Address LDAP issues (#22249)

changelog/22249.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+```release-note:bug
+sdk/ldaputil: Properly escape user filters when using UPN domains
+sdk/ldaputil: use EscapeLDAPValue implementation from cap/ldap
+```

sdk/helper/ldaputil/client.go

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"crypto/tls"
 	"crypto/x509"
 	"encoding/binary"
+	"encoding/hex"
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
 	"net"
@@ -227,7 +228,11 @@ func (c *Client) RenderUserSearchFilter(cfg *ConfigEntry, username string) (stri
 	}
 	if cfg.UPNDomain != "" {
 		context.UserAttr = "userPrincipalName"
-		context.Username = fmt.Sprintf("%s@%s", EscapeLDAPValue(username), cfg.UPNDomain)
+		// Intentionally, calling EscapeFilter(...) (vs EscapeValue) since the
+		// username is being injected into a search filter.
+		// As an untrusted string, the username must be escaped according to RFC
+		// 4515, in order to prevent attackers from injecting characters that could modify the filter
+		context.Username = fmt.Sprintf("%s@%s", ldap.EscapeFilter(username), cfg.UPNDomain)
 	}
 
 	// Execute the template. Note that the template context contains escaped input and does
@@ -595,42 +600,59 @@ func (c *Client) GetLdapGroups(cfg *ConfigEntry, conn Connection, userDN string,
 }
 
 // EscapeLDAPValue is exported because a plugin uses it outside this package.
+// EscapeLDAPValue will properly escape the input string as an ldap value
+// rfc4514 states the following must be escaped:
+// - leading space or hash
+// - trailing space
+// - special characters '"', '+', ',', ';', '<', '>', '\\'
+// - hex
 func EscapeLDAPValue(input string) string {
 	if input == "" {
 		return ""
 	}
 
-	// RFC4514 forbids un-escaped:
-	// - leading space or hash
-	// - trailing space
-	// - special characters '"', '+', ',', ';', '<', '>', '\\'
-	// - null
-	for i := 0; i < len(input); i++ {
-		escaped := false
-		if input[i] == '\\' && i+1 < len(input)-1 {
-			i++
-			escaped = true
-		}
-		switch input[i] {
-		case '"', '+', ',', ';', '<', '>', '\\':
-			if !escaped {
-				input = input[0:i] + "\\" + input[i:]
-				i++
+	buf := bytes.Buffer{}
+
+	escFn := func(c byte) {
+		buf.WriteByte('\\')
+		buf.WriteByte(c)
 	}
+
+	inputLen := len(input)
+	for i := 0; i < inputLen; i++ {
+		char := input[i]
+		switch {
+		case i == 0 && char == ' ' || char == '#':
+			// leading space or hash.
+			escFn(char)
 			continue
-		}
-		if escaped {
-			input = input[0:i] + "\\" + input[i:]
-			i++
+		case i == inputLen-1 && char == ' ':
+			// trailing space.
+			escFn(char)
+			continue
+		case specialChar(char):
+			escFn(char)
+			continue
+		case char < ' ' || char > '~':
+			// anything that's not between the ascii space and tilde must be hex
+			buf.WriteByte('\\')
+			buf.WriteString(hex.EncodeToString([]byte{char}))
+			continue
+		default:
+			// everything remaining, doesn't need to be escaped
+			buf.WriteByte(char)
 		}
 	}
-	if input[0] == ' ' || input[0] == '#' {
-		input = "\\" + input
+	return buf.String()
 }
-	if input[len(input)-1] == ' ' {
-		input = input[0:len(input)-1] + "\\ "
+
+func specialChar(char byte) bool {
+	switch char {
+	case '"', '+', ',', ';', '<', '>', '\\':
+		return true
+	default:
+		return false
 	}
-	return input
 }
 
 /*

sdk/helper/ldaputil/client_test.go

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/hashicorp/go-hclog"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
 // TestDialLDAP duplicates a potential panic that was
@@ -35,9 +37,14 @@ func TestLDAPEscape(t *testing.T) {
 		"test\\hello":                "test\\\\hello",
 		"  test  ":                   "\\  test \\ ",
 		"":                           "",
-		"\\test":      "\\\\test",
-		"test\\":      "test\\\\",
-		"test\\ ":     "test\\\\\\ ",
+		`\`:                          `\\`,
+		"trailing\000":               `trailing\00`,
+		"mid\000dle":                 `mid\00dle`,
+		"\000":                       `\00`,
+		"multiple\000\000":           `multiple\00\00`,
+		"backlash-before-null\\\000": `backlash-before-null\\\00`,
+		"trailing\\":                 `trailing\\`,
+		"double-escaping\\>":         `double-escaping\\\>`,
 	}
 
 	for test, answer := range testcases {
@@ -88,3 +95,58 @@ func TestSIDBytesToString(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestClient_renderUserSearchFilter(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	tests := []struct {
+		name        string
+		conf        *ConfigEntry
+		username    string
+		want        string
+		errContains string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:     "valid-default",
+			username: "alice",
+			conf: &ConfigEntry{
+				UserAttr: "cn",
+			},
+			want: "(cn=alice)",
+		},
+		{
+			name:     "escaped-malicious-filter",
+			username: "foo@example.com)((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((userPrincipalName=foo",
+			conf: &ConfigEntry{
+				UPNDomain:  "example.com",
+				UserFilter: "(&({{.UserAttr}}={{.Username}})({{.UserAttr}}=admin@example.com))",
+			},
+			want: "(&(userPrincipalName=foo@example.com\\29\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28\\28userPrincipalName=foo@example.com)(userPrincipalName=admin@example.com))",
+		},
+		{
+			name:     "bad-filter-unclosed-action",
+			username: "alice",
+			conf: &ConfigEntry{
+				UserFilter: "hello{{range",
+			},
+			errContains: "search failed due to template compilation error",
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range tests {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			c := Client{
+				Logger: hclog.NewNullLogger(),
+				LDAP:   NewLDAP(),
+			}
+
+			f, err := c.RenderUserSearchFilter(tc.conf, tc.username)
+			if tc.errContains != "" {
+				require.Error(t, err)
+				assert.ErrorContains(t, err, tc.errContains)
+				return
+			}
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			assert.NotEmpty(t, f)
+			assert.Equal(t, tc.want, f)
+		})
+	}
+}