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Packiaraj Sakkanan commented on TIKA-3466:
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The problem here is that this sample file is rendered in browser as XHTML;.
i.e., script is executed in browser successfully. I tested in chrome & FF. (Not
sure if its expected or bug in browser)
This sort of file can be used to work around upload/download file type
validation put in the application; since ‘application/xml' is valid type for
many applications, tika based file type validation cannot block this type of
malicious content.
So, security is the concern / justification
If matching with different types of nodes is an issue, is it possible to check
the namespace alone to find if the document is xhtml or xml ( Perhaps xhtml
check criteria should match with browser criteria for security reason)
> Cannot detect mimetype of xhtml file when script is first node instead of html
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>
> Key: TIKA-3466
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-3466
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: detector, mime
> Affects Versions: 1.27
> Reporter: Packiaraj Sakkanan
> Priority: Major
>
> mime-type of below xhtml file deduced as 'application/xml' instead of
> 'application/xhtml+xml'
> {code:java}
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <script xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";><![CDATA[
> alert(555);
> ]]></script>
> {code}
>
> one possible solution is to add 'script' in tika-mimetypes.xml, like
> {code:java}
> <mime-type type="application/xhtml+xml">
> <!-- The magic priority for xhtml+xml needs to be lower than that of -->
> <!-- files that contain HTML within them, e.g. mime emails -->
> <magic priority="40">
> <match value="<html xmlns=" type="string" offset="0:8192"/>
> </magic>
> <root-XML namespaceURI="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; localName="html"/>
> <root-XML namespaceURI="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; localName="script"/>
> <glob pattern="*.xhtml"/>
> <glob pattern="*.xht"/>
> </mime-type>
> {code}
>
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