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1"""
2Security environment settings.
4These settings control security-related behavior like SSRF validation
5and CORS origin restrictions.
6"""
8import os
9from ..env_settings import BooleanSetting, StringSetting
12# External environment variables (set by pytest, CI systems)
13# These are read directly since we don't control them
14PYTEST_CURRENT_TEST = os.environ.get("PYTEST_CURRENT_TEST")
17# LDR Security settings (our application's security configuration)
18SECURITY_SETTINGS = [
19 StringSetting(
20 key="security.cors.allowed_origins",
21 description=(
22 "Allowed CORS origins for API routes (comma-separated). "
23 "Use '*' for all origins, empty for same-origin only. "
24 "Example: 'https://example.com,https://app.example.com'"
25 ),
26 default=None,
27 ),
28 StringSetting(
29 key="security.websocket.allowed_origins",
30 description=(
31 "Allowed origins for WebSocket/Socket.IO connections (comma-separated). "
32 "Unset or empty means same-origin only (default); use '*' to allow all origins. "
33 "Example: 'https://example.com,https://app.example.com'"
34 ),
35 default=None,
36 ),
37 BooleanSetting(
38 key="notifications.allow_private_ips",
39 description=(
40 "Allow notification webhooks to target private/local IP addresses. "
41 "Environment-only to prevent SSRF bypass via the user-writable settings API. "
42 "Only enable this if your notification endpoints are on a trusted local network."
43 ),
44 default=False,
45 ),
46 BooleanSetting(
47 key="security.allow_nat64",
48 description=(
49 "Allow outbound traffic to NAT64 prefixes (64:ff9b::/96 RFC 6052 "
50 "well-known and 64:ff9b:1::/48 RFC 8215 local-use). Disabled by "
51 "default to close the IPv6-wrapped SSRF bypass class — on hosts "
52 "configured with NAT64 routes, attacker-supplied URLs can wrap "
53 "cloud-metadata or RFC1918 destinations through these prefixes. "
54 "Enable only on IPv6-only deployments (DNS64+NAT64) where "
55 "outbound IPv4 traffic is synthesized through this prefix and "
56 "the operator has accepted the residual SSRF risk. 6to4 "
57 "(2002::/16), Teredo (2001::/32), the discard prefix "
58 "(100::/64), the deprecated IPv4-Compatible IPv6 form "
59 "(::/96, except ::1 loopback which follows the loopback/"
60 "private flags), and the IPv4-Translated/SIIT form "
61 "(::ffff:0:0:0/96) remain unconditionally blocked because "
62 "they have no live legitimate use in 2026. The cloud-metadata block "
63 "(ALWAYS_BLOCKED_METADATA_IPS) still applies via embedded-IPv4 "
64 "extraction — see SECURITY.md."
65 ),
66 default=False,
67 ),
68 BooleanSetting(
69 key="notifications.allow_outbound",
70 description=(
71 "Master switch for outbound notification webhooks (Apprise). "
72 "Disabled by default so outbound delivery requires an explicit "
73 "operator decision. The send path uses a synchronous DNS guard "
74 "against rebinding and private/metadata access; see SECURITY.md "
75 "'Notification Webhook SSRF' for details. Distinct from the per-user "
76 "notifications.enabled toggle in the settings UI: this is the "
77 "server-level operator gate, env-only so it cannot be flipped via "
78 "the user-writable settings API."
79 ),
80 default=False,
81 ),
82 BooleanSetting(
83 key="policy.allow_unprotected_egress",
84 description=(
85 "Allow users to select the UNPROTECTED egress scope. Disabled by "
86 "default; this is an environment-only operator gate and cannot be "
87 "changed through the user-writable settings API. Hard SSRF and "
88 "cloud-metadata protections remain active when enabled."
89 ),
90 default=False,
91 ),
92 BooleanSetting(
93 key="search.allow_private_engine_urls",
94 description=(
95 "Allow user-editable PUBLIC search-engine URLs (e.g. the SearXNG "
96 "instance_url) to point at private / loopback / link-local "
97 "addresses. Environment-only operator gate so it cannot be flipped "
98 "through the user-writable settings API. Disabled by default: a "
99 "public-nature engine (its data source is the public internet) "
100 "pointed at an internal host lets any authenticated user turn a "
101 "research run into an internal port scan / service probe, breaking "
102 "the PUBLIC_ONLY egress promise. Enable only when you self-host "
103 "SearXNG on localhost/LAN and accept that engine fetches may reach "
104 "your private network. To approve only specific origins instead "
105 "of all private addresses, use the finer-grained "
106 "LDR_SEARCH_PRIVATE_ENGINE_URL_ALLOWLIST. "
107 "Docker deployments instead pin the URL "
108 "directly via LDR_SEARCH_ENGINE_WEB_SEARXNG_DEFAULT_PARAMS_"
109 "INSTANCE_URL, which is trusted as operator-provisioned. "
110 "Cloud-metadata endpoints (ALWAYS_BLOCKED_METADATA_IPS) stay "
111 "blocked regardless of this flag."
112 ),
113 default=False,
114 ),
115 StringSetting(
116 key="search.private_engine_url_allowlist",
117 description=(
118 "Comma-separated list of exact URL origins "
119 "(scheme://host[:port]) that user-editable PUBLIC search-engine "
120 "URLs (e.g. the SearXNG instance_url) may use even though they "
121 "are private / loopback / link-local — e.g. "
122 "'http://localhost:8080,http://192.168.1.5:8888'. Finer-grained "
123 "alternative to LDR_SEARCH_ALLOW_PRIVATE_ENGINE_URLS=true: "
124 "private egress is enabled for an engine only when its "
125 "configured URL matches a listed origin (the engine's request "
126 "chain, including redirects, then runs with private access — "
127 "like the blanket flag, but conditional on the match), rather "
128 "than for any private URL. Matching is exact scheme + host + port "
129 "(default ports 80/443 implied, host case-insensitive, "
130 "path/query ignored); no wildcards or CIDR ranges. Entries that "
131 "fail to parse are ignored. Environment-only operator setting "
132 "so it cannot be edited through the user-writable settings API. "
133 "Cloud-metadata endpoints (ALWAYS_BLOCKED_METADATA_IPS) and "
134 "non-http(s) schemes stay blocked even if listed."
135 ),
136 default=None,
137 ),
138 BooleanSetting(
139 key="search.allow_private_result_fetch",
140 description=(
141 "Allow full-content fetching (search.snippets_only off) to "
142 "follow the RESULT URLs a PUBLIC search engine returns into "
143 "private / "
144 "loopback addresses, e.g. an internal wiki that a self-hosted "
145 "SearXNG instance indexes. Distinct from, and required in "
146 "addition to, the instance-URL approval "
147 "(LDR_SEARCH_ALLOW_PRIVATE_ENGINE_URLS, "
148 "LDR_SEARCH_PRIVATE_ENGINE_URL_ALLOWLIST or an env-locked "
149 "instance URL): that approval only covers reaching the engine "
150 "itself, and because a public engine proxies the public web, "
151 "extending it to the URLs the engine returns would let a "
152 "poisoned index turn result fetching into a scan of the LDR "
153 "host's private network. Environment-only operator gate so it "
154 "cannot be flipped through the user-writable settings API. "
155 "Disabled by default and not set by the bundled "
156 "docker-compose.yml. Link-local addresses (169.254.0.0/16, "
157 "fe80::/10) and the cloud-metadata endpoints in "
158 "ALWAYS_BLOCKED_METADATA_IPS stay blocked regardless of this "
159 "flag. Takes effect only under the unprotected egress scope: "
160 "under every other scope, the default adaptive scope included, "
161 "private result URLs stay blocked even with this flag set."
162 ),
163 default=False,
164 ),
165 BooleanSetting(
166 key="research_library.allow_filesystem_pdf_storage",
167 description=(
168 "Allow users to select the UNENCRYPTED 'filesystem' PDF storage "
169 "mode for library-downloaded PDFs. Disabled by default; this is "
170 "an environment-only operator gate and cannot be changed through "
171 "the user-writable settings API. Filesystem mode writes fetched "
172 "third-party PDFs as PLAINTEXT to a shared library directory "
173 "(cleartext storage of sensitive information, CWE-312). When "
174 "off, the 'filesystem' option is withheld from the settings UI "
175 "and any stored or "
176 "environment value of 'filesystem' is coerced to the encrypted "
177 "'database' mode at write time. Previously-written plaintext "
178 "files remain readable. Enable only when the library directory "
179 "lives on an operator-controlled encrypted volume."
180 ),
181 default=False,
182 ),
183 BooleanSetting(
184 key="research_library.allow_shared_library",
185 description=(
186 "Allow shared-library mode, which drops the per-user library "
187 "directory boundary so all users' downloaded PDFs live in one "
188 "shared directory. Disabled by default; this is an "
189 "environment-only operator gate and cannot be enabled through the "
190 "user-writable settings API. The shared_library flag is otherwise "
191 "user-editable; leaving shared mode user-toggleable would let an "
192 "account drop its per-user directory boundary. The storage_path "
193 "is now operator-only, but legacy saved paths remain in place. "
194 "When off, the per-user subdirectory is always "
195 "enforced regardless of the user's shared_library setting. Enable "
196 "only on single-tenant or mutually-trusted deployments."
197 ),
198 default=False,
199 ),
200]