Bound the spilled-payload fetch by origin, size and a shared deadline - #4702
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Four review findings on the evidence reader's spill handling, which landed on #4534 shortly before it merged and are on main now. None is reachable until harness evidence capture is turned on. The fetch was unbounded in every dimension that matters. `response.text()` buffers whatever arrives, and the per-fetch timeout bounds duration, not size, so a large or chunked object could exhaust the process before it ever completed. The body is now read chunk by chunk against a ceiling and abandoned the moment it goes over — a declared content-length is rejected up front, and a stream that only reveals its size as it arrives is cancelled in flight. Resolution is sequential on purpose, so it does not stampede storage from every concurrent iteration at once. That makes the per-fetch timeout multiply rather than bound: fifty pages of twenty-five rows carrying two payloads each is on the order of ten hours against an iteration watchdog measured in minutes. One deadline now covers the whole pass, set before the first request, and expiring degrades the turn to narration grading instead of hanging the iteration waiting on it. The URL arrives from our own backend over a service-token channel, so it is not attacker-controlled on the normal path — but it is still a server-side fetch of a URL that came over the wire. It is now pinned to the configured deployment's origin over HTTPS, compared as an origin rather than a prefix so a lookalike host does not match, and redirects are refused because the check was made against the URL in hand. Finally, a settled row carrying neither inline payload nor a spill URL was read as a successful call that returned nothing. Both are written by one backend in one mutation, so neither being present means version skew or a truncated write; it now reads as unreadable, which is the difference between a missing record and a false one. Each fix is pinned by a test checked to fail against its own reversion. The mid-stream size test is the clearest: without the cap it does not merely fail, it takes eighty-five seconds to do so. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011xifFZtXpcJ1usDaXZu97p
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WalkthroughThe evidence reader now validates spilled-payload URLs against the configured HTTPS deployment, rejects redirects, caps response bodies at 24 MiB, and cancels oversized streams. It applies a shared 60-second resolution deadline across payload fetches. Settled rows without payload data are marked unreadable. Tests cover URL validation, redirects, payload limits, stream cancellation, deadline exhaustion, and test environment cleanup. Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Oversized declared payloads are rejected, but their response bodies may remain open until timeout. Repeated requests could temporarily consume outbound connection capacity, so this should be fixed before merge. Thanks for using CodeRabbit! It's free for OSS, and your support helps us grow. If you like it, consider giving us a shout-out. Comment |
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- Around line 196-197: Update the oversized content-length branch in
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Cancel the response body on oversized content-length.
When declared exceeds MAX_SPILLED_PAYLOAD_BYTES, readCappedText returns before acquiring or cancelling response.body. resolveSpilledPayloads then continues to the next payload while the previous fetch remains subject to only the 15-second PAYLOAD_FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS abort. Cancel the body before returning to release the response promptly.
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+ await response.body?.cancel();
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| if (Number.isFinite(declared) && declared > MAX_SPILLED_PAYLOAD_BYTES) { | |
| return null; | |
| if (Number.isFinite(declared) && declared > MAX_SPILLED_PAYLOAD_BYTES) { | |
| await response.body?.cancel(); | |
| return null; |
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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/harness/harness-evidence-reader.ts` around
lines 196 - 197, Update the oversized content-length branch in readCappedText to
cancel response.body before returning null, ensuring the body is released
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<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/harness/harness-evidence-reader.ts:196">
P2: When `Content-Length` exceeds the cap, this branch returns without canceling `response.body`. Repeated oversized spill responses can leave fetch streams or connections unconsumed; cancel the body before returning.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/harness/harness-evidence-reader.ts:225">
P2: A 200 response with a zero-byte body returns "" from `readCappedText` instead of null, so `payloadsReadable` stays true and the row is silently treated as readable empty evidence. A truncated/missing spill that the store answers with 200-OK-empty is exactly the silent-loss case this PR sets out to make visible. Treat an empty decoded body as unreadable (return null) so it degrades like a failed fetch.</violation>
<violation number="3" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/harness/harness-evidence-reader.ts:324">
P1: When the evidence read route stalls, this deadline never fires. `readTurnEvidence` awaits `args.transport` before payload resolution, while the production transport has no timeout or signal; pass the deadline through and abort the page read too.</violation>
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| let cursor: string | null = null; | ||
| // One deadline for the whole pass, set before the first request: payload | ||
| // resolution is sequential, so only a shared budget bounds it. | ||
| const deadlineAtMs = Date.now() + PAYLOAD_RESOLUTION_BUDGET_MS; |
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P1: When the evidence read route stalls, this deadline never fires. readTurnEvidence awaits args.transport before payload resolution, while the production transport has no timeout or signal; pass the deadline through and abort the page read too.
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<comment>When the evidence read route stalls, this deadline never fires. `readTurnEvidence` awaits `args.transport` before payload resolution, while the production transport has no timeout or signal; pass the deadline through and abort the page read too.</comment>
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@@ -211,6 +319,9 @@ export async function readTurnEvidence(args: {
let cursor: string | null = null;
+ // One deadline for the whole pass, set before the first request: payload
+ // resolution is sequential, so only a shared budget bounds it.
+ const deadlineAtMs = Date.now() + PAYLOAD_RESOLUTION_BUDGET_MS;
for (let page = 0; page < MAX_PAGES; page += 1) {
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| if (Number.isFinite(declared) && declared > MAX_SPILLED_PAYLOAD_BYTES) { | ||
| return null; | ||
| } |
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P2: When Content-Length exceeds the cap, this branch returns without canceling response.body. Repeated oversized spill responses can leave fetch streams or connections unconsumed; cancel the body before returning.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/harness/harness-evidence-reader.ts, line 196:
<comment>When `Content-Length` exceeds the cap, this branch returns without canceling `response.body`. Repeated oversized spill responses can leave fetch streams or connections unconsumed; cancel the body before returning.</comment>
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@@ -142,27 +165,100 @@ function readRows(payload: Record<string, unknown> | null): {
+ */
+async function readCappedText(response: Response): Promise<string | null> {
+ const declared = Number(response.headers.get("content-length"));
+ if (Number.isFinite(declared) && declared > MAX_SPILLED_PAYLOAD_BYTES) {
+ return null;
+ }
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| if (Number.isFinite(declared) && declared > MAX_SPILLED_PAYLOAD_BYTES) { | |
| return null; | |
| } | |
| if (Number.isFinite(declared) && declared > MAX_SPILLED_PAYLOAD_BYTES) { | |
| await response.body?.cancel(); | |
| return null; | |
| } |
| joined.set(chunk, offset); | ||
| offset += chunk.byteLength; | ||
| } | ||
| return new TextDecoder().decode(joined); |
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P2: A 200 response with a zero-byte body returns "" from readCappedText instead of null, so payloadsReadable stays true and the row is silently treated as readable empty evidence. A truncated/missing spill that the store answers with 200-OK-empty is exactly the silent-loss case this PR sets out to make visible. Treat an empty decoded body as unreadable (return null) so it degrades like a failed fetch.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/harness/harness-evidence-reader.ts, line 225:
<comment>A 200 response with a zero-byte body returns "" from `readCappedText` instead of null, so `payloadsReadable` stays true and the row is silently treated as readable empty evidence. A truncated/missing spill that the store answers with 200-OK-empty is exactly the silent-loss case this PR sets out to make visible. Treat an empty decoded body as unreadable (return null) so it degrades like a failed fetch.</comment>
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@@ -142,27 +165,100 @@ function readRows(payload: Record<string, unknown> | null): {
+ joined.set(chunk, offset);
+ offset += chunk.byteLength;
+ }
+ return new TextDecoder().decode(joined);
+}
+
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| return new TextDecoder().decode(joined); | |
| if (total === 0) return null; | |
| return new TextDecoder().decode(joined); |
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Four review findings on the evidence reader's spill handling that arrived on #4534 shortly before it merged and were not addressed. All four are on
mainnow. None is reachable until harness evidence capture is turned on.Context: large evidence payloads travel as storage URLs rather than inline, because a page is bounded by row count and a few multi-megabyte tool results made a turn unreadable at any page size.
fetchSpilledPayloadis the cost of that — and it went in bounded only by a per-fetch timeout.1. No size ceiling
response.text()buffers whatever arrives. The timeout bounds duration, not bytes, so a large or chunked object could exhaust the process before the fetch ever completed.The body is now read chunk by chunk against a ceiling and abandoned the moment it goes over: a declared
content-lengthis rejected up front, and a stream that only reveals its size as it arrives is cancelled in flight. Over-limit reads report the row unreadable — the same answer a failed fetch gives, and the honest one.2. No bound on the pass as a whole
Resolution is sequential on purpose, so a turn does not stampede storage from every concurrent iteration at once. That makes the per-fetch timeout multiply rather than bound: 50 pages × 25 rows × 2 payloads × 15 s is on the order of ten hours, against an iteration watchdog measured in minutes.
One deadline now covers the whole pass, set before the first request. Expiring degrades the turn to narration grading instead of hanging the iteration waiting on it.
3. The fetch trusted any URL in a row
The URL arrives from our own backend over a service-token-authenticated channel, so it is not attacker-controlled on the normal path — but it is still a server-side fetch of a URL that came over the wire, and pinning it costs nothing.
It is now restricted to the configured deployment's origin over HTTPS, compared as an origin rather than a prefix (a
startsWithcheck treatshttps://convex.example.evil.testas a match), and redirects are refused withredirect: "error"because the origin was checked against the URL in hand.4. A settled row with no payload read as an empty success
Inline JSON and spill URL are written by one backend in one mutation, so neither being present means version skew or a truncated write. Read as an empty response it graded as a call that succeeded and returned nothing — a false record rather than a missing one, which is exactly the silent loss this protocol exists to make visible. It now reads as unreadable.
Scoped to
responseJsononly: a settled call always produced one, whereas absentargumentsJsonis legitimate for a no-argument tool.Testing
npm run typecheckclean, SDK builds, and 3,161 tests pass across all 202 files inserver/utils/harness,server/services/evalsandshared/__tests__(run afternpm run pretest, which generates the bundles those suites import).Each fix is pinned by a test checked to fail against its own reversion:
Worth flagging one of these, because it nearly slipped through: the first version of the size-cap test passed even with the cap removed. It reused a single
Responseobject across both fetches, so the second read failed on an already-consumed body and produced the expectedpayloadsReadable: falsefor entirely the wrong reason. It now builds a fresh response per call, and the mid-stream case doesn't merely fail without the cap — it takes eighty-five seconds to do so, which is the defect demonstrating itself.Rollout
No behaviour change to any path that is not resolving a spilled payload, and no change to what the merge sees: it still reads
argumentsJson/responseJsoneither way, so digest matching stays identical on both sides of the size threshold. Pairs with MCPJam/mcpjam-backend#1250, which fixes the purge and write-side halves; the two are independent and can land in either order.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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Medium Risk
Server-side fetches and evidence completeness semantics change on the spill path; impact is scoped to harness evidence when enabled, but wrong bounds could mark turns unreadable or leave residual SSRF risk if origin checks regress.
Overview
Hardens spilled payload resolution in the harness evidence reader so oversized, untrusted, or slow storage fetches cannot hang iterations or be misread as successful empty tool results.
Spill URLs are only fetched when they are HTTPS and match the
CONVEX_HTTP_URLorigin (not prefix);redirect: "error"blocks redirect-based origin bypass. Bodies are read with a 24MB cap via streaming (readCappedText) instead ofresponse.text(), rejecting oversizedcontent-lengthand cancelling mid-stream overruns. A 60s shared deadline caps the entire sequential resolution pass (not just per-fetch 15s timeouts). Settled rows missing both inlineresponseJsonandresponseUrlare markedpayloadsReadable: falserather than grading as empty success.Tests stub
CONVEX_HTTP_URL, tighten teardown, and add cases for each guard (SSRF-style URLs, redirects, size limits, deadline exhaustion, missing settled payloads).Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 6ec606f. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
Summary by cubic
Bounds the evidence reader's spilled-payload fetch in four ways so an oversized, slow, or misdirected fetch degrades a turn to narration grading instead of exhausting or hanging the process. No path is affected until harness evidence capture is enabled.
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