From cfd52edad6a4ae84b0c34755455b5b7b164878be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 16:58:08 +0200
Subject: [ci skip] Try to mitigate BREACH attacks against CSRF tokens

---
 system/helpers/form_helper.php | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'system')

diff --git a/system/helpers/form_helper.php b/system/helpers/form_helper.php
index fc7d2a6a0..a49eea803 100644
--- a/system/helpers/form_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/form_helper.php
@@ -90,12 +90,6 @@ if ( ! function_exists('form_open'))
 
 		$form = '<form action="'.$action.'"'.$attributes.">\n";
 
-		// Add CSRF field if enabled, but leave it out for GET requests and requests to external websites
-		if ($CI->config->item('csrf_protection') === TRUE && strpos($action, $CI->config->base_url()) !== FALSE && ! stripos($form, 'method="get"'))
-		{
-			$hidden[$CI->security->get_csrf_token_name()] = $CI->security->get_csrf_hash();
-		}
-
 		if (is_array($hidden))
 		{
 			foreach ($hidden as $name => $value)
@@ -104,6 +98,41 @@ if ( ! function_exists('form_open'))
 			}
 		}
 
+		// Add CSRF field if enabled, but leave it out for GET requests and requests to external websites
+		if ($CI->config->item('csrf_protection') === TRUE && strpos($action, $CI->config->base_url()) !== FALSE && ! stripos($form, 'method="get"'))
+		{
+			// Prepend/append random-length "white noise" around the CSRF
+			// token input, as a form of protection against BREACH attacks
+			if (FALSE !== ($noise = $CI->security->get_random_bytes(1)))
+			{
+				list(, $noise) = unpack('c', $noise);
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				$noise = mt_rand(-128, 127);
+			}
+
+			// Prepend if $noise has a negative value, append if positive, do nothing for zero
+			$prepend = $append = '';
+			if ($noise < 0)
+			{
+				$prepend = str_repeat(" ", abs($noise));
+			}
+			elseif ($noise > 0)
+			{
+				$append  = str_repeat(" ", $noise);
+			}
+
+			$form .= sprintf(
+				'%s<input type="hidden" name="%s" value="%s" />%s%s',
+				$prepend,
+				$CI->security->get_csrf_token_name(),
+				$CI->security->get_csrf_hash(),
+				$append,
+				"\n"
+			);
+		}
+
 		return $form;
 	}
 }
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