Input validation and representation problems ares caused by metacharacters, alternate encodings and numeric representations. Security problems result from trusting input. The issues include: "Buffer Overflows," "Cross-Site Scripting" attacks, "SQL Injection," and many others.
username and password to the JSON file located at C:\user_info.json:
...
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sb);
using (JsonWriter writer = new JsonTextWriter(sw))
{
writer.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
writer.WriteStartObject();
writer.WritePropertyName("role");
writer.WriteRawValue("\"default\"");
writer.WritePropertyName("username");
writer.WriteRawValue("\"" + username + "\"");
writer.WritePropertyName("password");
writer.WriteRawValue("\"" + password + "\"");
writer.WriteEndObject();
}
File.WriteAllText(@"C:\user_info.json", sb.ToString());
JsonWriter.WriteRawValue(), the untrusted data in username and password will not be validated to escape JSON-related special characters. This allows a user to arbitrarily insert JSON keys, possibly changing the structure of the serialized JSON. In this example, if the non-privileged user mallory with password Evil123! were to append ","role":"admin to her username when entering it at the prompt that sets the value of the username variable, the resulting JSON saved to C:\user_info.json would be:
{
"role":"default",
"username":"mallory",
"role":"admin",
"password":"Evil123!"
}
Dictionary object with JsonConvert.DeserializeObject() as so:
String jsonString = File.ReadAllText(@"C:\user_info.json");
Dictionary<string, string> userInfo = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, strin>>(jsonString);
username, password, and role keys in the Dictionary object would be mallory, Evil123!, and admin respectively. Without further verification that the deserialized JSON values are valid, the application will incorrectly assign user mallory "admin" privileges.username and password to the JSON file located at ~/user_info.json:
...
func someHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request){
r.parseForm()
username := r.FormValue("username")
password := r.FormValue("password")
...
jsonString := `{
"username":"` + username + `",
"role":"default"
"password":"` + password + `",
}`
...
f, err := os.Create("~/user_info.json")
defer f.Close()
jsonEncoder := json.NewEncoder(f)
jsonEncoder.Encode(jsonString)
}
username and password is not validated to escape JSON-related special characters. This allows a user to arbitrarily insert JSON keys, which can possibly change the serialized JSON structure. In this example, if the non-privileged user mallory with password Evil123! appended ","role":"admin when she entered her username, the resulting JSON saved to ~/user_info.json would be:
{
"username":"mallory",
"role":"default",
"password":"Evil123!",
"role":"admin"
}
mallory "admin" privileges.username and password to the JSON file located at ~/user_info.json:
...
JsonFactory jfactory = new JsonFactory();
JsonGenerator jGenerator = jfactory.createJsonGenerator(new File("~/user_info.json"), JsonEncoding.UTF8);
jGenerator.writeStartObject();
jGenerator.writeFieldName("username");
jGenerator.writeRawValue("\"" + username + "\"");
jGenerator.writeFieldName("password");
jGenerator.writeRawValue("\"" + password + "\"");
jGenerator.writeFieldName("role");
jGenerator.writeRawValue("\"default\"");
jGenerator.writeEndObject();
jGenerator.close();
JsonGenerator.writeRawValue(), the untrusted data in username and password will not be validated to escape JSON-related special characters. This allows a user to arbitrarily insert JSON keys, possibly changing the structure of the serialized JSON. In this example, if the non-privileged user mallory with password Evil123! were to append ","role":"admin to her username when entering it at the prompt that sets the value of the username variable, the resulting JSON saved to ~/user_info.json would be:
{
"username":"mallory",
"role":"admin",
"password":"Evil123!",
"role":"default"
}
HashMap object with Jackson's JsonParser as so:
JsonParser jParser = jfactory.createJsonParser(new File("~/user_info.json"));
while (jParser.nextToken() != JsonToken.END_OBJECT) {
String fieldname = jParser.getCurrentName();
if ("username".equals(fieldname)) {
jParser.nextToken();
userInfo.put(fieldname, jParser.getText());
}
if ("password".equals(fieldname)) {
jParser.nextToken();
userInfo.put(fieldname, jParser.getText());
}
if ("role".equals(fieldname)) {
jParser.nextToken();
userInfo.put(fieldname, jParser.getText());
}
if (userInfo.size() == 3)
break;
}
jParser.close();
username, password, and role keys in the HashMap object would be mallory, Evil123!, and admin respectively. Without further verification that the deserialized JSON values are valid, the application will incorrectly assign user mallory "admin" privileges.
var str = document.URL;
var url_check = str.indexOf('name=');
var name = null;
if (url_check > -1) {
name = decodeURIComponent(str.substring((url_check+5), str.length));
}
$(document).ready(function(){
if (name !== null){
var obj = jQuery.parseJSON('{"role": "user", "name" : "' + name + '"}');
...
}
...
});
name will not be validated to escape JSON-related special characters. This allows a user to arbitrarily insert JSON keys, possibly changing the structure of the serialized JSON. In this example, if the non-privileged user mallory were to append ","role":"admin to the name parameter in the URL, the JSON would become:
{
"role":"user",
"username":"mallory",
"role":"admin"
}
jQuery.parseJSON() and set to a plain object, meaning that obj.role would now return "admin" instead of "user"_usernameField and _passwordField:
...
NSString * const jsonString = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"{\"username\":\"%@\",\"password\":\"%@\",\"role\":\"default\"}" _usernameField.text, _passwordField.text];
NSString.stringWithFormat:, the untrusted data in _usernameField and _passwordField will not be validated to escape JSON-related special characters. This allows a user to arbitrarily insert JSON keys, possibly changing the structure of the serialized JSON. In this example, if the non-privileged user mallory with password Evil123! were to append ","role":"admin to her username when entering it into the _usernameField field, the resulting JSON would be:
{
"username":"mallory",
"role":"admin",
"password":"Evil123!",
"role":"default"
}
NSDictionary object with NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData: as so:
NSError *error;
NSDictionary *jsonData = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:[jsonString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] options:NSJSONReadingAllowFragments error:&error];
username, password, and role in the NSDictionary object would be mallory, Evil123!, and admin respectively. Without further verification that the deserialized JSON values are valid, the application will incorrectly assign user mallory "admin" privileges.
import json
import requests
from urllib.parse import urlparse
from urllib.parse import parse_qs
url = 'https://www.example.com/some_path?name=some_value'
parsed_url = urlparse(url)
untrusted_values = parse_qs(parsed_url.query)['name'][0]
with open('data.json', 'r') as json_File:
data = json.load(json_File)
data['name']= untrusted_values
with open('data.json', 'w') as json_File:
json.dump(data, json_File)
...
name will not be validated to escape JSON-related special characters. This allows a user to arbitrarily insert JSON keys, possibly changing the structure of the serialized JSON. In this example, if the non-privileged user mallory were to append ","role":"admin to the name parameter in the URL, the JSON would become:
{
"role":"user",
"username":"mallory",
"role":"admin"
}
usernameField and passwordField:
...
let jsonString : String = "{\"username\":\"\(usernameField.text)\",\"password\":\"\(passwordField.text)\",\"role\":\"default\"}"
usernameField and passwordField will not be validated to escape JSON-related special characters. This allows a user to arbitrarily insert JSON keys, possibly changing the structure of the serialized JSON. In this example, if the non-privileged user mallory with password Evil123! were to append ","role":"admin to her username when entering it into the usernameField field, the resulting JSON would be:
{
"username":"mallory",
"role":"admin",
"password":"Evil123!",
"role":"default"
}
NSDictionary object with NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData: as so:
var error: NSError?
var jsonData : NSDictionary = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(jsonString.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding), options: NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers, error: &error) as NSDictionary
username, password, and role in the NSDictionary object would be mallory, Evil123!, and admin respectively. Without further verification that the deserialized JSON values are valid, the application will incorrectly assign user mallory "admin" privileges.