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Fixes #2564

getReturnPath takes the user-controlled return query param, decodes it, and hands the raw value to NextResponse.redirect(new URL(returnPath, request.url), 307). The surrounding try/catch only guards decodeURIComponent throwing on malformed input — nothing checks that the value is a relative path.

So whenever MAINTENANCE_MODE is not "true" (i.e. normal production), /maintenance?return=<absolute url> issues a 307 off the console origin. Verified against production:

$ curl -sSI "https://console.akash.network/maintenance?return=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fphish"
HTTP/1.1 307 Temporary Redirect
location: https://example.com/phish

$ curl -sSI "https://console.akash.network/maintenance?return=%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fphish"
HTTP/1.1 307 Temporary Redirect
location: https://example.com/phish

$ curl -sSI "https://console.akash.network/maintenance?return=%2Fdeployments"
HTTP/1.1 307 Temporary Redirect
location: /deployments

stats.akash.network returns exactly the same three responses — apps/stats-web/src/middleware.ts carries an identical getReturnPath.

What

getReturnPath now resolves the decoded value against request.url and keeps it only when it stays on the request's own origin, falling back to "/" otherwise. It returns the resolved pathname + search + hash instead of the raw string, so the value the caller feeds back into new URL(returnPath, request.url) can no longer carry an origin at all.

Applied identically to apps/deploy-web/src/middleware.ts and apps/stats-web/src/middleware.ts. The try/catch and both call sites are untouched.

Going through the URL parser rather than string prefix checks is deliberate: searchParams.get() already percent-decodes once before decodeURIComponent runs again, so a prefix test has to account for double encoding (?return=%252F%252Fexample.com), and /\example.com is folded to //example.com by WHATWG URL and escapes the origin as well.

Nothing changes for the only value the maintenance branch itself writes — request.nextUrl.pathname + request.nextUrl.search, which always starts with a single /.

Tests

Extended apps/deploy-web/src/middleware.spec.ts and added a mirror apps/stats-web/src/middleware.spec.ts (stats-web had no middleware spec). Four cases each: relative path preserved, absolute URL ignored, protocol-relative ignored, backslash-prefixed ignored.

With the middleware change reverted but the specs kept, the three attack cases fail in both apps:

FAIL  src/middleware.spec.ts > middleware > ignores an absolute return url when leaving the maintenance page
AssertionError: expected 'https://evil.example/phish' to be 'http://localhost/'
FAIL  src/middleware.spec.ts > middleware > ignores a protocol relative return url when leaving the maintenance page
AssertionError: expected 'http://evil.example/phish' to be 'http://localhost/'
FAIL  src/middleware.spec.ts > middleware > ignores a backslash prefixed return url when leaving the maintenance page
AssertionError: expected 'http://evil.example/phish' to be 'http://localhost/'

With the fix in place (running the test:unit scripts' vitest invocation directly, since I am on Windows and the NODE_ENV=test ... prefix is not valid in cmd.exe):

$ cd apps/deploy-web && NODE_ENV=test DEPLOYMENT_ENV=staging vitest run src/middleware.spec.ts
Test Files  1 passed (1)
     Tests  7 passed (7)

$ cd apps/stats-web && NODE_ENV=test vitest run
Test Files  6 passed (6)
     Tests  56 passed (56)

eslint and prettier --check are clean on all four files (lint-staged also ran them on commit), and tsc --noEmit passes in apps/stats-web. tsc --noEmit in apps/deploy-web already reports 94 errors on main, all in unrelated *.spec.tsx / tests/ files and none in anything touched here.

On not reusing getValidInternalReturnToUrl

apps/deploy-web/src/utils/getValidInternalReturnToUrl guards the client-side returnTo flow against the same class of bug, but it does not fit this call site: it is window-dependent and middleware has no window (without one it rejects every absolute URL, including same-origin ones), it lives in deploy-web so stats-web cannot import it, and its relative branch (startsWith("/") && !startsWith("//")) returns /\example.com/phish unchanged, which new URL(value, request.url) then resolves to http://example.com/phish.

That leaves the guard duplicated across the two middlewares, which already duplicate getReturnPath and setContentSecurityPolicyHeaders verbatim. Happy to extract a shared helper into packages/ if you would rather have one home for both — I kept the change local so it stays reviewable as a fix.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved maintenance-page redirects to accept only same-site return URLs.
    • Invalid, absolute, protocol-relative, and backslash-prefixed destinations now redirect to the site root.
    • Valid return destinations preserve their path, query parameters, and URL fragments.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for valid and rejected return URL scenarios across deployment and statistics pages.

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Both web applications now validate maintenance-page return URLs. Same-origin paths retain their pathname, query, and hash. Absolute, protocol-relative, and backslash-prefixed URLs redirect to the site root. Tests cover these cases.

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Return URL validation

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Middleware URL validation
apps/deploy-web/src/middleware.ts, apps/stats-web/src/middleware.ts
getReturnPath resolves the decoded return parameter against the request URL. Same-origin destinations retain their path components. Other destinations use the site root.
Redirect validation tests
apps/deploy-web/src/middleware.spec.ts, apps/stats-web/src/middleware.spec.ts
Tests cover valid paths and reject absolute, protocol-relative, and backslash-prefixed URLs. Tests also cover same-origin URLs with protocol-relative paths.

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Validate that the return URL is a relative path and ignore absolute paths with domain names [#2564]

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Nice thanks, can you make sure your commits are signed please?

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Both maintenance middlewares handed the user controlled `return` query
param straight to NextResponse.redirect, so /maintenance?return=<absolute
url> issued a 307 to an arbitrary origin. Resolve the value against the
request URL and fall back to "/" unless it stays on the same origin.

Fixes akash-network#2564

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Done — signed the commit and force-pushed. The branch head is now 5ff9e1d, which GitHub reports as Verified (SSH signature). No content changed, only the signature was added; CI has re-triggered on the new head. Let me know if anything else is needed.

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Done — signed the commit and force-pushed. The branch head is now 5ff9e1d, which GitHub reports as Verified (SSH signature). No content changed, only the signature was added; CI has re-triggered on the new head. Let me know if anything else is needed.

please resolve the conflicts as well

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Done — conflicts resolved and pushed (branch head 29fcf57, GitHub reports Verified, SSH-signed).

I merged the latest main into the branch. The only real conflict was in apps/deploy-web/src/middleware.spec.ts, where main and this PR each appended new it(...) blocks at the same spot; I kept both test sets. middleware.ts auto-merged cleanly, and the getReturnPath same-origin validation from this PR is intact alongside the new PWA-asset/maintenance handling from main.

Verified locally (npm ci on the merged tree):

  • apps/deploy-webvitest run src/middleware.spec.ts → 17 passed
  • apps/stats-webvitest run src/middleware.spec.ts → 4 passed
  • eslint src/middleware.ts src/middleware.spec.ts → clean

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- Line 92: Prevent the same-origin redirect flow from returning a
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A return param like `http://host//evil.example/phish` passes the origin
check but its pathname is `//evil.example/phish`; returning that string and
re-parsing it against the request URL treats it as a protocol-relative URL and
redirects to an external origin (CWE-601). Return the validated same-origin URL
object and pass it directly to NextResponse.redirect, so the pathname is never
re-parsed. Adds a regression test.

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Good catch by the automated review — this was a real bypass. A same-origin absolute return like return=http://<host>//evil.example/phish passes the origin check, but its pathname is //evil.example/phish; getReturnPath returned that string and the caller re-parsed it with new URL(returnPath, request.url), where the leading // makes it protocol-relative and escapes to evil.example (CWE-601).

Fixed in 52ec89a: getReturnPath now returns the validated same-origin URL object and it's passed directly to NextResponse.redirect, so the pathname is never re-parsed. Added a regression test for http://localhost//evil.example/phish asserting the redirect host stays localhost.

Verified locally (apps/deploy-web):

  • vitest run src/middleware.spec.ts → 18 passed (incl. the new case)
  • eslint src/middleware.ts src/middleware.spec.ts → clean
  • tsc --noEmit → no new errors

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