Repository: encode/starlette

Issue:
Insufficient input validation of content-type 'multipart/form-data'
### Checklist

- [x] The bug is reproducible against the latest release and/or `master`.
- [x] There are no similar issues or pull requests to fix it yet.

### Describe the bug

Not actually a bug, but insufficient input validation.

### To reproduce

Provide POST input (e.g. with postman) with content-type 'multipart/form-data' but without _boundary_ parameter.

### Expected behavior

Shall return 4xx error code. According to rfc7578 boundary is a required parameter.

### Actual behavior

_None_ boundary is passed to multipart library and an exception is raised there.

### Debugging material

```
TypeError: can't concat NoneType to bytes
  File "starlette/middleware/trustedhost.py", line 51, in __call__
    await self.app(scope, receive, send)
  File "starlette/middleware/sessions.py", line 75, in __call__
    await self.app(scope, receive, send_wrapper)
  File "cpms/middleware.py", line 55, in __call__
    await self.app(scope, receive, send)
  File "starlette/middleware/authentication.py", line 48, in __call__
    await self.app(scope, receive, send)
  File "starlette/exceptions.py", line 82, in __call__
    raise exc from None
  File "starlette/exceptions.py", line 71, in __call__
    await self.app(scope, receive, sender)
  File "starlette/routing.py", line 582, in __call__
    await route.handle(scope, receive, send)
  File "starlette/routing.py", line 243, in handle
    await self.app(scope, receive, send)
  File "starlette/routing.py", line 54, in app
    response = await func(request)
  File "starlette/authentication.py", line 69, in async_wrapper
    return await func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "cpms/views/files.py", line 90, in decorator
    return await endpoint(request)
  File "cpms/views/files.py", line 133, in upload_files
    for f_name, f_value in (await request.form()).items():
  File "starlette/requests.py", line 240, in form
    self._form = await multipart_parser.parse()
  File "starlette/formparsers.py", line 181, in parse
    parser = multipart.MultipartParser(boundary, callbacks)
  File "multipart/multipart.py", line 1042, in __init__
    self.boundary = b'\r\n--' + boundary
```

### Environment

- OS: OpenBSD 6.7
- Python version: 3.7.9
- Starlette version: 0.14.1

### Additional context

The problem occurs due insufficient checking of the input on line 166 of starlette/formparsers.py
`      boundary = params.get(b"boundary")`

It is better to replace it with:
`      boundary = params[b"boundary"]`
so exception at early stage will be raised.

Or make an additional input validation.
```
      boundary = params.get(b"boundary")
      if not boundary:
          raise HTTPException(status_code=400)
```



Discussion:
I think this can be considered a bug, because we send 500 instead of 4xx, and you're right: this is actually a client error.

I'd want to see **how other known web frameworks are handling this**, if possible, but the PR is welcome. 
Flask uses werkzeug's FormDataParser with the following code:
```python
        boundary = options.get("boundary", "").encode("ascii")

        if not boundary:
            raise ValueError("Missing boundary")
```

Resolving patch:
diff --git a/starlette/formparsers.py b/starlette/formparsers.py
--- a/starlette/formparsers.py
+++ b/starlette/formparsers.py
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ async def parse(self) -> FormData:
         charset = params.get(b"charset", "utf-8")
         if type(charset) == bytes:
             charset = charset.decode("latin-1")
-        boundary = params.get(b"boundary")
+        boundary = params[b"boundary"]
 
         # Callbacks dictionary.
         callbacks = {


Test patch:
diff --git a/tests/test_formparsers.py b/tests/test_formparsers.py
--- a/tests/test_formparsers.py
+++ b/tests/test_formparsers.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import os
 import typing
 
+import pytest
+
 from starlette.formparsers import UploadFile, _user_safe_decode
 from starlette.requests import Request
 from starlette.responses import JSONResponse
@@ -386,3 +388,18 @@ def test_user_safe_decode_helper():
 def test_user_safe_decode_ignores_wrong_charset():
     result = _user_safe_decode(b"abc", "latin-8")
     assert result == "abc"
+
+
+def test_missing_boundary_parameter(test_client_factory):
+    client = test_client_factory(app)
+    with pytest.raises(KeyError, match="boundary"):
+        client.post(
+            "/",
+            data=(
+                # file
+                b'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="\xe6\x96\x87\xe6\x9b\xb8.txt"\r\n'  # noqa: E501
+                b"Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n"
+                b"<file content>\r\n"
+            ),
+            headers={"Content-Type": "multipart/form-data; charset=utf-8"},
+        )