url: improve port validation

If a port is not a number, throw rather than treating the `:` that delineates the port as part of the path. This is consistent with WHATWG URL and also mitigates hostname-spoofing. Concerns about hostname-spoofing were raised and presented in excellent detail by pyozzi-toss ([email protected]/Security-Tech Team in Toss). PR-URL: #45012 Reviewed-By: Rafael Gonzaga <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
nodejs · Nov 1, 2022 · 4ecad09 · 4ecad09
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diff --git a/lib/url.js b/lib/url.js
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Url.prototype.parse = function parse(url, parseQueryString, slashesDenoteHost) {
 
     // validate a little.
     if (!ipv6Hostname) {
-      rest = getHostname(this, rest, hostname);
+      rest = getHostname(this, rest, hostname, url);
     }
 
     if (this.hostname.length > hostnameMaxLen) {
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ Url.prototype.parse = function parse(url, parseQueryString, slashesDenoteHost) {
   return this;
 };
 
-function getHostname(self, rest, hostname) {
+function getHostname(self, rest, hostname, url) {
   for (let i = 0; i < hostname.length; ++i) {
     const code = hostname.charCodeAt(i);
     const isValid = (code !== CHAR_FORWARD_SLASH &&
@@ -512,6 +512,10 @@ function getHostname(self, rest, hostname) {
                      code !== CHAR_COLON);
 
     if (!isValid) {
+      // If leftover starts with :, then it represents an invalid port.
+      if (hostname.charCodeAt(i) === 58) {
+        throw new ERR_INVALID_URL(url);
+      }
       self.hostname = hostname.slice(0, i);
       return `/${hostname.slice(i)}${rest}`;
     }

diff --git a/test/parallel/test-url-parse-format.js b/test/parallel/test-url-parse-format.js
@@ -865,22 +865,6 @@ const parseTests = {
     href: 'http://a%0D%22%20%09%0A%3C\'b:b@c/%0D%0Ad/e?f'
   },
 
-  // Git urls used by npm
-  'git+ssh://[email protected]:npm/npm': {
-    protocol: 'git+ssh:',
-    slashes: true,
-    auth: 'git',
-    host: 'github.com',
-    port: null,
-    hostname: 'github.com',
-    hash: null,
-    search: null,
-    query: null,
-    pathname: '/:npm/npm',
-    path: '/:npm/npm',
-    href: 'git+ssh://[email protected]/:npm/npm'
-  },
-
   'https://*': {
     protocol: 'https:',
     slashes: true,

diff --git a/test/parallel/test-url-parse-invalid-input.js b/test/parallel/test-url-parse-invalid-input.js
@@ -74,3 +74,15 @@ if (common.hasIntl) {
                 (e) => e.code === 'ERR_INVALID_URL',
                 'parsing http://\u00AD/bad.com/');
 }
+
+{
+  const badURLs = [
+    'https://evil.com:.example.com',
+    'git+ssh://[email protected]:npm/npm',
+  ];
+  badURLs.forEach((badURL) => {
+    assert.throws(() => { url.parse(badURL); },
+                  (e) => e.code === 'ERR_INVALID_URL',
+                  `parsing ${badURL}`);
+  });
+}