fix(uploads): treat names, tokens and URLs from clients as untrusted by matheusfillipe · Pull Request #7 · obbyworld/hosted-backend

matheusfillipe · 2026-11-01T09:16:54Z

The upload endpoints trusted what clients send. Account and channel names went straight into routes, file names and the URLs we hand back. A token minted for one channel worked for any channel. Image URLs were downloaded from any address, internal hosts included, with no size cap.

That let an op of one channel replace or delete another channel's avatar, let one account's upload delete another account's avatar when one name prefixed the other, and let any logged-in user make the server request internal addresses. Names with reserved URL characters (a /, ?, %) also failed to route, and the 404 carried no CORS headers, so clients only saw "Load failed".

Before:

flowchart LR
  N[Name from the client] --> P[Route, file name, returned URL]
  T[Token for one channel] --> A[Avatar of any channel]
  U[URL from the client] --> D[Server downloads any address, any size]

After:

flowchart LR
  N[Name from the client] --> R[Route takes any name] --> H[Hex file name inside images/]
  T[Token for one channel] --> C{Same channel as the URL?}
  C -- no --> F[403]
  U[URL from the client] --> G{http or https, public address?}
  G -- yes --> L[Download, capped at the upload limit]
  G -- no --> X[Refused]

Avatars stored under the old naming stay where they are and keep working. Unknown routes now answer with CORS headers, so clients can show the real error.

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coderabbitai · 2026-11-01T09:17:06Z

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Preserve slash-containing channel names before routing.
Remove or migrate legacy channel avatars that use the old prefix.

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- Line 280: Configure the mux router created by mux.NewRouter to skip path
cleaning before route matching, preserving slash-containing and dot-segment
channel names. Add tests confirming the avatar and emoji routes handle such
channel names without redirecting or serving a different channel’s pack.
- Line 981: Update the channel-avatar cleanup associated with
channelAvatarPrefix to remove or migrate legacy `#`-to-`_hash_` avatar files in
a one-time step, matching the exact channel identity safely. Do not broaden the
current prefix match, since the legacy prefix for one channel can also match
another channel’s files.

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Channel claims now carry the channel scope into legacy claims. Channel routes accept names containing slashes. Avatar uploads check token channel ownership, and channel-avatar filenames use lowercase, hex-encoded channel prefixes.

Changes: Channel routing and avatars

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Channel claim propagation `auth.go`, `authtoken.go`	`JWTClaims` adds a `Channel` field. Legacy claim conversion sets it from a `channel:` scope.
Channel routes and avatar authorization `emoji.go`, `main.go`, `channel_avatar_test.go`	Channel emoji and avatar routes accept names containing slashes. Avatar uploads return HTTP 403 when the token channel does not match the requested channel, ignoring case. Unmatched routes use CORS handling. Tests cover slash-containing routes and channel mismatch.
Channel-avatar filenames and cleanup `main.go`, `channel_avatar_test.go`	Avatar filename generation and cleanup use a lowercase, hex-encoded channel prefix. Tests check prefix safety, separation of names that differ by slash and underscore, and case-insensitive matching.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: valwareirc

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 7801a

Channel avatars uploaded before this change are not removed when a channel sets a new one, and the old images stay publicly reachable. Channel names containing consecutive slashes or dot-segments can still be redirected instead of handled. The main goals, scoping tokens to their channel and accepting names with slashes, are implemented, so remaining risk is bounded. Address the legacy file cleanup and consider disabling path cleaning before or soon after merge.

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Use the IRC server’s channel casemapping.

UnrealIRCd treats #Ä and #ä as distinct channels, but strings.EqualFold treats them as equal. An operator token for one can therefore pass this check for the other. Also, channelAvatarPrefix lowercases both to the same filename prefix, so either channel’s upload can delete the other channel’s avatar. Apply the server’s casemapping to authorization, operator matching, and filename generation. (unrealircd.org)

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Review comments at @main.go:
- Line 280: Configure the mux router created by mux.NewRouter to skip path
cleaning before route matching, preserving slash-containing and dot-segment
channel names. Add tests confirming the avatar and emoji routes handle such
channel names without redirecting or serving a different channel’s pack.
- Line 981: Update the channel-avatar cleanup associated with
channelAvatarPrefix to remove or migrate legacy `#`-to-`_hash_` avatar files in
a one-time step, matching the exact channel identity safely. Do not broaden the
current prefix match, since the legacy prefix for one channel can also match
another channel’s files.

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coderabbitai · 2026-11-01T09:21:57Z

 	}

-	safeChannel := strings.ReplaceAll(channel, "#", "_hash_")
+	prefix := channelAvatarPrefix(channel)


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Script executed:

rg -n 'avatar_channel|channelAvatarPrefix|_hash_|uploads/avatars|avatar' --glob '*.go' . | head -80 sed -n '960,1000p' main.go

Repository: obbyworld/hosted-backend

Length of output: 3294

Script executed:

rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'FileServer' -e '"images"' -e 'avatar/channel' -e 'removeOldChannelAvatar' -- . || test "$?" -eq 1 sed -n '270,300p' main.go sed -n '800,830p' main.go

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Remove or migrate legacy channel avatars that use the old prefix.

Avatars uploaded before this change use the old #-to-_hash_ prefix, for example avatar_channel__hash_foo_<timestamp>.png. removeOldChannelAvatar now matches only the hex prefix, so it no longer removes these files when a new avatar is uploaded for #foo. The file stays in images/, which /images/ serves without authentication. Its previous URL remains reachable, and the directory listing exposes its name.

Remove or migrate the legacy files in a one-time step. Do not widen the prefix match to the old scheme. The old scheme maps #foo to avatar_channel__hash_foo_, and that string also prefixes the legacy files for #foo_bar.

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