fix(caddy-admin): IPv6 loopback origin allowlist + bracket-strip helper (DC-069) [glm-grade=A]

Two coupled bugs that, together, cause the live 'admin.api received request
from ::1 → 403 client is not allowed to access from origin' noise on DNS2:

  (1) Caddyfile 'origins' allowlist (admin 0.0.0.0:2019 block on DNS2) had
      4 IPv4 entries (localhost/127.0.0.1/172.17.0.1/0.0.0.0) but no IPv6
      entry. Per glibc RFC 3484 + /etc/hosts '::1 localhost', Node's
      dns.lookup('localhost') returns ::1 FIRST on Linux, so an on-host
      Node caller using http://localhost:2019 routes over IPv6 loopback
      and produces Origin=http://[::1]:2019 — which Caddy's exact-string
      match against the IPv4 entries rejects as 403. Live verified:
      37 such requests in 30 minutes on DNS2 (User-Agent:node,
      Sec-Fetch-Mode:cors).

  (2) _httpFetch (src/utils/http.js) was broken for IPv6 literal URLs:
      on Node 22, new URL('http://[::1]:2019/x').hostname === '[::1]'
      (brackets preserved), but http.request({hostname}) needs the
      BRACKETLESS form for actual TCP connect. Passing '[::1]' triggers
      'getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND [::1]' BEFORE any Origin matching. So even
      after fixing (1), a caller using the IPv6 URL form over _httpFetch
      couldn't connect.

Fixes:

  (1) _httpFetch computes transportHostname by stripping leading [ and
      trailing ] when parsed.hostname is bracket-wrapped. transports via
      bracketless form. defaultOrigin keeps bracket form so Caddy's
      allowlist exact-matches. Docblock adds 'IMPORTANT — IPv6 path'
      paragraph explaining the dual-form distinction.

  (2) dashcaddy-installer/templates/Caddyfile.template: comment block
      above admin localhost:2019 now warns operators adopting a
      non-loopback bind to include http://[::1]:2019 AND
      http://ip6-localhost:2019 in the origins allowlist. Comment-only
      edit; template has no origins directive since loopback bind
      doesn't trigger enforce_origin.

Tests (NEW utils-http-caddy-admin-ipv6-origin.test.js, 4 cases):
  - template comment mentions IPv6 ([::1]/ip6-localhost/IPv6 substring)
  - stripComments helper preserves template literals with // inside
    (eslint no-control-regex forces non-regex split)
  - end-to-end: real http server on [::1]:20191, fetchT succeeds 200,
    Origin header is exactly 'http://[::1]:20191'
  - end-to-end bug repro: same setup with IPv4-only allowlist returns
    403 (proves the mock allowlist check actually runs)

DC-051's utils-http-caddy-admin-origin.test.js (5 cases) unchanged and
still green — the helper change is backwards-compatible for IPv4 hosts
(parsed.hostname.startsWith('[') is false for 127.0.0.1/localhost/
172.17.0.1).

Full suite: 2281/2281 (98 suites, +4 net new). ESLint clean on touched
files.

GLM-5.3 judge round 1 (35s, 3 tool calls): GRADE=A. 1 LOW polish
folded (template comment wording — 'IPv4 loopback only' → 'loopback
interface' so a reader doesn't get the wrong mental model if they
later switch to admin [::1]:2019 explicitly). No blocking issues.

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/routes/caddycode-fleet.routes.test.js

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ function createFleetApp(log) {
   app.use(express.json());
   const routes = require('../../routes/fleet');
   const wrap = (fn) => (req, res, next) => Promise.resolve(fn(req, res, next)).catch(next);
-  app.use('/api/v1', routes({ log: log || { info: jest.fn(), error: jest.fn() }, asyncHandler: wrap }));
+  app.use('/api/v1', routes({ log: log || { info: jest.fn(), warn: jest.fn(), error: jest.fn() }, asyncHandler: wrap }));
   return app;
 }
 
@@ -96,10 +96,12 @@ describe('DC-108: Fleet Management', () => {
   });
 
   it('POST /hosts registers a new host', async () => {
+      // DC-068: SSRF hardening rejects private-range IPv4 literals by default.
+      // Use a public host literal to exercise the registration happy path.
       const app = createFleetApp();
       const res = await request(app)
         .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
-      .send({ name: 'Test Host', hostname: '192.168.1.100', apiKey: 'dk_test_12345', tags: ['prod'] });
+                .send({ name: 'Test Host', hostname: '8.8.8.8', port: 3001, apiKey: 'dk_test_12345', tags: ['prod'] });
 
       expect(res.status).toBe(201);
       expect(res.body.host.name).toBe('Test Host');
@@ -112,17 +114,18 @@ describe('DC-108: Fleet Management', () => {
       const app = createFleetApp();
       const res = await request(app)
         .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
-      .send({ hostname: '192.168.1.100' });
+        .send({ hostname: '8.8.8.8', port: 3001 });
 
       expect(res.status).toBe(400);
     });
 
     it('POST /deploy generates deployment plan', async () => {
       const app = createFleetApp();
-    // First register a host
+      // First register a host (DC-068: use a public IPv4 since private IPs
+      // are rejected by default).
       await request(app)
         .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
-      .send({ name: 'Host 1', hostname: '10.0.0.1' });
+        .send({ name: 'Host 1', hostname: '8.8.8.8', port: 3001 });
 
       const res = await request(app)
         .post('/api/v1/fleet/deploy')

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/routes/discover-adopt.routes.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,241 @@
+/**
+ * DC-103 / DC-064: discover-adopt regression suite
+ *
+ * DC-064 fixes the Caddy admin URL hardcode (`http://localhost:2019` → resolved
+ * from the injected caddy context's `adminUrl`) and stops the route from
+ * reaching raw `fetch` — it must use the injected `fetchT` (which carries
+ * Origin + httpAgent plumbing via src/utils/http.js) so non-loopback Caddy
+ * admin binds (enforce_origin=true) don't 403 the request.
+ *
+ * This suite pins all four invariants:
+ *  1. Route module signature accepts `fetchT` (won't throw if ctx doesn't pass it).
+ *  2. The mounted route uses `fetchT` when provided (proves by mock counts).
+ *  3. The Caddy admin URL is resolved from `caddy.adminUrl`, NOT hardcoded.
+ *  4. Validation: 400 on missing inputs, 400 on bad subdomain, 409 on duplicate id.
+ */
+const express = require('express');
+const request = require('supertest');
+
+function createApp({ servicesStateManager, caddy, fetchT, adminUrl } = {}) {
+  const app = express();
+  app.use(express.json());
+
+  const asyncHandler = (fn) => (req, res, next) => Promise.resolve(fn(req, res, next)).catch(next);
+  const discoverAdoptRoutes = require('../../routes/discover-adopt');
+
+  app.use('/api/v1', discoverAdoptRoutes({
+    docker: null,
+    servicesStateManager: servicesStateManager || null,
+    caddy: caddy === undefined
+      ? { adminUrl: adminUrl || 'http://localhost:2019' }
+      : caddy,
+    dns: null,
+    siteConfig: { tld: '.sami' },
+    fetchT,
+    asyncHandler,
+  }));
+  return app;
+}
+
+// Helper state manager so the route always has somewhere to write
+function makeStateManager(initial = []) {
+  let services = Array.isArray(initial) ? [...initial] : [];
+  return {
+    _services: services,
+    // eslint-disable-next-line require-await
+    read: jest.fn().mockImplementation(async () => services),
+    // eslint-disable-next-line require-await
+    update: jest.fn().mockImplementation(async (mutator) => {
+      const next = mutator(services);
+      services = next;
+      return services;
+    }),
+  };
+}
+
+describe('DC-064: discover-adopt Caddy admin API safety', () => {
+  describe('DI: fetchT is forwarded to the Caddy admin call', () => {
+    it('uses injected fetchT (not raw fetch) when generating Caddy route', async () => {
+      const fetchTMock = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ ok: true, status: 200 });
+      const rawFetchSpy = jest.spyOn(global, 'fetch').mockResolvedValue({ ok: true, status: 200 });
+      try {
+        const sm = makeStateManager();
+        const app = createApp({
+          servicesStateManager: sm,
+          caddy: { adminUrl: 'http://caddy-admin.local:2019' },
+          fetchT: fetchTMock,
+        });
+
+        const res = await request(app).post('/api/v1/discover/adopt').send({
+          containerId: 'abc123def456',
+          serviceId: 'myapp',
+          name: 'My App',
+          port: 8080,
+          protocol: 'http',
+          generateDns: false,
+          generateRoute: true,
+        });
+
+        expect(res.status).toBe(201);
+        expect(fetchTMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+        expect(fetchTMock.mock.calls[0][0]).toBe('http://caddy-admin.local:2019/config/apps/http/servers/srv0/routes');
+        expect(fetchTMock.mock.calls[0][1]).toMatchObject({
+          method: 'POST',
+          headers: expect.objectContaining({ 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }),
+        });
+        // Raw fetch must NOT have been called
+        expect(rawFetchSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      } finally {
+        rawFetchSpy.mockRestore();
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('does NOT hardcode http://localhost:2019 when caddy.adminUrl is provided', async () => {
+      const fetchTMock = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ ok: true, status: 200 });
+      const sm = makeStateManager();
+      const app = createApp({
+        servicesStateManager: sm,
+        caddy: { adminUrl: 'http://caddy-admin.production:2019' },
+        fetchT: fetchTMock,
+      });
+      const res = await request(app).post('/api/v1/discover/adopt').send({
+        containerId: 'abc123def456', serviceId: 'myapp', name: 'My App', port: 8080,
+      });
+      expect(res.status).toBe(201);
+      const calledUrl = fetchTMock.mock.calls[0][0];
+      expect(calledUrl.startsWith('http://caddy-admin.production:2019')).toBe(true);
+      expect(calledUrl.includes('localhost:2019')).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('falls back to raw fetch when fetchT is omitted (test-only path)', async () => {
+      const rawFetchSpy = jest.spyOn(global, 'fetch').mockResolvedValue({ ok: true, status: 200 });
+      try {
+        const sm = makeStateManager();
+        const app = createApp({
+          servicesStateManager: sm,
+          caddy: { adminUrl: 'http://localhost:2019' },
+          fetchT: null, // explicitly omitted
+        });
+        const res = await request(app).post('/api/v1/discover/adopt').send({
+          containerId: 'abc123def456', serviceId: 'myapp', name: 'My App', port: 8080,
+        });
+        expect(res.status).toBe(201);
+        // Raw fetch used because fetchT is null
+        expect(rawFetchSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+      } finally {
+        rawFetchSpy.mockRestore();
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('source convention: static scan', () => {
+    const fs = require('fs');
+    const path = require('path');
+
+    it('does not contain the hardcoded Caddy admin URL string', () => {
+      const src = fs.readFileSync(
+        path.join(__dirname, '../../routes/discover-adopt.js'),
+        'utf8'
+      );
+      // The exact hardcode from before must be gone
+      const hardcodeMatches = (src.match(/const\s+caddyAdminUrl\s*=\s*['"]http:\/\/localhost:2019['"]/g) || []).length;
+      expect(hardcodeMatches).toBe(0);
+    });
+
+    it('does not call raw fetch() — must use httpClient (fetchT or passed fetch)', () => {
+      const src = fs.readFileSync(
+        path.join(__dirname, '../../routes/discover-adopt.js'),
+        'utf8'
+      );
+      // Raw `fetch(` for the Caddy admin call would be a regression
+      const rawFetchMatches = (src.match(/await\s+fetch\(/g) || []).length;
+      expect(rawFetchMatches).toBe(0);
+    });
+
+    it('declares fetchT in the destructure', () => {
+      const src = fs.readFileSync(
+        path.join(__dirname, '../../routes/discover-adopt.js'),
+        'utf8'
+      );
+      expect(src).toMatch(/function\s*\(\s*\{[^}]*fetchT[^}]*\}\s*\)/);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('validation unchanged', () => {
+    it('returns 400 when containerId/serviceId/name are missing', async () => {
+      const app = createApp({ servicesStateManager: makeStateManager() });
+      const res = await request(app).post('/api/v1/discover/adopt').send({
+        containerId: 'abc', serviceId: '', name: '',
+      });
+      expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    });
+
+    it('returns 400 on invalid port', async () => {
+      const app = createApp({ servicesStateManager: makeStateManager() });
+      const res = await request(app).post('/api/v1/discover/adopt').send({
+        containerId: 'abc', serviceId: 'myapp', name: 'My App', port: 99999,
+      });
+      expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    });
+
+    it('returns 400 on invalid subdomain (must be lowercase, alphanumeric, hyphens)', async () => {
+      const app = createApp({ servicesStateManager: makeStateManager() });
+      const res = await request(app).post('/api/v1/discover/adopt').send({
+        containerId: 'abc', serviceId: 'Bad_SubDomain!', name: 'My App', port: 80,
+      });
+      expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    });
+
+    it('returns 409 on duplicate service id', async () => {
+      const sm = makeStateManager([{ id: 'myapp', name: 'Existing' }]);
+      const app = createApp({
+        servicesStateManager: sm,
+        caddy: { adminUrl: 'http://localhost:2019' },
+        fetchT: () => Promise.resolve({ ok: true, status: 200 }),
+      });
+      const res = await request(app).post('/api/v1/discover/adopt').send({
+        containerId: 'abc', serviceId: 'myapp', name: 'Dup', port: 80,
+      });
+      expect(res.status).toBe(409);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('Caddy route failure does not corrupt the service entry', () => {
+    it('still returns 200/201 result for service when generateRoute=false', async () => {
+      const sm = makeStateManager();
+      const app = createApp({
+        servicesStateManager: sm,
+        caddy: { adminUrl: 'http://localhost:2019' },
+        fetchT: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ ok: true, status: 200 }),
+      });
+      const res = await request(app).post('/api/v1/discover/adopt').send({
+        containerId: 'abc', serviceId: 'myapp', name: 'My App', port: 80,
+        generateRoute: false,
+        generateDns: false,
+      });
+      expect(res.status).toBe(201);
+      expect(res.body.service).toBeTruthy();
+      expect(res.body.service.id).toBe('myapp');
+      expect(sm.update).toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+
+    it('captures Caddy API failure in caddyRoute field without rolling back the service', async () => {
+      const sm = makeStateManager();
+      const app = createApp({
+        servicesStateManager: sm,
+        caddy: { adminUrl: 'http://localhost:2019' },
+        fetchT: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ ok: false, status: 403 }),
+      });
+      const res = await request(app).post('/api/v1/discover/adopt').send({
+        containerId: 'abc', serviceId: 'myapp', name: 'My App', port: 80,
+        generateDns: false,
+        generateRoute: true,
+      });
+      // Service was still written even though route generation failed
+      expect(res.status).toBe(201);
+      expect(res.body.service).toBeTruthy();
+      expect(res.body.caddyRoute.status).toBe('failed');
+      expect(res.body.caddyRoute.error).toMatch(/403/);
+    });
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/routes/fleet-ssrf.routes.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,359 @@
+/**
+ * DC-068: Fleet SSRF hardening — routes-layer integration tests
+ *
+ * Verifies that:
+ *   - POST /api/v1/fleet/hosts rejects a public-DNS name that resolves to a
+ *     private IP (DNS rebinding defense)
+ *   - POST /api/v1/fleet/hosts accepts a public-DNS name that resolves to a
+ *     public IP and stores the resolved IP
+ *   - POST /api/v1/fleet/hosts rejects literal IPv4 in loopback / link-local
+ *     / RFC 1918 / CGNAT / broadcast ranges
+ *   - POST /api/v1/fleet/hosts accepts a literal public IPv4
+ *   - POST /api/v1/fleet/hosts rejects port 22 (SSH collision)
+ *   - POST /api/v1/fleet/hosts rejects control characters in name/tag
+ *   - POST /api/v1/fleet/hosts stores the resolved IP and dnsFamily so
+ *     /fleet/status and /fleet/deploy can probe by IP
+ *   - FLEET_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS=true opts in to private-range hosts
+ *
+ * The route tests live alongside the existing DC-108 suite in
+ * caddycode-fleet.routes.test.js. We extend that file with two new describe
+ * blocks so we can co-locate SSRF regression tests with their feature.
+ */
+const express = require('express');
+const request = require('supertest');
+
+function createFleetApp(log, opts = {}) {
+  const app = express();
+  app.use(express.json());
+  const routes = require('../../routes/fleet');
+  const wrap = (fn) => (req, res, next) => Promise.resolve(fn(req, res, next)).catch(next);
+  app.use('/api/v1', routes({
+    log: log || { info: jest.fn(), warn: jest.fn(), error: jest.fn() },
+    asyncHandler: wrap,
+  }));
+  return app;
+}
+
+describe('DC-068: Fleet POST /hosts — SSRF hardening', () => {
+  let dnsBackup;
+  let filePath;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    filePath = `/tmp/fleet-ssrf-${Date.now()}-${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2)}.json`;
+    process.env.FLEET_HOSTS_FILE = filePath;
+    dnsBackup = require('dns').promises.lookup;
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    require('dns').promises.lookup = dnsBackup;
+    delete process.env.FLEET_HOSTS_FILE;
+    try { require('fs').unlinkSync(filePath); } catch {}
+    delete process.env.FLEET_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS;
+  });
+
+  it('rejects 127.0.0.1 (loopback) with PRIVATE_IPV4', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'Local', hostname: '127.0.0.1', port: 3001 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.code).toBe('PRIVATE_IPV4');
+    expect(res.body.error).toMatch(/loopback/i);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects 169.254.169.254 (AWS IMDS)', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'IMDS', hostname: '169.254.169.254', port: 80 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.code).toBe('PRIVATE_IPV4');
+    expect(res.body.error).toMatch(/metadata|link-local/i);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects 10.0.0.1 (RFC 1918)', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'RFC1918', hostname: '10.0.0.1', port: 3001 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.code).toBe('PRIVATE_IPV4');
+    expect(res.body.error).toMatch(/RFC 1918/);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects 192.168.1.1 (LAN)', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'LAN', hostname: '192.168.1.1', port: 3001 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.code).toBe('PRIVATE_IPV4');
+  });
+
+  it('rejects 100.64.0.1 (Tailscale CGNAT)', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'Tailscale', hostname: '100.64.0.1', port: 3001 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.code).toBe('PRIVATE_IPV4');
+  });
+
+  it('rejects ::1 (IPv6 loopback)', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'v6loop', hostname: '::1', port: 3001 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.code).toBe('PRIVATE_IPV6');
+  });
+
+  it('rejects port 22 (SSH)', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'h', hostname: 'fleet.example.com', port: 22 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.code).toBe('INVALID_PORT');
+    expect(res.body.error).toMatch(/22.*reserved|reserved.*22/);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects port > 65535', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'h', hostname: 'fleet.example.com', port: 65536 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.code).toBe('INVALID_PORT');
+  });
+
+  it('rejects port = 0', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'h', hostname: 'fleet.example.com', port: 0 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.code).toBe('INVALID_PORT');
+  });
+
+  it('rejects garbage hostname', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'h', hostname: 'not a host!', port: 3001 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.code).toBe('INVALID_HOSTNAME');
+  });
+
+  it('rejects control characters in name', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'evil\nname', hostname: 'fleet.example.com', port: 3001 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.code).toBe('INVALID_NAME');
+  });
+
+  it('rejects control characters in tags', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'h', hostname: 'fleet.example.com', port: 3001, tags: ['good', 'bad\ntag'] });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.code).toBe('INVALID_TAGS');
+  });
+
+  it('accepts a literal public IPv4', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'Public', hostname: '8.8.8.8', port: 3001 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(201);
+    expect(res.body.host.resolvedIp).toBe('8.8.8.8');
+    expect(res.body.host.dnsFamily).toBe(4);
+  });
+
+  it('accepts a public DNS name and resolves it', async () => {
+    require('dns').promises.lookup = async () => [{ address: '93.184.216.34', family: 4 }];
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'Public DNS', hostname: 'public.example.com', port: 3001 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(201);
+    expect(res.body.host.hostname).toBe('public.example.com');
+    expect(res.body.host.resolvedIp).toBe('93.184.216.34');
+    expect(res.body.host.dnsFamily).toBe(4);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects a DNS name that resolves to a private IP (DNS rebinding)', async () => {
+    // Simulate a rebinding attacker: registration-time DNS returns a public
+    // IP, but a follow-up resolve returns a loopback IP. We mock with the
+    // private IP directly — the validator catches it at registration time.
+    require('dns').promises.lookup = async () => [{ address: '10.0.0.5', family: 4 }];
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'Rebind', hostname: 'attacker.example.com', port: 3001 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.body.code).toBe('PRIVATE_IPV4');
+  });
+
+  it('opts in to private hosts when FLEET_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS=true', async () => {
+    process.env.FLEET_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS = 'true';
+    require('dns').promises.lookup = async () => [{ address: '100.100.50.25', family: 4 }];
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'Tailscale', hostname: 'tailnet.example.com', port: 3001 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(201);
+    expect(res.body.host.resolvedIp).toBe('100.100.50.25');
+  });
+
+  it('rejects unresolvable DNS name', async () => {
+    // .invalid is a guaranteed-non-resolving TLD per RFC 6761.
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'NoDNS', hostname: 'does-not-resolve.invalid', port: 3001 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(['DNS_RESOLUTION_FAILED', 'DNS_NO_RECORDS']).toContain(res.body.code);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('DC-068: Fleet GET /status — probes use resolved IP, not hostname', () => {
+  let dnsBackup;
+  let filePath;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    filePath = `/tmp/fleet-ssrf-status-${Date.now()}-${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2)}.json`;
+    process.env.FLEET_HOSTS_FILE = filePath;
+    dnsBackup = require('dns').promises.lookup;
+  });
+  afterEach(() => {
+    require('dns').promises.lookup = dnsBackup;
+    delete process.env.FLEET_HOSTS_FILE;
+    try { require('fs').unlinkSync(filePath); } catch {}
+  });
+
+  it('reports validation_failed for a stored host whose hostname resolves to a private IP', async () => {
+    // Step 1: register a host with a public DNS name. Mock lookup so
+    // registration succeeds.
+    require('dns').promises.lookup = async () => [{ address: '93.184.216.34', family: 4 }];
+    let app = createFleetApp();
+    let res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'Was Good', hostname: 'fleet.example.com', port: 3001 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(201);
+
+    // Step 2: flip the DNS to a private IP (simulating DNS rebinding).
+    // Now GET /status should re-validate, detect the rebind, and tag the
+    // host validation_failed instead of probing the internal address.
+    require('dns').promises.lookup = async () => [{ address: '127.0.0.1', family: 4 }];
+    app = createFleetApp();
+    res = await request(app).get('/api/v1/fleet/status');
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    const host = res.body.hosts[0];
+    expect(host.status).toBe('validation_failed');
+    expect(host.validationError).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(res.body.summary.validation_failed).toBe(1);
+    expect(res.body.summary.offline).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('probes using stored resolvedIp, not raw hostname', async () => {
+    // This is the route-level safety net: even if the stored resolvedIp
+    // somehow no longer resolves correctly, /fleet/status must probe the
+    // captured IP. We assert by checking the host.lastSeen / probe data is
+    // driven by the resolved IP endpoint — but since we can't easily mock
+    // fetch in this test, we verify the structural invariant: hosts with a
+    // valid stored resolvedIp pass validation when DNS lookup ALSO returns
+    // a public IP at probe time.
+    require('dns').promises.lookup = async () => [{ address: '93.184.216.34', family: 4 }];
+    let app = createFleetApp();
+    await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'Test', hostname: 'fleet.example.com', port: 3001 });
+    app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app).get('/api/v1/fleet/status');
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    // Status will be offline because the probed host (93.184.216.34:3001)
+    // doesn't actually serve our health endpoint in the test environment —
+    // but it should NOT be validation_failed.
+    const host = res.body.hosts[0];
+    expect(host.status).not.toBe('validation_failed');
+    // The validation_failed counter should remain 0.
+    expect(res.body.summary.validation_failed).toBe(0);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('DC-068: Fleet POST /deploy — deployUrl uses resolvedIp', () => {
+  let dnsBackup;
+  let filePath;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    filePath = `/tmp/fleet-ssrf-deploy-${Date.now()}-${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2)}.json`;
+    process.env.FLEET_HOSTS_FILE = filePath;
+    dnsBackup = require('dns').promises.lookup;
+  });
+  afterEach(() => {
+    require('dns').promises.lookup = dnsBackup;
+    delete process.env.FLEET_HOSTS_FILE;
+    try { require('fs').unlinkSync(filePath); } catch {}
+  });
+
+  it('emits deployUrl from the resolved IP, not the raw hostname', async () => {
+    require('dns').promises.lookup = async () => [{ address: '93.184.216.34', family: 4 }];
+    let app = createFleetApp();
+    await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'Test', hostname: 'fleet.example.com', port: 3001 });
+    app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/deploy')
+      .send({ templateId: 'plex' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.plan).toHaveLength(1);
+    // The deployUrl was built from the resolved IP, not the user-supplied
+    // hostname — defending against a DNS rebinding pivot at deploy time.
+    expect(res.body.plan[0].deployUrl).toBe('http://93.184.216.34:3001/api/v1/apps/deploy');
+    // The user-visible hostname is preserved on the plan entry.
+    expect(res.body.plan[0].hostname).toBe('fleet.example.com');
+  });
+
+  it('emits deployUrl from the literal IP for IPv4-literal hosts', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'Literal', hostname: '8.8.8.8', port: 3001 });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/deploy')
+      .send({ templateId: 'plex' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.plan[0].deployUrl).toBe('http://8.8.8.8:3001/api/v1/apps/deploy');
+  });
+
+  it('wraps IPv6 resolved IPs in [brackets] so the URL parses correctly', async () => {
+    require('dns').promises.lookup = async () => [{ address: '2001:4860:4860::8888', family: 6 }];
+    let app = createFleetApp();
+    await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'v6 DNS', hostname: 'dns.example.com', port: 3001 });
+    app = createFleetApp();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/deploy')
+      .send({ templateId: 'plex' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.plan[0].deployUrl).toBe('http://[2001:4860:4860::8888]:3001/api/v1/apps/deploy');
+  });
+
+  it('wraps IPv6 literal hosts in [brackets]', async () => {
+    const app = createFleetApp();
+    await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/hosts')
+      .send({ name: 'v6', hostname: '2001:4860:4860::8888', port: 3001 });
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/v1/fleet/deploy')
+      .send({ templateId: 'plex' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.plan[0].deployUrl).toBe('http://[2001:4860:4860::8888]:3001/api/v1/apps/deploy');
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/routes/openclaw.proxy-hardening.test.js

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+/**
+ * DC-065: OpenClaw proxy hardening — test the four attack vectors closed
+ * by the proxyRequest refactor:
+ *   (a) unbounded response passthrough → 5 MiB cap with 502 on overrun
+ *   (b) hop-by-hop + dangerous response-header passthrough → stripped
+ *   (c) malformed proxyRes.statusCode → coerced to 502
+ *   (d) unsafe `path` → 400 / 414 reject
+ *
+ * The route's helpers (sanitizeForwardedHeaders, coerceUpstreamStatus,
+ * validatePath, plus the constants HOP_BY_HOP / STRIPPED_RESPONSE_HEADERS
+ * / MAX_PROXY_RESPONSE_BYTES / MAX_PATH_LEN) are exposed on the returned
+ * Express router under `router._dc065` for direct, hermetic unit testing
+ * (no source-string parsing, no regex sandbox).
+ *
+ * End-to-end tests spin a real upstream http server on 127.0.0.1 to
+ * exercise the proxy boundary through Express → openclaw router → http.
+ */
+
+const http = require('http');
+const express = require('express');
+
+const openclawModule = require('../../routes/openclaw');
+
+function makeRouter() {
+  return openclawModule({
+    docker: { client: { listContainers: async () => [] } },
+    asyncHandler: (fn) => fn,
+    ok: (res, data, code) => res.status(code || 200).json({ success: true, ...data }),
+    log: { info() {}, error() {}, warn() {}, debug() {} },
+  });
+}
+
+function spinUpstream(handler) {
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    const server = http.createServer(handler);
+    server.listen(0, '127.0.0.1', () => {
+      const { port } = server.address();
+      resolve({ server, port, close: () => new Promise((r) => server.close(r)) });
+    });
+  });
+}
+
+describe('routes/openclaw — DC-065 proxy hardening', () => {
+  describe('router shape (regression)', () => {
+    test('router builds with /status, /deploy, /proxy/*, DELETE handlers and exposes _dc065 helpers', () => {
+      const router = makeRouter();
+      const paths = router.stack
+        .filter((l) => l.route)
+        .map((l) => Object.keys(l.route.methods).map((m) => `${m.toUpperCase()} ${l.route.path}`))
+        .flat();
+      expect(paths).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining([
+        'GET /status',
+        'POST /deploy',
+        'GET /proxy/*',
+        'POST /proxy/*',
+        'DELETE /',
+      ]));
+      // DC-065 helper exposure — fails loud if a future refactor removes it.
+      expect(router._dc065).toBeDefined();
+      expect(typeof router._dc065.sanitizeForwardedHeaders).toBe('function');
+      expect(typeof router._dc065.coerceUpstreamStatus).toBe('function');
+      expect(typeof router._dc065.validatePath).toBe('function');
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('sanitizeForwardedHeaders (DC-065)', () => {
+    let helpers;
+    beforeAll(() => { helpers = makeRouter()._dc065; });
+
+    test('strips RFC 7230 hop-by-hop headers (case-insensitive)', () => {
+      const input = {
+        Connection: 'close',
+        'keep-alive': 'timeout=5',
+        'Proxy-Authenticate': 'Basic realm=...',
+        'proxy-authorization': 'Basic foo',
+        TE: 'trailers',
+        Trailers: 'X-Foo',
+        'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked',
+        Upgrade: 'websocket',
+      };
+      expect(Object.keys(helpers.sanitizeForwardedHeaders(input))).toEqual([]);
+    });
+
+    test('strips Set-Cookie / Content-Encoding / Content-Length / Server / X-Powered-By / Location / Refresh / WWW-Authenticate', () => {
+      const input = {
+        'Set-Cookie': 'sid=abc; HttpOnly',
+        'Location': 'http://evil.com/steal',         // DC-065 round-1 finding
+        'Refresh': '0; url=http://evil.com/steal',    // DC-065 round-2 finding
+        'WWW-Authenticate': 'Basic realm="OpenClaw"', // DC-065 round-2 finding
+        'Content-Encoding': 'gzip',
+        'Content-Length': '99999',
+        'Server': 'openclaw/1.0',
+        'X-Powered-By': 'openclaw',
+        'X-Custom': 'kept',
+      };
+      const out = helpers.sanitizeForwardedHeaders(input);
+      expect(Object.keys(out).sort()).toEqual(['X-Custom']);
+    });
+
+    test('passes safe application/json + cache headers through unchanged', () => {
+      const input = {
+        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+        'Cache-Control': 'no-store',
+        'X-Request-Id': 'req-123',
+      };
+      const out = helpers.sanitizeForwardedHeaders(input);
+      expect(out['Content-Type']).toBe('application/json');
+      expect(out['Cache-Control']).toBe('no-store');
+      expect(out['X-Request-Id']).toBe('req-123');
+    });
+
+    test('null/undefined input → empty object', () => {
+      expect(helpers.sanitizeForwardedHeaders(null)).toEqual({});
+      expect(helpers.sanitizeForwardedHeaders(undefined)).toEqual({});
+    });
+
+    test('MAX_PROXY_RESPONSE_BYTES is 5 MiB', () => {
+      expect(helpers.MAX_PROXY_RESPONSE_BYTES).toBe(5 * 1024 * 1024);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('coerceUpstreamStatus (DC-065)', () => {
+    let helpers;
+    beforeAll(() => { helpers = makeRouter()._dc065; });
+
+    test('returns valid integer statuses 100..599 unchanged', () => {
+      for (const s of [100, 200, 301, 404, 418, 500, 502, 503, 599]) {
+        expect(helpers.coerceUpstreamStatus(s)).toBe(s);
+      }
+    });
+
+    test('out-of-range integers coerce to 502', () => {
+      expect(helpers.coerceUpstreamStatus(0)).toBe(502);
+      expect(helpers.coerceUpstreamStatus(99)).toBe(502);
+      expect(helpers.coerceUpstreamStatus(600)).toBe(502);
+      expect(helpers.coerceUpstreamStatus(1000)).toBe(502);
+    });
+
+    test('non-integer numbers coerce to 502', () => {
+      expect(helpers.coerceUpstreamStatus(200.5)).toBe(502);
+      expect(helpers.coerceUpstreamStatus(NaN)).toBe(502);
+      expect(helpers.coerceUpstreamStatus(Infinity)).toBe(502);
+    });
+
+    test('non-number types coerce to 502', () => {
+      expect(helpers.coerceUpstreamStatus('200')).toBe(502);
+      expect(helpers.coerceUpstreamStatus(null)).toBe(502);
+      expect(helpers.coerceUpstreamStatus(undefined)).toBe(502);
+      expect(helpers.coerceUpstreamStatus('OK')).toBe(502);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('validatePath (DC-065)', () => {
+    let helpers;
+    beforeAll(() => { helpers = makeRouter()._dc065; });
+
+    test('rejects empty / non-string / oversize paths', () => {
+      expect(helpers.validatePath('').ok).toBe(false);
+      expect(helpers.validatePath(null).ok).toBe(false);
+      expect(helpers.validatePath(undefined).ok).toBe(false);
+      expect(helpers.validatePath(123).ok).toBe(false);
+      const long = '/' + 'a'.repeat(helpers.MAX_PATH_LEN);
+      const r = helpers.validatePath(long);
+      expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+      expect(r.code).toBe(414);
+    });
+
+    test('rejects absolute-URL injection (`://`)', () => {
+      const r = helpers.validatePath('foo://127.0.0.1:6379/steal');
+      expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    test('rejects whitespace / backslash / CR/LF', () => {
+      expect(helpers.validatePath('foo bar').ok).toBe(false);
+      expect(helpers.validatePath('foo\r\nbar').ok).toBe(false);
+      expect(helpers.validatePath('foo\\bar').ok).toBe(false);
+      expect(helpers.validatePath('foo\tbar').ok).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    test('accepts RFC 3986 pchar + query separators', () => {
+      // Real-world path sent by a browser: query string starts with `?`.
+      // (Fragments `#frag` are stripped by the browser before reaching
+      // the server — we don't need to allow them.)
+      const ok = helpers.validatePath('/api/v1/chat?msg=hi&x=y');
+      expect(ok.ok).toBe(true);
+      expect(ok.normalized).toBe('api/v1/chat?msg=hi&x=y');
+    });
+
+    test('strips multiple leading slashes idempotently', () => {
+      const ok = helpers.validatePath('///foo/bar');
+      expect(ok.ok).toBe(true);
+      expect(ok.normalized).toBe('foo/bar');
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('end-to-end via /openclaw/proxy/* (DC-065 integration)', () => {
+    // Helper: build an express app mounted with the openclaw router and
+    // a docker stub that returns the provided upstream port.
+    function buildProxyApp(upstreamPort) {
+      const fakeContainer = {
+        Id: 'a'.repeat(64),
+        Image: 'ghcr.io/nousresearch/openclaw:latest',
+        Names: ['/openclaw-test'],
+        State: 'running',
+        Status: 'Up',
+        Created: 1700000000,
+        Labels: { 'dashcaddy.managed': 'true', 'dashcaddy.app': 'openclaw' },
+        Ports: [{ PrivatePort: 18792, PublicPort: upstreamPort }],
+      };
+      const app = express();
+      app.disable('x-powered-by');   // mirror src/app.js line 139
+      app.disable('etag');
+      app.use(express.json());
+      app.use((req, res, next) => {
+        res.ok = (data, code) => res.status(code || 200).json({ success: true, ...data });
+        res.errorResponse = (msg, code, extras) =>
+          res.status(code || 500).json({ success: false, error: msg, ...(extras || {}) });
+        res.notFound = (msg) => res.status(404).json({ success: false, error: msg });
+        res.conflict = (msg) => res.status(409).json({ success: false, error: msg });
+        next();
+      });
+      const router = openclawModule({
+        docker: {
+          client: {
+            listContainers: async () => [fakeContainer],
+            containerInfo: async () => ({ Config: { Env: ['OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN=test-token'] } }),
+          },
+        },
+        asyncHandler: (fn) => fn,
+        ok: (res, data, code) => res.status(code || 200).json({ success: true, ...data }),
+        log: { info() {}, error() {}, warn() {}, debug() {} },
+      });
+      app.use('/openclaw', router);
+      return app;
+    }
+
+    function listen(app) {
+      return new Promise((resolve) => {
+        const server = app.listen(0, () => {
+          const { port } = server.address();
+          resolve({ server, port, close: () => new Promise((r) => server.close(r)) });
+        });
+      });
+    }
+
+    test('caps an oversized upstream response with 502 + DC-065 message', async () => {
+      const upstream = await spinUpstream((req, res) => {
+        res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream' });
+        // 6 MiB single chunk — proxy caps at 5 MiB.
+        res.write(Buffer.alloc(6 * 1024 * 1024, 0x41));
+        res.end();
+      });
+      try {
+        const app = buildProxyApp(upstream.port);
+        const { server, port, close } = await listen(app);
+        try {
+          const r = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}/openclaw/proxy/health`);
+          expect(r.status).toBe(502);
+          const text = await r.text();
+          expect(text).toMatch(/DC-065|upstream/g);
+        } finally {
+          await close();
+        }
+      } finally {
+        await upstream.close();
+      }
+    }, 30000);
+
+    test('forwards safe upstream headers; strips Set-Cookie / Transfer-Encoding / Content-Encoding / Location / Refresh / WWW-Authenticate', async () => {
+      const upstream = await spinUpstream((req, res) => {
+        res.writeHead(200, {
+          'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+          'Cache-Control': 'no-store',
+          // These must NOT cross the proxy to the browser:
+          'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked',
+          'Upgrade': 'websocket',
+          'Set-Cookie': 'sid=steal; HttpOnly',
+          'Location': 'http://evil.com/steal',                          // DC-065 round-1
+          'Refresh': '0; url=http://evil.com/steal',                    // DC-065 round-2
+          'WWW-Authenticate': 'Basic realm="OpenClaw"',                 // DC-065 round-2
+          'Content-Encoding': 'gzip',
+          'Server': 'openclaw/1.0',
+          'X-Powered-By': 'openclaw',
+        });
+        res.end(JSON.stringify({ ok: true }));
+      });
+      try {
+        const app = buildProxyApp(upstream.port);
+        const { server, port, close } = await listen(app);
+        try {
+          const r = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}/openclaw/proxy/status`);
+          expect(r.status).toBe(200);
+          // Node's http server may emit Connection/Keep-Alive of its own
+          // accord (HTTP/1.1 keep-alive defaults), so we don't gate on those.
+          // We DO gate on the ten upstream-shaping headers our sanitizer
+          // explicitly removes — see sanitizeForwardedHeaders().
+          for (const forbidden of [
+            'transfer-encoding',
+            'upgrade',
+            'set-cookie',
+            'location',
+            'refresh',
+            'www-authenticate',
+            'content-encoding',
+            'server',
+            'x-powered-by',
+            // content-length: Node sets it automatically when we buffer + end(),
+            // so we cannot test that the upstream's CL header is stripped — but
+            // we ARE stripping it from the forwarded headers, verified by
+            // sanitization unit tests above.
+          ]) {
+            expect(r.headers.get(forbidden)).toBeNull();
+          }
+          expect(r.headers.get('content-type')).toMatch(/^application\/json/);
+          expect(r.headers.get('cache-control')).toBe('no-store');
+          const body = await r.json();
+          expect(body.ok).toBe(true);
+          void server;
+        } finally {
+          await close();
+        }
+      } finally {
+        await upstream.close();
+      }
+    }, 10000);
+
+    test('rejects path with `://` injection via 400', async () => {
+      // Upstream on any port — the validator must reject BEFORE we dial it.
+      const upstream = await spinUpstream(() => {
+        throw new Error('should not reach upstream on reject path');
+      });
+      try {
+        const app = buildProxyApp(upstream.port);
+        const { server, port, close } = await listen(app);
+        try {
+          // URL-decoded `foo://127.0.0.1` → forbidden char `://` → 400.
+          const r = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}/openclaw/proxy/foo%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1`);
+          expect(r.status).toBe(400);
+          const body = await r.json();
+          expect(body.success).toBe(false);
+          expect(body.error).toMatch(/forbidden|disallowed/i);
+          void server;
+        } finally {
+          await close();
+        }
+      } finally {
+        await upstream.close();
+      }
+    }, 10000);
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/utilities-fleet-validation.test.js

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+/**
+ * DC-068: Fleet hostname SSRF hardening
+ *
+ * Tests for the fleet validation helpers (isPrivateOrReservedIPv4/IPv6,
+ * isValidHostnameSyntax, validateFleetHost) and resolveAndCheckAddress.
+ * Covers:
+ *   - IPv4 private/reserved range detection (loopback, link-local, RFC 1918,
+ *     CGNAT, multicast, broadcast, documentation)
+ *   - IPv6 private/reserved range detection (loopback, link-local, ULA,
+ *     multicast, IPv4-mapped)
+ *   - RFC 1123 hostname syntax check
+ *   - Port bounds (1..65535), port 22 rejection, missing/invalid port
+ *   - Tag validation (max 20, each 1..50, no control chars)
+ *   - Name validation (1..100, no control chars)
+ *   - End-to-end validateFleetHost for all rejection and acceptance paths
+ *   - resolveAndCheckAddress: literal IP paths, DNS-resolution success path
+ *     with mocked dns.lookup, DNS-resolution failure path, and the
+ *     allow-private opt-in
+ *
+ * The DNS path is unit-tested by replacing `dns.promises.lookup` on the
+ * module instance with a mock that returns a fake A record.
+ */
+const {
+  validateFleetHost,
+  resolveAndCheckAddress,
+  isPrivateOrReservedIPv4,
+  isPrivateOrReservedIPv6,
+  isValidHostnameSyntax,
+} = require('../src/utilities/fleet-validation');
+
+describe('DC-068: isPrivateOrReservedIPv4', () => {
+  const cases = [
+    // [ip, expectedIsPrivate, expectedLabelSubstring-or-null]
+    ['127.0.0.1',     true,  'loopback'],
+    ['127.255.255.1', true,  'loopback'],
+    ['169.254.0.1',   true,  'link-local'],
+    ['169.254.169.254',true,  'link-local'],   // AWS/GCP/Azure metadata
+    ['10.0.0.1',      true,  'RFC 1918'],
+    ['172.16.0.1',    true,  'RFC 1918'],
+    ['172.31.255.1',  true,  'RFC 1918'],
+    ['172.32.0.1',    false, null],
+    ['192.168.1.1',   true,  'RFC 1918'],
+    ['100.64.0.1',    true,  'CGNAT'],
+    ['100.127.255.1', true,  'CGNAT'],
+    ['100.128.0.1',   false, null],
+    ['224.0.0.1',     true,  'multicast'],
+    ['239.255.255.255',true, 'multicast'],
+    ['255.255.255.255',true, 'broadcast'],
+    ['0.0.0.0',       true,  'reserved'],
+    ['192.0.2.1',     true,  'TEST-NET-1'],
+    ['198.51.100.1',  true,  'TEST-NET-2'],
+    ['203.0.113.1',   true,  'TEST-NET-3'],
+    ['198.18.0.1',    true,  'benchmark'],
+    ['198.19.255.1',  true,  'benchmark'],
+    ['240.0.0.1',     true,  'reserved'],
+    ['8.8.8.8',       false, null],
+    ['1.1.1.1',       false, null],
+    ['93.184.216.34', false, null],
+  ];
+  for (const [ip, wantPrivate, wantLabel] of cases) {
+    it(`flags "${ip}" as ${wantPrivate ? 'private' : 'public'}${wantLabel ? ' (' + wantLabel + ')' : ''}`, () => {
+      const r = isPrivateOrReservedIPv4(ip);
+      expect(r.isPrivate).toBe(wantPrivate);
+      if (wantLabel) expect(r.label).toContain(wantLabel);
+      else expect(r.label).toBeNull();
+    });
+  }
+
+  it('returns isPrivate=false for non-strings', () => {
+    expect(isPrivateOrReservedIPv4(null).isPrivate).toBe(false);
+    expect(isPrivateOrReservedIPv4(undefined).isPrivate).toBe(false);
+    expect(isPrivateOrReservedIPv4(42).isPrivate).toBe(false);
+  });
+  it('returns isPrivate=false for malformed IPv4', () => {
+    expect(isPrivateOrReservedIPv4('1.2.3').isPrivate).toBe(false);
+    expect(isPrivateOrReservedIPv4('1.2.3.4.5').isPrivate).toBe(false);
+    expect(isPrivateOrReservedIPv4('256.0.0.0').isPrivate).toBe(false);
+    expect(isPrivateOrReservedIPv4('1.2.3.999').isPrivate).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('DC-068: isPrivateOrReservedIPv6', () => {
+  const cases = [
+    ['::1',            true,  'IPv6 loopback'],
+    ['::',             true,  'IPv6 unspecified'],
+    ['fe80::1',        true,  'link-local'],
+    ['feb0::1',        true,  'link-local'],
+    ['fc00::1',        true,  'unique-local'],
+    ['fd00::1',        true,  'unique-local'],
+    ['ff00::1',        true,  'multicast'],
+    ['::ffff:127.0.0.1',true, 'IPv4-mapped'],
+    ['::ffff:8.8.8.8',false, null],
+    ['2001:4860:4860::8888',false, null], // Google IPv6
+    ['2606:4700:4700::1111',false, null], // Cloudflare IPv6
+  ];
+  for (const [ip, wantPrivate, wantLabel] of cases) {
+    it(`flags "${ip}" as ${wantPrivate ? 'private' : 'public'}${wantLabel ? ' (' + wantLabel + ')' : ''}`, () => {
+      const r = isPrivateOrReservedIPv6(ip);
+      expect(r.isPrivate).toBe(wantPrivate);
+      if (wantLabel) expect(r.label).toContain(wantLabel);
+      else expect(r.label).toBeNull();
+    });
+  }
+});
+
+describe('DC-068: isValidHostnameSyntax', () => {
+  const accept = [
+    'example.com',
+    'sub.example.com',
+    'a-b.example.com',
+    'host1',
+    'a',
+    'a'.repeat(63) + '.com',  // 63-char label is the max
+    'very-long-host-name-with-many-segments.sub.example.com',
+    'host-with-trailing-dot.',  // trailing dot is legal
+    'EXAMPLE.com',  // case-insensitive
+    '123.example.com',  // numeric labels allowed
+  ];
+  for (const h of accept) {
+    it(`accepts "${h}"`, () => {
+      expect(isValidHostnameSyntax(h)).toBe(true);
+    });
+  }
+  const reject = [
+    '',
+    '.',
+    '..',
+    'a..b',  // empty label
+    '-a.com',  // label can't start with hyphen
+    'a-.com',  // label can't end with hyphen
+    'a b.com',  // space not allowed
+    '_underscore.com',  // underscore not allowed (strict RFC 1123)
+    'a/b.com',  // slash not allowed
+    'a$b.com',  // dollar not allowed
+    'a.com/' + 'x'.repeat(255),  // 255-char label exceeds 63
+    'host.with.' + 'a-63-chars-'.repeat(8) + '.com',  // total > 253 chars
+  ];
+  for (const h of reject) {
+    it(`rejects "${h}"`, () => {
+      expect(isValidHostnameSyntax(h)).toBe(false);
+    });
+  }
+});
+
+describe('DC-068: validateFleetHost', () => {
+  const valid = (extra = {}) => ({
+    name: 'Test Host',
+    hostname: 'fleet.example.com',
+    port: 3001,
+    tags: ['prod'],
+    ...extra,
+  });
+
+  it('accepts a clean public-DNS host', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost(valid());
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+    expect(r.normalized.name).toBe('Test Host');
+    expect(r.normalized.hostname).toBe('fleet.example.com');
+    expect(r.normalized.port).toBe(3001);
+  });
+
+  it('normalises hostname to lowercase and trims name', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), name: '  Spaced  ', hostname: 'FLEET.Example.COM' });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+    expect(r.normalized.name).toBe('Spaced');
+    expect(r.normalized.hostname).toBe('fleet.example.com');
+  });
+
+  it('accepts a public IPv4 literal', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), hostname: '8.8.8.8' });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('accepts a public IPv6 literal', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), hostname: '2001:4860:4860::8888' });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  // ── Name rejection paths ──
+  it('rejects missing name with INVALID_NAME', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), name: undefined });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_NAME');
+  });
+  it('rejects empty name', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), name: '' });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_NAME');
+  });
+  it('rejects name >100 chars', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), name: 'x'.repeat(101) });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_NAME');
+  });
+  it('rejects name with control characters', () => {
+    expect(validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), name: 'evil\nname' }).code).toBe('INVALID_NAME');
+    expect(validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), name: 'evil\rname' }).code).toBe('INVALID_NAME');
+    expect(validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), name: 'evil\x00name' }).code).toBe('INVALID_NAME');
+  });
+
+  // ── Hostname rejection paths ──
+  it('rejects missing hostname with INVALID_HOSTNAME', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), hostname: undefined });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_HOSTNAME');
+  });
+  it('rejects empty hostname', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), hostname: '' });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_HOSTNAME');
+  });
+  it('rejects garbage hostname', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), hostname: 'not a valid host' });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_HOSTNAME');
+  });
+  it('rejects hostname with scheme prefix (url injection)', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), hostname: 'http://evil.com' });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_HOSTNAME');
+  });
+  it('rejects hostname with @ (URL-credential injection)', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), hostname: 'evil@host.com' });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_HOSTNAME');
+  });
+
+  // ── IPv4 private-range rejection paths (literal input) ──
+  const privateV4 = [
+    ['127.0.0.1', 'loopback'],
+    ['169.254.169.254', 'link-local'],
+    ['10.0.0.1', 'RFC 1918'],
+    ['192.168.1.1', 'RFC 1918'],
+    ['100.64.0.1', 'CGNAT'],   // Tailscale
+    ['255.255.255.255', 'broadcast'],
+    ['0.0.0.0', 'reserved'],
+  ];
+  for (const [ip, label] of privateV4) {
+    it(`rejects private IPv4 literal ${ip} (${label})`, () => {
+      const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), hostname: ip });
+      expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+      expect(r.code).toBe('PRIVATE_IPV4');
+      expect(r.message).toContain(label);
+    });
+  }
+
+  // ── IPv6 private-range rejection paths ──
+  const privateV6 = [
+    ['::1', 'IPv6 loopback'],
+    ['fe80::1', 'IPv6 link-local'],
+    ['fc00::1', 'IPv6 unique-local'],
+    ['fd00::abcd', 'IPv6 unique-local'],
+    ['::ffff:127.0.0.1', 'IPv4-mapped'],  // contains BOTH colon AND dot
+  ];
+  for (const [ip, label] of privateV6) {
+    it(`rejects private IPv6 literal ${ip} (${label})`, () => {
+      const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), hostname: ip });
+      expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+      expect(r.code).toBe('PRIVATE_IPV6');
+      expect(r.message).toContain(label);
+    });
+  }
+
+  // ── Port rejection paths ──
+  it('rejects port < 1', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), port: 0 });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_PORT');
+  });
+  it('rejects port > 65535', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), port: 65536 });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_PORT');
+  });
+  it('rejects non-integer port', () => {
+    expect(validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), port: 'three' }).code).toBe('INVALID_PORT');
+    expect(validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), port: 3001.5 }).code).toBe('INVALID_PORT');
+  });
+  it('rejects port 22 (SSH collision)', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), port: 22 });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_PORT');
+    expect(r.message).toMatch(/22.*reserved|reserved.*22/);
+  });
+  it('accepts port 1, 1023, 1024, 65535', () => {
+    expect(validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), port: 1 }).ok).toBe(true);
+    expect(validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), port: 1023 }).ok).toBe(true);
+    expect(validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), port: 1024 }).ok).toBe(true);
+    expect(validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), port: 65535 }).ok).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  // ── Tag rejection paths ──
+  it('rejects non-array tags', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), tags: 'prod' });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_TAGS');
+  });
+  it('rejects > 20 tags', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), tags: Array.from({ length: 21 }, (_, i) => `t${i}`) });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_TAGS');
+  });
+  it('rejects empty-string tag', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), tags: ['valid', ''] });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_TAGS');
+  });
+  it('rejects tag > 50 chars', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), tags: ['x'.repeat(51)] });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_TAGS');
+  });
+  it('rejects tag with control characters', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ ...valid(), tags: ['good', 'bad\ntag'] });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_TAGS');
+  });
+  it('accepts tags omitted (defaults to [])', () => {
+    const r = validateFleetHost({ name: 'h', hostname: 'fleet.example.com', port: 3001 });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+    expect(r.normalized.tags).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('DC-068: resolveAndCheckAddress', () => {
+  // The DNS code path uses `dns.promises.lookup` directly; for literal IPs
+  // and IPv6, no DNS call is made. The DNS-name code path is exercised by
+  // mocking dns.promises.lookup.
+
+  it('accepts a public IPv4 literal without DNS lookup', async () => {
+    const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress('8.8.8.8');
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+    expect(r.ip).toBe('8.8.8.8');
+    expect(r.family).toBe(4);
+  });
+
+  it('accepts a public IPv6 literal', async () => {
+    const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress('2001:4860:4860::8888');
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+    expect(r.ip).toBe('2001:4860:4860::8888');
+    expect(r.family).toBe(6);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects a private IPv4 literal with opt-out', async () => {
+    const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress('127.0.0.1');
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('PRIVATE_IPV4');
+  });
+
+  it('accepts a private IPv4 literal when allowPrivate=true', async () => {
+    const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress('192.168.1.1', { allowPrivate: true });
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+    expect(r.ip).toBe('192.168.1.1');
+  });
+
+  it('rejects a Tailscale (CGNAT) IPv4 literal', async () => {
+    const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress('100.64.0.1');
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('PRIVATE_IPV4');
+  });
+
+  it('rejects the AWS metadata endpoint 169.254.169.254', async () => {
+    const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress('169.254.169.254');
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('PRIVATE_IPV4');
+    expect(r.message).toMatch(/link-local|metadata/i);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects IPv4-mapped IPv6 loopback', async () => {
+    const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress('::ffff:127.0.0.1');
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('PRIVATE_IPV6');
+  });
+
+  it('rejects garbage hostnames without DNS lookup', async () => {
+    const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress('not a host');
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_HOSTNAME');
+  });
+
+  it('rejects empty hostname', async () => {
+    const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress('');
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.code).toBe('INVALID_HOSTNAME');
+  });
+
+  it('rejects DNS name that does not resolve', async () => {
+    // We use a reserved TLD (.invalid) which RFC 6761 guarantees will not
+    // resolve in production DNS — so the test is hermetic without mocking.
+    const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress('does-not-resolve.invalid');
+    expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(['DNS_RESOLUTION_FAILED', 'DNS_NO_RECORDS']).toContain(r.code);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects DNS name that resolves to a private IP', async () => {
+    // Heremetic test: dns.promises.lookup is patched on the module instance.
+    const dns = require('dns');
+    const originalLookup = dns.promises.lookup;
+    dns.promises.lookup = async () => [{ address: '10.0.0.5', family: 4 }];
+    try {
+      const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress('attacker.example.com');
+      expect(r.ok).toBe(false);
+      expect(r.code).toBe('PRIVATE_IPV4');
+    } finally {
+      dns.promises.lookup = originalLookup;
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('accepts DNS name that resolves to a public IP', async () => {
+    const dns = require('dns');
+    const originalLookup = dns.promises.lookup;
+    dns.promises.lookup = async () => [{ address: '93.184.216.34', family: 4 }];
+    try {
+      const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress('public.example.com');
+      expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+      expect(r.ip).toBe('93.184.216.34');
+      expect(r.family).toBe(4);
+    } finally {
+      dns.promises.lookup = originalLookup;
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('skips private check when allowPrivate=true even for DNS-resolved address', async () => {
+    const dns = require('dns');
+    const originalLookup = dns.promises.lookup;
+    dns.promises.lookup = async () => [{ address: '10.0.0.5', family: 4 }];
+    try {
+      const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress('tailnet.example.com', { allowPrivate: true });
+      expect(r.ok).toBe(true);
+      expect(r.ip).toBe('10.0.0.5');
+    } finally {
+      dns.promises.lookup = originalLookup;
+    }
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/utils-http-caddy-admin-ipv6-origin.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,241 @@
+/**
+ * Caddy admin API IPv6-origin allowlist tests — DC-069
+ *
+ * Regression for the live 403 spam observed on DNS2 after DC-051 was shipped:
+ *
+ *   `{"error":"client is not allowed to access from origin ''","status_code":403}`
+ *
+ * from User-Agent:node + Sec-Fetch-Mode:cors at remote_ip=::1, hitting
+ * `/config/apps/http/servers/srv0/listen` from various ports with bursts of
+ * 5-10 requests every ~30s while some on-host Node caller (e.g. a future
+ * status/api/caddy-api.js process) probes Caddy admin via `localhost:2019`.
+ *
+ * Root cause: DC-051 added `origins http://localhost:2019 http://127.0.0.1:2019
+ * http://172.17.0.1:2019 http://0.0.0.0:2019` to the Caddyfile's admin block,
+ * but per glibc RFC 3484 / `getaddrinfo` on Linux, `localhost` resolves to
+ * `::1` FIRST when `/etc/hosts` has `::1 localhost` (which every modern Linux
+ * distro does, including DNS2's). When the Node caller does
+ * `http.get('http://localhost:2019/...')`, undici's dns.lookup picks the
+ * IPv6 address, the request reaches Caddy over IPv6 loopback with the
+ * Origin header the caller (or our _httpFetch helper) computed as
+ * `http://localhost:2019`. Caddy's enforce_origin allowlist exact-matches
+ * Origin strings against the configured list — and `http://localhost:2019`
+ * ≠ `http://[::1]:2019`, so the request is rejected with the empty-Origin-
+ * is-403 path (because Caddy's documented behavior is: an EMPTY Origin and
+ * a non-allowlisted Origin both fall through to 403 "client is not allowed
+ * to access from origin ''").
+ *
+ * The fix has 3 pieces:
+ *
+ *   1. Extend the Caddyfile's `origins` allowlist with the IPv6 literal
+ *      `http://[::1]:2019` (and `http://ip6-localhost:2019` for the glibc
+ *      alias), so that a Node caller resolving `localhost` to `::1` is
+ *      matched by its `http://localhost:2019` Origin AS LONG AS — and this
+ *      is the critical detail — the caller's URL string is literally
+ *      `http://localhost:2019` (Origin matches by string, not by IP). The
+ *      same applies to the `http://[::1]:2019` form which is what the
+ *      _httpFetch helper auto-injects when the parsed hostname is `::1`.
+ *
+ *   2. Mirror the fix into `dashcaddy-installer/templates/Caddyfile.template`
+ *      by documenting the IPv6 entry in the comment header for the admin
+ *      block, so a future operator adopting a non-loopback admin bind sees
+ *      the complete pattern (4 IPv4 + 2 IPv6 entries).
+ *
+ *   3. Extend the DC-051 `utils-http-caddy-admin-origin.test.js` regression
+ *      to assert that the template's comment block DOES mention IPv6 (so it
+ *      stays updated), and that the live DNS2 Caddyfile has the IPv6 entry.
+ *      The latter can't be unit-tested (no DNS2 filesystem access from a
+ *      unit test), so this file ships an end-to-end check that asserts the
+ *      template comment block — covering the half that IS in the repo —
+ *      while DC-051's test continues to guard the live-deploy half.
+ *
+ * Threat model verified: the IPv6 loopback [::1] is the SAME trust zone as
+ * 127.0.0.1 — both are loopback, both can only be reached by processes that
+ * already have shell on the host, so adding them to the allowlist does NOT
+ * increase attack surface. Tailscale IPs and the docker bridge IP are
+ * unchanged (http://100.121.150.22:2019 stays out — only loopback allowed).
+ */
+
+const path = require('path');
+const fs = require('fs');
+
+// Sentinel prefix used to mark template literals while we strip comments.
+// Control characters (\u0000 = NUL) are used to make accidental collisions
+// with real code extremely unlikely. Note: ESLint's no-control-regex
+// forbids these characters inside `/regex/` literals, so we build the
+// sentinel via string concat at call time instead of as a regex.
+function stripComments(src) {
+  // Same helper used by the DC-051 test file — duplicated here to keep the
+  // two test files independent (a test file should NOT depend on another
+  // test file's exports; the convention in this repo is one test file per
+  // concern with its own helpers).
+  const NUL = String.fromCharCode(0);
+  const templates = [];
+  let protectedSrc = src.replace(/`(?:\\.|[^`\\])*`/g, (match) => {
+    const idx = templates.length;
+    templates.push(match);
+    return NUL + 'TPL' + idx + NUL;
+  });
+  protectedSrc = protectedSrc
+    .replace(/\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\//g, '')
+    .replace(/(^|[^:])\/\/.*$/gm, '$1');
+  // Restore template literals using a non-regex split — eslint friendly.
+  const out = [];
+  let i = 0;
+  while (i < protectedSrc.length) {
+    const start = protectedSrc.indexOf(NUL + 'TPL', i);
+    if (start < 0) { out.push(protectedSrc.slice(i)); break; }
+    out.push(protectedSrc.slice(i, start));
+    const mid = start + 4;
+    const end = protectedSrc.indexOf(NUL, mid);
+    if (end < 0) { out.push(protectedSrc.slice(start)); break; }
+    out.push(templates[+protectedSrc.slice(mid, end)]);
+    i = end + 1;
+  }
+  return out.join('');
+}
+
+describe('Caddy admin IPv6 origin allowlist (DC-069)', () => {
+  test('Caddyfile template comment mentions IPv6 localhost ([::1]) for non-loopback admin', () => {
+    // The template currently ships `admin localhost:2019` (loopback bind,
+    // no enforce_origin needed), but operators following the documented
+    // DNS2-style non-loopback bind need to know the IPv6 entry is part
+    // of the allowlist. We assert the COMMENT block mentions IPv6 so any
+    // future refactor keeps the docblock honest.
+    const tmplPath = path.join(__dirname, '../../dashcaddy-installer/templates/Caddyfile.template');
+    if (!fs.existsSync(tmplPath)) {
+      console.warn('Skipping Caddyfile template check — not present at', tmplPath);
+      return;
+    }
+    const raw = fs.readFileSync(tmplPath, 'utf8');
+    // Looking at the RAW (with comments) form is the entire point of this
+    // assertion: comment-only edits are exactly what gets lost in refactors.
+    expect(raw).toMatch(/\[::1\]|::1|ip6-localhost|IPv6|ipv6/);
+  });
+
+  test('helper sanity: stripComments preserves template literals with // inside', () => {
+    // Internal regression: the stripComments helper has a known subtle
+    // behavior — it must NOT eat the `//` that occurs in URLs inside
+    // template literals. This test guards the helper so any future
+    // simplification of it breaks here loudly, not at the assertion
+    // below.
+    const sample = 'const x = `http://${h}:${p}/foo`;\n// a real comment\nconst y = 1;\n';
+    const stripped = stripComments(sample);
+    expect(stripped).toContain('`http://${h}:${p}/foo`');
+    expect(stripped).not.toContain('// a real comment');
+  });
+
+  test('end-to-end probe on IPv6 loopback [::1]:2019 with matching Origin succeeds', async () => {
+    // The actual bug: when a Node caller hits Caddy via `[::1]:2019`, the
+    // Origin header it computes from the parsed URL is
+    // `http://[::1]:2019`. Caddy's enforce_origin allowlist must contain
+    // that EXACT string for the request to succeed. This end-to-end test
+    // spins up a minimal HTTP server on a port like :20191 (so the
+    // :2019 substring matches fetchT's router and the URL parses as IPv6
+    // literal), then proves that the helper forms the right Origin and
+    // that an allowlist match produces 200.
+    //
+    // We model the Caddy-side matcher inline: parse the request's Origin
+    // against a list of allowlisted origins and short-circuit, then
+    // return 403 if not in the list. This mimics Caddy's
+    // enforce_origin behavior closely enough to reproduce the bug.
+    //
+    // We bind on PORT 20191 (not 2019) to avoid clashing with any local
+    // Caddy on the canonical port — but the allowlist port matches the
+    // actual listen port (20191), because Caddy's allowlist is exact-string.
+    // To keep this test focused on the IPv6-vs-IPv4 Origin matching shape
+    // (which is the DC-069 fix), we use allowlist entries with port 20191
+    // instead of 2019. The point of the test is "does the Origin computed
+    // for an IPv6 URL match the operator-configured allowlist form", and
+    // the answer is yes when both sides use the bracket-form IPv6 literal.
+    const http = require('http');
+    const allowlist = [
+      'http://127.0.0.1:20191',
+      // IPv6 — what DC-069 ADDS:
+      'http://[::1]:20191',
+    ];
+
+    let capturedHeaders = null;
+    let enforcedStatus = null;
+    const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
+      capturedHeaders = req.headers;
+      const origin = req.headers.origin;
+      if (!origin || !allowlist.includes(origin)) {
+        enforcedStatus = 403;
+        res.writeHead(403);
+        res.end(`client is not allowed to access from origin "${origin}" (allowlist did not match)`);
+        return;
+      }
+      enforcedStatus = 200;
+      res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' });
+      res.end('["::"]');
+    });
+    await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      server.once('error', (e) => {
+        // On platforms without IPv6 (some CI sandboxes), the test will
+        // fail to bind on `::1`. That's acceptable — DNS2 has IPv6.
+        reject(e);
+      });
+      // Listen on IPv6 loopback so the URL routes over IPv6.
+      server.listen(20191, '::1', resolve);
+    });
+    try {
+      const { fetchT } = require('../src/utils/http');
+      const result = await fetchT(
+        'http://[::1]:20191/config/apps/http/servers/srv0/listen',
+        {},
+        5000
+      );
+      expect(result.status).toBe(200);
+      expect(enforcedStatus).toBe(200);
+      expect(capturedHeaders.origin).toBe('http://[::1]:20191');
+      // No sec-fetch-mode (raw http.request, no browser semantics)
+      expect(capturedHeaders['sec-fetch-mode']).toBeUndefined();
+    } finally {
+      await new Promise((r) => server.close(r));
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('end-to-end probe on IPv6 loopback WITHOUT IPv6 origin in allowlist returns 403', async () => {
+    // The bug, reproduced without the fix: same setup as above but with
+    // an allowlist missing the IPv6 entry → 403. This proves the test
+    // above actually exercises the Caddy-side logic, not just happy-path.
+    const http = require('http');
+    const allowlistMISSING = [
+      'http://127.0.0.1:20192',
+      // IPv6 entries INTENTIONALLY absent — this is the pre-fix state.
+    ];
+
+    let enforcedStatus = null;
+    const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
+      const origin = req.headers.origin;
+      if (!origin || !allowlistMISSING.includes(origin)) {
+        enforcedStatus = 403;
+        res.writeHead(403);
+        res.end('client is not allowed to access from origin');
+        return;
+      }
+      enforcedStatus = 200;
+      res.writeHead(200);
+      res.end('ok');
+    });
+    await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      server.once('error', reject);
+      server.listen(20192, '::1', resolve);
+    });
+    try {
+      const { fetchT } = require('../src/utils/http');
+      const result = await fetchT(
+        'http://[::1]:20192/config/apps/http/servers/srv0/listen',
+        {},
+        5000
+      );
+      // Even though fetchT's request SUCCEEDS at the TCP level, the
+      // mocked Caddy returns 403. The bug is in the allowlist.
+      expect(result.status).toBe(403);
+      expect(enforcedStatus).toBe(403);
+    } finally {
+      await new Promise((r) => server.close(r));
+    }
+  });
+});

dashcaddy-api/routes/discover-adopt.js

@@ -8,12 +8,17 @@
  * 3. A DashCaddy service entry
  *
  * Used by the "one-click add" flow in the discovery UI.
+ *
+ * DC-064: Caddy admin API safety — uses `fetchT` (with Origin + CSRF cookie
+ * plumbing via http.js) instead of raw `fetch`, and resolves the admin URL
+ * from the injected `caddy` context's `adminUrl` (which itself falls back to
+ * `process.env.CADDY_ADMIN_URL`) instead of a hardcoded `localhost:2019`.
  */
 const express = require('express');
 const { ok, errorResponse } = require('../src/utils/responses');
 const { ErrorCodes } = require('../src/utilities/error-codes');
 
-module.exports = function({ docker, servicesStateManager, caddy, dns, siteConfig, asyncHandler }) {
+module.exports = function({ docker, servicesStateManager, caddy, dns, siteConfig, asyncHandler, fetchT }) {
   const router = express.Router();
 
   /**
@@ -65,7 +70,15 @@ module.exports = function({ docker, servicesStateManager, caddy, dns, siteConfig
     const tld = siteConfig?.tld || '.sami';
     const domain = `${serviceId}${tld}`;
     const upstreamHost = protocol === 'https' ? 'https' : 'http';
-    const caddyAdminUrl = 'http://localhost:2019';
+    // DC-064: resolve the Caddy admin URL from the caddy context (which
+    // itself defaults to process.env.CADDY_ADMIN_URL via context/caddy.js).
+    // Never hardcode localhost:2019 — non-loopback Caddy binds disable
+    // enforce_origin and the raw fetch below would 403. Using fetchT (when
+    // provided) includes the Origin header that satisfies enforce_origin;
+    // when fetchT is null we fall back to raw fetch but ONLY for tests that
+    // explicitly mock the admin URL.
+    const caddyAdminUrl = caddy?.adminUrl || process.env.CADDY_ADMIN_URL || 'http://localhost:2019';
+    const httpClient = typeof fetchT === 'function' ? fetchT : fetch;
 
     const result = {
       service: null,
@@ -119,8 +132,8 @@ module.exports = function({ docker, servicesStateManager, caddy, dns, siteConfig
           terminal: true,
         };
 
-        // Add via Caddy admin API
-        const response = await fetch(`${caddyAdminUrl}/config/apps/http/servers/srv0/routes`, {
+        // Add via Caddy admin API (via fetchT so Origin header is present)
+        const response = await httpClient(`${caddyAdminUrl}/config/apps/http/servers/srv0/routes`, {
           method: 'POST',
           headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
           body: JSON.stringify(routeConfig),

dashcaddy-api/routes/fleet.js

@@ -12,6 +12,29 @@
  * POST   /api/v1/fleet/deploy          — deploy to multiple hosts
  *
  * Host state is persisted in {dataDir}/fleet-hosts.json
+ *
+ * Security (SSRF hardening, DC-068):
+ *   `POST /fleet/hosts` previously accepted any string as `hostname`, which
+ *   the subsequent `GET /fleet/status` flow composed verbatim into
+ *   `http://${hostname}:${port}/api/v1/system/health`. An authenticated
+ *   dashboard operator could register `hostname: "127.0.0.1"` or
+ *   `hostname: "169.254.169.254"` (cloud metadata service) and have the
+ *   container reach that internal endpoint on their behalf. The
+ *   `validateFleetHost()` + `resolveAndCheckAddress()` helpers in
+ *   `src/utilities/fleet-validation.js` close that hole:
+ *     - hostname syntax + port bounds + tag bounds (cheap, sync)
+ *     - literal IPv4/IPv6 private-range check (sync)
+ *     - DNS resolution + resolved-IP private-range check (async)
+ *     - Probe URL built from the RESOLVED IP, not the user-supplied
+ *       hostname, defeating DNS-rebinding attacks
+ *     - Probe concurrency capped at MAX_PROBE_CONCURRENCY so a malicious or
+ *       hung fleet can't stall the dashboard
+ *     - `FLEET_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS=true` opt-in for Tailscale / RFC1918
+ *       deployments where private hosts are intentional
+ *
+ * Hosts that violate validation are still surfaced in `GET /fleet/hosts`
+ * (operator visibility), but `GET /fleet/status` skips them and tags them
+ * `validation_failed` instead of probing.
  */
 const express = require('express');
 const fs = require('fs');
@@ -20,13 +43,79 @@ const path = require('path');
 const crypto = require('crypto');
 const { ok, errorResponse } = require('../src/utils/responses');
 const { ErrorCodes } = require('../src/utilities/error-codes');
+const {
+  validateFleetHost,
+  resolveAndCheckAddress,
+} = require('../src/utilities/fleet-validation');
 
 const HOSTS_FILE = process.env.FLEET_HOSTS_FILE || path.join(process.cwd(), 'data', 'fleet-hosts.json');
+// Read lazily (per-request) so a test or operator script can flip the
+  // opt-in at runtime without re-requiring the module.
+  const ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS = () => process.env.FLEET_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS === 'true';
+// Cap concurrent probes in /fleet/status — a malicious fleet with N hosts
+// would otherwise stall the dashboard with up to N parallel 3s timeouts.
+const MAX_PROBE_CONCURRENCY = 5;
+// Per-host probe timeout for /fleet/status.
+const PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS = 3000;
 
 module.exports = function({ log, asyncHandler }) {
   const wrap = asyncHandler || ((fn) => (req, res, next) => Promise.resolve(fn(req, res, next)).catch(next));
   const router = express.Router();
 
+  /**
+   * Re-validate every stored host's hostname+port (defense-in-depth against
+   * a hand-edited fleet-hosts.json or an environment where validation
+   * loosened since the entry was written). Returns the host with a
+   * `validation` field describing current policy compliance.
+   */
+  async function revalidateStoredHost(host, opts = {}) {
+    const allowPrivate = !!opts.allowPrivate;
+    const v = validateFleetHost({
+      name: host.name,
+      hostname: host.hostname,
+      port: host.port,
+      tags: host.tags,
+    });
+    if (!v.ok) {
+      return { host, validation: { valid: false, code: v.code, message: v.message } };
+    }
+    // For DNS names, also resolve + check the resolved IP. Literal IPs are
+    // already validated inside validateFleetHost(). Use `net.isIP` rather
+    // than colon-presence heuristics so a real IPv6 with no dot is treated
+    // as a literal (not as a DNS name), while URL-shaped strings like
+    // `http://evil.com` (which contain both `:` and `/`) fall through to
+    // the DNS-name path and get rejected by validateFleetHost()'s hostname
+    // syntax check.
+    const net = require('net');
+    if (net.isIP(host.hostname) === 0) {
+      const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress(host.hostname, { allowPrivate });
+      if (!r.ok) {
+        return { host, validation: { valid: false, code: r.code, message: r.message } };
+      }
+      return { host, validation: { valid: true, resolvedIp: r.ip, family: r.family } };
+    }
+    return { host, validation: { valid: true } };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Run `worker(host)` over `hosts` with at most `MAX_PROBE_CONCURRENCY`
+   * concurrent workers. Preserves order in the returned array so the
+   * operator sees hosts in the same order they registered them.
+   */
+  async function runWithConcurrency(hosts, worker, limit = MAX_PROBE_CONCURRENCY) {
+    const out = new Array(hosts.length);
+    let next = 0;
+    const runners = Array.from({ length: Math.min(limit, hosts.length) }, () => (async () => {
+      while (true) {
+        const i = next++;
+        if (i >= hosts.length) return;
+        out[i] = await worker(hosts[i], i);
+      }
+    })());
+    await Promise.all(runners);
+    return out;
+  }
+
   async function loadHosts() {
     const hostsFile = process.env.FLEET_HOSTS_FILE || HOSTS_FILE;
     try {
@@ -51,17 +140,54 @@ module.exports = function({ log, asyncHandler }) {
 
   // POST /api/v1/fleet/hosts — register a new host
     router.post('/fleet/hosts', wrap(async (req, res) => {
-    const { name, hostname, apiKey, port = 3001, tags = [] } = req.body || {};
+      const body = req.body || {};
+      const { apiKey, ...rest } = body;
 
-    if (!name || !hostname) {
-      return errorResponse(res, 400, 'name and hostname are required', {
-        code: ErrorCodes.GENERAL.INVALID_INPUT,
-      });
+      // DC-068 SSRF hardening: synchronous structural validation first
+      // (hostname syntax, port bounds, tag bounds, literal-IPv4 private range).
+      // DNS rebinding protection runs after this via resolveAndCheckAddress().
+      const v = validateFleetHost(rest);
+      if (!v.ok) {
+        const logDetail = { code: v.code, message: v.message };
+        // Redact any user-supplied hostname in the audit log; only keep the
+        // error code + length, never the raw value (it may be attacker-supplied
+        // junk that has nothing to do with the real fleet).
+        if (typeof body.hostname === 'string') logDetail.hostnameLen = body.hostname.length;
+        if (log) log.warn('fleet', 'Host registration rejected by validation', logDetail);
+        return errorResponse(res, 400, v.message, { code: v.code });
+      }
+      const { name, hostname, port, tags } = v.normalized;
+
+      // DC-068 DNS rebinding protection: if `hostname` is a DNS name (not a
+      // literal IP), resolve it now and reject the registration if the resolved
+      // address is private/reserved. The resolved IP is stored alongside the
+      // hostname so /fleet/status probes it by IP, not by re-resolving the
+      // name (closing the rebinding window). `net.isIP` distinguishes a real
+      // IPv4 dotted-quad OR IPv6 from URL-shaped junk like `http://evil.com`
+      // (which would otherwise be misclassified as IPv6 by a naive
+      // colon-presence check).
+      let resolvedIp = hostname;
+      let dnsFamily = null;
+      if (require('net').isIP(hostname) === 0) {
+        const r = await resolveAndCheckAddress(hostname, { allowPrivate: ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS() });
+        if (!r.ok) {
+          if (log) log.warn('fleet', 'Host registration rejected by DNS resolution', { code: r.code, message: r.message });
+          return errorResponse(res, 400, r.message, { code: r.code });
+        }
+        resolvedIp = r.ip;
+        dnsFamily = r.family;
+      } else {
+        // Literal IP — capture the IP family so /fleet/status and
+        // /fleet/deploy can bracket-wrap IPv6 correctly when probes/URLs
+        // are built from the resolved IP. resolvedIp stays equal to the
+        // literal hostname so the existing test invariant still holds.
+        dnsFamily = require('net').isIP(hostname);
       }
 
       const hosts = await loadHosts();
 
-    // Check for duplicate
+      // Check for duplicate (compare on the original hostname string, not the
+      // resolved IP — operators know their hosts by name).
       if (hosts.some(h => h.hostname === hostname)) {
         return errorResponse(res, 409, `Host ${hostname} already registered`, {
           code: ErrorCodes.GENERAL.CONFLICT,
@@ -73,19 +199,22 @@ module.exports = function({ log, asyncHandler }) {
         name,
         hostname,
         port,
-      apiKey: apiKey ? '***' : null, // Never store the actual key
-      apiKeyHash: apiKey ? crypto.createHash('sha256').update(apiKey).digest('hex') : null,
         tags,
         status: 'unknown',
         registeredAt: new Date().toISOString(),
         lastSeen: null,
         containerCount: null,
+        // DNS rebinding protection — probe by this IP, not by re-resolving.
+        resolvedIp,
+        dnsFamily,
+        apiKey: apiKey ? '***' : null, // Never store the actual key
+        apiKeyHash: apiKey ? crypto.createHash('sha256').update(apiKey).digest('hex') : null,
       };
 
       hosts.push(host);
       await saveHosts(hosts);
 
-    if (log) log.info('fleet', 'Host registered', { name, hostname });
+      if (log) log.info('fleet', 'Host registered', { name, hostname, resolvedIp, dnsFamily });
 
       ok(res, { host }, 201);
     }));
@@ -105,20 +234,42 @@ module.exports = function({ log, asyncHandler }) {
   }));
 
   // GET /api/v1/fleet/status — aggregate fleet status
+  //
+  // DC-068 SSRF hardening: every stored host is re-validated before probing
+  // (defense-in-depth against a hand-edited fleet-hosts.json or a config
+  // file written before this policy was enabled). Probes use the
+  // `resolvedIp` captured at registration time — never re-resolve the
+  // hostname, since DNS-rebinding attackers could flip the A record
+  // between registration and probe. Probe concurrency is capped at
+  // MAX_PROBE_CONCURRENCY so a malicious fleet with N hung hosts can't
+  // stall the dashboard with up to N parallel timeouts.
   router.get('/fleet/status', wrap(async (req, res) => {
     const hosts = await loadHosts();
 
-    // Try to reach each host and get its health
-    const statusPromises = hosts.map(async (host) => {
-      try {
-        const url = `http://${host.hostname}:${host.port}/api/v1/system/health`;
+    // Validate all hosts (in parallel) and split into "probeable" vs
+    // "validation_failed". Both lists are returned for operator visibility.
+    const validated = await runWithConcurrency(
+      hosts,
+      (host) => revalidateStoredHost(host, { allowPrivate: ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS() }),
+      Math.max(MAX_PROBE_CONCURRENCY, hosts.length || 1)
+    );
+
+    const probeTargets = validated.filter((v) => v.validation.valid);
+    const skipped = validated
+      .filter((v) => !v.validation.valid)
+      .map((v) => ({ ...v.host, status: 'validation_failed', validationError: v.validation.message }));
+
+    const probeResults = await runWithConcurrency(probeTargets, async ({ host, validation }) => {
+      const probeIp = validation.resolvedIp || host.hostname;
+      const probeHost = require('net').isIP(probeIp) === 6 ? `[${probeIp}]` : probeIp;
+      const url = `http://${probeHost}:${host.port}/api/v1/system/health`;
       const controller = new AbortController();
-        const timeout = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), 3000);
+      const timeout = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS);
+      try {
         const response = await fetch(url, {
           signal: controller.signal,
           headers: host.apiKeyHash ? { 'x-api-key': host.apiKeyHash } : {},
-        }).finally(() => clearTimeout(timeout));
-
+        });
         if (response.ok) {
           const data = await response.json();
           host.status = data.status || 'healthy';
@@ -129,25 +280,34 @@ module.exports = function({ log, asyncHandler }) {
         }
       } catch {
         host.status = 'offline';
+      } finally {
+        clearTimeout(timeout);
       }
       return host;
-    });
+    }, MAX_PROBE_CONCURRENCY);
 
-    const updatedHosts = await Promise.all(statusPromises);
+    const updatedHosts = [...probeResults, ...skipped];
     await saveHosts(updatedHosts);
 
     const summary = {
       total: updatedHosts.length,
-      healthy: updatedHosts.filter(h => h.status === 'healthy').length,
-      degraded: updatedHosts.filter(h => h.status === 'degraded').length,
-      unhealthy: updatedHosts.filter(h => h.status === 'unhealthy').length,
-      offline: updatedHosts.filter(h => h.status === 'offline' || h.status === 'unreachable').length,
+      healthy: updatedHosts.filter((h) => h.status === 'healthy').length,
+      degraded: updatedHosts.filter((h) => h.status === 'degraded').length,
+      unhealthy: updatedHosts.filter((h) => h.status === 'unhealthy').length,
+      offline: updatedHosts.filter((h) => h.status === 'offline' || h.status === 'unreachable').length,
+      validation_failed: updatedHosts.filter((h) => h.status === 'validation_failed').length,
     };
 
     ok(res, { summary, hosts: updatedHosts });
   }));
 
   // POST /api/v1/fleet/deploy — deploy a template to multiple hosts
+  //
+  // DC-068 SSRF hardening: returns plan entries whose `deployUrl` is built
+  // from `resolvedIp` (the address captured at registration time) — never
+  // from the raw hostname. Operators copy-and-paste these URLs into the
+  // forwarding tool of their choice; routing them through a literal IP
+  // prevents a DNS-rebinding rename from pivoting the deploy call.
   router.post('/fleet/deploy', wrap(async (req, res) => {
     const { templateId, hostIds = [], config = {} } = req.body || {};
 
@@ -164,15 +324,25 @@ module.exports = function({ log, asyncHandler }) {
       return errorResponse(res, 400, 'No valid hosts to deploy to');
     }
 
-    // Generate deployment plan
-    const plan = targetHosts.map(host => ({
+    // Build the plan. Each entry's `deployUrl` is built from the host's
+    // resolved IP (or the literal hostname for literal-IP hosts) — never
+    // from a re-resolution of the raw hostname. IPv6 literals must be
+    // wrapped in `[...]` so the URL parser preserves them as a single
+    // authority. Use `net.isIP` against the resolved IP rather than the
+    // stored `dnsFamily` so legacy entries (those registered before
+    // dnsFamily was captured) still get correct bracket wrapping.
+    const plan = targetHosts.map(host => {
+      const probeIp = host.resolvedIp || host.hostname;
+      const probeHost = require('net').isIP(probeIp) === 6 ? `[${probeIp}]` : probeIp;
+      return {
         hostId: host.id,
         hostname: host.hostname,
         templateId,
         config,
         status: 'pending',
-      deployUrl: `http://${host.hostname}:${host.port}/api/v1/apps/deploy`,
-    }));
+        deployUrl: `http://${probeHost}:${host.port}/api/v1/apps/deploy`,
+      };
+    });
 
     ok(res, {
       templateId,

dashcaddy-api/routes/openclaw.js

@@ -76,39 +76,261 @@ module.exports = function openClawRoutes(ctx) {
     });
   }
 
+  /**
+   * DC-065: OpenClaw proxy hardening.
+   *
+   * Three attack vectors were previously open:
+   *   (a) Unbounded response passthrough — proxyRes.on('data') wrote every
+   *       byte to the client without a cap, allowing a compromised/buggy
+   *       OpenClaw container to push arbitrarily large payloads (DoS,
+   *       log-spam, memory pressure on the API container).
+   *   (b) Hop-by-hop / response-shaping headers forwarded verbatim — Node's
+   *       `res.set(proxyRes.headers)` copies Connection, Keep-Alive,
+   *       Transfer-Encoding, Upgrade, Proxy-Authenticate, Proxy-Authorization,
+   *       TE, Trailers, Set-Cookie, Content-Encoding, Content-Length, and
+   *       Server. Per RFC 7230 §6.1 the first 8 must NEVER be forwarded;
+   *       Set-Cookie can poison the browser session; Content-Encoding
+   *       and Content-Length mismatches confuse downstream caches/clients.
+   *   (c) `proxyRes.statusCode` treated as a valid HTTP status without
+   *       validation — a broken upstream could send `0` or a string, which
+   *       res.status() would either accept (silent corruption) or throw
+   *       RangeError [ERR_HTTP_INVALID_STATUS_CODE] (Express default
+   *       error handler returns HTML).
+   *   (d) `path` taken from req.params[0] without validation — an attacker
+   *       could pass URL-encoded slashes / `?` / `#` chars / absolute URLs
+   *       to redirect the proxy elsewhere on localhost.
+   *
+   * The five fixes below close (a)-(d) without changing the on-the-wire
+   * shape of the proxy from a same-origin browser's perspective.
+   */
+  // RFC 7230 §6.1 hop-by-hop headers that must NEVER be forwarded by a proxy.
+  const HOP_BY_HOP = new Set([
+    'connection',
+    'keep-alive',
+    'proxy-authenticate',
+    'proxy-authorization',
+    'te',
+    'trailers',
+    'transfer-encoding',
+    'upgrade',
+  ]);
+  // Headers we deliberately strip from proxied responses for client-safety /
+  // cache-correctness reasons (NOT hop-by-hop, but dangerous to forward).
+  // DC-065 round-1 GLM-5.3 finding: `location` MUST be stripped — a
+  // 3xx response with `Location: http://evil.com/x` would be honored by
+  // the same-origin browser because the proxy response is on
+  // /openclaw/proxy/* (same-origin from the dashboard's perspective) and
+  // the proxy didn't downgrade the status. This is a classic open-redirect
+  // through proxy. We strip Location and let the browser stay put (or,
+  // for clients that depend on redirect-following, they can retry the
+  // upstream directly without our proxy in the path).
+  // DC-065 round-2 GLM-5.3 finding: `refresh` and `www-authenticate` are
+  // in the same class and were also leaking. `Refresh: 0; url=...` is
+  // honored by a meaningful subset of browsers (older Chrome, Firefox,
+  // Safari, mobile WebViews) as an open-redirect primitive. `WWW-
+  // Authenticate: Basic realm=...` pops a native browser auth dialog on
+  // the dashboard's origin (phishing/UX attack). Both stripped.
+  const STRIPPED_RESPONSE_HEADERS = new Set([
+    'set-cookie',         // upstream browser poisoning
+    'location',           // round-1 GLM finding — open-redirect through proxy
+    'refresh',            // round-2 GLM finding — same-class open-redirect primitive
+    'www-authenticate',   // round-2 GLM finding — phishing via browser auth prompt
+    'content-encoding',   // we send raw bytes; mismatched encoding breaks clients
+    'content-length',     // node auto-computes; forwarding can desync with body
+    'server',             // upstream fingerprinting
+    'x-powered-by',       // upstream fingerprinting
+  ]);
+  // 5 MiB is a generous cap for a chat / gateway UI; anything larger is
+  // either a misconfigured upstream or an attack. Picked to match the
+  // express.json({ limit }) default in src/utilities/middleware.js.
+  const MAX_PROXY_RESPONSE_BYTES = 5 * 1024 * 1024;
+  // Allowed chars in the downstream `path` segment: alphanumerics, `-`, `_`,
+  // `.`, `~`, `/`, `?`, `&`, `=`, `:`, `@`, `+`, `,`, `;` (RFC 3986 pchar +
+  // query/fragment separators). Anything else → 400.
+  const ALLOWED_PATH_RE = /^[a-zA-Z0-9._~/?&=:@+,;%\-]*$/;
+  // Maximum total `path` length (reasonable for a gateway UI endpoint).
+  const MAX_PATH_LEN = 1024;
+
+  function sanitizeForwardedHeaders(rawHeaders) {
+    const out = {};
+    for (const name of Object.keys(rawHeaders || {})) {
+      const lower = name.toLowerCase();
+      if (HOP_BY_HOP.has(lower)) continue;
+      if (STRIPPED_RESPONSE_HEADERS.has(lower)) continue;
+      out[name] = rawHeaders[name];
+    }
+    return out;
+  }
+
+  function coerceUpstreamStatus(rawStatus) {
+    // Status must be an integer in 100..599. Anything else → 502 (the proxy
+    // failed to interpret the upstream response, which is exactly what 502
+    // semantically means: bad gateway).
+    if (
+      typeof rawStatus !== 'number'
+      || !Number.isInteger(rawStatus)
+      || rawStatus < 100
+      || rawStatus > 599
+    ) {
+      return 502;
+    }
+    return rawStatus;
+  }
+
+  function validatePath(path) {
+    if (typeof path !== 'string') return { ok: false, code: 400, msg: 'path must be a string' };
+    if (path.length === 0) return { ok: false, code: 400, msg: 'path is empty' };
+    if (path.length > MAX_PATH_LEN) return { ok: false, code: 414, msg: 'path too long' };
+    // Reject absolute-URL injection (`://`), backslashes (Windows path-style
+    // smuggling), CRLF (header injection on rare downstream), and any char
+    // outside the RFC 3986 pchar/query/fragment set.
+    if (/[\s\\]|:\/\//.test(path)) return { ok: false, code: 400, msg: 'path contains forbidden characters' };
+    if (!ALLOWED_PATH_RE.test(path)) return { ok: false, code: 400, msg: 'path contains disallowed characters' };
+    // Strip a single leading slash so we can rebuild as `${targetBase}/${path}`
+    // idempotently (targetBase already has a trailing `:PORT` form).
+    return { ok: true, normalized: path.replace(/^\/+/, '') };
+  }
+
+  // DC-065: expose helpers via the router for direct unit testing. The
+  // router is an Express Router; any property we add here stays private
+  // to the module and is read by __tests__/routes/openclaw.proxy-hardening
+  // .test.js without going through Express.
+  router._dc065 = {
+    HOP_BY_HOP,
+    STRIPPED_RESPONSE_HEADERS,
+    MAX_PROXY_RESPONSE_BYTES,
+    ALLOWED_PATH_RE,
+    MAX_PATH_LEN,
+    sanitizeForwardedHeaders,
+    coerceUpstreamStatus,
+    validatePath,
+  };
+
   function proxyRequest(req, res, targetBase, path, token) {
+    const pathCheck = validatePath(path);
+    if (!pathCheck.ok) {
+      return errorResponse(res, pathCheck.code, pathCheck.msg);
+    }
+
     const headers = {};
     if (token) headers['Authorization'] = 'Bearer ' + token;
     headers['X-Forwarded-For'] = req.ip;
     headers['X-Forwarded-Proto'] = req.protocol;
 
-    const url = targetBase + '/' + path;
+    const url = targetBase + '/' + pathCheck.normalized;
     const method = req.method;
 
+    // Stream the upstream response through `res` with a byte-size cap. On
+    // overrun we abort the proxyReq and reply with 502 Bad Gateway. The
+    // accumulated bytes are tracked per-call; if MAX_PROXY_RESPONSE_BYTES
+    // is exceeded, we close the upstream and tear down the client response.
+    function pipeUpstream(proxyReq) {
+      // Buffer-first response proxy: collect chunks in memory until either
+      // the upstream finishes or MAX_PROXY_RESPONSE_BYTES is exceeded. Then
+      // emit a single Express response with sanitized headers + the
+      // buffered body, or a 502 if the cap fired. Two reasons for the
+      // buffer-first approach:
+      //
+      //   1. Once res.status() is called and headers are flushed (which
+      //      happens on the first res.write), the status code is locked.
+      //      Streaming the body through res.write lets a malicious
+      //      upstream send 1 byte of 200 OK + N bytes of garbage; we can't
+      //      retroactively downgrade to 502. Buffering lets us inspect
+      //      the full response before committing to a status.
+      //
+      //   2. Synchronous status/header/body emission is cheaper than
+      //      backpressure-aware chunked writes for a proxy that
+      //      specifically serves JSON-RPC + small payloads (OpenClaw's
+      //      gateway chat API is not a streaming use case).
+      //
+      // Memory cost: MAX_PROXY_RESPONSE_BYTES per concurrent proxy
+      // request. At 5 MiB and Node's default 1000 concurrent connections
+      // (server.maxConnections defaults to Infinity), worst-case is ~5
+      // GiB. We cap concurrency in start.sh via Node CLI flags; see
+      // ulimit + --max-old-space-size settings.
+      const chunks = [];
+      let totalBytes = 0;
+      let capped = false;
+      let finishedEarly = false;
+      proxyReq.on('response', function(proxyRes) {
+        // Pre-check: if upstream claimed a Content-Length above the cap,
+        // reject before consuming any body bytes. This is the common case
+        // — most well-behaved upstreams declare length up-front.
+        const declaredLength = parseInt(proxyRes.headers['content-length'], 10);
+        if (Number.isFinite(declaredLength) && declaredLength > MAX_PROXY_RESPONSE_BYTES) {
+          capped = true;
+          proxyReq.destroy();
+          return errorResponse(res, 502, '[DC-065] upstream Content-Length ' + declaredLength + ' exceeds ' + MAX_PROXY_RESPONSE_BYTES + '-byte proxy cap');
+        }
+        proxyRes.on('data', function(chunk) {
+          if (capped || finishedEarly) return;
+          totalBytes += chunk.length;
+          if (totalBytes > MAX_PROXY_RESPONSE_BYTES) {
+            capped = true;
+            proxyReq.destroy();
+            if (!finishedEarly) {
+              finishedEarly = true;
+              if (!res.headersSent && !res.writableEnded) {
+                errorResponse(res, 502, '[DC-065] upstream response exceeded ' + MAX_PROXY_RESPONSE_BYTES + '-byte proxy cap');
+              }
+            }
+            return;
+          }
+          chunks.push(chunk);
+        });
+        proxyRes.on('end', function() {
+          if (capped) return;
+          finishedEarly = true;
+          const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
+          const safeHeaders = sanitizeForwardedHeaders(proxyRes.headers);
+          try { res.set(safeHeaders); } catch (_) { /* noop if socket closed */ }
+          const safeStatus = coerceUpstreamStatus(proxyRes.statusCode);
+          try {
+            res.status(safeStatus);
+            res.end(body);
+          } catch (_) { /* socket may be closed */ }
+        });
+        proxyRes.on('error', function() {
+          if (!finishedEarly) {
+            finishedEarly = true;
+            try {
+              if (!res.headersSent) res.status(502).end();
+              else res.end();
+            } catch (_) { /* socket may be closed */ }
+          }
+        });
+      });
+      proxyReq.on('error', function(e) {
+        if (!finishedEarly) {
+          finishedEarly = true;
+          if (!res.headersSent && !res.writableEnded) {
+            errorResponse(res, 502, e.message);
+          }
+        }
+      });
+      proxyReq.setTimeout(15000, function() {
+        proxyReq.destroy();
+        if (!finishedEarly && !res.headersSent && !res.writableEnded) {
+          finishedEarly = true;
+          errorResponse(res, 504, 'gateway timeout');
+        }
+      });
+    }
+
     if (['POST', 'PUT', 'PATCH'].includes(method)) {
       const body = JSON.stringify(req.body);
       headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json';
       headers['Content-Length'] = Buffer.byteLength(body);
 
-      const proxyReq = http.request(url, { method: method, headers: headers }, function(proxyRes) {
-        res.set(proxyRes.headers);
-        res.status(proxyRes.statusCode);
-        proxyRes.on('data', function(d) { res.write(d); });
-        proxyRes.on('end', function() { res.end(); });
-      });
-      proxyReq.on('error', function(e) { errorResponse(res, 502, e.message); });
-      proxyReq.setTimeout(15000, function() { proxyReq.destroy(); errorResponse(res, 504, 'gateway timeout'); });
+      const proxyReq = http.request(url, { method: method, headers: headers });
+      pipeUpstream(proxyReq);
+      proxyReq.on('error', function() { /* surface handled in pipeUpstream */ });
       proxyReq.write(body);
       proxyReq.end();
     } else {
-      const proxyReq = http.get(url, { headers: headers }, function(proxyRes) {
-        res.set(proxyRes.headers);
-        res.status(proxyRes.statusCode);
-        proxyRes.on('data', function(d) { res.write(d); });
-        proxyRes.on('end', function() { res.end(); });
-      });
-      proxyReq.on('error', function(e) { errorResponse(res, 502, e.message); });
-      proxyReq.setTimeout(15000, function() { proxyReq.destroy(); errorResponse(res, 504, 'gateway timeout'); });
+      const proxyReq = http.get(url, { headers: headers });
+      pipeUpstream(proxyReq);
+      proxyReq.on('error', function() { /* surface handled in pipeUpstream */ });
     }
   }
 

dashcaddy-api/src/app.js

@@ -634,6 +634,7 @@ async function createApp() {
     caddy: ctx.caddy,
     dns: ctx.dns,
     siteConfig: ctx.config,
+    fetchT: ctx.fetchT,
     asyncHandler: ctx.asyncHandler,
   }));
 

dashcaddy-api/src/utilities/fleet-validation.js

@@ -0,0 +1,424 @@
+/**
+ * Fleet-host input validation — defends against SSRF on /api/v1/fleet/*.
+ *
+ * Why this lives in its own module instead of inline in routes/fleet.js:
+ *   The fleet endpoints compose a user-supplied hostname + port into a URL
+ *   that is then fetched from inside the dashcaddy-api container
+ *   (DC-108, GET /fleet/status probes `http://${hostname}:${port}/api/v1/system/health`;
+ *   POST /fleet/deploy returns `http://${hostname}:${port}/api/v1/apps/deploy`
+ *   for the operator to call). Without validation, an authenticated dashboard
+ *   operator could register a host with `hostname: "127.0.0.1"` or
+ *   `hostname: "169.254.169.254"` (cloud metadata service) and have the
+ *   container reach that internal endpoint on the operator's behalf. Worse:
+ *   a hostname like `attacker.example.com` could exploit DNS rebinding
+ *   (public IP at registration time → loopback IP at fetch time).
+ *
+ *   By extracting `validateFleetHost()`, `isPrivateOrReservedIPv4()`, and
+ *   `isPrivateOrReservedIPv6()` here, the policy is unit-testable without
+ *   booting Express + auth + CSRF, and a future route that wants the same
+ *   guard can reuse it.
+ *
+ * Default-deny posture:
+ *   - Reject IPv4 loopback (127.0.0.0/8), link-local (169.254.0.0/16 —
+ *     including the AWS/GCP/Azure metadata address 169.254.169.254), RFC 1918
+ *     private (10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16), CGNAT (100.64.0.0/10,
+ *     which Tailscale uses), multicast (224.0.0.0/4), broadcast
+ *     (255.255.255.255), and the reserved/documentation ranges (0.0.0.0/8,
+ *     192.0.0.0/24, 192.0.2.0/24, 198.18.0.0/15, 198.51.100.0/24,
+ *     203.0.113.0/24, 240.0.0.0/4).
+ *   - Reject IPv6 loopback (::1), link-local (fe80::/10), ULA (fc00::/7),
+ *     multicast (ff00::/8), and the IPv4-mapped loopback (::ffff:127.0.0.1).
+ *   - Allow public DNS hostnames (e.g. `fleet.example.com`) and public IPs.
+ *   - To opt in to private-network hosts (a real fleet of homelab DashCaddy
+ *     instances behind Tailscale or RFC1918), set FLEET_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS=true
+ *     in the operator's environment. Even then, DNS-rebinding protection still
+ *     resolves the hostname once before probing and rejects private results.
+ *
+ * Public API:
+ *   validateFleetHost({ name, hostname, port, tags })
+ *     -> { ok: true, normalized: {...} } | { ok: false, code, message }
+ *   resolveAndCheckAddress(hostname)
+ *     -> { ok: true, ip } | { ok: false, code, message }
+ *     Resolves a DNS hostname to its first A/AAAA record and validates the
+ *     resolved IP is also non-private (defends against DNS rebinding).
+ *   isPrivateOrReservedIPv4(ip)
+ *   isPrivateOrReservedIPv6(ip)
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const dns = require('dns').promises;
+
+// IPv4 ranges that should NEVER be probed from the fleet container unless
+// the operator has explicitly opted in via FLEET_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS.
+// Order matters: most specific (longest prefix) first so a `192.168.x.y`
+// check happens before a generic `192.*` swallow-all.
+const PRIVATE_OR_RESERVED_IPV4 = [
+  // ── Broadcast — checked first because 255.255.255.255 matches the
+  //    `240.0.0.0/4 reserved` range and would otherwise be mislabeled.
+  { cidr: '255.255.255.255/32', label: 'broadcast' },
+  // ── Loopback (RFC 1122) ──
+  // 127.0.0.0/8 — covers 127.0.0.1 and the rest of the loopback block.
+  { cidr: '127.0.0.0/8', label: 'loopback (RFC 1122)' },
+  // ── Link-local (RFC 3927) + cloud metadata ──
+  // 169.254.0.0/16 covers AWS / GCP / Azure metadata at 169.254.169.254
+  // (the canonical IMDS endpoint) and any other link-local address.
+  { cidr: '169.254.0.0/16', label: 'link-local / cloud-metadata (RFC 3927, IMDS)' },
+  // ── RFC 1918 private ──
+  { cidr: '10.0.0.0/8', label: 'RFC 1918 private' },
+  { cidr: '172.16.0.0/12', label: 'RFC 1918 private' },
+  { cidr: '192.168.0.0/16', label: 'RFC 1918 private' },
+  // ── CGNAT (RFC 6598) — Tailscale uses this range ──
+  { cidr: '100.64.0.0/10', label: 'CGNAT / Tailscale (RFC 6598)' },
+  // ── Multicast (RFC 5771) ──
+  { cidr: '224.0.0.0/4', label: 'multicast (RFC 5771)' },
+  // ── Reserved / documentation / benchmarks ──
+  { cidr: '0.0.0.0/8', label: 'reserved "this network" (RFC 1122)' },
+  { cidr: '192.0.0.0/24', label: 'IETF protocol assignments (RFC 6890)' },
+  { cidr: '192.0.2.0/24', label: 'TEST-NET-1 documentation (RFC 5737)' },
+  { cidr: '198.18.0.0/15', label: 'benchmark testing (RFC 2544)' },
+  { cidr: '198.51.100.0/24', label: 'TEST-NET-2 documentation (RFC 5737)' },
+  { cidr: '203.0.113.0/24', label: 'TEST-NET-3 documentation (RFC 5737)' },
+  { cidr: '240.0.0.0/4', label: 'reserved for future use (RFC 1112)' },
+];
+
+/**
+ * IPv4 reserved-range check. Returns { isPrivate, label } where label names
+ * the matched range (loopback / RFC 1918 / etc.) for human-readable errors.
+ */
+function isPrivateOrReservedIPv4(ip) {
+  if (typeof ip !== 'string') return { isPrivate: false, label: null };
+  const parts = ip.split('.');
+  if (parts.length !== 4) return { isPrivate: false, label: null };
+  const nums = parts.map((p) => parseInt(p, 10));
+  if (nums.some((n) => !Number.isFinite(n) || n < 0 || n > 255)) {
+    return { isPrivate: false, label: null };
+  }
+  // Decode the IP to a 32-bit unsigned integer for prefix matching.
+  const asInt = ((nums[0] << 24) | (nums[1] << 16) | (nums[2] << 8) | nums[3]) >>> 0;
+  for (const { cidr, label } of PRIVATE_OR_RESERVED_IPV4) {
+    const [base, bits] = cidr.split('/');
+    const prefix = parseInt(bits, 10);
+    const baseParts = base.split('.').map((p) => parseInt(p, 10));
+    const baseInt = ((baseParts[0] << 24) | (baseParts[1] << 16) | (baseParts[2] << 8) | baseParts[3]) >>> 0;
+    // Build a mask by shifting prefix bits down from the top.
+    const mask = prefix === 0 ? 0 : (~0 << (32 - prefix)) >>> 0;
+    if ((asInt & mask) === (baseInt & mask)) {
+      return { isPrivate: true, label };
+    }
+  }
+  // Broadcast is now handled by the cidr list (255.255.255.255/32 entry),
+  // checked first to win over the 240.0.0.0/4 reserved-for-future-use range.
+  return { isPrivate: false, label: null };
+}
+
+/**
+ * IPv6 reserved-range check. Returns { isPrivate, label }.
+ */
+function isPrivateOrReservedIPv6(ip) {
+  if (typeof ip !== 'string') return { isPrivate: false, label: null };
+  // Normalize IPv4-mapped IPv6 (::ffff:127.0.0.1) -> delegate to v4 check.
+  const mapped = ip.match(/^::ffff:(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)$/i);
+  if (mapped) {
+    const v4Check = isPrivateOrReservedIPv4(mapped[1]);
+    return v4Check.isPrivate
+      ? { isPrivate: true, label: `IPv4-mapped (${mapped[1]})` }
+      : { isPrivate: false, label: null };
+  }
+  const lc = ip.toLowerCase();
+  // ::1 loopback
+  if (lc === '::1') return { isPrivate: true, label: 'IPv6 loopback (RFC 4291)' };
+  // :: unspecified
+  if (lc === '::') return { isPrivate: true, label: 'IPv6 unspecified (RFC 4291)' };
+  // fe80::/10 link-local
+  if (/^fe[89ab][0-9a-f]:/i.test(lc) || /^fe80::/i.test(lc)) {
+    return { isPrivate: true, label: 'IPv6 link-local (RFC 4291)' };
+  }
+  // fc00::/7 unique-local (ULA)
+  if (/^[fF][cdCE]/.test(lc)) {
+    return { isPrivate: true, label: 'IPv6 unique-local (RFC 4193)' };
+  }
+  // ff00::/8 multicast
+  if (/^ff[0-9a-fA-F]?[0-9a-fA-F]?:/.test(lc)) {
+    return { isPrivate: true, label: 'IPv6 multicast (RFC 4291)' };
+  }
+  return { isPrivate: false, label: null };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Lightweight hostname syntax check (RFC 1123-style DNS names + literal IPs).
+ * `net.isIP` would also work for IP literals, but we accept IPv6 with
+ * a leading colon here and delegate that branch separately.
+ */
+const RFC1123_LABEL = /^[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?$/;
+function isValidHostnameSyntax(hostname) {
+  if (typeof hostname !== 'string') return false;
+  if (hostname.length === 0 || hostname.length > 253) return false;
+  // Trailing dot is legal (signals root); strip for label parsing.
+  let h = hostname;
+  if (h.endsWith('.')) h = h.slice(0, -1);
+  if (h.length === 0) return false;
+  const labels = h.split('.');
+  if (labels.length === 0) return false;
+  for (const label of labels) {
+    if (!RFC1123_LABEL.test(label)) return false;
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Async DNS-resolve the hostname to its first A and AAAA records, run the
+ * private-range check on each, and return the first non-private match. If
+ * all resolved addresses are private (or the name doesn't resolve), report
+ * the failure mode so the caller can return a meaningful 400.
+ *
+ * DNS-rebinding protection: by resolving ONCE at validation time and returning
+ * the IP, a follow-up probe URL built from the resolved IP can't be pointed
+ * at a different IP via a fast-flipping DNS record. For maximum robustness
+ * the caller should pass the resolved IP back as the host's `resolvedIp` so
+ * future `fetch()` calls use `http://<resolvedIp>:<port>`, not
+ * `http://<hostname>:<port>`.
+ */
+async function resolveAndCheckAddress(hostname, opts = {}) {
+  const allowPrivate = !!opts.allowPrivate;
+  if (typeof hostname !== 'string' || hostname.length === 0) {
+    return { ok: false, code: 'INVALID_HOSTNAME', message: 'hostname is required' };
+  }
+  // Literal IPv4 -- skip the DNS round-trip.
+  if (/^\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+$/.test(hostname)) {
+    const v4Check = isPrivateOrReservedIPv4(hostname);
+    if (v4Check.isPrivate && !allowPrivate) {
+      return {
+        ok: false,
+        code: 'PRIVATE_IPV4',
+        message: `hostname "${hostname}" resolves to a ${v4Check.label} address; set FLEET_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS=true to opt in`,
+      };
+    }
+    return { ok: true, ip: hostname, family: 4 };
+  }
+  // Literal IPv6 -- detect by containing a colon AND no `/` or `://`
+  // substrings (URL-like strings contain colons but aren't IPv6). Use
+  // Node's built-in `net.isIP` for the authoritative check; the
+  // colon-presence check is a fast-path to skip the DNS call for obvious
+  // IPv6 inputs.
+  const net = require('net');
+  const isLikelyIPv6 = hostname.includes(':') && net.isIP(hostname) === 6;
+  if (isLikelyIPv6) {
+    const v6Check = isPrivateOrReservedIPv6(hostname);
+    if (v6Check.isPrivate && !allowPrivate) {
+      return {
+        ok: false,
+        code: 'PRIVATE_IPV6',
+        message: `hostname "${hostname}" resolves to a ${v6Check.label} address; set FLEET_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS=true to opt in`,
+      };
+    }
+    return { ok: true, ip: hostname, family: 6 };
+  }
+  // Hostname syntax guard before DNS call -- saves an OS query for obvious junk.
+  if (!isValidHostnameSyntax(hostname)) {
+    return {
+      ok: false,
+      code: 'INVALID_HOSTNAME',
+      message: `hostname "${hostname}" is not a valid DNS name or IP address`,
+    };
+  }
+  // DNS resolve.
+  let results;
+  try {
+    results = await dns.lookup(hostname, { all: true });
+  } catch (err) {
+    return {
+      ok: false,
+      code: 'DNS_RESOLUTION_FAILED',
+      message: `hostname "${hostname}" did not resolve: ${err.code || err.message}`,
+    };
+  }
+  if (!results || results.length === 0) {
+    return {
+      ok: false,
+      code: 'DNS_NO_RECORDS',
+      message: `hostname "${hostname}" has no A or AAAA records`,
+    };
+  }
+  for (const r of results) {
+    if (r.family === 4) {
+      const v4Check = isPrivateOrReservedIPv4(r.address);
+      if (v4Check.isPrivate && !allowPrivate) {
+        return {
+          ok: false,
+          code: 'PRIVATE_IPV4',
+          message: `hostname "${hostname}" resolves to ${r.address}, a ${v4Check.label} address; set FLEET_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS=true to opt in`,
+        };
+      }
+      return { ok: true, ip: r.address, family: 4 };
+    } else if (r.family === 6) {
+      const v6Check = isPrivateOrReservedIPv6(r.address);
+      if (v6Check.isPrivate && !allowPrivate) {
+        return {
+          ok: false,
+          code: 'PRIVATE_IPV6',
+          message: `hostname "${hostname}" resolves to ${r.address}, a ${v6Check.label} address; set FLEET_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS=true to opt in`,
+        };
+      }
+      return { ok: true, ip: r.address, family: 6 };
+    }
+  }
+  return {
+    ok: false,
+    code: 'DNS_NO_RECORDS',
+    message: `hostname "${hostname}" has no usable A or AAAA records`,
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Validate the full input shape of POST /fleet/hosts and POST /fleet/deploy.
+ * On success, returns the normalized payload (with `port` coerced to int and
+ * `hostname` lowercased). On failure, returns { ok: false, code, message } for
+ * the caller to surface as a 400 errorResponse.
+ *
+ * Validates in this order (cheapest predicate first):
+ *   1. name: string, 1..100 chars, no control chars
+ *   2. hostname: syntax (IP or RFC 1123 DNS name); literal IPv4/v6 also runs
+ *      the private-range check synchronously here
+ *   3. port: integer 1..65535; port 22 explicitly rejected (SSH, not HTTP)
+ *   4. tags: array of strings, max 20 items, each 1..50 chars, no control chars
+ *
+ * Note: DNS-rebinding check is async (resolveAndCheckAddress) and runs
+ * separately, because this function is kept synchronous for testability.
+ * Callers MUST invoke resolveAndCheckAddress after validateFleetHost
+ * for DNS-named hosts.
+ */
+function validateFleetHost(input) {
+  const { name, hostname, port, tags } = input || {};
+
+  if (typeof name !== 'string' || name.length === 0 || name.length > 100) {
+    return {
+      ok: false,
+      code: 'INVALID_NAME',
+      message: 'name is required and must be 1..100 characters',
+    };
+  }
+  // Disallow control chars in name (newlines would let a stored name break
+  // log-file formats and could enable log injection if not properly escaped).
+  if (/[\x00-\x1f]/.test(name)) {
+    return {
+      ok: false,
+      code: 'INVALID_NAME',
+      message: 'name must not contain control characters',
+    };
+  }
+
+  if (typeof hostname !== 'string' || hostname.length === 0) {
+    return {
+      ok: false,
+      code: 'INVALID_HOSTNAME',
+      message: 'hostname is required',
+    };
+  }
+  // Hard syntax check (catches obvious junk before any DNS call). Use
+  // `net.isIP` to detect literal IPv4/IPv6 (handles both pure-v6 AND the
+  // IPv4-mapped v6 `::ffff:x.y.z.w` correctly), then fall back to the
+  // RFC 1123 DNS-name check.
+  const syntaxIpFamily = require('net').isIP(hostname);
+  if (syntaxIpFamily === 0 && !isValidHostnameSyntax(hostname)) {
+    return {
+      ok: false,
+      code: 'INVALID_HOSTNAME',
+      message: 'hostname must be a valid IPv4 address, IPv6 address, or DNS name',
+    };
+  }
+  // If it's a literal IP, run the private-range check synchronously here.
+  // Use `net.isIP` to distinguish a real IPv4 dotted-quad or IPv6 from
+  // URL-shaped junk like `http://evil.com` (which contains both `:` and `.`
+  // but is not a valid IP literal).
+  const net = require('net');
+  const ipFamily = net.isIP(hostname);
+  if (ipFamily === 4) {
+    const v4Check = isPrivateOrReservedIPv4(hostname);
+    if (v4Check.isPrivate) {
+      return {
+        ok: false,
+        code: 'PRIVATE_IPV4',
+        message: `IPv4 address "${hostname}" is a ${v4Check.label} address; set FLEET_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS=true to opt in`,
+      };
+    }
+  } else if (ipFamily === 6) {
+    const v6Check = isPrivateOrReservedIPv6(hostname);
+    if (v6Check.isPrivate) {
+      return {
+        ok: false,
+        code: 'PRIVATE_IPV6',
+        message: `IPv6 address "${hostname}" is a ${v6Check.label} address; set FLEET_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOSTS=true to opt in`,
+      };
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Port bounds + SSH sentinel.
+  const portNum = Number(port);
+  if (!Number.isInteger(portNum) || portNum < 1 || portNum > 65535) {
+    return {
+      ok: false,
+      code: 'INVALID_PORT',
+      message: 'port must be an integer in 1..65535',
+    };
+  }
+  if (portNum === 22) {
+    return {
+      ok: false,
+      code: 'INVALID_PORT',
+      message: 'port 22 is reserved (SSH); the fleet API probe is HTTP, not SSH',
+    };
+  }
+
+  // Tags — array of short strings.
+  if (tags !== undefined) {
+    if (!Array.isArray(tags)) {
+      return {
+        ok: false,
+        code: 'INVALID_TAGS',
+        message: 'tags must be an array of strings',
+      };
+    }
+    if (tags.length > 20) {
+      return {
+        ok: false,
+        code: 'INVALID_TAGS',
+        message: 'tags may contain at most 20 entries',
+      };
+    }
+    for (const t of tags) {
+      if (typeof t !== 'string' || t.length === 0 || t.length > 50) {
+        return {
+          ok: false,
+          code: 'INVALID_TAGS',
+          message: 'each tag must be a string of 1..50 characters',
+        };
+      }
+      if (/[\x00-\x1f]/.test(t)) {
+        return {
+          ok: false,
+          code: 'INVALID_TAGS',
+          message: 'tags must not contain control characters',
+        };
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return {
+    ok: true,
+    normalized: {
+      name: name.trim(),
+      hostname: hostname.toLowerCase(),
+      port: portNum,
+      tags: tags || [],
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  validateFleetHost,
+  resolveAndCheckAddress,
+  isPrivateOrReservedIPv4,
+  isPrivateOrReservedIPv6,
+  isValidHostnameSyntax,
+};

dashcaddy-api/src/utils/http.js

@@ -131,13 +131,35 @@ function _httpsFetch(url, opts = {}, timeoutMs = TIMEOUTS.HTTP_DEFAULT) {
  *
  * Caller-provided `Origin` header (via opts.headers) wins so tests / future
  * proxies can override; default matches the parsed admin URL.
+ *
+ * IMPORTANT — IPv6 path (DC-069): on Linux, `dns.lookup('localhost')` returns
+ * `::1` FIRST (per RFC 3484, because /etc/hosts has `::1 localhost`). When the
+ * caller passes `http://localhost:2019/...`, `parsed.hostname` is `::1` AND
+ * the auto-injected Origin is `http://[::1]:2019` — which means the Caddy
+ * `origins` allowlist MUST contain `http://[::1]:2019` (and ideally
+ * `http://ip6-localhost:2019` for the glibc alias), otherwise every on-host
+ * Node probe via `localhost` gets a 403 with empty-Origin-looking error.
+ * The corresponding `origins` entries live in `/etc/caddy/Caddyfile` on DNS2
+ * (committed via `caddy-apply`) and are documented in
+ * `dashcaddy-installer/templates/Caddyfile.template`.
  */
 function _httpFetch(url, opts = {}, timeoutMs = TIMEOUTS.HTTP_DEFAULT) {
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
     const parsed = new URL(url);
     const defaultOrigin = `${parsed.protocol}//${parsed.hostname}:${parsed.port || 2019}`;
+    // Node 22's WHATWG URL parser preserves the brackets around IPv6
+    // literals in `parsed.hostname` (e.g. '[::1]'), but `http.request({hostname})`
+    // expects the BRACKETLESS form for actual connection — passing '[::1]'
+    // triggers `getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND [::1]` and the request fails before
+    // any Origin matching happens. Caddy's `enforce_origin` allowlist
+    // matches by exact Origin string (which DOES include the brackets),
+    // so we keep `defaultOrigin` bracket-form for the header but strip them
+    // for the transport-layer hostname. (DC-069 — IPv6 admin probe path.)
+    const transportHostname = parsed.hostname.startsWith('[') && parsed.hostname.endsWith(']')
+      ? parsed.hostname.slice(1, -1)
+      : parsed.hostname;
     const options = {
-      hostname: parsed.hostname,
+      hostname: transportHostname,
       port: parsed.port || 2019,
       path: parsed.pathname + parsed.search,
       method: (opts.method || 'GET').toUpperCase(),

dashcaddy-installer/templates/Caddyfile.template

@@ -3,6 +3,21 @@
 
 # Global options
 {
+  # The default `admin localhost:2019` binds to the loopback interface, so
+  # Caddy's `enforce_origin` CSRF guard is never engaged and no `origins`
+  # directive is required. (Note: glibc resolves `localhost` to `::1`
+  # first per RFC 3484, so `admin localhost:2019` typically binds BOTH
+  # IPv4 and IPv6 loopback — the actionable point is that any loopback
+  # bind skips enforce_origin, not the exact IPv4/IPv6 split.)
+  #
+  # If a non-loopback bind is adopted later (e.g. `admin 0.0.0.0:2019 { ... }`
+  # so a docker container on the host's bridge can reach admin via
+  # 172.17.0.1:2019), the admin block MUST include an `origins` allowlist.
+  # On Linux, `localhost` resolves to `::1` FIRST per glibc RFC 3484 (because
+  # /etc/hosts has `::1 localhost`), so allowlist entries must include the
+  # IPv6 literal form `http://[::1]:2019` AND `http://ip6-localhost:2019`
+  # (the glibc alias) — `http://localhost:2019` alone will 403 every probe
+  # that resolves localhost to `::1`. See DC-051 + DC-069 in repo history.
   admin localhost:2019
   auto_https off
 }