fix: render a hostile token symbol as text, and put a floor under the CSP (closes #307)
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A token's symbol is whatever its symbol() returns, the block explorer passes it
through unfiltered, and balanceLine() interpolated it into an innerHTML string.
A token with the 1,000 holders the spam filter asks for, airdropped to the
victim, could therefore paint a full-viewport cross-origin iframe over the
wallet's own UI, on the screens where the user is used to typing their password.

escapeHtml moves to the new src/shared/html.js as a pure string replace over &,
<, >, " and '. The implementation it replaces round-tripped through a detached
element's textContent, which escapes neither quote character, and it was already
in use inside data-copy="..." and would have been inside href="...". Being pure
also makes it testable without a DOM shim.

Every interpolation into an innerHTML string across src/popup/views/ was audited
rather than only the reported one. Also unescaped: the transaction lists'
direction label (the explorer's method name, attacker-chosen for an attacker's
contract), the wallet name and ENS name in the Home wallet list, the URL in the
explorer link's href, the blockie data: URI, and the confirmation screen's
warning line, which carries only fixed strings today but is one wiring change
from carrying scraped explorer text. Explorer URLs are now built by one helper
that percent-encodes the path segment, so a from/to out of explorer JSON cannot
re-point the link. Where a value is a markup fragment this code just built, or a
loop index, or a locally computed number, it stays bare; the rule and the reason
are stated at the top of helpers.js.

Both manifests now declare default-src 'self' with frame-src 'none'. Four
directives had to stay looser than 'self' and none of them generalises:
style-src needs 'unsafe-inline' because the popup sets presentation through
style="..." attributes and Firefox has never implemented style-src-attr; img-src
needs data: for the blockies; connect-src needs https: and http: because the RPC
endpoint is user-configurable and a local node over http://127.0.0.1 is a
supported configuration. frame-src, form-action and base-uri are named rather
than inherited, because the last two do not fall back to default-src at all.
tests/manifest.test.js now pins the whole directive set exactly, in both
directions, and README.md carries the reasoning.

Displayed symbols are capped at 12 characters, the bound lookupTokenInfo()
already applied to a symbol read straight off a contract; the explorer path had
none. The cap is a layout bound and is documented as not being the security
control. isSpoofedSymbol() is untouched: it answers whether a symbol collides
with a known ticker, which is a different question, and repurposing it here
would have been the wrong control.

Verified failing first, four ways. Restricting escapeHtml to & < > (the escape
the old textContent round trip actually performed) fails 5 unit tests including
the data-copy attribute break-out. Removing the length cap fails 3. Dropping
default-src from manifest/chrome.json fails 2. Removing both the escape and the
cap and running the full Chrome suite fails the new browser test with the
attack reproduced: an <iframe id="pwn"> in the popup DOM, intercepting pointer
events over the Back button.
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parent 59f68b8859
commit ada41bf5e1
24 changed files with 706 additions and 97 deletions

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@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
// balanceLine() is the row that issue #307 was reported against: every
// screen that lists a holding renders through it, and the symbol it renders
// is whatever an ERC-20's symbol() returned. This asserts against the
// string it emits, which is what gets assigned to innerHTML.
//
// The browser half of the same claim — that a real Chrome renders that
// string as text and puts no iframe in the popup DOM — is in
// tests/e2e/run.js. This half runs inside the 20-second make test cap.
"use strict";
// helpers.js reaches for both at module scope through the modules it pulls
// in. Neither is exercised by anything asserted here.
global.chrome = {
storage: {
local: {
get: () => Promise.resolve({}),
set: () => Promise.resolve(),
},
},
runtime: { sendMessage: () => {} },
};
global.document = {
getElementById: () => null,
createElement: () => ({ style: {}, classList: { toggle() {} } }),
body: { prepend: () => {} },
addEventListener: () => {},
};
const { balanceLine } = require("../src/popup/views/helpers");
const { MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH } = require("../src/shared/symbolDisplay");
// The payload from the issue's reproduction, verbatim.
const HOSTILE_SYMBOL =
'<iframe id="pwn" src="https://dapp.e2e.test/" ' +
'style="position:fixed;left:0;top:0;width:360px;height:600px;z-index:99999"></iframe>';
describe("balanceLine", () => {
test("emits a hostile symbol as text, not as an element", () => {
// Deliberately asserted on the escaping alone. The cap truncates
// this payload before its id attribute, so an assertion about the
// rest of the payload would pass on the cap and say nothing about
// the escape.
const html = balanceLine(HOSTILE_SYMBOL, 1, null, null);
expect(html).not.toContain("<iframe");
expect(html).toContain("&lt;iframe");
});
test("caps the symbol before rendering it", () => {
const html = balanceLine("A".repeat(4096), 1, null, null);
expect(html).toContain("A".repeat(MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH - 1) + "…");
expect(html).not.toContain("A".repeat(MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH + 1));
});
// The token id lands inside data-token="...", so a quote in it is a
// way out of the attribute and into a new one.
test("keeps a quote-bearing token id inside its attribute", () => {
const html = balanceLine("TKN", 1, null, '" onclick="alert(1)');
expect(html).not.toContain('onclick="');
expect(html).toContain('data-token="&quot; onclick=&quot;alert(1)"');
});
test("renders an ordinary holding unchanged", () => {
const html = balanceLine("USDC", 1.5, null, "0xabc");
expect(html).toContain("<span>USDC</span>");
expect(html).toContain("<span>1.5000</span>");
expect(html).toContain('data-token="0xabc"');
});
});

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@@ -268,11 +268,15 @@ function ethCallResult(req, opts) {
return ZERO_WORD;
}
function tokenObject() {
// opts.tokenSymbolOverride is the hostile contract: set it and the explorer
// reports that string as the token's symbol, exactly as it would for a token
// whose symbol() returns markup. Read at request time, like every other
// fixture switch, so a test can flip it and reopen the popup.
function tokenObject(opts) {
return {
address_hash: STUB_TOKEN.address,
address: STUB_TOKEN.address,
symbol: STUB_TOKEN.symbol,
symbol: (opts && opts.tokenSymbolOverride) || STUB_TOKEN.symbol,
name: STUB_TOKEN.name,
decimals: STUB_TOKEN.decimals,
holders_count: STUB_TOKEN.holders,
@@ -281,7 +285,7 @@ function tokenObject() {
}
// One received ERC-20 transfer of 1.5 E2E to the address under test.
function tokenTransferItems(address) {
function tokenTransferItems(address, opts) {
return [
{
transaction_hash: STUB_TX_HASH,
@@ -290,7 +294,7 @@ function tokenTransferItems(address) {
from: { hash: STUB_COUNTERPARTY },
to: { hash: address },
total: { decimals: STUB_TOKEN.decimals, value: "1500000" },
token: tokenObject(),
token: tokenObject(opts),
},
];
}
@@ -317,11 +321,11 @@ function nativeTransactionItems(address) {
// A holding of 1.5 E2E, in the shape src/shared/balances.js parses. Serving
// this is what puts an ERC-20 in the send screen's token dropdown, which is
// the only way the confirmation screen's ERC-20 path can be reached.
function tokenBalanceItems() {
function tokenBalanceItems(opts) {
return [
{
value: "1500000",
token: tokenObject(),
token: tokenObject(opts),
},
];
}
@@ -596,6 +600,9 @@ function traceEnabled(raw) {
* @param {string} [opts.tokenDecimalsOverride] what decimals() answers for
* the stub token, in place of the value Blockscout reports for it. This is
* the token that lies about its scale; read at request time.
* @param {string} [opts.tokenSymbolOverride] what the explorer reports as
* the stub token's symbol, in place of "E2E". This is the token whose
* symbol is markup; read at request time.
* @param {boolean} [opts.seedReceipt] answer eth_getTransactionReceipt with a
* confirmed receipt instead of null, so a wait screen resolves.
* @returns {Promise<{waitForServiceWorkerTraffic: (ms: number) =>
@@ -674,14 +681,14 @@ async function installNetworkStubs(ctx, opts) {
return jsonResponse(route, {
items:
opts.seedTokenTransfer && addr
? tokenTransferItems(addr)
? tokenTransferItems(addr, opts)
: [],
});
}
if (/\/addresses\/0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}\/token-balances$/.test(p)) {
return jsonResponse(
route,
opts.seedTokenBalance ? tokenBalanceItems() : [],
opts.seedTokenBalance ? tokenBalanceItems(opts) : [],
);
}
for (const hash of [STUB_TX_HASH, STUB_NATIVE_TX_HASH]) {

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@@ -2169,6 +2169,156 @@ test("a token that lies about decimals() at signing time broadcasts nothing (#30
await visible(env.page, "#view-address");
});
// ------------------------------------------- hostile token symbol (#307)
//
// The reproduction from the issue, in the real browser against the real
// shipped manifest. A token symbol is whatever the contract's symbol()
// returns, the explorer passes it through, and the popup interpolated it
// into an innerHTML string — so a token with 1,000 holders airdropped to
// the victim could paint a full-viewport cross-origin iframe over the
// wallet's own UI, on the screens where the user types their password.
//
// The iframe count and the rendered text are asserted separately on
// purpose, and neither substitutes for the other. `frame-src 'none'` stops
// an injected frame LOADING; it does not stop the element existing, so a
// zero iframe count is a claim about the escaping and about nothing else.
// The literal capped text is the claim that the symbol was treated as a
// string all the way down.
//
// The iframe count is taken on the address screen before anything is
// clicked. That is where the injected frame lands first, and it covers the
// viewport: with the escaping removed, every later step fails as a click
// timeout ("<iframe id=\"pwn\"> intercepts pointer events") rather than as
// anything that names the defect.
// Verbatim from the issue's reproduction.
const HOSTILE_SYMBOL =
'<iframe id="pwn" src="https://dapp.e2e.test/" ' +
'style="position:fixed;left:0;top:0;width:360px;height:600px;z-index:99999"></iframe>';
// What a correctly escaped and capped render of it reads as: the first
// MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH-1 characters and an ellipsis. Spelled out rather than
// imported, so a change to the cap has to be restated here deliberately
// instead of being absorbed by a shared constant.
const HOSTILE_SYMBOL_DISPLAYED = "<iframe id=" + "…";
// Everything the popup can say about an injected symbol, read out of the
// live DOM in one pass.
function hostileSymbolState(page, tokenAddress) {
return page.evaluate((addr) => {
const row = document.querySelector(
'#wallet-list [data-token="' + addr + '"]',
);
// balanceLine() emits <div data-token><span><span>SYMBOL</span>…
// so this is the span the symbol itself was written into.
const symbolEl = row && row.firstElementChild.firstElementChild;
return {
rowFound: !!row,
rowText: row ? row.innerText.trim() : "",
symbolText: symbolEl ? symbolEl.textContent : "",
// The symbol's own span must hold text and nothing else. An
// element child here is the injection, whether or not it
// happens to be an iframe.
symbolElementChildren: symbolEl
? symbolEl.querySelectorAll("*").length
: -1,
// The whole popup document, not just the row: an injected
// element positioned fixed can be anywhere in the tree.
iframes: document.querySelectorAll("iframe").length,
pwnPresent: !!document.getElementById("pwn"),
};
}, tokenAddress);
}
test("a token whose symbol() returns markup renders as text (#307)", async (env) => {
env.routeOpts.ethBalanceWei = toHexWei(FUNDED_ETH_WEI);
env.routeOpts.seedTokenBalance = true;
env.routeOpts.tokenSymbolOverride = HOSTILE_SYMBOL;
console.log(
"# stub token symbol() now returns: " + JSON.stringify(HOSTILE_SYMBOL),
);
// Close and reopen so the refresh that runs on open fetches balances
// with the hostile symbol in them.
await reopenPopup(env, "#view-address");
await env.page.waitForFunction(
(addr) =>
!!document.querySelector(
'#address-balances [data-token="' + addr + '"]',
),
STUB_TOKEN.address,
{ timeout: 60000 },
);
const onAddress = await env.page.evaluate(() => ({
iframes: document.querySelectorAll("iframe").length,
pwnPresent: !!document.getElementById("pwn"),
}));
console.log("# address-detail iframes = " + onAddress.iframes);
assert(
onAddress.iframes === 0 && !onAddress.pwnPresent,
"the address screen contains " +
onAddress.iframes +
" iframe(s) after a hostile symbol rendered (#307)",
);
await env.page.click("#btn-address-back");
await visible(env.page, "#view-main");
await visible(
env.page,
'#wallet-list [data-token="' + STUB_TOKEN.address + '"]',
60000,
);
const st = await hostileSymbolState(env.page, STUB_TOKEN.address);
console.log(
"# iframes in the popup DOM = " +
st.iframes +
" | #pwn present = " +
st.pwnPresent +
" | symbol = " +
JSON.stringify(st.symbolText),
);
assert(st.rowFound, "the hostile token never rendered a row at all");
assert(
st.iframes === 0,
"the popup DOM contains " + st.iframes + " iframe(s) (#307)",
);
assert(!st.pwnPresent, "the injected #pwn element is in the popup DOM");
assert(
st.symbolElementChildren === 0,
"the symbol span grew " +
st.symbolElementChildren +
" element children out of a token symbol (#307)",
);
assert(
st.symbolText === HOSTILE_SYMBOL_DISPLAYED,
"the symbol did not render as the literal capped text " +
JSON.stringify(HOSTILE_SYMBOL_DISPLAYED) +
": " +
JSON.stringify(st.symbolText),
);
assert(
!st.rowText.includes("z-index"),
"the uncapped symbol reached the screen: " + JSON.stringify(st.rowText),
);
// Put the fixture back before the next test reads it, and let the
// stored balances be rewritten with the honest symbol.
env.routeOpts.tokenSymbolOverride = null;
await reopenPopup(env, "#view-main");
await env.page.waitForFunction(
(addr) => {
const row = document.querySelector(
'#wallet-list [data-token="' + addr + '"]',
);
return !!row && row.innerText.includes("E2E");
},
STUB_TOKEN.address,
{ timeout: 60000 },
);
});
// ------------------------------------------- dApp round trips (#183)
//
// The seam. Everything above drives the popup on its own; this section is
@@ -3303,6 +3453,9 @@ async function main() {
// something other than the value the same fixture reports through
// Blockscout. The token that lies about its scale (#305).
tokenDecimalsOverride: null,
// What the explorer reports as the stub token's symbol. The token
// whose symbol() returns markup (#307).
tokenSymbolOverride: null,
// Whether eth_getTransactionReceipt confirms a transaction rather than
// answering "not mined yet".
seedReceipt: false,

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tests/htmlEscape.test.js Normal file
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@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
// The escape every view depends on, and the length bound on a displayed
// token symbol. Both were added for #307, where a token whose symbol()
// returned an <iframe> tag rendered that iframe inside the popup.
const { escapeHtml } = require("../src/shared/html");
const {
displaySymbol,
MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH,
UNKNOWN_SYMBOL,
} = require("../src/shared/symbolDisplay");
// The payload from the issue's reproduction, verbatim.
const HOSTILE_SYMBOL =
'<iframe id="pwn" src="https://dapp.e2e.test/" ' +
'style="position:fixed;left:0;top:0;width:360px;height:600px;z-index:99999"></iframe>';
describe("escapeHtml", () => {
test("escapes all five characters, quotes included", () => {
expect(escapeHtml("&<>\"'")).toBe("&amp;&lt;&gt;&quot;&#39;");
});
// The regression this function was rewritten for. The previous
// implementation round-tripped through a detached div's textContent,
// and an HTML text node serializes a quote as itself — so a value with
// a quote in it broke straight out of data-copy="..." and href="...".
test("escapes quotes, which the textContent round trip did not", () => {
expect(escapeHtml('a"b')).toBe("a&quot;b");
expect(escapeHtml("a'b")).toBe("a&#39;b");
});
test("does not double-escape an ampersand it just introduced", () => {
expect(escapeHtml("&lt;")).toBe("&amp;lt;");
expect(escapeHtml("&amp;")).toBe("&amp;amp;");
});
test("leaves a string with nothing to escape untouched", () => {
expect(escapeHtml("USDC")).toBe("USDC");
expect(escapeHtml("")).toBe("");
});
test("renders the hostile symbol inert", () => {
const out = escapeHtml(HOSTILE_SYMBOL);
expect(out).not.toContain("<");
expect(out).not.toContain(">");
expect(out).not.toContain('"');
expect(out).toContain("&lt;iframe");
});
// A quoted attribute is broken out of by a quote, a bare one by a
// space; both are closed here. Asserted as a whole attribute rather
// than character by character, because it is the attribute that has to
// survive, not the escape table.
test("a value carrying a quote stays inside its attribute", () => {
const evil = '" onload="alert(1)';
const attr = `data-copy="${escapeHtml(evil)}"`;
expect(attr).toBe('data-copy="&quot; onload=&quot;alert(1)"');
expect(attr.split('"').length - 1).toBe(2);
});
test("null and undefined render as nothing rather than as words", () => {
expect(escapeHtml(null)).toBe("");
expect(escapeHtml(undefined)).toBe("");
});
test("coerces a non-string without losing the escape", () => {
expect(escapeHtml(42)).toBe("42");
expect(escapeHtml({ toString: () => "<b>" })).toBe("&lt;b&gt;");
});
});
describe("displaySymbol", () => {
test("passes every symbol in the bundled list through unchanged", () => {
const { TOKENS } = require("../src/shared/tokenList");
for (const t of TOKENS) {
expect([t.address, displaySymbol(t.symbol)]).toEqual([
t.address,
t.symbol,
]);
}
});
test("caps an over-long symbol and marks it as truncated", () => {
const long = "A".repeat(4096);
const out = displaySymbol(long);
expect(out.length).toBe(MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH);
expect(out.endsWith("…")).toBe(true);
});
test("keeps a symbol of exactly the cap intact", () => {
const exact = "A".repeat(MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH);
expect(displaySymbol(exact)).toBe(exact);
});
test("substitutes a placeholder for an absent symbol", () => {
expect(displaySymbol("")).toBe(UNKNOWN_SYMBOL);
expect(displaySymbol(null)).toBe(UNKNOWN_SYMBOL);
expect(displaySymbol(undefined)).toBe(UNKNOWN_SYMBOL);
});
// The cap is a layout bound and nothing more: it must not be mistaken
// for the thing that makes a symbol safe to render. A short hostile
// symbol passes through it untouched, and is inert only because the
// caller escapes it afterwards.
test("does not sanitize — a short markup symbol survives it verbatim", () => {
expect(displaySymbol("<img src=x>")).toBe("<img src=x>");
expect(escapeHtml(displaySymbol("<img src=x>"))).toBe(
"&lt;img src=x&gt;",
);
});
});

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@@ -13,6 +13,33 @@
// an exact match on the token set is what keeps the next edit from
// smuggling one in alongside.
//
// It is also the anti-regression check for #307. The policy used to declare
// script-src and object-src and nothing else, which left every directive
// that does not fall back to them — and, absent default-src, every one that
// does — wide open: a hostile ERC-20 symbol that reached innerHTML could
// load a full-viewport cross-origin iframe over the wallet's own UI. The
// escaping in src/shared/html.js is the primary fix; default-src is what
// stops the next escape that slips from reaching the network.
//
// Every directive below is pinned exactly, because each of the four
// loosenings is load-bearing and none of them may grow:
//
// style-src 'unsafe-inline' src/popup/index.html and the view helpers
// use style="..." attributes throughout, which
// CSP blocks without it. Chrome enforces this
// on attributes, not just <style> blocks, and
// Firefox has never implemented style-src-attr,
// so there is no narrower spelling available.
// img-src data: blockies are data: PNGs assigned to img.src.
// connect-src https: http: the RPC endpoint is user-configurable, and a
// local node over http://127.0.0.1 is a
// supported configuration — the Firefox e2e
// suite runs on exactly that.
// frame-src/form-action/base-uri named rather than inherited: form-action
// and base-uri do not fall back to default-src
// at all, and frame-src 'none' is what kills
// the reported attack outright.
//
// build.js copies these files to dist/<target>/manifest.json verbatim, so
// what is asserted here is what ships.
@@ -21,8 +48,22 @@ const path = require("path");
const MANIFEST_DIR = path.join(__dirname, "..", "manifest");
const EXPECTED_SCRIPT_SRC = ["'self'", "'wasm-unsafe-eval'"];
const EXPECTED_OBJECT_SRC = ["'self'"];
const EXPECTED_DIRECTIVES = {
"default-src": ["'self'"],
"script-src": ["'self'", "'wasm-unsafe-eval'"],
"object-src": ["'self'"],
"style-src": ["'self'", "'unsafe-inline'"],
"img-src": ["'self'", "data:"],
"connect-src": ["'self'", "http:", "https:"],
"frame-src": ["'none'"],
"form-action": ["'none'"],
"base-uri": ["'none'"],
};
// Directives that fetch script. Nothing that can execute code may name a
// remote source, an eval form, or an inline form; 'wasm-unsafe-eval' is the
// single deliberate exception and it is pinned above.
const SCRIPT_DIRECTIVES = ["default-src", "script-src", "object-src"];
const FORBIDDEN_SOURCES = [
"'unsafe-eval'",
@@ -53,26 +94,31 @@ function parseCsp(policy) {
function assertPolicy(policy) {
const directives = parseCsp(policy);
expect(Object.keys(directives).sort()).toEqual([
"object-src",
"script-src",
]);
expect(directives["script-src"].slice().sort()).toEqual(
EXPECTED_SCRIPT_SRC,
// Exact, in both directions: a directive that appears here and not in
// EXPECTED_DIRECTIVES is an unreviewed addition, and one that
// disappears silently reopens whatever it was closing.
expect(Object.keys(directives).sort()).toEqual(
Object.keys(EXPECTED_DIRECTIVES).sort(),
);
expect(directives["object-src"].slice().sort()).toEqual(
EXPECTED_OBJECT_SRC,
);
for (const source of FORBIDDEN_SOURCES) {
expect(directives["script-src"]).not.toContain(source);
expect(directives["object-src"]).not.toContain(source);
for (const [name, sources] of Object.entries(EXPECTED_DIRECTIVES)) {
expect([name, directives[name].slice().sort()]).toEqual([
name,
sources.slice().sort(),
]);
}
for (const name of SCRIPT_DIRECTIVES) {
for (const source of FORBIDDEN_SOURCES) {
expect(name + " " + directives[name].join(" ")).not.toContain(
" " + source,
);
}
}
}
describe("shipped Content Security Policy", () => {
// MV3 takes an object and applies extension_pages to the popup and the
// background service worker, which is where libsodium runs.
test("chrome MV3 allows WASM and nothing else beyond 'self'", () => {
test("chrome MV3 ships the pinned policy, default-src included", () => {
const csp = readManifest("chrome").content_security_policy;
expect(typeof csp).toBe("object");
expect(Object.keys(csp)).toEqual(["extension_pages"]);
@@ -87,7 +133,7 @@ describe("shipped Content Security Policy", () => {
// Firefox before 106 rejects an MV2 policy string that omits
// object-src and falls back to its own default, discarding everything
// declared here. Same policy as Chrome, different manifest shape.
test("firefox MV2 allows WASM and nothing else beyond 'self'", () => {
test("firefox MV2 ships the pinned policy, default-src included", () => {
const csp = readManifest("firefox").content_security_policy;
expect(typeof csp).toBe("string");
assertPolicy(csp);