Previously there were mainly two attack vectors:
- for raw keys the owner <-> key mapping wasn't verified at all
- keys were retrieved with refetching allowed
and only the top-level ID was sanitised while
usually keys are but a subobject
This reintroduces public key checks in the user actor,
previously removed in 9728e2f8f7
but now adapted to account for the new mapping mechanism.
User.get_or_fetch_by_(apid|nickname) are the only external users of fetch_and_prepare_user_from_ap_id,
thus there’s no point in duplicating logging, expecially not at error level.
Currently (duplicated) _not_found errors for users make up the bulk of my logs
and are created almost every second. Deleted users are a common occurence and not
worth logging outside of debug
There were two issues leading to needles effort:
Most importnatly, the use of AP IDs as "source_url" meant multiple
simultaneous jobs got scheduled for the same instance even with the
default unique settings.
Also jobs were scheduled uncontionally for each processed AP object
meaning we incured oberhead from managing Oban jobs even if we knew it
wasn't necessary. By comparison the single query to check if an update
is needed should be cheaper overall.
It was used to migrate OStatus connections to ActivityPub if possible,
but support for OStatus was long since dropped, all new actors always AP
and if anything wasn't migrated before, their instance is already marked
as unreachable anyway.
The associated logic was also buggy in several ways and deleted users
got set to ap_enabled=false also causing some issues.
This patch is a pretty direct port of the original Pleroma MR;
follow-up commits will further fix and clean up remaining issues.
Changes made (other than trivial merge conflict resolutions):
- converted CHANGELOG format
- adapted migration id for Akkoma’s timeline
- removed ap_enabled from additional tests
Ported-from: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/merge_requests/3880
Current logic unconditionally adds public adressing to "cc"
and follower adressing to "to" after attempting to strip it
from the other one. This creates serious problems:
First the bug prompting this investigation and fix,
unconditional addition creates duplicates when adressing
URIs already were in their intended final field; e.g.
this is prominently the case for all "unlisted" posts.
Since List.delete only removes the first occurence,
this then broke follower-adress stripping later on
making the policy ineffective.
It’s also just not safe in general wrt to non-public adressing:
e.g. pre-existing duplicates didn’t get fully stripped,
bespoke adressing modes with only one of public addressing
or follower addressing are mangled — and most importantly:
any belatedly received DM or follower-only post
also got public adressing added!
Shockingly this last point was actually asserted as "correct" in tests;
it appears to be a mistake from mindless match adjustments
while fixing crashes on nil adressing in
10c792110e.
Clean up this sloppy logic up, making sure no more duplicates are
added by us, all instances of relevant adresses are purged and only
readded when they actually existed to begin with.
Current AP spec demands anonymous objects to have an id value,
but explicitly set it to JSON null. Howeveras it turns out this is
incompatible with JSON-LD requiring `@id` to be a string and thus AP
spec is incompatible iwth the Ativity Streams spec it is based on.
This is an issue for (the few) AP implementers actually performing
JSON-LD processing, like IceShrimp.NET.
This was uncovered by IceShrimp.NET’s zotan due to our adoption of
anonymous objects for emoj in f101886709.
The issues is being discussed by W3C, and will most likely be resolved
via an errata redefining anonymous objects to completely omit the id
field just like transient objects already do. See:
https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/476
Fixes: https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/issues/848
Currently `mix test` prints a slew of logs in the terminal
with messages from different tests intermsparsed. Globally
enabling capture log hides log messages unless a test fails
reducing noise and making it easier to anylse the important
(from failed tests) messages.
Compiler warnings and a few messages not printed via Logger
still show up but its much more readable than before.
Ported from: 3aed111a42
Usually an id should point to another AP object
and the image file isn’t an AP object. We currently
do not provide standalone AP objects for emoji and
don't keep track of remote emoji at all.
Thus just federate them as anonymous objects,
i.e. objects only existing within a parent context
and using an explicit null id.
IceShrimp.NET previously adopted anonymous objects
for remote emoji without any apparent issues. See:
333611f65e
Fixes: https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/issues/694
literally nothing uses C2S AP, and it's another route into core
systems which requires analysis and maintenance. A second API
is just extra surface for potentially bad things so let's take
it out back and obliterate it
"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
The newest git HEAD of MIME already knows about APNG, but this
hasn’t been released yet. Without this, APNG attachments from
remote posts won’t display as images in frontends.
Fixes: akkoma#657
This protects us from falling for obvious spoofs as from the current
upload exploit (unfortunately we can’t reasonably do anything about
spoofs with exact matches as was possible via emoji and proxy).
Such objects being invalid is supported by the spec, sepcifically
sections 3.1 and 3.2: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#obj-id
Anonymous objects are not relevant here (they can only exists within
parent objects iiuc) and neither is client-to-server or transient objects
(as those cannot be fetched in the first place).
This leaves us with the requirement for `id` to (a) exist and
(b) be a publicly dereferencable URI from the originating server.
This alone does not yet demand strict equivalence, but the spec then
further explains objects ought to be fetchable _via their ID_.
Meaning an object not retrievable via its ID, is invalid.
This reading is supported by the fact, e.g. GoToSocial (recently) and
Mastodon (for 6+ years) do already implement such strict ID checks,
additionally proving this doesn’t cause federation issues in practice.
However, apart from canonical IDs there can also be additional display
URLs. *omas first redirect those to their canonical location, but *keys
and Mastodon directly serve the AP representation without redirects.
Mastodon and GTS deal with this in two different ways,
but both constitute an effective countermeasure:
- Mastodon:
Unless it already is a known AP id, two fetches occur.
The first fetch just reads the `id` property and then refetches from
the id. The last fetch requires the returned id to exactly match the
URL the content was fetched from. (This can be optimised by skipping
the second fetch if it already matches)
05eda8d193/app/helpers/jsonld_helper.rb (L168)63f0979799
- GTS:
Only does a single fetch and then checks if _either_ the id
_or_ url property (which can be an object) match the original fetch
URL. This relies on implementations always including their display URL
as "url" if differing from the id. For actors this is true for all
investigated implementations, for posts only Mastodon includes an
"url", but it is also the only one with a differing display URL.
2bafd7daf5 (diff-943bbb02c8ac74ac5dc5d20807e561dcdfaebdc3b62b10730f643a20ac23c24fR222)
Albeit Mastodon’s refetch offers higher compatibility with theoretical
implmentations using either multiple different display URL or not
denoting any of them as "url" at all, for now we chose to adopt a
GTS-like refetch-free approach to avoid additional implementation
concerns wrt to whether redirects should be allowed when fetching a
canonical AP id and potential for accidentally loosening some checks
(e.g. cross-domain refetches) for one of the fetches.
This may be reconsidered in the future.
If it’s not already in the database,
it must be counterfeit (or just not exists at all)
Changed test URLs were only ever used from "local: false" users anyway.
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