moresandeep commented on a change in pull request #70: KNOX-1817 - Fix XSS
issues with Alias API
URL: https://github.com/apache/knox/pull/70#discussion_r264946801
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File path:
gateway-service-admin/src/main/java/org/apache/knox/gateway/service/admin/AliasResource.java
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@@ -100,15 +105,20 @@ public Response postAlias(@PathParam("topology") final
String topology,
final AliasService as = getAliasService();
try {
+ /* check if the string is properly encoded and expect encoded values */
+ topology = URLDecoder.decode(topology, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
+ alias = URLDecoder.decode(alias, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
+ value = URLDecoder.decode(value, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
Review comment:
Ahh, I see, righto, I thought I was doing it wrong by not decoding it and
including the 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' but I was wrong.
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