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Problem

  • A dependency declared in package.json as a tarball or git URL with credentials, e.g. "direct": "http://carol:s3cret@host/direct-1.0.0.tgz?token=npm_...", has that URL printed verbatim, password and token included, by every line that prints the package's resolution or the specifier it was declared with. On the 1.4.0 release:
    • + direct@http://carol:s3cret@...?token=npm_... in the summary of every bun install that installs it (so every fresh CI run), installed direct@... after bun add <url>, and the --dry-run listing
    • error: direct@http://carol:s3cret@... failed to resolve, error: ConnectionRefused downloading tarball direct@http://carol:s3cret@... and its --verbose retry warnings, and the isolated linker's error: failed to download direct@http://carol:s3cret@...: 404 Not Found (plus its link, symlink, patch and binary failure messages)
    • bun pm ls, bun why (both the name@resolution lines and the (requires <specifier>) suffix), bun pm untrusted, bun pm licenses (text and --json versions), and the --verbose Blocked N scripts for: direct@... line
    • the same for git specifiers: error: repo@git+https://carol:s3cret@host/org/repo.git failed to resolve
  • Cause: these sites format the lockfile Resolution (src/install/resolution.rs, Formatter writes a remote tarball URL as is; a git resolution goes through src/install/repository.rs Formatter, likewise) or the dependency's version literal directly. Only the request-URL operands of some of these messages go through redacted_npm_url (Robustness pass across install, css, ffi, crypto, spawn, shell, and node compat #36165, and install: redact secrets in the URLs printed for failed manifest and tarball downloads #38817 for the remaining ones); the resolution and literal operands never did.
  • redacted_npm_url alone would also not have handled git specifiers: find_url_password (src/bun_core/lib.rs) only recognized a URL starting with http:// or https://, so git+https://user:pw@... was not a URL to it. The same gap shows in the config-file highlighter: highlightJavaScriptRedacted('x = "git+https://user:pw@host/r.git"') left the password in.

Fix

  • src/bun_core/fmt.rs: redacted(value), a Display adapter that renders value and writes the result out through redacted_npm_url (password of the leading URL replaced with one * per character, UUIDs and npm_ tokens with ***). It renders first because the password scan is anchored at the start of the whole value and the inner formatter may write it in pieces (git+, then the repository). A rendered value with no :// in it (an npm version, a folder or workspace path, a github: specifier) is written unchanged: the UUID and token masks are meant for URLs, and without that gate a version such as 1.0.0-a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890 (valid semver, the shape a CI build id produces) would print as 1.0.0-*** at every wrapped site. So for everything that is not a URL dependency the output of the wrapped sites is byte for byte what it was.
  • src/bun_core/lib.rs find_url_password: the scheme is now any RFC 3986 scheme ([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9+.-]*) followed by ://, so git+https://, git+ssh://, ssh:// and the like are handled; http/https behave exactly as before. This is the one behavioral change to existing redaction code; its other two callers (redacted_npm_url for registry URLs, and the bunfig/.npmrc highlighter) only gain the extra schemes. An scp-style git+ssh://git@host:org/repo.git is not affected: its authority has no : before the @.
  • Every site that prints a Resolution or a version literal for a human now wraps that argument in redacted(..), and nothing else about the line changes: tree_printer.rs (install summary, bun add line, --dry-run listing), PackageManagerResolution.rs (failed to resolve, both forms), runTasks.rs (downloading tarball error, warning and retry warning), isolated_install/Installer.rs (all six failed to ... name@resolution reports), isolated_install.rs (failed to enqueue tarball), processDependencyList.rs (the three package.json errors that print fmt_url), PackageManagerEnqueue.rs (the incorrect peer dependency warning: its condition has a git arm, so it is wrapped even though both of its callers only pass npm, folder, workspace and link specifiers today, which is also why no test can reach it with a URL), PackageInstaller.rs (Blocked N scripts), Package/Scripts.rs (bun pm untrusted / bun pm trust header), patch_install.rs, package_manager_command.rs (bun pm ls, --all, --trusted), why_command.rs, pm_licenses_command.rs (text line and the JSON versions field; redacted at the print, not where the version string is built, because that string is also compared against the installed package.json), and src/jsc/AsyncModule.rs (the runtime auto-installer's download error message, which formats the same resolution into the thrown error; today only registry packages reach it, since a tarball or git dependency taken from package.json fails earlier on that path, so like the peer warning it is wrapped because the code is generic rather than because a test can reach it with a URL).
  • Why a wrapper at the print sites rather than inside the Resolution formatter: the same formatter builds keys that must stay byte-exact (the patched-dependency name@version keys in bun.lock.rs, pnpm.rs, PackageInstaller.rs and patch_install.rs, the lockfile meta-hash in lockfile.rs, the bun patch argument matching in patchPackage.rs). Redacting there would silently change those keys for exactly the URLs this is about; a print site that is missed, by contrast, just keeps today's behavior. The other shape considered was to finish the split resolution.rs already describes (Display for terminals, write_to for persisted output): move those key and hash builders off Display and then redact (and escape) once inside the Resolution and Repository Display impls. That removes the per-site wrappers, but its failure mode is the one above (a key builder left on Display silently changes lockfile hashes and patch keys for credentialed URLs), and the meta-hash and patch-key sites would need their own byte-exact formatter first, so it is a separate refactor rather than this fix. Per-site wrapping is also the shape Robustness pass across install, css, ffi, crypto, spawn, shell, and node compat #36165 / install: send credentials embedded in --registry and registry env var URLs #38796 / install: redact secrets in the URLs printed for failed manifest and tarball downloads #38817 use for URL operands and install: escape control characters in resolutions, specifiers, bin names and registry error text #38631 uses for control-character escaping at these same sites.
  • Left as they are, on purpose: Resolution prints inside match arms that can only hold an npm version, a folder, workspace or link path, or a github:owner/repo (PackageManagerEnqueue.rs's two --verbose resolve-trace lines, the npm and github failed to enqueue arms in isolated_install.rs); the candidate list bun patch <name> prints when the name is ambiguous, since the user is told to paste one of those entries back; bun pm hash-string and the --verbose copy of it, which print the exact bytes that were hashed; the request-URL operands (GET <url> - 404, the URL line under the isolated failed to download message), which install: redact secrets in the URLs printed for failed manifest and tarball downloads #38817 converts. The placeholder name a failed bun add <url> leaves behind (Invalid dependency name "<url>") and the isolated store directory name, which embeds the URL, are different mechanisms and are tracked separately.
  • Overlap with the open escaping work, and why this is based on main rather than stacked on it: install: escape control characters in resolutions, specifiers, bin names and registry error text #38631 wraps most of the same arguments in EscapeControlChars(..) (install: escape control characters in the bun pm untrusted/trust script listing #38525 hoists the same Scripts.rs line, install: reject dependency names containing control characters #38615 rewrites the two failed to resolve arguments to the byte-slice escaper), and it is itself behind main at the moment, so stacking would tie a small hygiene fix to its rebase schedule without removing any work: whichever side lands second resolves each of these lines by composition, which is mechanical in either order. The rule is redact inside, escape outside, because the password scan stops at a newline and must see the raw text: EscapeControlChars(redacted(x.fmt(..))), or EscapeControlChars(redacted(BStr::new(bytes))) where a site was converted to escape_control_chars(bytes). install: redact secrets in the URLs printed for failed manifest and tarball downloads #38817 converts the request-URL operands of the same messages and carries a test.todo placeholder for the lines this PR changes; the block added here is that test, so whichever of the two rebases second drops the todo.
  • Verified with test/cli/install/redacted-config-logs.test.ts (new block, 8 tests: install summary plus pm untrusted / pm licenses / pm licenses --json, bun add <url> (without a query string: bun add <url> names its extraction directory after the URL's basename, and Windows rejects the ?, which is a pre-existing bug tracked separately), --dry-run, pm ls and why from a bun.lock, the download failure with its --verbose retry warnings and failed to resolve, the isolated linker's failed to download line, a git+https:// specifier, and a bun.lock holding both a credentialed tarball and an npm package at a UUID-shaped version, where bun pm ls must mask the first and print the second unchanged) and test/js/bun/util/highlighter.test.ts (password behind https://, git+https:// and git+ssh:// is masked; scp-style and scheme-less strings are untouched). All 8 install tests and the two git+ highlighter rows fail on the unfixed build with the raw URL in the output (the UUID one would also fail on an ungated adapter, with stamped@1.0.0-***); the whole of both files passes with this change.
  • Also ran bun-pm, bun-pm-why, bun-pm-licenses, bun-add, bun-install-retry, isolated-install and the trust/untrusted cases of bun-install-lifecycle-scripts (output for ordinary versions and URLs is byte for byte unchanged), cargo clippy on bun_core, bun_install, bun_runtime, cargo fmt, and the byte-search and pub-exports source lints.

Background

  • A package's resolution is how bun records where it came from: for a registry package it prints as the version (pkg@1.0.0); for a dependency declared as a tarball or git URL it prints as that URL (git ones as git+<url>#<commit>). The version literal is the specifier string as written in the declaring package.json, which for these dependencies is the same URL. The resolution formatter is used both for output and to build lookup keys, which is why this change does not touch it.
  • redacted_npm_url (src/bun_core/fmt.rs) is the existing Display adapter over URL bytes used for registry URLs in error output; redacted is the same masking for values that only exist as a Display impl.
  • In RFC 3986 a scheme is ALPHA *(ALPHA / DIGIT / "+" / "-" / "."), so git+https is a single scheme; the user:password@host authority syntax is the same for every scheme, which is what the generalized find_url_password relies on.
  • With --linker isolated, a tarball still missing at install time is downloaded by the store installer, whose failures are reported through Installer.rs (failed to download name@resolution: reason, then the request URL on its own line); the hoisted linker reports the same failure from runTasks.rs (<error> downloading tarball name@resolution, or GET <url> - <status> for an HTTP error status), followed by name@literal failed to resolve.

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Updated 11:05 AM PT - Aug 15th, 2026

❌ @robobun, your commit bd472be has some failures in Build #98291 (All Failures)


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 38977

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-38977 executable, so you can run:

bun-38977 --bun

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Adds a generic Redacted<T> formatter, broadens URL password detection to RFC 3986-style schemes, and applies redaction to package installation diagnostics, lockfile output, package-manager commands, and credential-bearing URL tests.

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Credential redaction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Redaction formatter and URL parsing
src/bun_core/fmt.rs, src/bun_core/lib.rs, test/js/bun/util/highlighter.test.ts
Adds Redacted<T> and supports password detection for generic URL schemes. Tests cover supported URL forms and unchanged scp-like paths.
Installation and resolution diagnostics
src/install/PackageInstaller.rs, src/install/PackageManager/*, src/install/isolated_install*, src/install/patch_install.rs
Applies redaction to package resolutions, dependency versions, URLs, and tarball or Git failure messages.
Lockfile and package-manager output
src/install/lockfile/*, src/runtime/cli/package_manager_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/pm_licenses_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/why_command.rs
Redacts resolutions and package versions in lockfile scripts, dependency listings, license output, and bun why.
Credential-bearing output coverage
test/cli/install/redacted-config-logs.test.ts
Tests masked tarball and Git URLs across installation, package listings, dependency explanations, licenses, retries, and failures.

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Status: reproduced on the 1.4.0 release and on main (debug build) with a loopback server and "direct": "http://carol:s3cret@127.0.0.1:PORT/cdn/direct-1.0.0.tgz?token=npm_..." in package.json: the install summary, failed to resolve, the downloading tarball error, the isolated linker's failed to download line, bun pm ls, bun why and bun pm untrusted all printed the password and token; a git+https://carol:s3cret@... specifier was printed the same way by failed to resolve. With this branch every one of those lines prints carol:****** and token=***, and values that are not URLs (npm versions, paths) print exactly as before.

Tests: the new block in test/cli/install/redacted-config-logs.test.ts (8 tests) and the new rows in test/js/bun/util/highlighter.test.ts fail on the unfixed build and pass with this change.

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it touches ~15 print sites across the install subsystem and changes shared redaction behavior (find_url_password now accepts any RFC 3986 scheme), a human look would still be worthwhile — particularly to confirm the wrap-at-print-site design and the intentionally-unwrapped sites listed in the description.

Checked: the generalized scheme scanner still rejects scp-style git+ssh://git@host:org/repo (no : in userinfo before @) and empty passwords; Redacted<T> renders to a String first so the anchored password scan sees the full value even when the inner formatter writes in pieces; pm licenses --json redacts before JSON-escaping and the raw entry.version is still what's compared against the installed package.json; the buf_print sites in package_manager_command.rs don't grow (redaction is same-length or shorter).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Adds a redacted(value) Display adapter in bun_core::fmt that renders its argument then pipes the bytes through the existing redacted_npm_url masking, and wraps ~30 human-facing Resolution / version-literal print sites across bun_install and the bun pm/bun why CLI in it. Generalizes find_url_password from a hard-coded http(s):// prefix to any RFC 3986 scheme + ://, so git+https:// and git+ssh:// credentials are recognized. Adds a 7-test block in redacted-config-logs.test.ts covering install summary, add, --dry-run, pm ls/why/untrusted/licenses (text + JSON), hoisted and isolated download failures, and a git+https:// specifier; plus a 5-row test.each in highlighter.test.ts for the scheme change.

Security risks

This is a defensive change — it removes credential exposure from CLI/log output rather than adding attack surface. The one behavioral change to existing code, find_url_password, only widens which strings get their password segment masked; its two other callers (redacted_npm_url on registry URLs and the bunfig/.npmrc highlighter) gain the extra schemes and nothing else. I verified the authority-truncation logic (/, ?, #, \n) is unchanged and the scp-style case is covered by a test. No new inputs are parsed and no secrets are stored differently.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. Each individual edit is a mechanical redacted(..) wrap around an existing format argument, and the tests exercise most of the wrapped paths end-to-end. But the change spans 15 source files in the package manager (install summary, error paths, isolated linker, pm subcommands), makes a design choice (wrap at print sites, not inside Resolution::fmt, so lockfile keys / meta-hash / bun patch matching stay byte-exact) that a maintainer should ratify, and the PR description enumerates several sites deliberately left unwrapped (bun patch candidate list, hash-string, npm-only resolution rows) whose rationale a maintainer is better placed to confirm.

Other factors

The PR description is unusually thorough — it documents the mechanism, every wrapped site, every intentionally-skipped site with a reason, the overlap with #38631 and how nesting should compose, and the full set of test files re-run for byte-for-byte parity on ordinary versions. The bug-hunting system found nothing. What tips this away from auto-approval is breadth (17 files, critical subsystem) plus a shared-helper behavior change, which per the review guidance warrants a human sign-off even when the change reads correctly.

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In `@src/install/isolated_install/Installer.rs`:
- Around line 273-275: Redact the URL values in both download-error formatting
paths: wrap url near resolution.fmt and dl.url in the corresponding error path
with redacted(...), while preserving the existing error and resolution
formatting.

Apply the same fix in `@src/install/PackageManager/runTasks.rs` around lines 752 -
770: The HTTP-status error path directly prints the tarball URL and needs the
same redaction.

In `@test/cli/install/redacted-config-logs.test.ts`:
- Around line 398-402: Update the isolated-linker test around run to capture out
as well as err, then call expectNoSecrets(out, err) before asserting exitCode.
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  • src/bun_core/fmt.rs
  • src/bun_core/lib.rs
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  • src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerEnqueue.rs
  • src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerResolution.rs
  • src/install/PackageManager/processDependencyList.rs
  • src/install/PackageManager/runTasks.rs
  • src/install/isolated_install.rs
  • src/install/isolated_install/Installer.rs
  • src/install/lockfile/Package/Scripts.rs
  • src/install/lockfile/Tree.rs
  • src/install/lockfile/printer/tree_printer.rs
  • src/install/patch_install.rs
  • src/runtime/cli/package_manager_command.rs
  • src/runtime/cli/pm_licenses_command.rs
  • src/runtime/cli/why_command.rs
  • test/cli/install/redacted-config-logs.test.ts
  • test/js/bun/util/highlighter.test.ts

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Thanks for wrapping the two incorrect peer dependency sites in f175a64 — that closes out my earlier note, and this pass found no further issues. Given the change spans ~18 files of credential-redaction across the package manager and generalises find_url_password's scheme matching, a human look is still worthwhile before merge.

Checked: the new redacted<T: Display> adapter renders first then feeds redacted_npm_url, so multi-piece writes (git+ + repo) are scanned as one string; the RFC 3986 scheme scan in find_url_password still rejects scp-style git+ssh://git@host:org/repo (no : before @) and scheme-less strings, per the highlighter tests. Confirmed the pm_licenses --json path redacts at print time only, so the version string used for the installed-package.json equality check upstream stays byte-exact. The Windows bun add <url> test failure on 0e7594c looks addressed by ec43d7d (query string dropped so the extraction-dir basename has no ?).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR closes a credential-leak class: dependencies declared as tarball or git+… URLs with embedded user:password@ or ?token=npm_… had those URLs printed verbatim by every install summary line, error message, and listing command that formats a lockfile Resolution or version literal. The fix has three pieces: (1) a new redacted<T: Display> adapter in bun_core/fmt.rs that renders its argument to a String and pipes it through the existing redacted_npm_url; (2) find_url_password in bun_core/lib.rs generalised from a hard-coded http:///https:// prefix to any RFC 3986 scheme followed by ://, so git+https:// and git+ssh:// are recognised; (3) ~25 print sites across tree_printer.rs, PackageManagerResolution.rs, runTasks.rs, isolated_install{,/Installer}.rs, processDependencyList.rs, Tree.rs, PackageManagerEnqueue.rs, PackageInstaller.rs, Package/Scripts.rs, patch_install.rs, package_manager_command.rs, why_command.rs and pm_licenses_command.rs wrap their resolution/literal argument in redacted(..). Seven new integration tests plus five highlighter table rows cover the install summary, bun add, --dry-run, pm ls/why/untrusted/licenses (text and JSON), the hoisted and isolated download-failure paths, and a git+https:// specifier.

Security risks

The change is a defence-in-depth improvement (masking credentials in human-readable output). The one behavioural change to shared code — find_url_password accepting arbitrary schemes — is strictly additive for redaction and cannot introduce a new leak; the concern would be over-redaction of non-credentials, which the highlighter tests cover for the scp-style and scheme-less cases. Redaction is applied only at print sites, not inside Resolution::fmt, so byte-exact consumers (patched-dependency keys, lockfile meta-hash, bun patch argument matching) are unaffected. No new attack surface, no auth or crypto paths touched.

Level of scrutiny

Higher than a mechanical refactor: the change is security-relevant (credential handling), spans 16 source files in the package manager, and the earlier review round found one mis-analysed exclusion (the peer-dependency warning's git arm) that the author has since wrapped. Each individual edit is a one-argument wrap and the pattern matches prior PRs (#36165, #38817, #38631), but the breadth and the find_url_password generalisation warrant a maintainer sign-off rather than auto-approval.

Other factors

My earlier inline finding (the two incorrect peer dependency sites in PackageManagerEnqueue.rs) was addressed in f175a64; the author's reply correctly notes the git arm of that condition is currently unreachable via its two callers, but wrapped it anyway for defence in depth. The Windows CI failure on 0e7594c (redacted-config-logs.test.ts) appears addressed by ec43d7d, which drops the query string from the bun add <url> test so the extraction directory name no longer contains ?; I have not seen a green build for f175a64 yet. Tests are hermetic (loopback Bun.serve/Bun.listen on port: 0, per-test BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR, registry pointed at the test's own server) and assert both the presence of the masked form and the absence of the raw secret.

…tions and specifiers

A dependency declared as a tarball or git URL keeps that URL as its
resolution, and the install summary, the download and link error
messages, bun pm ls, bun why, bun pm untrusted and bun pm licenses print
it verbatim, password and token included. The same goes for the
specifier itself in the "failed to resolve" line.

Add bun_core::fmt::redacted, a Display adapter that renders a value and
writes it back out through the redacted_npm_url masking, and apply it
at the sites that print a Resolution or a version literal for a human.
The Resolution formatter itself is unchanged because it also produces
lockfile keys.

find_url_password now accepts any URL scheme instead of only http and
https, so git+https:// and git+ssh:// specifiers are masked as well.
bun add <url> names its extraction directory after the URL's basename,
and Windows rejects the ? of a query string in a directory name, so the
add itself failed there.
…ng too

Its condition has a git arm, so wrap it like the other resolution
prints instead of relying on the callers never passing a git specifier.
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Comment thread src/install/PackageManager/runTasks.rs
Comment thread src/bun_core/fmt.rs
…ll download error too

A version whose pre-release tag is shaped like a UUID must not print as
1.0.0-***, so the adapter only masks values that contain a URL. The
runtime auto-installer formats the same resolution into its download
error message, and a package.json tarball dependency reaches it.

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LGTM — both findings from the previous pass are addressed in bd472be: the :// gate in Redacted::fmt keeps non-URL values (npm versions, paths, github: specifiers) byte-for-byte unchanged, and the runtime auto-install error in AsyncModule.rs now wraps the resolution at both sites. The added stamped@1.0.0-<uuid> test pins the over-redaction case.

Checked: the :// gate against every ResolutionTag variant (only RemoteTarball and Git render ://, and both are the ones that can carry credentials; scp-style git repos and github: specifiers correctly bypass); the RFC 3986 scheme generalisation in find_url_password against its two other callers (registry URLs and the config highlighter — both only gain schemes); and that the wrapped print sites do not overlap the request-URL operands #38817 owns.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR wraps every human-facing print of a lockfile Resolution or dependency version literal in a new redacted(..) Display adapter, so tarball and git URLs with user:password@ or ?token=npm_… no longer leak into install summaries, error messages, or the pm ls/why/untrusted/licenses listings. Core changes: fmt.rs adds Redacted<T> (renders, then routes through the existing redacted_npm_url scanner only when the rendered text contains ://); lib.rs generalises find_url_password from a hardcoded http/https prefix to any RFC 3986 scheme so git+https:// and git+ssh:// are recognised. The remaining 14 source files each wrap one to six format arguments; no control flow changes. Two test files add 8 install tests and 5 highlighter rows.

Since my previous review the author pushed bd472be, which (a) adds the :// gate so a bare npm version whose pre-release tag happens to be UUID-shaped is not masked, with a regression test in redacted-config-logs.test.ts, and (b) wraps resolution_fmt and the else-branch resolution in AsyncModule.rs::download_error so the runtime auto-install Error.message is redacted too. Both of my 14:34 inline findings are resolved by that commit.

Security risks

This is output hygiene, not access control: the change reduces credential exposure in logs and does not touch auth, crypto, or permission checks. The failure mode of an unwrapped site is the pre-PR status quo (URL still printed), not a new leak. I re-checked that the :// gate cannot skip a URL-bearing resolution: RemoteTarball always renders http(s)://, Git renders git+<scheme>://…#commit; the scp-style git@host:org/repo form has no :// but also has no password field to leak. Git commit hashes (40 hex, no hyphens) do not match the UUID scanner.

Level of scrutiny

Medium. 18 files sounds broad but each source-file hunk is a mechanical redacted(..) wrapper around an existing format argument; the two substantive changes (the Redacted impl and the find_url_password scheme scan) are ~25 lines total with direct test coverage. The lockfile key builders, meta-hash, and bun patch argument matching are deliberately left on the raw formatter, which the description enumerates and I spot-checked.

Other factors

Two prior review rounds (mine on the peer-dependency warning and the two 14:34 findings; CodeRabbit's on the URL operands, correctly deferred to #38817) have all been addressed or resolved with stated reasons. The composition rule with #38631 (EscapeControlChars(redacted(..))) and the operand split with #38817 are documented in the description and mechanical whichever lands first. The bug-hunting pass on bd472be found nothing new.

Jarred-Sumner pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 16, 2026
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### Problem

- With `--linker isolated`, a dependency declared as a tarball URL with
credentials, e.g. `"direct":
"http://carol:s3cret@127.0.0.1:PORT/cdn/direct-1.0.0.tgz?token=npm_a1b2..."`,
is installed into a store directory literally named
`node_modules/.bun/no-deps@http+++carol+s3cret@127.0.0.1+PORT+cdn+direct-1.0.0.tgz+token=npm_a1b2...`
(reproduced on 1.4.0-canary.1 and current main). A git dependency such
as `git+https://carol:s3cret@host/org/repo.git` gets
`repo@git+https+++carol+s3cret@host+org+repo.git+<commit>`.
- That directory name is part of the realpath of every file in the
package, so the password and the token show up in stack traces,
`import.meta.url`, `bun pm licenses` paths, the `--verbose` link failure
messages, and `ls node_modules/.bun`. The output redaction in #38977
cannot cover this: these paths really exist on disk.
- Cause: the entry name is `<name>@<resolution store path>`
(`src/install/isolated_install/Store.rs` `StoreKeyFormatter`). For a
remote tarball the store path was the whole URL with `/ \ : # ?` turned
into `+` (`src/install/resolution.rs` `StorePathFormatter`, via
`bun_semver`'s `String::fmt_store_path` in `src/semver/lib.rs`), and for
git it was the whole repository URL plus the commit
(`src/install/repository.rs` `StorePathFormatter`). Nothing removed the
userinfo or the query string.

### Fix

- `src/install/resolution.rs`: new `fmt_store_url`, used for the remote
tarball store path and, in `src/install/repository.rs`, for the
repository part of the git store path. It writes the URL without its
userinfo and without its query string, and when either of them was
present it appends `+<16 hex wyhash of the complete URL>`. The git
commit suffix is unchanged and still follows. Examples:
`http://carol:s3cret@h/p.tgz?token=x` becomes
`no-deps@http+++h+p.tgz+<url hash>`; the same URL without credentials
stays `no-deps@http+++h+p.tgz`; a credentialed git URL becomes
`repo@git+https+++host+org+repo.git+<url hash>+<commit>`.
- `src/semver/lib.rs`: `String::fmt_store_path` now delegates to a
byte-slice `fmt_store_path`, so the two kept pieces of the URL are
spelled exactly the way the whole URL was before (one character mapping,
no copy of it).
- Why this is correct:
- The userinfo and the query string are the two places a URL carries
credentials (`user:password@`, a bare token as the username, `?token=` /
signed URLs); host, path and scheme are not secret, so they stay
readable. The userinfo is delimited with RFC 3986's rule, the same one
`find_url_password` in `bun_core` uses: the authority runs from
`scheme://` (or from the start of an scp-like `user@host:path`) to the
first `/`, `?` or `#`, and the userinfo is everything in it up to the
last `@`. The whole userinfo goes, not only the password, because
`https://TOKEN@host/...` is a documented way of passing tokens.
`bun_url::URL::parse` was not used for this because it does not
recognize the userinfo of `user@host:port` at all.
- The name stays a function of the resolution alone, so a second install
(whose resolution comes from the lockfile, which still stores the full
URL) derives the same name and finds the same entry; the tests check
this.
- Whenever something is removed, the hash of the complete URL is
appended, so two resolutions that used to get different names still get
different names: `pkg.tgz?v=1` and `pkg.tgz?v=2` are different packages
and must not share a directory, and even for git, where the commit
usually disambiguates, `resolved` can be empty for packages migrated
from pnpm/yarn lockfiles. Without either part there is nothing to
disambiguate, so no hash is appended and every existing entry for a
plain tarball, `git+file://`, `github:` or registry package keeps its
name byte for byte.
- Entries whose URL has a userinfo or a query string are renamed once by
this change (that includes the common `git+ssh://git@host/...` form,
whose `git@` is not a secret but cannot be told apart from a token); the
next `bun install` links them under the new name and `bun pm prune`
removes the old directories, since it removes every store entry the
lockfile does not produce. The lockfile itself is untouched.
- The hash sits inside the resolution part, so the consumers that read
names back keep working: `bun pm prune` splits at `@`
(`src/install/prune.rs` `split_store_key`; the names now also contain no
second `@`), `bun pm licenses` re-derives the name through the same
formatter (`src/runtime/cli/pm_licenses_command.rs`), and the global
store derives its `links/<name>-<entry hash>` directory from the same
name, so it is fixed as well. #38867 (bounding long names) would apply
on top of this name.
- Verification, `test/cli/install/isolated-install.test.ts`, describe
`store entry names of URL dependencies`:
- tarball dependencies with a plain URL (name unchanged), a password, a
token in the query string, and both plus a fragment: exact entry name
computed with `Bun.hash`, the `node_modules` link points into it,
`bun.lock` still contains the full URL, the package imports at runtime,
and a second install keeps the name
- two tarball URLs differing only in `?v=` get two entries and each
alias resolves to its own version
- with `install.globalStore`, the `links/` directory name is built from
the credential-free name
- git dependencies served over git's dumb HTTP protocol from a local
bare repository: plain URL (name unchanged), password, and a token as
the username, each with the exact name including the commit, the
lockfile resolution, and a second install
- the username-only tarball form (`http://token@host:port/x.tgz`) is
exercised through the git cases only: the tarball downloader currently
sends that URL with the userinfo still in the Host header and gets a
400, which is tracked separately (as is the fact that the downloader
never sends URL credentials at all); neither affects this change
- the existing #36987 test in the same file asserted the old `+x=y` name
and now asserts the hashed one; its point (no literal `?` in the name,
package resolves at runtime) is unchanged
- On the released build, 8 of these 10 tests fail with the old names
(the two plain URL cases pass by design); all pass with `bun bd test`.
Also run with the change: the rest of `isolated-install.test.ts` (75
pass), `bun-pm-licenses.test.ts` (79 pass, it asserts the unchanged name
of a plain tarball entry), `bun-prune.test.ts` (109 pass),
`bun-install-git-deps.test.ts` (7 pass), `cargo clippy` and `cargo fmt
--check` on `bun_install` and `bun_semver`, and
`test/internal/source-lints`.

### Background

- Isolated linker: every package is materialized once under
`node_modules/.bun/<entry>/node_modules/<name>` and everything that
depends on it gets a symlink to that directory. `<entry>` is `<package
name>@<store path of the resolution>`, optionally followed by `+<peer
hash>`; with `install.globalStore` the entry is itself a symlink into
`<cache>/links/<entry>-<entry hash>`.
- Resolution: the lockfile's record of where a package came from. For
registry packages it is the version, which is why their entries read
`name@1.2.3`; for tarball and git dependencies it is the URL as written
in package.json (git: plus the resolved commit), which is what became
the directory name here.
- Store path: the spelling of a resolution as one path component, done
by replacing `/`, `\`, `:`, `#` and `?` with `+` (`bun_semver`'s
`StorePathFormatter`); `http://h/p.tgz` reads `http+++h+p.tgz`.
- Userinfo: the `user:password@` part of a URL's authority
(`scheme://userinfo@host:port/path?query#fragment`).
- wyhash: bun's default 64-bit hash (`bun_wyhash::hash`, what
`Bun.hash()` computes), which is how the tests compute the expected
names; the store already uses it for the peer hash suffix.

<details>
<summary>Reproduction on the released build</summary>

`package.json` with `{"dependencies": {"direct":
"http://carol:s3cret@127.0.0.1:PORT/cdn/direct-1.0.0.tgz?token=npm_a1b2c3d4e5f6"}}`,
a `Bun.serve` answering that path with a tarball, `bunfig.toml` with
`install.linker = "isolated"`:

```
$ bun install        # 1.4.0-canary.1
+ direct@http://carol:s3cret@127.0.0.1:35767/cdn/direct-1.0.0.tgz?token=npm_a1b2c3d4e5f6
$ ls node_modules/.bun
no-deps@http+++carol+s3cret@127.0.0.1+35767+cdn+direct-1.0.0.tgz+token=npm_a1b2c3d4e5f6
node_modules
```

With this change the entry is
`no-deps@http+++127.0.0.1+35767+cdn+direct-1.0.0.tgz+<16 hex>`. The
cache folder for the same tarball was already credential-free
(`@T@<hash>`).

</details>

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