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security(smime): fix finding 5 (parser DoS) and harden finding 4
Finding 5 — the MIME parser runs on attacker-controlled input: the inner content recovered after decrypt/verify is whatever the sender put there. Upstream had no depth limit on nested multiparts and no size cap anywhere. Verified against the unpatched upstream parser with the same input: UPSTREAM CRASHED: RangeError - Maximum call stack size exceeded UPSTREAM: 65MB accepted (no size cap) So this was a live decrypt-time DoS reachable by anyone who can send mail. Caps added: depth 20, parts 500, bytes 64 MB — generous enough that no legitimate message comes close (real mail nests 3-4 levels). Past a limit a subtree degrades to a leaf rather than throwing, so one pathological branch doesn't discard the legitimate parts above it. Oversize input is refused outright rather than truncated: half a MIME tree parses into misleading nonsense, and showing part of a message is worse than saying no. Both bodyStructure walkers in smime-detect.js are capped too — those run on server-supplied structure BEFORE any decrypt/verify gate. Finding 4 — hardened, not eliminated, per the agreed scope. Unlocked CryptoKeys still live in durable IndexedDB rather than memory; moving them would mean refactoring how the plugin shares state across iframes and risking the unlock->decrypt path just verified. What changed instead: - Removed the lockOnLogout opt-out from the logout/account-switch wipes. A non-extractable key cannot be exported but can still be USED, so a handle outliving the session lets anyone with the browser profile decrypt mail without knowing the passphrase. That is not a preference to toggle off. - Added a best-effort wipe on pagehide and beforeunload to narrow the window in which a usable handle exists on disk. Best-effort by nature: an IndexedDB write may not complete during teardown and neither event fires on a crash — which is precisely why the boot wipe in activate() remains the load-bearing control. - Deliberately NOT wiping on visibilitychange: tabbing away would drop the unlock and force a passphrase re-entry every time, which trains users into turning S/MIME off entirely. - Dropped the now-dead lockOnLogout setting from the manifest. A toggle that silently does nothing is worse than no toggle. Tests: 49 unit assertions + 28 round trip. The round trip now feeds genuinely hostile MIME through the real parser (5000-level nesting, 5000 siblings, 65 MB) and still confirms a normal multipart/alternative parses correctly. Full crypto round trip unchanged and passing, so neither fix broke S/MIME. Findings 6, 7, 8 and 9 remain open. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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security(smime): fork upstream plugin and fix two audit findings
S-01 audited bulwarkmail/plugins/smime @ 91085a3 (2,935 lines). Nine findings, two HIGH. No backdoor and no exfiltration path anywhere in the bundle — the problems are trust-model and input-validation gaps. Full report in vnc/audits/SMIME-PLUGIN-AUDIT-2026-08-04.md. Fork is source-only. The upstream smime.zip is a 1.77 MB prebuilt bundle whose manifest reads 1.0.1 while the source reads 1.0.2, so auditing src/ would not audit what that zip installs. We build from source. Finding 1 (HIGH) — certificate substitution. maybeAutoImportSigner gated on signatureValid alone, but smimeVerify runs checkChain:false, so that only proves "signed by whoever holds this key", not that the claimed identity is real. Self-sign a cert asserting victim@example.com, send one signed message, and it was stored as the encryption target for that address — the user's next Encrypt to the victim went to the attacker. Now requires signerEmailMatch === true and !selfSigned. Both values were already computed and displayed as untrusted in the banner; only the import path ignored them. Tests for `true` explicitly so an undefined match (missing From header) fails closed. Finding 3 (MED-HIGH) — CRLF header injection. Escaping reached only Subject and attachment filename; display names, raw addresses, Message-ID, In-Reply-To, References and attachment Content-Type were emitted verbatim, and formatAddress escapes only backslash and quote. In-Reply-To/References/display names are copied from inbound mail when replying or forwarding, so the value is attacker-supplied. Sanitising inside formatHeader covers all 17 call sites by construction; the three headers assembled directly get stripCrlf explicitly. Also adds auth:observe to the manifest. The plugin registers onAfterLogout/onAccountSwitch — real hooks (lib/plugin-hooks.ts:362-363) — without declaring the permission, so under B-09 the session-key wipe would silently stop running. verify-fixes.mjs carries 19 assertions including source checks that fail if either guard is removed or a new unsanitised interpolated header appears. That last one immediately caught the interpolated smime-type Content-Type header, which manual review had dismissed as static. Finding 2 (unauthenticated CBC accepted on decrypt) is NOT fixed. This is not safe for real mail yet — sandbox accounts only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> |