.replace("\r", " ").replace("\n", " ");

notePath = URLDecoder.decode(notePath, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.toString());
notePath = decodeRepeatedly(notePath);
if (notePath.endsWith("/")) {
throw new IOException("Note name shouldn't end with '/'");
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1553,4 +1554,21 @@ private <T> boolean checkPermission(String noteId,
return false;
}
}

private static String decodeRepeatedly(final String encoded) throws IOException {
String previous = encoded;
int maxDecodeAttempts = 5;
int attempts = 0;

while (attempts < maxDecodeAttempts) {
String decoded = URLDecoder.decode(previous, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
attempts++;
if (decoded.equals(previous)) {
return decoded;
}
previous = decoded;
}

throw new IOException("Exceeded maximum decode attempts. Possible malicious input.");
}
}
13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions zeppelin-server/src/test/java/org/apache/zeppelin/service/NotebookServiceTest.java
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Expand Up @@ -615,6 +615,19 @@ void testNormalizeNotePath() throws IOException {
} catch (IOException e) {
assertEquals("Note name can not contain '..'", e.getMessage());
}
try {
// Double URL encoding of ".."
notebookService.normalizeNotePath("%252e%252e/%252e%252e/tmp/test333");
fail("Should fail");
} catch (IOException e) {
assertEquals("Note name can not contain '..'", e.getMessage());
}
try {
notebookService.normalizeNotePath("%252525252e%252525252e/tmp/test444");
fail("Should fail");
} catch (IOException e) {
assertEquals("Exceeded maximum decode attempts. Possible malicious input.", e.getMessage());
}
try {
notebookService.normalizeNotePath("./");
fail("Should fail");
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