#622 reported "I cant even paste that hash pw and granted So auth_en
=false & localbypass= true But then the host still is showing login
page?" — the operator turned auth off in .env and still gets bounced
to /login on every page load. The flow:
The auth middleware in app.py is correctly gated on AUTH_ENABLED, so
the middleware itself does not install when AUTH_ENABLED=false. The
SPA front-end at static/app.js wraps window.fetch and redirects to
/login on ANY 401 response from any API call. So all it takes for the
operator to see a login page is one route-level 401.
src/auth_helpers.require_user — the shared FastAPI dependency mounted
on ~50 routes (email, contacts, personal, …) — was the source. It is
documented as defense-in-depth in case the middleware was bypassed
unexpectedly (SSRF from a sibling service), but the implementation
treated AUTH_ENABLED=false as one of those unexpected bypasses and
401'd anyway. The loopback fall-through that would have admitted the
operator does not fire under docker compose / a reverse proxy because
the container sees the request arriving from the bridge gateway
(172.x.x.x), not 127.0.0.1.
require_user now short-circuits to "" when AUTH_ENABLED=false so the
explicit operator opt-out reaches the route layer too. While in the
file, also mirror LOCALHOST_BYPASS=true the same way for loopback
callers — the middleware already lets them through, and routes 401'ing
the same caller would produce the same /login bounce. Non-loopback
callers under LOCALHOST_BYPASS are still rejected, matching the
middleware's _is_trusted_loopback check.
Add three focused regression tests in tests/test_security_regressions.py:
docker-bridge caller is admitted under AUTH_ENABLED=false, loopback
caller is admitted under LOCALHOST_BYPASS=true, LAN caller under
LOCALHOST_BYPASS=true is still rejected. The existing
test_require_user_rejects_unauthenticated and
test_require_user_accepts_loopback_when_unconfigured tests continue to
pass because neither sets AUTH_ENABLED, so the AUTH_ENABLED=true
default path is unchanged.
Closes#622.
Route PDF lookups through UploadHandler.resolve_upload, reject poisoned pdf_source markers on document create/update, and add regression tests.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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.
* feat(web-fetch): add web_fetch tool to read a specific URL's content
* test(web-fetch): add SSRF coverage and fail closed on empty DNS resolution
Add explicit SSRF regression tests for the web_fetch path covering
loopback, private LAN ranges, link-local/metadata, IPv6 private/local,
redirect-into-private, and unsupported schemes. Harden _public_http_url
to fail closed when a hostname resolves to no addresses.
