[GHSA-2p57-rm9w-gvfp] ip SSRF improper categorization in isPublic

[ThisIsMissEm]

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As far as I can tell, the package author has written a fix for this advisory and published it as version 2.0.1

[JonathanLEvans]

Hi @ThisIsMissEm, could you provide a link to the fix in 2.0.1? The original vulnerability report says that 2.0.1 is affected.

[ThisIsMissEm]

I'm trying to sort of what the vulnerability is here; it seems there was CVE-2023-42282 described in GHSA-78xj-cgh5-2h22 which has been fixed in 2.0.1: indutny/node-ip@v2.0.0...v2.0.1

And since isPublic is just a negation on isPrivate, then it should also be fixed: https://github.com/indutny/node-ip/blob/3b0994a74eca51df01f08c40d6a65ba0e1845d04/lib/ip.js#L336

The isPrivate method uses the normalizeToLong method, so it should guard against input like 127.1

I think this "vulnerability" is actually just that isPublic doesn't make any assertions about the input being a valid IP address; it's simply a negation of isPrivate — it's not actually validating the input "is a publicly accessible IP address" it is simply saying the input is not a private IP address.

If you want to validate whether a value is an IP address or not, then there are methods in Node.js for that: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v20.x/api/net.html#netisipinput

[ThisIsMissEm]

Also, the original vulnerability report claims the package isn't maintained, it now is again. The project was temporarily archived.

[rejuls]

Hi @ThisIsMissEm , this has come up on the security scanners in my org. What is the next step to move this PR forward, this PR doesnt have any reviewers, could we get a GHSA security analyst to review this? I am new to this and only documentation I could find is that -

"Pull requests will be reviewed and either merged or closed by our internal security advisory curation team."

[ThisIsMissEm]

I don't know. I have actually proposed to @indutny to remove the isPublic method entirely, since a negation of isPrivate is not "is public", it's "is not ip or is public"

i know he's incredibly busy though, so may not have had time to do that change. I don't think indutny/node-ip#144 is the way forwards here.

[ThisIsMissEm]

@rejuls but also, just look at how you uses the ip package, and check that you're using isPrivate, and then you should be able to marl the vulnerability as "code path not used"

[JonathanLEvans]

My understanding is that MITRE chose to assign a separate CVE ID because 2.0.1 fixed some but not all of the possible problematic scenarios. CVE-2024-29415 is meant to track the other scenarios. If you think CVE-2024-29415 needs clarifying, I suggest you contact MITRE so that the update will affect everyone relying on the CVE, rather than just the GitHub database.

[ouuan]

I'm trying to sort of what the vulnerability is here; it seems there was CVE-2023-42282 described in GHSA-78xj-cgh5-2h22 which has been fixed in 2.0.1: indutny/node-ip@v2.0.0...v2.0.1

My understanding is that MITRE chose to assign a separate CVE ID because 2.0.1 fixed some but not all of the possible problematic scenarios. CVE-2024-29415 is meant to track the other scenarios. If you think CVE-2024-29415 needs clarifying, I suggest you contact MITRE so that the update will affect everyone relying on the CVE, rather than just the GitHub database.

It should be clear as the CVE description explicitly states that "this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-42282".

Also, the original vulnerability report claims the package isn't maintained, it now is again. The project was temporarily archived.

Unarchived does not mean it is maintained again. You should take a look at the commit history, the issues, and the pull requests. The author does not push new commits, reply to any issues, or review any pull requests.

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