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bpo-43285: Make ftplib not trust the PASV response.

The IPv4 address value returned from the server in response to the PASV command
should not be trusted. This prevents a malicious FTP server from using the
response to probe IPv4 address and port combinations on the client network.

Instead of using the returned address, we use the IP address we're
already connected to. This is the strategy other ftp clients adopted,
and matches the only strategy available for the modern IPv6 EPSV command
where the server response must return a port number and nothing else.

For the rare user who wants this ugly behavior, set a trust_server_pasv_ipv4_address
attribute on your ftplib.FTP instance to True..
(cherry picked from commit 0ab152c)

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith [email protected]

https://bugs.python.org/issue43285

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bpo-43285: Make ftplib not trust the PASV response.

The IPv4 address value returned from the server in response to the PASV command
should not be trusted.  This prevents a malicious FTP server from using the
response to probe IPv4 address and port combinations on the client network.

Instead of using the returned address, we use the IP address we're
already connected to.  This is the strategy other ftp clients adopted,
and matches the only strategy available for the modern IPv6 EPSV command
where the server response must return a port number and nothing else.

For the rare user who _wants_ this ugly behavior, set a `trust_server_pasv_ipv4_address`
attribute on your `ftplib.FTP` instance to True..
(cherry picked from commit 0ab152c)

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]>
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Thanks @gpshead for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.6, 3.7.
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Sorry @gpshead, I had trouble checking out the 3.7 backport branch.
Please backport using cherry_picker on command line.
cherry_picker 664d1d16274b47eea6ec92572e1ebf3939a6fa0c 3.7

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GH-24882 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.6 branch.

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Thanks @gpshead for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.7.
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miss-islington pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request Mar 15, 2021
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bpo-43285: Make ftplib not trust the PASV response.

The IPv4 address value returned from the server in response to the PASV command
should not be trusted.  This prevents a malicious FTP server from using the
response to probe IPv4 address and port combinations on the client network.

Instead of using the returned address, we use the IP address we're
already connected to.  This is the strategy other ftp clients adopted,
and matches the only strategy available for the modern IPv6 EPSV command
where the server response must return a port number and nothing else.

For the rare user who _wants_ this ugly behavior, set a `trust_server_pasv_ipv4_address`
attribute on your `ftplib.FTP` instance to True..
(cherry picked from commit 0ab152c)

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 664d1d1)

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]>
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GH-24883 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.7 branch.

miss-islington pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request Mar 15, 2021
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bpo-43285: Make ftplib not trust the PASV response.

The IPv4 address value returned from the server in response to the PASV command
should not be trusted.  This prevents a malicious FTP server from using the
response to probe IPv4 address and port combinations on the client network.

Instead of using the returned address, we use the IP address we're
already connected to.  This is the strategy other ftp clients adopted,
and matches the only strategy available for the modern IPv6 EPSV command
where the server response must return a port number and nothing else.

For the rare user who _wants_ this ugly behavior, set a `trust_server_pasv_ipv4_address`
attribute on your `ftplib.FTP` instance to True..
(cherry picked from commit 0ab152c)

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 664d1d1)

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]>
ned-deily pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 16, 2021
…H-24881) (GH-24882)

The IPv4 address value returned from the server in response to the PASV command
should not be trusted.  This prevents a malicious FTP server from using the
response to probe IPv4 address and port combinations on the client network.

Instead of using the returned address, we use the IP address we're
already connected to.  This is the strategy other ftp clients adopted,
and matches the only strategy available for the modern IPv6 EPSV command
where the server response must return a port number and nothing else.

For the rare user who _wants_ this ugly behavior, set a `trust_server_pasv_ipv4_address`
attribute on your `ftplib.FTP` instance to True..
(cherry picked from commit 0ab152c)

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 664d1d1)
ned-deily pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 16, 2021
…H-24881) (GH-24883)

The IPv4 address value returned from the server in response to the PASV command
should not be trusted.  This prevents a malicious FTP server from using the
response to probe IPv4 address and port combinations on the client network.

Instead of using the returned address, we use the IP address we're
already connected to.  This is the strategy other ftp clients adopted,
and matches the only strategy available for the modern IPv6 EPSV command
where the server response must return a port number and nothing else.

For the rare user who _wants_ this ugly behavior, set a `trust_server_pasv_ipv4_address`
attribute on your `ftplib.FTP` instance to True..
(cherry picked from commit 0ab152c)

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 664d1d1)
gentoo-bot pushed a commit to gentoo/cpython that referenced this pull request Apr 3, 2021
) (pythonGH-24881) (pythonGH-24882)

The IPv4 address value returned from the server in response to the PASV command
should not be trusted.  This prevents a malicious FTP server from using the
response to probe IPv4 address and port combinations on the client network.

Instead of using the returned address, we use the IP address we're
already connected to.  This is the strategy other ftp clients adopted,
and matches the only strategy available for the modern IPv6 EPSV command
where the server response must return a port number and nothing else.

For the rare user who _wants_ this ugly behavior, set a `trust_server_pasv_ipv4_address`
attribute on your `ftplib.FTP` instance to True..
(cherry picked from commit 0ab152c)

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 664d1d1)

Rebased for Python 2.7 by Michał Górny <[email protected]>
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