[Robustness] install.sh: nvm_download: avoid eval so arguments aren't re-parsed by the shell

`install.sh` has its own `nvm_download`, which joined `"$@"` into a single string with `nvm_echo` and rewrote the curl-style flags with `sed`, then ran the result through `eval command wget $ARGS`. Flattening argv into a string is the root cause: every argument was re-parsed by the shell, so any shell metacharacter in a legitimate value was interpreted rather than passed through. An `$NVM_DIR` containing a space silently word-split and wrote to the wrong path, an apostrophe or parentheses were a syntax error, a glob character expanded against the cwd, and an `$NVM_SOURCE` mirror URL with an `&` in its query string backgrounded `wget` and ran the remainder as a bogus command. The `sed` rewrites were also unanchored substring replacements that would mangle a URL legitimately containing `-o `, and `ARGS` was an undeclared global that `nvm_reset` never unset. Translate the flags per-argument with a POSIX `set --` loop and invoke `command wget "$@"` instead, so each argument stays a literal argv element. This is the same shape `nvm.sh`'s `nvm_download` has used since 6d870d18, and it stops the two implementations from diverging. Unlike `nvm.sh`, no mirror-supplied data reaches this function: its arguments come only from `$NVM_SOURCE`, `$NVM_INSTALL_GITHUB_REPO`, `$NVM_INSTALL_VERSION`, `$NVM_DIR`, `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME`, and `$HOME`, and `install.sh`'s `nvm_latest_version` is a hardcoded string rather than `nvm.sh`'s `nvm_get_latest`. This is therefore a robustness fix and not a security one, since the only party who can influence these arguments is the one already running the installer.
2026-07-18 21:08:23 +08:00 · 2026-07-15 15:55:21 -07:00
parent 52047edfb1
commit b17550a0b9
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+OLDPATH="$PATH"
+WORK="$PWD/nvm_download-noeval-work.$$"
+TEST_BIN="$WORK/bin"
+ARGV_LOG="$WORK/argv.log"
+PROOF="$WORK/nvm_injection_proof"
+
+cleanup() {
+  unset -f die cleanup
+  rm -rf "$WORK"
+  export PATH="$OLDPATH"
+}
+die () { echo "$@" ; cleanup ; exit 1; }
+
+NVM_ENV=testing \. ../../install.sh
+
+mkdir -p "$TEST_BIN"
+
+# fake curl/wget: record each received argument verbatim, then succeed
+{
+  echo '#!/bin/sh'
+  echo ': > "$ARGV_LOG"'
+  echo 'for a in "$@"; do printf "%s\n" "$a" >> "$ARGV_LOG"; done'
+  echo 'exit 0'
+} > "$TEST_BIN/curl"
+chmod +x "$TEST_BIN/curl"
+cp "$TEST_BIN/curl" "$TEST_BIN/wget"
+
+# the wget-path calls below restrict PATH to $TEST_BIN so that no real curl is
+# found; link sed and touch in so that a regression to the old sed|eval
+# implementation fails this test by actually injecting, rather than by failing
+# to find the binaries the injection needs
+ln -s "$(command -v sed)" "$TEST_BIN/sed"
+ln -s "$(command -v touch)" "$TEST_BIN/touch"
+
+export ARGV_LOG
+export PATH="$TEST_BIN:$OLDPATH"
+
+URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/HEAD/nvm.sh"
+
+# given a url containing command-substitution syntax
+INJECT_URL="http://example.test/v1\$(touch ${PROOF})/x"
+
+# when nvm_download is invoked (curl path)
+rm -f "$PROOF"
+nvm_download "$INJECT_URL" -o - || die 'nvm_download (curl) returned nonzero on injection url'
+# then the substitution must not have executed
+[ ! -e "$PROOF" ] || die "command injection fired via curl path: proof file was created"
+# and curl must have received the url as one literal argument
+grep -Fxq "$INJECT_URL" "$ARGV_LOG" || die "curl did not receive the url as a single literal argument; got: $(cat "$ARGV_LOG")"
+
+# given curl is unavailable (the wget-path calls run with PATH limited to our
+# fake wget, so neither the fake nor the system curl is found)
+rm -f "$TEST_BIN/curl"
+
+# when nvm_download is invoked with the injection url (wget path)
+rm -f "$PROOF"
+( PATH="$TEST_BIN"; export PATH; nvm_download "$INJECT_URL" -o - ) || die 'nvm_download (wget) returned nonzero on injection url'
+# then the substitution must not have executed
+[ ! -e "$PROOF" ] || die "command injection fired via wget path: proof file was created"
+grep -Fxq "$INJECT_URL" "$ARGV_LOG" || die "wget did not receive the url as a single literal argument; got: $(cat "$ARGV_LOG")"
+
+# given an output path containing a space, as a real $NVM_DIR may
+SPACED_DIR="$WORK/dir with space"
+SPACED="$SPACED_DIR/nvm.sh"
+mkdir -p "$SPACED_DIR"
+
+# when nvm_download is invoked with it (wget path)
+( PATH="$TEST_BIN"; export PATH; nvm_download -s "$URL" -o "$SPACED" ) || die 'nvm_download (wget) returned nonzero on spaced output path'
+# then wget receives it as one argument rather than word-split
+grep -Fxq "$SPACED" "$ARGV_LOG" || die "wget did not receive the spaced output path as a single argument; got: $(cat "$ARGV_LOG")"
+
+# given a url with an ampersand in its query string, as a real mirror may
+AMP_URL="http://example.test/nvm.sh?a=1&b=2"
+
+# when nvm_download is invoked with it (wget path)
+( PATH="$TEST_BIN"; export PATH; nvm_download -s "$AMP_URL" -o - ) || die 'nvm_download (wget) returned nonzero on ampersand url'
+# then the url is passed intact rather than backgrounding the command
+grep -Fxq "$AMP_URL" "$ARGV_LOG" || die "wget did not receive the ampersand url intact; got: $(cat "$ARGV_LOG")"
+
+# when invoked with -L -C - --progress-bar URL -o FILE (wget path)
+FILE="$WORK/target"
+( PATH="$TEST_BIN"; export PATH; nvm_download -L -C - --progress-bar "$URL" -o "$FILE" ) || die 'nvm_download (wget) returned nonzero on normal url'
+# then flags are translated to wget equivalents
+grep -Fxqe "-c" "$ARGV_LOG" || die "wget did not translate -C - to -c; got: $(cat "$ARGV_LOG")"
+grep -Fxqe "--progress=bar" "$ARGV_LOG" || die "wget did not translate --progress-bar; got: $(cat "$ARGV_LOG")"
+grep -Fxqe "-O" "$ARGV_LOG" || die "wget did not translate -o to -O; got: $(cat "$ARGV_LOG")"
+grep -Fxqe "-L" "$ARGV_LOG" && die "wget should drop -L; got: $(cat "$ARGV_LOG")"
+grep -Fxqe "-C" "$ARGV_LOG" && die "wget should not pass -C through; got: $(cat "$ARGV_LOG")"
+grep -Fxqe "-" "$ARGV_LOG" && die "wget should drop the lone - after -C; got: $(cat "$ARGV_LOG")"
+
+# when invoked with -s (wget path)
+( PATH="$TEST_BIN"; export PATH; nvm_download -s "$URL" -o "$FILE" ) || die 'nvm_download (wget) returned nonzero on -s url'
+# then -s becomes -q
+grep -Fxqe "-q" "$ARGV_LOG" || die "wget did not translate -s to -q; got: $(cat "$ARGV_LOG")"
+
+cleanup
+echo "nvm_download no eval injection: passed"