[Fix] nvm_download_artifact: only put an archive in the cache once its checksum has passed

`nvm install --offline` installs whatever archive sits at the cache path without checking it again, which is only safe if everything nvm writes there has been verified.
When a download failed its checksum, `nvm_download_artifact` removed only the empty `files` directory and left the rejected archive in `$NVM_DIR/.cache`, so a later `nvm install --offline` would install the very tarball the online install had just refused.
An interrupted download was also left at the final cache name.

Download to a temporary `.unverified` name instead, run the 404 and checksum checks on that file, and move it to the cache path only once the checksum has passed.
Every failure path, including a checksum mismatch or a missing expected checksum, now removes the temporary file and the version's cache directory, so `--offline` no longer finds the version at all.
The README's offline section now says that only verified downloads are cached and that `--offline` trusts the cache as-is.

Discovered by Anthropic's OSS Scanner, as vulnerability ANT-2026-7NCT51FE.
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Jordan Harband committed 2026-10-16 22:02:45 -07:00
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#!/bin/sh
WORK="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/nvm_download_artifact_cache.$$"
cleanup () {
command rm -rf "${WORK}"
unset -f cleanup die download_offline nvm_get_mirror nvm_binary_available nvm_get_download_slug nvm_get_artifact_compression nvm_cache_dir nvm_get_checksum nvm_version_greater_than_or_equal_to nvm_download nvm_compare_checksum
}
die () { echo "$@" ; cleanup ; exit 1; }
: nvm.sh
\. ../../../nvm.sh
\. ../../common.sh
TEST_SLUG='node-v20.0.0-linux-x64'
TEST_CACHE_DIR="${WORK}/.cache/bin/${TEST_SLUG}"
TEST_TARBALL="${TEST_CACHE_DIR}/${TEST_SLUG}.tar.gz"
nvm_get_mirror() { nvm_echo 'http://example.com'; }
nvm_binary_available() { return 0; }
nvm_get_download_slug() { nvm_echo "${TEST_SLUG}"; }
nvm_get_artifact_compression() { nvm_echo 'tar.gz'; }
nvm_cache_dir() { nvm_echo "${WORK}/.cache"; }
nvm_get_checksum() { nvm_echo 'fake_checksum'; }
nvm_version_greater_than_or_equal_to() { return 0; }
# appends "downloaded" to the -o target, and records whether that target is the final cache name
nvm_download() {
while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
if [ "$1" = '-o' ]; then
if [ "$2" = "${TEST_TARBALL}" ]; then
command touch "${WORK}/downloaded-to-final-name"
fi
nvm_echo 'downloaded' >> "$2"
return 0
fi
shift
done
return 1
}
download_offline() {
NVM_OFFLINE=1
nvm_download_artifact node binary std v20.0.0
}
command mkdir -p "${WORK}"
# a download with no expected checksum to compare against must not be left in the cache
# (this uses the real `nvm_compare_checksum`, so it runs before that is mocked)
nvm_get_checksum() { nvm_echo ''; }
try nvm_download_artifact node binary std v20.0.0
[ "${CAPTURED_EXIT_CODE}" = '6' ] || die "empty checksum: expected exit code 6, got ${CAPTURED_EXIT_CODE}"
[ ! -e "${TEST_CACHE_DIR}" ] || die "empty checksum: expected ${TEST_CACHE_DIR} to be removed"
try download_offline
[ "${CAPTURED_EXIT_CODE}" = '4' ] || die "empty checksum: expected --offline to find no cached archive (exit code 4), got ${CAPTURED_EXIT_CODE}"
nvm_get_checksum() { nvm_echo 'fake_checksum'; }
# a download that fails its checksum must not be left in the cache either
nvm_compare_checksum() { return 1; }
try nvm_download_artifact node binary std v20.0.0
[ "${CAPTURED_EXIT_CODE}" = '6' ] || die "checksum mismatch: expected exit code 6, got ${CAPTURED_EXIT_CODE}"
[ ! -e "${TEST_CACHE_DIR}" ] || die "checksum mismatch: expected ${TEST_CACHE_DIR} to be removed"
try download_offline
[ "${CAPTURED_EXIT_CODE}" = '4' ] || die "checksum mismatch: expected --offline to find no cached archive (exit code 4), got ${CAPTURED_EXIT_CODE}"
# a successful download is moved into the cache only once it is verified, replacing any leftover partial download
nvm_compare_checksum() { return 0; }
command mkdir -p "${TEST_CACHE_DIR}"
nvm_echo 'partial' > "${TEST_TARBALL}.unverified"
try nvm_download_artifact node binary std v20.0.0
[ "${CAPTURED_EXIT_CODE}" = '0' ] || die "verified download: expected exit code 0, got ${CAPTURED_EXIT_CODE}"
[ "${CAPTURED_STDOUT}" = "${TEST_TARBALL}" ] || die "verified download: expected >${TEST_TARBALL}<, got >${CAPTURED_STDOUT}<"
[ "$(command cat "${TEST_TARBALL}")" = 'downloaded' ] || die "verified download: expected the cached archive to hold only the new download, got >$(command cat "${TEST_TARBALL}")<"
[ ! -e "${TEST_TARBALL}.unverified" ] || die 'verified download: expected no unverified download to remain in the cache'
[ ! -e "${WORK}/downloaded-to-final-name" ] || die 'an unverified download was written to the final cache name, where an interrupted download would be left for --offline'
cleanup