fix(http): reject compromised Node header processing - #4455
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds Node-specific checks for modified native header processing and inherited ChangesNative request processing
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to A regression in one sanitizer could evade this security test. Require both failures before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AgentRuntime
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AgentRuntime->>RequestGuards: validate native headers and RequestInit defaults
RequestGuards-->>AgentRuntime: allow or throw TypeError
AgentRuntime->>NativeRequest: construct sanitized request
NativeRequest-->>AgentRuntime: return request or native error
AgentRuntime->>RequestGuards: revalidate after header and request processing
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On the suggestion to add colocated tests for the guards: the kept regressions exercise the real service helper, sanitizer and hosted route interfaces, including errors and rejected dispatch. The runtime inventories explicitly include these integration tests on Node and Bun. This tests the actual credential-processing behavior instead of duplicating the guard implementation in isolated helper tests. The PR remains draft while final tests, local Codex review and CI complete. This is a bounded mitigation; exact staging-artifact and authenticated hosted-run verification remain part of issue #1037. |
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Local Codex review, historical candidate. The finding below is fixed in the subsequent dispatcher commit, with helper and hosted-path red/green regressions. A new review is running for that commit. The focused Node/Deno regressions and source typechecks pass, but the additional synthetic probe confirms an ambient RequestInit field can still expose hosted credentials. Bun verification is partial; no staging verification is claimed. Review-Gate: Review comment:
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It changes security-critical request/header boundary enforcement in Node and should receive final human review focused on threat-model fit and forward-compatibility of the intrinsic/protocol checks.
Pull request overview
This PR hardens Veryfront’s Node request and header handling against compromised native callback dispatch, modified header iteration, and ambient/inherited RequestInit defaults by adding precondition checks at key security boundaries (service request helper, application-request sanitizer, and hosted invocation preparation), backed by new integration tests and a short architecture note describing the supported preconditions and limitations.
Changes:
- Add Node-only precondition checks for native header processing integrity and ambient
RequestInitdefaults, and re-check after potentially re-entrant option/header access. - Extend integration coverage for compromised callback/iterator exposure, inherited defaults, and hosted invocation preparation (including async mutation timing).
- Update suite inventories and add documentation describing the intended guarantees and residual shared-realm limits.
File summaries
| File | Description |
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| tests/integration/security/application-request.test.ts | Adds regression coverage ensuring sanitizer paths reject compromised callback dispatch without credential exposure. |
| tests/integration/agent/service-request-defaults.test.ts | Adds coverage for rejecting ambient/inherited RequestInit defaults on Node and freezing the RequestInit field policy. |
| tests/integration/agent/service-native-invocation.test.ts | Adds Node regression ensuring async hosted invocation rejects mutated header iteration before copying credentials. |
| tests/integration/agent/service-header-boundary.test.ts | Adds broad boundary coverage for callback/iterator compromise, re-entrant getters, compatibility, and error identity. |
| tests/integration/agent/fixtures/native-header-package-probe.mjs | Adds an installed-package probe script to validate rejections/clean requests without external fetches in a Node-only probe scenario. |
| src/security/http/native-request-processing.ts | Introduces assertNativeRequestDefaults() and a frozen RequestInitFields policy to detect ambient Node defaults pre-construction. |
| src/security/http/native-header-processing.ts | Introduces assertNativeHeaderProcessing() to detect modified callback dispatch and header iterator protocol on Node. |
| src/security/http/application-request.ts | Adds precondition checks around application-request sanitization, including re-checks after option normalization. |
| src/agent/service/routes.ts | Adds precondition checks in hosted invocation preparation and execute handler around clone, header copying, and request construction. |
| src/agent/service/definition.ts | Integrates precondition checks into header copying/replacement and service request construction, re-checking after init copying. |
| scripts/test/run-suite.ts | Adds new integration tests to Node and Bun suite patterns. |
| scripts/test/run-suite.test.ts | Updates suite inventory parity assertions for the newly added integration tests. |
| docs/architecture/native-request-processing.md | Documents the Node preconditions, threat model boundaries, and verification expectations. |
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Note Automatic reviews are paused because your trial's included automatic processing has been used for this period. Upgrade now, or comment "Gitar review" to run a review anytime. Code Review ✅ Approved 2 resolved / 2 findingsHardens Node header processing to prevent credential exposure through native callback replacement or iterator manipulation, and guards against inherited RequestInit defaults affecting helper requests. Security validation across Node 22/24/25, Deno, and Bun confirms zero credential observations in packed-artifact probes with explicit rejection paths. The request-field policy is now frozen to prevent option-copying bypasses. ✅ 2 resolved✅ Quality: New security modules lack colocated unit tests
✅ Quality: New test file omits describe() wrapper
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Local Codex CLI review of the exact final commit: No actionable regressions or bounded-contract gaps found in the exact committed diff. Focused Deno, Node and Bun tests, 66 synthetic rejection checks, implementation typechecking and suite-inventory checks passed; Bun hosted-import coverage remains blocked by workspace resolution, and installed-package/staging validation was not performed. Score breakdown: correctness 40/40, testing 17/20, reliability/security 14/15, standards 15/15, scope/docs 10/10. Review-Gate: |
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Final local Codex review: 96/100, zero actionable findings, APPROVE for the same commit. Focused final source coverage: 21 Node tests passed. Full local unit validation passed 4,536 tests / 38,641 steps on the preceding candidate; the final dispatcher-only addition has fresh targeted red/green, typecheck/lint, Deno and Bun controls. All review threads are resolved; waiting for the remaining CI jobs before merge. |
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Actual source-mapped Node coverage now reports 100% lines and 89.47% branches across the two guards, with all 21 focused tests passing. Thresholds and exclusions are unchanged. The existing full collector's TLS socket-limit test times out on this local macOS environment on Node 22/25; it passed on the preceding Linux CI run, and the updated job will verify the expanded collector in CI. Production sources are unchanged from |
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Local Codex CLI final review after the sanitizer assertion and native coverage additions: No actionable regressions or bounded-contract gaps found in the exact committed diff. Focused Deno/Node tests, inventory checks, typecheck, lint, and diff checks passed; Bun hosted-invocation loading and deployment verification remain validation gaps. Review-Gate: |
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Local Codex CLI final review after the serialization red/green fix: No actionable regressions or bounded-contract gaps found in the exact committed diff; targeted tests pass on Deno and three Node versions. Bun hosted-invocation loading and broader offline typechecking remain verification gaps, and no staging verification is claimed. Review-Gate: |
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The exact git-archive input was built using pinned Deno 2.7.7, with the same targeted dependency-cache reload noted previously. This validates locally packed output with built dependencies, not a published or staging artifact. Final local Codex review approved this commit at 94/100 with zero actionable findings. All posted review threads are resolved. CI is still running; merge remains conditional on green CI. |
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Sonar quality gate passes at 98.5% new-code coverage and 0% duplication. I reviewed its five non-blocking code-smell notes: four flag deliberate prototype replacement/restoration in the isolated synthetic package probe; the fifth recommends for-of in the native RequestInit guard. These are intentional: the probe must reproduce hostile prototype changes, and the guard uses indexed iteration to avoid a replaceable iterator while validating native state. No production defect is identified by those notes, and no threshold or exclusion was changed. |
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Local Codex CLI final review of early infrastructure-header sanitization: No actionable regressions or bounded-contract gaps were found in the exact committed diff. Focused Node/Deno tests, adjacent Deno regressions, inventory checks, lint, and diff checks passed; Bun verification remains partial because a local extension dependency is missing. Review-Gate: |
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@codex review Please re-review the current commit against the bounded header-processing contract in the PR description and docs/architecture/native-request-processing.md. The body-stream finding has been confirmed to reproduce identically on pre-PR base 3ee45cb and current head. The unchanged initial RequestClone predates this PR. It remains explicitly unfixed and tracked in veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#1037; the PR description now states that body cloning/reading and complete shared-realm isolation are outside this mitigation. This PR does not close #1037. Please assess whether the scoped header-processing changes are safe to merge with that documented limitation, and report any regressions or remaining gaps within that contract. All tests/quality checks are green, exact-package probes pass, and the current local Codex review is94/100 with zero actionable bounded-contract findings. The prior review finding is not being represented as fixed. |
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Merged #4455 through the required merge queue on September 8, 2026 at 08:54 UTC.
Issue #1037 remains OPEN. The pre-existing body-stream cloning exposure is still unfixed and recorded in the issue’s remaining-work section. Stronger body/process isolation, exact deployed staging-artifact verification and a separately recorded authenticated hosted-run control are outstanding. This merge is not complete credential-isolation or staging proof. |



Node header processing can expose infrastructure credentials through mutable native callbacks or conversion helpers. This change checks the selected callback/iterator dependencies and ambient RequestInit defaults, including Node’s dispatcher, before processing. Hosted invocation preparation removes infrastructure headers before native HeadersInit conversion and checks native state after payload serialization. The request-field policy is frozen.
Clean requests retain native headers, content types, body-transfer behavior and host error identity. Detected unsafe processing rejects explicitly without dispatching a partial request. The bounded contract and residual limits are documented in
docs/architecture/native-request-processing.md.Validation:
5689f72f6a191d156c254d91bc23fe60a3526b6f. All review threads are resolved.Tracks veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#1037. This PR does not close it. A body-stream cloning exposure reproduces identically on the pre-PR baseline and this commit and remains unfixed in the shared-realm body/process-isolation work. Native body cloning/reading, complete credential isolation, exact staging-artifact verification and a separate authenticated hosted-run control remain outside this mitigation and are explicitly tracked in #1037.