Add url_preview_enabled config option to turn on/off preview_url endpoint. defaults to off.

Add url_preview_ip_range_blacklist to let admins specify internal IP ranges that must not be spidered.
Add url_preview_url_blacklist to let admins specify URL patterns that must not be spidered.
Implement a custom SpiderEndpoint and associated support classes to implement url_preview_ip_range_blacklist
Add commentary and generally address PR feedback

synapse/config/repository.py

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 from ._base import Config
 from collections import namedtuple
 
+import sys
+
 ThumbnailRequirement = namedtuple(
     "ThumbnailRequirement", ["width", "height", "method", "media_type"]
 )
@@ -23,7 +25,7 @@ ThumbnailRequirement = namedtuple(
 
 def parse_thumbnail_requirements(thumbnail_sizes):
     """ Takes a list of dictionaries with "width", "height", and "method" keys
-    and creates a map from image media types to the thumbnail size, thumnailing
+    and creates a map from image media types to the thumbnail size, thumbnailing
     method, and thumbnail media type to precalculate
 
     Args:
@@ -60,6 +62,18 @@ class ContentRepositoryConfig(Config):
         self.thumbnail_requirements = parse_thumbnail_requirements(
             config["thumbnail_sizes"]
         )
+        self.url_preview_enabled = config["url_preview_enabled"]
+        if self.url_preview_enabled:
+            try:
+                from netaddr import IPSet
+                if "url_preview_ip_range_blacklist" in config:
+                    self.url_preview_ip_range_blacklist = IPSet(
+                        config["url_preview_ip_range_blacklist"]
+                    )
+                if "url_preview_url_blacklist" in config:
+                    self.url_preview_url_blacklist = config["url_preview_url_blacklist"]
+            except ImportError:
+                sys.stderr.write("\nmissing netaddr dep - disabling preview_url API\n")
 
     def default_config(self, **kwargs):
         media_store = self.default_path("media_store")
@@ -74,9 +88,6 @@ class ContentRepositoryConfig(Config):
         # The largest allowed upload size in bytes
         max_upload_size: "10M"
 
-        # The largest allowed URL preview spidering size in bytes
-        max_spider_size: "10M"
-
         # Maximum number of pixels that will be thumbnailed
         max_image_pixels: "32M"
 
@@ -104,4 +115,62 @@ class ContentRepositoryConfig(Config):
         - width: 800
           height: 600
           method: scale
+
+        # Is the preview URL API enabled?  If enabled, you *must* specify
+        # an explicit url_preview_ip_range_blacklist of IPs that the spider is
+        # denied from accessing.
+        url_preview_enabled: False
+
+        # List of IP address CIDR ranges that the URL preview spider is denied
+        # from accessing.  There are no defaults: you must explicitly
+        # specify a list for URL previewing to work.  You should specify any
+        # internal services in your network that you do not want synapse to try
+        # to connect to, otherwise anyone in any Matrix room could cause your
+        # synapse to issue arbitrary GET requests to your internal services,
+        # causing serious security issues.
+        #
+        # url_preview_ip_range_blacklist:
+        # - '127.0.0.0/8'
+        # - '10.0.0.0/8'
+        # - '172.16.0.0/12'
+        # - '192.168.0.0/16'
+
+        # Optional list of URL matches that the URL preview spider is
+        # denied from accessing.  You should use url_preview_ip_range_blacklist
+        # in preference to this, otherwise someone could define a public DNS
+        # entry that points to a private IP address and circumvent the blacklist.
+        # This is more useful if you know there is an entire shape of URL that
+        # you know that will never want synapse to try to spider.
+        #
+        # Each list entry is a dictionary of url component attributes as returned
+        # by urlparse.urlsplit as applied to the absolute form of the URL.  See
+        # https://docs.python.org/2/library/urlparse.html#urlparse.urlsplit
+        # The values of the dictionary are treated as an filename match pattern
+        # applied to that component of URLs, unless they start with a ^ in which
+        # case they are treated as a regular expression match.  If all the
+        # specified component matches for a given list item succeed, the URL is
+        # blacklisted.
+        #
+        # url_preview_url_blacklist:
+        # # blacklist any URL with a username in its URI
+        # - username: '*''
+        #
+        # # blacklist all *.google.com URLs
+        # - netloc: 'google.com'
+        # - netloc: '*.google.com'
+        #
+        # # blacklist all plain HTTP URLs
+        # - scheme: 'http'
+        #
+        # # blacklist http(s)://www.acme.com/foo
+        # - netloc: 'www.acme.com'
+        #   path: '/foo'
+        #
+        # # blacklist any URL with a literal IPv4 address
+        # - netloc: '^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$'
+
+        # The largest allowed URL preview spidering size in bytes
+        max_spider_size: "10M"
+
+
         """ % locals()

synapse/http/client.py

@@ -20,10 +20,12 @@ from synapse.api.errors import (
 )
 from synapse.util.logcontext import preserve_context_over_fn
 import synapse.metrics
+from synapse.http.endpoint import SpiderEndpoint
 
 from canonicaljson import encode_canonical_json
 
 from twisted.internet import defer, reactor, ssl, protocol
+from twisted.internet.endpoints import SSL4ClientEndpoint, TCP4ClientEndpoint
 from twisted.web.client import (
     BrowserLikeRedirectAgent, ContentDecoderAgent, GzipDecoder, Agent,
     readBody, FileBodyProducer, PartialDownloadError,
@@ -364,6 +366,35 @@ class CaptchaServerHttpClient(SimpleHttpClient):
             defer.returnValue(e.response)
 
 
+class SpiderEndpointFactory(object):
+    def __init__(self, hs):
+        self.blacklist = hs.config.url_preview_ip_range_blacklist
+        self.policyForHTTPS = hs.get_http_client_context_factory()
+
+    def endpointForURI(self, uri):
+        logger.info("Getting endpoint for %s", uri.toBytes())
+        if uri.scheme == "http":
+            return SpiderEndpoint(
+                reactor, uri.host, uri.port, self.blacklist,
+                endpoint=TCP4ClientEndpoint,
+                endpoint_kw_args={
+                    'timeout': 15
+                },
+            )
+        elif uri.scheme == "https":
+            tlsPolicy = self.policyForHTTPS.creatorForNetloc(uri.host, uri.port)
+            return SpiderEndpoint(
+                reactor, uri.host, uri.port, self.blacklist,
+                endpoint=SSL4ClientEndpoint,
+                endpoint_kw_args={
+                    'sslContextFactory': tlsPolicy,
+                    'timeout': 15
+                },
+            )
+        else:
+            logger.warn("Can't get endpoint for unrecognised scheme %s", uri.scheme)
+
+
 class SpiderHttpClient(SimpleHttpClient):
     """
     Separate HTTP client for spidering arbitrary URLs.
@@ -375,11 +406,14 @@ class SpiderHttpClient(SimpleHttpClient):
     def __init__(self, hs):
         SimpleHttpClient.__init__(self, hs)
         # clobber the base class's agent and UA:
-        self.agent = ContentDecoderAgent(BrowserLikeRedirectAgent(Agent(
+        self.agent = ContentDecoderAgent(
+            BrowserLikeRedirectAgent(
+                Agent.usingEndpointFactory(
                     reactor,
-            connectTimeout=15,
+                    SpiderEndpointFactory(hs)
-            contextFactory=hs.get_http_client_context_factory()
+                )
-        )), [('gzip', GzipDecoder)])
+            ), [('gzip', GzipDecoder)]
+        )
         # We could look like Chrome:
         # self.user_agent = ("Mozilla/5.0 (%s) (KHTML, like Gecko)
         #                   Chrome Safari" % hs.version_string)

synapse/http/endpoint.py

@@ -74,6 +74,37 @@ def matrix_federation_endpoint(reactor, destination, ssl_context_factory=None,
         return transport_endpoint(reactor, domain, port, **endpoint_kw_args)
 
 
+class SpiderEndpoint(object):
+    """An endpoint which refuses to connect to blacklisted IP addresses
+    Implements twisted.internet.interfaces.IStreamClientEndpoint.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, reactor, host, port, blacklist,
+                 endpoint=TCP4ClientEndpoint, endpoint_kw_args={}):
+        self.reactor = reactor
+        self.host = host
+        self.port = port
+        self.blacklist = blacklist
+        self.endpoint = endpoint
+        self.endpoint_kw_args = endpoint_kw_args
+
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def connect(self, protocolFactory):
+        address = yield self.reactor.resolve(self.host)
+
+        from netaddr import IPAddress
+        if IPAddress(address) in self.blacklist:
+            raise ConnectError(
+                "Refusing to spider blacklisted IP address %s" % address
+            )
+
+        logger.info("Connecting to %s:%s", address, self.port)
+        endpoint = self.endpoint(
+            self.reactor, address, self.port, **self.endpoint_kw_args
+        )
+        connection = yield endpoint.connect(protocolFactory)
+        defer.returnValue(connection)
+
+
 class SRVClientEndpoint(object):
     """An endpoint which looks up SRV records for a service.
     Cycles through the list of servers starting with each call to connect
@@ -118,7 +149,7 @@ class SRVClientEndpoint(object):
                 return self.default_server
             else:
                 raise ConnectError(
-                    "Not server available for %s", self.service_name
+                    "Not server available for %s" % self.service_name
                 )
 
         min_priority = self.servers[0].priority
@@ -166,7 +197,7 @@ def resolve_service(service_name, dns_client=client, cache=SERVER_CACHE):
                 and answers[0].type == dns.SRV
                 and answers[0].payload
                 and answers[0].payload.target == dns.Name('.')):
-            raise ConnectError("Service %s unavailable", service_name)
+            raise ConnectError("Service %s unavailable" % service_name)
 
         for answer in answers:
             if answer.type != dns.SRV or not answer.payload:

synapse/python_dependencies.py

@@ -36,13 +36,16 @@ REQUIREMENTS = {
     "blist": ["blist"],
     "pysaml2>=3.0.0,<4.0.0": ["saml2>=3.0.0,<4.0.0"],
     "pymacaroons-pynacl": ["pymacaroons"],
-    "lxml>=3.6.0": ["lxml"],
     "pyjwt": ["jwt"],
 }
 CONDITIONAL_REQUIREMENTS = {
     "web_client": {
         "matrix_angular_sdk>=0.6.8": ["syweb>=0.6.8"],
-    }
+    },
+    "preview_url": {
+        "lxml>=3.6.0": ["lxml"],
+        "netaddr>=0.7.18": ["netaddr"],
+    },
 }
 
 

synapse/rest/media/v1/media_repository.py

@@ -79,4 +79,9 @@ class MediaRepositoryResource(Resource):
         self.putChild("download", DownloadResource(hs, filepaths))
         self.putChild("thumbnail", ThumbnailResource(hs, filepaths))
         self.putChild("identicon", IdenticonResource())
+        if hs.config.url_preview_enabled:
+            try:
                 self.putChild("preview_url", PreviewUrlResource(hs, filepaths))
+            except Exception as e:
+                logger.warn("Failed to mount preview_url")
+                logger.exception(e)

synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py

@@ -17,34 +17,52 @@ from .base_resource import BaseMediaResource
 
 from twisted.web.server import NOT_DONE_YET
 from twisted.internet import defer
-from lxml import html
+from urlparse import urlparse, urlsplit, urlunparse
-from urlparse import urlparse, urlunparse
 
-from synapse.api.errors import Codes
 from synapse.util.stringutils import random_string
 from synapse.util.caches.expiringcache import ExpiringCache
 from synapse.http.client import SpiderHttpClient
 from synapse.http.server import (
-    request_handler, respond_with_json, respond_with_json_bytes
+    request_handler, respond_with_json_bytes
 )
 from synapse.util.async import ObservableDeferred
 from synapse.util.stringutils import is_ascii
 
 import os
 import re
+import fnmatch
 import cgi
 import ujson as json
 
 import logging
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+try:
+    from lxml import html
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+
 
 class PreviewUrlResource(BaseMediaResource):
     isLeaf = True
 
     def __init__(self, hs, filepaths):
+        if not html:
+            logger.warn("Disabling PreviewUrlResource as lxml not available")
+            raise
+
+        if not hasattr(hs.config, "url_preview_ip_range_blacklist"):
+            logger.warn(
+                "For security, you must specify an explicit target IP address "
+                "blacklist in url_preview_ip_range_blacklist for url previewing "
+                "to work"
+            )
+            raise
+
         BaseMediaResource.__init__(self, hs, filepaths)
         self.client = SpiderHttpClient(hs)
+        if hasattr(hs.config, "url_preview_url_blacklist"):
+            self.url_preview_url_blacklist = hs.config.url_preview_url_blacklist
 
         # simple memory cache mapping urls to OG metadata
         self.cache = ExpiringCache(
@@ -74,6 +92,36 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(BaseMediaResource):
             else:
                 ts = self.clock.time_msec()
 
+            # impose the URL pattern blacklist
+            if hasattr(self, "url_preview_url_blacklist"):
+                url_tuple = urlsplit(url)
+                for entry in self.url_preview_url_blacklist:
+                    match = True
+                    for attrib in entry:
+                        pattern = entry[attrib]
+                        value = getattr(url_tuple, attrib)
+                        logger.debug("Matching attrib '%s' with value '%s' against pattern '%s'" % (
+                            attrib, value, pattern
+                        ))
+
+                        if value is None:
+                            match = False
+                            continue
+
+                        if pattern.startswith('^'):
+                            if not re.match(pattern, getattr(url_tuple, attrib)):
+                                match = False
+                                continue
+                        else:
+                            if not fnmatch.fnmatch(getattr(url_tuple, attrib), pattern):
+                                match = False
+                                continue
+                    if match:
+                        logger.warn(
+                            "URL %s blocked by url_blacklist entry %s", url, entry
+                        )
+                        raise
+
             # first check the memory cache - good to handle all the clients on this
             # HS thundering away to preview the same URL at the same time.
             try:
@@ -177,17 +225,6 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(BaseMediaResource):
 
             respond_with_json_bytes(request, 200, json.dumps(og), send_cors=True)
         except:
-            # XXX: if we don't explicitly respond here, the request never returns.
-            # isn't this what server.py's wrapper is meant to be doing for us?
-            respond_with_json(
-                request,
-                500,
-                {
-                    "error": "Internal server error",
-                    "errcode": Codes.UNKNOWN,
-                },
-                send_cors=True
-            )
             raise
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
@@ -282,8 +319,12 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(BaseMediaResource):
             if meta_description:
                 og['og:description'] = meta_description[0]
             else:
-                # text_nodes = tree.xpath("//h1/text() | //h2/text() | //h3/text() | "
+                # grab any text nodes which are inside the <body/> tag...
-                #    "//p/text() | //div/text() | //span/text() | //a/text()")
+                # unless they are within an HTML5 semantic markup tag...
+                # <header/>, <nav/>, <aside/>, <footer/>
+                # ...or if they are within a <script/> or <style/> tag.
+                # This is a very very very coarse approximation to a plain text
+                # render of the page.
                 text_nodes = tree.xpath("//text()[not(ancestor::header | ancestor::nav | "
                                         "ancestor::aside | ancestor::footer | "
                                         "ancestor::script | ancestor::style)]" +