Path rules and trap paths match the path decoded once too (closes #85)
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A path rule matched only the path as the client sent it, so /%2eenv got
past the default env-file rule while an app that decodes the path
serves /.env. A path rule now matches the path as sent or decoded once,
as a uri rule already did, and so does a path in SWWAF_TRAP_PATHS:
/%77p-login.php matches /wp-login.php. The query is cut off before the
path is decoded, and the path is decoded only once, so /%252eenv is not
/.env. A ban's notes keep the path as sent. SPEC.md and README.md say
so.

Model: opus-5-5
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2026-10-14 15:39:39 +00:00
parent 6fcbda6ece
commit 2aa14bfe19
8 changed files with 79 additions and 45 deletions
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@@ -10,13 +10,15 @@ import (
)
// trapPath reports whether the request asks for a path in
// SWWAF_TRAP_PATHS: its path as a path rule sees it, before any decoding
// and without the query, is one of them. Such a request is a clear sign of
// attack, as a ban rule's match is: it bans the client's netblock, or in
// observe mode raises the alert for the ban it would have made.
// SWWAF_TRAP_PATHS: its path as a path rule sees it, without the query,
// as sent or once percent-decoded, is one of them. Such a request is a
// clear sign of attack, as a ban rule's match is: it bans the client's
// netblock, or in observe mode raises the alert for the ban it would have
// made. The ban's notes give the path as sent.
func (rq *request) trapPath(now time.Time) bool {
path := rules.Path(rq.in)
if !slices.Contains(rq.h.config.TrapPaths, path) {
if !slices.Contains(rq.h.config.TrapPaths, path) &&
!slices.Contains(rq.h.config.TrapPaths, rules.DecodeOnce(path)) {
return false
}
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@@ -32,10 +32,9 @@ func TestTrapPathBansAsABanRuleDoes(t *testing.T) {
})
start := clk.Now()
// Only the path itself, as the client sent it, is a trap path.
for _, path := range []string{
"/wp-login.php/", "/WP-LOGIN.PHP", "/blog/xmlrpc.php", "/%77p-login.php",
} {
// Only the path itself, the whole of it in the same case, is a trap
// path.
for _, path := range []string{"/wp-login.php/", "/WP-LOGIN.PHP", "/blog/xmlrpc.php"} {
s.request(otherClient, path, http.StatusOK, requestlog.ActionForward)
}
@@ -84,6 +83,22 @@ func TestTrapPathBansAsABanRuleDoes(t *testing.T) {
}
}
func TestTrapPathMatchesThePathDecodedOnce(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
s, _, server := startWithClock(t, "", map[string]string{trapPaths: trapPathList})
// %2577 decodes once to %77, not to w.
s.request(otherClient, "/%2577p-login.php", http.StatusOK, requestlog.ActionForward)
s.request(client, "/%77p-login.php", http.StatusForbidden, requestlog.ActionBanned)
// The ban's notes give the path as the client sent it.
got := server.Ledger.Bans(netip.MustParsePrefix(client + "/32"))
if len(got) != 1 || got[0].Notes.TrapPath != "/%77p-login.php" {
t.Fatalf("bans %+v, want one whose notes give the trap path /%%77p-login.php", got)
}
}
func TestTrapPathsNeedNoRuleFiles(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()