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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: [HIGH] Fix CRLF Injection via Environment Variable Expansion - #21

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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: [CRITICAL/HIGH] Fix CRLF Injection in Environment Variables

🚨 Severity: HIGH
πŸ’‘ Vulnerability: HTTP Response Splitting (CRLF injection) vulnerability via environment variable expansion in response headers. While header values defined in Spec are validated, if an environment variable is referenced using ${VAR} and that variable contains control characters like \r\n, the characters are blindly injected into the events.Response by Render(). This can cause HTTP response splitting or invalid HTTP headers when sent over the wire.
🎯 Impact: A user crafting a reply file referencing system environment variables could unintentionally or maliciously inject arbitrary headers or split the response body if the environment variables contain injected \r\n characters.
πŸ”§ Fix: Added a sanitizeHeaderValue function that actively strips out control characters (like \n and \r) from the output of EnvPolicy.Expand(h.Value) during Render().
βœ… Verification: A new test TestRenderSanitizesCRLFInHeaders has been added, and make check passes.


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When an environment variable containing `\r\n` is expanded into an HTTP response header via `${VAR}`, it could cause HTTP response splitting. This commit introduces `sanitizeHeaderValue` to strip control characters like CRLF during the `Render()` phase, preventing this vulnerability.

Co-authored-by: tejjasdev <213147578+tejjasdev@users.noreply.github.com>
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When an environment variable containing `\r\n` is expanded into an HTTP response header via `${VAR}`, it could cause HTTP response splitting. This commit introduces `sanitizeHeaderValue` to strip control characters like CRLF during the `Render()` phase, preventing this vulnerability.

It also fixes an errcheck lint failure by adding a nolint directive.

Co-authored-by: tejjasdev <213147578+tejjasdev@users.noreply.github.com>
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