Fixed #36226 -- Accepted str or bytes for password and salt in password hashers.

Co-authored-by: Screamadelica <1621456391@sjtu.edu.cn>

AUTHORS

@@ -903,6 +903,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
     Rob Nguyen <tienrobertnguyenn@gmail.com>
     Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
     Rodrigo Pinheiro Marques de Araújo <fenrrir@gmail.com>
+    Roel Delos Reyes <https://roelzkie.dev>
     Rohith P R <https://rohithpr.com>
     Romain Garrigues <romain.garrigues.cs@gmail.com>
     Ronnie van den Crommenacker

django/contrib/auth/hashers.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ from django.utils.crypto import (
     get_random_string,
     pbkdf2,
 )
+from django.utils.encoding import force_bytes, force_str
 from django.utils.module_loading import import_string
 from django.utils.translation import gettext_noop as _
 
@@ -252,7 +253,7 @@ class BasePasswordHasher:
     def _check_encode_args(self, password, salt):
         if password is None:
             raise TypeError("password must be provided.")
-        if not salt or "$" in salt:
+        if not salt or "$" in force_str(salt):  # salt can be str or bytes.
             raise ValueError("salt must be provided and cannot contain $.")
 
     def encode(self, password, salt):
@@ -324,6 +325,8 @@ class PBKDF2PasswordHasher(BasePasswordHasher):
     def encode(self, password, salt, iterations=None):
         self._check_encode_args(password, salt)
         iterations = iterations or self.iterations
+        password = force_str(password)
+        salt = force_str(salt)
         hash = pbkdf2(password, salt, iterations, digest=self.digest)
         hash = base64.b64encode(hash).decode("ascii").strip()
         return "%s$%d$%s$%s" % (self.algorithm, iterations, salt, hash)
@@ -396,8 +399,8 @@ class Argon2PasswordHasher(BasePasswordHasher):
         argon2 = self._load_library()
         params = self.params()
         data = argon2.low_level.hash_secret(
-            password.encode(),
-            salt.encode(),
+            force_bytes(password),
+            force_bytes(salt),
             time_cost=params.time_cost,
             memory_cost=params.memory_cost,
             parallelism=params.parallelism,
@@ -499,7 +502,8 @@ class BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher(BasePasswordHasher):
 
     def encode(self, password, salt):
         bcrypt = self._load_library()
-        password = password.encode()
+        password = force_bytes(password)
+        salt = force_bytes(salt)
         # Hash the password prior to using bcrypt to prevent password
         # truncation as described in #20138.
         if self.digest is not None:
@@ -585,8 +589,8 @@ class ScryptPasswordHasher(BasePasswordHasher):
         r = r or self.block_size
         p = p or self.parallelism
         hash_ = hashlib.scrypt(
-            password.encode(),
-            salt=salt.encode(),
+            password=force_bytes(password),
+            salt=force_bytes(salt),
             n=n,
             r=r,
             p=p,
@@ -594,7 +598,7 @@ class ScryptPasswordHasher(BasePasswordHasher):
             dklen=64,
         )
         hash_ = base64.b64encode(hash_).decode("ascii").strip()
-        return "%s$%d$%s$%d$%d$%s" % (self.algorithm, n, salt, r, p, hash_)
+        return "%s$%d$%s$%d$%d$%s" % (self.algorithm, n, force_str(salt), r, p, hash_)
 
     def decode(self, encoded):
         algorithm, work_factor, salt, block_size, parallelism, hash_ = encoded.split(
@@ -655,6 +659,8 @@ class MD5PasswordHasher(BasePasswordHasher):
 
     def encode(self, password, salt):
         self._check_encode_args(password, salt)
+        password = force_str(password)
+        salt = force_str(salt)
         hash = hashlib.md5((salt + password).encode()).hexdigest()
         return "%s$%s$%s" % (self.algorithm, salt, hash)
 

tests/auth_tests/test_hashers.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from django.conf.global_settings import PASSWORD_HASHERS
 from django.contrib.auth.hashers import (
     UNUSABLE_PASSWORD_PREFIX,
     UNUSABLE_PASSWORD_SUFFIX_LENGTH,
+    Argon2PasswordHasher,
     BasePasswordHasher,
     BCryptPasswordHasher,
     BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher,
@@ -520,6 +521,54 @@ class TestUtilsHashPass(SimpleTestCase):
                     with self.assertRaisesMessage(ValueError, msg):
                         hasher.encode("password", salt)
 
+    def test_password_and_salt_in_str_and_bytes(self):
+        hasher_classes = [
+            MD5PasswordHasher,
+            PBKDF2PasswordHasher,
+            PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher,
+            ScryptPasswordHasher,
+        ]
+        for hasher_class in hasher_classes:
+            hasher = hasher_class()
+            with self.subTest(hasher_class.__name__):
+                passwords = ["password", b"password"]
+                for password in passwords:
+                    for salt in [hasher.salt(), hasher.salt().encode()]:
+                        encoded = hasher.encode(password, salt)
+                        for password_to_verify in passwords:
+                            self.assertIs(
+                                hasher.verify(password_to_verify, encoded), True
+                            )
+
+    @skipUnless(argon2, "argon2-cffi not installed")
+    def test_password_and_salt_in_str_and_bytes_argon2(self):
+        hasher = Argon2PasswordHasher()
+        passwords = ["password", b"password"]
+        for password in passwords:
+            for salt in [hasher.salt(), hasher.salt().encode()]:
+                encoded = hasher.encode(password, salt)
+                for password_to_verify in passwords:
+                    self.assertIs(hasher.verify(password_to_verify, encoded), True)
+
+    @skipUnless(bcrypt, "bcrypt not installed")
+    def test_password_and_salt_in_str_and_bytes_bcrypt(self):
+        hasher_classes = [
+            BCryptPasswordHasher,
+            BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher,
+        ]
+        for hasher_class in hasher_classes:
+            hasher = hasher_class()
+            with self.subTest(hasher_class.__name__):
+                passwords = ["password", b"password"]
+                for password in passwords:
+                    salts = [hasher.salt().decode(), hasher.salt()]
+                    for salt in salts:
+                        encoded = hasher.encode(password, salt)
+                        for password_to_verify in passwords:
+                            self.assertIs(
+                                hasher.verify(password_to_verify, encoded), True
+                            )
+
     def test_encode_password_required(self):
         hasher_classes = [
             MD5PasswordHasher,