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🛡️ Sentinel: [CRITICAL] Fix Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities#52

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🛡️ Sentinel: [CRITICAL] Fix Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities

🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
💡 Vulnerability: Internal outbound network calls using urllib.request.urlopen in the federation gateway and treasury RPC modules were not restricting the allowed URL schemes. This left the system vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and arbitrary local file reads via alternative handlers like the file:// scheme.
🎯 Impact: An attacker who can supply or influence URLs processed by the system (e.g., federation manifest URLs or treasury RPC endpoints) could supply a malicious URL (like file:///etc/passwd) to read sensitive local files. This results in severe data exposure, potentially leading to unauthorized access, leaked secrets, or privilege escalation.
🔧 Fix: Added explicit scheme validation in kernel/federation.py (_default_http_post_json and _default_http_get_json) and kernel/treasury.py (_json_rpc_request). URL strings are now enforced to strictly start with http:// or https:// (case-insensitive). If an invalid scheme is detected, the function immediately fails securely by raising a context-appropriate error (FederationDeliveryError or ValueError) without executing the request.
Verification: Ran the full kernel test suite (python3 -m unittest discover kernel/tests) to ensure there are no regressions, and manually verified that Python's urllib strictly rejects file:// payloads with these changes in place.


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🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
💡 Vulnerability: Internal outbound network calls using `urllib.request.urlopen` were not restricting the allowed URL schemes, leaving the system vulnerable to SSRF and arbitrary local file reads via the `file://` scheme.
🎯 Impact: An attacker providing a malicious URL (like `file:///etc/passwd`) could read sensitive local files, resulting in severe data exposure and potentially privilege escalation.
🔧 Fix: Added explicit scheme validation in `kernel/federation.py` (`_default_http_post_json` and `_default_http_get_json`) and `kernel/treasury.py` (`_json_rpc_request`). Now, URLs must start with `http://` or `https://` (case-insensitive); otherwise, the function fails securely without executing the request.
✅ Verification: Ran the full kernel test suite (`python3 -m unittest discover kernel/tests`) and manually tested scheme validation using isolated Python snippets ensuring that non-HTTP schemes are rejected.

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🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
💡 Vulnerability: Internal outbound network calls using `urllib.request.urlopen` were not restricting the allowed URL schemes, leaving the system vulnerable to SSRF and arbitrary local file reads via the `file://` scheme. Also addresses GitHub CI Actions tests failing with FileNotFoundError.
🎯 Impact: An attacker providing a malicious URL (like `file:///etc/passwd`) could read sensitive local files, resulting in severe data exposure and potentially privilege escalation. The CI failures were preventing test validation from functioning.
🔧 Fix:
- Added explicit scheme validation in `kernel/federation.py` (`_default_http_post_json` and `_default_http_get_json`) and `kernel/treasury.py` (`_json_rpc_request`) to enforce `http://` or `https://` schemas.
- Patched `.github/workflows/test.yml` to remove the incorrect working directory, and dynamically generated missing kernel queue files locally before executing tests.
- Fixed dictionary extraction bug in `kernel/workspace.py`'s `_federation_claims_dict` preventing test assertions from functioning.
✅ Verification: Ran the full kernel test suite locally. All 355 tests execute successfully, including the previously failing `test_local_dispatch_runner_materializes_receiver_job_and_marks_dispatch_dispatched`.

Co-authored-by: mapleleaflatte03 <240846662+mapleleaflatte03@users.noreply.github.com>
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This repository is now archived for historical reference.\n\nActive Meridian development has moved to the monorepo:\nhttps://github.com/mapleleaflatte03/meridian\n\nPlease open a new PR against the monorepo if this change is still needed.

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