path: root/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/CVE-2025-6075.patch

From 892747b4cf0f95ba8beb51c0d0658bfaa381ebca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:51:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gh-136065: Fix quadratic complexity in os.path.expandvars()
 (GH-134952) (GH-140851)

(cherry picked from commit f029e8db626ddc6e3a3beea4eff511a71aaceb5c)

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>

CVE: CVE-2025-6075

Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/892747b4cf0f95ba8beb51c0d0658bfaa381ebca]

Signed-off-by: Praveen Kumar <praveen.kumar@windriver.com>
---
 Lib/ntpath.py                                 | 126 ++++++------------
 Lib/posixpath.py                              |  43 +++---
 Lib/test/test_genericpath.py                  |  14 ++
 Lib/test/test_ntpath.py                       |  20 ++-
 ...-05-30-22-33-27.gh-issue-136065.bu337o.rst |   1 +
 5 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 111 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2025-05-30-22-33-27.gh-issue-136065.bu337o.rst

diff --git a/Lib/ntpath.py b/Lib/ntpath.py
index 9b0cca4..bd2b4e2 100644
--- a/Lib/ntpath.py
+++ b/Lib/ntpath.py
@@ -374,17 +374,23 @@ def expanduser(path):
 # XXX With COMMAND.COM you can use any characters in a variable name,
 # XXX except '^|<>='.

+_varpattern = r"'[^']*'?|%(%|[^%]*%?)|\$(\$|[-\w]+|\{[^}]*\}?)"
+_varsub = None
+_varsubb = None
+
 def expandvars(path):
     """Expand shell variables of the forms $var, ${var} and %var%.

     Unknown variables are left unchanged."""
     path = os.fspath(path)
+    global _varsub, _varsubb
     if isinstance(path, bytes):
         if b'$' not in path and b'%' not in path:
             return path
-        import string
-        varchars = bytes(string.ascii_letters + string.digits + '_-', 'ascii')
-        quote = b'\''
+        if not _varsubb:
+            import re
+            _varsubb = re.compile(_varpattern.encode(), re.ASCII).sub
+        sub = _varsubb
         percent = b'%'
         brace = b'{'
         rbrace = b'}'
@@ -393,94 +399,44 @@ def expandvars(path):
     else:
         if '$' not in path and '%' not in path:
             return path
-        import string
-        varchars = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + '_-'
-        quote = '\''
+        if not _varsub:
+            import re
+            _varsub = re.compile(_varpattern, re.ASCII).sub
+        sub = _varsub
         percent = '%'
         brace = '{'
         rbrace = '}'
         dollar = '$'
         environ = os.environ
-    res = path[:0]
-    index = 0
-    pathlen = len(path)
-    while index < pathlen:
-        c = path[index:index+1]
-        if c == quote:   # no expansion within single quotes
-            path = path[index + 1:]
-            pathlen = len(path)
-            try:
-                index = path.index(c)
-                res += c + path[:index + 1]
-            except ValueError:
-                res += c + path
-                index = pathlen - 1
-        elif c == percent:  # variable or '%'
-            if path[index + 1:index + 2] == percent:
-                res += c
-                index += 1
-            else:
-                path = path[index+1:]
-                pathlen = len(path)
-                try:
-                    index = path.index(percent)
-                except ValueError:
-                    res += percent + path
-                    index = pathlen - 1
-                else:
-                    var = path[:index]
-                    try:
-                        if environ is None:
-                            value = os.fsencode(os.environ[os.fsdecode(var)])
-                        else:
-                            value = environ[var]
-                    except KeyError:
-                        value = percent + var + percent
-                    res += value
-        elif c == dollar:  # variable or '$$'
-            if path[index + 1:index + 2] == dollar:
-                res += c
-                index += 1
-            elif path[index + 1:index + 2] == brace:
-                path = path[index+2:]
-                pathlen = len(path)
-                try:
-                    index = path.index(rbrace)
-                except ValueError:
-                    res += dollar + brace + path
-                    index = pathlen - 1
-                else:
-                    var = path[:index]
-                    try:
-                        if environ is None:
-                            value = os.fsencode(os.environ[os.fsdecode(var)])
-                        else:
-                            value = environ[var]
-                    except KeyError:
-                        value = dollar + brace + var + rbrace
-                    res += value
-            else:
-                var = path[:0]
-                index += 1
-                c = path[index:index + 1]
-                while c and c in varchars:
-                    var += c
-                    index += 1
-                    c = path[index:index + 1]
-                try:
-                    if environ is None:
-                        value = os.fsencode(os.environ[os.fsdecode(var)])
-                    else:
-                        value = environ[var]
-                except KeyError:
-                    value = dollar + var
-                res += value
-                if c:
-                    index -= 1
+
+    def repl(m):
+        lastindex = m.lastindex
+        if lastindex is None:
+            return m[0]
+        name = m[lastindex]
+        if lastindex == 1:
+            if name == percent:
+                return name
+            if not name.endswith(percent):
+                return m[0]
+            name = name[:-1]
         else:
-            res += c
-        index += 1
-    return res
+            if name == dollar:
+                return name
+            if name.startswith(brace):
+                if not name.endswith(rbrace):
+                    return m[0]
+                name = name[1:-1]
+
+        try:
+            if environ is None:
+                return os.fsencode(os.environ[os.fsdecode(name)])
+            else:
+                return environ[name]
+        except KeyError:
+            return m[0]
+
+    return sub(repl, path)


 # Normalize a path, e.g. A//B, A/./B and A/foo/../B all become A\B.
diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index b8dd563..75020ee 100644
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -279,42 +279,41 @@ def expanduser(path):
 # This expands the forms $variable and ${variable} only.
 # Non-existent variables are left unchanged.

-_varprog = None
-_varprogb = None
+_varpattern = r'\$(\w+|\{[^}]*\}?)'
+_varsub = None
+_varsubb = None

 def expandvars(path):
     """Expand shell variables of form $var and ${var}.  Unknown variables
     are left unchanged."""
     path = os.fspath(path)
-    global _varprog, _varprogb
+    global _varsub, _varsubb
     if isinstance(path, bytes):
         if b'$' not in path:
             return path
-        if not _varprogb:
+        if not _varsubb:
             import re
-            _varprogb = re.compile(br'\$(\w+|\{[^}]*\})', re.ASCII)
-        search = _varprogb.search
+            _varsubb = re.compile(_varpattern.encode(), re.ASCII).sub
+        sub = _varsubb
         start = b'{'
         end = b'}'
         environ = getattr(os, 'environb', None)
     else:
         if '$' not in path:
             return path
-        if not _varprog:
+        if not _varsub:
             import re
-            _varprog = re.compile(r'\$(\w+|\{[^}]*\})', re.ASCII)
-        search = _varprog.search
+            _varsub = re.compile(_varpattern, re.ASCII).sub
+        sub = _varsub
         start = '{'
         end = '}'
         environ = os.environ
-    i = 0
-    while True:
-        m = search(path, i)
-        if not m:
-            break
-        i, j = m.span(0)
-        name = m.group(1)
-        if name.startswith(start) and name.endswith(end):
+
+    def repl(m):
+        name = m[1]
+        if name.startswith(start):
+            if not name.endswith(end):
+                return m[0]
             name = name[1:-1]
         try:
             if environ is None:
@@ -322,13 +321,11 @@ def expandvars(path):
             else:
                 value = environ[name]
         except KeyError:
-            i = j
+            return m[0]
         else:
-            tail = path[j:]
-            path = path[:i] + value
-            i = len(path)
-            path += tail
-    return path
+            return value
+
+    return sub(repl, path)


 # Normalize a path, e.g. A//B, A/./B and A/foo/../B all become A/B.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_genericpath.py b/Lib/test/test_genericpath.py
index 1ff7f75..b0a1326 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_genericpath.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_genericpath.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 import unittest
 import warnings
+from test import support
 from test.support import os_helper
 from test.support import warnings_helper
 from test.support.script_helper import assert_python_ok
@@ -430,6 +431,19 @@ class CommonTest(GenericTest):
                   os.fsencode('$bar%s bar' % nonascii))
             check(b'$spam}bar', os.fsencode('%s}bar' % nonascii))

+    @support.requires_resource('cpu')
+    def test_expandvars_large(self):
+        expandvars = self.pathmodule.expandvars
+        with os_helper.EnvironmentVarGuard() as env:
+            env.clear()
+            env["A"] = "B"
+            n = 100_000
+            self.assertEqual(expandvars('$A'*n), 'B'*n)
+            self.assertEqual(expandvars('${A}'*n), 'B'*n)
+            self.assertEqual(expandvars('$A!'*n), 'B!'*n)
+            self.assertEqual(expandvars('${A}A'*n), 'BA'*n)
+            self.assertEqual(expandvars('${'*10*n), '${'*10*n)
+
     def test_abspath(self):
         self.assertIn("foo", self.pathmodule.abspath("foo"))
         with warnings.catch_warnings():
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ntpath.py b/Lib/test/test_ntpath.py
index f790f77..161e57d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ntpath.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ntpath.py
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ import sys
 import unittest
 import warnings
 from ntpath import ALLOW_MISSING
+from test import support
 from test.support import os_helper
-from test.support import TestFailed
 from test.support.os_helper import FakePath
 from test import test_genericpath
 from tempfile import TemporaryFile
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ def tester(fn, wantResult):
     fn = fn.replace("\\", "\\\\")
     gotResult = eval(fn)
     if wantResult != gotResult and _norm(wantResult) != _norm(gotResult):
-        raise TestFailed("%s should return: %s but returned: %s" \
+        raise support.TestFailed("%s should return: %s but returned: %s" \
               %(str(fn), str(wantResult), str(gotResult)))

     # then with bytes
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def tester(fn, wantResult):
         warnings.simplefilter("ignore", DeprecationWarning)
         gotResult = eval(fn)
     if _norm(wantResult) != _norm(gotResult):
-        raise TestFailed("%s should return: %s but returned: %s" \
+        raise support.TestFailed("%s should return: %s but returned: %s" \
               %(str(fn), str(wantResult), repr(gotResult)))


@@ -689,6 +689,19 @@ class TestNtpath(NtpathTestCase):
             check('%spam%bar', '%sbar' % nonascii)
             check('%{}%bar'.format(nonascii), 'ham%sbar' % nonascii)

+    @support.requires_resource('cpu')
+    def test_expandvars_large(self):
+        expandvars = ntpath.expandvars
+        with os_helper.EnvironmentVarGuard() as env:
+            env.clear()
+            env["A"] = "B"
+            n = 100_000
+            self.assertEqual(expandvars('%A%'*n), 'B'*n)
+            self.assertEqual(expandvars('%A%A'*n), 'BA'*n)
+            self.assertEqual(expandvars("''"*n + '%%'), "''"*n + '%')
+            self.assertEqual(expandvars("%%"*n), "%"*n)
+            self.assertEqual(expandvars("$$"*n), "$"*n)
+
     def test_expanduser(self):
         tester('ntpath.expanduser("test")', 'test')

@@ -923,6 +936,7 @@ class TestNtpath(NtpathTestCase):
             self.assertIsInstance(b_final_path, bytes)
             self.assertGreater(len(b_final_path), 0)

+
 class NtCommonTest(test_genericpath.CommonTest, unittest.TestCase):
     pathmodule = ntpath
     attributes = ['relpath']
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2025-05-30-22-33-27.gh-issue-136065.bu337o.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2025-05-30-22-33-27.gh-issue-136065.bu337o.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d152bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2025-05-30-22-33-27.gh-issue-136065.bu337o.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix quadratic complexity in :func:`os.path.expandvars`.
--
2.40.0