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Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 02:37:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=F0=9F=9B=A1=EF=B8=8F=20Sentinel:=20Fix=20Serve?=
 =?UTF-8?q?r-Side=20Request=20Forgery=20(SSRF)=20in=20plugin=20manager?=
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Added a custom `net.Dialer` with a `Control` hook to prevent SSRF attacks when fetching plugins from user-provided URLs. The hook verifies the resolved IP address against restricted ranges (e.g., cloud metadata endpoints) before the socket connection is established. This ensures robust protection against DNS rebinding and IP obfuscation. Disables KeepAlives on the custom transport to avoid connection leaks since clients are instantiated per request.

Co-authored-by: himattm <6266621+himattm@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .jules/sentinel.md         |  4 ++++
 internal/plugin/manager.go | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.jules/sentinel.md b/.jules/sentinel.md
index 80620ce..b3d3f97 100644
--- a/.jules/sentinel.md
+++ b/.jules/sentinel.md
@@ -16,3 +16,7 @@
 **Vulnerability:** Writing fully buffered in-memory data to temporary disk files solely for parsing.
 **Learning:** This increases attack surface, risks disk exhaustion, and violates the principle of least privilege.
 **Prevention:** Refactor parsing functions to accept byte slices or `io.Reader` directly to process data in memory.
+## 2024-11-20 - SSRF Prevention with net.Dialer
+**Vulnerability:** Untrusted user-provided URLs could access cloud metadata endpoints via Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) because `http.Get()` was used without preventing IP resolution to known restricted IPs.
+**Learning:** Using a custom `net.Dialer` with a `Control` hook prevents SSRF by evaluating the resolved IP address *after* DNS resolution but *before* the socket connects. This stops DNS rebinding and IP obfuscation attacks.
+**Prevention:** Block specific cloud metadata IPs like `169.254.169.254` in the `Control` hook. Ensure IPv6 Zone Identifiers are stripped before parsing.
diff --git a/internal/plugin/manager.go b/internal/plugin/manager.go
index 7aad027..6a1cbd7 100644
--- a/internal/plugin/manager.go
+++ b/internal/plugin/manager.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
+	"net"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
 	"os"
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ import (
 	"runtime"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
+	"syscall"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/himattm/prism/internal/fsutil"
@@ -410,7 +412,8 @@ func (m *Manager) addScriptPlugin(owner, repo, pluginName string) error {
 
 	fmt.Printf("Fetching script from: %s\n", rawURL)
 
-	resp, err := http.Get(rawURL)
+	client := newSafeClient(10 * time.Second)
+	resp, err := client.Get(rawURL)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to fetch plugin: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -468,7 +471,8 @@ func (m *Manager) addFromDirectURL(rawURL string) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("unsupported URL scheme: %s", parsedURL.Scheme)
 	}
 
-	resp, err := http.Get(parsedURL.String())
+	client := newSafeClient(10 * time.Second)
+	resp, err := client.Get(parsedURL.String())
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to fetch plugin: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -860,3 +864,31 @@ func CompareVersions(a, b string) int {
 
 	return 0
 }
+
+func newSafeClient(timeout time.Duration) *http.Client {
+	transport := http.DefaultTransport.(*http.Transport).Clone()
+	transport.DisableKeepAlives = true
+	dialer := &net.Dialer{
+		Timeout:   30 * time.Second,
+		KeepAlive: 30 * time.Second,
+		Control: func(network, address string, c syscall.RawConn) error {
+			host, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(address)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if idx := strings.IndexByte(host, '%'); idx != -1 {
+				host = host[:idx]
+			}
+			ip := net.ParseIP(host)
+			if ip != nil && ip.String() == "169.254.169.254" {
+				return fmt.Errorf("access to cloud metadata IP is forbidden")
+			}
+			return nil
+		},
+	}
+	transport.DialContext = dialer.DialContext
+	return &http.Client{
+		Timeout:   timeout,
+		Transport: transport,
+	}
+}