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Problem

• bun publish, pm view, pm diff, pm whoami and audit send the Authorization header over plain HTTP when the request URL is not http(s): htps://host/, host:4873/, an unset url = "$VAR".
• With no credential, bun audit sends the dependency list, and a {} answer gives No vulnerabilities found.
• AsyncHTTP::send_sync (src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs:614) has no scheme check. HTTPClient::start (src/http/lib.rs:2772) dials every non-https URL as plain TCP.

Fix

• send_sync returns the new Error::UnsupportedProtocol before it queues anything. All 15 callers pass through it.
• The commands print error: Registry URL must be http:// or https:// and note: the URL for the default registry starts with "htps://". No other URL text, so no password.
• Verified: 41 tests in the new test/cli/install/unsupported-url-scheme.test.ts. All fail on main 13a98b0 and on Bun 1.4.2.
• Self-reviewed: 47 concerns raised, 36 addressed, 7 in part, 4 moved to a second PR.

Background

• CLI commands use the blocking send_sync. fetch() and bun install use the async path, unchanged: fetch("host:port/path") is pinned as plain HTTP.
• Considered a check in each command (pm view, pm diff, pm whoami, audit: reject a registry URL whose scheme is not http or https #41882): a later command can skip it. Considered a redacted Received: line: each redaction rule met a counterexample.

Downsides

• These commands, and bun audit for a scoped registry, now exit 1 for such a registry URL. bun upgrade refuses such a download. --registry no longer prints its value.
• Not fixed: Scope::from_api rewrites a schemeless registry with a credential in its path to http://.
• Each blocking request pays one compare: +48 instructions, 0 allocations. Release text: +2,304 bytes, same file size.

Notes

Two decisions for a maintainer.

1. Is AsyncHTTP::send_sync the right owner of the check? It also covers bun upgrade, bun create and the --compile download. REVIEW.md asks for a security check that fails closed through one shared predicate, and for the guard in the shared helper.
2. Is an error with no URL text acceptable? REVIEW.md asks for the rejected value in the message. Here only the scheme is echoed, because such a URL can hold a credential in its userinfo, its path or its query. The request behind this PR asked for one redaction. This PR has none.

Where this comes from. An automated check of the registry commands found it. No user reported it and there is no issue. The reason to fix it is the result when it happens: a registry token or a dependency list in cleartext, an audit result from whatever answered, exit code 0, nothing printed. This PR replaces the first version of #41662 (a check in bun publish only) and #41882 (a check in four more commands).

What main does, per case.

• The dialed port accepts plain HTTP (a local registry, a typo before localhost:4873): the request arrives with the token.
• htps://npm.corp.example/ has no port, so main dials port 80 of that host. The request arrives only if that port answers.
• Behind http_proxy, a URL with no host (https:// alone, or $VAR with the variable not set) goes to the proxy in cleartext with the header.
• bun install does not stop these setups first. It checks the scheme only when it has a manifest or tarball to fetch: with nothing to fetch it exits 0 and says nothing about the registry URL.

Requests that the guard now refuses. bun publish: the --tolerate-republish GET and the PUT. bun pm view / bun info. bun pm diff: the manifest and the dist.tarball. bun pm whoami. bun audit: the bulk POST. bun upgrade: the archive URL from the release JSON. bun create and the --compile download pass literal or prefix-checked http(s) URLs. A redirect to another scheme already fails with UnsupportedRedirectProtocol. A command that waits on the async path is not covered (bun ./file.md fetches images with AsyncHTTP::init).

The message. The note says which registry (the default registry, the "@scope" registry, --registry) and one of: starts with "<scheme>://", does not start with "http://" or "https://", has no host. A refused dist.tarball prints error: Tarball URL must be http:// or https:// and note: the URL for package "name" starts with "ftp://". bun publish prints Registry: a URL that starts with "htps://" in its summary. Plain bun publish --dry-run sends nothing, so it still exits 0. The first version printed Received: "<url>" through a redaction. Each rule for it met an input that kept a secret or cut a host: a / in a password, text before the scheme, a credential in the path or the query.

bun audit. On main a scoped registry that fails to send is skipped with a warning and exit 0. That stays for network errors. A URL that is not http(s) now stops the command for a scoped registry too, with and without --json and --silent: no retry fixes it, and a skipped registry would turn a found advisory into No vulnerabilities found.

bun publish. Lifecycle scripts (prepublishOnly, prepack, prepare, postpack) and the pack step run before the PUT, so they run before a bunfig or .npmrc registry is refused. --registry is refused before them.

Not in this PR.

• Scope::from_api (src/install/npm.rs) rebuilds a registry string through URL::href_without_auth when the path has a : or a credential (:_authToken=). For a string with no scheme that helper makes up http:// (or https:// on port 443). The guard then sees an http URL, and bun install sends it too: 16 of the 806 matrix cells below, and registry = "//host:4873/" goes to port 80. A first fix in the helper made http:/host:4873/ dial port 80, so it is not here. A second PR will carry the fix in Scope::from_api. install: .npmrc credentials the npm way — verbatim _auth, no URL-embedded credential in the request path, key-walk lookup for registries and tarballs #40423 rewrites the same credential scan.
• http:// typed for https:// still sends the token in cleartext: http:// is a supported scheme.
• The error lines of bun install (Failed to join registry, Received:, Expected tarball URL) still print the URL as typed. install: redact the registry URL in the manifest, tarball and pnpm named registry messages #38997 is open for those lines.
• --registry keeps its case-sensitive prefix rule from main: --registry HTTP://host/ is refused, bunfig accepts it.
• The async path has no guard. fetch.preconnect("s3://host:port") opens a plain TCP connection (no data goes out).
• The commands build the request URL by concatenation and bun install joins it, so they ask different paths for a registry URL with no trailing slash (Custom registry url gets trimmed if trailing forward slash is missing #14017, install: preserve last registry path segment when URL has no trailing slash #36294).
• install: never drop BUN_CONFIG_REGISTRY / NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY silently #41773 removes the http(s) prefix gate on the registry environment variables. It is safe for these commands only after this PR. Add bun login and bun logout #41293 adds four send_sync callers with a check of their own.

Tests. unsupported-url-scheme.test.ts holds the tests for every caller in one file, like redacted-config-logs.test.ts and config-precedence.test.ts: the rule under test is one predicate. Counts: pm view / info 16, pm whoami 4, publish 7, pm diff 4, audit 9, upgrade 1. On main the four --registry tests and the one-slash dist.tarball test fail on the message only: main refuses that flag before any request too, and the one-slash URL fails to resolve. In the other 36, main sends the request, prints a secret or an audit result, or exits 0. Also run on the debug build, all green: bun-info, bun-pm, bun-audit, bun-publish, bun-upgrade, npmrc, config-precedence, redacted-config-logs, the Registry URLs block of bun-install, fetch-args, fetch-redirect, proxy, the source lints, and the bun_url unit tests under Miri. bun-pm-diff has one red test on my debug build: an engine test that compares two folders, sends no request, and takes 4.8 s to 5.3 s against the 5 s limit.

Self-review. Two rounds, 28 and 19 concerns.

• Moved to the second PR (4): every concern about the Scope::from_api route above.
• In part (7): the --registry wording and password are fixed, its case rule is main's. The body no longer says "all blocking senders", and there is no lint for callers of the async path. One shared function for the blocking registry requests and one request-URL builder on Scope are not built (Custom registry url gets trimmed if trailing forward slash is missing #14017 tracks the URL difference). The registry URL from url = "$VAR" is covered for an unset variable, not for a value with a credential in its path. The reach is stated without counts of public configs, which I did not verify.

Measurements. Release builds of main 13a98b0 and of this branch on that base, linux x64. Tools: size, llvm-nm, gdb (stepi, breakpoint counters). bloaty, strace, perf and valgrind are not installed in this environment.

• send_sync, from entry to the first statement it had before: 17 instructions on main, 65 (http) or 62 (https) on this branch. That is +48 or +45 instructions and one strncasecmp call.
• Allocator calls with a good http:// registry: pm view 191 = 191, pm whoami 147 = 147, audit 188 = 188, publish 668 = 668, pm diff 195 = 195. connect() calls: 2 = 2 in each.
• URL::parse, which fetch() also runs: 1,178 instructions on main, 1,166 on this branch for http://localhost:PORT/left. The scheme predicate moved into a function that inlines.
• Size: the bun file is 80,901,704 bytes on both. size text: 80,732,991 to 80,735,295 (+2,304). 19 symbols change size, net +2,102 bytes: Scope::printable_href +469, report_unsupported_protocol +445, NotHttp::of +293, send_sync +77. No symbol of the async path changes size.
• Refused URL: 0 connect and 0 socket calls in pm view, pm whoami, audit, publish, publish --tolerate-republish and pm diff.
• Matrix on loopback, with a token: 16 URL spellings, 8 config routes, 9 command forms, 1,120 cells. Routes: bunfig object, bunfig string + BUN_CONFIG_TOKEN, bunfig string with :_authToken in the path, bunfig url = "$VAR", bunfig scope, .npmrc registry, .npmrc scope, --registry.
  • The five commands (8 command forms) with the 13 spellings that are not http(s), 806 cells. Main sends the token in 590 (577 to the plain HTTP listener, 13 to the forward proxy), prints a secret from the URL in 53, and exits 0 in 287. This branch sends it in 16, all of them the Scope::from_api route above, and prints 0 secrets.
  • bun install with the same spellings, 104 cells: main sends the token in 2, this branch in the same 2 (that route).
  • The 3 http(s) spellings, 210 cells: 189 send on both builds, and 0 cells differ.
• Matrix with no credential: 13 spellings, 4 routes, 6 command forms, 312 cells. Main sends a request in 192, and bun audit gives a clean result with exit 0 in 48. This branch sends 0.

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Synchronous HTTP requests now reject unsupported protocols. Registry URL helpers classify and report invalid URLs, and package-manager commands handle unsupported-protocol errors. Integration tests cover registry and tarball URL cases across CLI commands.

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Unsupported protocol handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Protocol detection and HTTP error src/url/lib.rs, src/http/error.rs, src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs	The URL parser exposes schemes that match RFC 3986 syntax. Synchronous HTTP requests return UnsupportedProtocol for URLs without an HTTP-like protocol.
Registry diagnostics and command handling src/install/npm.rs, src/install/PackageManager/CommandLineArguments.rs, src/runtime/cli/pm_view_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs, test/cli/install/unsupported-url-scheme.test.ts	Registry helpers classify URL problems and produce credential-free printable URLs. View, whoami, and publish paths report unsupported registry protocols. Integration tests cover registry URL inputs for these commands.
Request-specific protocol errors src/runtime/cli/audit_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/pm_diff_command.rs, test/cli/install/unsupported-url-scheme.test.ts	Audit requests select a registry scope for unsupported-protocol reporting. Package-diff requests distinguish manifest and tarball context. Tests cover audit, diff, and upgrade URL cases.

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Status: reproduced on a release build of main 13a98b0 and on Bun 1.4.2 with plain HTTP listeners on loopback. For a registry URL that is not http(s) (for example htps://localhost:PORT/, localhost:PORT/, or url = "$VAR" with the variable not set), bun publish, bun pm view, bun pm diff, bun pm whoami and bun audit send the request in cleartext with the Authorization header. bun audit also prints No vulnerabilities found for a {} answer.

With this branch the blocking HTTP path refuses such a URL before any request. The commands print error: Registry URL must be http:// or https:// and a note that names the registry and the scheme, and exit 1. The 41 tests in test/cli/install/unsupported-url-scheme.test.ts fail on main and pass on this branch.

This PR now holds the one check for all of these commands. #41882 is closed into it. One route is left for a second PR: Scope::from_api rewrites a registry string with no scheme and a credential in its path to http://.

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In `@src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs`:
- Line 855: Update the scheme-less URL handling in the publish command to use
registry.url.href_without_auth() so embedded credentials are redacted, while
preserving the missing scheme by removing only the helper’s synthetic http://
prefix. Keep the existing behavior for other URL branches and ensure invalid
scheme-less URLs do not expose userinfo.

In `@test/cli/install/bun-publish.test.ts`:
- Line 927: Replace the parameterized test declaration around the registry URL
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- Line 927: Update the registry URL rejection tests around the existing
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Code review found no new issues

No new issues were found in this update; 1 finding from earlier reviews is still open above.

[claude]

The credential-leak on the schemeless branch I flagged earlier is now fixed — redacted_registry_href() strips userinfo on every arm and the new "without a scheme, with userinfo" test case pins it. No further issues from me; leaving final sign-off to a human since this gates a TLS-downgrade / token-exposure path.

Checked: authority_start slicing when protocol is non-empty vs. //-prefixed vs. bare — all index into href safely and the last-@ search is bounded to the authority (first /?#), so a path containing @ won't over-strip. Helper uses bun_core::strings::* per the lint rule and quoting goes through bun.fmt.quote. Tests assert exact stderr, mock.requests empty, and no token in output before the exit code.

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Overview

The latest push replaces the prior two-arm error-echo (which used raw href() for schemeless URLs) with a single redacted_registry_href() helper in src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs that locates the authority (after scheme://, after //, or from offset 0), drops everything up to the last @ within it, and normalizes trailing slashes. The error now quotes via bun_core::fmt::quote. Tests were reorganized into a describe.each matrix and gained a schemeless-with-userinfo case plus an upper-case HTTP:// positive case.

Security risks

The change is a fail-closed guard that stops bun publish from silently sending Authorization: Bearer <token> over plaintext HTTP when the registry scheme is malformed, and the error path now redacts embedded userinfo before echoing to stderr. My earlier finding — that the schemeless arm leaked user:password@ verbatim — is resolved by the new helper and covered by the added test asserting secret-token never appears in output. The PR author notes bun pm view and bun audit share the same gap and are intentionally out of scope here.

Level of scrutiny

Security-adjacent (credential handling, TLS downgrade), so per the approval guidelines I'm not auto-approving even though the diff is small and well-tested. There are also unresolved third-party inline comments on the file whose content isn't visible to me.

Other factors

The helper correctly uses bun_core::strings::{index_of_any, last_index_of_char, without_trailing_slash} rather than str::find/iter().position(), satisfying the crate-level lint. The test matrix covers bunfig default/scoped, .npmrc default/scoped, embedded-token URL, schemeless with and without userinfo, and --dry-run, with stderr asserted before exit code and a mock listener proving no request was sent.

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src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs (1)

851-851: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Sensitive Data Exposure (CWE-319): Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Reachability: External · Exploitability: Moderate

Do not send credentials over accepted HTTP registries.

has_http_like_protocol() accepts HTTP, and construct_publish_headers() adds registry credentials to the PUT request. A network observer can capture these credentials over plaintext HTTP.

Require HTTPS before sending credentials. If HTTP support is required for local registries, reject authenticated publishes and add a test for this policy.

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In `@src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs` at line 851, Update the publish flow
around has_http_like_protocol and construct_publish_headers so registry
credentials are never sent over plaintext HTTP: require HTTPS for authenticated
publishes, while preserving any explicitly supported unauthenticated local HTTP
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In `@src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs`:
- Around line 2126-2128: Update the authority boundary calculation near
authority_start so it stops at the earliest path, query, or fragment delimiter
from the parsed URL, preventing @ characters in query or fragment data from
affecting host redaction. Preserve existing fragment-before-@ behavior and add
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In `@src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs`:
- Line 851: Update the publish flow around has_http_like_protocol and
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HTTP: require HTTPS for authenticated publishes, while preserving any explicitly
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[robobun]

On the review note about credentials over http:// (CWE-319): this PR keeps authenticated publishes to an explicit http:// registry working, on purpose. An http:// URL is what the user configured, npm publishes to it with credentials too, bun install sends credentials to it, and local registries (Verdaccio on http://localhost:4873/) depend on it. The bug fixed here is different: a URL that does not say http:// at all (htps://, ftp://, no scheme) was silently sent as plaintext. Refusing credentials over explicit http:// would be a separate policy decision for the whole package manager, not for bun publish alone.

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This is Claude (an AI assistant) writing on Jarred's behalf.

Included in #44968, in a different form: the guard only, with other messages; the refused URL is printed without its password.