GHSA-5gjg-jgh4-gppm

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Websocket requests did not call AuthenticateMethod

view advisory published 2021-06-23Licence: CC-BY-4.0

### Impact Depending on implementation, a denial-of-service or privilege escalation vulnerability may occur in software that uses the `github.com/ecnepsnai/web` package with Web Sockets that have an AuthenticateMethod. The `AuthenticateMethod` is not called, and `UserData` will be nil in request methods. Attempts to read the `UserData` may result in a panic. This issue only affects web sockets where an `AuthenticateMethod` is supplied to the handle options. Users who do not use web sockets, or users who do not require authentication are not at risk. #### Example In the example below, one would expect that the `AuthenticateMethod` function would be called for each request to `/example` ```go handleOptions := web.HandleOptions{ AuthenticateMethod: func(request *http.Request) interface{} { // Assume there is logic here to check for an active sessions, look at cookies or headers, etc... var session Session{} // Example return session }, } server.Socket("/example", handle, handleOptions) ``` However, the method is not called, and therefor the `UserData` parameter of the request object in the handle will be nil, when it would have been expected to be the `session` object we returned. ### Patches Release v1.5.2 fixes this vulnerability. The authenticate method is now called for websocket requests. All users of the web package should update to v1.5.2 or later. ### Workarounds You may work around this issue by making the authenticate method a named function, then calling that function at the start of the handle method for the websocket. Reject connections when the return value of the method is nil.

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CVE-2021-4236UScritical9.8—
Web Sockets do not execute any AuthenticateMethod methods which may be set, leading to a nil pointer dereference if the returned UserData pointer is assumed to be non-nil, or authe…
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