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fix(ios): apply the remote marker image host policy on iOS - #166
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`Image.resolveAssetSource` returns a Metro packager URL in development, so `MarkerIconFactory` — which classified a marker image by its host — rejected every bundled asset: a packager address is always private (`10.0.2.2` on the emulator, `127.0.0.1` over `adb reverse`, `192.168.x.x` over Wi-Fi). The marker silently fell back to the default pin and only a logcat line said why, while the README recommends `require()` as the primary source. Carry the provenance across Nitro instead of inferring it from the host. `MarkerImage` gains an optional `origin`, `resolveMarkerImage` stamps `'bundled'` on the `require()` branch, and the host policy applies only when the stamp is absent — so the threat it guards against, a URL arriving as data, is still checked. An `origin` on a user-supplied image is stripped and warned about in dev, so an image built from an API response cannot claim to be bundled, and the same field is part of the native icon cache key so a bundled entry cannot be reused for a user-supplied URI. Extract the ~90-line policy out of the 541-line `MarkerIconFactory` into `RemoteMarkerUriPolicy`, which makes it unit-testable, and document the policy in the README next to the image source table. Closes #129
Android refused to load a marker image from a private-network host while iOS
loaded any URL it could parse, so an app shipping on both platforms was
protected on one of them. The threat the policy guards against — a URL arriving
as data, `image={{ uri: apiResponse.iconUrl }}` pointing at a router admin page
or a cloud metadata endpoint — is not platform-specific.
`RemoteMarkerUriPolicy` ports the Kotlin rules to Swift: `http`/`https` only, no
`user:password@`, and a host that must not resolve to a loopback, any-local,
link-local, site-local, multicast or IPv6 unique-local address, a
`.local`/`.localhost` name, or a cloud metadata endpoint. A rejected image falls
back to the default pin and logs `Rejected remote marker image URI`.
`require()`d assets keep their exemption through the `origin` stamp, which is
what stops this reproducing #129 on iOS: `resolveAssetSource` hands a
development build a `http://localhost:8081/assets/...` URL, which is loopback.
Three things Foundation forces, rather than a line-for-line port:
- `URLComponents.host` is the decoded form, so `http://%31%30.0.2.2/` is
classified as the 10.0.2.2 it reaches rather than as an opaque name.
- An IPv4 address in an IPv6 shape is unwrapped by hand. `InetAddress` does it
on its own; without it `::ffff:127.0.0.1` would pass every IPv6 rule.
- A name that resolves to both a public and a private address is rejected.
`InetAddress.getByName` classifies its first answer only.
The policy lives in the SwiftPM support package, so `swift test` covers it the
way `RemoteMarkerUriPolicyTest` covers the Kotlin side. `origin` joins the iOS
icon cache key for the reason it joined the Android one: a bundled image must
not warm the cache for a user-supplied URI that matches.
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WalkthroughiOS marker image loading now checks remote URLs and redirect destinations. The policy rejects credentials and disallowed hosts or addresses. Bundled images bypass host checks. The README documents platform checks, rejection behavior, and alternatives for private-host images. ChangesRemote marker image policy
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MarkerImageLoader
participant RemoteMarkerUriPolicy
participant URLSession
MarkerImageLoader->>RemoteMarkerUriPolicy: Check unbundled URL
RemoteMarkerUriPolicy-->>MarkerImageLoader: Return policy result
MarkerImageLoader->>URLSession: Start accepted image request
URLSession->>RemoteMarkerUriPolicy: Check redirect destination
RemoteMarkerUriPolicy-->>URLSession: Return redirect policy result
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to iOS now rejects many restricted image hosts, but an attacker-controlled host can change addresses between validation and connection. Treat that documented limitation as an explicit security acceptance before merging. Caution Pre-merge checks failedPlease resolve all errors before merging. Addressing warnings is optional.
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Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 25.64% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 39 functions across 5 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.) Full details: Security CheckExplanation The iOS SSRF policy is bypassable through DNS rebinding. The changed code resolves a named host in Resolution Do not use a DNS preflight as the security boundary. Make the actual connection use the validated address while preserving the original hostname for HTTP Host handling and TLS verification, or use a networking implementation that validates the connected address before sending the request and aborts otherwise. Apply the same protection to every redirect hop. Add an integration test that changes a permitted hostname's resolution between validation and connection and verifies that no request reaches a restricted address.
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In `@package/ios/MarkerImageLoader.swift`:
- Line 139: Update the rejected-URI warning in the marker image loading logic to
avoid logging the complete URI as public data; mark the URI interpolation as
private or use an equivalent sanitized representation, while keeping the public
rejection reason unchanged.
- Line 134: Update startRemoteTask to use a URLSession delegate that validates
every HTTP redirect destination through RemoteMarkerUriPolicy and cancels
redirects to rejected hosts, while preserving existing request completion
behavior. Add a regression test covering a public URL redirecting to a
restricted host.
In `@package/ios/RemoteImagePolicy/RemoteMarkerUriPolicy.swift`:
- Line 104: Update RemoteMarkerUriPolicy and MarkerImageLoader so DNS validation
returns the approved address and the fetch connects directly to that address,
while preserving the original hostname for HTTP Host handling and TLS
verification. Apply the equivalent change to the Android URL connection flow,
replacing the current preflight-only resolution pattern without altering
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Two findings from review on the host policy. The policy checked only the URL the app supplied. `URLSession.shared` follows redirects on its own, so an attacker-controlled public host answering 302 to `169.254.169.254` walked straight past it — the cheapest possible bypass, and one that made the rest of the check close to decorative. The loader now owns a session with a delegate that re-runs the policy on every redirect destination and refuses the hop. A bundled image is exempt there too, carried on the task rather than the image, because the delegate sees tasks. The rejection log wrote the whole URI as public. A rejected URI can carry the very thing that got it rejected — `user info not allowed` is one of the reasons — and a query string can hold a signed token. It is now logged twice: stripped of credentials, query and fragment as public, and in full as private. The full half matters because Metro puts the asset's identity in the query string, so the stripped form alone does not say which image was refused; the unified log keeps it out of a shipped app while a developer on the simulator or a debugger still reads it. Not addressed: binding the fetch to the address that passed the check. The gap is real — the name is resolved once to classify it and again to connect — but closing it means giving up URLSession for a hand-rolled connection with its own TLS verification, on both platforms. That is a larger change than this one and it belongs in its own issue.
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…arker-images-in-dev Conflicts with #179, which made marker image fields treat null as absent: - markerImageFromResolvedAsset.ts: keep main's null-dropping copy and stamp its result with origin 'bundled'. - resolveMarkerImage.ts: drop a claimed origin first, then drop null fields as main does. nullOptionalFields.test.ts lists every optional MarkerImage field at the type level, so it now covers origin too, and the complete marker descriptor it expects has no claimed origin.
… object resolveMarkerImage cached a user-supplied image by reference whenever it had no origin and no null field. Setting origin: 'bundled' on that object afterwards changed the cached entry too, so every later render of the same image would skip the Android host policy. Cache a copy instead. copyMarkerImage keeps only uri and the size fields, so it drops a claimed origin and null fields in one step, and replaces both withoutOrigin and markerImageWithoutNulls.
…he host policy HttpURLConnection follows redirects on its own, so the host policy only ever saw the URL the app passed in: a public URL that redirected to 192.168.x.x or 169.254.169.254 was fetched unchecked. RemoteMarkerImageFetcher turns automatic redirects off and follows up to five itself, running the policy on each target before it connects. A redirect has to stay on http(s) and may not go from https to http, for a bundled image too. A redirect from http to https, which the platform did not follow, now loads. The policy also checks every address a host name resolves to, not only the first: the connection moves on to the next address when the first does not answer. The JVM tests run the real policy over fake connections and a fake DNS, so none of them touch the network.
…vate address The host policy resolved a user-supplied image's host before the request, but the connection resolved it again. A DNS answer that changed in between (rebinding) could still send the request to a private address, and CodeRabbit's security check flagged that gap. Fetch remote marker images with OkHttp, which react-android already exposes, so that a network interceptor sees the address a connection was actually made to. It closes a direct connection to an address the policy rejects before the request is written to it. Behind a proxy, the proxy resolves the host, so only the check on the URL applies there, as before. Tests against a local HTTP server cover a host that answers public to the policy and private to the client, requested directly and as a redirect target. The client connects, but no request arrives.
…s-in-dev' into fix/ios-remote-marker-image-host-policy Brings in #164 as it was merged, whose branch had main merged in since this one started. - Package.swift: keep main's ClusterBadge, AdapterSlot and ShapeDiff targets next to RemoteImagePolicy. - MarkerImageLoader.swift: keep main's bounded, cost-aware image cache and this branch's session with the redirect delegate. - README.md: describe both platforms. Android now re-checks redirects and the connected address, so the note that it follows redirects unchecked is gone.
…-image-host-policy # Conflicts: # README.md
… https Android refuses a redirect that leaves http(s) or goes from https to http, for a bundled image too, and so does RemoteMarkerUriPolicy.redirectRejectReason in Kotlin. iOS re-checked the host of each redirect but followed a downgrade, so the two platforms answered the same redirect differently. RemoteMarkerUriPolicy.redirectRejectReason(from:to:) now makes that decision in Swift, with the same reasons, and the redirect delegate asks it first, before the bundled exemption and the host check.
URLSession resolves a host again to connect and offers no hook between that lookup and the request, so iOS cannot re-check the connected address the way Android does. Say so in the README and next to the fetch, together with what still covers the device's own network: the user's Local Network permission.
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What does this change?
Android refused to load a marker image from a private-network host while iOS loaded any URL it
could parse —
URL(string:)was the only check inMarkerImageLoader.loadRemote. An app shippingon both platforms was protected on one of them, and the threat the policy guards against is not
platform-specific: a URL arriving as data,
image={{ uri: apiResponse.iconUrl }}pointing ata router admin page or a cloud metadata endpoint.
Per the decision in #130, option (1): keep the policy and mirror it.
RemoteMarkerUriPolicyports the Kotlin rules to Swift —http/httpsonly, nouser:password@,and a host that must not resolve to a loopback, any-local, link-local, site-local, multicast or
IPv6 unique-local address, a
.local/.localhostname, or a cloud metadata endpoint. It runs inthe same two passes as the Kotlin side: a numeric host literal is classified on the calling thread
without DNS, and only a name reaches
getaddrinfo, on a queue of its own.require()d assets keep their exemption through theoriginstamp from #164. That stamp is whythis PR is stacked on it — without it the policy would reproduce #129 on iOS verbatim, because
resolveAssetSourcehands a development build ahttp://localhost:8081/assets/…URL, which isloopback.
Three places where Foundation forces something other than a line-for-line port, called out in the
code where they happen:
URLComponents.hostdecodeshttp://%31%30.0.2.2/is classified as the 10.0.2.2 it reaches, not as an opaque nameInetAddressdoes it on its own; without it::ffff:127.0.0.1passes every IPv6 ruleInetAddress.getByNameclassifies its first answer onlyAlongside:
originjoins the iOS icon cache key for the reason it joined the Android one in #164 —a bundled image must not warm the cache for a user-supplied URI that matches.
One unrelated file is touched.
package/iosTests/GoogleMarkerVisualApplierTests.swiftbuilds threeMarkerImage(uri:width:height:scale:)values, an initialiser that stopped existing when #164 addedorigin. Nothing caught it because that directory compiles nowhere;origin: nilis added so thefile is at least honest for whoever wires the test spec up.
Tests went to the SwiftPM package, not
package/iosTests/A deliberate departure from the issue, which asked for XCTest in
package/iosTests/. Thatdirectory compiles nowhere today — autolinking declares the pod without
:testspecs, asnative.yml:15says in as many words — so tests written there would never run.package/ios/is a SwiftPM package that CI does run (
native-build.yml:72), and the policy is pure Foundation,so it goes there and is actually executed.
Closes #130
How was it verified?
swift test --package-path package/ios— 17 pass, 12 of them new. They cover every case theissue listed (loopback, site-local, link-local, a public host, a URL carrying
userInfo) plusIPv6 literals, the IPv4-in-IPv6 unwrap, a percent-encoded private host, and the bundled bypass.
All of them stay off the network: names go through the pre-check, and a numeric literal is
answered by
getaddrinfowithout a DNS query.sin_addrin the wrongbyte order would let 10.0.2.2 through as 2.2.0.10, and nothing else would catch that.
bun test— 197 pass / 0 fail.bun run lint,bun run typecheckclean.xcodebuild -scheme react-native-better-mapsin both configurations — Apple-only, and withGOOGLE_MAPS_IOS_API_KEYset so the Google adapters compile. BUILD SUCCEEDED, 0 errors.The example app's "Custom markers" scenario renders all eight
require()d markers and bothremote
raw.githubusercontent.compins, and the unified log has exactly one rejection line.That one rejection is not a regression — it is the example's
scaled-pin, which hand-builds{ uri: Image.resolveAssetSource(...).uri, width, height }because there is no API for giving arequire()d asset an explicit size. That object is user-supplied by construction, so the policyapplies to it by design. It is the same single residual case #164 reported on Android; the API gap
behind it now bites on both platforms.
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bun run lint,bun run typecheckandbun run buildpassoriginarrives from fix(android): render require() marker images on development builds #164No type changed, and three behaviours did:
but it is invisible to the compiler: code that renders today stops rendering.
MarkerImageLoadernow classifies remote by parsed scheme, not byhasPrefix("http://").HTTP://…used to fall through to the local loader and fail; it is now fetched, matching Android.image draws no image at all rather than a default pin, because
NitroImageAnnotationViewsetsself.image = uiImagefor any nil result. That predates this PR — any failed load, a 404included, already behaved that way — but the policy makes it reachable far more often. Both
Google providers do fall back to the default pin. The README now says so per provider instead
of promising a default pin everywhere.
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#164 is merged, so this PR now targets
main. The branch was brought up to date by merging#164's final branch and then
main.that limitation, and it no longer applies.
MarkerImageLoaderowns aURLSessionwhose delegate runs the policy on every redirectdestination and cancels a rejected hop.
redirectRejectReason(from:to:)also refuses a redirect that leaves http(s) or goes fromhttps to http, with the same reasons as Android. fix(android): render require() marker images on development builds #164 did the Android side.
127.0.0.1wasrefused, and the private URL never received a request.
credentials, the query and the fragment stripped. The full URI is logged as private.
URLSessionhas no hook between its own lookup and the request. Closing the gap would take ahand-written HTTP client over Network.framework, and those images would lose ATS, proxy/PAC,
the HTTP cache and HTTP/2.
left is a blind GET to a routed private network or to loopback.
Verified again after the merge:
swift test: all 15 policy tests pass, and so do the other suites.xcodebuild -scheme react-native-better-mapsin both configurations, Apple-only and with theGoogle flag: BUILD SUCCEEDED. In the Google build, the Google adapters compiled in full.
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