Hardens issues found in a security review of the current tree (separate from
the cookbook SSH PR):
- Email thread rendering (static/js/emailLibrary.js): the flat read path runs
inbound HTML through the allowlist sanitizer, but the two threaded paths
(_renderTurnsAsBubbles / _renderTurnsFromServer — the default view) injected
server-parsed `body_html` raw into the DOM. A crafted inbound email could
inject arbitrary markup (phishing/form/credential-capture/tracking; full XSS
if a deployment relaxes the script CSP). Now sanitized on all paths.
- Attachment extraction (routes/email_routes.py, routes/email_helpers.py): the
on-disk extraction dir was `ATTACHMENTS_DIR / f"{folder}_{uid}"` with
user-controlled folder/uid and no containment, so a folder like `../../tmp`
could escape ATTACHMENTS_DIR. New attachment_extract_dir() flattens both to a
single safe segment and asserts containment.
- Diagnostics routes (routes/diagnostics_routes.py): /api/db/stats,
/api/rag/stats, /api/test/youtube, /api/test-research relied only on the
global session check (any logged-in user). Now require_admin-gated.
- Defense-in-depth HTML escaping: session HTML export escapes the session name
(routes/session_routes.py); the MCP OAuth page escapes the reflected Host
header / server_id (routes/mcp_routes.py).
- Internal-tool token now compared with secrets.compare_digest (constant time)
in core/middleware.py and app.py.
Adds regression tests in tests/test_security_regressions.py.
Personal Docs (POST /api/personal/add_directory and friends) currently
returns HTTP 503 'RAG system is not available' for every request,
because get_rag_manager() and rag_manager are both hardcoded off. The
disablement was added when chromadb 1.4.1 / pydantic 2.12 were mutually
incompatible at the client init layer.
That compat issue is fixed in the current pins (chromadb 1.5.x +
pydantic 2.13.x). Verified by calling the original lazy initializer
against a running chroma server — VectorRAG instantiates, reports
healthy=True, and indexes successfully.
This change:
1. src/rag_singleton.py — replace the hardcoded `return None` in
get_rag_manager() with the original lazy init body. Keeps the
30s retry-throttle so a missing chroma server doesn't busy-retry
on every request.
2. app.py — replace the parallel `rag_manager = None` /
`rag_available = False` hardcoding with a get_rag_manager() call.
Logs the resolved state at startup. If chroma isn't reachable yet,
rag_manager stays None and personal-doc routes still return 503,
but the *next* request will hit the retry-throttle path in
get_rag_manager() and try to init again.
Doesn't touch requirements.txt. Repos using docker-compose get chroma
automatically; manual installs that want Personal Docs to work still
need to either pip install chromadb (full package) and run `chroma run`
or point at an external chroma instance via env. That can be a
follow-up README / requirements-optional note.
