Harden CGI status-line parsing in git_http_backend #274

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didericis merged 1 commits from harden-cgi-status-parsing into main 2026-06-25 04:02:21 -04:00
2 changed files with 58 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -148,7 +148,13 @@ class GitHttpHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
key, _, value = line.decode("latin1").partition(":")
value = value.strip()
if key.lower() == "status":
try:
status = int(value.split()[0])
except (ValueError, IndexError):
self.log_message(
"malformed CGI Status header %r; using 500", value,
)
status = 500
else:
headers.append((key, value))
self.send_response(status)
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@@ -256,6 +256,57 @@ class TestGitHttpBackend(unittest.TestCase):
os.environ["GIT_GATE_ACCESS_HOOK"] = value
class TestMalformedStatusHeader(unittest.TestCase):
"""Malformed CGI Status: headers must not propagate as unhandled exceptions;
the handler should fall back to HTTP 500."""
def setUp(self):
from http.server import ThreadingHTTPServer
import tempfile
self._tmp = tempfile.mkdtemp()
os.environ["GIT_PROJECT_ROOT"] = self._tmp
self._server = ThreadingHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 0), GitHttpHandler)
self._thread = threading.Thread(
target=self._server.serve_forever, daemon=True,
)
self._thread.start()
self._port = self._server.server_port
def tearDown(self):
self._server.shutdown()
self._server.server_close()
os.environ.pop("GIT_PROJECT_ROOT", None)
import shutil
shutil.rmtree(self._tmp, ignore_errors=True)
def _get_with_backend_response(self, cgi_response: bytes) -> int:
with mock.patch(
"bot_bottle.git_http_backend.subprocess.run",
return_value=mock.Mock(returncode=0, stdout=cgi_response),
):
req = urllib.request.Request(
f"http://127.0.0.1:{self._port}/repo.git/info/refs",
method="GET",
)
try:
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=3) as resp:
return resp.status
except urllib.error.HTTPError as e: # type: ignore
return e.code
def test_empty_status_value_returns_500(self):
status = self._get_with_backend_response(
b"Status: \r\nContent-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n"
)
self.assertEqual(500, status)
def test_non_numeric_status_returns_500(self):
status = self._get_with_backend_response(
b"Status: bad\r\nContent-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n"
)
self.assertEqual(500, status)
class TestContentLengthBounds(unittest.TestCase):
"""PRD 0041: malformed or oversized Content-Length is rejected before
git http-backend is invoked."""