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Filter out invalid URI and HTTP method in the error message of no handler found for a REST request #3459

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Escape HTML special characters in the error message of no handler fou…
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Filter out invalid URI in the error message of no handler found for a…
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Filter out invalid HTTP method in the error message of no handler fou…
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Use uppercase HTTP in the error message
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Use equalTo instead of containsString to test error message
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10 changes: 9 additions & 1 deletion server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/rest/RestController.java
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import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URI;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Iterator;
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try (XContentBuilder builder = channel.newErrorBuilder()) {
builder.startObject();
{
builder.field("error", "no handler found for uri [" + uri + "] and method [" + method + "]");
try {
// Validate input URI to filter out HTML special characters in the error message,
// in case false-positive cross site scripting vulnerability is detected by common security scanners.
uri = new URI(uri).getPath();
builder.field("error", "no handler found for uri [" + uri + "] and method [" + method + "]");
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LGTM, do you want to sanitize method as well?

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Your review is so quick!
Sure, I can sanitize the error message for the HTTP method, although it may not necessary, since there is no code security scanners have an alarm on that. 😄
I will update the code then.

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After taking a look at the code, the error message of invalid HTTP method is directly obtained from the
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/blob/2.0.0/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/rest/RestController.java#L450
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/blob/2.0.0/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/opensearch/http/netty4/Netty4HttpRequest.java#L148

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Updated in the new commit 863e272 . 👍

} catch (Exception e) {
builder.field("error", "invalid uri has been requested");
}
}
builder.endObject();
channel.sendResponse(new BytesRestResponse(BAD_REQUEST, builder));
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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/rest/RestControllerTests.java
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assertThat(channel.getRestResponse().getHeaders().get("Allow"), hasItem(equalTo(RestRequest.Method.GET.toString())));
}

public void testHandleBadRequestWithHtmlSpecialCharsInUri() {
final FakeRestRequest fakeRestRequest = new FakeRestRequest.Builder(NamedXContentRegistry.EMPTY).withPath(
"/<script>alert('xss');alert(\"&#x6A&#x61&#x76&#x61\");</script>"
).build();
final AssertingChannel channel = new AssertingChannel(fakeRestRequest, true, RestStatus.BAD_REQUEST);
restController.dispatchRequest(fakeRestRequest, channel, client.threadPool().getThreadContext());
assertThat(channel.getRestResponse().content().utf8ToString(), containsString("invalid uri has been requested"));
}

public void testDispatchUnsupportedHttpMethod() {
final boolean hasContent = randomBoolean();
final RestRequest request = RestRequest.request(xContentRegistry(), new HttpRequest() {
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