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Re: python-urllib3 1.25.6 uploaded to experimental (closes CVE-2019-11236) but fails build tests

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Hi all,

On 27.10.19 17:27, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On 2019-10-27 23:13, Daniele Tricoli wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 10:31:31PM +0800, Drew Parsons wrote:
>>> It conditionally works.  Using curl, I found that TLSv1_0 or TLSv1_1 will
>>> support a successful connection, but only if the maximum SSL_VERSION is
>>> constrained to TLSv1_0 or TLSv1_1 (e.g. curl -v --tlsv1.1 --tls-max 1.1
>>> https://pub.orcid.org). Without the max, the connection fails:
>>> $ curl --tlsv1.1  https://pub.orcid.org
>>> curl: (35) error:14094410:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert handshake
>>> failure
>>>
>>> The urllib3 failure was similar, but I do not know how to set tls-max with
>>> urllib3. I could only find the option with curl.  I could set up a custom
>>> HTTPAdapter as suggested at https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/user/advanced/#example-specific-ssl-version
>>> to set ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_1 but the ssl module doesn't have the
>>> SSLVERSION_MAX_TLSv1_1 value that curl has. I could solve it with pycurl
>>> using c.setopt(pycurl.SSLVERSION, pycurl.SSLVERSION_TLSv1_1 |
>>> pycurl.SSLVERSION_MAX_TLSv1_1)
>>
>> For sure I'm missing something, but why not just set TLS version?
>> I tried the following on both Python2 and Python3:
>>
>>     >>> import ssl
>>     >>> from urllib3.poolmanager import PoolManager
>>     >>> http = PoolManager(ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
>>     >>> r = http.request('GET', 'https://pub.orcid.org')
>>     >>> r.status
>>     200
> 
> 
> That's a good tip, I missed that permutation. I was originally trying to access using the requests module, so didn't think to do it directly with urllib.PoolManager
> 
> 
>>
>>> Evidently the orcid server only supports TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1 and no higher
>>> (why haven't they activated TLSv1.3 yet?!), while curl and urllib3 without
>>> tls-max first test TLSv1.3 and then quit without cascading downwards once
>>> they receive the TLSv1.3 handshake failure.  Which is rather odd behaviour
>>> when I think about it.  The whole point of supporting multiple protocol
>>> versions is to try the next available version if the first one doesn't work.
>>
>> Not an expert here, but I think fallback is not done on purpose due downgrade
>> attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downgrade_attack
> 
> 
> I see. Still an odd kind of protection though.  The attacker can just downgrade themselves.

No. A sensible server will not talk to you if your requested SSL version is too low.
pub.orcid.org seems to use absolutely outdated and insecure software versions.

Bye
Michael

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Re: python-urllib3 1.25.6 uploaded to experimental (closes  CVE-2019-11236) but fails build tests Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> - 2019-10-13 16:40 +0200
  Re: python-urllib3 1.25.6 uploaded to experimental (closes  CVE-2019-11236) but fails build tests Daniele Tricoli <eriol@debian.org> - 2019-10-27 16:30 +0100
    Re: python-urllib3 1.25.6 uploaded to experimental (closes  CVE-2019-11236) but fails build tests Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> - 2019-10-27 17:30 +0100
      Re: python-urllib3 1.25.6 uploaded to experimental (closes  CVE-2019-11236) but fails build tests Michael Kesper <mkesper@schokokeks.org> - 2019-10-29 13:30 +0100
        Re: python-urllib3 1.25.6 uploaded to experimental (closes  CVE-2019-11236) but fails build tests Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2019-10-29 14:20 +0100
        Re: python-urllib3 1.25.6 uploaded to experimental (closes  CVE-2019-11236) but fails build tests Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2019-10-29 14:40 +0100
          Re: python-urllib3 1.25.6 uploaded to experimental (closes  CVE-2019-11236) but fails build tests Michael Kesper <mkesper@schokokeks.org> - 2019-10-29 15:40 +0100

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