fix: ignore byte array fields and add ddwaf:ignore struct tag (#68)

Co-authored-by: Romain Marcadier <[email protected]>

_tools/libddwaf-updater/update.go

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ func main() {
 		written += wrote
 	}
 
-	fmt.Println("All done! Don't forget to check in changes to include/ and internal/lib/, check the libddwaf upgrade guide to update bindings!")
+	fmt.Println("All done! Don't forget to check in changes to internal/lib/ and internal/log/ddhaf.h, check the libddwaf upgrade guide to update bindings!")
 }
 
 // createEmbedSource creates the embed source file for the given target.

context.go

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ func (d RunAddressData) isEmpty() bool {
 // matches as a JSON string (usually opaquely used) along with the corresponding actions in any. In case of an error,
 // matches and actions can still be returned, for instance in the case of a timeout error. Errors can be tested against
 // the RunError type.
+// Struct fields having the tag `ddwaf:"ignore"` will not be encoded and sent to the WAF
 func (context *Context) Run(addressData RunAddressData, timeout time.Duration) (res Result, err error) {
 	if addressData.isEmpty() {
 		return

encoder.go

@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ const (
 	ObjectTooDeep
 )
 
+const (
+	AppsecFieldTag            = "ddwaf"
+	AppsecFieldTagValueIgnore = "ignore"
+)
+
 type native interface {
 	int64 | uint64 | uintptr
 }
@@ -159,8 +164,11 @@ func (encoder *encoder) encode(value reflect.Value, obj *wafObject, depth int) e
 	//		Strings
 	case kind == reflect.String: // string type
 		encoder.encodeString(value.String(), obj)
-	case value.Type() == reflect.TypeOf([]byte(nil)): // byte array -> string
-		encoder.encodeString(string(value.Bytes()), obj)
+
+	case value.Type() == reflect.TypeOf([]byte(nil)):
+		// Byte Arrays are skipped voluntarily because they are often used
+		// to do partial parsing which leads to false positives
+		return nil
 
 	// Containers (internal nodes of the tree)
 
@@ -240,7 +248,9 @@ func (encoder *encoder) encodeStruct(value reflect.Value, obj *wafObject, depth
 
 		fieldType := typ.Field(i)
 		fieldName, usable := getFieldNameFromType(fieldType)
-		if !usable {
+		if tag, ok := fieldType.Tag.Lookup(AppsecFieldTag); !usable || ok && tag == AppsecFieldTagValueIgnore {
+			// Either the struct field is ignored by json marshaling so can we,
+			// 		or the field was explicitly set with `ddwaf:ignore`
 			continue
 		}
 

encoder_decoder_test.go

@@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ func TestEncodeDecode(t *testing.T) {
 			Input: "hello, waf",
 		},
 		{
-			Name:   "byte-slice",
-			Input:  []byte("hello, waf"),
-			Output: "hello, waf",
+			Name:        "byte-slice",
+			Input:       []byte("hello, waf"),
+			DecodeError: errUnsupportedValue,
 		},
 		{
 			Name:   "nil-byte-slice",
@@ -253,6 +253,23 @@ func TestEncodeDecode(t *testing.T) {
 				"A":      "A",
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			Name: "struct-with-ignored-values",
+			Input: struct {
+				Public  string `ddwaf:"ignore"`
+				private string
+				a       string
+				A       string
+			}{
+				Public:  "Public",
+				private: "private",
+				a:       "a",
+				A:       "A",
+			},
+			Output: map[string]any{
+				"A": "A",
+			},
+		},
 		{
 			Name: "struct-with-unsupported-values",
 			Input: struct {
@@ -268,6 +285,19 @@ func TestEncodeDecode(t *testing.T) {
 			},
 			DecodeError: errUnsupportedValue,
 		},
+		{
+			Name: "struct-with-unsupported-ignored-values",
+			Input: struct {
+				Public string
+				A      chan any `ddwaf:"ignore"`
+			}{
+				Public: "Public",
+				A:      make(chan any),
+			},
+			Output: map[string]any{
+				"Public": "Public",
+			},
+		},
 	} {
 		t.Run(tc.Name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			if tc.Output == nil {