fix(cargo): harden README fetch, clarify status handling, strengthen tests (#1330)

Follow-up to #1207, addressing items from the cargo validator review.
**Scoped to cargo + shared helpers — no behavior change for existing
npm/pypi/nuget/oci/mcpb publishers.** Safe to merge and promote.

### Changes
**SSRF hardening of the two-call README retrieval**
- Pin the step-2 README URL to an allowed host (`static.crates.io` in
prod; the base host under test) *before* fetching, so a metadata
response can't steer the validator at an internal/attacker host.
- `CheckRedirect` policy pins every redirect hop to the same allowlist
(the initial URL being pinned isn't enough if an upstream 3xx is
followed).
- Cap the README body with `io.LimitReader` (5 MiB).

> Not publisher-exploitable today (the URL comes from crates.io), so
this is defense-in-depth — but it makes the "host is pinned" guarantee
hold in code rather than rely on crates.io's behavior.

**Clearer status handling** (previously any non-5xx/non-200 collapsed to
"not found")
- **429** → reported as transient/retryable, at both the metadata and
README steps.
- **403** → disambiguated via the crate-version endpoint:
genuinely-missing stays "not found"; *exists-but-no-README* gets an
actionable "add a README with `mcp-name` and republish" message (mirrors
the NuGet validator). This continues the 5xx-vs-403 diagnostic split
@P4ST4S started in the #1207 review — thanks!

**Shared `containsMCPNameToken` helper**
Boundary-anchored ownership-token match (prevents prefix confusion, e.g.
a README declaring `io.github.acme/widget-pro` satisfying a claim for
`io.github.acme/widget`), used here **by the cargo validator only**.
Adopting it in PyPI/NuGet is a separate follow-up because it's a
behavior change for those already-live registries.

**Tests & docs**
Hermetic positive `ServerNameFormats`; combined fixture gains a
version-existence endpoint + cases for 403-missing vs 403-no-README,
429, and prefix-confusion rejection; new foreign-README-host (SSRF)
test; internal test for the helper. Docs: list `crates.io` in the
registry-requirements list + the `Package` model doc.

### Testing
`go build`, `go vet`, full `./internal/validators/...` suite (incl. live
cargo positive), `make check-schema`, `validate-examples` all pass. No
new `golangci-lint` findings.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -151,10 +151,11 @@ func TestValidateCargo_RejectsMCPBOnlyFields(t *testing.T) {
// Server names follow io.github.OWNER/REPO and may contain dots, slashes,
// hyphens, underscores, and digits. None of these get HTML-escaped during
// README rendering, so substring match against the rendered HTML is reliable.
// These tests exercise format variations against a real crate that doesn't
// declare any mcp-name (serde) — every case fails ownership, but we verify
// the failure error preserves the exact server name unchanged.
// README rendering, so a boundary-anchored match against the rendered HTML is
// reliable. This is a hermetic POSITIVE test: each format variation is placed in
// a mock README as the exact mcp-name token and must validate successfully, so
// it actually exercises the match (the earlier version used a token-less live
// crate, where every case failed and the assertion was satisfied trivially).
func TestValidateCargo_ServerNameFormats(t *testing.T) {
ctx := context.Background()
@ -166,19 +167,33 @@ func TestValidateCargo_ServerNameFormats(t *testing.T) {
{name: "multiple hyphens", serverName: "io.github.example/multi-hyphen-test-name"},
{name: "underscore", serverName: "io.github.example/snake_case_name"},
{name: "numeric suffix", serverName: "io.github.example/server-v2"},
{name: "dotted name segment", serverName: "io.github.example/group.tool"},
}
for _, tt := range tests {
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
serverName := tt.serverName
var mock *httptest.Server
mock = httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
if strings.HasSuffix(r.URL.Path, "/readme") {
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(map[string]string{"url": mock.URL + "/static-readme"})
return
}
// Token on its own line; the trailing newline is the boundary.
fmt.Fprintf(w, "<html><body>\nmcp-name: %s\n</body></html>", serverName)
}))
defer mock.Close()
pkg := model.Package{
RegistryType: model.RegistryTypeCargo,
Identifier: "serde",
Version: "1.0.219",
RegistryType: model.RegistryTypeCargo,
RegistryBaseURL: mock.URL,
Identifier: "fmt-crate",
Version: "0.1.0",
}
err := registries.ValidateCargo(ctx, pkg, tt.serverName)
assert.Error(t, err)
assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), tt.serverName)
err := registries.ValidateCargoREADME(ctx, pkg, serverName)
assert.NoError(t, err, "server name %q should validate when present as an exact mcp-name token", serverName)
})
}
}
@ -197,11 +212,10 @@ func TestValidateCargo_PositivePathMock(t *testing.T) {
mock = httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
if strings.HasSuffix(r.URL.Path, "/readme") {
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
if err := json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(map[string]string{
"url": mock.URL + "/static-readme",
}); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("encode meta response: %v", err)
}
// Encode of a static map cannot fail; ignore the error rather than
// calling t.Fatalf from this (server) goroutine, which is not the test
// goroutine and would truncate the response instead of failing cleanly.
_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(map[string]string{"url": mock.URL + "/static-readme"})
return
}
// Rendered README HTML containing the mcp-name token.
@ -280,6 +294,34 @@ func TestValidateCargo_TransientUpstreamError(t *testing.T) {
assert.NotContains(t, err.Error(), "not found", "transient upstream errors should not be reported as 'not found'")
}
// TestValidateCargo_RejectsForeignReadmeHost is the SSRF guard: the README
// pointer returned by the metadata endpoint must be on an allowed host. Here the
// (mock) metadata endpoint points the README at an unrelated host; the validator
// must refuse to fetch it rather than follow the pointer anywhere crates.io names.
// The ".invalid" host never resolves, so a regression that dropped the host check
// would fail to connect rather than silently pass — but the assertion targets the
// explicit "unexpected host" refusal, which happens before any fetch.
func TestValidateCargo_RejectsForeignReadmeHost(t *testing.T) {
ctx := context.Background()
mock := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(map[string]string{"url": "http://internal.invalid/secret-readme"})
}))
defer mock.Close()
pkg := model.Package{
RegistryType: model.RegistryTypeCargo,
RegistryBaseURL: mock.URL,
Identifier: "evil-crate",
Version: "0.1.0",
}
err := registries.ValidateCargoREADME(ctx, pkg, "io.github.test/evil")
assert.Error(t, err)
assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "unexpected host", "a README URL on a foreign host must be refused (SSRF guard)")
}
// TestValidateCargoCombinedFixture exercises path-encoding and the full status
// matrix in one httptest fixture — the same pattern praised by @P4ST4S on
// PR #1321 for Go modules. One server dispatches on the crate identifier
@ -297,6 +339,7 @@ func TestValidateCargoCombinedFixture(t *testing.T) {
metaStatus int
readmeStatus int
readmeBody string
versionExists bool // response for the /api/v1/crates/{n}/{v} existence probe (403 disambiguation)
wantErr bool
wantContains []string
wantNotContains []string
@ -310,7 +353,11 @@ func TestValidateCargoCombinedFixture(t *testing.T) {
readmeBody: fmt.Sprintf("<html><body><p>mcp-name: %s</p></body></html>", serverName),
},
{
name: "metadata_404",
// Defensive branch: crates.io's metadata endpoint returns 200 (with a
// CDN url) even for missing crates, so it does NOT 404 in practice for a
// missing crate — the real missing-crate path is readme_403_missing below.
// This case only covers what we'd report if the API ever did 404.
name: "metadata_404_defensive",
crateName: "combined-meta404",
version: "0.1.0",
metaStatus: http.StatusNotFound,
@ -318,13 +365,39 @@ func TestValidateCargoCombinedFixture(t *testing.T) {
wantContains: []string{"metadata fetch failed", "status: 404"},
},
{
name: "readme_403_s3_not_found",
crateName: "combined-readme403",
version: "0.1.0",
metaStatus: http.StatusOK,
readmeStatus: http.StatusForbidden,
wantErr: true,
wantContains: []string{"not found", "status: 403"},
// Real missing-crate/version path: CDN 403 + existence probe 404.
name: "readme_403_missing",
crateName: "combined-readme403-missing",
version: "0.1.0",
metaStatus: http.StatusOK,
readmeStatus: http.StatusForbidden,
versionExists: false,
wantErr: true,
wantContains: []string{"not found"},
wantNotContains: []string{"has no rendered README"},
},
{
// Crate/version exists but has no rendered README: CDN 403 + existence
// probe 200. Must NOT be reported as "not found".
name: "readme_403_no_readme",
crateName: "combined-readme403-noreadme",
version: "0.1.0",
metaStatus: http.StatusOK,
readmeStatus: http.StatusForbidden,
versionExists: true,
wantErr: true,
wantContains: []string{"has no rendered README"},
wantNotContains: []string{"not found"},
},
{
name: "readme_429_transient",
crateName: "combined-readme429",
version: "0.1.0",
metaStatus: http.StatusOK,
readmeStatus: http.StatusTooManyRequests,
wantErr: true,
wantContains: []string{"transient"},
wantNotContains: []string{"not found"},
},
{
name: "readme_502_transient",
@ -336,6 +409,18 @@ func TestValidateCargoCombinedFixture(t *testing.T) {
wantContains: []string{"transient"},
wantNotContains: []string{"not found"},
},
{
// Prefix confusion: README declares a LONGER name; a claim for the
// shorter serverName must be rejected by the boundary-anchored match.
name: "prefix_confusion_rejected",
crateName: "combined-prefix",
version: "0.1.0",
metaStatus: http.StatusOK,
readmeStatus: http.StatusOK,
readmeBody: fmt.Sprintf("<html><body><p>mcp-name: %s-extended</p></body></html>", serverName),
wantErr: true,
wantContains: []string{"ownership validation failed"},
},
}
// lastMetaPath captures the metadata request path seen by the handler so
@ -349,6 +434,8 @@ func TestValidateCargoCombinedFixture(t *testing.T) {
tt := &tests[i]
metaPath := fmt.Sprintf("/api/v1/crates/%s/%s/readme",
url.PathEscape(tt.crateName), url.PathEscape(tt.version))
versionPath := fmt.Sprintf("/api/v1/crates/%s/%s",
url.PathEscape(tt.crateName), url.PathEscape(tt.version))
staticPath := "/readme-static/" + url.PathEscape(tt.crateName)
if r.URL.Path == metaPath {
@ -361,6 +448,16 @@ func TestValidateCargoCombinedFixture(t *testing.T) {
_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(map[string]string{"url": srv.URL + staticPath})
return
}
// Existence probe used to disambiguate a README 403.
if r.URL.Path == versionPath {
if tt.versionExists {
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(map[string]any{"version": map[string]string{"num": tt.version}})
} else {
http.Error(w, "not found", http.StatusNotFound)
}
return
}
if r.URL.Path == staticPath {
if tt.readmeStatus != http.StatusOK {
http.Error(w, "simulated non-200", tt.readmeStatus)