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Problem

• TZ, NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED, BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH and the six proxy keys of process.env have a native getter and setter. They are CustomAccessor properties (src/jsc/bindings/JSEnvironmentVariableMap.cpp:1091): a descriptor gives JS both functions, and JSC passes them the receiver as this.
• The functions write onto this with putDirect(). A WebAssembly GC reference as this aborts: release panic(main thread): abort() called, debug ASSERTION FAILED: WebAssemblyGCStructure should not do transition. The proxy-key setter can segfault.
• Object.create(process.env).NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = "0" turns off the certificate check process-wide. Node.js defines the key on the child.

Fix

• Install the nine keys as CustomValue: a data descriptor as in Node.js, and JSC passes the holder as this.
• A Proxy with no traps over process.env still reaches a setter as this. So each setter checks that this holds it, and else defines the property on this.
• JSEnvironmentVariableMap::put and JSSharedEnvMap::put call JSObject::put first when the receiver is not process.env, as JSCallbackObject::put does.
• Verified: test/js/node/process/process-env-native-keys.test.ts (new, 8 of 8 fail on main). Self-reviewed: 6 findings, 5 addressed (not the Windows set trap, see Notes).

Background

• A custom property in JSC is a pair of C++ functions. A CustomAccessor gets the receiver as this: the object the access starts from, the child in Object.create(process.env).TZ. Its descriptor exposes the functions. A CustomValue gets the holder: the object that has the property.
• put is the [[Set]] hook of both native process.env classes. JSSharedEnvMap serves a thread that starts a SHARE_ENV worker.
• A WebAssembly GC reference is the JS view of a wasm struct. Its Structure refuses every transition.

Notes

Origin: found in a test of native accessors with unusual receivers, the same one that led to #42575 and #42518. There is no user report.

Repro, bun 1.4.3-canary.1 (b993710, Linux x64) and main (3f7f046, Windows x64). bun env.js TZ, also with NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED and BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH:

const d = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(process.env, process.argv[2]); // { get, set }
// (module (type $s (struct (field (mut i32)))) (func (export "mk") (result (ref null $s)) struct.new_default $s))
const bytes = new Uint8Array([0,0x61,0x73,0x6d,1,0,0,0, 1,10,2, 0x5f,1,0x7f,1, 0x60,0,1,0x63,0, 3,2,1,1, 7,6,1,2,0x6d,0x6b,0,0, 10,7,1,5,0,0xfb,1,0,0x0b]);
const ref = new WebAssembly.Instance(new WebAssembly.Module(bytes)).exports.mk();
d.set.call(ref, "1"); // Linux: abort, exit code 134. Windows: exit code 0xC0000409

• Reflect.get(process.env, "TZ", ref) aborts the same way when TZ is in the environment: the TZ getter caches the value on this with putDirect().
• Reflect.set(process.env, "BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH", "1", ref) aborts too. No descriptor is needed.

The segmentation fault in jsSetterProxyEnvironmentVariable (exit code 139 on Linux). The setter deletes a DontEnum property of that name on this and adds it again with putDirectCustomAccessor(), which sets the CustomValue attribute on any value. JSObject::putInlineSlow then casts the plain object to CustomGetterSetter and calls its setter():

const d = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(process.env, "HTTP_PROXY");
const o = {};
Object.defineProperty(o, "HTTP_PROXY", { value: { a: 1 }, enumerable: false, configurable: true, writable: true });
d.set.call(o, "x");
o.HTTP_PROXY = "y"; // segmentation fault

Writes with another receiver, before this change, on Linux (TZ=UTC at launch):

const child = Object.create(process.env);
child.TZ = "Asia/Tokyo";
Object.hasOwn(child, "TZ");                  // false (Node.js: true)
process.env.TZ;                              // "Asia/Tokyo" (Node.js: "UTC")
new Date(2020, 0, 1).getTimezoneOffset();    // -540 (Node.js: 0)

Object.create(process.env) is a common way to build the env of a child process. Node.js child_process reads env with for...in for that reason. The put override came with #31831 (first release: 1.4.0). Since then put also ran its ToString, its DEP0104 warning and its symbol-key TypeError for a write with another receiver, for every key: Object.create(process.env)[Symbol()] = 1 threw.

After this change, for all nine keys and with every receiver I tried (plain object, child object, frozen object, frozen child in strict mode, Proxy with traps, primitive, WebAssembly GC reference), Reflect.get, Reflect.set and assignment give the same results as Node.js v26.3.0. This holds for JSSharedEnvMap too (checked after new Worker(..., { env: SHARE_ENV })). One engine difference stays: Reflect.set(process.env, key, value, wasmRef) returns false in JSC, and V8 throws TypeError: WebAssembly objects are opaque.

Why CustomValue and also a check in each function:

• With CustomAccessor, JS keeps the native functions. With CustomValue no JS operation returns them: getOwnPropertyDescriptor computes a value, and __lookupGetter__ / __lookupSetter__ return undefined. The other keys of process.env are CustomValue already (jsGetterEnvironmentVariable).
• For a CustomValue property with another receiver, JSObject::putInlineSlow goes to definePropertyOnReceiver, which is the CreateDataProperty step of OrdinarySet. The receiver accepts or rejects the property through its own [[DefineOwnProperty]].
• The attribute alone is not enough. definePropertyOnReceiverSlow asks the receiver for its own property slot. A Proxy with no getOwnPropertyDescriptor trap answers with the slot of its target, and JSC then calls the CustomValue setter with the Proxy as this. Fix type confusion assigning onmessage/onerror through a Proxy of globalThis #37053 fixed the same case for onmessage on a Proxy of globalThis (globalObjectForEventHandler in ZigGlobalObject.cpp). With only the attribute change, new Proxy(process.env, {}).NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = "0" turned the certificate check off while process.env kept its old value.
• The check is holdsEnvAccessor: this has an own property of that name that is this CustomGetterSetter. It works for the POSIX class and for the plain object that holds the properties on Windows. The two getters that cache on this (jsGetterEnvironmentVariable, jsTimeZoneEnvironmentVariableGetter) have it too. I know no path that gives them another this.
• A setter with another this calls createDataProperty(this, ...). A Proxy with no traps forwards that to JSEnvironmentVariableMap::defineOwnProperty, which calls put with process.env as the receiver: a complete write. So new Proxy(process.env, { get }) wrappers (public code has many) keep their write-through for these keys. Node.js does the same when the key is not set, and throws ERR_INVALID_OBJECT_DEFINE_PROPERTY when it is set, as it does for every key that exists. Bun also throws for the other keys that exist, before and after this change.

Other effects of the data descriptor:

• A descriptor can be taken, the key deleted, and the descriptor defined again (the sinon-style stub and restore). Before, Object.defineProperty(process.env, "TZ", descriptor) threw ERR_INVALID_OBJECT_DEFINE_PROPERTY because the descriptor was an accessor descriptor.
• util.inspect(process.env) printed BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH: [Getter/Setter] and HTTP_PROXY: [Getter/Setter]. It now prints the values.
• A key that is not set still exists as a non-enumerable property with the value undefined, as before. Its descriptor is now { value: undefined, writable: true, enumerable: false, configurable: true }.
• Spread, Object.assign, JSON.stringify, structuredClone, Object.entries, for...in, Object.keys, in, hasOwnProperty, and a write, delete, write sequence give the same output before and after, on Linux and on Windows (compared with a script).

Not in this PR:

• On Windows the default process.env is a Proxy (windowsEnv in src/js/builtins/ProcessObjectInternals.ts). Its set trap ignores the receiver for every key, so Object.create(process.env).TZ = v still writes to the environment there. The receiver never reaches native code on that path. I did not change the trap here: with a receiver check, a write through a new Proxy(process.env, { get }) wrapper throws ERR_INVALID_OBJECT_DEFINE_PROPERTY for every key that exists (as in Node.js), and on Windows such a write works today. The nine keys always exist, so for them it throws where Node.js does not. That needs its own change. The two receiver tests skip the default process.env on Windows for that reason, and run there for JSSharedEnvMap.
• After JIT warm-up, process.env.BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH = 1 stores the number: the inline cache calls the setter and skips put. Same before and after. process.env: coerce to string on every execution of an assignment, not just the first #38871 covers this.
• process.env: delete resets native state for proxy vars, BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH and launch-time TZ, and later writes stay live #35003 reworks delete and write for the same keys. It also installs them as CustomValue, as one part of a larger change, with no check in the setters and no put guard. This PR is small and can land first. The constant has the same name, nativeBackedEnvKeyAttributes, so process.env: delete resets native state for proxy vars, BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH and launch-time TZ, and later writes stay live #35003 can drop its copy. process.env: make runtime-set TZ / NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED / BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH enumerable #35254 and process.env: fix assignment to a proxy var after its property is redefined #37054 (both closed) touched the same setters.
• Same defect class at other sites: Native EventEmitter methods: hold the emitter during the call, and write this._events only from the methods that assign #42575 (process.ppid, StringDecoder, the native EventEmitter, require.cache), fs.Stats: make the date accessors define the property like Object.defineProperty #42518 (fs.Stats), worker_threads: do not abort when markAsUntransferable/markAsUncloneable gets a WebAssembly GC reference #42479 (markAsUntransferable), Error.captureStackTrace: honor the target's integrity level #33412 (Error.captureStackTrace).

Suites run with the debug build on Linux: process-env-native-keys.test.ts (also with BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1), process.test.js (171 pass), test/cli/run/env.test.ts, test/cli/test/isolation.test.ts, fetch.tls.test.ts, test/js/bun/http/proxy.test.ts, worker_threads.test.ts (142 pass), worker.test.ts -t env, and in test/js/node/test/parallel/: test-process-env.js, test-process-env-tz.js, test-process-env-delete.js, test-process-env-symbols.js, test-process-env-deprecation.js, test-process-env-ignore-getter-setter.js, test-datetime-change-notify.js, test-child-process-env.js, test-icu-env.js, test-vm-access-process-env.js, test-worker-process-env-shared.js, test-process-load-env-file.js.

On Windows x64 with a debug build: the new file (6 pass, 2 skip), env-windows.test.ts, test/cli/run/env.test.ts, process.test.js (161 pass with --timeout 60000: one test, JIT inline-cache soundness, needs 5.9 s against the 5 s limit on a debug build, with and without this change), worker_threads.test.ts -t SHARE_ENV.

Self-review findings: (1) a Proxy with no traps still reached the setters, (2) JSSharedEnvMap::put had no receiver guard, (3) the comment on the attribute and the test header claimed too much, (4) missing tests for the Proxy case, SHARE_ENV and the descriptor round trip, (5) links and the "Not in this PR" list in this text, (6) the Windows set trap. 1 to 5 are addressed. 6 is not, for the reason above.

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[robobun]

Status

Reproduced on bun 1.4.3-canary.1 (b993710, Linux x64) and on main (3f7f046, Windows x64):

• Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(process.env, "TZ").set.call(wasmGcRef, "1") aborts (Linux exit code 134, Windows 0xC0000409). The same for NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED and BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH.
• Reflect.get(process.env, "TZ", wasmGcRef) aborts when TZ is set at launch.
• The HTTP_PROXY setter on an object that has a non-enumerable HTTP_PROXY, then a write to it: segmentation fault (exit code 139).
• Object.create(process.env).TZ = "Asia/Tokyo" changes the time zone of the process and defines nothing on the child.

Proof for test/js/node/process/process-env-native-keys.test.ts:

• Release build without the fix: 8 of 8 fail. The children print panic(main thread): abort() called.
• Debug build with src/ at main: 8 of 8 fail. The children print ASSERTION FAILED: WebAssemblyGCStructure should not do transition.
• Debug build with the fix: 8 of 8 pass on Linux. On Windows x64: 6 pass, 2 skip (the reason is in the PR text).

CI: build 115491 passed on every lane (7223e4e). No review thread is open. The PR is ready for a maintainer.

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Walkthrough

Changes

The change separates direct process.env writes from foreign-receiver writes. Native-backed keys now use CustomValue descriptors. Tests cover direct environments, SHARE_ENV workers, proxies, rejected receivers, and native state.

Environment receiver semantics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Native property contract src/jsc/bindings/JSEnvironmentVariableMap.cpp	Getters validate receiver ownership. Native-backed keys use CustomValue attributes and retain conditional DontEnum behavior.
Receiver-specific write routing src/jsc/bindings/JSEnvironmentVariableMap.cpp	Direct receivers update native state. Foreign receivers receive ordinary properties. Shared environments apply the same receiver check.
Native-key behavior validation test/js/node/process/process-env-native-keys.test.ts	Tests cover descriptors, deletion and redefinition, alternate receivers, proxies, direct and shared environments, rejected receivers, strict-mode errors, and unchanged native state.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ⬆️ High

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7223e

Inherited reads can reveal process.env-backed values through child objects, and rejected proxy writes can throw unexpectedly. Fix both receiver-semantics regressions before merging.

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On the review finding for defineEnvValueOnForeignThis (shouldThrow): no change, and the thread has the details.

• A frozen or non-extensible receiver does not reach that function. Reflect.set(process.env, key, value, Object.freeze({})) returns false on this build, and the test assertions the finding cites pass.
• The function runs only for a Proxy over process.env that has no getOwnPropertyDescriptor trap. shouldThrow matters only if that Proxy also has a defineProperty trap that returns a falsy value.
• A custom setter cannot see the mode of the assignment, and JSC does not turn its false result into a TypeError. With false, a strict-mode assignment that the Proxy rejects would fail in silence. Native EventEmitter methods: hold the emitter during the call, and write this._events only from the methods that assign #42575 and fs.Stats: make the date accessors define the property like Object.defineProperty #42518 pass true for the same reason.

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The "Merge Risk" note in the summary above repeats the shouldThrow finding. CodeRabbit withdrew that finding in its own thread ("The original finding was incorrect", #42710 (comment)), and the latest review has no actionable comments. No open review thread remains.

Two pushes since the first CI run: 33762eb sets TZ for the child of the Proxy test (the macOS x64 agents are not on UTC), and 7223e4e shortens the new comments in JSEnvironmentVariableMap.cpp to one line each.

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251-253: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate ownership before reading native state.

After these properties changed to CustomValue, an inherited read can invoke these getters with a child object as this. The getters then expose the process.env value instead of returning undefined, unlike jsGetterEnvironmentVariable and jsTimeZoneEnvironmentVariableGetter.

Add holdsEnvAccessor checks for jsGetterProxyEnvironmentVariable, jsNodeTLSRejectUnauthorizedGetter, and jsBunConfigVerboseFetchGetter.

Proposed fix

 auto* thisObject = dynamicDowncast<JSObject>(JSValue::decode(thisValue));
-if (!thisObject) [[unlikely]]
+if (!thisObject || !holdsEnvAccessor(vm, thisObject, propertyName, jsGetterProxyEnvironmentVariable)) [[unlikely]]
     return JSValue::encode(jsUndefined());

 auto* thisObject = dynamicDowncast<JSObject>(JSValue::decode(thisValue));
-if (!thisObject) [[unlikely]]
+if (!thisObject || !holdsEnvAccessor(vm, thisObject, propertyName, jsNodeTLSRejectUnauthorizedGetter)) [[unlikely]]
     return JSValue::encode(jsUndefined());

 auto* thisObject = dynamicDowncast<JSObject>(JSValue::decode(thisValue));
-if (!thisObject) [[unlikely]]
+if (!thisObject || !holdsEnvAccessor(vm, thisObject, propertyName, jsBunConfigVerboseFetchGetter)) [[unlikely]]
     return JSValue::encode(jsUndefined());

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For foreign receivers, defineEnvValueOnForeignThis passes true to createDataProperty, so a proxy that rejects defineProperty throws from Reflect.set rather than returning false. Pass false here so rejected ordinary property definitions retain Reflect.set semantics without affecting direct environment writes.

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On the two findings of the review of 7223e4e (both outside the diff, so they have no thread). No code change for either.

holdsEnvAccessor in the three other getters. The premise is not correct. For a CustomValue property JSC passes the slot base, the object that holds the property, to the getter. It passes the receiver only to a CustomAccessor (PropertySlot::customGetter, and the same rule in the inline cache for CustomValueGetter). So an inherited read calls these getters with process.env as this, not with the child.

• Check on this build, with BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH=0 at launch: process.env.BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH = "curl" stores the value in a private slot on process.env. Object.create(process.env).BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH then returns "curl", also after 300000 reads in a hot function. With the child as this the getter would not find the slot and would return "0".
• That a child reads the value of process.env is the wanted result. It is how a prototype works, Node.js does the same, and the test "a read with another receiver returns the value and leaves the receiver alone" asserts it for all nine keys.
• These three getters do not write on this and do not change native state. The two getters that have the check are the two that cache on this.

shouldThrow in defineEnvValueOnForeignThis. This is the finding that was withdrawn in #42710 (comment). A custom setter cannot see the mode of the assignment, and JSC does not turn its false result into a TypeError. With false, a strict-mode assignment that the Proxy rejects fails in silence.

The "Merge Risk" note in the summary repeats these two findings.

[claude]

Thanks — the host-timezone dependency in the Proxy-write test is now fixed ({ TZ: "Etc/UTC" } is passed explicitly). I re-reviewed after that commit and found no further issues. Because this changes JSC property-attribute semantics (CustomAccessor → CustomValue) on a path that gates NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED and the process proxy vars, a human pass on the bindings would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• Exception-scope discipline on the new branches — defineEnvValueOnForeignThis owns its own ThrowScope and the TZ setter has none to release, so the plain return there is correct; the other three setters use RELEASE_AND_RETURN.
• holdsEnvAccessor uses getDirect (own, non-throwing) and guards isCustomGetterSetter() before the unchecked downcast, so a foreign this can't spoof it.
• Both put overrides gate on isThisValueAltered before the symbol-key TypeError / ToString, matching the JSCallbackObject pattern; the JSSharedEnvMap variant is covered by the SHARE_ENV worker test cases.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR switches nine process.env keys (TZ, NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED, BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH, and six proxy vars) from CustomAccessor to CustomValue in src/jsc/bindings/JSEnvironmentVariableMap.cpp, adds an isThisValueAltered short-circuit to both JSEnvironmentVariableMap::put and JSSharedEnvMap::put, and adds a holdsEnvAccessor receiver check to each custom getter/setter so a foreign this (Proxy, Object.create(process.env), wasm GC struct) never triggers the process-global side effect or the putDirect that aborted on non-transitionable Structures. A new 256-line test file exercises data-descriptor shape, foreign-receiver reads/writes, Proxy-with-no-traps write-through, and the SHARE_ENV worker class.

Security risks

The keys under change directly control TLS certificate verification (NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED) and outbound proxy routing. The change is a hardening — before it, Object.create(process.env).NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = "0" disabled cert checks process-wide, and the native accessor functions were extractable via getOwnPropertyDescriptor and callable on arbitrary receivers. After it, only writes whose receiver is process.env reach the native state. I did not find a path by which the new guards weaken an existing check: holdsEnvAccessor requires an own CustomGetterSetter whose getter pointer matches, which only process.env (or the Windows holder object) satisfies. The Proxy-with-no-traps case correctly forwards through createDataProperty → defineOwnProperty → put with process.env as receiver, so wrapper Proxies keep write-through.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is hand-written C++ against JSC internals (PutPropertySlot receiver semantics, CustomValue vs CustomAccessor dispatch, definePropertyOnReceiverSlow behavior with Proxy targets), and the properties gate security-relevant process state. REVIEW.md flags JSC bindings for exception-scope verification and re-entrancy hazards; the PR description claims BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 was run but a maintainer should confirm. The attribute flip also changes observable descriptor shape for these keys, which is user-facing API surface.

Other factors

My earlier inline finding (the Proxy-write test inherited the host machine's timezone because run() strips TZ from bunEnv) was addressed in commit 7223e4e — the test now passes { TZ: "Etc/UTC" } as set with an explanatory comment. No third-party CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews are outstanding; the coderabbit thread at line 214 was resolved by a non-author. The github-actions inline comments were self-resolved by the author with replies, and the subsequent commit plausibly addressed them. Given the security-sensitive surface and the subtlety of JSC receiver/holder semantics, deferring to a human reviewer rather than approving is the right call.