When parsing json from untrusted sources, remove templating tags

lib/ansible/inventory/script.py

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class InventoryScript(object):
     def _parse(self, err):
 
         all_hosts = {}
-        self.raw  = utils.parse_json(self.data)
+        self.raw  = utils.parse_json(self.data, from_remote=True)
         all       = Group('all')
         groups    = dict(all=all)
         group     = None

lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py

@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ class Runner(object):
                 cmd2 = conn.shell.remove(tmp, recurse=True)
                 self._low_level_exec_command(conn, cmd2, tmp, sudoable=False)
 
-        data = utils.parse_json(res['stdout'])
+        data = utils.parse_json(res['stdout'], from_remote=True)
         if 'parsed' in data and data['parsed'] == False:
             data['msg'] += res['stderr']
         return ReturnData(conn=conn, result=data)

lib/ansible/runner/return_data.py

@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ class ReturnData(object):
         self.diff = diff
 
         if type(self.result) in [ str, unicode ]:
-            self.result = utils.parse_json(self.result)
-
+            self.result = utils.parse_json(self.result, from_remote=True)
 
         if self.host is None:
             raise Exception("host not set")

lib/ansible/utils/__init__.py

@@ -313,7 +313,38 @@ def json_loads(data):
 
     return json.loads(data)
 
-def parse_json(raw_data):
+def _clean_data(orig_data):
+    ''' remove template tags from a string '''
+    data = orig_data
+    if isinstance(orig_data, basestring):
+        for pattern,replacement in (('{{','{#'), ('}}','#}'), ('{%','{#'), ('%}','#}')):
+            data = data.replace(pattern, replacement)
+    return data
+
+def _clean_data_struct(orig_data):
+    '''
+    walk a complex data structure, and use _clean_data() to
+    remove any template tags that may exist
+    '''
+    if isinstance(orig_data, dict):
+        data = orig_data.copy()
+        for key in data:
+            new_key = _clean_data_struct(key)
+            new_val = _clean_data_struct(data[key])
+            if key != new_key:
+                del data[key]
+            data[new_key] = new_val
+    elif isinstance(orig_data, list):
+        data = orig_data[:]
+        for i in range(0, len(data)):
+            data[i] = _clean_data_struct(data[i])
+    elif isinstance(orig_data, basestring):
+        data = _clean_data(orig_data)
+    else:
+        data = orig_data
+    return data
+
+def parse_json(raw_data, from_remote=False):
     ''' this version for module return data only '''
 
     orig_data = raw_data
@@ -322,7 +353,7 @@ def parse_json(raw_data):
     data = filter_leading_non_json_lines(raw_data)
 
     try:
-        return json.loads(data)
+        results = json.loads(data)
     except:
         # not JSON, but try "Baby JSON" which allows many of our modules to not
         # require JSON and makes writing modules in bash much simpler
@@ -332,7 +363,6 @@ def parse_json(raw_data):
         except:
             print "failed to parse json: "+ data
             raise
-
         for t in tokens:
             if "=" not in t:
                 raise errors.AnsibleError("failed to parse: %s" % orig_data)
@@ -347,7 +377,11 @@ def parse_json(raw_data):
             results[key] = value
         if len(results.keys()) == 0:
             return { "failed" : True, "parsed" : False, "msg" : orig_data }
-        return results
+
+    if from_remote:
+        results = _clean_data_struct(results)
+
+    return results
 
 def smush_braces(data):
     ''' smush Jinaj2 braces so unresolved templates like {{ foo }} don't get parsed weird by key=value code '''

lib/ansible/utils/template.py

@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ class Flags:
 
 FILTER_PLUGINS = None
 _LISTRE = re.compile(r"(\w+)\[(\d+)\]")
-JINJA2_OVERRIDE='#jinja2:'
 
 def lookup(name, *args, **kwargs):
     from ansible import utils
@@ -231,16 +230,6 @@ def template_from_file(basedir, path, vars, vault_password=None):
     except:
         raise errors.AnsibleError("unable to read %s" % realpath)
 
-
-    # Get jinja env overrides from template
-    if data.startswith(JINJA2_OVERRIDE):
-        eol = data.find('\n')
-        line = data[len(JINJA2_OVERRIDE):eol]
-        data = data[eol+1:]
-        for pair in line.split(','):
-            (key,val) = pair.split(':')
-            setattr(environment,key.strip(),ast.literal_eval(val.strip()))
-
     environment.template_class = J2Template
     try:
         t = environment.from_string(data)