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…he sidecar's path (storytold#3923) A recovery sidecar's "path" was trusted as the save destination: after Recover, Save wrote to whatever file the sidecar named, without asking. Anyone who can write the recovery folder (a portable PdfCraftData on a shared drive, for example) could name any file the user can write. The path is now only a suggestion. The first Save after recovering opens Save As at it, as Save already does for an email attachment's temporary copy, and the file chosen is the document's file from then on. Sidecars are read through a 64 KiB cap; a longer one is not read, and its snapshot recovers without metadata. Fixes storytold#3923
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First-save handling for recovered documents crates/ui-egui/src/recovery.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/editing.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs, crates/ui-egui/tests/it/recovery.rs, parity/acrobat-features.toml, ROADMAP.md |
Recovered documents with an original path request a destination on the first save, starting at that path. The selected destination is used for later saves. Recovery tracking is removed when the entry is forgotten. Tests and documentation describe this behavior. |
Bounded recovery metadata reads crates/ui-egui/src/recovery.rs |
Recovery listing and metadata repair use a reader capped at 64 KiB. Oversized sidecars are rejected, and their snapshots are listed without metadata. |
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes
Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low
Suggested reviewers: mtlcl410, art804
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A recovered document can ask where to save yet still carry earlier revisions into the newly saved file. Resolve the previously reported clean-copy concern before merging unless that exposure is explicitly accepted.
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The change prevents recovery metadata from silently choosing an overwrite target. However, the new first-save dialog retains ordinary Save serialization: selecting a different destination can preserve deleted content in earlier PDF revisions, unlike an explicit Save As. This creates a conditional privacy risk if the recovered file is shared.
Retained concerns
- Medium · security · inferred: The newly forced destination picker preserves SaveTarget::InPlace. For an unsigned, writable recovered document, choosing a different file therefore bypasses the clean-copy rewrite used by explicit Save As. If the snapshot contains earlier revisions, deleted or replaced content can accompany the new file and become accessible to its recipients. The serialization implementation is pre-existing, but this recovered-with-path route into history-preserving copying is new.
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Security Blast Radius
- inferred — The overwrite threat requires write access to the recovery folder and a user who recovers and saves a planted snapshot; its potential targets are files writable by that desktop user. The new privacy concern is narrower: recipients of a newly saved recovered PDF may receive historical content from that document. It does not require or confer additional application privileges.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
- inferred — A document with deleted content can retain earlier PDF revisions in its working bytes and recovery snapshot. After recovery, ordinary Save now offers a destination picker; selecting a new file still uses incremental serialization. Sharing that file can expose historical content to a recipient inspecting its revisions. This is conditional on retained source history and is not evidence that all recovered files contain sensitive content.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
- observed — A recovered sidecar path no longer independently authorizes an ordinary desktop Save: destination selection is required. The pre-existing save_override branch still takes precedence and is documented for tests and automation, rather than ordinary UI use.
- observed — Existing controls limit, but do not eliminate, the historical-content concern. Password-field values are sanitized from recovery snapshots; some operations require full rewrites; signed documents intentionally preserve revision chains. check_save verifies reopening and page consistency rather than enforcing clean-copy serialization.
Hardening Proposals
- proposed — Apply the established clean-copy policy when a recovered document's first save selects a different destination, while preserving the existing signed-document and read-only exceptions. Treat destination confirmation and serialization mode as separate decisions.
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the main behavior change: the first Save after recovery prompts for a destination instead of writing to the sidecar path. Linked Issues check Issue #3923requires recovery sidecar paths to act as hints, not unprompted save destinations, and requires a bounded sidecar read.save_thennow opens Save As for documents inrecovered_paths; th…Out of Scope Changes check The source changes implement the two requirements in issue #3923. The tests, integration expectation, parity entry, and roadmap entry document or verify the same recovery behavior. No unrelated implem…Description check The pull request description is complete and follows the repository template. It explains the behavior change, security reason, verification commands, regression tests, Never-crash and Provenance chec… Full details: Linked Issues check
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#3923requires recovery sidecar paths to act as hints, not unprompted save destinations, and requires a bounded sidecar read.save_thennow opens Save As for documents inrecovered_paths; the recorded path remains the starting location.read_metalimits sidecar input to 64 KiB and rejects oversized metadata without its path. The added tests cover both behaviors and verify that later saves use the user-selected path.
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| (SaveTarget::InPlace, Some(p), _) if !is_mail_temp_copy(&p) => p, | ||
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| // anyone who can write the recovery folder can name any file there (#3923). | ||
| (SaveTarget::InPlace, Some(p), _) if !is_mail_temp_copy(&p) && !self.recovered_paths.contains(&id) => p, |
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Use full-copy serialization for a recovered save to a different destination.
The recovery picker preserves SaveTarget::InPlace, so save_doc_to uses save_bytes instead of save_full_bytes. Incremental bytes can retain earlier revisions containing deleted pages or replaced text.
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Read the diff at 5f7e13e (the final lines of the second test were cut off in my view). gate / gate (ubuntu-24.04) and SonarCloud pass on this head.
The guard is in the right place: SaveTarget::InPlace only takes the document path when it is not a mail temp copy and the document is not in recovered_paths, so the first save after Recover goes through the Save As dialog, and forget_recovery clears the mark once the user has chosen a destination (or the document is closed or reloaded). The set is only filled when the sidecar actually carried a path. Reading the sidecar through take(MAX_META_BYTES + 1) bounds the work for a planted file and refuses an oversized one instead of truncating it, and repair_meta uses the same reader. The test shows the named file untouched and the chosen file written, with the next save in place.
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Adapt upstream PR storytold#4327 for issue storytold#3923: treat recovered paths as suggestions until the first successful save, and cap metadata reads at 64 KiB while keeping snapshots with damaged sidecars recoverable. Also preserve clean-copy serialization when that first Save was invoked in place but the picker chose another destination. Keep signed-document, read-only, atomic-write and destination checks unchanged. Add synthetic regressions observed failing before the recovery fixes. Co-authored-by: Lcoding15 <125505497+Lcoding15@users.noreply.github.com>
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Reviewed against pr-4327 (the merge of main in your branch) — this implements both halves of
#3923's suggested fix, and I traced the paths that would have to leak for it not to hold. No blocking
findings; notes and two residual observations at the end.
What I checked
The guard is on the only path that writes to a document's own file. save_doc_to — the function
that calls write_atomically(dest, …) and mark_saved — has three call sites: save_doc_to_then
(twice reached from save_then, lines 685 and 690) and overwrite_changed_file (line 763), whose
dest came from a pending_overwrite set inside save_doc_to_then. So every destination reaches the
writer through save_then's match (target, path, &self.save_override) — either the arm the new
condition guards, or the dialog's pick. Every other write_atomically caller (actions_ui,
create_ui, create_multiple_ui, export_ui, files) writes to a path chosen in that flow, not to
doc.path. The added condition therefore covers Save, Save on quit, and the Save behind the close
prompt; there is no second door.
The set entry is dropped exactly when the path stops being only a suggestion.
forget_recovery runs in three places: after mark_saved(...) succeeds in save_doc_to (so the file
the user chose, or the file a non-recovered document was already going to, is confirmed), on tab close
(lib.rs:2227), and on reload (file_watch.rs:455). The failed-save arm returns before it, so a
cancelled dialog or a failed write leaves the document asking again — which is the safe direction.
The dialog still starts at the sidecar's path, via in_document_folder(dialog, doc_path.as_deref())
in the _ arm. Keeping mark_recovered untouched is right: the path survives as a suggestion, in the
tab and in autosave's view of the document, and only the unasked write is gone.
All RecoveryMeta deserialization now goes through read_meta — list() and repair_meta() are
the only two readers left, and read_meta is the only from_slice::<RecoveryMeta> in the crate
(clear() looks at filenames only). The cap is take(64 KiB + 1) with a strict >, so a sidecar of
exactly 64 KiB is still read and one byte more is refused, and the refusal lands in the same
unwrap_or_else branch a damaged sidecar already takes: the snapshot is offered with no path, so the
document saves to a fresh Save As. read_meta returning Err in repair_meta causes a rewrite, which
is also what happens today for a corrupt file.
The tests match the two claims. the_first_save_after_recovering_asks_instead_of_writing_the_sidecars_path
asserts the three things that matter — save_active returns false, the planted file is byte-for-byte
untouched, and the chosen file starts with %PDF — plus that the next save writes in place, so the
cost really is one dialog. an_oversized_sidecar_is_not_read pins both directions (70 000 bytes
refused, ordinary size still read), which is the part that could silently rot if someone "simplifies"
read_meta back to std::fs::read. Your two RED notes are consistent with what the assertions do, and
CI's gate job has them green; I did not re-run them locally.
Pre-existing behaviour the change does not disturb: the save_override arm precedes arm 2 in the
match (automation and tests deliberately name the destination), and SaveTarget::As never matches
arm 2 at all — both fall to the dialog exactly as before; on wasm the whole match is
#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))] and mark_saved(id, bytes, None) never carries a path.
Residual observations (pre-existing, outside what #3923 asked for — no change needed here)
RecoveryStore::readstill reads the snapshot.pdfwith an uncappedstd::fs::read. An
attacker with write access to the folder can plant a multi-gigabyte<key>.pdfand have it read
into memory when the user clicks Recover. That is a user-initiated read of the document itself
(it has to be read whole to recover), so the 64 KiB cap on the sidecar was the right thing to cap
first — but if you ever want a second pass at #3923, a size check before the read is the remaining
unguarded one.- Revert still reads
doc.path. After recovering, File ▸ Revert (and any explicit "reload from
disk") loads the file the sidecar named — a read, behind the existing confirmation, not a write.
Worth a sentence in the PR body only so nobody is surprised that the set does not cover it.
For the record
ROADMAP.mdandparity/acrobat-features.tomlare updated together, and both new tests are added
as evidence ofcore.crash-recovery, whose notes now describe the behaviour change.cargo xtask paritypassing is the thing that would have caught a stale claim here.- The
recovery::idle_tests::TestDirpub(super)widening is the smallest way to let a sibling test
module reuse the nonce-based folder helper; no test-only API leaked into non-test builds. - Your "Anything a reviewer should look at first" is honest about the trade: one Save As dialog, opened
at the right folder, is the price of not letting a planted sidecar pick the file. The alternative in
the issue ("write in place only if a regular file already exists there, after confirmation") would
still let the planted file be the confirmed target, so I agree with the dialog.
…sks-before-save # Conflicts: # crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs
…sks-before-save # Conflicts: # crates/ui-egui/src/editing.rs # crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs Main's module layout (storytold#4889) moved the save path to editing/save.rs and the start-up values to app.rs; the recovered-path guard and the full save of a recovered document are applied there. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GbuSKAS2k5248LGFEapMUR
RecoveryStore::read read the snapshot with fs::read, so a FIFO planted in the recovery folder held the recovery until something wrote to it, and a link to a device such as /dev/zero never ended. Only a regular file is read now, and no more than it held when it was opened. Snapshots keep no size limit of their own: autosave writes whatever the document holds (review on storytold#4327). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GbuSKAS2k5248LGFEapMUR
Main moved recovery.rs into persist/ (storytold#4889); the two tests this branch cites as evidence stayed under the old path, which cargo xtask parity refuses, failing the gate. The snapshot test is cited too. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GbuSKAS2k5248LGFEapMUR
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What this changes
Fixes #3923.
After Recover,
finish_recoveryhanded the sidecar'spathtomark_recovered, and the next Save wrote there without asking. A recovered document has no recorded disk version, so the "file changed on disk" check (#2166) never fires for it either. Anyone who can write the recovery folder can plant<key>.pdf+<key>.jsonnaming any file the user can write. That is mostly a portablePdfCraftData/Recoveryon a shared drive, which gets no permission tightening on Windows. Recover followed by Ctrl+S would then overwrite that file.finish_recoverymarks the document in a newrecovered_pathsset.save_thentreats such a document like an email attachment's temporary copy (is_mail_temp_copy): Save opens Save As, starting in the recorded file's folder (in_document_folder). The set entry is dropped inforget_recovery, which runs after a successful save, on close and on reload. So the file the user chose is the document's file from then on, and later saves write it without asking. This is the first fix the issue suggests.read_meta, used bylistandrepair_meta). A sidecar PdfCraft writes is a few hundred bytes. A longer one is refused, and its snapshot is offered without metadata, as a damaged sidecar already is, so it has no path at all.The cost for an ordinary recovery is one Save As dialog, already pointed at the right folder, on the first save after a crash.
How you verified it
cargo fmt --checkcargo clippy -p pdfcraft-ui-egui -j 2 --all-targets -- -D warningscargo test -p pdfcraft-ui-egui -j 2 --lib: 456 passed, 1 ignoredcargo test -p pdfcraft-ui-egui -j 2 --test it recovery: 12 passedcargo test -p pdfcraft-ui-egui -j 2 --test it save: 70 passed, 1 ignoredcargo xtask layers,cargo xtask assets,cargo xtask parity: okTests (
crates/ui-egui/src/recovery.rs, modulesidecar_tests):the_first_save_after_recovering_asks_instead_of_writing_the_sidecars_path: a crashed session autosaves a document whose path names another existing file. A new session recovers it. Save returnsfalse(it asks), the named file is byte-for-byte untouched, the document goes to the picked file, and the next Save writes in place without asking.an_oversized_sidecar_is_not_read: a valid sidecar over 64 KiB that names a path is listed without metadata (planted.pdf, no path). A normal-sized one is still read.I disabled the fix (the
recovered_pathscheck insave_then, and the cap) and watched both tests fail:Save asks instead of writing the sidecar's path, because Save wrote the named file;The existing
a_crashed_session_is_offered_and_recovered_unsavedstill passes. Only its message changed: the original path is still kept, as what Save offers.Never-crash
unwrap/expect/panic!/unreachable!/todo!outside testsunsafeProvenance
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Parity and reach
core.crash-recovery: both tests added to its evidence, and its notes describe the new behaviourROADMAP.mdprogress logAnything a reviewer should look at first
mark_recoveredstill records the path, so the tab, Save As's starting folder and later autosaves keep it. Only the unasked write is gone.recovered_pathsdoesn't cover it.RecoveryStore::readreads a snapshot only if it is a regular file, and no more than it held when it was opened, so a FIFO or a link to a device in the recovery folder can't hang the recovery. Snapshots keep no size limit of their own: autosave writes whatever the document holds.Summary by CodeRabbit