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Garry Tan 67a511c0b1 feat(security): dual-listener tunnel architecture
The /health endpoint leaked AUTH_TOKEN to any caller that hit the ngrok
URL (spoofing chrome-extension:// origin, or catching headed mode).
Surfaced by @garagon in PR #1026; the original fix was header-inference
on the single port. Codex's outside-voice review during /plan-ceo-review
called that approach brittle (ngrok header behavior could change, local
proxies would false-positive), and pushed for the structural fix.

This is that fix. Stop making /health a root-token bootstrap endpoint on
any surface the tunnel can reach. The server now binds two HTTP
listeners when a tunnel is active. The local listener (extension, CLI,
sidebar) stays on 127.0.0.1 and is never exposed to ngrok. ngrok
forwards only to the tunnel listener, which serves only /connect
(unauth, rate-limited) and /command with a locked allowlist of
browser-driving commands. Security property comes from physical port
separation, not from header inference — a tunnel caller cannot reach
/health or /cookie-picker or /inspector because they live on a
different TCP socket.

What this commit adds to browse/src/server.ts:
  * Surface type ('local' | 'tunnel') and TUNNEL_PATHS +
    TUNNEL_COMMANDS allowlists near the top of the file.
  * makeFetchHandler(surface) factory replacing the single fetch arrow;
    closure-captures the surface so the filter that runs before route
    dispatch knows which socket accepted the request.
  * Tunnel filter at dispatch entry: 404s anything not on TUNNEL_PATHS,
    403s root-token bearers with a clear pairing hint, 401s non-/connect
    requests that lack a scoped token. Every denial is logged via
    logTunnelDenial (from tunnel-denial-log).
  * GET /connect alive probe (unauth on both surfaces) so /pair and
    /tunnel/start can detect dead ngrok tunnels without reaching
    /health — /health is no longer tunnel-reachable.
  * Lazy tunnel listener lifecycle. /tunnel/start binds a dedicated
    Bun.serve on an ephemeral port, points ngrok.forward at THAT port
    (not the local port), hard-fails on bind error (no local fallback),
    tears down cleanly on ngrok failure. BROWSE_TUNNEL=1 startup uses
    the same pattern.
  * closeTunnel() helper — single teardown path for both the ngrok
    listener and the tunnel Bun.serve listener.
  * resolveNgrokAuthtoken() helper — shared authtoken lookup across
    /tunnel/start and BROWSE_TUNNEL=1 startup (was duplicated).
  * TUNNEL_COMMANDS check in /command dispatch: on the tunnel surface,
    commands outside the allowlist return 403 with a list of allowed
    commands as a hint.
  * Probe paths in /pair and /tunnel/start migrated from /health to
    GET /connect — the only unauth path reachable on the tunnel surface
    under the new architecture.

Test updates in browse/test/server-auth.test.ts:
  * /pair liveness-verify test: assert via closeTunnel() helper instead
    of the inline `tunnelActive = false; tunnelUrl = null` lines that
    the helper subsumes.
  * /tunnel/start cached-tunnel test: same closeTunnel() adaptation.

Credit
  Derived from PR #1026 by @garagon — thanks for flagging the critical
  bug that drove the architectural rewrite. The per-request
  isTunneledRequest approach from #1026 is superseded by physical port
  separation here; the underlying report remains the root cause for the
  entire v1.6.0.0 wave.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-21 20:31:43 -07:00
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