fix: parameterize product search query to close UNION SQL injection bug - #338
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| let criteria: any = req.query.q === 'undefined' ? '' : req.query.q ?? '' | ||
| criteria = (criteria.length <= 200) ? criteria : criteria.substring(0, 200) | ||
| models.sequelize.query(`SELECT * FROM Products WHERE ((name LIKE '%${criteria}%' OR description LIKE '%${criteria}%') AND deletedAt IS NULL) ORDER BY name`) // vuln-code-snippet vuln-line unionSqlInjectionChallenge dbSchemaChallenge | ||
| models.sequelize.query('SELECT * FROM Products WHERE ((name LIKE :criteria OR description LIKE :criteria) AND deletedAt IS NULL) ORDER BY name', { replacements: { criteria: `%${criteria}%` } }) // vuln-code-snippet vuln-line unionSqlInjectionChallenge dbSchemaChallenge |
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🟡 Three advertised challenges become dysfunctional
Once searchProducts parameterizes criteria, User Credentials and Database Schema can never satisfy their only solver checks. Christmas Special also loses its in-application path for discovering the deleted product. All three remain enabled on the scoreboard.
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The User Credentials and Database Schema solvers inspect the returned search rows for all user credentials or all SQLite definitions. A literal search term cannot produce either dataset, so those challenge states never advance. Christmas Special relies on the same injectable search to reveal a paranoid-deleted product before adding it to a basket; its completion check still exists in placeOrder, but the supported discovery path is gone. The challenge catalog still defines all three without an applicable disablement, so they continue to appear as available exercises.
Example: A learner submits the documented ')) UNION SELECT ... FROM Users-- payload. The endpoint returns an empty list, User Credentials remains unsolved, and the scoreboard still presents it as completable.
Recommended fix: Remove or explicitly disable the affected challenge definitions, dependencies, snippets, and scoreboard entries when shipping the secured search. If these challenges must remain, move each intended vulnerability and solver to a dedicated training-only path and retain corresponding E2E coverage.
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🟡 RSN cache preserves stale codefixes
Locking the new RSN cache differences preserves stale codefixes for both affected coding challenges. Their snippets label a parameterized query vulnerable, while each _correct option searches for literal :criteria. Find It and Fix It now teach incorrect behavior.
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The RSN compares each live vulnerability snippet with its codefix variants. The changed cache records the new divergence instead of updating those variants. The live snippet is already parameterized but remains tagged as the vulnerable line, so Find It asks learners to identify a flaw that is absent. Both marked-correct files place :criteria inside a quoted SQL literal; Sequelize replacement parsing does not treat that as the live query's LIKE :criteria placeholder, so the option no longer preserves normal keyword search.
Example: A learner opens User Credentials Fix It after selecting the tagged line. The accepted option changes a search for apple into a query matching the literal pattern %:criteria%, rather than the live endpoint's %apple% behavior.
Recommended fix: Follow the repository's RSN workflow: manually update all unionSqlInjectionChallenge_* and dbSchemaChallenge_* variants, ensure each _correct file matches the secured query and preserves wildcard placement, and only then regenerate the cache. If the challenges are being retired, remove their snippet markers and codefix assets instead of locking stale differences.
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Description
Fixes an unauthenticated UNION SQL injection in
GET /rest/products/search(routes/search.ts). Theqquery parameter was string-interpolated directly into a rawsequelize.query()LIKE '%...%'clause, so payloads such as')) UNION SELECT ... FROM Users--could dumpUsers.email/Users.passwordandsqlite_master.The query now uses a bound replacement instead of interpolation:
Sequelize escapes the value as a single string literal, so quotes/parentheses in
qcan no longer terminate the predicate. Verified offline with a port of Sequelize'sinjectReplacementsfor the sqlite dialect: none of the UNION/comment/backslash payloads escape the literal, and normal searches produce identical SQL.Also updated:
test/api/search.test.tsandtest/cypress/e2e/search.spec.ts: the SQLi-based expectations forunionSqlInjectionChallenge/dbSchemaChallengeare replaced with assertions that injection payloads return an ordinary (empty) product list.rsn/cache.json: refreshed snippet hashes for the changed vuln-code-snippet region.Note: this intentionally disables the
unionSqlInjectionChallengeanddbSchemaChallengetraining challenges, since they depend on this vulnerability.Resolved or fixed issue: none
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DevinDevin (Cognition AI)Fix the unauthenticated UNION SQL injection in routes/search.ts (req.query.q interpolated into raw SQL) using parameterized queries and open a PR.Affirmation
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