Bug #32192
When creating a HTTP proxy the username and password is used verbatim, leading to issues if they contain special characters
Description
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure a squid proxy with the following details.
hostname: squid.example.com
port: 3128
proxy_username: proxyuser
proxy: password: test]satellite@password+
2. Go to Satellite GUI --> Infrastructure --> HTTP Proxies --> Fill up all the details including the proxy_password, in Test URL mention "https://aws.amazon.com" and then click on "Test Connection".
3. With all options filled up, submit the settings.
4. Now open the newly created proxy and look at the password field.
Actual results:
At Step 2, with test connection, you will get an error pop up saying "bad password component"
At Step 4, we will be able to see that the password is blank
Expected results:
Satellite 6.7 should be able to accept the password with special characters properly and allow it to save\user further from GUI.
There are two issues at play here.
The first is on our side. We try to stuff the user provided strings into an URI object, but that fails because special characters are not allowed there. If we escape the user provided strings first (turn '@' into '%40' and so on), this part should be resolved.
The other issue is restclient (the library we use for making http requests) does not unescape the proxy username and password, so even if we fix the first issue, then the escaped form will be sent to the proxy and the proxy will reject it. There is a PR1 opened against restclient which fixes this, but last movement there was in October 2018, so I'm afraid we can't wait for this to be fixed there. Unless I'm missing something the only real option we have is to monkey-patch restclient the same way ManageIQ did2.
[1] - https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/pull/665
[2] - https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq/pull/18105
Associated revisions
Fixes #32192 - Monkey patch restclient to unescape proxy credentials
Restclient as of version 2.1.0 uses provided credentials stored in a proxy URI
object verbatim. If the credentials are escaped as they should be, then this
leads to errors when we try to use the credentials because restclient sends the
escaped form.
There is a PR1 in upstream restclient, which addresses this issue, but last
movement there was in October 2018. ManageIQ folks decided to monkey patch
restclient when they ran into the same issue, this commit is a loose adaptation
of the original1 and ManageIQ patches2.
[1] - https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/pull/665
[2] - https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq/pull/18105
Fixes #32192 - Override only the relevant parts
History
#1
Updated by The Foreman Bot 7 months ago
Updated by - Status changed from Assigned to Ready For Testing
- Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/8412 added
#2
Updated by The Foreman Bot 5 months ago
- Fixed in Releases 3.0.0 added
#3
Updated by Adam Ruzicka 5 months ago
Updated by - Status changed from Ready For Testing to Closed
Applied in changeset foreman|150d024e6f45daa831bd6134380183dcbc0e0736.
#4
Updated by Amit Upadhye 4 months ago
Updated by - Target version set to 2.5.1
#5
Updated by Tomer Brisker 4 months ago
Updated by - Target version changed from 2.5.1 to 3.0.0
Looks like this potentially causes regressions in katello proxy handling, pushing out of 2.5.1 until we have a solution for Katello as well
Fixes #32192 - Handle special characters in HTTP proxy credentials
Originally we tried to using user provided credentials verbatim, leading to
errors when they contained special characters. This is resolved by escaping them
first as required by section 2.4.3 of RFC2396.