url: throw on NULL in IPv6 hostname

Fixes: #39592

PR-URL: #42313
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Darshan Sen <raisinten@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>

Author: Trott

lib/url.js

@@ -177,7 +177,9 @@ function isIpv6Hostname(hostname) {
 //   as IPv6 by isIpv6Hostname above
 //
 // [1]: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#forbidden-host-code-point
-const forbiddenHostChars = /[\t\n\r #%/:<>?@[\\\]^|]/;
+const forbiddenHostChars = /[\0\t\n\r #%/:<>?@[\\\]^|]/;
+// For IPv6, permit '[', ']', and ':'.
+const forbiddenHostCharsIpv6 = /[\0\t\n\r #%/<>?@\\^|]/;
 
 Url.prototype.parse = function parse(url, parseQueryString, slashesDenoteHost) {
   validateString(url, 'url');
@@ -400,27 +402,33 @@ Url.prototype.parse = function parse(url, parseQueryString, slashesDenoteHost) {
       this.hostname = this.hostname.toLowerCase();
     }
 
-    if (!ipv6Hostname && this.hostname !== '') {
-      // IDNA Support: Returns a punycoded representation of "domain".
-      // It only converts parts of the domain name that
-      // have non-ASCII characters, i.e. it doesn't matter if
-      // you call it with a domain that already is ASCII-only.
-
-      // Use lenient mode (`true`) to try to support even non-compliant
-      // URLs.
-      this.hostname = toASCII(this.hostname, true);
-
-      // Prevent two potential routes of hostname spoofing.
-      // 1. If this.hostname is empty, it must have become empty due to toASCII
-      //    since we checked this.hostname above.
-      // 2. If any of forbiddenHostChars appears in this.hostname, it must have
-      //    also gotten in due to toASCII. This is since getHostname would have
-      //    filtered them out otherwise.
-      // Rather than trying to correct this by moving the non-host part into
-      // the pathname as we've done in getHostname, throw an exception to
-      // convey the severity of this issue.
-      if (this.hostname === '' || forbiddenHostChars.test(this.hostname)) {
-        throw new ERR_INVALID_URL(url);
+    if (this.hostname !== '') {
+      if (ipv6Hostname) {
+        if (forbiddenHostCharsIpv6.test(this.hostname)) {
+          throw new ERR_INVALID_URL(url);
+        }
+      } else {
+        // IDNA Support: Returns a punycoded representation of "domain".
+        // It only converts parts of the domain name that
+        // have non-ASCII characters, i.e. it doesn't matter if
+        // you call it with a domain that already is ASCII-only.
+
+        // Use lenient mode (`true`) to try to support even non-compliant
+        // URLs.
+        this.hostname = toASCII(this.hostname, true);
+
+        // Prevent two potential routes of hostname spoofing.
+        // 1. If this.hostname is empty, it must have become empty due to toASCII
+        //    since we checked this.hostname above.
+        // 2. If any of forbiddenHostChars appears in this.hostname, it must have
+        //    also gotten in due to toASCII. This is since getHostname would have
+        //    filtered them out otherwise.
+        // Rather than trying to correct this by moving the non-host part into
+        // the pathname as we've done in getHostname, throw an exception to
+        // convey the severity of this issue.
+        if (this.hostname === '' || forbiddenHostChars.test(this.hostname)) {
+          throw new ERR_INVALID_URL(url);
+        }
       }
     }
 

test/parallel/test-url-parse-invalid-input.js

@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ assert.throws(() => { url.parse('http://%E0%A4%A@fail'); },
                 return e.code === undefined;
               });
 
+assert.throws(() => { url.parse('http://[127.0.0.1\x00c8763]:8000/'); },
+              { code: 'ERR_INVALID_URL', input: 'http://[127.0.0.1\x00c8763]:8000/' }
+);
+
 if (common.hasIntl) {
   // An array of Unicode code points whose Unicode NFKD contains a "bad
   // character".