security: enforce channel membership check in handleTopic
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handleTopic did not verify that the requesting user was a member of the
channel before allowing them to set a topic. Any authenticated user could
set the topic on any channel they hadn't joined.

Add an IsChannelMember check after resolving the channel and before
calling executeTopic, mirroring the existing pattern in handleChannelMsg.
Non-members now receive ERR_NOTONCHANNEL (442).

Add TestTopicNonMember to verify the fix.
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2026-03-17 02:14:32 -07:00
parent cab5784913
commit 53e0abb134
2 changed files with 62 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -1636,6 +1636,32 @@ func (hdlr *Handlers) handleTopic(
return return
} }
isMember, err := hdlr.params.Database.IsChannelMember(
request.Context(), chID, sessionID,
)
if err != nil {
hdlr.log.Error(
"check membership failed", "error", err,
)
hdlr.respondError(
writer, request,
"internal error",
http.StatusInternalServerError,
)
return
}
if !isMember {
hdlr.respondIRCError(
writer, request, clientID, sessionID,
irc.ErrNotOnChannel, nick, []string{channel},
"You're not on that channel",
)
return
}
hdlr.executeTopic( hdlr.executeTopic(
writer, request, writer, request,
sessionID, clientID, nick, sessionID, clientID, nick,

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@@ -1134,6 +1134,42 @@ func TestTopicMissingBody(t *testing.T) {
} }
} }
func TestTopicNonMember(t *testing.T) {
tserver := newTestServer(t)
aliceToken := tserver.createSession("alice_topic")
bobToken := tserver.createSession("bob_topic")
// Only alice joins the channel.
tserver.sendCommand(aliceToken, map[string]any{
commandKey: joinCmd, toKey: "#topicpriv",
})
// Drain bob's initial messages.
_, lastID := tserver.pollMessages(bobToken, 0)
// Bob tries to set topic without joining.
status, _ := tserver.sendCommand(
bobToken,
map[string]any{
commandKey: "TOPIC",
toKey: "#topicpriv",
bodyKey: []string{"Hijacked topic"},
},
)
if status != http.StatusOK {
t.Fatalf("expected 200, got %d", status)
}
msgs, _ := tserver.pollMessages(bobToken, lastID)
if !findNumeric(msgs, "442") {
t.Fatalf(
"expected ERR_NOTONCHANNEL (442), got %v",
msgs,
)
}
}
func TestPing(t *testing.T) { func TestPing(t *testing.T) {
tserver := newTestServer(t) tserver := newTestServer(t)
token := tserver.createSession("ping_user") token := tserver.createSession("ping_user")