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fix(dev): omit error history from failure pages for remote peers #1552

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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/utils.ts
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Expand Up @@ -697,6 +697,8 @@ export class NuxtDevServer extends EventEmitter<DevServerEventMap> {
/**
* Serve `report` as a live error page, or `false` when it could not be
* rendered. The page dismisses itself once the channel clears the error.
* The report is build state broken for everyone, so any peer sees it; the
* history spans other requests, so only a peer on this machine sees that.
*/
async #renderReport(req: IncomingMessage, res: ServerResponse, report: ErrorReport): Promise<boolean> {
if (!String(req.headers.accept || '').includes('text/html')) {
Expand All @@ -708,7 +710,7 @@ export class NuxtDevServer extends EventEmitter<DevServerEventMap> {
const html = await renderErrorPage(report, {
cwd: this.#rootDir(),
channel: channel && this.#errorChannel,
history: channel?.history,
history: isLoopbackAddress(req.socket?.remoteAddress) ? channel?.history : undefined,

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

# Inspect proxy and forwarded-address handling near the CLI listener.
rg -n -C 4 'X-Forwarded-For|Forwarded|trustProxy|proxy|portless|resolvePortlessURLs' packages/nuxt-cli

Repository: nuxt/cli

Length of output: 42527

🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- history rendering ---'
sed -n '680,730p' packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/utils.ts

printf '%s\n' '--- portless/listener setup ---'
sed -n '1,45p' packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/portless.ts
sed -n '250,340p' packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/listen.ts

printf '%s\n' '--- error channel bindings ---'
rg -n -C 5 'handleErrorChannelRequest|errorChannelOptions|channel\\.history|renderErrorPage|isErrorChannelRequest' packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev packages/nuxt-cli/src

Repository: nuxt/cli

Length of output: 25148

Sensitive Data Exposure

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Do not use the raw socket peer address for error-history authorization.

A reverse proxy or portless tunnel can connect from loopback while serving external clients. Those clients pass the check and receive channel.history in the rendered error page. Resolve the client address through a configured trusted-proxy boundary, or disable history when the listener is behind a proxy.

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In `@packages/nuxt-cli/src/dev/utils.ts` at line 713, Update the error-history
authorization around isLoopbackAddress and channel.history so it does not trust
req.socket.remoteAddress directly; resolve the client address through the
configured trusted-proxy boundary, or return undefined when proxy trust cannot
be established, while preserving history only for verified loopback clients.

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})
res.statusCode = 500
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html')
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40 changes: 40 additions & 0 deletions packages/nuxt-cli/test/unit/dev/lifecycle.spec.ts
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Expand Up @@ -116,6 +116,29 @@ async function serveLocally(server: InstanceType<typeof NuxtDevServer>, path: st
return { status: res.statusCode }
}

/** Drive `handler` as a peer at `remoteAddress`, collecting the body it writes. */
async function serveAsPeer(server: InstanceType<typeof NuxtDevServer>, remoteAddress: string, path = '/'): Promise<{ status: number, body: string }> {
const res = new EventEmitter() as any
res.statusCode = 200
res.headersSent = false
res.writableEnded = false
res.body = ''
res.setHeader = () => {}
res.end = (chunk?: string) => {
if (chunk) {
res.body += chunk
}
res.writableEnded = true
res.headersSent = true
res.emit('close')
}
const closed = new Promise<void>(resolve => res.once('close', resolve))
const req = { url: path, method: 'GET', headers: { accept: 'text/html', host: '127.0.0.1' }, rawHeaders: [], socket: { remoteAddress } } as any
await server.handler(req, res)
await closed
return { status: res.statusCode, body: res.body }
}

async function makeTempDir(): Promise<string> {
const dir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'nuxt-dev-lifecycle-'))
tempDirs.push(dir)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -262,6 +285,23 @@ describe('dev server failures', () => {
expect(body).toContain('broken on reload')
})

it('should keep the error history out of the failure page served to another machine', async () => {
const server = createServer()
await server.init()

loadNuxt.mockImplementation(() => Promise.reject(new Error('broken on reload')))
await server.load(true, { type: 'config', files: [join(cwd, 'nuxt.config.ts')] })

const local = await serveAsPeer(server, '127.0.0.1')
const remote = await serveAsPeer(server, '192.168.0.31')

expect(local.status).toBe(500)
expect(local.body).toMatch(/"history":\[\s*\{/)
expect(remote.status).toBe(500)
expect(remote.body).toContain('broken on reload')
expect(remote.body).not.toMatch(/"history":\[\s*\{/)
})

it('should recover once the config loads again', async () => {
const server = createServer()
await server.init()
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