security: block loopback/private/metadata addresses in model-supplied URL fetches

web_fetch and browser_read_url take a URL straight from the model. The model's
input is untrusted by design - both tools' own descriptions call fetched
content "data to evaluate, not instructions" - and web_fetch is
requires_approval=False, so nothing prompts the user before the request goes
out.

Neither validated the address. Verified against a scratch server on loopback:

    web_fetch("http://127.0.0.1:9931/")
    -> {"text": "Directory listing for /\n.git/\n.github/..."}

No prompt, no error. The same call reaches http://169.254.169.254/ for cloud
metadata when OpenWorker runs on a VM, an Ollama instance on :11434, or any
service on the user's LAN. It cannot reach OpenWorker's own sidecar, which
requires COWORKER_API_TOKEN.

Adds coworker/web/guard.py: resolve the host and refuse when any answer lands
in loopback, private, link-local (which covers the metadata endpoint),
multicast or reserved space. Checking every resolved address means a name with
one public and one private A record is refused rather than raced.

Redirects are the usual bypass, so follow_redirects is off and the chain is
walked here with each hop checked before it is requested. _request grows an
opt-in check_addresses flag used only by browser_read_url; the hardcoded vendor
endpoints the rest of the connectors call skip the guard and its DNS lookup.

Not covered, and stated in the module docstring: DNS rebinding. The name is
resolved by the guard and again by the client when it connects, so a near-zero
TTL record can change in between. Closing that needs connection-level IP
pinning. The hop check is the cheap 90%.

Tests: tests/test_url_address_guard.py - literals, IPv4-mapped IPv6 loopback,
names resolving into private space, split-horizon answers, non-http schemes,
redirect into loopback proven not to be requested, and a bounded redirect
loop.
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Mr-Neutr0n
2026-07-29 02:22:10 +05:30
parent f96ad4c8e6
commit ff86735cf0
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@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ from urllib.parse import quote
import aisuite as ai
from ..secrets import SecretStore
from ..web.guard import get_checked
from .browser_automation import make_browser_automation_tools
from .email_tools import make_email_tools
from .tool_defs import approval_for_tool, connector_for_tool
@@ -305,15 +306,39 @@ def _gmail_is_hidden(
def _request(
method: str, url: str, *, headers=None, params=None, json=None, auth=None
method: str,
url: str,
*,
headers=None,
params=None,
json=None,
auth=None,
check_addresses: bool = False,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""HTTP for the connectors.
`check_addresses` is for URLs the *model* supplies (browser_read_url). It turns off
automatic redirects and walks the chain through the address guard instead, so a public
URL cannot 302 into loopback or the metadata endpoint. The vendor endpoints everything
else in this module calls are hardcoded, so they skip the guard and its DNS lookup.
"""
try:
import httpx
with httpx.Client(timeout=30.0, follow_redirects=True) as client:
resp = client.request(
method, url, headers=headers, params=params, json=json, auth=auth
)
with httpx.Client(
timeout=30.0, follow_redirects=not check_addresses
) as client:
if check_addresses:
if method.upper() != "GET":
return {"error": "address-checked requests must be GET"}
try:
resp = get_checked(client, url)
except PermissionError as exc:
return {"error": str(exc)}
else:
resp = client.request(
method, url, headers=headers, params=params, json=json, auth=auth
)
ctype = resp.headers.get("content-type", "")
data: Any = resp.json() if "json" in ctype.lower() else resp.text
if resp.status_code >= 400:
@@ -533,7 +558,13 @@ def make_integration_tools(
def browser_read_url(url: str, max_chars: int = 20000) -> dict[str, Any]:
if not url.lower().startswith(("http://", "https://")):
return {"error": "url must start with http:// or https://"}
out = _request("GET", url, headers={"User-Agent": "coworker/0.1 (+connector)"})
# Model-supplied URL: address-check every hop, same guard as web_fetch.
out = _request(
"GET",
url,
headers={"User-Agent": "coworker/0.1 (+connector)"},
check_addresses=True,
)
if "error" in out:
return out
data = out["data"]