fix(sdk): validate the manifest at the read boundary (DSPX-4703) - #1034
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe SDK now separates unvalidated manifest inspection from validated decryption. It adds JSON shape validators, typed integrity algorithms, a manifest validation gate, defensive reader and web-app handling, and expanded tampering tests. ChangesManifest validation and integrity handling
Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ZipReader
participant asManifest
participant decryptStreamFrom
participant TDFReader
ZipReader->>TDFReader: Return unvalidated manifest
TDFReader->>decryptStreamFrom: Start decryption
decryptStreamFrom->>asManifest: Validate integrity and version fields
asManifest-->>decryptStreamFrom: Return validated manifest
decryptStreamFrom-->>TDFReader: Continue with validated algorithms
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Malformed manifest files can produce uncontrolled errors during inspection or decryption rather than clear invalid-file handling. These input-boundary failures should be fixed before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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The previous commit widened `rootSignature.alg` and `segmentHashAlg` to
`RootIntegrityAlgorithm | string` to record that they are attacker-controlled.
That annotation is doubly wrong. TypeScript collapses a literal union with its
own supertype, so `'HS256' | string` is just `string` — the type permitted
nothing extra and forbade nothing, a comment wearing a type's clothes. And
`string` is the wrong widening anyway: `JSON.parse` on `0.manifest.json` can
put `42`, `null`, `[]`, or `{}` in either position.
The real gap was that the read boundary was unguarded. `ZipReader.getManifest`
is the only place a file becomes a `Manifest`, and it returned
`JSON.parse(...)` directly under a `Promise<Manifest>` annotation — no cast, no
check. Every field of every loaded manifest was an unproven assertion; the alg
fields were only the ones where a wrong value is a downgrade rather than a
crash.
Split the type in two. `Unvalidated<Manifest>` is what `JSON.parse` produced:
the shape we hope for, every property optional, every leaf any `JsonValue`.
`Manifest` now means validated, and `asManifest` is the single gate between
them. `alg` and `segmentHashAlg` go back to the real unions.
Inspection paths — `reader.manifest()`, `loadTDFStream`, `cli inspect` — keep
the unvalidated type, so a forged file is still dumpable, which is exactly when
you want to dump it. The decrypt path calls `asManifest` first and holds the
narrow type throughout, which lets the second, redundant
`asRootIntegrityAlgorithm` call inside `decryptStreamFrom` go away: one gate,
not two.
`asManifest` proves only the fields the reader branches on. The integrity
algorithms fail closed as before — root to `IntegrityError`, segment to
`UnsupportedFeatureError`, structural damage to `InvalidFileError`.
`schemaVersion` and `tdf_spec_version` get a type-only guard so `=== '4.2.2'`
compares two strings instead of silently taking the modern path on an object;
deliberately not an allowlist, since the 4.2.2 branches change encoding, not
strength, and closing the set would break a future `4.4.0` file for nothing.
Payload, keyAccess, segments, and policy stay unproven, as they are today, with
a comment saying so.
Extracting the algorithm unions and their `is*`/`as*` functions into
`models/integrity-algorithms.ts` keeps `asManifest` out of a runtime import
cycle, and removes the pre-existing `encryption-information.ts` <-> `tdf.ts`
cycle on the way past. `tdf.ts` re-exports them, so no other import changes.
Tests cover what the old `| string` could not express: root `alg` as a number,
null, boolean, object, and array; missing `encryptionInformation`,
`integrityInformation`, and `rootSignature`; `schemaVersion` as `42` and `{}`;
`'4.4.0'` still decrypting on the modern path; segment alg empty and null
falling back to the root algorithm; and `loadTDFStream` still reporting
`alg === 'GMAC'` on a file `decryptBuffer` refuses — the property the two-type
split exists to preserve.
Typed `fix` rather than `refactor` because the repo's commit-lint job accepts
only fix/feat/chore/revert, and of those `fix` is the honest one: an unguarded
parse boundary on attacker-supplied input is the defect, and the type split is
how it is closed.
BREAKING CHANGE: `reader.manifest()` returns `Promise<Unvalidated<Manifest>>`.
Source-breaking for TypeScript consumers that walk the manifest; migrate with
`asManifest(await reader.manifest())`. No wire-format change.
Signed-off-by: Dave Mihalcik <dmihalcik@virtru.com>
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In `@lib/tdf3/src/models/manifest.ts`:
- Around line 16-86: Update asManifest to validate
encryptionInformation.keyAccess as an array and validate the keyAccess fields
consumed by decryptStreamFrom and splitLookupTableFactory, returning a
normalized Manifest only after these checks pass. Ensure malformed or missing
keyAccess data raises InvalidFileError instead of causing map or filter
TypeErrors, while keeping inspection paths on Unvalidated<Manifest>.
In `@lib/tdf3/src/utils/zip-reader.ts`:
- Line 113: Update ZipReader.getManifest around the JSON.parse call to catch
malformed manifest JSON and throw InvalidFileError instead of exposing the
native SyntaxError. Preserve successful parsing and existing validation behavior
so loadTDFStream and getPolicyId retain their InvalidFileError contract.
In `@web-app/src/App.tsx`:
- Line 155: Update the keyAccess mapping in the manifest inspection flow to
verify keyAccess is an array before iterating, and normalize or skip null and
non-record entries before accessing wrappedKey or other fields. Preserve valid
entries and prevent malformed values from causing the entire inspector result to
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| * Prove the parts of a manifest that the reader makes decisions from, and | ||
| * return it as a `Manifest`. | ||
| * | ||
| * This is the only gate between {@link Unvalidated}`<Manifest>` — whatever | ||
| * `JSON.parse` produced from a file we did not write — and `Manifest`. | ||
| * Inspection paths deliberately stay on the unvalidated type so that a forged | ||
| * file is still dumpable; the decrypt path calls this first. | ||
| */ | ||
| export function asManifest(m: Unvalidated<Manifest>): Manifest { | ||
| const ei = asRecord(m.encryptionInformation, 'manifest.encryptionInformation'); | ||
| const ii = asRecord( | ||
| ei.integrityInformation, | ||
| 'manifest.encryptionInformation.integrityInformation' | ||
| ); | ||
| const rs = asRecord( | ||
| ii.rootSignature, | ||
| 'manifest.encryptionInformation.integrityInformation.rootSignature' | ||
| ); | ||
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| // `rootSignature.alg` is unauthenticated manifest data and it selects a | ||
| // verification routine. Reject GMAC (in any casing) and every unknown value | ||
| // here: a GMAC "root signature" is just a copy of the last segment hash, so | ||
| // honouring it would let a keyless attacker truncate, reorder, duplicate or | ||
| // drop segments undetected. Fail closed rather than coerce — coercing would | ||
| // validate a forged file against the wrong algorithm and mask the downgrade. | ||
| const alg = asRootIntegrityAlgorithm(rs.alg); | ||
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| // Absent, null, or empty means "use the root algorithm", matching the | ||
| // `segmentHashAlg || rootIntegrityAlgorithm` fallback this replaces. | ||
| const rawSegmentHashAlg = ii.segmentHashAlg; | ||
| const segmentHashAlg = | ||
| rawSegmentHashAlg === undefined || rawSegmentHashAlg === null || rawSegmentHashAlg === '' | ||
| ? undefined | ||
| : asSegmentIntegrityAlgorithm(rawSegmentHashAlg); | ||
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| // The spec version selects the legacy 4.2.2 *encoding* for the root | ||
| // signature, segment hashes and assertion signatures. Those branches change | ||
| // encoding, not strength — all of them still HMAC under the DEK — so a | ||
| // flipped version yields a mismatch, not a forgery. Require a string anyway, | ||
| // so the `=== '4.2.2'` comparisons compare two strings rather than silently | ||
| // taking the modern path on an object. | ||
| // | ||
| // Deliberately not an allowlist: any value other than '4.2.2' takes the | ||
| // modern path, so a future '4.4.0' file stays readable. Closing the set | ||
| // would trade a real forward-compatibility regression for nothing. | ||
| const schemaVersion = asOptionalString(m.schemaVersion, 'manifest.schemaVersion'); | ||
| const tdf_spec_version = asOptionalString(m.tdf_spec_version, 'manifest.tdf_spec_version'); | ||
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| // Everything else is still an unproven assertion, exactly as it was before | ||
| // this gate existed: payload, method, policy, keyAccess, segments, | ||
| // assertions. Only the fields the reader branches on are checked here. | ||
| const checked = m as Manifest; | ||
| return { | ||
| ...checked, | ||
| schemaVersion, | ||
| tdf_spec_version, | ||
| encryptionInformation: { | ||
| ...checked.encryptionInformation, | ||
| integrityInformation: { | ||
| ...checked.encryptionInformation.integrityInformation, | ||
| rootSignature: { | ||
| ...checked.encryptionInformation.integrityInformation.rootSignature, | ||
| alg, | ||
| }, | ||
| segmentHashAlg, | ||
| }, | ||
| }, | ||
| }; | ||
| } |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Validate encryptionInformation.keyAccess in asManifest. decryptStreamFrom passes the returned Manifest to splitLookupTableFactory, which calls .map() and .filter() on keyAccess. A missing or non-array value causes a TypeError. Validate the array and the fields consumed during decryption so malformed files raise InvalidFileError. Keep inspection paths on Unvalidated<Manifest>.
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In `@lib/tdf3/src/models/manifest.ts` around lines 16 - 86, Update asManifest to
validate encryptionInformation.keyAccess as an array and validate the keyAccess
fields consumed by decryptStreamFrom and splitLookupTableFactory, returning a
normalized Manifest only after these checks pass. Ensure malformed or missing
keyAccess data raises InvalidFileError instead of causing map or filter
TypeErrors, while keeping inspection paths on Unvalidated<Manifest>.
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| const manifest = await this.getChunk(byteStart, byteEnd); | ||
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| return JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(manifest)); | ||
| const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(manifest)); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Convert manifest JSON parse failures to InvalidFileError.
ZipReader.getManifest is used by loadTDFStream and getPolicyId. Malformed manifest bytes currently throw native SyntaxError, unlike other invalid manifest cases. Wrap the JSON.parse call so these entrypoints preserve the InvalidFileError contract.
Proposed fix
- const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(manifest));
+ let parsed: unknown;
+ try {
+ parsed = JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(manifest));
+ } catch {
+ throw new InvalidFileError('manifest is not valid JSON');
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| const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(manifest)); | |
| let parsed: unknown; | |
| try { | |
| parsed = JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(manifest)); | |
| } catch { | |
| throw new InvalidFileError('manifest is not valid JSON'); | |
| } |
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In `@lib/tdf3/src/utils/zip-reader.ts` at line 113, Update ZipReader.getManifest
around the JSON.parse call to catch malformed manifest JSON and throw
InvalidFileError instead of exposing the native SyntaxError. Preserve successful
parsing and existing validation behavior so loadTDFStream and getPolicyId retain
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| * anything unrecognized is shown as such rather than thrown on. | ||
| */ | ||
| function kaoMetadataFrom(manifest: Unvalidated<Manifest>): KaoMetadata[] { | ||
| return (manifest.encryptionInformation?.keyAccess ?? []).map((kao) => { |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Handle malformed keyAccess values before iteration.
Unvalidated<Manifest> can contain arbitrary JSON. A file with keyAccess: {} causes .map() to throw. A file with keyAccess: [null] throws when reading kao.wrappedKey. The surrounding callers then discard the entire inspector result, including valid entries.
Validate that keyAccess is an array and normalize non-record entries before reading their fields.
Proposed fix
function kaoMetadataFrom(manifest: Unvalidated<Manifest>): KaoMetadata[] {
- return (manifest.encryptionInformation?.keyAccess ?? []).map((kao) => {
- const wrappedKey = typeof kao.wrappedKey === 'string' ? kao.wrappedKey : '';
+ const keyAccess = manifest.encryptionInformation?.keyAccess;
+ if (!Array.isArray(keyAccess)) {
+ return [];
+ }
+ return keyAccess.map((kao) => {
+ const record =
+ kao !== null && typeof kao === 'object' && !Array.isArray(kao)
+ ? (kao as Record<string, unknown>)
+ : {};
+ const wrappedKey = typeof record.wrappedKey === 'string' ? record.wrappedKey : '';
return {
- kid: typeof kao.kid === 'string' ? kao.kid : '(no kid)',
- type: asKeyAccessType(kao.type),
- url: asDisplayString(kao.url),
- protocol: asDisplayString(kao.protocol),
+ kid: typeof record.kid === 'string' ? record.kid : '(no kid)',
+ type: asKeyAccessType(record.type),
+ url: asDisplayString(record.url),
+ protocol: asDisplayString(record.protocol),🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@web-app/src/App.tsx` at line 155, Update the keyAccess mapping in the
manifest inspection flow to verify keyAccess is an array before iterating, and
normalize or skip null and non-record entries before accessing wrappedKey or
other fields. Preserve valid entries and prevent malformed values from causing
the entire inspector result to be discarded.
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Stacked on #1031.
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Manifestmean validated, and puts the validation at the one place a file becomes a manifest.#1031 widened
rootSignature.algandsegmentHashAlgtoRootIntegrityAlgorithm | stringto record that they're attacker-controlled. That annotation is doubly wrong:'HS256' | stringcollapses tostring. TypeScript reduces a literal union with its own supertype, so the annotation carried no information — it permitted nothing extra and forbade nothing. A comment wearing a type's clothes.stringis the wrong widening anyway.JSON.parseon0.manifest.jsoncan put42,null,[], or{}in either position.The real gap: the read boundary was unguarded.
ZipReader.getManifestis the only place a file becomes aManifest, and it returnedJSON.parse(...)directly under aPromise<Manifest>annotation — no cast, no check.How
Two types, one gate:
Unvalidated<Manifest>ZipReader.getManifest,loadTDFStreamManifestasManifest()lib/src/json.ts(new) —JsonValue, the deep-wideningUnvalidated<T>, andasRecord/asString/asOptionalStringguards.lib/tdf3/src/models/manifest.ts—asManifest(), the single gate. Root alg →IntegrityError, segment alg →UnsupportedFeatureError, structural damage →InvalidFileError.lib/tdf3/src/models/integrity-algorithms.ts(new) — the alg unions and theiris*/as*functions, extracted fromtdf.tssoasManifestisn't in a runtime import cycle. Removes the pre-existingencryption-information.ts↔tdf.tscycle on the way past.tdf.tsre-exports them, so no other import in the repo changes.encryption-information.ts—alg: RootIntegrityAlgorithm,segmentHashAlg?: SegmentIntegrityAlgorithm. The| stringis gone.Inspection paths (
reader.manifest(),loadTDFStream,cli inspect) keep the unvalidated type, so a forged file is still dumpable — which is exactly when you want to dump it. The decrypt path callsasManifestfirst and holds the narrow type throughout, which lets the now-redundant secondasRootIntegrityAlgorithmcall insidedecryptStreamFromgo away. One gate, not two.Scope of validation
asManifestproves only the fields the reader branches on: the two integrity algorithms, plus a type-only guard onschemaVersion/tdf_spec_versionso=== '4.2.2'compares two strings rather than silently taking the modern path on an object.Deliberately not an allowlist on the version. The 4.2.2 branches change encoding, not strength — all still HMAC under the DEK — so a flipped version yields a mismatch, not a forgery. Closing the set would break a future
4.4.0file for nothing.Payload, keyAccess, segments, and policy stay unproven, as they are today, with a comment saying so.
asManifestis a spread-passthrough rather than a field-by-field constructor on purpose: a constructor silently drops any field you forget, which is a worse failure mode than leaving one unproven.Why
fixand notrefactorThe repo's commit-lint job accepts only
fix/feat/chore/revert, sorefactorisn't available. Of what's left,fixis the honest one: an unguardedJSON.parseboundary on attacker-supplied input is the defect, and the two-type split is how it's closed.Risk
reader.manifest()now returnsPromise<Unvalidated<Manifest>>. Anyone walking the manifest needs one call to migrate:asManifest,Unvalidated, andJsonValueare exported from@opentdf/sdk. No wire-format change — this is types and read-time validation only.Touches integrity verification, so worth a careful look at
asManifestand thedecryptStreamFromnarrowing.How to test
New coverage in
lib/tests/mocha/root-signature.spec.ts— cases the old| stringtype could not even express:algas42,null,true,{},['HS256']→IntegrityErrorencryptionInformation/integrityInformation/rootSignature→InvalidFileErrorschemaVersionas42/{}→InvalidFileError;'4.4.0'→ still decrypts on the modern path (pins the forward compatibility the type-only guard exists to preserve);null/''on a 4.2.2 file → treated as absent''/null→ falls back to the root algorithm and still decrypts;'CRC32'/42/{}→UnsupportedFeatureErrorloadTDFStreamon a forged-GMAC file reportsalg === 'GMAC'whiledecryptBufferstill throws — the property the two-type split exists to preserveResults
lib:tsc --noEmitclean, build OK, lint clean, mocha 427 passing / 6 pending, karma 427 SUCCESS, web-test-runner 253 passing, coverage thresholds metcli: build OK, 2 passing.cli inspectneeds no change — it onlyJSON.stringifys the manifest, so the unvalidated type flows through.web-app:tsc+ vite build OK, 69 passing, lint cleanmake lintclean across lib/cli/web-appAn earlier revision of this PR reported
2 FAILED, 415 SUCCESSunder karma (detects payload tampering with GMAC/HS256 segments, bothTypeError: Failed to fetch). Those were never this PR's — they are fixed in #1031, which stopsstreamToBufferfrom masking a stream error as a network error in Chrome. Nothing to do here.Playwright (
web-app/tests) was not run — it needs the docker-compose Keycloak + platform stack on port 65432, which wasn't available in this environment.Follow-on candidates (out of scope here)
The scaffolding makes each of these cheap; the cost is deciding how strict to be and checking it against
java-sdk/platform.Worth doing — the reader acts on them:
segments[].hashand the size fields (they drive byte offsets and allocation; a negative or absurd number mis-slices the payload),keyAccess[]fields (they pick the unwrap path and KAS endpoint), and the policy.Probably not worth doing — the reader ignores them:
payload.*,method.algorithm,method.iv,encryptionInformation.type. Validating them can't prevent a bad decision because no decision is made from them; it can only newly reject files that read fine today.Summary by CodeRabbit