Bug #87917
closedBot manipulated form fields lead to exception
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Description
Hello,
I found out that if you manipulate the hidden fields of a form, typo3 raises an error. Error message is "Uncaught TYPO3 Exception: #1320830276: A hashed string must contain at least 40 characters, the given string was only 6 characters long. | TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Security\Exception\InvalidArgumentForHashGenerationException thrown in file ......../htdocs/typo3_src-8.7.24/typo3/sysext/extbase/Classes/Security/Cryptography/HashService.php in line 90" or "Uncaught TYPO3 Exception: #1320830018: The given string was not appended with a valid HMAC. TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Security\Exception\InvalidHashException thrown in file| ......./htdocs/typo3_src-8.7.24/typo3/sysext/extbase/Classes/Security/Cryptography/HashService.php in line 94".
If a bot or user manipulates for example the hidden trustedproperties field "name="tx_vayoga_contact[__trustedProperties]" or "name="tx_vayoga_contact[__referrer][@request]".
In my opinion the exception should be checked before. For example if the string is long enough or can be hmac parsed. But to be honest it spams the protocol. You cannot focus on the real issues.
What you think about it?
Kind regards,
Harald
Updated by Georg Ringer over 5 years ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
Thanks for creating the issue. We don't see this is problem as the exception is correct, the request must fail if the hmac is wrong.
If you have too many issues like that, try to block the bot in your firewall, waf or htaccess.
Updated by Daxboeck no-lastname-given over 5 years ago
- Target version set to next-patchlevel
- TYPO3 Version changed from 8 to 9
Dear Georg Ringer,
I strongly disagree !
It is annoying to have the error log flooded with HMAC "errors".
Any URL sent by external sources must never result in "errors" at all because this is no system and no internal plugin error.
The purpose of "errors" in the log is to detect bugs in the system itself and to be able to fix them.
It cannot be the purpose to have something in the error log, which you cannot avoid by fixing extensions.
If you think that all these HMAC errors should be reported somewhere, then they belong to a separate log file which preferably could be read by tools like "denyhosts" and then can be used to automatically block the source.
The current solution which floods the log of larger TYPO3 systems like ours is simply idiotic.
Best regards,
Patrick
Updated by Christian Eßl about 5 years ago
I think that throwing an exception in this case (that is logged) isn't the best solution.
What do you think about returning a status code 400 - BAD REQUEST in this case?
Updated by Christian Eßl almost 5 years ago
- Related to Feature #90134: Send 400 - BAD REQUEST on invalid hmacs from extbase forms added
Updated by Peter Linzenkirchner over 4 years ago
I strongly support the suggestion of Christian returning a Bad Request instead of an exception.
My reasons:
- the log is really flooded with these exceptions
- in the error log i cant find the IP of the bot so it is quite difficult to search the IP in the server logs for every single error log entry in order to block it.
- i cant see a possiblity to automate this process: exception -> looking for IP -> adding to blacklist of server side spam filter ...
Thanks
Updated by Thomas Sam Wittich almost 4 years ago
Same issue here.
Don't understand why some insist it's correct thowing the exception.
Please understand that the suggested solution to block the "requesting bots" is not a real solution: Had random IP accessing the form, Tokyo, Montreal, Kopenhagen, so... no single rule will match.
How to suppress this message?
Can we please fix this?
Thank you, Thomas
Updated by Torben Hansen almost 4 years ago
- Related to Bug #93667: Disable logging of invalid requests due to manipulated form submissions added
Updated by l j over 3 years ago
- TYPO3 Version changed from 9 to 8
The bug is still not fixed. I have 30 log entries per day.
Dear developers, are you planning a fix?
Updated by Torben Hansen over 3 years ago
You changed the TYPO3 version from 9 to 8. Does that mean, that you experience the bug in TYPO3 8.7?
Updated by Rozbeh Chiryai Sharahi about 3 years ago
Hello,
in case someone comes from google and has a controller with a form integrated:
It is possible to catch the exception and render for instance a 404 instead:
// This code goes into your controller
public function processRequest(RequestInterface $request, ResponseInterface $response)
{
try {
parent::processRequest($request, $response);
} catch (Throwable $exception) {
// Sometimes bots edit the trusted properties
// In that case we get an HMAC error
// Here we catch it
if(strpos($exception->getMessage(), 'The HMAC') === 0) {
$this->render404Page();
}
throw $exception;
}
}
public function render404Page(): void
{
throw new ImmediateResponseException(
$GLOBALS['TYPO3_REQUEST']
->getAttribute('site')
->getErrorHandler(404)
->handlePageError($GLOBALS['TYPO3_REQUEST'], 'Some bot attack'));
}
Kind regards
Rozbeh Chiryai Sharahi