Harden SSRF, XXE, and JWT verification (pen-test remediation)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+## [Unreleased]
+### Security
+- SSRF: `URLValidator` now blocks wildcard/any-local (0.0.0.0, ::) addresses in addition to link-local and private ranges, and checks every address the host resolves to (narrowing the DNS-rebinding window). Loopback stays reachable for same-origin document/WebID dereferencing; the backend triplestore is site-local (already blocked). `ALLOW_INTERNAL_URLS` remains the development escape hatch (LNK-003/LNK-009)
+- XXE: added `SecureXML` hardened parser factories — `XSLTMasterUpdater` parses with DTDs and external entities disabled, and the external responses parsed by `ldh:send-request` use secure processing (entity-expansion capped) with external entities disabled (LNK-005 residual)
+- Upgraded `java-jwt` 3.19.4 → 4.5.2 on the OAuth2/OIDC verification path
+- Documented the pinned-truststore invariant behind the disabled hostname verification on internal HTTP clients
+
+### Added
+- Loopback/wildcard `URLValidator` tests; JWKS-based `JWTVerifier` tests (valid, wrong issuer, wrong audience, expired, missing `kid`, bad signature)
+
 ## [5.6.0] - 2026-07-08
 ### Added
 - `OntologyRepository` (renamed from `OntologyModelGetter`): a bounded, evicting ontology cache that serves bundled vocabularies without querying SPARQL; per-app creation is thread-safe and each ontology is materialized once under a lock (`owl:imports` closure flattened manually, then RDFS-inferred and materialized). Seeded ad-hoc in `Namespace`

pom.xml

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.auth0</groupId>
             <artifactId>java-jwt</artifactId>
-            <version>3.19.4</version>
+            <version>4.5.2</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>net.jodah</groupId>

src/main/java/com/atomgraph/linkeddatahub/Application.java

@@ -1519,6 +1519,7 @@ public static Client getClient(KeyStore keyStore, String keyStorePassword, KeySt
         ctx.init(kmf.getKeyManagers(), tmf.getTrustManagers(), null);
 
         Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> socketFactoryRegistry = RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory>create().
+            // hostname verification is safely disabled because ctx trusts only the pinned truststore; revisit if that truststore ever widens to public CAs
             register("https", new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(ctx, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE)).
             register("http", new PlainConnectionSocketFactory()).
             build();
@@ -1626,6 +1627,7 @@ public static Client getNoCertClient(KeyStore trustStore, Integer maxConnPerRout
             ctx.init(null, tmf.getTrustManagers(), null);
 
             Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> socketFactoryRegistry = RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory>create().
+                // hostname verification is safely disabled because ctx trusts only the pinned truststore; revisit if that truststore ever widens to public CAs
                 register("https", new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(ctx, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE)).
                 register("http", new PlainConnectionSocketFactory()).
                 build();

src/main/java/com/atomgraph/linkeddatahub/server/filter/request/auth/IDTokenFilterBase.java

@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ public SecurityContext authenticate(ContainerRequestContext request)
             else
             {
                 if (log.isDebugEnabled()) log.debug("ID token for subject '{}' has expired at {}, refresh token not found", jwt.getSubject(), jwt.getExpiresAt());
-                throw new TokenExpiredException("ID token for subject '%s' has expired at %s".formatted(jwt.getSubject(), jwt.getExpiresAt()));
+                throw new TokenExpiredException("ID token for subject '%s' has expired at %s".formatted(jwt.getSubject(), jwt.getExpiresAt()), jwt.getExpiresAt().toInstant());
             }
         }
         if (!verify(jwt)) return null;

src/main/java/com/atomgraph/linkeddatahub/server/util/SecureXML.java

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+/**
+ *  Copyright 2026 Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@atomgraph.com>
+ *
+ *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ *  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ *
+ */
+package com.atomgraph.linkeddatahub.server.util;
+
+import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
+import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
+import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
+
+/**
+ * Factory helpers for XML parsers hardened against XXE and entity-expansion (billion laughs) attacks.
+ *
+ * @author Martynas Jusevičius {@literal <martynas@atomgraph.com>}
+ * @see <a href="https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html">OWASP XXE Prevention</a>
+ */
+public final class SecureXML
+{
+
+    private SecureXML()
+    {
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a namespace-aware {@link DocumentBuilderFactory} with DTDs and external entities disabled.
+     * Suitable for parsing trusted internal XML (e.g. stylesheets) that never carries a DOCTYPE.
+     *
+     * @return hardened document builder factory
+     * @throws ParserConfigurationException if a feature cannot be set
+     */
+    public static DocumentBuilderFactory newDocumentBuilderFactory() throws ParserConfigurationException
+    {
+        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+        factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
+        factory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl", true);
+        factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false);
+        factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false);
+        factory.setXIncludeAware(false);
+        factory.setExpandEntityReferences(false);
+        return factory;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an {@link XMLReader} hardened for parsing untrusted external content.
+     * Secure processing caps entity expansion (billion laughs) and external entities are disabled,
+     * while a benign internal DOCTYPE (e.g. XHTML) is still tolerated.
+     *
+     * @return hardened XML reader
+     * @throws ParserConfigurationException if a feature cannot be set
+     * @throws SAXException if the reader cannot be created
+     */
+    public static XMLReader newXMLReader() throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException
+    {
+        SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
+        factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
+        factory.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING, true);
+        factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false);
+        factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false);
+        factory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);
+        return factory.newSAXParser().getXMLReader();
+    }
+
+}

src/main/java/com/atomgraph/linkeddatahub/server/util/URLValidator.java

@@ -52,12 +52,17 @@ public URLValidator(boolean allowInternal)
     /**
      * Validates that the URI does not point to an internal/private network address.
      * Prevents SSRF attacks by blocking access to:
-     * - RFC 1918 private addresses (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16, fc00::/7)
+     * - Wildcard/any-local addresses (0.0.0.0, ::)
+     * - RFC 1918 private addresses (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16, fec0::/10)
      * - Link-local addresses (169.254.0.0/16, fe80::/10)
      *
-     * Note: Loopback addresses (127.0.0.1, localhost, ::1) are NOT blocked as the application
-     * may legitimately need to access resources on the same server (e.g., transformation queries,
-     * WebID documents during development, admin operations).
+     * All addresses the host resolves to are checked (not just the first), narrowing the DNS-rebinding
+     * window where a host publishes both a public and an internal address.
+     *
+     * Loopback addresses (127.0.0.0/8, ::1) are intentionally NOT blocked: LinkedDataHub dereferences
+     * its own documents and WebIDs on the same origin (which is loopback in local/test deployments), while
+     * the backend triplestore is reached over a private/site-local address (blocked above), not loopback.
+     * The {@code ALLOW_INTERNAL_URLS} escape hatch disables all checks for fully-internal deployments.
      *
      * @param uri the URI to validate
      * @return the validated URI
@@ -73,18 +78,18 @@ public URI validate(URI uri)
             String host = uri.getHost();
             if (host == null) throw new IllegalArgumentException("URI host cannot be null");
 
-            // Resolve hostname to IP and check if it's private/internal
+            // Resolve hostname to all IPs and reject if any is wildcard/private/internal (loopback intentionally allowed)
             try
             {
-                InetAddress address = InetAddress.getByName(host);
-
-                // Note: We don't block loopback addresses (127.0.0.1, localhost) because the application
-                // legitimately accesses its own endpoints for various operations
-
-                if (address.isLinkLocalAddress())
-                    throw new InternalURLException(uri, address.getHostAddress());
-                if (address.isSiteLocalAddress())
-                    throw new InternalURLException(uri, address.getHostAddress());
+                for (InetAddress address : InetAddress.getAllByName(host))
+                {
+                    if (address.isAnyLocalAddress())
+                        throw new InternalURLException(uri, address.getHostAddress());
+                    if (address.isLinkLocalAddress())
+                        throw new InternalURLException(uri, address.getHostAddress());
+                    if (address.isSiteLocalAddress())
+                        throw new InternalURLException(uri, address.getHostAddress());
+                }
             }
             catch (UnknownHostException e)
             {

src/main/java/com/atomgraph/linkeddatahub/server/util/XSLTMasterUpdater.java

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 import org.w3c.dom.Node;
 import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
 import jakarta.servlet.ServletContext;
+import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
-import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
 import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
 import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
@@ -203,15 +203,14 @@ public void removePackageImport(Path masterFile, String packagePath) throws IOEx
 
     private Document parseDocument(Path file) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException
     {
-        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
-        factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
-        DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
+        DocumentBuilder builder = SecureXML.newDocumentBuilderFactory().newDocumentBuilder();
         return builder.parse(file.toFile());
     }
 
     private void serializeDocument(Document doc, Path file) throws TransformerException
     {
         TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
+        transformerFactory.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING, true);
         Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
         transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "no");
         transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8");

src/main/java/com/atomgraph/linkeddatahub/writer/function/SendHTTPRequest.java

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
  */
 package com.atomgraph.linkeddatahub.writer.function;
 
+import com.atomgraph.linkeddatahub.server.util.SecureXML;
 import com.atomgraph.linkeddatahub.vocabulary.LDH;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
@@ -25,7 +26,8 @@
 import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedHashMap;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.core.Response;
-import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
+import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
+import javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXSource;
 import net.sf.saxon.s9api.ExtensionFunction;
 import net.sf.saxon.s9api.ItemType;
 import net.sf.saxon.s9api.ItemTypeFactory;
@@ -38,6 +40,8 @@
 import net.sf.saxon.s9api.XdmValue;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 
 /**
  * Executes an HTTP request.
@@ -117,7 +121,7 @@ public XdmValue call(XdmValue[] arguments) throws SaxonApiException
                     if (cr.hasEntity())
                         try (InputStream is = cr.readEntity(InputStream.class))
                         {
-                            return getProcessor().newDocumentBuilder().build(new StreamSource(is));
+                            return getProcessor().newDocumentBuilder().build(new SAXSource(SecureXML.newXMLReader(), new InputSource(is)));
                         }
                 }
             else
@@ -135,14 +139,14 @@ public XdmValue call(XdmValue[] arguments) throws SaxonApiException
                     if (cr.hasEntity())
                         try (InputStream is = cr.readEntity(InputStream.class))
                         {
-                            return getProcessor().newDocumentBuilder().build(new StreamSource(is));
+                            return getProcessor().newDocumentBuilder().build(new SAXSource(SecureXML.newXMLReader(), new InputSource(is)));
                         }
                 }
             }
-            
+
             return XdmEmptySequence.getInstance();
         }
-        catch (IOException ex)
+        catch (IOException | ParserConfigurationException | SAXException ex)
         {
             throw new SaxonApiException(ex);
         }