# Copyright (C) 2026 Danilo M. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as # published by the Free Software Foundation. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. """Tests for the Received-chain trust boundary walk.""" import pathlib import unittest from abusectl import parse FIXTURES = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent / "fixtures" def load(name: str) -> bytes: return (FIXTURES / name).read_bytes() class TestReceivedChain(unittest.TestCase): def test_hops_are_returned_outermost_first(self): hops = parse.received_hops(load("simple.eml")) self.assertEqual([h.ip for h in hops], ["192.0.2.11", "203.0.113.42"]) def test_the_first_untrusted_hop_is_the_sender(self): ip = parse.sending_ip(load("simple.eml"), trusted=["192.0.2.0/24"]) self.assertEqual(ip, "203.0.113.42") def test_a_forged_chain_stops_at_the_first_untrusted_hop(self): # The attacker prepended two hops naming an innocent third party. # Walking past the boundary would report 198.51.100.7, which is # someone else's address in a header the attacker wrote. ip = parse.sending_ip(load("forged-chain.eml"), trusted=["192.0.2.0/24"]) self.assertEqual(ip, "203.0.113.99") def test_hops_below_the_boundary_are_still_recorded(self): # Recorded, but as untrusted: they may be useful and must not be # presented as fact. hops = parse.received_hops(load("forged-chain.eml")) self.assertEqual( [h.ip for h in hops], ["192.0.2.11", "203.0.113.99", "198.51.100.7", "198.51.100.8"], ) def test_no_trusted_relays_is_an_error_not_a_guess(self): # Guessing the outermost public IP is wrong in exactly the case that # matters, and a confident wrong answer gets a third party reported. with self.assertRaises(parse.NoTrustBoundary): parse.sending_ip(load("simple.eml"), trusted=[]) def test_a_chain_entirely_inside_the_boundary_has_no_sender(self): ip = parse.sending_ip( load("simple.eml"), trusted=["192.0.2.0/24", "203.0.113.0/24"] ) self.assertIsNone(ip) if __name__ == "__main__": unittest.main()