serving files using django - is this a security vulnerability
- by Tom Tom
I'm using the following code to serve uploaded files from a login secured view in a django app.
Do you think that there is a security vulnerability in this code? I'm a bit concerned about that the user could place arbitrary strings in the url after the upload/ and this is directly mapped to the local filesystem.
Actually I don't think that it is a vulnerability issue, since the access to the filesystem is restricted to the files in the folder defined with the UPLOAD_LOCATION setting.
UPLOAD_LOCATION = is set to a not publicly available folder on the webserver
url(r'^upload/(?P<file_url>[/,.,\s,_,\-,\w]+)', 'aeon_infrastructure.views.serve_upload_files', name='project_detail'),
@login_required
def serve_upload_files(request, file_url):
import os.path
import mimetypes
mimetypes.init()
try:
file_path = settings.UPLOAD_LOCATION + '/' + file_url
fsock = open(file_path,"r")
file_name = os.path.basename(file_path)
file_size = os.path.getsize(file_path)
print "file size is: " + str(file_size)
mime_type_guess = mimetypes.guess_type(file_name)
if mime_type_guess is not None:
response = HttpResponse(fsock, mimetype=mime_type_guess[0])
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=' + file_name
#response.write(file)
except IOError:
response = HttpResponseNotFound()
return response
