fix(password-policies): sanitize and validate forbidRepeatingCharactersCount before constructing RegExp - #41760
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WalkthroughThe password policy validates repeating-character counts before regex construction. Invalid values, including ChangesPassword Policy Sanitization
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This localized validation fix prevents invalid password-policy values from causing regular-expression construction failures. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review. Suggested labels: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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…rsCount to allow zero
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1 issue found across 3 files (changes from recent commits).
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<file name="packages/password-policies/src/PasswordPolicy.ts">
<violation number="1" location="packages/password-policies/src/PasswordPolicy.ts:85">
P1: This validation still accepts safe integers larger than the RegExp quantifier limit, so a value such as `Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER` can still throw while constructing the regex. Cap the accepted count at `2 ** 32 - 1` or otherwise validate against the RegExp engine’s supported range.</violation>
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| const safeForbidRepeatingCharactersCount = | ||
| typeof forbidRepeatingCharactersCount === 'number' && | ||
| Number.isSafeInteger(forbidRepeatingCharactersCount) && | ||
| forbidRepeatingCharactersCount >= 0 ? forbidRepeatingCharactersCount : 3; |
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P1: This validation still accepts safe integers larger than the RegExp quantifier limit, so a value such as Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER can still throw while constructing the regex. Cap the accepted count at 2 ** 32 - 1 or otherwise validate against the RegExp engine’s supported range.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/password-policies/src/PasswordPolicy.ts, line 85:
<comment>This validation still accepts safe integers larger than the RegExp quantifier limit, so a value such as `Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER` can still throw while constructing the regex. Cap the accepted count at `2 ** 32 - 1` or otherwise validate against the RegExp engine’s supported range.</comment>
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@@ -82,8 +82,7 @@ export class PasswordPolicy {
Number.isSafeInteger(forbidRepeatingCharactersCount) &&
- forbidRepeatingCharactersCount >= 1 ? forbidRepeatingCharactersCount : 3;
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+ forbidRepeatingCharactersCount >= 0 ? forbidRepeatingCharactersCount : 3;
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| forbidRepeatingCharactersCount >= 0 ? forbidRepeatingCharactersCount : 3; | |
| forbidRepeatingCharactersCount >= 0 && forbidRepeatingCharactersCount <= 2 ** 32 - 1 ? forbidRepeatingCharactersCount : 3; |
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Declining this one — V8 doesn't throw on large quantifiers ((.)\1{9007199254740991,} constructs fine on Node 22), and Number.isSafeInteger already bounds the input. Happy to add a cap if there's a runtime where it does throw.
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In `@packages/password-policies/src/PasswordPolicy.ts`:
- Around line 82-85: Remove the implementation comments describing invalid
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| // Anything that is not a plain positive integer is interpolated into the quantifier below as | ||
| // `{NaN,}`, `{-1,}`, `{1.5,}` or `{1e+21,}`, none of which are valid quantifiers: the engine reads | ||
| // them as literals instead of throwing, and the rule silently stops matching repeated characters. | ||
| // A count of 0 is rejected for the opposite reason — `(.)\1{0,}` matches every non-empty password. |
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Remove implementation comments.
Lines 82-85 add implementation comments. The coding guideline prohibits code comments in implementation. Remove these comments.
As per coding guidelines, “Avoid code comments in the implementation.”
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In `@packages/password-policies/src/PasswordPolicy.ts` around lines 82 - 85,
Remove the implementation comments describing invalid quantifiers and the
count-zero behavior, while leaving the surrounding password-policy logic
unchanged.
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Summary
Validate
forbidRepeatingCharactersCountbefore interpolating it into the repeating-charactersRegExp, so that a misconfigured count can no longer silently disable the policy or lock every user out.Why
Fixes #41620.
The count is interpolated straight into a quantifier:
The original report describes this throwing a
SyntaxError. It does not — and that turns out to make the bug worse rather than better. In non-unicode mode a malformed{...}is not a quantifier at all, so the engine parses it as a literal and constructs the regex happily:-1(.)\1{-1,}{-1,}1.5(.)\1{1.5,}{1.5,}NaN(.)\1{NaN,}{NaN,}1e21(.)\1{1e+21,}{1e+21,}'3'(.)\1{3,}So there is no crash to notice. Instead the repeating-character rule quietly stops enforcing anything, and a password like
aaaaaaaaaaaais accepted on a workspace that believes it is forbidden. A security control turning itself off without an error is the actual defect here.A count of
0fails in the opposite direction:(.)\1{0,}is a valid quantifier that matches any string of length 1 or more, so every non-empty password is rejected and nobody on that workspace can set a password at all.Changes
3unless the count is a safe integer>= 1.RegExp, sogetPasswordPolicy()andsendValidationMessage()report the limit that is actually enforced.get-password-policy-forbidRepeatingCharactersCountonly whenforbidRepeatingCharactersis on. This is required by the change above: once invalid counts default to3, the oldif (this.forbidRepeatingCharactersCount)guard is always truthy and would advertise a repeating-character limit on workspaces that have the rule disabled.0lockout, and for the silent-bypass case.A note on
isSafeIntegervsisIntegerThe suggested fix in #41620 uses
Number.isInteger. This PR usesNumber.isSafeIntegerinstead, becauseNumber.isInteger(1e21) === truewhileString(1e21) === '1e+21'— an unsafely large count would pass anisIntegercheck and still produce the invalid quantifier{1e+21,}.isSafeIntegerrejects it.No upper cap beyond
Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGERis applied: V8 constructs(.)\1{9007199254740991,}without throwing, and a large-but-valid count is a permissive configuration rather than a malformed one.Testing
yarn workspace @rocket.chat/password-policies testAll 22 tests pass, including the new cases:
should use the default repeating character count when configured with 0 / -1 / 1.5 / NaN / 1e+21 / "3"should not lock every password out when configured with a count of 0should keep enforcing the rule when configured with an unusable count