fix(ssrf): pin the socket to the validated IP (HTTP tier, #207 phase 1) - #402
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Closes the DNS-rebinding half of KnockOutEZ#207 for the HTTP client tier. KnockOutEZ#206/KnockOutEZ#210 added a resolve-and-validate re-check at every fetch seam, which closes the static-record bypass, but the socket then resolved DNS a second time at connect. An attacker controlling the authoritative resolver could answer with a public address for the check and a private one for the connect, inside the TTL window. guardResolvedHost / guardResolvedServeTarget now return the addresses that passed validation, and the HTTP tier builds an undici Agent whose connect lookup returns exactly those. There is no second resolution left to race. A lookup hook rather than rewriting the URL to the IP: rewriting would also avoid re-resolution but breaks TLS, since the certificate is checked against the name in the URL. A lookup hook changes only which address the socket dials, so SNI, Host and certificate verification all still use the real hostname. The result type is widened additively ({ ok: true } gains an optional addresses), so every existing caller that only checks .ok is unaffected. The other tiers are untouched and keep the KnockOutEZ#206 re-check as their floor. Tests: - pinned-dispatcher.test.ts the hook in isolation, including a resolver that flips to 169.254.169.254 on the second lookup, plus the must-not-do control that a different hostname is never pinned - pinned-rebind.test.ts rebinding reproduced over a real socket: two servers on one port, 127.0.0.1 validated and 127.0.0.2 as the attacker. Without pinning the request lands on the attacker; with pinning it lands on the validated host and the attacker gets nothing - pinned-e2e.test.ts a request by hostname through the real client, since every existing http-client test fetches an IP literal and so skips this path undici is promoted from a transitive dependency to a direct one; it was already in the tree at 7.28.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe fetch path now carries validated DNS addresses from SSRF checks into pinned Undici agents. Hostname requests use per-hop agents, while IP-literal requests remain unpinned. Fetches fail closed when validation returns no addresses. Response bodies are cancelled during redirect and retryable-error handling. ChangesDNS-Rebinding Protection
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR pins HTTP connections to validated addresses, but redirect handling still has bounded correctness and completion risks: some redirects may use the wrong connection policy, and cleanup may delay completion when a redirect body is not consumed. Merge should wait for these issues to be addressed or explicitly accepted. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SSRFGuard
participant HTTPClient
participant PinnedAgent
participant HTTPServer
SSRFGuard->>HTTPClient: Return validated DNS addresses
HTTPClient->>PinnedAgent: Create pinned agent for redirect hop
HTTPClient->>HTTPServer: Fetch with pinned dispatcher
HTTPServer-->>HTTPClient: Return response or redirect
HTTPClient->>PinnedAgent: Destroy agents after cleanup
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tests/fetch/pinned-e2e.test.ts (1)
36-40: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftMake this test observe dispatcher use.
If
dispatcheris removed fromsrc/fetch/http-client.tsLine 232, normal DNS resolution still reacheslocalhostand this test passes. The test therefore does not verify thathttpFetchuses the pinned Agent.Add a controlled production-path assertion that the fetch call receives the Agent created for the validated hostname. Keep the real-socket dispatcher test as separate coverage.
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In `@package.json`:
- Line 128: Update the package engines declaration to require Node.js >=20.18.1,
or replace undici with a compatible release, then regenerate package-lock.json
so its root package entry includes the direct undici dependency and matches
package.json.
In `@src/fetch/http-client.ts`:
- Around line 187-195: In src/fetch/http-client.ts lines 187-195, update the
flow around guardResolvedHost and createPinnedAgent to throw a retryable
resolution error when resolved.addresses is absent or empty, before fetch is
called; only create and register the pinned agent after addresses are confirmed.
In src/watch/ssrf.ts lines 376-383, revise the guardResolvedHost
contract/documentation to explicitly require connection callers to fail closed
for unresolved hosts.
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In `@tests/fetch/pinned-e2e.test.ts`:
- Around line 36-40: Update the test named “fetches successfully by name, not by
IP literal” to assert that httpFetch receives and uses the Agent created for the
validated hostname, using a controlled production-path observation rather than
relying on successful localhost resolution. Keep the existing real-socket
dispatcher coverage separate.
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CodeRabbit scopes docstring coverage to functions the diff touches and flagged 75% against an 80% threshold. fetchWithRedirects gets the explanation the loop deserves: why redirect: 'manual' is deliberate (an automatic redirect would connect to the next host without the SSRF checks seeing it), and why consuming the body here is what makes closing the per-hop dispatchers in the finally safe. callLookup notes that the hook is callback-shaped with two arities and that both are asserted per test rather than normalised away, since picking the wrong arity is itself a way the pin could break. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Raised by CodeRabbit on the PR and confirmed against the code before acting on it. guardResolvedHost reports ok with NO addresses when the host did not resolve, and the old reasoning was that an unresolvable host has no IP to connect to, so it is not a bypass. That only holds if both lookups get the same answer. They are two separate DNS queries, so an attacker controlling the authority can answer the validation query with NXDOMAIN or an empty set and the connect query with a private address. The caller then skipped pinning and let fetch re-resolve, which reinstates exactly the rebinding path this branch exists to close. The HTTP tier now refuses to connect when validation produced no addresses, and the guardResolvedHost contract says outright that connection callers must fail closed rather than describing the unresolved case as safe. Marked retryable: at crawl scale a transient resolver blip is far more common than an attack and the retry budget is bounded. One line to flip if you would rather fail fast on bad hostnames. pinned-failclosed.test.ts covers it, with a must-pass control alongside — a change that refused every hostname would satisfy the refusal assertion on its own and look correct. Verified no regression rather than assuming: the wider suite has 21 pre-existing failures on pristine main (repl/shell, TUI, plugins, research, skills — nothing touching fetch or SSRF) and the same 21 with this branch applied. A 22nd in one run was VerifyScreen.test.tsx, which passes 5/5 in isolation and did not recur. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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168-175: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winReset the dispatcher for each redirect hop.
Line 172 stores
pinnedAgentacross loop iterations. If a hostname redirects to an IP literal, lines 190-191 skip reassignment and line 256 sends the IP request through the previous hostname-specific dispatcher. This can reject the redirect or connect with an invalid lookup policy.Declare
pinnedAgentinside thewhileloop. Keepagentsoutside the loop for cleanup.Proposed fix
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In `@src/fetch/http-client.ts`:
- Around line 168-175: Move the pinnedAgent declaration into the while loop so
each redirect hop starts without the previous hop’s dispatcher; keep the agents
collection outside the loop for final cleanup and preserve the existing per-hop
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Raised by CodeRabbit and confirmed: pinnedAgent was declared outside the redirect loop and the !isIpLiteral branch is the only place it is assigned, so a named hop followed by an IP-literal hop reused the previous hop's Agent. The agents array stays outside the loop; it exists only for cleanup at the end. On impact, honestly: this was contained rather than exploitable. createPinnedLookup defers to real DNS whenever the host it is asked for is not the host it was built for, so the inherited Agent behaved like a plain one. That fallthrough was written as a guard against exactly this kind of future misuse and it did its job. Still wrong, and a hop should not depend on the previous hop's dispatcher being harmless. pinned-redirect.test.ts covers both mixed orders. It is a regression guard rather than a discriminating test and says so in the file: the buggy version passes it too, for the fallthrough reason above. Nothing else in the suite exercised a mixed named/literal chain. No regression: tests/watch + tests/unit is 21 failures on pristine main and 21 with this branch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Confirmed and fixed in f406923 — I checked it against the code rather than taking it as read: the One correction on severity, offered because it seems worth having on the record rather than to argue the fix: this was contained, not exploitable.
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363-370: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winCancel each redirect response body before leaving the redirect branch.
The manual redirect branch does not consume or cancel
response.body. Inundici@7.28.0,Agent.close()waits for requests to complete, so an open redirect body can blockhttpFetchindefinitely. Callawait response.body?.cancel()before following the redirect and before any redirect error path. Add a test with a redirect body that never ends and assert thathttpFetchcompletes withintimeoutMs.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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tests/fetch/pinned-redirect.test.ts (1)
11-15: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winMake the dispatcher-scope test discriminate.
The file states that the buggy implementation passes these tests. The assertions verify redirect completion, but they do not verify dispatcher scope.
Use a test dispatcher whose lookup rejects a hostname mismatch. Then assert that
name -> IP literalsucceeds only when the literal hop receives no dispatcher. Keep the reverse chain to verify that a named second hop receives its own dispatcher.Also applies to: 47-59
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In `@src/fetch/http-client.ts`:
- Around line 363-370: Update the manual redirect handling in httpFetch to
cancel response.body before following a redirect and before returning through
any redirect error path, ensuring cancellation occurs before agent shutdown. Add
coverage using a never-ending redirect body and assert that httpFetch completes
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In `@tests/fetch/pinned-redirect.test.ts`:
- Around line 11-15: The pinned redirect tests currently pass even when
dispatcher scope is wrong because the lookup falls back to real DNS. Update the
test dispatcher setup in the pinned redirect cases to reject hostname
mismatches, assert that the name-to-IP-literal hop succeeds without a
dispatcher, and retain the reverse chain assertion showing that a named second
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Raised by CodeRabbit. Real, and a regression from this branch — but measured rather than assumed, and it is a stall rather than a hang. The redirect branch reads Location and continues without touching the body. That was untidy before; it became costly once the per-hop Agents started being closed on the way out, because Agent.close() waits for in-flight requests and an unread body keeps one in flight. That wait sits in the finally, outside the AbortSignal that bounds the request. Measured with a 302 whose body never ends: httpFetch returned in 2038ms against timeoutMs=2000. So it is bounded by the per-hop signal, not unbounded — but a server can impose a full timeoutMs on every redirect, silently. - cancel the body at the top of the redirect branch, above the no-location and too-many-redirects throws so those release it too - same for the retryable-status branch, which also throws without reading - cleanup now uses destroy() rather than close(). By then the body has been read in full or deliberately cancelled, so there is nothing worth waiting for, and a path missed in future cannot cost latency pinned-redirect-body.test.ts discriminates: 2038ms before, 97ms after, asserted against timeoutMs so it fails if the stall returns. No regression: 21 failures on pristine main, 21 with this branch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Both looked at. One fixed in 2850a5d, one declined with a reason. Response body on abandoned paths — real, and a regression from this branchFixed. But measured rather than assumed, and the correction is worth stating: it is a stall, not a hang. The redirect branch reads With a 302 whose body never ends and
Making pinned-redirect.test.ts discriminate — declining, with reasoningYou're right that it doesn't discriminate, and the file says so. I don't think the suggested change fixes that, though, so I'd rather explain than quietly not do it.
As far as I can tell there's no observable difference through the public API either way, for the same reason — an inherited Agent behaves identically to a fresh one on a host it wasn't built for. If you'd like it genuinely discriminating, the honest way is a seam — an injectable dispatcher factory on No regression across any of this: 21 failures on pristine |
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In `@tests/fetch/pinned-redirect-body.test.ts`:
- Around line 53-62: Strengthen the redirect test around the `/redir` handler so
the `/done` response is gated by a promise resolved from the redirect response’s
`close` event, ensuring completion depends on cancellation of the redirect body.
Keep the existing assertions, but make the test fail if `response.body.cancel()`
is removed and the undrained request is only terminated by `Agent.destroy()`.
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CodeRabbit was right and I verified it by deleting the fix: with response.body .cancel() removed and only Agent.destroy() left, the old test still passed, in 202ms. destroy() does not wait for in-flight requests, so an elapsed-time assertion alone proves the teardown works, not that the body was released. /done is now gated on the redirect response's close event, so the second hop cannot complete until the first hop's body is actually let go. Measured both ways: fails at 2041ms without the cancel, passes at 95ms with it. Worth having because the two halves of the fix are separable — someone could reasonably decide destroy() alone is enough and drop the cancel, losing the graceful connection release, with nothing to catch it. fix(deps): declare the Node floor undici actually requires, and sync the lock Also CodeRabbit, also correct. Two real inconsistencies I introduced: - undici 7.28.0 declares engines node >=20.18.1 while this project declared >=20, so the two disagreed - package.json listed undici but the lockfile root entry did not, so the manifest and the lock were out of sync engines bumped to >=20.18.1 and the lock regenerated (--package-lock-only, 6 lines). ⚠ THIS RAISES THE RUNTIME NODE FLOOR AND THAT IS THE MAINTAINER'S CALL. undici was previously DEV-ONLY here — dev: true in the lock, pulled in by @yao-pkg/pkg-fetch, a devDependency — so it imposed nothing on users at runtime. Making it a runtime dependency moves the real floor from 20.0.0 to 20.18.1. Flagged on the PR with the alternative (node:https + a lookup option, no new dependency, but a rewrite of the request path) so it can be rejected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Both correct. Fixed in 666906e — and the second one needs your decision, not mine. The redirect-body test wasn't testing the cancelYou were right, and I verified it by deleting the fix rather than reasoning about it: with
Worth having, because the two halves of the fix are separable — someone could reasonably decide The undici/engines mismatch — real, but the fix changes your support matrixBoth inconsistencies were mine and both are now fixed: But I want to flag what that actually costs you, because it's your call and not a detail. undici was previously dev-only in this tree — If you'd rather not take that, the alternative is A third option, if you want the floor unchanged and the small diff: leave No regression: 19 failures on this branch against a 21-failure baseline on pristine |
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Closes the HTTP-tier half of #207 — phase 1 of the three you laid out, and the one you marked "highest value, do this first".
Apologies for the delay on this one; it slipped after #210 and that's on me.
What it does
#206/#210re-check the resolved IPs at every fetch seam, which closes the static-record bypass. The socket then resolved DNS a second time at connect. An attacker controlling the authoritative resolver could answer with a public address for the check and a private one for the connect, inside the TTL window.guardResolvedHost/guardResolvedServeTargetnow return the addresses that passed validation, and the HTTP tier builds an undiciAgentwhoseconnect.lookupreturns exactly those. There's no second resolution left to race.A lookup hook rather than rewriting the URL to the IP. Rewriting
https://example.com/xtohttps://93.184.216.34/xwould also avoid re-resolution, and would break TLS — the certificate is checked against the name in the URL, so it would either fail verification or require turning it off. Alookuphook changes only which address the socket dials; SNI, the Host header and certificate verification all still use the real hostname. I verified this rather than assuming it — see below.The result type is widened additively (
{ ok: true }gains an optionaladdresses), so every existing caller that only checks.okis untouched.Tests
pinned-dispatcher.test.ts169.254.169.254on the second lookup, and the must-not-do control that a different hostname is never pinned (handing host B host A's IP would be a worse bug than the one being fixed)pinned-rebind.test.ts127.0.0.1validated and127.0.0.2as the attacker. Without pinning the request lands on the attacker; with pinning it lands on the validated host and the attacker gets zero hits. This is the test that fails if the pin is ever removedpinned-e2e.test.tsnpm run lintclean. 78 test files / 1000 tests pass.Runtime checks (not in the suite — they need the network)
example.comat github.com's IP →ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALID.My first attempt at this control was wrong and I'd rather say so: I pinned
example.comatwww.iana.org's IP and the request succeeded. That IP is Cloudflare, and asked with SNIexample.comit serves a cert whose SAN isDNS:example.com, DNS:*.example.com— so it connected legitimately and the control proved nothing. github.com's IP servessubject=github.comand correctly fails.::1over a real socket.Agent, closed in afinallyafter the body is consumed.Scope and limits
undiciis promoted from a transitive dependency to a direct one. It was already in the tree at 7.28.0, so this installs nothing new; depending on it directly just means a transitive major bump can't silently move it.try {doesn't re-indent the loop body. Re-indenting adds ~180 lines of pure whitespace and buries the actual change. Happy to re-indent in a follow-up commit if you'd rather have it tidy.Happy to take the TLS tier next if its stack exposes a connect hook, and to write up the browser-tier options (validating proxy vs documented residual) so that decision isn't blocked on me.
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