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Stacked on #1031.

What

Makes Manifest mean validated, and puts the validation at the one place a file becomes a manifest.

#1031 widened rootSignature.alg and segmentHashAlg to RootIntegrityAlgorithm | string to record that they're attacker-controlled. That annotation is doubly wrong:

  1. 'HS256' | string collapses to string. TypeScript reduces a literal union with its own supertype, so the annotation carried no information — it permitted nothing extra and forbade nothing. A comment wearing a type's clothes.
  2. string is the wrong widening anyway. JSON.parse on 0.manifest.json can put 42, null, [], or {} in either position.

The real gap: the read boundary was unguarded. ZipReader.getManifest is the only place a file becomes a Manifest, and it returned JSON.parse(...) directly under a Promise<Manifest> annotation — no cast, no check.

How

Two types, one gate:

Type Meaning Produced by
Unvalidated<Manifest> parsed JSON, nothing proven ZipReader.getManifest, loadTDFStream
Manifest integrity algorithms proven and normalized asManifest()
  • lib/src/json.ts (new) — JsonValue, the deep-widening Unvalidated<T>, and asRecord/asString/asOptionalString guards.
  • lib/tdf3/src/models/manifest.ts — asManifest(), the single gate. Root alg → IntegrityError, segment alg → UnsupportedFeatureError, structural damage → InvalidFileError.
  • lib/tdf3/src/models/integrity-algorithms.ts (new) — the alg unions and their is*/as* functions, extracted from tdf.ts so asManifest isn't in a runtime import cycle. Removes the pre-existing encryption-information.ts ↔ tdf.ts cycle on the way past. tdf.ts re-exports them, so no other import in the repo changes.
  • encryption-information.ts — alg: RootIntegrityAlgorithm, segmentHashAlg?: SegmentIntegrityAlgorithm. The | string is gone.

Inspection paths (reader.manifest(), loadTDFStream, cli inspect) keep the unvalidated type, so a forged file is still dumpable — which is exactly when you want to dump it. The decrypt path calls asManifest first and holds the narrow type throughout, which lets the now-redundant second asRootIntegrityAlgorithm call inside decryptStreamFrom go away. One gate, not two.

Scope of validation

asManifest proves only the fields the reader branches on: the two integrity algorithms, plus a type-only guard on schemaVersion / tdf_spec_version so === '4.2.2' compares two strings rather than silently taking the modern path on an object.

Deliberately not an allowlist on the version. The 4.2.2 branches change encoding, not strength — all still HMAC under the DEK — so a flipped version yields a mismatch, not a forgery. Closing the set would break a future 4.4.0 file for nothing.

Payload, keyAccess, segments, and policy stay unproven, as they are today, with a comment saying so. asManifest is a spread-passthrough rather than a field-by-field constructor on purpose: a constructor silently drops any field you forget, which is a worse failure mode than leaving one unproven.

Why fix and not refactor

The repo's commit-lint job accepts only fix/feat/chore/revert, so refactor isn't available. Of what's left, fix is the honest one: an unguarded JSON.parse boundary on attacker-supplied input is the defect, and the two-type split is how it's closed.

Risk

⚠️ Source-breaking for TypeScript consumers. reader.manifest() now returns Promise<Unvalidated<Manifest>>. Anyone walking the manifest needs one call to migrate:

const manifest = asManifest(await reader.manifest());

asManifest, Unvalidated, and JsonValue are exported from @opentdf/sdk. No wire-format change — this is types and read-time validation only.

Touches integrity verification, so worth a careful look at asManifest and the decryptStreamFrom narrowing.

How to test

cd lib      && npm run build && npm test && npm run lint
cd ../cli   && npm run build && npm test
cd ../web-app && npm run build && npm test
make ci

New coverage in lib/tests/mocha/root-signature.spec.ts — cases the old | string type could not even express:

  • root alg as 42, null, true, {}, ['HS256'] → IntegrityError
  • missing encryptionInformation / integrityInformation / rootSignature → InvalidFileError
  • schemaVersion as 42 / {} → InvalidFileError; '4.4.0' → still decrypts on the modern path (pins the forward compatibility the type-only guard exists to preserve); null / '' on a 4.2.2 file → treated as absent
  • segment alg '' / null → falls back to the root algorithm and still decrypts; 'CRC32' / 42 / {} → UnsupportedFeatureError
  • loadTDFStream on a forged-GMAC file reports alg === 'GMAC' while decryptBuffer still throws — the property the two-type split exists to preserve

Results

  • lib: tsc --noEmit clean, build OK, lint clean, mocha 427 passing / 6 pending, karma 427 SUCCESS, web-test-runner 253 passing, coverage thresholds met
  • cli: build OK, 2 passing. cli inspect needs no change — it only JSON.stringifys the manifest, so the unvalidated type flows through.
  • web-app: tsc + vite build OK, 69 passing, lint clean
  • make lint clean across lib/cli/web-app

An earlier revision of this PR reported 2 FAILED, 415 SUCCESS under karma (detects payload tampering with GMAC/HS256 segments, both TypeError: Failed to fetch). Those were never this PR's — they are fixed in #1031, which stops streamToBuffer from masking a stream error as a network error in Chrome. Nothing to do here.

Playwright (web-app/tests) was not run — it needs the docker-compose Keycloak + platform stack on port 65432, which wasn't available in this environment.

Follow-on candidates (out of scope here)

The scaffolding makes each of these cheap; the cost is deciding how strict to be and checking it against java-sdk/platform.

Worth doing — the reader acts on them: segments[].hash and the size fields (they drive byte offsets and allocation; a negative or absurd number mis-slices the payload), keyAccess[] fields (they pick the unwrap path and KAS endpoint), and the policy.

Probably not worth doing — the reader ignores them: payload.*, method.algorithm, method.iv, encryptionInformation.type. Validating them can't prevent a bad decision because no decision is made from them; it can only newly reject files that read fine today.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added validation for parsed JSON manifests and integrity algorithms.
    • Added support for case-insensitive integrity algorithm handling with safe rejection of unsupported values.
    • Exposed manifest validation and related type information through the SDK.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of malformed manifests, invalid metadata, and algorithm mismatches.
    • Added safer fallbacks for missing segment integrity settings.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for malformed files, forged manifests, algorithm validation, and schema handling.

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The SDK now separates unvalidated manifest inspection from validated decryption. It adds JSON shape validators, typed integrity algorithms, a manifest validation gate, defensive reader and web-app handling, and expanded tampering tests.

Changes

Manifest validation and integrity handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
JSON validation contracts
lib/src/json.ts
Adds JsonValue, Unvalidated<T>, and path-aware validators for records and strings.
Integrity algorithm validation
lib/tdf3/src/models/integrity-algorithms.ts, lib/tdf3/src/models/encryption-information.ts
Adds typed algorithm definitions, case-insensitive normalization, and fail-closed root algorithm validation.
Manifest validation gate
lib/tdf3/src/models/manifest.ts, lib/tdf3/src/tdf.ts, lib/tdf3/src/utils/zip-reader.ts
Validates manifest decision fields before decryption and returns unvalidated manifests for direct inspection.
Reader and application integration
lib/src/opentdf.ts, lib/tdf3/index.ts, lib/tdf3/src/client/index.ts, web-app/src/App.tsx
Updates public exports and reader types. Adds defensive field validation and handling for unknown key-access metadata.
Validation and tampering coverage
lib/tests/mocha/integrity-algorithms.spec.ts, lib/tests/mocha/root-signature.spec.ts
Tests malformed manifests, algorithm fallback and normalization, forged files, and decryption failures.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ZipReader
  participant asManifest
  participant decryptStreamFrom
  participant TDFReader
  ZipReader->>TDFReader: Return unvalidated manifest
  TDFReader->>decryptStreamFrom: Start decryption
  decryptStreamFrom->>asManifest: Validate integrity and version fields
  asManifest-->>decryptStreamFrom: Return validated manifest
  decryptStreamFrom-->>TDFReader: Continue with validated algorithms
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A segment's `GMAC` hash is the AES-GCM tag the AEAD just computed over that
segment's ciphertext, so reading the trailing 16 bytes back out is legitimate.
The root signature covers the aggregate hash — a concatenation of segment
hashes that AES-GCM never processed — so applying the same trailing-bytes
extraction there returns a keyless copy of the last segment hash rather than
anything authenticated.

Because `rootSignature.alg` is read from the unauthenticated manifest and
unknown values were coerced to HS256, an attacker with no key could rewrite
`alg` to `GMAC`, recompute the "signature" from the segment hashes they were
handing over anyway, and then truncate, reorder, or duplicate segments
undetected. AEAD tags bind no ordering, index, or count, so the ordered
segment list is exactly what only the root signature protects.

Split the one overloaded `getSignature` into four functions that say what
they authenticate — `segmentIntegrity`/`rootIntegrity` and their 4.2.2
hex-then-base64 counterparts — so the aggregate hash no longer has a code path
that can read a tag out of it. `segmentIntegrity` accepts HS256 and GMAC;
`rootIntegrity` accepts only HS256. On read, `asRootIntegrityAlgorithm` fails
closed: anything other than HS256, in any casing, raises an
`IntegrityError` rather than being coerced. `asSegmentIntegrityAlgorithm`
stays permissive about casing, since existing writers emit both spellings.

Manifest types widen `rootSignature.alg` and `segmentHashAlg` to plain strings
to reflect that they are attacker-controlled until validated.

Also stop `streamToBuffer` from laundering the error it now raises. It drained
the plaintext with `new Response(stream).arrayBuffer()`, and Chrome replaces
*any* error raised while it pulls a Response body with a bare
`TypeError: Failed to fetch`. So in the browser — and only there — a tampered
payload arrived at the caller indistinguishable from a dropped connection,
which is precisely the distinction this commit exists to make: the first is an
attack and the second is a retry. Draining with a reader instead preserves the
`IntegrityError`. `toString` went through `Response.text()` and had the same
problem; it now buffers first.

Verified against the previous commit as a baseline: with this commit's tests
run on the unfixed code, 14 pass and 9 fail — every case under `controls`
stays green while all 8 `exploit: GMAC root downgrade` cases and the
lowercase-`segmentHashAlg` case fail. The `streamToBuffer` fix is pinned the
same way: reverting it alone turns 409 karma passes into 6 failures — the two
payload-tampering cases plus the four error-propagation cases in
`tests/mocha/unit/decorated-readable-stream.spec.ts` — while Node stays green,
since the masking only ever reproduced in Chrome. With both fixes the whole
suite is green: 409 passing / 6 pending under mocha, 409 under karma, and 253
under web-test-runner.

Signed-off-by: Dave Mihalcik <dmihalcik@virtru.com>
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The previous commit widened `rootSignature.alg` and `segmentHashAlg` to
`RootIntegrityAlgorithm | string` to record that they are attacker-controlled.
That annotation is doubly wrong. TypeScript collapses a literal union with its
own supertype, so `'HS256' | string` is just `string` — the type permitted
nothing extra and forbade nothing, a comment wearing a type's clothes. And
`string` is the wrong widening anyway: `JSON.parse` on `0.manifest.json` can
put `42`, `null`, `[]`, or `{}` in either position.

The real gap was that the read boundary was unguarded. `ZipReader.getManifest`
is the only place a file becomes a `Manifest`, and it returned
`JSON.parse(...)` directly under a `Promise<Manifest>` annotation — no cast, no
check. Every field of every loaded manifest was an unproven assertion; the alg
fields were only the ones where a wrong value is a downgrade rather than a
crash.

Split the type in two. `Unvalidated<Manifest>` is what `JSON.parse` produced:
the shape we hope for, every property optional, every leaf any `JsonValue`.
`Manifest` now means validated, and `asManifest` is the single gate between
them. `alg` and `segmentHashAlg` go back to the real unions.

Inspection paths — `reader.manifest()`, `loadTDFStream`, `cli inspect` — keep
the unvalidated type, so a forged file is still dumpable, which is exactly when
you want to dump it. The decrypt path calls `asManifest` first and holds the
narrow type throughout, which lets the second, redundant
`asRootIntegrityAlgorithm` call inside `decryptStreamFrom` go away: one gate,
not two.

`asManifest` proves only the fields the reader branches on. The integrity
algorithms fail closed as before — root to `IntegrityError`, segment to
`UnsupportedFeatureError`, structural damage to `InvalidFileError`.
`schemaVersion` and `tdf_spec_version` get a type-only guard so `=== '4.2.2'`
compares two strings instead of silently taking the modern path on an object;
deliberately not an allowlist, since the 4.2.2 branches change encoding, not
strength, and closing the set would break a future `4.4.0` file for nothing.
Payload, keyAccess, segments, and policy stay unproven, as they are today, with
a comment saying so.

Extracting the algorithm unions and their `is*`/`as*` functions into
`models/integrity-algorithms.ts` keeps `asManifest` out of a runtime import
cycle, and removes the pre-existing `encryption-information.ts` <-> `tdf.ts`
cycle on the way past. `tdf.ts` re-exports them, so no other import changes.

Tests cover what the old `| string` could not express: root `alg` as a number,
null, boolean, object, and array; missing `encryptionInformation`,
`integrityInformation`, and `rootSignature`; `schemaVersion` as `42` and `{}`;
`'4.4.0'` still decrypting on the modern path; segment alg empty and null
falling back to the root algorithm; and `loadTDFStream` still reporting
`alg === 'GMAC'` on a file `decryptBuffer` refuses — the property the two-type
split exists to preserve.

Typed `fix` rather than `refactor` because the repo's commit-lint job accepts
only fix/feat/chore/revert, and of those `fix` is the honest one: an unguarded
parse boundary on attacker-supplied input is the defect, and the type split is
how it is closed.

BREAKING CHANGE: `reader.manifest()` returns `Promise<Unvalidated<Manifest>>`.
Source-breaking for TypeScript consumers that walk the manifest; migrate with
`asManifest(await reader.manifest())`. No wire-format change.

Signed-off-by: Dave Mihalcik <dmihalcik@virtru.com>
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In `@lib/tdf3/src/models/manifest.ts`:
- Around line 16-86: Update asManifest to validate
encryptionInformation.keyAccess as an array and validate the keyAccess fields
consumed by decryptStreamFrom and splitLookupTableFactory, returning a
normalized Manifest only after these checks pass. Ensure malformed or missing
keyAccess data raises InvalidFileError instead of causing map or filter
TypeErrors, while keeping inspection paths on Unvalidated<Manifest>.

In `@lib/tdf3/src/utils/zip-reader.ts`:
- Line 113: Update ZipReader.getManifest around the JSON.parse call to catch
malformed manifest JSON and throw InvalidFileError instead of exposing the
native SyntaxError. Preserve successful parsing and existing validation behavior
so loadTDFStream and getPolicyId retain their InvalidFileError contract.

In `@web-app/src/App.tsx`:
- Line 155: Update the keyAccess mapping in the manifest inspection flow to
verify keyAccess is an array before iterating, and normalize or skip null and
non-record entries before accessing wrappedKey or other fields. Preserve valid
entries and prevent malformed values from causing the entire inspector result to
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/**
* Prove the parts of a manifest that the reader makes decisions from, and
* return it as a `Manifest`.
*
* This is the only gate between {@link Unvalidated}`<Manifest>` — whatever
* `JSON.parse` produced from a file we did not write — and `Manifest`.
* Inspection paths deliberately stay on the unvalidated type so that a forged
* file is still dumpable; the decrypt path calls this first.
*/
export function asManifest(m: Unvalidated<Manifest>): Manifest {
const ei = asRecord(m.encryptionInformation, 'manifest.encryptionInformation');
const ii = asRecord(
ei.integrityInformation,
'manifest.encryptionInformation.integrityInformation'
);
const rs = asRecord(
ii.rootSignature,
'manifest.encryptionInformation.integrityInformation.rootSignature'
);

// `rootSignature.alg` is unauthenticated manifest data and it selects a
// verification routine. Reject GMAC (in any casing) and every unknown value
// here: a GMAC "root signature" is just a copy of the last segment hash, so
// honouring it would let a keyless attacker truncate, reorder, duplicate or
// drop segments undetected. Fail closed rather than coerce — coercing would
// validate a forged file against the wrong algorithm and mask the downgrade.
const alg = asRootIntegrityAlgorithm(rs.alg);

// Absent, null, or empty means "use the root algorithm", matching the
// `segmentHashAlg || rootIntegrityAlgorithm` fallback this replaces.
const rawSegmentHashAlg = ii.segmentHashAlg;
const segmentHashAlg =
rawSegmentHashAlg === undefined || rawSegmentHashAlg === null || rawSegmentHashAlg === ''
? undefined
: asSegmentIntegrityAlgorithm(rawSegmentHashAlg);

// The spec version selects the legacy 4.2.2 *encoding* for the root
// signature, segment hashes and assertion signatures. Those branches change
// encoding, not strength — all of them still HMAC under the DEK — so a
// flipped version yields a mismatch, not a forgery. Require a string anyway,
// so the `=== '4.2.2'` comparisons compare two strings rather than silently
// taking the modern path on an object.
//
// Deliberately not an allowlist: any value other than '4.2.2' takes the
// modern path, so a future '4.4.0' file stays readable. Closing the set
// would trade a real forward-compatibility regression for nothing.
const schemaVersion = asOptionalString(m.schemaVersion, 'manifest.schemaVersion');
const tdf_spec_version = asOptionalString(m.tdf_spec_version, 'manifest.tdf_spec_version');

// Everything else is still an unproven assertion, exactly as it was before
// this gate existed: payload, method, policy, keyAccess, segments,
// assertions. Only the fields the reader branches on are checked here.
const checked = m as Manifest;
return {
...checked,
schemaVersion,
tdf_spec_version,
encryptionInformation: {
...checked.encryptionInformation,
integrityInformation: {
...checked.encryptionInformation.integrityInformation,
rootSignature: {
...checked.encryptionInformation.integrityInformation.rootSignature,
alg,
},
segmentHashAlg,
},
},
};
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate encryptionInformation.keyAccess in asManifest. decryptStreamFrom passes the returned Manifest to splitLookupTableFactory, which calls .map() and .filter() on keyAccess. A missing or non-array value causes a TypeError. Validate the array and the fields consumed during decryption so malformed files raise InvalidFileError. Keep inspection paths on Unvalidated<Manifest>.

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In `@lib/tdf3/src/models/manifest.ts` around lines 16 - 86, Update asManifest to
validate encryptionInformation.keyAccess as an array and validate the keyAccess
fields consumed by decryptStreamFrom and splitLookupTableFactory, returning a
normalized Manifest only after these checks pass. Ensure malformed or missing
keyAccess data raises InvalidFileError instead of causing map or filter
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const manifest = await this.getChunk(byteStart, byteEnd);

return JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(manifest));
const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(manifest));

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Convert manifest JSON parse failures to InvalidFileError.

ZipReader.getManifest is used by loadTDFStream and getPolicyId. Malformed manifest bytes currently throw native SyntaxError, unlike other invalid manifest cases. Wrap the JSON.parse call so these entrypoints preserve the InvalidFileError contract.

Proposed fix
-    const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(manifest));
+    let parsed: unknown;
+    try {
+      parsed = JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(manifest));
+    } catch {
+      throw new InvalidFileError('manifest is not valid JSON');
+    }
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const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(manifest));
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parsed = JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(manifest));
} catch {
throw new InvalidFileError('manifest is not valid JSON');
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In `@lib/tdf3/src/utils/zip-reader.ts` at line 113, Update ZipReader.getManifest
around the JSON.parse call to catch malformed manifest JSON and throw
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* anything unrecognized is shown as such rather than thrown on.
*/
function kaoMetadataFrom(manifest: Unvalidated<Manifest>): KaoMetadata[] {
return (manifest.encryptionInformation?.keyAccess ?? []).map((kao) => {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Handle malformed keyAccess values before iteration.

Unvalidated<Manifest> can contain arbitrary JSON. A file with keyAccess: {} causes .map() to throw. A file with keyAccess: [null] throws when reading kao.wrappedKey. The surrounding callers then discard the entire inspector result, including valid entries.

Validate that keyAccess is an array and normalize non-record entries before reading their fields.

Proposed fix
 function kaoMetadataFrom(manifest: Unvalidated<Manifest>): KaoMetadata[] {
-  return (manifest.encryptionInformation?.keyAccess ?? []).map((kao) => {
-    const wrappedKey = typeof kao.wrappedKey === 'string' ? kao.wrappedKey : '';
+  const keyAccess = manifest.encryptionInformation?.keyAccess;
+  if (!Array.isArray(keyAccess)) {
+    return [];
+  }
+  return keyAccess.map((kao) => {
+    const record =
+      kao !== null && typeof kao === 'object' && !Array.isArray(kao)
+        ? (kao as Record<string, unknown>)
+        : {};
+    const wrappedKey = typeof record.wrappedKey === 'string' ? record.wrappedKey : '';
     return {
-      kid: typeof kao.kid === 'string' ? kao.kid : '(no kid)',
-      type: asKeyAccessType(kao.type),
-      url: asDisplayString(kao.url),
-      protocol: asDisplayString(kao.protocol),
+      kid: typeof record.kid === 'string' ? record.kid : '(no kid)',
+      type: asKeyAccessType(record.type),
+      url: asDisplayString(record.url),
+      protocol: asDisplayString(record.protocol),
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In `@web-app/src/App.tsx` at line 155, Update the keyAccess mapping in the
manifest inspection flow to verify keyAccess is an array before iterating, and
normalize or skip null and non-record entries before accessing wrappedKey or
other fields. Preserve valid entries and prevent malformed values from causing
the entire inspector result to be discarded.

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dmihalcik-virtru removed this pull request from stack #1038 September 17, 2026 13:52
Base automatically changed from DSPX-4703-reject-gmac-root to main September 17, 2026 14:29

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