fix(zapscript): bound ZapScript length and stop re-parsing every token - #1385
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Nothing bounded the length of ZapScript text anywhere. RunParams.Text carried no validate tag, mapping Override was uncapped while Label was limited to 255, History.TokenValue is unconstrained text, and the MQTT, file, serial, barcode, optical, external drive and GMC readers passed their payload straight through. The only ceilings were the 4MB WebSocket and 1MB HTTP POST envelopes. Parse cost grows with the length of the text, so unbounded input is a way to occupy the single token worker that every reader queues through, and, once stored, to make every later history read expensive for the whole retention window. MaxScriptLength is 8192 bytes, well above an NTAG216's 888 and any hand-written script. It is applied at the four points untrusted text arrives: the JSON-RPC run method for both param shapes, the REST handler before IsRunAllowed parses the URL, a ZapLink response body, and handleQueuedToken as the backstop covering every reader at the one place they converge. An over-long token completes with an error and is not written to history, matching the empty-token case beside it. Refs #1375
runParamsForLog was passed as an argument to log.Debug().Msgf, so Go evaluated it before zerolog could apply the level check. It redacts the script, which parses it, so every run request paid for that parse whether or not debug logging was enabled. Refs #1375
RedactToken parsed the same text twice unconditionally, once inside RedactScript and once inside HasSensitiveScript, and three times when a credential was present. It has six call sites: handleQueuedToken calls it twice per scanned token on the service worker, and HandleHistory calls it once per row, so a 25-row page cost 50 to 75 parses of stored text. Credentials only ever appear in the profile and playtime.extend commands. A command name reaches the parse tree verbatim, since the grammar admits only [a-zA-Z0-9.] in a name and normalization is a lowercase, so a name absent from the source cannot appear in the result. Checking for those two names is therefore proof, not a heuristic, and lets the parse be skipped entirely for every other token. The check folds ASCII case in place rather than lowercasing a copy, because real media paths carry capitals and the copy would be the common case. RedactToken now derives both the redacted text and the sensitivity of the payload from one parse, on the rare path where a parse still happens. At the 8KB ingest bound, RedactToken drops from 11.4ms and 71MB per call to 6.7us and no allocation. One behaviour change: text that names neither command and does not parse is no longer replaced wholesale by the redacted-script placeholder. It cannot carry a credential, so it stays readable in logs and history, which is what redaction is there to allow. Text that does name one of the two commands still fails closed exactly as before. Refs #1375
BenchmarkScanToLaunch_DirectPath panicked on unstubbed Settings and RootDirs mocks, which made task bench unusable. A direct path reaches PathIsLauncher, which calls DataDir and the platform's root directories. Unrelated to the parse work in this branch; it predates it and reproduces on the previous go-zapscript release.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 2 included reviews per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds an 8192-byte ZapScript limit before parsing or execution. It validates API inputs, mapping overrides, queued tokens, reader scans, and ZapLinks. It also improves credential redaction and prevents sensitive values from entering logs. ChangesZapScript length enforcement
Credential-safe redaction and logging
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR limits oversized scripts and reduces repeated parsing, but credential-bearing content can still appear in certain NFC and reader-manager logs without redaction. This is a bounded security follow-up that should remain with the owner’s explicit awareness before or alongside merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant API
participant ValidateScriptLength
participant TokenQueue
participant ScriptExecutor
API->>ValidateScriptLength: validate request text
ValidateScriptLength-->>API: validation result
API->>TokenQueue: queue valid token
TokenQueue->>ScriptExecutor: process token
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participant Reader
participant RedactToken
participant Log
Reader->>RedactToken: provide token text
RedactToken->>RedactToken: detect and remove credentials
RedactToken-->>Log: provide bounded redacted text
Log-->>Reader: emit debug message
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In `@pkg/api/models/params.go`:
- Line 116: Apply zapscript.ValidateScriptLength to AddMappingParams.Override
and UpdateMappingParams.Override before either value is stored or passed to
gozapscript.NewParser, replacing reliance on the character-counting max=8192
validation for the script-length constraint. Preserve normal handling for empty
and valid overrides, and return the validation error for values exceeding the
UTF-8 byte limit.
In `@pkg/zapscript/redact.go`:
- Line 98: Update the pre-check in the redaction logic around containsFoldASCII
and the related HasSensitiveScript/RedactToken flow to detect credential names
only at ZapScript command starts and require a valid command-name boundary,
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v0.19.0 makes parsing linear in input length. Argument accumulation was quadratic, which is the other half of #1375: the length bound added earlier in this branch caps the worst case, but every parse under the cap still paid the quadratic cost until now. Parse time is 7.3ns per byte, flat from 888 bytes to 1MB. At the 8192 byte ingest bound one parse drops from roughly 5.6ms to 60us. It also removes a 4KB buffer allocated per parser, which matters because a scanned token is parsed more than once. On BenchmarkScanToLaunch the effect is 11% fewer allocations and 11% less memory per scan, with wall time unchanged: those benchmarks are dominated by MediaDB queries rather than parsing. The parse win shows up on long scripts and on allocation pressure, not on typical token latency. Closes #1375
scriptCredentials read the profile argument of playtime.extend with an exact map lookup, but the parser stores an advanced argument key exactly as written while the command decoder matches it into the struct field case-insensitively. So `**playtime.extend:30m?PROFILE=sw-secret` is a working extension card, granted against a real profile, whose switch ID was written to the log and to history in the clear. FuzzRedactScript could not find this because its oracle calls scriptCredentials, the same function carrying the bug, so a credential it failed to see was also a credential it failed to miss. Seeds for the mixed-case spellings are added so the corpus keeps them. advArgsFold returns every value whose key folds to the name rather than the first, because a script may carry `?profile=` and `?PROFILE=` at once and both are usable.
The override replaces a token's text after that text has been length checked, so it is the one script the queue's bound never sees. A `max=8192` validate tag counts runes, so an override of 8192 three-byte characters passed validation at 24576 bytes and was stored, then parsed on the token worker. The tag is dropped in favour of ValidateScriptLength at both handlers, which measures the same unit as the limit it enforces and produces the same error as every other over-long script.
The queue bounds a token's own text, then getMapping may replace it with an override that nothing has checked. The API validates the overrides it stores, but a mappings TOML file and a platform LookupMapping never pass through the API at all, so a 9KB zapscript= line in zaparoo/mappings/*.toml reached the parser on the token worker with no bound of any kind. The check goes at the three points an override is applied rather than at load time, because pkg/config cannot import pkg/zapscript. handleQueuedToken rejects the token as it would an over-long one, so nothing is written to history; runTokenZapScript returns the error; the launch guard skips its parse and stages, which is what it already does for a script it cannot read. The mapping was also logged in full and unredacted, so an override carrying a profile switch ID leaked it on every match.
handleQueuedToken is not the first thing a reader's text reaches. The preprocessing loop logs the scan in full at info level and, with the launch guard on, parses it, both before the token is queued. A 300KB tag wrote about 600KB across three log lines and forced two rotations of a log that lives in tmpfs, evicting everything useful about the scan that caused it. The bound sits after the duplicate check so a rejected tag left sitting on the reader is reported once rather than on every poll, and the fail sound gives the same feedback as any other unreadable scan. Hold ownership is unaffected: the token never launches, so it never becomes the software token, and a later removal has nothing to exit. The two info-level lines now go through tokenForLog, which the worker already uses, because a profile or extension card carries a bearer credential in its text and the log is downloadable.
Every other reason a script will not run answers with a category, and the documentation tells clients to branch on it. The length rejection returned none, so a client switching on data.category fell into its generic branch for a failure it could have explained. invalid_script is reused rather than adding a category, so a client already handling the existing set needs no change; the message carries the limit and the actual size. runError maps the error too, which is what NFC normalization needs: text under the bound can grow past it, `**echo:` plus 2700 U+0958 goes from 8107 to 16207 bytes, and that is caught by the queue rather than at the handler.
A switch ID is the bearer credential printed on a profile card. When a lookup found no row the error quoted the value it searched for, and that error is logged at error level on every failed profile or extension card, so the credential landed in the log in the clear regardless of the redaction applied everywhere else. Only the SwitchID column is treated this way. The other lookups take a profile ID, which is not a secret and is worth naming.
Every driver logs raw tag text: the file driver on each new token, pn532 and libnfc on each decoded NDEF record and on each record they write. None of it is redacted, so a profile card leaks its switch ID, and none of it is bounded, because the driver runs before anything has decided the text is a reasonable length. ForLog answers both. It redacts, and it truncates at MaxScriptLength reporting the real size, cutting on a rune boundary so the line stays valid UTF-8. A legitimate script is never shortened, since a longer one is rejected rather than run, so the only text this affects is text that was going to do nothing except fill the log. The write paths matter as much as the read paths: writing a profile card is exactly the case where the text being logged is a credential.
The bound is client visible: run rejects text over it, the launch endpoint answers 413, and a mapping override is refused. None of that was written down, and the invalid_script row did not list length as a reason a script is refused.
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Remove the raw NDEF byte log.
record.Bytescan contain credential data from the NFC tag. Remove it or log only bounded, non-sensitive metadata such as the byte count.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Redact these reader-manager token logs.
- At Lines 639, 670, and 942, use
tokenForLog(...). Guard the nil value at Line 639 before calling it.- At Line 603, validate the scan first, then log only the redacted token.
- Add a log-capture test that ensures staged-token credentials never appear in output.
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In `@pkg/readers/file/file.go`:
- Line 216: Update the debug logging around the “new token” message to check the
zerolog Event.Enabled() result before calling zapscript.ForLog(token.Text),
ensuring redaction and truncation occur only when debug logging is enabled.
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In `@pkg/readers/libnfc/libnfc.go`:
- Line 845: Remove the raw record.Bytes logging from the NFC record processing
flow, including the log statement using hex.EncodeToString; if diagnostics are
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- Line 942: Redact reader-manager token logging so staged-token credentials
never appear in output: update pkg/service/readers.go lines 639 and 670 to log
tokenForLog(...) and guard the nil value at line 639; at line 942, replace the
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ForLog was an argument to Msgf, so it was evaluated before zerolog could decide the event was disabled. Every scan and every tag write paid for a redaction scan of the text, and an oversized one paid for a truncation too, with debug logging off. This is the same mistake runParamsForLog carried, and it takes the same shape as the fix there.
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Core parsed each scanned token five to seven times, on the single worker
goroutine that gates every reader, and bounded the length of that text
nowhere. Addresses the Core half of #1375; the quadratic parse itself is
ZaparooProject/go-zapscript#75.
Length bound
RunParams.Textcarried novalidatetag, mappingOverridewasuncapped while
Labelwas limited to 255,History.TokenValueisunconstrained
text, and the MQTT, file, serial, barcode, optical,external drive and GMC readers pass their payload straight through. The
only ceilings were the 4MB WebSocket and 1MB HTTP POST envelopes.
zapscript.MaxScriptLengthis 8192 bytes — above an NTAG216's 888 andany hand-written script. It is checked at the four points untrusted text
arrives: the JSON-RPC
runmethod for both param shapes,HandleRunRestbefore
IsRunAllowedparses the URL, a ZapLink response body, andhandleQueuedTokenas the backstop covering every reader at the oneplace they converge. An over-long token completes with an error and is
never written to history, so it cannot make later reads expensive.
Parse count
RedactTokenparsed the same text twice unconditionally and three timeswhen a credential was present.
handleQueuedTokencalls it twice pertoken, and
HandleHistoryonce per row — 50 to 75 parses per 25-rowpage, which is where the reported 80s history read came from.
Credentials only appear in
profileandplaytime.extend. A commandname reaches the parse tree verbatim, since the grammar admits only
[a-zA-Z0-9.]in a name and normalization is a lowercase, so a nameabsent from the source cannot appear in the result. Checking for those
two names is proof rather than a heuristic, and lets the parse be skipped
for every other token. The check folds ASCII case in place instead of
lowercasing a copy, because real media paths carry capitals and the copy
would otherwise be the common case.
runParamsForLogwas an argument tolog.Debug().Msgf, so it wasevaluated before zerolog's level check could skip it — every
runrequest paid for that parse with debug logging off.
Results
RedactTokenat the 8KB bound, on a mixed-case media path:The old figures also show the quadratic directly: 4KB to 8KB is 3.8x the
time for 2x the input.
Behaviour change
Text that names neither credential command and does not parse is no
longer replaced wholesale by the
[redacted script]placeholder. Itcannot carry a credential, so it stays readable in logs and history,
which is what redaction exists to allow. Text that does name one of the
two commands still fails closed exactly as before, and
FuzzRedactScriptstill holds its invariant that no credential survives redaction.
Also
BenchmarkScanToLaunch_DirectPathpanicked on unstubbedSettingsandRootDirsmocks, which madetask benchunusable. Fixed in its owncommit; it predates this branch and reproduces on the current
go-zapscript release.
go-zapscript v0.19.0
The dependency bump is the last commit on this branch.
ZaparooProject/go-zapscript#75 makes parsing linear in input length: the
argument accumulator was quadratic, so every parse under the new cap
still paid that cost until now. Parse time is 7.3ns per byte, flat from
888 bytes to 1MB, and one parse of an 8192 byte script drops from roughly
5.6ms to 60us.
On
BenchmarkScanToLaunchthat is 11% fewer allocations and 11% lessmemory per scan with wall time unchanged, because those benchmarks are
dominated by MediaDB queries rather than parsing. The parse win lands on
long scripts and on allocation pressure, not on typical token latency.
Closes #1375
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