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Harden the web transport and bound the pages that run git

701232cf37157ff392e3b35a3279735d72e585d4 · Keenan Nemetz · 13d ago · parent 6bfc4294

Harden the web transport and bound the pages that run git

Generated clone and LFS download links were derived from the request's
Host header, with X-Forwarded-Proto believed from anyone. Those links are
copied out of a page and pasted into a terminal, and the LFS hrefs are
followed by a client, so a forged Host chose where somebody else's
download went.

Links now use public_url when it is configured, which is how a production
instance is meant to be set up; without it the request origin is all there
is, and forwarded headers are honoured only when git_http_client_ip_header
is set, because that is the instance's statement that a proxy it trusts
rewrites them. Site links follow the forge's scheme instead of always
saying http, so an HTTPS forge does not link to a mixed-content site.

The security headers now close the rest of the surface: object-src is
none, inline styles are no longer allowed (no template or generated
markup contains one), and Permissions-Policy, COOP and CORP are set. The
CSRF check gained a second lock: when the browser says where a request
came from, that origin must be this instance, on form posts and on the
JSON ceremony endpoints alike. A missing Origin and Referer is not
evidence, so only a request that names somewhere else is refused.

The pages that shell out to git are bounded. Search, compare, blame, file
history, commit history and both archive formats take a slot from a pool
of eight and run under a 30-second deadline, which is attached to the git
handle so the process is killed rather than left running after the reader
has gone. Past a five-second wait for a slot the page answers 503 with
Retry-After. Plain tar now takes the archive slot too: it is cheaper than
gzip, not free, and both stream for as long as the client reads.

Tests: clone URLs ignore a forged Host when public_url is set and honour
forwarded headers only behind a declared proxy; LFS hrefs likewise; site
links follow the scheme; the CSP has no unsafe-inline and names
object-src; a saturated git pool answers 503 with Retry-After; a
cross-origin post is refused with a valid CSRF token, end to end; the
JSON endpoints refuse a foreign origin.

Docs: public_url now explains that it decides generated links and that
forwarded headers are only trusted with the proxy header set; Sites gains
a same-site risk section recommending a separate registrable domain when
sites are not trusted.

server/lfs.go +21−10

@@ -147,16 +147,27 @@ func (s *Server) LFSObject(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
147 147 }
148 148 }
149 149
150 // lfsObjectBase is where download hrefs point. It is derived from the request
151 // rather than configured, so a clone through a proxy hands back a URL on the
152 // same host the client already uses.
150 // lfsObjectBase is where download hrefs point. The configured public_url wins when
151 // there is one: these hrefs are followed by git-lfs, so a Host header an attacker
152 // chose would send the client to a host the attacker chose. Without a public_url
153 // the origin the client used is the only thing there is, and the forwarding header
154 // is believed only when the instance declares a trusted proxy.
153 155 func (s *Server) lfsObjectBase(r *http.Request, name string) string {
154 scheme := "http"
155 if r.TLS != nil {
156 scheme = "https"
157 }
158 if p := r.Header.Get("X-Forwarded-Proto"); p == "https" || p == "http" {
159 scheme = p
156 base := ""
157 if s.Cfg != nil {
158 base = s.Cfg.BaseURL()
159 }
160 if base == "" {
161 scheme := "http"
162 if r.TLS != nil {
163 scheme = "https"
164 }
165 if s.Cfg != nil && strings.TrimSpace(s.Cfg.GitHTTPClientIPHeader) != "" {
166 if p := strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(r.Header.Get("X-Forwarded-Proto"))); p == "https" || p == "http" {
167 scheme = p
168 }
169 }
170 base = scheme + "://" + r.Host
160 171 }
161 return scheme + "://" + r.Host + "/git/" + name + ".git" + objectShard + "objects"
172 return base + "/git/" + name + ".git" + objectShard + "objects"
162 173 }