"id" is used for the canonical link to the AS2 representation of an object.
"url" is typically used for the canonical link to the HTTP representation.
It is what we use, for example, when following the "external source" link
in the frontend. However, it's not the link we include in the post contents
for quote posts.
Using URL instead means we include a more user-friendly URL for Mastodon,
and a working (in the browser) URL for Threads
To save on bandwith and avoid OOMs with large files.
Ofc, this relies on the remote server
(a) sending a content-length header and
(b) being honest about the size.
Common fedi servers seem to provide the header and (b) at least raises
the required privilege of an malicious actor to a server infrastructure
admin of an explicitly allowed host.
A more complete defense which still works when faced with
a malicious server requires changes in upstream Finch;
see https://github.com/sneako/finch/issues/224
Certain attacks rely on predictable paths for their payloads.
If we weren’t so overly lax in our (id, URL) check, the current
counterfeit activity exploit would be one of those.
It seems plausible for future attacks to hinge on
or being made easier by predictable paths too.
In general, letting remote actors place arbitrary data at
a path within our domain of their choosing (sans prefix)
just doesn’t seem like a good idea.
Using fully random filenames would have worked as well, but this
is less friendly for admins checking emoji dirs.
The generated suffix should still be more than enough;
an attacker needs on average 140 trillion attempts to
correctly guess the final path.
This will decouple filenames from shortcodes and
allow more image formats to work instead of only
those included in the auto-load glob. (Albeit we
still saved other formats to disk, wasting space)
Furthermore, this will allow us to make
final URL paths infeasible to predict.
Since 3 commits ago we restrict shortcodes to a subset of
the POSIX Portable Filename Character Set, therefore
this can never have a directory component.
E.g. *key’s emoji URLs typically don’t have file extensions, but
until now we just slapped ".png" at its end hoping for the best.
Furthermore, this gives us a chance to actually reject non-images,
which before was not feasible exatly due to those extension-less URLs
As suggested in b387f4a1c1, only steal
emoji with alphanumerc, dash, or underscore characters.
Also consolidate all validation logic into a single function.
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Taken from akkoma#703 with cosmetic tweaks
This matches our existing validation logic from Pleroma.Emoji,
and apart from excluding the dot also POSIX’s Portable Filename
Character Set making it always safe for use in filenames.
Mastodon is even stricter also disallowing U+002D HYPEN-MINUS
and requiring at least two characters.
Given both we and Mastodon reject shortcodes excluded
by this anyway, this doesn’t seem like a loss.
Mastodon at the very least seems to prevent the creation of emoji with
dots in their name (and refuses to accept them in federation). It feels
like being cautious in what we accept is reasonable here.
Colons are the emoji separator and so obviously should be blocked.
Perhaps instead of filtering out things like this we should just
do a regex match on `[a-zA-Z0-9_-]`? But that's plausibly a decision
for another day
Perhaps we should also have a centralised "is this a valid emoji shortcode?"
function
OTP builds to 1.15
Changelog entry
Ensure policies are fully loaded
Fix :warn
use main branch for linkify
Fix warn in tests
Migrations for phoenix 1.17
Revert "Migrations for phoenix 1.17"
This reverts commit 6a3b2f15b7.
Oban upgrade
Add default empty whitelist
mix format
limit test to amd64
OTP 26 tests for 1.15
use OTP_VERSION tag
baka
just 1.15
Massive deps update
Update locale, deps
Mix format
shell????
multiline???
?
max cases 1
use assert_recieve
don't put_env in async tests
don't async conn/fs tests
mix format
FIx some uploader issues
Fix tests
Objects who got updated would just pass through several of the MRF policies, undoing moderation in some situations.
In the relevant cases we now check not only for Create activities, but also Update activities.
I checked which ones checked explicitly on type Create using `grep '"type" => "Create"' lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/mrf/*`.
The following from that list have not been changed:
* lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/mrf/follow_bot_policy.ex
* Not relevant for moderation
* lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/mrf/keyword_policy.ex
* Already had a test for Update
* lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/mrf/object_age_policy.ex
* In practice only relevant when fetching old objects (e.g. through Like or Announce). These are always wrapped in a Create.
* lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/mrf/reject_non_public.ex
* We don't allow changing scope with Update, so not relevant here
Objects who got updated would just pass the TagPolicy, undoing the moderation that was set in place for the Actor.
Now we check not only for Create activities, but also Update activities.
* rejected_shortcodes is defined as a list of strings in the
configuration description. As such, database-based configuration was
led to handle those settings as strings, and not as the actually
expected type, Regex.
* This caused each message passing through this MRF, if a rejected
shortcode was set and the emoji did not exist already on the instance,
to fail federating, as an exception was raised, swiftly caught and
mostly silenced.
* This commit fixes the issue by introducing new behavior: strings are
now handled as perfect matches for an emoji shortcode (meaning that if
the emoji-to-be-pulled's shortcode is in the blacklist, it will be
rejected), while still supporting Regex types as before.
* I also added for keywordpolicy as well now. It was done in the admin-fe, but is better to be done here
* I also added comments to explain why we did the _info keys (backwards compatibility)
It's easiest (and imo most proper) to use tuples {"instance, "reason"} in BE,
but for FE maps like %{"instance": "instance", "reason", "reason"} are better.
I changed it so that node_info returns maps now for simple_policy and quarantined instances.
