Improve MIME-type checks of uploaded files

This commit adds a check if the MIME-type of the uploaded file (detected using the magic bytes) matches the file extension.

Signed-off-by: David Mehren <git@herrmehren.de>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/web/imageRouter/index.js b/lib/web/imageRouter/index.js
index b6ace4a6..5861a2bc 100644
--- a/lib/web/imageRouter/index.js
+++ b/lib/web/imageRouter/index.js
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 const Router = require('express').Router
 const formidable = require('formidable')
+const path = require('path')
+const FileType = require('file-type')
 
 const config = require('../../config')
 const logger = require('../../logger')
@@ -9,6 +11,23 @@ const errors = require('../../errors')
 
 const imageRouter = module.exports = Router()
 
+async function checkUploadType (filePath) {
+  const typeFromMagic = await FileType.fromFile(filePath)
+  if (typeFromMagic === undefined) {
+    logger.error(`Image upload error: Could not determine MIME-type`)
+    return false
+  }
+  if (path.extname(filePath) !== '.' + typeFromMagic.ext) {
+    logger.error(`Image upload error: Provided file extension does not match MIME-type`)
+    return false
+  }
+  if (!config.allowedUploadMimeTypes.includes(typeFromMagic.mime)) {
+    logger.error(`Image upload error: MIME-type "${typeFromMagic.mime}" of uploaded file not allowed, only "${config.allowedUploadMimeTypes.join(', ')}" are allowed`)
+    return false
+  }
+  return true
+}
+
 // upload image
 imageRouter.post('/uploadimage', function (req, res) {
   var form = new formidable.IncomingForm()
@@ -19,18 +38,17 @@ imageRouter.post('/uploadimage', function (req, res) {
     form.uploadDir = config.uploadsPath
   }
 
-  form.parse(req, function (err, fields, files) {
+  form.parse(req, async function (err, fields, files) {
     if (err) {
       logger.error(`Image upload error: formidable error: ${err}`)
       return errors.errorForbidden(res)
-  } else if (!req.isAuthenticated() && !config.allowAnonymous && !config.allowAnonymousEdits) {
+    } else if (!req.isAuthenticated() && !config.allowAnonymous && !config.allowAnonymousEdits) {
       logger.error(`Image upload error: Anonymous edits and therefore uploads are not allowed)`)
       return errors.errorForbidden(res)
     } else if (!files.image || !files.image.path) {
       logger.error(`Image upload error: Upload didn't contain file)`)
       return errors.errorBadRequest(res)
-    } else if (!config.allowedUploadMimeTypes.includes(files.image.type)) {
-      logger.error(`Image upload error: MIME-type "${files.image.type}" of uploaded file not allowed, only "${config.allowedUploadMimeTypes.join(', ')}" are allowed)`)
+    } else if (!await checkUploadType(files.image.path)) {
       return errors.errorBadRequest(res)
     } else {
       logger.debug(`SERVER received uploadimage: ${JSON.stringify(files.image)}`)