harden: show a personal message's hex and mark control characters in its text (closes #403)
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The signature screen showed only the text a personal message decodes
to, with bidirectional and zero-width characters acting on it, so a
site could make the message read differently from the bytes that are
signed, and a message that was not hex was decoded into NUL
characters. The screen now shows the hex as "Raw data" alongside the
decoded text, and each control or format character in the text as a
U+XXXX mark. Signing takes the bytes from the hex, so a message that
is not hex cannot be signed: it is shown as plain text, with the error
line saying so and "Sign" disabled.

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// The signature prompt shows a personal message as the bytes that are signed
// (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/403): the raw data in hex, the
// text it decodes to with control, zero-width and bidirectional characters
// marked rather than obeyed, and a message that is not hex as plain text that
// cannot be signed.
//
// Driven against a minimal DOM stub in the shape
// tests/approvalOrigin.test.js uses.
globalThis.chrome = {
storage: { local: { get: async () => ({}), set: async () => {} } },
};
const { hexlify, toUtf8Bytes } = require("ethers");
const { state } = require("../src/shared/state");
const approval = require("../src/popup/views/approval");
const FROM = "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000a11";
// Built from their code points so that this file holds none of them.
const RIGHT_TO_LEFT_OVERRIDE = String.fromCodePoint(0x202e);
const POP_DIRECTIONAL_FORMATTING = String.fromCodePoint(0x202c);
const ZERO_WIDTH_SPACE = String.fromCodePoint(0x200b);
function makeElement(id) {
const classes = new Set();
return {
id,
textContent: "",
value: "",
innerHTML: "",
disabled: false,
style: {},
dataset: {},
classList: {
add: (...names) => names.forEach((n) => classes.add(n)),
remove: (...names) => names.forEach((n) => classes.delete(n)),
contains: (n) => classes.has(n),
toggle: (n, force) => {
const on = force === undefined ? !classes.has(n) : force;
if (on) classes.add(n);
else classes.delete(n);
return on;
},
},
addEventListener: () => {},
querySelectorAll: () => [],
appendChild: () => {},
};
}
function makeDocument() {
const els = new Map();
return {
getElementById(id) {
if (id === "debug-banner") return null;
if (!els.has(id)) els.set(id, makeElement(id));
return els.get(id);
},
createElement: () => makeElement("created"),
body: { prepend: () => {} },
};
}
function node(id) {
return globalThis.document.getElementById(id);
}
// Open the signature prompt for a personal_sign of `message`, the way the
// popup does: it asks the background for the approval and show() draws it.
async function openPersonalSign(message) {
globalThis.document = makeDocument();
globalThis.window = { location: { search: "" } };
globalThis.chrome.runtime = {
connect: () => ({ postMessage: () => {} }),
sendMessage: (msg, reply) => {
if (!reply) return;
if (msg.type !== "AUTISTMASK_GET_APPROVAL") return reply(null);
reply({
type: "sign",
origin: "https://dapp.example",
isPhishingDomain: false,
approvedFrom: FROM,
signParams: { method: "personal_sign", message, from: FROM },
});
},
};
approval.init({});
await approval.show(1);
}
// The message box's markup as the text a reader sees: tags dropped.
function shownMessage() {
return node("approve-sign-message").innerHTML.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, "");
}
beforeEach(() => {
state.wallets = [];
state.activeAddress = FROM;
state.viewData = {};
state.viewStack = [];
state.currentView = null;
});
test("a right-to-left override is marked, so the text reads in byte order", async () => {
// Obeyed, the override shows "0001" as "1000".
const text =
"Pay " +
RIGHT_TO_LEFT_OVERRIDE +
"0001" +
POP_DIRECTIONAL_FORMATTING +
" ETH";
await openPersonalSign(hexlify(toUtf8Bytes(text)));
const html = node("approve-sign-message").innerHTML;
expect(html).not.toContain(RIGHT_TO_LEFT_OVERRIDE);
expect(html).not.toContain(POP_DIRECTIONAL_FORMATTING);
expect(shownMessage()).toBe("Pay U+202E0001U+202C ETH");
});
test("a zero-width character is marked", async () => {
await openPersonalSign(
hexlify(toUtf8Bytes("pay" + ZERO_WIDTH_SPACE + "pal.com")),
);
expect(node("approve-sign-message").innerHTML).not.toContain(
ZERO_WIDTH_SPACE,
);
expect(shownMessage()).toBe("payU+200Bpal.com");
});
test("a line feed is shown as a line break", async () => {
await openPersonalSign(hexlify(toUtf8Bytes("Sign in\nNonce: 7")));
expect(node("approve-sign-message").innerHTML).toBe("Sign in<br>Nonce: 7");
});
test("the raw hex is shown alongside the text", async () => {
await openPersonalSign("0x48656c6c6f");
expect(shownMessage()).toBe("Hello");
expect(node("approve-sign-hex").textContent).toBe("0x48656c6c6f");
expect(node("approve-sign-hex-section").classList.contains("hidden")).toBe(
false,
);
});
test("bytes that are not text are shown only as hex", async () => {
await openPersonalSign("0xff00");
expect(node("approve-sign-message").textContent).toBe(
"This message is not text.",
);
expect(node("approve-sign-hex").textContent).toBe("0xff00");
});
test("a message that is not hex is shown as text and cannot be signed", async () => {
await openPersonalSign("Hello world");
expect(shownMessage()).toBe("Hello world");
expect(node("approve-sign-error").textContent).toBe(
"This message is plain text, not hex, so it cannot be signed.",
);
expect(node("btn-approve-sign").disabled).toBe(true);
expect(node("approve-sign-hex-section").classList.contains("hidden")).toBe(
true,
);
});