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fix(devtools): harden RPC surface against traversal, spoofing, and dead auth UI - #1086

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Fixes three issues found in a security review of the DevTools RPC/client surface:

  • writeStaticAssets path traversal: baseDir was computed by string-concatenating the caller-controlled folder onto dir.public before the containment check ran, so folder='/../..' escaped the public directory entirely and the subsequent startsWith(baseDir) check passed trivially. Now folder/path are always resolved against the fixed publicDir with leading slashes stripped (so an absolute-looking path can't escape via path.resolve's override-with-absolute-path behavior), and containment is verified against publicDir/baseDir with a proper path-boundary check.
  • frame-nav postMessage spoofing: the client's iframe nav shim accepted postMessage from any origin and replied with targetOrigin: '*', letting any page that iframes the DevTools client URL read the tab manifest and drive navigation. It now validates ev.origin/ev.source against the host origin (the frame is always embedded same-origin by the dev server) and replies with an explicit targetOrigin.
  • Dead requireAuth tab gate: isDevAuthed was permanently hardcoded to true, so requireAuth: true tabs and the "Authorize" prompt never gated anything — they just implied a protection that isn't there. Since real authorization now happens via Vite DevTools' own connection auth (per the existing deprecation notices on dev-auth.ts), the no-op gate and prompt are removed and the requireAuth field is documented as deprecated.

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Added unit tests for writeStaticAssets covering: normal writes, a folder traversal attempt, a path traversal attempt, and an absolute-looking path being safely treated as relative. pnpm test (lint + unit) passes.


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- writeStaticAssets: resolve folder/path against a fixed publicDir and
  verify containment against publicDir instead of a string-concatenated,
  unchecked base, closing a path-traversal escape (e.g. folder='/../..').
- frame-nav: validate postMessage sender origin/source and reply with an
  explicit targetOrigin instead of '*', preventing cross-origin frames from
  reading the tab manifest or driving navigation.
- Remove the requireAuth tab gate and Authorize UI, which were permanently
  no-ops (isDevAuthed hardcoded true) and falsely implied protection that
  Vite DevTools' own connection auth actually provides.
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Client-side authorization prompts and authentication gating were removed from module and overview pages. The requireAuth documentation now marks the option as deprecated. Frame navigation restricts messages to the host origin and parent window. Static asset writes normalize paths and reject paths outside the public directory. Tests cover valid writes, traversal rejection, and absolute-looking paths.

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In `@packages/devtools/src/server-rpc/assets.ts`:
- Line 109: Update the containment checks in writeStaticAssets to use
platform-aware relative-path validation: compute the path relative to publicDir,
reject absolute results and paths beginning with .. plus a separator boundary,
and preserve acceptance of publicDir itself and valid descendants on Windows and
POSIX.
- Line 115: Update the asset write path around the finalPath containment check
to canonicalize the target parent with realpath, reject any canonical parent
outside the canonical public directory, and reject an existing symbolic-link
target before fsp.writeFile. Add a regression test covering a linked directory
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Comment thread packages/devtools/src/server-rpc/assets.ts
Comment thread packages/devtools/src/server-rpc/assets.ts
Lexical path containment doesn't stop fsp.writeFile from following an
existing symlink (a linked directory, or the target file itself) out of
the public directory. Canonicalize the nearest existing ancestor with
realpath and reject it if it escapes publicDir, and reject writing to an
existing symlink target outright.

Addresses a CodeRabbit review finding on nuxt#1086.
…1.2.1

- write-static-assets.test.ts: narrow the possibly-undefined array element
  before passing it to fsp.readFile (noUncheckedIndexedAccess), fixing the
  one new typecheck error introduced by this branch (all other CI failures
  are pre-existing on main).
- skills-npm 1.2.0 -> 1.2.1: this release drops the gray-matter dependency
  entirely, closing the code-injection path where a fork PR's SKILL.md
  `---js` frontmatter could eval() during the root postinstall scan.
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