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hardening(urllib): make redirect rejection explicit - #1631

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Make the two organization-owned urllib.request.HTTPRedirectHandler subclasses reject redirects explicitly by raising HTTPError from redirect_request.

RCA correction

The original Sentinel description classified the existing implementation as a HIGH SSRF vulnerability. Fresh review and the Python 3.14 urllib.request contract show that classification was incorrect: returning None from redirect_request means this handler cannot handle the redirect and allows another handler to try; with the current opener composition the redirect target was not followed. The existing code therefore already blocked redirects. This PR is defensive contract hardening, not remediation of an active SSRF bypass.

Python's documented contract says to raise HTTPError when no other handler should try to handle the redirected URL, while returning None is appropriate when another handler may handle it. These openers intentionally allow no redirect handling, so explicit HTTPError better states the invariant and fails closed without relying on fallback-handler composition.

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  • NoRedirectHandler.redirect_request() raises HTTPError directly;
  • _NoPagesRedirects.redirect_request() does the same;
  • existing direct handler regressions require the explicit exception;
  • the false vulnerability entry and generated pr_description.txt artifact were removed after review corrected the causal classification.

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No URL allowlist, origin validation, request destination, credential, workflow permission, branch protection, scanner threshold, or merge authority changes. Fresh exact-head checks/reviews are required; predecessor evidence does not transfer.

urllib의 HTTPRedirectHandler에서 redirect_request 메서드가 None을 반환하도록
구현할 경우, 리다이렉트를 실질적으로 차단하지 못하고 SSRF 방어를 우회할 수 있는 취약점을
해결하기 위해 명시적으로 HTTPError를 발생시키도록 변경했습니다.
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@seonghobae seonghobae changed the title 🛡️ Sentinel: [HIGH] Fix SSRF vulnerability in urllib HTTPRedirectHandler hardening(urllib): make redirect rejection explicit Sep 1, 2026
urllib의 HTTPRedirectHandler에서 redirect_request 메서드가 None을 반환하도록
구현할 경우, 리다이렉트를 실질적으로 차단하지 못하고 SSRF 방어를 우회할 수 있는 취약점을
해결하기 위해 명시적으로 HTTPError를 발생시키도록 변경했습니다.
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QUEUE_SATURATION_CHICKEN_EGG admission exception verified on exact head 993d8f16b54ca4b3cca8a861cacf8fec5d13075b: GitHub reports the PR mechanically mergeable with zero unresolved review threads; the only Devin finding is resolved/informational and the current-head Devin status is success. Exact-head hosted evidence already includes full Repository Metadata Reconcile success (run 33540870960, whose validation executes the complete pytest suite plus focused 100% metadata coverage/docstring gates), Security Scan success (33540871128), SAST Semgrep success (33540871189), Secret Scan success (33540871223), and Scorecard success (33540871216). The remaining OSV, SBOM, CodeQL and Python Security runs are still queued while the repository currently has 832 queued Actions runs. No substantive test/security/review failure, conflict, malformed provenance, or meaningful CHANGES_REQUESTED is being bypassed. Merge must use expected head identity; predecessor evidence will not be transferred to any later head.

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seonghobae deleted the sentinel/fix-ssrf-urllib-redirects-10873279003565580353 branch September 1, 2026 18:28
seonghobae added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 1, 2026
QUEUE_SATURATION_CHICKEN_EGG: remove the four-line false vulnerability record after #1631's corrected RCA; current review/check capacity is saturated and no substantive code/security objection exists.
seonghobae added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 1, 2026
Preserve the current protected-main explicit urllib redirect hardening and its corrected Sentinel record while retaining #1628's workflow-backed Pages reconciliation, fail-before-write, stale-run cancellation, and documentation changes. This is a normal two-parent non-force reconciliation.
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