html/template: panic if predefined escapers are found in pipelines during rewriting

Report an error if a predefined escaper (i.e. "html", "urlquery", or "js")
is found in a pipeline that will be rewritten by the contextual auto-escaper,
instead of trying to merge the escaper-inserted escaping directives
with these predefined escapers. This merging behavior is a source
of several security and correctness bugs (eee #19336, #19345, #19352,
and #19353.)

This merging logic was originally intended to ease migration of text/template
templates with user-defined escapers to html/template. Now that
migration is no longer an issue, this logic can be safely removed.

NOTE: this is a backward-incompatible change that fixes known security
bugs (see linked issues for more details). It will explicitly break users
that attempt to execute templates with pipelines containing predefined
escapers.

Fixes #19336, #19345, #19352, #19353

Change-Id: I46b0ca8a2809d179c13c0d4f42b63126ed1c3b49
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/37880
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>

src/html/template/error.go

@@ -183,6 +183,27 @@ const (
 	//   Look for missing semicolons inside branches, and maybe add
 	//   parentheses to make it clear which interpretation you intend.
 	ErrSlashAmbig
+
+	// ErrPredefinedEscaper: "predefined escaper ... disallowed in template"
+	// Example:
+	//   <a href="{{.X | urlquery}}">
+	// Discussion:
+	//   Package html/template already contextually escapes all pipelines to
+	//   produce HTML output safe against code injection. Manually escaping
+	//   pipeline output using the predefined escapers "html", "urlquery", or "js"
+	//   is unnecessary, and might affect the correctness or safety of the escaped
+	//   pipeline output. In the above example, "urlquery" should simply be
+	//   removed from the pipeline so that escaping is performed solely by the
+	//   contextual autoescaper.
+	//   If the predefined escaper occurs in the middle of a pipeline where
+	//   subsequent commands expect escaped input, e.g.
+	//     {{.X | html | makeALink}}
+	//   where makeALink does
+	//     return "<a href='+input+'>link</a>"
+	//   consider refactoring the surrounding template to make use of the
+	//   contextual autoescaper, i.e.
+	//     <a href='{{.X}}'>link</a>
+	ErrPredefinedEscaper
 )
 
 func (e *Error) Error() string {

src/html/template/escape.go

@@ -62,14 +62,11 @@ var funcMap = template.FuncMap{
 	"_html_template_urlnormalizer":   urlNormalizer,
 }
 
-// equivEscapers matches contextual escapers to equivalent template builtins.
-var equivEscapers = map[string]string{
-	"_html_template_attrescaper":    "html",
-	"_html_template_htmlescaper":    "html",
-	"_html_template_nospaceescaper": "html",
-	"_html_template_rcdataescaper":  "html",
-	"_html_template_urlescaper":     "urlquery",
-	"_html_template_urlnormalizer":  "urlquery",
+// predefinedEscapers contains template predefined escapers.
+var predefinedEscapers = map[string]bool{
+	"html" :    true,
+	"urlquery": true,
+	"js":       true,
 }
 
 // escaper collects type inferences about templates and changes needed to make
@@ -133,12 +130,37 @@ func (e *escaper) escape(c context, n parse.Node) context {
 	panic("escaping " + n.String() + " is unimplemented")
 }
 
+// allIdents returns the names of the identifiers under the Ident field of the node,
+// which might be a singleton (Identifier) or a slice (Field or Chain).
+func allIdents(node parse.Node) []string {
+	switch node := node.(type) {
+	case *parse.IdentifierNode:
+		return []string{node.Ident}
+	case *parse.FieldNode:
+		return node.Ident
+	case *parse.ChainNode:
+		return node.Field
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
 // escapeAction escapes an action template node.
 func (e *escaper) escapeAction(c context, n *parse.ActionNode) context {
 	if len(n.Pipe.Decl) != 0 {
 		// A local variable assignment, not an interpolation.
 		return c
 	}
+	// Disallow the use of predefined escapers in pipelines.
+	for _, idNode := range n.Pipe.Cmds {
+		for _, ident := range allIdents(idNode.Args[0]) {
+			if _, ok := predefinedEscapers[ident]; ok {
+				return context{
+				state: stateError,
+				err:   errorf(ErrPredefinedEscaper, n, n.Line, "predefined escaper %q disallowed in template", ident),
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
 	c = nudge(c)
 	s := make([]string, 0, 3)
 	switch c.state {
@@ -204,69 +226,16 @@ func (e *escaper) escapeAction(c context, n *parse.ActionNode) context {
 	return c
 }
 
-// allIdents returns the names of the identifiers under the Ident field of the node,
-// which might be a singleton (Identifier) or a slice (Field or Chain).
-func allIdents(node parse.Node) []string {
-	switch node := node.(type) {
-	case *parse.IdentifierNode:
-		return []string{node.Ident}
-	case *parse.FieldNode:
-		return node.Ident
-	case *parse.ChainNode:
-		return node.Field
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-// ensurePipelineContains ensures that the pipeline has commands with
+// ensurePipelineContains ensures that the pipeline ends with the commands with
 // the identifiers in s in order.
-// If the pipeline already has some of the sanitizers, do not interfere.
-// For example, if p is (.X | html) and s is ["escapeJSVal", "html"] then it
-// has one matching, "html", and one to insert, "escapeJSVal", to produce
-// (.X | escapeJSVal | html).
 func ensurePipelineContains(p *parse.PipeNode, s []string) {
 	if len(s) == 0 {
+		// Do not rewrite pipeline if we have no escapers to insert.
 		return
 	}
-	n := len(p.Cmds)
-	// Find the identifiers at the end of the command chain.
-	idents := p.Cmds
-	for i := n - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
-		if cmd := p.Cmds[i]; len(cmd.Args) != 0 {
-			if _, ok := cmd.Args[0].(*parse.IdentifierNode); ok {
-				continue
-			}
-		}
-		idents = p.Cmds[i+1:]
-	}
-	dups := 0
-	for _, idNode := range idents {
-		for _, ident := range allIdents(idNode.Args[0]) {
-			if escFnsEq(s[dups], ident) {
-				dups++
-				if dups == len(s) {
-					return
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	newCmds := make([]*parse.CommandNode, n-len(idents), n+len(s)-dups)
+	// Rewrite the pipeline, creating the escapers in s at the end of the pipeline.
+	newCmds := make([]*parse.CommandNode, len(p.Cmds), len(p.Cmds)+len(s))
 	copy(newCmds, p.Cmds)
-	// Merge existing identifier commands with the sanitizers needed.
-	for _, idNode := range idents {
-		pos := idNode.Args[0].Position()
-		for _, ident := range allIdents(idNode.Args[0]) {
-			i := indexOfStr(ident, s, escFnsEq)
-			if i != -1 {
-				for _, name := range s[:i] {
-					newCmds = appendCmd(newCmds, newIdentCmd(name, pos))
-				}
-				s = s[i+1:]
-			}
-		}
-		newCmds = appendCmd(newCmds, idNode)
-	}
-	// Create any remaining sanitizers.
 	for _, name := range s {
 		newCmds = appendCmd(newCmds, newIdentCmd(name, p.Position()))
 	}
@@ -318,17 +287,6 @@ func indexOfStr(s string, strs []string, eq func(a, b string) bool) int {
 	return -1
 }
 
-// escFnsEq reports whether the two escaping functions are equivalent.
-func escFnsEq(a, b string) bool {
-	if e := equivEscapers[a]; e != "" {
-		a = e
-	}
-	if e := equivEscapers[b]; e != "" {
-		b = e
-	}
-	return a == b
-}
-
 // newIdentCmd produces a command containing a single identifier node.
 func newIdentCmd(identifier string, pos parse.Pos) *parse.CommandNode {
 	return &parse.CommandNode{

src/html/template/escape_test.go

@@ -69,17 +69,7 @@ func TestEscape(t *testing.T) {
 			"<Goodbye>!",
 		},
 		{
-			"overescaping1",
-			"Hello, {{.C | html}}!",
-			"Hello, <Cincinatti>!",
-		},
-		{
-			"overescaping2",
-			"Hello, {{html .C}}!",
-			"Hello, <Cincinatti>!",
-		},
-		{
-			"overescaping3",
+			"overescaping",
 			"{{with .C}}{{$msg := .}}Hello, {{$msg}}!{{end}}",
 			"Hello, <Cincinatti>!",
 		},
@@ -213,11 +203,6 @@ func TestEscape(t *testing.T) {
 			"<script>alert({{.A}})</script>",
 			`<script>alert(["\u003ca\u003e","\u003cb\u003e"])</script>`,
 		},
-		{
-			"jsObjValueNotOverEscaped",
-			"<button onclick='alert({{.A | html}})'>",
-			`<button onclick='alert([&#34;\u003ca\u003e&#34;,&#34;\u003cb\u003e&#34;])'>`,
-		},
 		{
 			"jsStr",
 			"<button onclick='alert(&quot;{{.H}}&quot;)'>",
@@ -233,12 +218,6 @@ func TestEscape(t *testing.T) {
 			`<button onclick='alert({{.M}})'>`,
 			`<button onclick='alert({&#34;\u003cfoo\u003e&#34;:&#34;O&#39;Reilly&#34;})'>`,
 		},
-		{
-			"jsStrNotUnderEscaped",
-			"<button onclick='alert({{.C | urlquery}})'>",
-			// URL escaped, then quoted for JS.
-			`<button onclick='alert(&#34;%3CCincinatti%3E&#34;)'>`,
-		},
 		{
 			"jsRe",
 			`<button onclick='alert(/{{"foo+bar"}}/.test(""))'>`,
@@ -970,8 +949,32 @@ func TestErrors(t *testing.T) {
 			`<a=foo>`,
 			`: expected space, attr name, or end of tag, but got "=foo>"`,
 		},
+		{
+			`Hello, {{. | html}}!`,
+			// Piping to html is disallowed.
+			`predefined escaper "html" disallowed in template`,
+		},
+		{
+			`Hello, {{. | html | print}}!`,
+			// html is disallowed, even if it is not the last command in the pipeline.
+			`predefined escaper "html" disallowed in template`,
+		},
+		{
+			`Hello, {{html .}}!`,
+			// Calling html is disallowed.
+			`predefined escaper "html" disallowed in template`,
+		},
+		{
+			`Hello, {{. | urlquery | html}}!`,
+			// urlquery is disallowed; first disallowed escaper in the pipeline is reported in error.
+			`predefined escaper "urlquery" disallowed in template`,
+		},
+		{
+			`<script>function do{{. | js}}() { return 1 }</script>`,
+			// js is disallowed.
+			`predefined escaper "js" disallowed in template`,
+		},
 	}
-
 	for _, test := range tests {
 		buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
 		tmpl, err := New("z").Parse(test.input)
@@ -1518,61 +1521,16 @@ func TestEnsurePipelineContains(t *testing.T) {
 			".X",
 			[]string{},
 		},
-		{
-			"{{.X | html}}",
-			".X | html",
-			[]string{},
-		},
 		{
 			"{{.X}}",
 			".X | html",
 			[]string{"html"},
 		},
-		{
-			"{{.X | html}}",
-			".X | html | urlquery",
-			[]string{"urlquery"},
-		},
-		{
-			"{{.X | html | urlquery}}",
-			".X | html | urlquery",
-			[]string{"urlquery"},
-		},
-		{
-			"{{.X | html | urlquery}}",
-			".X | html | urlquery",
-			[]string{"html", "urlquery"},
-		},
-		{
-			"{{.X | html | urlquery}}",
-			".X | html | urlquery",
-			[]string{"html"},
-		},
-		{
-			"{{.X | urlquery}}",
-			".X | html | urlquery",
-			[]string{"html", "urlquery"},
-		},
-		{
-			"{{.X | html | print}}",
-			".X | urlquery | html | print",
-			[]string{"urlquery", "html"},
-		},
-		{
-			"{{($).X | html | print}}",
-			"($).X | urlquery | html | print",
-			[]string{"urlquery", "html"},
-		},
 		{
 			"{{.X | print 2 | .f 3}}",
 			".X | print 2 | .f 3 | urlquery | html",
 			[]string{"urlquery", "html"},
 		},
-		{
-			"{{.X | html | print 2 | .f 3}}",
-			".X | urlquery | html | print 2 | .f 3",
-			[]string{"urlquery", "html"},
-		},
 		{
 			// covering issue 10801
 			"{{.X | js.x }}",
@@ -1605,11 +1563,7 @@ func TestEnsurePipelineContains(t *testing.T) {
 func TestEscapeMalformedPipelines(t *testing.T) {
 	tests := []string{
 		"{{ 0 | $ }}",
-		"{{ 0 | $ | urlquery }}",
-		"{{ 0 | $ | urlquery | html }}",
 		"{{ 0 | (nil) }}",
-		"{{ 0 | (nil) | html }}",
-		"{{ 0 | (nil) | html | urlquery }}",
 	}
 	for _, test := range tests {
 		var b bytes.Buffer