Fix the b64_body path slice and honour its case-insensitive prefix - #1413
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WalkthroughThe server now extracts base64 response bodies from path syntax using a named prefix. The parsing accepts case-insensitive prefixes, optional trailing path segments, and empty payloads. Tests cover these path variants. ChangesBase64 response-body path handling
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The fix prevents the original panic and supports case-insensitive prefixes, but it can still misinterpret '/' inside a valid Base64 payload when no trailing delimiter is present, returning incorrect or empty content. This bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Poem
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63-98: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd a test for a non-empty suffix segment.
The tests cover
/b64_body:<data>/, but not/b64_body:<data>/extra. Add that case to protect the stated suffix-trimming behavior.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@pkg/server/http_server.go`:
- Around line 342-350: Update the Base64 request handling around b64BodyPrefix
so it does not infer a delimiter with strings.LastIndex, preserving valid
standard-Base64 payloads containing “/”. Make the trailing delimiter mandatory
or switch to URL-safe Base64, and add a regression test covering a payload
containing “/”.
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In `@pkg/server/http_server_test.go`:
- Around line 63-98: Extend the b64_body path tests around
writeResponseFromDynamicRequest with a non-empty suffix segment such as
“/extra”, and assert it still returns the decoded body. Keep the existing
trailing-slash, no-slash, uppercase-prefix, and empty-payload cases unchanged.
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| if stringsutil.HasPrefixI(req.URL.Path, b64BodyPrefix) { | ||
| // the prefix check is case insensitive, so take the offset from its | ||
| // length rather than searching for it again | ||
| encoded := req.URL.Path[len(b64BodyPrefix):] | ||
| if lastIndex := strings.LastIndex(encoded, "/"); lastIndex >= 0 { | ||
| encoded = encoded[:lastIndex] | ||
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| decodedBytes, _ := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(req.URL.Path[firstindex+10 : lastIndex]) | ||
| decodedBytes, _ := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(encoded) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
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import base64
encoded = base64.b64encode(b"\xff\xff\xff").decode()
assert encoded == "////"
truncated = encoded[:encoded.rfind("/")]
assert truncated == "///"
try:
base64.b64decode(truncated, validate=True)
except Exception:
pass
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raise SystemExit("expected the truncated payload to fail decoding")
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package main
import (
"encoding/base64"
"fmt"
"net/http/httptest"
"strings"
)
func main() {
for _, rawURL := range []string{
"http://example.com/b64_body:////",
"http://example.com/b64_body://///",
"http://example.com/b64_body://///",
} {
req := httptest.NewRequest("GET", rawURL, nil)
encoded := req.URL.Path[len("/b64_body:"):]
last := strings.LastIndex(encoded, "/")
if last >= 0 {
encoded = encoded[:last]
}
decoded, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(encoded)
fmt.Printf("url=%q path=%q encoded=%q decoded=%x err=%v\n", rawURL, req.URL.Path, encoded, decoded, err)
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Do not infer the delimiter with strings.LastIndex.
When the path omits the trailing delimiter, this removes / from valid base64.StdEncoding payloads such as //// and produces an empty response. Make the delimiter mandatory or use URL-safe Base64. Add a regression test for a payload containing /.
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In `@pkg/server/http_server.go` around lines 342 - 350, Update the Base64 request
handling around b64BodyPrefix so it does not infer a delimiter with
strings.LastIndex, preserving valid standard-Base64 payloads containing “/”.
Make the trailing delimiter mandatory or switch to URL-safe Base64, and add a
regression test covering a payload containing “/”.
The dynamic response handler slices the request path to pull out the base64 body: firstindex := strings.Index(req.URL.Path, "/b64_body:") lastIndex := strings.LastIndex(req.URL.Path, "/") decodedBytes, _ := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(req.URL.Path[firstindex+10 : lastIndex]) Two problems with that. /b64_body:<data> with no trailing slash leaves lastIndex at 0, the leading slash, so the slice runs from 10 down to 0: panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range [10:0] The guard above is HasPrefixI, which is case insensitive, but strings.Index is not. /B64_BODY:<data>/ passes the guard and then Index returns -1, so the slice starts at 9 and the base64 decode fails silently, returning an empty body instead of the requested one. Take the offset from the prefix length, which HasPrefixI has already guaranteed, and trim at the last slash inside the remainder only when there is one. /b64_body:<data>/ and /b64_body:<data>/<extra> decode exactly as before. Signed-off-by: Arpit Jain <arpitjain099@gmail.com>
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Looks good. Panic on missing trailing slash is real; tests cover that, case-insensitive prefix, empty payload, and StdEncoding / and +. Trailing slash is only a terminator. CodeQL reflected-XSS is DynamicResp (-dr) by design.
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writeResponseFromDynamicRequestslices the request path to pull out the base64 body:Two things go wrong there.
/b64_body:<data>with no trailing slash has only the one slash in it, solastIndexis 0 while the slice starts at 10:The guard is
HasPrefixI, which is case insensitive, butstrings.Indexis not./B64_BODY:<data>/passes the guard,Indexreturns -1, and the slice starts at 9 instead of 10. The decode then fails and the error is discarded, so the response body comes back empty rather than the requested content.I checked all three against
mainbefore changing anything:/b64_body:<data>panics,/B64_BODY:<data>/returns an empty body,/b64_body:<data>/works.On impact,
net/httprecovers a handler panic per connection, so this aborts that one response and closes the connection rather than stopping the server, and it needs-drfor the dynamic-response path to be reachable at all. It is still a request the server invites, and the case-insensitive variant fails silently, which is harder to notice than the panic.The fix takes the offset from the prefix length, which
HasPrefixIhas already guaranteed is there, and trims at the last slash inside the remainder only when there is one./b64_body:<data>/and/b64_body:<data>/<extra>decode exactly as before.Four subtests added to the existing
TestWriteResponseFromDynamicRequesttable: the current working form, the no-trailing-slash form, the uppercase prefix, and a bare/b64_body:with nothing after it. The second one panics onmainand takes the test binary with it.go build ./...,go vet ./pkg/server/andgo test ./pkg/server/are clean.Summary by CodeRabbit
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