[evaline-ju]

Summary

Client-controlled host values and session ids now pass through a log sanitizer the CodeQL log-injection query recognizes, closing the flows that re-raised alerts on every PR touching those lines. Session ids are also cut at their source, where validation already bounds them. The clear-text-logging alerts on the session id are resolved with a scoped, reasoned suppression, since the query flags the id as a header-derived credential while it is in the log deliberately as the operator's attribution key.

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Related issue(s)

Fixes #1533
Closes #1612

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Summary

• Bug Fixes
  • Proxy and request-processing logs sanitize host, path, method, and other request-derived values, replacing control characters and removing line breaks while preserving the logged fields.
  • Returned session IDs no longer contain newline or carriage-return characters.
  • Session event logs sanitize host values before including them in debug output.

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The change adds SanitizeLogValue and applies it to selected host, path, method, and bridge-key values in proxy logs. It removes newline and carriage-return characters from validated session IDs and sanitizes event hosts in session-store logs. A CodeQL configuration comment is revised; configuration behavior does not change.

Changes: Log value sanitization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Sanitizer and tests core/pipeline/client.go, core/pipeline/client_test.go	Adds SanitizeLogValue, which sanitizes control runes and removes newline and carriage-return characters. Tests check ordinary text and control characters.
Forward-proxy logging core/listener/forwardproxy/server.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/transparent.go	Applies SanitizeLogValue to selected host, path, method, requested-host, and bridge-key values in forward-proxy and transparent-proxy logs.
Other proxy log call sites core/listener/extproc/server.go, core/listener/internal/bodyread/bodyread.go, core/listener/reverseproxy/server.go	Applies SanitizeLogValue to selected host and path values before logging them.
Session values and CodeQL annotations core/session/idheader.go, core/session/store.go, core/session/archive/archive.go, .github/codeql/codeql-config.yml	IDHeaderFrom removes newline and carriage-return characters after validation. Session-store logs sanitize event hosts and add attribution comments and CodeQL annotations. The CodeQL configuration comment changes, with no configuration behavior change.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• rossoctl/cortex#1621 — Identifies log-injection concerns for client-controlled host and path values in plugin logs and requests pipeline.SanitizeLogValue, which this PR adds and uses for related logging flows.

Possibly related PRs

• rossoctl/cortex#1548 — Introduces SanitizeControlRunes and applies it to forward-proxy and transparent-listener values; this PR adds SanitizeLogValue and uses it at related log sites.
• rossoctl/cortex#1539 — Exports SanitizeControlRunes for client-controlled values; this PR adds newline removal with SanitizeLogValue and updates related logging.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 8b126

The change is mergeable with owner awareness: confirm that the completed CodeQL scan has no remaining host-logging alerts. No log-forgery issue was established in the archive path.

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main changes: sanitizing logged host and session values to address CodeQL findings.
Linked Issues check		The PR meets the coding requirements for [#1533] and [#1612]. IDHeaderFrom applies recognized strings.ReplaceAll sanitizers after session-ID validation. store.go and archive.go document and su…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes remain connected to the linked security objectives. SanitizeLogValue and its test provide the shared behavior. The extproc, transparent-proxy, reverse-proxy, body-read, and additional fo…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…

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Explanation

The PR meets the coding requirements for [#1533] and [#1612]. IDHeaderFrom applies recognized strings.ReplaceAll sanitizers after session-ID validation. store.go and archive.go document and suppress the intentional session-ID clear-text logging. The forward-proxy sites listed by [#1612] pass client-controlled host values through pipeline.SanitizeLogValue. The helper removes control characters and newline delimiters. TestSanitizeLogValue covers normal and control-character inputs.

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The changes remain connected to the linked security objectives. SanitizeLogValue and its test provide the shared behavior. The extproc, transparent-proxy, reverse-proxy, body-read, and additional forward-proxy changes protect related client-controlled log values with the same sanitizer. The CodeQL comments document the intentional session-ID attribution logs. No unrelated behavior or public API change is shown.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @.github/codeql/codeql-config.yml:
- Around line 16-20: Remove the unsupported directory-scoped exclusion for
go/clear-text-logging from the CodeQL query-filters configuration; handle the
validated session-ID sink with a source-level suppression or dismiss the
specific alert with its documented rationale.

Review comments at @core/listener/forwardproxy/server.go:
- Line 545: Sanitize request paths at all three logging sites in the server
flow. Replace raw r.URL.Path values with pipeline.SanitizeLogValue(r.URL.Path),
preserving the existing log fields and surrounding behavior.

Review comments at @core/pipeline/client.go:
- Around line 173-174: Update the forward-proxy logging sink that logs the
request host to apply the recognized control-rune sanitization and newline
removal directly in the sink, rather than relying on SanitizeLogValue; leave
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printf '%s\n' '--- sanitizer references ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- forwardproxy log references and target region ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'r.Host' -e 'recordingSessionID' -e 'log.' core/listener/forwardproxy/server.go || test "$?" -eq 1
sed -n '540,620p' core/listener/forwardproxy/server.go
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printf '%s\n' '--- CodeQL configuration and sanitizer modeling references ---'
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rg -n -i -F --glob '!vendor/**' -e 'go/log-injection' -e 'clear-text-logging' -e 'sanitizer' -e 'SanitizeLogValue' . || test "$?" -eq 1

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Make the log sanitizer visible at the sink.

SanitizeLogValue puts the strings.ReplaceAll calls inside a helper, but the forward-proxy source states that CodeQL does not see through custom sanitizers and requires the marker in the sink's function. The helper call at line 584 can therefore remain tainted to go/log-injection.

Suggested fix

-		slog.Debug("forward-proxy: buffered request body", "host", pipeline.SanitizeLogValue(r.Host), "bodyLen", len(body))
+		slog.Debug("forward-proxy: buffered request body", "host", strings.ReplaceAll(pipeline.SanitizeControlRunes(r.Host), "\n", ""), "bodyLen", len(body))

Apply the same sink-local marker to other reported helper-only sinks, or add a CodeQL sanitizer model for SanitizeLogValue.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Review comment at @core/pipeline/client.go around lines 173 - 174:
Update the forward-proxy logging sink that logs the request host to apply the
recognized control-rune sanitization and newline removal directly in the sink,
rather than relying on SanitizeLogValue; leave unrelated sanitizer call sites
unchanged.

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[clawgenti]

Summary

The change does what it says. SanitizeLogValue puts the two strings.ReplaceAll markers CodeQL recognizes after SanitizeControlRunes, and it is applied to every client-controlled host and path that reaches slog in the listeners. The session id is cut at its source in IDHeaderFrom, which is a no-op after validHeaderSessionID. The evidence holds up: alerts 324, 325 and 326 (go/log-injection) and 327 (go/clear-text-logging) all show as fixed on the merge ref, and the latest Go analysis (f034e4a) reports 0 results. The hot path also stays allocation-free, because strings.ReplaceAll returns s unchanged when nothing matches. I checked out the head and ran the tests: go test ./pipeline/ ./session/ ./listener/... passes locally. I found nothing blocking, only three small follow-ups inline.

Not in scope, as a heads-up: pctx.Host and pctx.Path still reach slog unsanitized in a few plugins (a2aparser, cost/settle, ibac, sparc, tokenexchangeaiac). pctx.Path is r.URL.Path, so a %0A decodes to a real newline there. These lines will light up the same way the next time a PR touches them, so they might be worth adding to #1612's list.

Author: evaline-ju (CONTRIBUTOR association, but admin repo permission, so treated as maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Go (listeners, pipeline, session), CodeQL config, tests
Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none
Commits: 3 commits, all signed-off: yes
CI status: passing (CodeQL Go/Python, Go CI, DCO, lint)

[clawgenti]

suggestion: host was already fenced at L1612 with strings.ReplaceAll(pipeline.SanitizeControlRunes(r.Host), "\n", ""), so it is now sanitized twice in this function. Also, this PR contradicts the comment at L1601-1611 ("A helper would put it back inside a callee — do not lift it"). SanitizeLogValue is such a helper, and alerts 324-326 closing shows CodeQL follows it. The 6cae5d1 experiment most likely failed because of SanitizeControlRunes's early return s fast path, which gives the query an unsanitized path; SanitizeLogValue runs ReplaceAll unconditionally. I'd suggest host := pipeline.SanitizeLogValue(r.Host) at L1612, dropping the inner wrap here, and rewriting the comment so the next reader isn't told the opposite of what the code now relies on. got at L1631 could use the helper too.

[clawgenti]

suggestion: these two cases embed a raw ESC byte (0x1B) and a raw U+009B in the source literals. They render invisibly in editors and the GitHub UI: "esc[2j" looks identical to its expected value. They also make gh pr diff refuse to print without --allow-escape-sequences, and the C1 CSI can act on a terminal that cats or git diffs the file. Please spell them as escapes, the way the existing case at L546 does: {"esc\x1b[2J", "esc\uFFFD[2J"}, {"c1\u009b", "c1\uFFFD"}. Writing \uFFFD instead of a literal � in the wants would make the expectations readable too.

[clawgenti]

nit: the suppression works (alert 327 shows as fixed), and the reasoning is written down where it belongs. One note: #1533 also listed the archive rename log (core/session/archive/archive.go, the from/to ids at ~L357) and the affinity path, and those have no suppression. The source-side ReplaceAll in IDHeaderFrom covers log-injection everywhere, but go/clear-text-logging could still reappear there when a future PR touches those lines. If it does, the same one-line codeql[go/clear-text-logging] comment is the fix. Maybe mention it in #1533 so "fixed by suppression" doesn't read as complete.