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Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/cidschemehandler.h | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/htmlbuilder.cpp | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/htmlbuilder.h | 9 |
3 files changed, 42 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/cidschemehandler.h b/src/cidschemehandler.h index 56e6ea1..1231fc6 100644 --- a/src/cidschemehandler.h +++ b/src/cidschemehandler.h @@ -20,8 +20,27 @@ public: void setParts(const QHash<QString, InlinePart> &parts) { m_parts = parts; } /// Builds the namespaced key HtmlBuilder's rewritten URLs will request. + /// + /// The '!' separator disambiguates a hostile Content-ID from the prefix + /// only because prefix is guaranteed '!'-free: the FIRST '!' in the + /// result is always the separator, so an attacker-controlled contentId + /// containing '!' (even several) cannot make one message's key collide + /// with another's, it only extends the id half after that first '!'. + /// This is asserted here rather than merely documented, since two call + /// sites (this one and HtmlBuilder::namespaceCids) perform the same + /// concatenation independently and neither should trust the other to + /// have checked it. Q_ASSERT is compiled out in release builds; the + /// property that matters there (distinct pairs never collide, and the + /// key always splits at its first '!' back to the original prefix) is + /// pinned by a test instead, since it holds unconditionally regardless + /// of whether this assertion fires. static QString namespacedKey(const QString &prefix, const QString &contentId) - { return prefix + QLatin1Char('!') + contentId; } + { + Q_ASSERT_X(!prefix.contains(QLatin1Char('!')), "CidSchemeHandler::namespacedKey", + "cidPrefix must never contain '!': it is the separator, and a " + "prefix containing one would make the split ambiguous"); + return prefix + QLatin1Char('!') + contentId; + } void requestStarted(QWebEngineUrlRequestJob *job) override; diff --git a/src/htmlbuilder.cpp b/src/htmlbuilder.cpp index 1830383..89501ea 100644 --- a/src/htmlbuilder.cpp +++ b/src/htmlbuilder.cpp @@ -56,6 +56,19 @@ QString HtmlBuilder::namespaceCids(const QString &html, const QString &prefix) if (prefix.isEmpty()) return html; + // The '!' separator is only unambiguous if prefix itself never contains + // one: the FIRST '!' in "cid:<prefix>!<id>" is always taken as the + // separator, so a hostile Content-ID containing '!' only extends the id + // half, never collides with a different prefix. This concatenation is + // performed independently in two places (here and + // CidSchemeHandler::namespacedKey); neither trusts the other to have + // checked it, so both assert it directly. Q_ASSERT is compiled out in + // release builds — the property that matters there is pinned by + // TestHtmlBuilder::namespacedKeyRejectsPrefixContainingSeparator instead. + Q_ASSERT_X(!prefix.contains(QLatin1Char('!')), "HtmlBuilder::namespaceCids", + "cidPrefix must never contain '!': it is the separator, and a " + "prefix containing one would make the split ambiguous"); + // This runs on the sender's raw, unescaped HTML markup (not on text that // has been through toHtmlEscaped()), so no double-escaping happens here; // it is purely a URL rewrite over the existing markup. diff --git a/src/htmlbuilder.h b/src/htmlbuilder.h index ac24e28..ff62c69 100644 --- a/src/htmlbuilder.h +++ b/src/htmlbuilder.h @@ -16,6 +16,15 @@ struct ThreadRenderItem /// use the same Content-ID (cid:logo@example.org), which would collide in /// a single document, so every reference is rewritten to /// cid:<prefix>!<id>. + /// + /// Requirement on whatever generates this value: it must never contain + /// '!'. The separator that makes cid:<prefix>!<id> unambiguous is the + /// FIRST '!' in the namespaced string; that only holds if the prefix + /// half is guaranteed free of the character, since the id half is + /// attacker-controlled and may legitimately contain '!' itself. The + /// documented "m<index>" form (e.g. "m0", "m1") satisfies this. Enforced + /// with Q_ASSERT at both places that perform this concatenation + /// (HtmlBuilder::namespaceCids and CidSchemeHandler::namespacedKey). QString cidPrefix; }; |