feat(web): enforce localhost-only binding; expand loopback origin allow-list (#1796)

Closes #1795.

Enforce localhost-only binding in code (the "never 0.0.0.0" rule was only a spec note): refuse an all-interfaces HOST — across every spelling the OS binds as the wildcard (inet_aton decimal/octal/hex, IPv6, IPv4-mapped, zone-scoped, IDNA/Unicode) — unless DANGEROUSLY_BIND_ALL_INTERFACES=true (Docker's sanctioned opt-in). Fixes the reported stdio-connect 403 by expanding the default loopback origin allow-list to all three interchangeable forms.

Hardening surfaced across an extended review: closes an IDNA/fullwidth wildcard bypass, a blank-ALLOWED_ORIGINS fail-open, and the CLI/TUI OAuth-callback wildcard bind (loopback-only now, RFC 8252); canonicalizes the origin allow-list the way a browser does; derives frame-ancestors from the real embedder list (IPv6-literal exclusion verified in headless Chromium); strictPort on all three bind points; and preserves the CLI exit-code map + JSON envelope through the mcp-inspector --cli launcher path. Shared host normalization lives in core/node/hostUrl.ts. Docs + tests + smokes throughout.

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import { isIPv6 } from "node:net";
/** Strip a single surrounding `[...]` pair from a bracketed IPv6 literal; other hosts pass through. */
export function stripBrackets(host: string): string {
return host.replace(/^\[(.*)\]$/, "$1");
}
/**
* Format a bind host for use inside a URL authority. An IPv6 literal must be
* bracketed (`http://[::1]:6274`); every other host — loopback names, IPv4,
* hostnames, already-bracketed IPv6 — passes through unchanged. Shared by the
* web origin allow-list, the startup banner, the sandbox URL, and the CLI
* deep-link so a bound IPv6 host is formatted the same way everywhere.
*
* Bracketing keys off `net.isIPv6`, not the presence of a `:`, so a mistyped
* `host:port` isn't wrapped as `[host:port]`. A zone index (`%eth0`) is dropped:
* a URL authority cannot carry one (`new URL()` rejects it even `%25`-encoded),
* and the zone is host-local and meaningless to a remote client anyway.
*/
export function formatHostForUrl(host: string): string {
const h = host.trim();
// Strip surrounding brackets and any zone id before the IPv6 check, so a
// bracketed-with-zone input (`[fe80::1%eth0]`) still yields a valid URL host.
// (A non-IPv6 value is returned as-given — this normalizes IPv6 literals, it
// doesn't validate arbitrary hosts.)
const bare = stripBrackets(h).split("%")[0];
return isIPv6(bare) ? `[${bare}]` : h;
}
/**
* Unmap an IPv4-mapped IPv6 host (`[::ffff:7f00:1]`) to its dotted IPv4 form
* (`127.0.0.1`) — the address the socket actually answers on (a
* `::ffff:127.0.0.1` bind is reachable at `127.0.0.1`, not `::1`). Other hosts
* pass through. Mirrors the bind guard, which folds the mapped *wildcard*
* (`::ffff:0:0`) into its all-interfaces set.
*/
function unmapIpv4MappedHost(host: string): string {
const m = /^::ffff:([0-9a-f]{1,4}):([0-9a-f]{1,4})$/i.exec(
stripBrackets(host),
);
if (!m) return host;
const hi = parseInt(m[1], 16);
const lo = parseInt(m[2], 16);
return `${hi >> 8}.${hi & 0xff}.${lo >> 8}.${lo & 0xff}`;
}
/**
* Canonicalize a bind host the way a browser does before building `Origin`, so
* that the origin allow-list, the startup banner, and the sandbox URL all use
* the *same* form and can't disagree. Non-canonical spellings of the same
* address — `127.1` / `0x7f.0.0.1` / `2130706433` all mean `127.0.0.1`,
* `0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1` / `::0001` mean `::1` — otherwise produce hosts that miss
* the loopback lookup or don't match the header the browser sends.
*
* One step **intentionally diverges** from browser canonicalization: an
* IPv4-mapped IPv6 host is unmapped to its dotted IPv4 form (the address the
* socket answers on), where a browser would keep the mapped literal. Because the
* banner/sandbox URL are canonicalized through here too, `banner ⊆ allowedOrigins`
* holds by construction — the advertised URL is always an allow-listed origin.
*
* `new URL().hostname` returns the URL-ready form (bracketed for IPv6); falls
* back to the formatted input if it isn't a parseable URL host.
*/
export function canonicalUrlHost(host: string): string {
const formatted = formatHostForUrl(host.trim().toLowerCase());
try {
return unmapIpv4MappedHost(new URL(`http://${formatted}`).hostname);
} catch {
return formatted;
}
}
// NB on layering: since round-19 (#1795 AD1), {@link isAllInterfacesHost} runs
// `canonicalUrlHost` FIRST, and that (via `new URL()`) already compresses IPv6
// zero-runs, unmaps IPv4-mapped addresses, and folds every legacy `inet_aton`
// and IDNA spelling to `0.0.0.0`. So `canonicalUrlHost` is the actual wildcard
// cover; `ALL_INTERFACES_LITERALS`'s `::ffff:0:0` entry, `canonicalizeIpv6`, and
// `isAllZeroIpv4` below are a **redundant second layer** — measured to change no
// verdict for any bindable input. They're kept as defense-in-depth (and they do
// cover `canonicalUrlHost`'s non-URL `catch` fallback), but do NOT remove the
// `canonicalUrlHost` call from `isAllInterfacesHost` on the assumption these
// still catch the legacy spellings — they don't anymore.
/**
* Canonical spellings of the all-interfaces (unspecified) address: `0.0.0.0`
* (IPv4 wildcard), `::` (IPv6 wildcard), `::ffff:0:0` (IPv4-mapped wildcard —
* redundant now that `canonicalUrlHost` unmaps it to `0.0.0.0`), and `""`
* (Node's `listen()` unspecified address). See the layering note above.
*/
const ALL_INTERFACES_LITERALS = new Set(["", "0.0.0.0", "::", "::ffff:0:0"]);
/**
* Canonicalize an IPv6 literal via the WHATWG URL serializer, which compresses
* zero-runs — `::0` / `0::0` / `::0.0.0.0` / `0000:…:0000` → `::`, `::ffff:0.0.0.0`
* → `::ffff:0:0`. Redundant second layer (see the note above): `canonicalUrlHost`
* already ran the value through `new URL()`, so for any host it can produce this
* is the identity; kept for defense-in-depth. Non-IPv6 input passes through.
*
* The zone index (`%eth0`) is stripped first: `net.isIPv6` accepts it but
* `new URL()` rejects a zone id outright (even `%25`-encoded), so passing it
* through would throw. The zone is irrelevant to *which* address this is, so
* dropping it is correct for detection — `::%eth0` still canonicalizes to `::`.
*/
function canonicalizeIpv6(value: string): string {
if (!isIPv6(value)) return value;
const [address] = value.split("%");
return new URL(`http://[${address}]`).hostname.slice(1, -1);
}
/**
* Parse one dotted-address part (or a bare address) the way the C `inet_aton`
* resolver does — decimal, `0`-prefixed octal, and `0x`-prefixed hex are all
* accepted. Returns `NaN` for anything non-numeric (e.g. a hostname label).
*/
function parseAddressPart(part: string): number {
if (/^0x[0-9a-f]+$/.test(part)) return parseInt(part, 16);
if (/^[0-9]+$/.test(part)) return parseInt(part, 10);
return NaN;
}
/**
* True when `value` is an all-zero IPv4 address in any legacy spelling the OS
* still binds as the `0.0.0.0` wildcard: the bare integer `0`, `0x0`, dotted
* `0.0.0.0`, `000.000.000.000`, `0x0.0.0.0`, and the short forms `0.0` / `0.0.0`
* (Node/`inet_aton` accept 1–4 parts; `parseAddressPart`'s `[0-9]+` branch does
* double duty for decimal and `0`-prefixed octal). The `> 4` reject is
* intentional — 1–3 parts are valid `inet_aton` spellings, so this is
* deliberately NOT `parts.length === 4`. Called from {@link isAllInterfacesHost}
* with any normalized host, so it may receive an IPv6 literal (`::1`) — the
* dot-split yields a single non-numeric part → `NaN` → `false`, which is correct.
*
* Redundant second layer (see the note above `ALL_INTERFACES_LITERALS`): every
* bindable legacy spelling (`0`, `0x0`, `0.0`, `000.000.000.000`, `0`, …) is
* already folded to `0.0.0.0` by `canonicalUrlHost`, so this changes no verdict
* for a real host; its only live input is `canonicalUrlHost`'s non-URL `catch`
* fallback (e.g. bracketed non-IPv6 `[0.0.0]`, which fails `ENOTFOUND` anyway).
*/
function isAllZeroIpv4(value: string): boolean {
const parts = value.split(".");
if (parts.length > 4) return false;
return parts.every((part) => parseAddressPart(part) === 0);
}
/**
* True when `host` binds all interfaces (`0.0.0.0` / `::` / empty / their legacy
* spellings) rather than loopback only. Shared by the web bind guard, the
* banner/sandbox wildcard→`localhost` substitution, and the CLI deep-link.
* Expects a bare host (no port) — callers pass `url.hostname` or an env `HOST`.
*
* The value is run through {@link canonicalUrlHost} first — Node's resolver
* applies the IDNA Unicode→ASCII mapping before parsing the literal, so a
* fullwidth `HOST="0"` (U+FF10) binds `0.0.0.0`; canonicalizing (via `new URL`,
* which applies the same mapping) before the address check catches those
* spellings and keeps this predicate reasoning about the *address* the socket
* binds, not the raw string. Idempotent for ASCII hosts.
*/
export function isAllInterfacesHost(host: string): boolean {
const normalized = canonicalizeIpv6(stripBrackets(canonicalUrlHost(host)));
return ALL_INTERFACES_LITERALS.has(normalized) || isAllZeroIpv4(normalized);
}
/**
* True when `host` is a loopback address — `localhost`, anything in `127.0.0.0/8`
* (incl. IPv4-mapped `::ffff:127.x`, which {@link canonicalUrlHost} unmaps), or
* `::1`. Canonicalized first, so non-canonical spellings (`127.1`, `0x7f.1`,
* `2130706433`, `0:0:…:1`) resolve correctly. Used to constrain the OAuth
* callback listener, which must be loopback (it receives the authorization code
* over plaintext `http`; RFC 8252 §7.3 only sanctions that for loopback).
* Expects a bare host (no port) — the caller passes `url.hostname`.
*/
export function isLoopbackHost(host: string): boolean {
// Drop a root FQDN dot (`localhost.` binds loopback but WHATWG keeps the dot);
// IP literals never carry one (WHATWG strips it for those).
const h = canonicalUrlHost(host).replace(/\.$/, "");
// Octets are range-bounded (`canonicalUrlHost` returns the raw input when
// `new URL` throws, so `\d{1,3}` alone would pass `127.999.0.1`).
return (
h === "localhost" ||
h === "[::1]" ||
/^127(\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1?\d?\d)){3}$/.test(h)
);
}