fix(composer): stop payload text reaching generated Python as code

Review flagged this as critical and it is: the composer builds manager.py
by interpolating payload values into source text, /api/install writes
that file into plugins_dir, and the plugin loader imports and executes
it. The ast.parse check further down rejects only *invalid* syntax, and
an injected `import os` is perfectly valid.

Confirmed against the code before this commit. A plugin name carrying a
triple quote closes the module docstring and everything after it becomes
module-level code:

    generated manager.py parses: True
    injected module-level statements: ['import os', 'PWNED = os.getuid()']

and a geometry value is interpolated verbatim, because the parameter is
annotated int but arrives as JSON:

    _compute_pos_expr('0 or __import__("os").system("id")', 'right', 'width')
      -> 'width - 0 or __import__("os").system("id")'
    generated source: x=0 or __import__("os").system("id"),

Three fixes. _safe_int coerces and optionally clamps, and
_compute_pos_expr applies it to its own argument -- which covers all
twenty-odd call sites at once rather than patching each. _rgb_expr does
the same for the eight colour interpolations, clamping channels to
0-255. Line endpoints and widths go through it too.

For the docstring, _reject_source_breaking refuses a plugin name
containing a quote, backslash or newline. Rejecting rather than escaping:
these are display names, none of that belongs in one, and a clear "Plugin
name cannot contain a double quote." beats silently mangling what the
user typed.

Verified: all three exploits now refused or neutered, and each defence
mutation-checked separately --

    coercion removed in _compute_pos_expr ->  8 failed
    docstring guard removed               ->  5 failed
    colour channels interpolated raw      -> 13 failed

87 tests, covering seven expression payloads across seven geometry
fields and three colour channels, five literal-breaking names, and the
clean case asserting a normal payload still yields no module-level
statements at all.

One aside: the first version of this test file put the exploit string
in its own module docstring, which closed it and made the file a syntax
error -- the same bug, one level up. It now describes the payload rather
than embedding it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW
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ChuckBuilds
2026-08-21 19:03:13 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 5133643600
commit e450a6dfb6
2 changed files with 191 additions and 14 deletions
+74 -14
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@@ -101,13 +101,62 @@ def _to_class_name(name: str) -> str:
return base if base.endswith('Plugin') else base + 'Plugin'
def _compute_pos_expr(val: int, anchor: str | None, dim_var: str) -> str:
def _reject_source_breaking(value: str, field: str) -> None:
"""Refuse text that could terminate a string literal in generated source.
Anything interpolated into manager.py inside quotes has to survive being
read back as Python. A quote, a backslash or a newline can end the literal
early and turn the remainder into executable statements.
"""
for bad, label in (('"', 'a double quote'), ("'", 'a single quote'),
('\\', 'a backslash'), ('\n', 'a newline'),
('\r', 'a carriage return')):
if bad in value:
raise ComposerInputError(
f'{field} cannot contain {label}.')
def _safe_int(value, default: int = 0, lo: int | None = None,
hi: int | None = None) -> int:
"""Coerce a payload value to int, falling back rather than raising.
Everything this module interpolates into generated Python has to go
through here first. The payload is JSON from the browser, so a field
annotated `int` can arrive as any string, and these values are formatted
straight into `manager.py` -- which /api/install writes to disk and the
plugin loader then imports and executes. An x of
'0 or __import__("os").system("id")'
produced `x=0 or __import__("os").system("id")` in the generated source,
which is valid Python and so passed the ast.parse check.
"""
try:
out = int(value)
except (TypeError, ValueError):
return default
if lo is not None:
out = max(lo, out)
if hi is not None:
out = min(hi, out)
return out
def _rgb_expr(el: dict, dr: int = 255, dg: int = 255, db: int = 255) -> str:
"""A colour tuple literal built from coerced, clamped channel values."""
return (f"({_safe_int(el.get('r'), dr, 0, 255)}, "
f"{_safe_int(el.get('g'), dg, 0, 255)}, "
f"{_safe_int(el.get('b'), db, 0, 255)})")
def _compute_pos_expr(val, anchor: str | None, dim_var: str) -> str:
"""Produce a Python expression string for an anchored or fixed position.
anchor=None/'left'/'top' → fixed pixel value
anchor='center' → dim_var // 2 ± offset
anchor='right'/'bottom' → dim_var - offset
"""
val = _safe_int(val, 0)
if not anchor or anchor in ('left', 'top'):
return str(val)
if anchor in ('center', 'middle'):
@@ -170,7 +219,7 @@ def _preprocess_elements(elements: list) -> list:
if t in ('text', 'clock'):
font_key = el.get('font', 'press_start')
p['font_attr'] = _FONT_ATTR_MAP.get(font_key, 'regular_font')
p['rgb_tuple'] = f"({el.get('r', 255)}, {el.get('g', 255)}, {el.get('b', 255)})"
p['rgb_tuple'] = _rgb_expr(el, 255, 255, 255)
text_align = el.get('textAlign', 'left')
raw_x = el.get('x', 0)
x_base_expr = _compute_pos_expr(raw_x, x_anchor, 'width')
@@ -206,7 +255,7 @@ def _preprocess_elements(elements: list) -> list:
p['binding_format'] = binding.get('format')
font_key = el.get('font', 'press_start')
p['font_attr'] = _FONT_ATTR_MAP.get(font_key, 'regular_font')
p['rgb_tuple'] = f"({el.get('r', 255)}, {el.get('g', 200)}, {el.get('b', 100)})"
p['rgb_tuple'] = _rgb_expr(el, 255, 200, 100)
x_base_expr = _compute_pos_expr(el.get('x', 0), x_anchor, 'width')
p['x_expr'] = x_base_expr # dynamic text: runtime content determines width; use raw pos
p['y_expr'] = _compute_pos_expr(el.get('y', 0), y_anchor, 'height')
@@ -248,10 +297,10 @@ def _preprocess_elements(elements: list) -> list:
else:
p['x0_expr'] = _compute_pos_expr(el.get('x0', 0), x_anchor, 'width')
p['y0_expr'] = _compute_pos_expr(el.get('y0', 0), y_anchor, 'height')
p['x1_expr'] = str(el.get('x1', 127))
p['y1_expr'] = str(el.get('y1', 0))
p['rgb_tuple'] = f"({el.get('r', 180)}, {el.get('g', 180)}, {el.get('b', 180)})"
p['line_width'] = el.get('lineWidth', 1)
p['x1_expr'] = str(_safe_int(el.get('x1'), 127))
p['y1_expr'] = str(_safe_int(el.get('y1'), 0))
p['rgb_tuple'] = _rgb_expr(el, 180, 180, 180)
p['line_width'] = _safe_int(el.get('lineWidth'), 1, 1, 64)
p['blink'] = bool(el.get('blink', False))
elif t == 'progress_bar':
@@ -285,8 +334,8 @@ def _preprocess_elements(elements: list) -> list:
p['y2_expr'] = f"({y_expr}) + {h}"
p['start_angle'] = int(el.get('startAngle', 0))
p['end_angle'] = int(el.get('endAngle', 270))
p['line_width'] = max(1, int(el.get('lineWidth', 2)))
p['rgb_tuple'] = f"({el.get('r', 255)}, {el.get('g', 200)}, {el.get('b', 0)})"
p['line_width'] = _safe_int(el.get('lineWidth'), 2, 1, 64)
p['rgb_tuple'] = _rgb_expr(el, 255, 200, 0)
p['blink'] = bool(el.get('blink', False))
elif t == 'ellipse':
@@ -313,7 +362,7 @@ def _preprocess_elements(elements: list) -> list:
elif t == 'pixel':
p['x_expr'] = _compute_pos_expr(el.get('x', 0), x_anchor, 'width')
p['y_expr'] = _compute_pos_expr(el.get('y', 0), y_anchor, 'height')
p['rgb_tuple'] = f"({el.get('r', 255)}, {el.get('g', 255)}, {el.get('b', 255)})"
p['rgb_tuple'] = _rgb_expr(el, 255, 255, 255)
p['blink'] = bool(el.get('blink', False))
elif t == 'rounded_rectangle':
@@ -341,7 +390,7 @@ def _preprocess_elements(elements: list) -> list:
elif t == 'countdown':
font_key = el.get('font', 'four_by_six')
p['font_attr'] = _FONT_ATTR_MAP.get(font_key, 'extra_small_font')
p['rgb_tuple'] = f"({el.get('r', 255)}, {el.get('g', 180)}, {el.get('b', 0)})"
p['rgb_tuple'] = _rgb_expr(el, 255, 180, 0)
binding = el.get('binding', {})
p['binding_key'] = binding.get('key', '')
p['countdown_format'] = el.get('countdownFormat', 'dh')
@@ -390,8 +439,8 @@ def _preprocess_elements(elements: list) -> list:
p['y2_expr'] = f"({y_expr}) + {h}"
p['start_angle'] = int(el.get('startAngle', 135))
p['end_angle'] = int(el.get('endAngle', 45))
p['line_width'] = max(1, int(el.get('lineWidth', 3)))
p['rgb_tuple'] = f"({el.get('r', 80)}, {el.get('g', 220)}, {el.get('b', 80)})"
p['line_width'] = _safe_int(el.get('lineWidth'), 3, 1, 64)
p['rgb_tuple'] = _rgb_expr(el, 80, 220, 80)
track = (
[el.get('trackR', 40), el.get('trackG', 40), el.get('trackB', 40)]
if el.get('hasTrack', True) else None
@@ -408,7 +457,7 @@ def _preprocess_elements(elements: list) -> list:
elif t == 'marquee':
font_key = el.get('font', 'press_start')
p['font_attr'] = _FONT_ATTR_MAP.get(font_key, 'regular_font')
p['rgb_tuple'] = f"({el.get('r', 255)}, {el.get('g', 255)}, {el.get('b', 255)})"
p['rgb_tuple'] = _rgb_expr(el, 255, 255, 255)
p['y_expr'] = _compute_pos_expr(el.get('y', 0), y_anchor, 'height')
p['text'] = el.get('text', 'Scrolling text')
p['char_w'] = _FONT_CHAR_W.get(font_key, 8)
@@ -446,6 +495,17 @@ def _generate_plugin_files(data: dict) -> dict:
plugin_name = metadata.get('name', '').strip()
if not plugin_name:
raise ComposerInputError('Plugin name is required.')
# The template drops this straight into manager.py's module docstring. A
# name carrying a triple quote closes that docstring and everything after
# it becomes module-level code, which /api/install writes to disk and the
# loader imports and runs:
#
# Clock"""\nimport os; PWNED = os.getuid()\n"""
# -> import os <- executed on load
# PWNED = os.getuid()
#
# ast.parse further down only rejects invalid syntax, and that is valid.
_reject_source_breaking(plugin_name, 'Plugin name')
author = metadata.get('author', '').strip()
if not author: