[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH common] fix #5486: tools: encode_text: add '%' to list of encoded characters

[Fabian Grünbichler]

Quoting Dominik Csapak (2024-05-28 13:10:02)
> all text that is going through encode_text will at a later point be
> decoded by 'decode_text'. The latter is decoding all percent encoded
> characters, even those not originally encoded by 'encode_text'.
> 
> This means, to preserve the original data, we first have to at least
> percent encode the '%' itself, otherwise it's impossible to properly
> store e.g. '%20' there.
> 
> It would get saved as '%20' directly, but on the next read, it gets
> decoded to ' ', which is not the original data. instead we have to save
> it as '%2520', which gets then correctly decoded to '%20' again
> 
> This is especially important for the vm/ct/node description, as there
> users can store external links, which already include percent encoded
> characters.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak at proxmox.com>
> ---
> AFAICS, we only use this for comment fields + first/lastname in
> access-control, so we should be ok here

and also for the worker ID for download-from-url workers, which should be fine
as well.

>  src/PVE/Tools.pm | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/PVE/Tools.pm b/src/PVE/Tools.pm
> index 766c809..59cc5c9 100644
> --- a/src/PVE/Tools.pm
> +++ b/src/PVE/Tools.pm
> @@ -1246,8 +1246,8 @@ sub upid_normalize_status_type {
>  sub encode_text {
>      my ($text) = @_;
>  
> -    # all control and hi-bit characters, and ':'
> -    my $unsafe = "^\x20-\x39\x3b-\x7e";
> +    # all control and hi-bit characters, ':' and '%'
> +    my $unsafe = "^\x20-\x24\x26-\x39\x3b-\x7e";
>      return uri_escape(Encode::encode("utf8", $text), $unsafe);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 
> 
> 
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