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Zaid Humaimidi 087b95388f Fix RCE vulnerability in /api/ping endpoint
This addresses a follow-up to CVE-2021-46704 where the host validation
could be bypassed via domainToASCII stripping path components.

Changes:
- Normalize host with domainToASCII before validation
- Add round-trip check with domainToUnicode to catch path injection
- Switch from exec to execFile to prevent shell injection
- Add -- separator to ping arguments

Credit: JuHwiSang for reporting this vulnerability
2026-03-25 15:00:00 -07:00

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import { platform } from "node:os";
import { execFile } from "node:child_process";
import { domainToASCII, domainToUnicode } from "node:url";
export interface PingResult {
packetsTransmitted: number;
packetsReceived: number;
packetLoss: number;
min: number;
avg: number;
max: number;
mdev: number;
}
function isValidHost(host: string): boolean {
// Valid chars in IPv4, IPv6, domain names
if (/^[a-zA-Z0-9\-.:[\]-]+$/.test(host)) return true;
const lowercase = host.toLowerCase();
const ascii = domainToASCII(lowercase);
// Check if input is an IDN convert to Punycode
// Can't merge with above because domainToASCII doesn't accept IP addresses
if (!/^[a-zA-Z0-9\-.:[\]-]+$/.test(ascii)) return false;
// Round-trip to ensure the original host matches its normalized form.
// This prevents bypasses where domainToASCII strips paths (e.g. "example.com/;cmd").
return lowercase === domainToUnicode(ascii);
}
export function parsePing(osPlatform: string, stdout: string): PingResult {
let parseRegExp1: RegExp, parseRegExp2: RegExp, parsed: PingResult;
switch (osPlatform) {
case "linux":
parseRegExp1 =
/(\d+) packets transmitted, (\d+) .*received, ([\d.]+)% .*loss[^]*= ([\d.]+)\/([\d.]+)\/([\d.]+)\/([\d.]+)/;
parseRegExp2 =
/(\d+) packets transmitted, (\d+) .*received, ([\d.]+)% .*loss/;
break;
case "freebsd":
parseRegExp1 =
/(\d+) packets transmitted, (\d+) packets received, ([\d.]+)% packet loss\nround-trip min\/avg\/max\/stddev = ([\d.]+)\/([\d.]+)\/([\d.]+)\/([\d.]+) ms/;
parseRegExp2 =
/(\d+) packets transmitted, (\d+) packets received, ([\d.]+)% packet loss/;
break;
}
const m1 = stdout.match(parseRegExp1);
if (m1) {
parsed = {
packetsTransmitted: +m1[1],
packetsReceived: +m1[2],
packetLoss: +m1[3],
min: +m1[4],
avg: +m1[5],
max: +m1[6],
mdev: +m1[7],
};
} else {
const m2 = stdout.match(parseRegExp2);
if (m2) {
parsed = {
packetsTransmitted: +m2[1],
packetsReceived: +m2[2],
packetLoss: +m2[3],
min: null,
avg: null,
max: null,
mdev: null,
};
}
}
return parsed;
}
export function ping(
host: string,
callback: (err: Error, res?: PingResult, stdout?: string) => void,
): void {
// Validate input to prevent possible remote code execution
// Credit to Alex Hordijk for reporting this vulnerability
// Credit to JuHwiSang for reporting a follow-up vulnerability
if (!isValidHost(host)) return callback(new Error("Invalid host"));
host = host.replace("[", "").replace("]", "");
let args: string[];
switch (platform()) {
case "linux":
args = ["-w", "1", "-i", "0.2", "-c", "3", "--", host];
break;
case "freebsd":
// Send a single packet because on FreeBSD only superuser can send
// packets that are only 200 ms apart.
args = ["-t", "1", "-c", "3", "--", host];
break;
default:
return callback(new Error("Platform not supported"));
}
// Use execFile instead of exec to avoid shell interpretation of the host
execFile("ping", args, (err, stdout) => {
if (err) return callback(err);
const parsed: PingResult = parsePing(platform(), stdout);
return callback(err, parsed, stdout);
});
}