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LOG-9752: prevent TOML literal-multiline injection in generated collector config - #3492
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go-toml v1 emits struct fields tagged `multiline:"true" literal:"true"`
(transforms.Remap.Source and transforms.Filter.Condition) verbatim between
''' delimiters with no escaping. A value derived from an untrusted
ClusterLogForwarder spec that contains the ''' terminator breaks out of the
TOML string and injects arbitrary TOML into the collector configuration.
FIND-001 (LOG-9704) fixed only the drop-filter sink. This closes the
remaining sinks that share the same encoder gap:
- Structural guard (internal/utils/toml): toml.Marshal now walks the config
and rejects any literal-multiline field whose value contains the terminator.
This is the single choke point every VRL sink funnels through, so it covers
output user-templates, prune/drop FieldPath, kubeAPIAudit wildcards, and any
future literal sink. A malformed config is never rendered; the reconciler
reports the error instead of deploying a crash-looping collector.
- Defense-in-depth admission validation, so a bad spec is rejected with a
clear status condition before generation:
- outputs: cloudwatch.groupName, elasticsearch.index, googleCloudLogging.logId,
kafka.topic, loki.tenantKey, splunk.index
- filters: prune/drop FieldPath quoted segments
- filters: kubeAPIAudit rule strings (users, groups, verbs, namespaces,
nonResourceURLs, resources) which previously had no controller validation
A shared common.ValidateTOMLLiteralSafe helper backs all three.
ref: LOG-9752
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds TOML literal-safety checks to observability filter and output validation. It also validates tagged literal multiline fields before TOML marshalling. ChangesTOML Literal Safety
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to An otherwise valid output can be marked invalid because of an unused configuration field. The edge case is bounded, but should be corrected or explicitly accepted before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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- Around line 183-184: Update ValidateFilter’s KubeAPIAudit validation to pass
each rule’s Level, each rule’s OmitStages entry, and the filter-level OmitStages
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- Around line 33-34: Add a FilterTypeOpenshiftLabels case to ValidateFilter and
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- Around line 78-79: Update the Splunk validation block that calls add for
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Extend admission-time TOML literal-multiline injection guards to every user-controlled string that reaches a Vector remap source: - filters: validate openshiftLabels keys/values; validate kubeAPIAudit rule Level, rule OmitStages, and filter-level OmitStages - outputs: validate splunk source/sourceType/payloadKey, s3 keyPrefix, and syslog facility/severity/appName/procId/msgId/payloadKey Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 81-95: Update the Splunk validation block in validate.go to
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Splunk IndexedFields flow through GenerateQuotedPathSegmentArrayStr into the Vector remap source; %q quoting escapes quotes and newlines but not the literal-multiline terminator, so validate each entry at admission time. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟡 Minor · Validate only the configuration selected by output.Type. · validate.go:63-68
internal/validations/observability/outputs/validate.go:63-68
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winValidate only the configuration selected by
output.Type.
Validateuses every message fromvalidateOutputTemplatesto set the output condition. The API rules require the selected configuration but do not reject additional configuration objects. Therefore, an unsafe inactiveCloudwatch.GroupNamecan invalidate a Kafka output even though Kafka generation ignores that object. Apply the active-type guard to each template branch.Suggested fix
- if output.Cloudwatch != nil { + if output.Type == obs.OutputTypeCloudwatch && output.Cloudwatch != nil { add("cloudwatch.groupName", output.Cloudwatch.GroupName) } - if output.Elasticsearch != nil { + if output.Type == obs.OutputTypeElasticsearch && output.Elasticsearch != nil { add("elasticsearch.index", output.Elasticsearch.Index) } - if output.GoogleCloudLogging != nil { + if output.Type == obs.OutputTypeGoogleCloudLogging && output.GoogleCloudLogging != nil { add("googleCloudLogging.logId", output.GoogleCloudLogging.LogId) } - if output.Kafka != nil { + if output.Type == obs.OutputTypeKafka && output.Kafka != nil { add("kafka.topic", output.Kafka.Topic) } - if output.Loki != nil { + if output.Type == obs.OutputTypeLoki && output.Loki != nil { add("loki.tenantKey", output.Loki.TenantKey) } - if output.S3 != nil { + if output.Type == obs.OutputTypeS3 && output.S3 != nil { add("s3.keyPrefix", output.S3.KeyPrefix) } - if output.Splunk != nil { + if output.Type == obs.OutputTypeSplunk && output.Splunk != nil { add("splunk.index", output.Splunk.Index)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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internal/validations/observability/outputs/validate_toml_literal_test.go (1)
11-116: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd an integration assertion for unsafe output status.
The new tests validate
validateOutputTemplatesdirectly. ExistingValidatetests use safe template fields or fail for unrelated reasons. They do not detect removal or misplacement of the propagation intoConditionTypeValidOutputPrefix.Add one Kafka fixture with an unsafe topic. Assert that
Validatesets the output condition to false and includeskafka.topic.Suggested fix
+ It("should mark an output invalid when a template field is unsafe", func() { + outputName := "unsafe" + context := createContext([]obs.OutputSpec{ + { + Name: outputName, + Type: obs.OutputTypeKafka, + Kafka: &obs.Kafka{Topic: "x'''injection"}, + }, + }) + + Validate(context) + + Expect(context.Forwarder.Status.OutputConditions).To(HaveLen(1)) + Expect(context.Forwarder.Status.OutputConditions[0]).To( + matchers.MatchCondition(outputName, false, obs.ReasonValidationFailure, ".*kafka.topic.*"), + ) + })🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 63-68: Update validateOutputTemplates so each output template
branch validates only the configuration matching output.Type. Guard the
Cloudwatch, Elasticsearch, GoogleCloudLogging, Kafka, Loki, S3, and Splunk
checks with their corresponding output type while preserving the existing nil
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- Around line 11-116: Add an integration test for unsafe-template propagation
through Validate, using a Kafka output with an unsafe topic such as the existing
terminator fixture. Assert that Validate sets the output condition to false with
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Summary✅ All three TOML injection vectors are now blocked Test Results
Before fix (v6.6.0): Tests 1-3 caused collector DaemonSet CrashLoopBackOff EvidenceTest 1: Kafka Topic Injection — BLOCKEDCLF: outputs:
- name: my-kafka
type: kafka
kafka:
topic: "{.\"x'''malicious\"||\"n\"}"Validation Error: Result: CLF invalid, no DaemonSet created ✅ Test 2: FieldPath Injection — BLOCKEDCLF: filters:
- name: prune-test
type: prune
prune:
in:
- .kubernetes."x'''inject"Validation Error: Result: CLF invalid, no DaemonSet created ✅ Test 3: kubeAPIAudit Injection — BLOCKEDCLF: filters:
- name: audit-test
type: kubeAPIAudit
kubeAPIAudit:
rules:
- level: Metadata
users:
- "admin'''inject"Validation Error: Result: CLF invalid, no DaemonSet created ✅ Test 4: Valid CLF — ACCEPTED (Control Test)CLF: filters:
- name: valid-prune
type: prune
prune:
in:
- .kubernetes.labels # No ''' injectionResult: Validation passed, DaemonSet created, valid TOML generated ✅ Why this matters: Proves the fix only blocks the attack pattern ( Fix ValidationTwo-layer defense confirmed working:
Before vs After
ConclusionPR #3492 successfully mitigates LOG-9752. The fix: ✅ Blocks all three injection vectors with clear validation messages Recommendation: Merge and backport to active release branches. Verified by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
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What
Closes the remaining TOML literal-multiline injection sinks identified in LOG-9752 (FIND-004), a follow-up to LOG-9704 / #3390 which fixed only the drop-filter sink.
Why
go-toml v1 emits struct fields tagged
multiline:"true" literal:"true"(transforms.Remap.Source,transforms.Filter.Condition) verbatim between'''delimiters with no escaping. A value derived from an untrustedClusterLogForwarderspec that contains the'''terminator breaks out of the TOML string and injects arbitrary TOML into the generated collector configuration, crash-looping the tenant's collector.How
Two layers:
Structural guard (
internal/utils/toml):toml.Marshalwalks the config and rejects any literal-multiline field containing the terminator. This is the single choke point every VRL sink funnels through, so it covers output user-templates, prune/dropFieldPath, kubeAPIAudit wildcards, and any future literal sink. A malformed config is never rendered — the reconciler reports the error instead of deploying a broken collector.Defense-in-depth admission validation (clear status condition before generation):
cloudwatch.groupName,elasticsearch.index,googleCloudLogging.logId,kafka.topic,loki.tenantKey,splunk.indexFieldPathquoted segmentskubeAPIAuditrule strings (users, groups, verbs, namespaces, nonResourceURLs, resources) — previously had no controller validationcommon.ValidateTOMLLiteralSafehelperOnly the
'''terminator (plus newlines in single-line fields) is rejected, so legitimate values containing a single'(e.g. VRL raw regexr'x', fallback literals) are unaffected.Testing
New unit tests for the marshal guard and all three validation paths. Full
internal/generator/...,internal/validations/..., andinternal/utils/...suites pass; no legitimate config trips the guard.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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