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What Does This Do

Add truncation to path, class and method if it's necessary for LocationSuppliers to report XSS vulnerabilities

Motivation

incident-39654

In this incident, it was reported that the location.path field of an IAST vulnerability was populated with a large HTML payload, which caused a backend error and prevented the vulnerability from being reported.

This occurred specifically with an XSS vulnerability located in a Thymeleaf template.

Normally, the location.path is extracted from the stacktrace, so this kind of behavior is unusual. However, in cases where vulnerabilities occur in template-based frameworks, we use a different approach to improve precision — specifying the template name instead of the compiled class in the vulnerability location.

In Thymeleaf, the instrumented method getTemplateName may return a full HTML document instead of just the template name, as originally expected.

To guard against these cases, we’ve decided to truncate the values of path, class, and method when they are generated using suppliers rather than stacktrace-based extraction.

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Should we do it for all vulns, in case this happens in other places?

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If I recall correctly, we only use the LocationSupplier approach for XSS and Unvalidated redirect, checking the codo for the unvalidated redirects seems that only is used by this advice

public static class SpringAdvice {

  @Advice.OnMethodExit(suppress = Throwable.class)
   @Sink(VulnerabilityTypes.SPRING_RESPONSE)
   public static void checkReturnedObject(
       @Advice.Return HandlerMethodReturnValueHandler handler,
       @Advice.Argument(0) final Object value,
       @Advice.Argument(1) MethodParameter returnType) {
     final UnvalidatedRedirectModule unvalidatedRedirectModule =
         InstrumentationBridge.UNVALIDATED_REDIRECT;
     final XssModule xssModule = InstrumentationBridge.XSS;
     if (handler != null && value != null && returnType != null) {
       String clazz = returnType.getMethod().getDeclaringClass().getName();
       String method = returnType.getMethod().getName();
       if (unvalidatedRedirectModule != null && value instanceof AbstractUrlBasedView) {
         unvalidatedRedirectModule.onRedirect(
             ((AbstractUrlBasedView) value).getUrl(), clazz, method);
       } else if (unvalidatedRedirectModule != null && value instanceof ModelAndView) {
         unvalidatedRedirectModule.onRedirect(((ModelAndView) value).getViewName(), clazz, method);
       } else if (value instanceof String) {
         if (xssModule != null && handler instanceof RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor) {
           xssModule.onXss((String) value, clazz, method);
         } else if (unvalidatedRedirectModule != null) {
           unvalidatedRedirectModule.onRedirect((String) value, clazz, method);
         }
       }
     }
   }
 }

So IMHO we are safe with this but we can add some default behavior or comment to warn this in the LocationSuplier just to be aware in future implementations

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| Package | Type | Package file | Manager | Update | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
[com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations](https://errorprone.info)
([source](https://github.com/google/error-prone)) | dependencies |
misk/gradle/libs.versions.toml | gradle | minor | `2.39.0` -> `2.40.0` |
|
[org.apache.commons:commons-lang3](https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/)
([source](https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-lang.git)) |
dependencies | misk/gradle/libs.versions.toml | gradle | minor |
`3.17.0` -> `3.18.0` |
|
[org.jetbrains.kotlinx.binary-compatibility-validator](https://github.com/Kotlin/binary-compatibility-validator)
| plugin | misk/gradle/libs.versions.toml | gradle | patch | `0.18.0` ->
`0.18.1` |
| [com.datadoghq:dd-trace-api](https://github.com/datadog/dd-trace-java)
| dependencies | misk/gradle/libs.versions.toml | gradle | minor |
`1.50.1` -> `1.51.0` |
| [software.amazon.awssdk:sdk-core](https://aws.amazon.com/sdkforjava) |
dependencies | misk/gradle/libs.versions.toml | gradle | patch |
`2.31.77` -> `2.31.78` |
| [software.amazon.awssdk:sqs](https://aws.amazon.com/sdkforjava) |
dependencies | misk/gradle/libs.versions.toml | gradle | patch |
`2.31.77` -> `2.31.78` |
|
[software.amazon.awssdk:dynamodb-enhanced](https://aws.amazon.com/sdkforjava)
| dependencies | misk/gradle/libs.versions.toml | gradle | patch |
`2.31.77` -> `2.31.78` |
| [software.amazon.awssdk:dynamodb](https://aws.amazon.com/sdkforjava) |
dependencies | misk/gradle/libs.versions.toml | gradle | patch |
`2.31.77` -> `2.31.78` |
| [software.amazon.awssdk:aws-core](https://aws.amazon.com/sdkforjava) |
dependencies | misk/gradle/libs.versions.toml | gradle | patch |
`2.31.77` -> `2.31.78` |
| [software.amazon.awssdk:bom](https://aws.amazon.com/sdkforjava) |
dependencies | misk/gradle/libs.versions.toml | gradle | patch |
`2.31.77` -> `2.31.78` |
| [software.amazon.awssdk:auth](https://aws.amazon.com/sdkforjava) |
dependencies | misk/gradle/libs.versions.toml | gradle | patch |
`2.31.77` -> `2.31.78` |

---

### Release Notes

<details>
<summary>google/error-prone
(com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations)</summary>

###
[`v2.40.0`](https://github.com/google/error-prone/releases/tag/v2.40.0):
Error Prone 2.40.0

Changes:

- Bug fixes and improvements
- Releases (including snapshots) have migrated from [OSSRH to the
Central Publisher
Portal](https://central.sonatype.org/pages/ossrh-eol/#process-to-migrate)

Full changelog:
google/error-prone@v2.39.0...v2.40.0

</details>

<details>
<summary>Kotlin/binary-compatibility-validator
(org.jetbrains.kotlinx.binary-compatibility-validator)</summary>

###
[`v0.18.1`](https://github.com/Kotlin/binary-compatibility-validator/releases/tag/0.18.1)

[Compare
Source](Kotlin/binary-compatibility-validator@0.18.0...0.18.1)

#### What's Changed

- Fixed a bug preventing use of cross-compilation support during KLIB
dump validation
\[[#&#8203;304](https://github.com/Kotlin/binary-compatibility-validator/issues/304)]\[[#&#8203;306](https://github.com/Kotlin/binary-compatibility-validator/issues/306)]

</details>

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<summary>datadog/dd-trace-java (com.datadoghq:dd-trace-api)</summary>

###
[`v1.51.0`](https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-java/releases/tag/v1.51.0):
1.51.0

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- 🐛 Limit the maximum size of the location path in IAST
vulnerabilities
([#&#8203;9028](DataDog/dd-trace-java#9028) -
[@&#8203;jandro996](https://github.com/jandro996))
- 🐛 Fix IAST gRPC handler with null superclass
([#&#8203;8984](DataDog/dd-trace-java#8984) -
[@&#8203;smola](https://github.com/smola))
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[@&#8203;jpbempel](https://github.com/jpbempel))
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available at bootstrap
([#&#8203;9082](DataDog/dd-trace-java#9082) -
[@&#8203;amarziali](https://github.com/amarziali))
- ✨ Create metric: appsec.waf.config\_errors
([#&#8203;8394](DataDog/dd-trace-java#8394) -
[@&#8203;sezen-datadog](https://github.com/sezen-datadog))

#### Platform components

- ✨ Introduce environment component
([#&#8203;9071](DataDog/dd-trace-java#9071) -
[@&#8203;PerfectSlayer](https://github.com/PerfectSlayer))

#### Profiling

- 🐛 Remove annoying warning for smap event parsing
([#&#8203;9119](DataDog/dd-trace-java#9119) -
[@&#8203;jbachorik](https://github.com/jbachorik))
- 🐛 Fix ByteCountingInputStream when reading past EOF
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#### Realtime User Monitoring

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What Does This Do
Add truncation to path, class and method if it's necessary for LocationSuppliers to report XSS vulnerabilities

Motivation
incident-39654

In this incident, it was reported that the location.path field of an IAST vulnerability was populated with a large HTML payload, which caused a backend error and prevented the vulnerability from being reported.

This occurred specifically with an XSS vulnerability located in a Thymeleaf template.

Normally, the location.path is extracted from the stacktrace, so this kind of behavior is unusual. However, in cases where vulnerabilities occur in template-based frameworks, we use a different approach to improve precision — specifying the template name instead of the compiled class in the vulnerability location.

In Thymeleaf, the instrumented method getTemplateName may return a full HTML document instead of just the template name, as originally expected.

To guard against these cases, we’ve decided to truncate the values of path, class, and method when they are generated using suppliers rather than stacktrace-based extraction.

(cherry picked from commit b3e2ecd)
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