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fix(server): add connection-liveness limits to the shared endpoint - #3696
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The single-port endpoint serves HTTP/1.1, gRPC-Web and native gRPC over HTTP/2 (including cleartext h2c) on one net/http listener, but configured none of net/http's optional idle/liveness or connection limits. net/http does not reap an idle HTTP/2 connection without an explicit IdleTimeout, and ReadHeaderTimeout does not apply on the HTTP/2 path. Give the shared listener the same connection hygiene the dedicated gRPC transport already had, on both the control plane and the artifact CAS: - IdleTimeout, which net/http also applies to idle HTTP/2 connections; - HTTP/2 keepalive pings (SendPingTimeout/PingTimeout); - MaxConcurrentStreams and MaxReadFrameSize to bound per-connection resources; - a netutil.LimitListener cap on concurrent connections. No absolute read/write deadline is set, so long-lived gRPC streams and multi-GB CAS uploads and downloads are unaffected. Refs PFM-7981. Signed-off-by: Matías Insaurralde <matias@chainloop.dev>
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[3 files with past security fixes] Keep these rules in place. They come from 3 past fixes in this repository.
app/artifact-cas/internal/server/http.go ▶
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The shared endpoint must bound both the number of proxied streams sharing one upstream HTTP/2 connection and the amount of upstream response data each stalled stream can buffer.
go.mod ▶
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Network-exposed control-plane transports must not resolve to x/net releases with attacker-triggerable HTTP/2 header parsing resource exhaustion.
app/controlplane/internal/server/http.go ▶
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Only the opt-in profiler server may expose /debug/pprof/*, and every other kratos HTTP listener must return ordinary 404/405 responses for unmatched debug routes instead of delegating to http.DefaultServeMux.
Past fixes (3)
a62c139 · CWE-770
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Fixes a real cross-tenant resource-exhaustion flaw in the CAS shared gRPC endpoint: stalled proxied streams could monopolize a shared upstream HTTP/2 connection and pin proxy memory, denying gRPC service to other tenants.
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f83a212 · CWE-400
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Upgrading the root module to golang.org/x/net v0.33.0 fixes a reachable remote resource-exhaustion issue in the control-plane's gRPC/grpc-web transport stack.
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8efb6e0 · CWE-489
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Fixes unintended exposure of Go pprof/debug endpoints on Chainloop controlplane public HTTP listeners.
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app/artifact-cas/internal/server/http.go - 1 past fix, peak severity high
must hold: The shared endpoint must bound both the number of proxied streams sharing one
upstream HTTP/2 connection and the amount of upstream response data each stalled stream
can buffer.
also enforced at: 1 other entry point
grep for: MaxReceiveBufferPerStream, grpcLib.MaxConcurrentStreams,
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go.mod - 1 past fix, peak severity high
must hold: Network-exposed control-plane transports must not resolve to x/net releases
with attacker-triggerable HTTP/2 header parsing resource exhaustion.
app/controlplane/internal/server/http.go - 1 past fix, peak severity medium
must hold: Only the opt-in profiler server may expose /debug/pprof/*, and every other
kratos HTTP listener must return ordinary 404/405 responses for unmatched debug routes
instead of delegating to http.DefaultServeMux.
also enforced at: 5 other entry points
grep for: hardenedRouteOptions, http.MethodNotAllowedHandler, http.NotFoundHandler
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Refs PFM-7981
Summary
The single-port endpoint serves HTTP/1.1, gRPC-Web and native gRPC over HTTP/2 (including cleartext h2c) on one
net/httplistener, which did not configure any ofnet/http's optional idle/liveness or connection limits.net/httpdoes not close an idle HTTP/2 connection without an explicitIdleTimeout, andReadHeaderTimeoutdoes not apply on the HTTP/2 path.This gives the shared listener the same connection hygiene the dedicated gRPC transport already had, on both the control plane and the artifact CAS:
IdleTimeout, whichnet/httpalso applies to idle HTTP/2 connectionsSendPingTimeout/PingTimeout)MaxConcurrentStreamsandMaxReadFrameSizeto bound per-connection resourcesnetutil.LimitListenercap on concurrent connectionsNo absolute read/write deadline is set, so long-lived gRPC streams and multi-GB CAS uploads and downloads are unaffected.