Allow verified Control staging over HTTP - #1675
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughDeployment staging accepts HTTPS and HTTP for specified literal local-network addresses. HTTP to ChangesDeployment endpoint support
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes Change: Feature Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change permits staging over selected local/private HTTP endpoints while preserving the narrower credential eligibility helper and warning about plaintext transport. No actionable merge blocker is established; HTTPS remains recommended. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟠 High · up to An attacker able to intercept an allowed private-network HTTP connection can replace both the deployment task’s expected checksum and the downloaded plugin. The existing validation can then accept attacker-selected code for the next restart. HTTPS deployments are unaffected, and exploitation requires access to the selected network path rather than ordinary public access. Retained concerns
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When a node uses a non-loopback HTTP Control endpoint, an on-path attacker can rewrite both the deployment claim—including its trusted SHA-256—and the subsequent artifact response, so digest verification still succeeds and a malicious JAR identifying itself as VotingPlugin is staged for execution after restart. A startup warning does not mitigate this; retain the previous HTTPS-or-proven-same-node restriction for plugin.deploy.v1. The repository threat model explicitly identifies enabling HTTP artifact downloads on routes intended only for ordinary Control traffic as a deployment-boundary failure.
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- Around line 125-127: Update deploymentEndpointAllowed and its use in deploy to
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VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/control/BackendControlConnector.java (1)
145-158: The backend connector uses the same permissive HTTP policy asPluginDeploymentService. The finding onPluginDeploymentService.javaLines 125-127 and 454-458 covers this site. The warning here does not stop credential or artifact exposure over plaintext HTTP.VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/proxy/control/ControlConnector.java (1)
262-270: The proxy connector uses the same permissive HTTP policy. The finding onPluginDeploymentService.javacovers it.VotingPlugin/src/test/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/control/PluginDeploymentServiceTest.java (1)
136-155: LGTM!VotingPlugin/src/main/resources/Config.yml (1)
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- Line 452: Update the deployment endpoint documentation to reflect that HTTP is
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🟡 Minor · Preserve the deprecated helper’s previous predicate. · PluginDeploymentService.java:457-472
VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/control/PluginDeploymentService.java:457-472
🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPreserve the deprecated helper’s previous predicate.
credentialEndpointAllowedis public and remains reachable by downstream callers. WithdirectLocalHosted == false, the new delegation returnstruefor private or link-local HTTP endpoints that the previous helper rejected. A downstream caller can therefore allow credential-bearing HTTP traffic that was previously blocked.Keep deployment staging on
deploymentEndpointAllowed, but restore the old predicate incredentialEndpointAllowed.Suggested fix
@Deprecated public static boolean credentialEndpointAllowed(URI endpoint, boolean directLocalHosted) { - return deploymentEndpointAllowed(endpoint, directLocalHosted); + if (endpoint == null) return false; + return "https".equalsIgnoreCase(endpoint.getScheme()) + || "http".equalsIgnoreCase(endpoint.getScheme()) + && directLocalHosted && isLoopbackHost(endpoint.getHost()); }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 457-472: Restore the previous credential-specific predicate in
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plugin.deploy.v1over HTTPS generally and over HTTP only when the configured Control endpoint uses a literal loopback, link-local, or private-network IP addressCompatibility and security
This permits an administrator to use HTTP staging on a directly addressed trusted private network without requiring TLS. Public HTTP and hostname-based HTTP endpoints do not advertise staging; HTTPS works for all valid endpoint hosts. No configuration migration is required.
Control validates the uploaded/downloaded artifact and records its exact size and SHA-256. Each target node then downloads the leased artifact and independently verifies the expected byte count, SHA-256, bounded JAR structure, root
plugin.yml, andname: VotingPluginbefore publication. An artifact changed in transit is rejected.HTTPS remains recommended because node credentials and plugin artifacts otherwise cross the private network unencrypted. Recovery-only connectors never advertise or poll deployment work, and nodes advertise
plugin.deploy.v1only after a safe staging target is prepared.Validation
mvn -B -f VotingPlugin/pom.xml -Dtest=PluginDeploymentServiceTest,ControlConnectorTest test— 59 passedmvn -B -f VotingPlugin/pom.xml clean package— 1,670 unit tests and 4 packaged-artifact tests passed5d44e4de7039ee8188cb8a611fc1ea280a4c13fb022516c990c5a0b741e7db1cgit diff --check— cleanSummary by CodeRabbit
localhostwhen direct hosting on the same node is confirmed. HTTPS endpoints remain supported.