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Summary

  • normalize passthrough target joins and reject ambiguous route and query input
  • retain connection reservations for the full streamed-response lifecycle
  • guard streamed output per verified source channel: text fragments from one carrier remain contiguous, but separate Responses items or unknown Raw frames never form one guardrail input; held streams fail closed if continuity cannot be proved
  • add focused unit and end-to-end coverage for boundary and streaming behavior

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Passthrough routes reject encoded path traversal, invalid destinations, and conflicting query parameters before contacting the upstream. Valid caller parameters are forwarded alongside configured parameters.
    • API-version detection works correctly when the destination URL includes a query string.
    • Concurrency limits remain in effect while a streamed response is open, including long-running streams, and are released when it completes or is cancelled.

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Walkthrough

The passthrough route validates target URLs, rejects traversal paths and conflicting query keys, and preserves configured query parameters. Streamed responses retain concurrency reservations until the response body completes or is cancelled. Eligible rate-limit store leases refresh while the stream guard exists.

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Passthrough target URL validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validated target URL joining
crates/aisix-proxy/Cargo.toml, crates/aisix-proxy/src/passthrough_route.rs, tests/e2e/src/cases/passthrough-route-e2e.test.ts
The route parses and joins target URLs, checks origin and base-path boundaries, preserves configured query parameters, and rejects traversal paths and overlapping query keys. Tests cover encoded traversal, query conflicts, and rejection before contacting the upstream.

Stream concurrency lease lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stream hold and refresh contract
crates/aisix-ratelimit/src/store/mod.rs, crates/aisix-ratelimit/src/limiter.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/passthrough_route.rs, tests/e2e/src/cases/passthrough-route-e2e.test.ts
The stream guard takes ownership of concurrency reservations and retains them until the response stream completes or is cancelled. It refreshes eligible leases while active. End-to-end tests check concurrent-request rejection and release after completion or cancellation.
Redis lease refresh and compatibility
crates/aisix-ratelimit/src/store/redis.rs, crates/aisix-ratelimit/tests/redis_integration.rs
Redis concurrency leases use fractional timestamps and updated pruning cutoffs. RedisStore refreshes existing leases. Integration tests cover lease renewal, rolling-upgrade compatibility, and slot release.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PassthroughRoute
  participant StreamConcurrencyGuard
  participant RedisStore
  participant Redis
  PassthroughRoute->>StreamConcurrencyGuard: transfer reservation to response stream
  StreamConcurrencyGuard->>RedisStore: refresh active concurrency lease
  RedisStore->>Redis: update existing lease and key expiry
  Redis-->>RedisStore: return refresh result
  PassthroughRoute->>StreamConcurrencyGuard: complete or cancel response stream
  StreamConcurrencyGuard->>RedisStore: release held concurrency slot
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 64fa1

The changes are mergeable with bounded test follow-up: readiness and cancellation checks can hide transport failures behind retries or generic timeouts. Remove the catch-all handling and avoid probing the route under test for readiness.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 64fa1

The URL checks strengthen forwarding boundaries and stream cleanup is well defined. However, stalled streaming responses can now retain shared concurrency capacity indefinitely because renewal does not require progress and the route timeout excludes streaming delivery. The impact depends on shared-limit configuration and external connection controls.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Renewal can indefinitely preserve stalled stream ownership of shared concurrency capacity. A caller admitted to an allowed SSE route can retain its reservations while the response remains open, including during upstream silence or downstream backpressure. The new renewal loop checks guard existence, not progress; the exchange timeout explicitly excludes SSE delivery, and heartbeat generation does not terminate silent upstreams. Previously, passthrough released reservations at handler return and Redis members had finite stale lifetimes. Normal disconnect cleanup works, but no progress-based recovery bound is applied in this relay. Potential denial of capacity extends to other callers sharing the held buckets across replicas; effective exposure depends on route permissions, shared-limit configuration, and unverified external connection controls.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Stalled reservation ownership can affect other callers sharing the request's configured concurrency buckets. Redis makes those counts shared across gateway replicas; multi-layer reservations can include API-key, model, team, and member scopes. Actual bucket sharing and route exposure were not supplied.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The retained architecture concern is capacity denial, not a verified credential or authority bypass: admission to an SSE route leads to body-owned reservations, and keeping a non-progressing response open permits repeated renewal without releasing shared capacity.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The validated initial URL is passed to the existing credential-aware client path. The shared client builder has no explicit redirect policy; its construction is unchanged by this PR. Redirect-time authority containment and sensitive-header behavior remain unverified rather than an established new bypass.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Redis failures retain the pre-existing availability-first fallback to per-process counting. Renewal errors do not mirror an existing distributed reservation locally, and missing Redis members are not recreated. Strict global enforcement during outages is therefore not established. Shared command deadlines and circuit breaking bound Redis command waits.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define a progress-aware terminal policy for stalled upstream reads and prolonged downstream backpressure while preserving healthy long-lived SSE. Apply that policy before heartbeat wrapping, and validate that termination releases every held layer without resurrecting Redis members.
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E2e Test Quality Review ✅ Passed The PR adds real gateway E2E coverage in tests/e2e/src/cases/passthrough-route-e2e.test.ts. The tests cover valid query forwarding, traversal and normalized query conflicts, upstream non-reachabilit…
Security Check ✅ Passed No security-check failure was introduced. 1. Sensitive data exposure — No issues found. The changed passthrough code validates and joins URLs, but does not log or return request headers, credentials, …
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🟡 Changes recommended

Encoded query delimiters can bypass configured-key conflict detection.

Review effort: Balanced
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What changed in this PR

Improves passthrough route URL boundaries and streaming concurrency handling.

Changes:

  • Adds path traversal and query conflict validation.
  • Retains concurrency reservations throughout SSE lifecycles.
  • Adds unit/E2E coverage and percent-decoding support.
File Description
crates/​aisix-proxy/​src/​passthrough_route.rs Implements URL validation and stream reservation retention.
tests/​e2e/​src/​cases/​passthrough-route-e2e.test.ts Tests boundary rejection and SSE concurrency.
crates/​aisix-proxy/​Cargo.toml Adds percent-decoding dependency.
Cargo.lock Records the dependency update.

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Comment on lines +1810 to +1814
url::form_urlencoded::parse(inbound.as_bytes()).any(|(key, _)| {
let Some(key) = normalize_query_key(&key) else {
return true;
};
base_keys.iter().any(|base_key| base_key == &key)

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Review comments at @tests/e2e/src/cases/passthrough-route-e2e.test.ts:
- Around line 252-262: Replace the `/ptr-boundary/models` readiness probe in the
test’s `waitConfigPropagation` gate with a non-throwing `ProxyClient.listModels`
check that returns ready only when the caller key receives 200 from
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- Line 257: Update the renewal loop in the stream guard so it refreshes each
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