[Python-checkins] gh-104049: do not expose on-disk location from SimpleHTTPRequestHandler (#104067)

[gpshead]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c7c3a60c88de61a79ded9fdaf6bc6a29da4efb9a
commit: c7c3a60c88de61a79ded9fdaf6bc6a29da4efb9a
branch: main
author: Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us>
committer: gpshead <greg at krypto.org>
date: 2023-05-03T03:42:00Z
summary:

gh-104049: do not expose on-disk location from SimpleHTTPRequestHandler (#104067)

Do not expose the local server's on-disk location from `SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` when generating a directory index. (unnecessary information disclosure)

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Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org>
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra at gmail.com>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-05-01-15-03-25.gh-issue-104049.b01Y3g.rst
M Lib/http/server.py
M Lib/test/test_httpservers.py

diff --git a/Lib/http/server.py b/Lib/http/server.py
index 971f08046d50..a245ffb30786 100644
--- a/Lib/http/server.py
+++ b/Lib/http/server.py
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ def list_directory(self, path):
             displaypath = urllib.parse.unquote(self.path,
                                                errors='surrogatepass')
         except UnicodeDecodeError:
-            displaypath = urllib.parse.unquote(path)
+            displaypath = urllib.parse.unquote(self.path)
         displaypath = html.escape(displaypath, quote=False)
         enc = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
         title = f'Directory listing for {displaypath}'
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
index cbcf94136ac4..0382b5ec448d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
@@ -418,6 +418,14 @@ def test_undecodable_filename(self):
         self.check_status_and_reason(response, HTTPStatus.OK,
                                      data=os_helper.TESTFN_UNDECODABLE)
 
+    def test_undecodable_parameter(self):
+        # sanity check using a valid parameter
+        response = self.request(self.base_url + '/?x=123').read()
+        self.assertRegex(response, f'listing for {self.base_url}/\?x=123'.encode('latin1'))
+        # now the bogus encoding
+        response = self.request(self.base_url + '/?x=%bb').read()
+        self.assertRegex(response, f'listing for {self.base_url}/\?x=\xef\xbf\xbd'.encode('latin1'))
+
     def test_get_dir_redirect_location_domain_injection_bug(self):
         """Ensure //evil.co/..%2f../../X does not put //evil.co/ in Location.
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-05-01-15-03-25.gh-issue-104049.b01Y3g.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-05-01-15-03-25.gh-issue-104049.b01Y3g.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..969deb26bfeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-05-01-15-03-25.gh-issue-104049.b01Y3g.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Do not expose the local on-disk location in directory indexes
+produced by :class:`http.client.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler`.