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fix(id/artifact): bound home_declared world_id and refuse duplicate endpoints (#3187) #4432

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144 changes: 141 additions & 3 deletions pkgs/id/src/artifact.rs
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Expand Up @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ pub const FILE: &str = "artifacts.jsonl";
pub const PAGE_BYTES: usize = 256 * 1024;
/// Home servers one declaration may name.
pub const MAX_HOME_SERVERS: usize = 8;
/// The largest world ID one home server may carry, in bytes.
pub const MAX_WORLD_ID_BYTES: usize = 64;
/// Hashes one artifact may name in `after`.
pub const MAX_AFTER: usize = 32;
/// The largest content a document may carry, as serialized JSON.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -330,6 +332,18 @@ impl SignedArtifact {
/// Fails with [`Refusal::Forbidden`] when a known kind is malformed or its
/// author may not make it.
pub fn parsed(&self) -> Result<Option<Kind>> {
self.parsed_mode(false)
}

/// [`SignedArtifact::parsed`] for history a log already holds: the
/// `home_declared` bounds added for #3187 do not apply, so a declaration
/// accepted before them still replays (mirroring how replay skips the
/// frame check in `store`). New receipts always go through `parsed`.
fn parsed_for_replay(&self) -> Result<Option<Kind>> {
self.parsed_mode(true)
}

fn parsed_mode(&self, replay: bool) -> Result<Option<Kind>> {
match self.kind.as_str() {
FRIEND_REMOVE => {
let body: FriendRemove = self.decode()?;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -372,12 +386,47 @@ impl SignedArtifact {
"a declaration names at most {MAX_HOME_SERVERS} servers"
)));
}
// Duplicate refusal compares the validated endpoint
// identities, not the raw strings: one node can be named
// by its bare ID or by an endpoint ticket for that ID.
let mut targets: Vec<EndpointAddr> = Vec::with_capacity(body.servers.len());
for server in &body.servers {
check_target(&server.endpoint)
let target = check_target(&server.endpoint)
.map_err(|error| forbidden(format!("{error:#}")))?;
if !replay && targets.iter().any(|prior| prior.id == target.id) {
return Err(forbidden(
"a declaration names each endpoint at most once",
));
}
targets.push(target);
}
for server in &body.servers {
if server.world_id.is_empty() {
return Err(forbidden("a home server needs a world ID"));
}
if replay {
continue;
}
if server.world_id.len() > MAX_WORLD_ID_BYTES {
return Err(forbidden(format!(
"a home server's world ID is 1 to {MAX_WORLD_ID_BYTES} bytes"
)));
}
if server.world_id.trim().is_empty() {
return Err(forbidden(
"a home server's world ID must not be whitespace only",
));
}
if server.world_id.chars().any(char::is_control) {
return Err(forbidden(
"a home server's world ID must not contain control characters",
));
}
if server.world_id.chars().any(crate::is_format_char) {
return Err(forbidden(
"a home server's world ID must not contain format characters",
));
}
}
Ok(Some(Kind::HomeDeclared(body)))
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -461,7 +510,11 @@ impl ArtifactLog {
/// before the check still loads.
fn store(&mut self, artifact: SignedArtifact, frame_check: bool) -> Result<Stored> {
artifact.verify()?;
artifact.parsed()?;
if frame_check {
artifact.parsed()?;
} else {
artifact.parsed_for_replay()?;
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

Supported by static analysis

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git show 85fdc17536ab3e7d719502c4163ebaef1084b7ad:pkgs/id/src/artifact.rs | sed -n '320,425p'
sed -n '490,525p' pkgs/id/src/artifact.rs
sed -n '760,810p' pkgs/id/src/artifact.rs
sed -n '1030,1070p' pkgs/id/src/artifact.rs
sed -n '1360,1410p' pkgs/id/src/directory.rs

Repository: developing-today/code

Length of output: 10896

Script executed:

set -u
echo "--- commit resolution"
git rev-parse --verify -q '85fdc17536ab3e7d719502c4163ebaef1084b7ad^{commit}' || echo "base commit unavailable"
git rev-parse --verify -q 'ee4ec5e42381b293eb4534d9841816651b018cda^{commit}' || echo "head commit unavailable"
git rev-parse HEAD || true
echo "--- base artifact.rs world_id/parsed references"
git show 85fdc17536ab3e7d719502c4163ebaef1084b7ad:pkgs/id/src/artifact.rs > /tmp/base-artifact.rs; echo "base show exit $?"
rg -n -F -e 'world_id' -e 'MAX_WORLD_ID_BYTES' -e 'fn parsed' -e 'parsed_mode' -e 'parsed_for_replay' -- /tmp/base-artifact.rs || test "$?" -eq 1
echo "--- head artifact.rs world_id/parsed references"
rg -n -F -e 'world_id' -e 'MAX_WORLD_ID_BYTES' -e 'fn parsed' -e 'parsed_mode' -e 'parsed_for_replay' -- pkgs/id/src/artifact.rs || test "$?" -eq 1
echo "--- head artifact.rs parsed-mode region 336-420"
sed -n '336,420p' pkgs/id/src/artifact.rs
echo "--- head directory.rs references to parsed"
rg -n -F -e 'parsed()' -e 'parsed_for_replay' -- pkgs/id/src/directory.rs || test "$?" -eq 1

Repository: developing-today/code

Length of output: 7045

Strict receipt refuses home declarations with world_id longer than 64 bytes, which stops peer pulls.

Before this change, a home declaration with a world_id of any non-empty length was accepted on receipt. Directory::receive_artifact now calls the strict parsed() (pkgs/id/src/directory.rs:1380), which rejects world_id values over MAX_WORLD_ID_BYTES (pkgs/id/src/artifact.rs:410-414). The refusal ends the page in apply_page and the pull in pull_within. Later artifacts from that account are not applied, so a peer whose chain contains such a declaration cannot advance past it.

The replay mode that skips the bound is used only when a local log is reopened and in one lookup. It is not used on the receive path, so it does not cover pulled artifacts.

The declaration is signed and cannot be rewritten. Accepting it on receipt needs an explicit historical-receipt rule. Accepting it because a remote peer logged it is not a validation boundary, because the pulling peer has no local check of that claim. A workable rule needs a trusted cutoff that marks the pre-upgrade chain state. The strict bound should still apply to new receipts. Choose that cutoff and its source before changing receive_artifact.

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Review comment at @pkgs/id/src/artifact.rs around lines 513 - 516:
Update the receive validation used by Directory::receive_artifact to accept
oversized world_id values only for historical artifacts covered by an
established trusted cutoff; first determine the cutoff and its authoritative
source. Keep artifact.parsed()’s strict bound for new receipts, and do not treat
peer provenance alone or the replay-only artifact.parsed_for_replay() path as
sufficient validation.

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Disposition (queue task 5758, lane D worker, 2026-11-02): finding verified as valid; merge of this PR is held on it — not fixed in this PR, by design.

Verified against this head (ee4ec5e42): Directory::receive_artifact (pkgs/id/src/directory.rs:1380) calls the strict artifact.parsed()?, so a pulled pre-upgrade home_declared entry with a world_id over MAX_WORLD_ID_BYTES refuses the receipt and ends the page/pull, exactly as described. The lenient parsed_for_replay path covers only local log reopen and the declared() lookup — not pulled artifacts.

Why it is not fixed here: as this thread itself states, accepting historical pulled artifacts needs a trusted cutoff and its authoritative source, and peer provenance alone is not a validation boundary. Choosing that cutoff is a contract decision under design #3231 (the #3232 Phase 3 audit is the likely venue), outside issue #3187's pinned scope (bound world_id + refuse duplicates in parsed(), with new receipts strict). Widening receive_artifact to the replay rule inside this PR would silently make provenance a boundary — the failure mode this finding warns against.

Tracked as its own issue: #4459 — "peer pulls halt on pre-upgrade home_declared entries — the #3187 strict receipt needs a trusted historical cutoff for receive_artifact". Queue task 5758 is parked with PR #4432's merge held until #4459's cutoff is decided (or #3231/#3232 rule that strict receipt on pulls is the intended contract, in which case this thread closes as accepted behavior).

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@dezren39 Understood. The finding remains valid and unresolved. Tracking it in #4459 does not fix the peer-pull failure in this PR.

I agree that receive_artifact must not use parsed_for_replay() merely because a peer supplies historical artifacts. Local replay compatibility does not establish trust for remote receipts.

The next step is the contract decision in #4459:

Until that decision is available, I recommend retaining the merge hold you described. This reply does not change provider approval or merge settings.

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}
let size = encoded_len(&artifact);
if frame_check && page_frame_bytes().saturating_add(size) > MAX_FRAME_BYTES {
return Err(forbidden(format!(
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -558,7 +611,7 @@ impl ArtifactLog {
.get(account)?
.iter()
.rev()
.find_map(|artifact| match artifact.parsed() {
.find_map(|artifact| match artifact.parsed_for_replay() {
Ok(Some(Kind::HomeDeclared(declared))) => Some(declared),
_ => None,
})
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1903,6 +1956,91 @@ mod tests {
assert_eq!(directory.artifacts().head_seq(&public(1)), 1);
}

fn home_declared_with(servers: Vec<HomeServer>) -> SignedArtifact {
ArtifactLog::default()
.sign(
&key(1),
&Kind::HomeDeclared(HomeDeclared {
account: public(1),
servers,
}),
)
.unwrap()
}

fn home_server(endpoint: String, world_id: &str) -> HomeServer {
HomeServer {
endpoint,
world_id: world_id.to_owned(),
}
}

#[test]
fn parsed_home_world_id_is_bounded_and_clean() {
let control = home_declared_with(vec![home_server(endpoint_of(7), "home")]);
assert!(matches!(control.parsed(), Ok(Some(Kind::HomeDeclared(_)))));

let at_bound = home_declared_with(vec![home_server(endpoint_of(7), &"w".repeat(64))]);
assert!(matches!(at_bound.parsed(), Ok(Some(Kind::HomeDeclared(_)))));

for world_id in [
"w".repeat(65),
" ".to_owned(),
"home\nFORGED".to_owned(),
"ho\u{1}me".to_owned(),
"home\u{202e}".to_owned(),
] {
let refused = home_declared_with(vec![home_server(endpoint_of(7), &world_id)]);
assert!(refused.parsed().is_err(), "world_id {world_id:?} accepted");
}
}

#[test]
fn parsed_home_declaration_refuses_duplicate_endpoints() {
let distinct = home_declared_with(vec![
home_server(endpoint_of(7), "home"),
home_server(endpoint_of(8), "lobby"),
]);
assert!(matches!(distinct.parsed(), Ok(Some(Kind::HomeDeclared(_)))));

let duplicate = home_declared_with(vec![
home_server(endpoint_of(7), "home"),
home_server(endpoint_of(7), "lobby"),
]);
assert!(duplicate.parsed().is_err());

// The same node named once by bare ID and once by an endpoint
// ticket for that ID is still a duplicate.
let ticket = iroh_tickets::endpoint::EndpointTicket::new(EndpointAddr::from(
SecretKey::from_bytes(&[7; 32]).public(),
))
.to_string();
let aliased = home_declared_with(vec![
home_server(endpoint_of(7), "home"),
home_server(ticket, "lobby"),
]);
assert!(aliased.parsed().is_err());
}

#[test]
fn a_legacy_home_declaration_still_replays() {
// A declaration accepted before the #3187 bounds (here: a world ID
// past MAX_WORLD_ID_BYTES) must not brick reopening its log: replay
// is lenient, while a fresh receipt of the same artifact is refused.
let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
let path = dir.path().join(FILE);
let legacy = home_declared_with(vec![home_server(endpoint_of(7), &"w".repeat(65))]);
assert!(legacy.parsed().is_err());
assert!(ArtifactLog::default().insert(legacy.clone()).is_err());
append(&path, &legacy).unwrap();

let reopened = ArtifactLog::open(&path).unwrap();
assert_eq!(
reopened.declared(&public(1)).unwrap().servers[0].world_id,
"w".repeat(65)
);
}

#[test]
fn parsed_document_media_type_must_be_nfc() {
let nfc = ArtifactLog::default()
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