[pmg-devel] applied: [PATCH pmg-api master v1] pmgproxy: fix matching against potentially uninitialized value $ticket

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Thanks for getting to this so quickly!

applied the patch after quickly verifying it works as advertised.


On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:39:17 +0200
"Max R. Carrara" <m.carrara at proxmox.com> wrote:

> `$ticket` here is undef if a non-empty `Cookie` header is included in
> the request, but `PMGAuthCookie` isn't actually set.
> `extract_auth_value()` returns undef, because the match fails.
> 
> Therefore, check for definedness before matching on `$ticket`.
> 
> Additional Context:
> Ran into this during testing; as it didn't appear for all VMs, I
> figured that some of the VMs' IP addresses belonged to other VMs
> previously. After digging a little in the Firefox dev tools, it turned
> out that `PVEAuthCookie` is actually sent as well, confirming my
> suspicion.
> 
> Can easily be reproduced via:
> `curl -k -H 'Cookie: Foo=bar' https://$HOSTNAME:8006/`
> 
> Signed-off-by: Max R. Carrara <m.carrara at proxmox.com>
> ---
>  src/PMG/Service/pmgproxy.pm | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/PMG/Service/pmgproxy.pm b/src/PMG/Service/pmgproxy.pm
> index c92a3f3..de7a6c5 100644
> --- a/src/PMG/Service/pmgproxy.pm
> +++ b/src/PMG/Service/pmgproxy.pm
> @@ -226,10 +226,12 @@ sub get_index {
>  
>          my $ticket = PVE::APIServer::Formatter::extract_auth_value($cookie, $server->{cookie_name});
>  
> -        if ($ticket =~ m/^PMGQUAR:/) {
> -            $username = PMG::Ticket::verify_quarantine_ticket($ticket, 1);
> -        } else {
> -            $username = PMG::Ticket::verify_ticket($ticket, undef, 1);
> +        if (defined($ticket)) {
> +            if ($ticket =~ m/^PMGQUAR:/) {
> +                $username = PMG::Ticket::verify_quarantine_ticket($ticket, 1);
> +            } else {
> +                $username = PMG::Ticket::verify_ticket($ticket, undef, 1);
> +            }
>          }
>      } else {
>          if (defined($args->{ticket})) {