`core.middleware.require_admin` grants admin to any request whose
`request.state.current_user == "internal-tool"` — the sentinel meant only
for the in-process tool-loopback path. But the normal cookie auth path
(app.py) sets `current_user` to the raw username, and neither `create_user`
nor the signup route reserved that name. As a result an account literally
named "internal-tool" was silently treated as admin by every
`require_admin`-gated route. With self-service signup enabled this is an
anonymous -> admin privilege escalation.
Reserve the full synthetic-owner set the codebase already special-cases —
"internal-tool", "api", "demo", "system" (see `_SYNTHETIC_OWNERS` in
routes/assistant_routes.py and the matching guards in src/task_scheduler.py
and routes/research_routes.py). "api" collides with the bearer-token owner
sentinel; "demo"/"system" would leave a real account denied an assistant
and inconsistently owner-scoped.
Refuse to create or rename into any reserved name (case/space-normalized),
and reject empty usernames while we're here. Adds a regression test.
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`mdToHtml` deliberately stashes literal <details> blocks and <a> tags from
the source text *before* the global HTML-escape pass and restores them
verbatim into the string callers assign to `innerHTML` (e.g. chatRenderer's
`b.innerHTML = ...processWithThinking(text)`). Nothing scrubbed those
fragments, so message/agent content containing
`<details><img src=x onerror=...></details>` or
`<a href="javascript:..." onmouseover=...>` executed arbitrary script in
the authenticated page.
Route both stashed fragments through `sanitizeAllowedHtml()`, which parses
them in an inert <template> (no resource loads, no script execution),
removes script-capable elements, and strips event-handler attributes plus
javascript:/vbscript:/data: URL schemes. Hardening details:
- Compare tag names case-insensitively and drop the SVG/MathML foreign-
content roots. An SVG-namespaced <script> has the lower-case tagName
'script', so an HTML-only upper-case check would miss it — a real bypass.
- Sanitize to a fixpoint (re-parse + re-clean until stable) to blunt
mutation-XSS, where re-serializing/re-parsing reshapes the tree.
Benign anchors and <details> blocks are preserved unchanged.
Verified under jsdom against the obvious vectors plus mutation-XSS probes
(svg/math-namespaced <script>, foreignObject, ns-confusion, comment
breakout, template smuggling): no script/iframe element, event handler, or
javascript:/data: URL survives, and benign markup is kept.
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The synchronous llm_call() runs in FastAPI's threadpool (sync route
handlers such as POST /sessions/auto-sort), while llm_call_async() runs
on the event loop. Both mutate the module-level _response_cache,
_host_fails and _dead_hosts dicts, so these are touched from multiple OS
threads concurrently. Two races result:
- _set_cached_response() snapshots 64 keys then deletes them with
`del _response_cache[key]`; if another thread evicts the same key
first, the del raises KeyError mid-eviction. Switched to
pop(key, None).
- _mark_host_dead() does get()+1+set() on _host_fails with no lock, so
concurrent connect failures lose increments and a genuinely dead host
can stay under its cooldown threshold. Guarded the host-health maps
with a threading.Lock (also applied to _is_host_dead / _clear_host_dead
for consistent reads).
Adds tests/test_llm_core_concurrency.py with deterministic regression
tests (phantom snapshot key for the eviction race; a slow-read dict that
forces the lost-update window for the counter). Both fail on the
unpatched code and pass with the fix.
The email reader folds quoted history into <details> summaries via
`_foldSummary()` (static/js/emailLibrary/signatureFold.js), which builds a
sender/date "meta" chip into the summary HTML and assigns it to innerHTML.
The server-side thread parser (`_extract_quote_meta`,
src/email_thread_parser.py) strips tags but then un-escapes HTML entities
and preserves `<...>` patterns, and that raw meta reaches `_foldSummary`
unescaped via `_renderTurnsFromServer` (`t.meta`) — so an inbound email
whose quoted attribution contains `From: <img src=x onerror=...>`
runs script when the victim merely opens the message (stored XSS).
Make `_foldSummary` the single escaping chokepoint: escape `primary` and
`subMeta` with the module's existing `_esc`. The client-side
`_extractQuoteMeta` previously pre-escaped its output, and every consumer
of it routes through `_foldSummary`, so drop that now-redundant escaping to
avoid double-encoding (e.g. "Ben & Jerry" -> "Ben &amp; Jerry").
Verified (jsdom): server-raw and client-extracted malicious metas yield 0
live elements and 0 event-handler attributes; benign "Ben & Jerry" renders
single-escaped.
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