On 10/26/21 14:49, Catherine Meadows via Datatracker wrote:
Reviewer: Catherine Meadows Review result: Has Issues This draft describes increases the expressive and scope of relationships that can be defined in iCalendar. It updates the already existing RELATED-TO by allowing UID and URI as values and introduces a GAP parameter to specify the length of time between two events. It also introduces three new properties: CONCEPT (roughly, category), LINK (typed reference to external meta-data or related resources), and REFID(used to identify a key that identifies all components that use that REFID). The syntax of the relationships is given and intended use cases are described. The introduction of greater expressiveness does not by itself introduce security considerations, but the introduction of references to external sources does, specifically for URIs, which are allowed as arguments of the RELATED-TO, CONCEPT, and LINK properties. The authors of this document are aware of this, and refer the reader to [RFC3986] for more information. I agree that the security considerations related to use of URIs proposed in this draft are covered by this RFC. I wonder though, if the document shouldn’t concern a similar warning about the data type REFERENCE. This refers to an XML document or a portion of an XML document. Since XML can also be used as an attack vector, a mention in the Security Considerations Section would seem appropriate.
I agree with the sentiment. I thought it would be easy to find a document with such a section - however the XML spec itself doesn't have a security section. There is at least section 20.6 in RFC4918 (WebDAV) which talks about external entities. Perhaps something like this:
When the value is a REFERENCE type the targeted data is an XML document or portion thereof. Consumers need to be aware of the security issues related to XML processing - in particular those related to XML entities. See RFC4918 - Section 20.6
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