[paoValle]

MavenHandler.handleDownload answered 404 for a path parsePath could not read only when the path had four or more segments, so bar/1.0/bar-1.0.jar was proxied uncached: past the denylist, the pre-cache scan and the cooldown. The layout has no shorter path, so the count is gone, and TestMavenDottedGroupDirectoryNotCachedAsGroup now covers /bar/1.0/bar-1.0.jar and /bar-1.0.jar.

The suite is green with the race detector, and reverting the change makes both short paths return 200. A short file with an extension no Maven file has (/bar/1.0/bar-1.0.exe) is matched by isCoordinateFile and still proxied uncached — outside this issue, say if you want it here.

Closes #686.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Invalid Maven paths that resemble artifact coordinates or artifact filenames now return a 404, including paths with stacked checksum or signature suffixes.
  • Non-artifact requests, including repository metadata and unrelated checksum paths, continue to be forwarded upstream.
  • Short artifact-like paths are rejected without an upstream request, while other unparseable paths continue to be proxied.

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Walkthrough

MavenHandler.handleDownload now returns 404 for unparseable paths that match artifact filenames or coordinate filenames. Other unparseable paths are proxied upstream. Checksum and signature suffix recognition now supports stacked suffixes.

Changes: Maven path handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Classify unparseable paths and test routing internal/handler/maven.go, internal/handler/maven_repositories_test.go, internal/handler/download_test.go	The handler uses repeated checksum and signature suffix recognition and coordinate filename matching to classify unparseable paths. Tests cover short and suffixed artifact paths returning 404 across both repository routes, and checksum paths for non-artifact files being proxied.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• git-pkgs/proxy#678: Changes the same Maven path decision and adds tests that this PR extends.

Suggested labels: bug

Suggested reviewers: simonchrz, andrew

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 2ddbd

Short or malformed Maven artifact paths now return 404 instead of bypassing the cache pipeline, while non-artifact metadata paths are still proxied. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to 2ddbd

The change closes an uncached-download bypass for malformed Maven artifact paths. Newly forwarded requests are limited to checksums or signatures of non-artifact files whose underlying filenames already qualified for forwarding. No material security risk was found introduced or worsened by this change.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

• observed — The changed behavior is reachable by HTTP callers choosing Maven request paths across default and named repositories. Those paths remain relative to configured upstream URLs; the PR adds no request-selected upstream host, repository credential, or cross-repository cache identity.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The short recognized-artifact attack path is narrowed: requests previously forwarded outside artifact policy checks now terminate with 404. Conversely, a deep malformed path such as a.b/c/d/archetype-catalog.xml.sha1 becomes forwardable, but its stripped filename is a non-artifact and its bare catalog counterpart already qualified for forwarding. This does not establish a newly admitted policy-controlled artifact.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Uncached forwarding remains separate from the artifact-fetch denylist and cooldown path. Its outbound request copies only the configured Range and If-Range request headers, uses the caller’s cancellation context, and relays the response without artifact caching.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The changed rejection branch acquires no artifact-cache state, so repetition, interruption, and concurrency do not introduce a reservation or staged-artifact cleanup requirement. Newly forwarded non-artifact checksums use the existing request-scoped relay: the primary 404 body is closed before fallback, and the final response body is closed after relaying.

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Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title states the main change: Maven paths too short to hold a Maven coordinate now return 404 instead of being proxied uncached. The raw summary confirms handleDownload now returns 404 for unparse…
Linked Issues check		Issue #686 asks that handleDownload return 404 for artifact, checksum, or coordinate-file paths that parsePath cannot parse, including short paths. The whole-PR diff in internal/handler/maven.go remov…
Out of Scope Changes check		The production change alters only the unparseable-path gate in handleDownload. It also refactors isChecksumFile into a loop over checksummedFile using strings.CutSuffix. The new isChecksumFile returns…

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The title states the main change: Maven paths too short to hold a Maven coordinate now return 404 instead of being proxied uncached. The raw summary confirms handleDownload now returns 404 for unparseable artifact, checksum, or coordinate-file paths, and the PR objectives describe the same behavior change. The title is specific and does not use vague terms. Nothing in the changeset is unrelated to the title.

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Issue #686 asks that handleDownload return 404 for artifact, checksum, or coordinate-file paths that parsePath cannot parse, including short paths. The whole-PR diff in internal/handler/maven.go removes the strings.Count(urlPath, "/") >= minMavenParts-1 guard. The new gate returns http.NotFound when h.isArtifactFile(h.checksummedFile(path.Base(urlPath))) or h.isCoordinateFile(urlPath) is true. This covers /bar/1.0/bar-1.0.jar and /bar-1.0.jar. The checksummedFile helper strips stacked checksum and signature suffixes, so /bar/1.0/bar-1.0.jar.asc.sha1 also gets a 404. TestMavenDottedGroupDirectoryNotCachedAsGroup in maven_repositories_test.go adds these short paths and asserts no upstream request. The issue text also says every unparseable path should get a 404. The PR does not do that. Non-artifact files such as archetype-catalog.xml and its checksums remain proxied. The issue's objective and description limit the requirement to artifact, checksum, and coordinate files, and TestMavenHandler_NonArtifactPathsProxied covers the proxied case. The narrower reading meets the stated objective. The previous PASS is still supported by the current head.

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The production change alters only the unparseable-path gate in handleDownload. It also refactors isChecksumFile into a loop over checksummedFile using strings.CutSuffix. The new isChecksumFile returns true exactly when at least one listed suffix is stripped, which matches the previous HasSuffix behavior. The stacked-suffix handling supports the short checksum and signature paths that the gate must reject. The test changes add the short paths from #686, their checksum and signature variants, and non-artifact checksum cases in download_test.go. No unrelated feature or refactor appears. The PR description notes that /bar/1.0/bar-1.0.exe is still proxied uncached and is outside this issue. The diff does not change that behavior or add a test for it, so it is not an out-of-scope change in this PR.

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[simonchrz]

This also turns some short checksum files that exist upstream into 404s. handleRequest sends every .sha1/.md5/... file to handleDownload, however short the path, and checksums of non-coordinate files can't be parsed either. Two that are on Maven Central:

• /archetype-catalog.xml.sha1 (and .md5)
• /.index/nexus-maven-repository-index.gz.sha1

On main both are proxied and return 200; with this change they return 404. I checked with a small test using mavenRepoUpstream and newMavenRepositoriesHandler.

One way to keep them: answer 404 for an unparsable path only when the file is an artifact (isArtifactFile), a checksum or signature of one (the name minus its checksum suffix passes isArtifactFile), or a coordinate file, and keep proxying the rest. A case for /archetype-catalog.xml.sha1 in the existing fallback test would cover it.

[simonchrz]

I've pushed the fix from my review to your branch (b08dc1a), after merging main. A short path now gets 404 only when it is an artifact, a checksum or signature of one, or a coordinate file. Checksums of other files, such as /archetype-catalog.xml.sha1, are proxied as before. Tests cover both cases.

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