feat(ui): add local workspace inspector route - #343
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe server now exposes a loopback-only workspace inspector. A standalone browser entry point uses HTTP transport APIs for activity, tool calls, diffs, and refs. The build includes the inspector page, and integration tests cover local-host validation, activity, diffs, and deep-link redirects. ChangesWorkspace Inspector
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Browser
participant ExpressServer
participant WorkspaceInspectorAPI
Browser->>ExpressServer: GET /ws/{workspaceId}?review=abc123
ExpressServer-->>Browser: 302 redirect to activity route
Browser->>ExpressServer: GET /api/workspaces/{workspaceId}/activity?review=abc123
ExpressServer->>WorkspaceInspectorAPI: Read workspace activity
WorkspaceInspectorAPI-->>Browser: Return validated activity JSON
Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Remote clients may access workspace activity, tool calls, refs, and diffs by spoofing a localhost Host header. This authorization boundary should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 28 functions across 7 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)
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In `@src/server.ts`:
- Line 1178: Replace the Host-header-based access control around
isLocalInspectorHost with a trusted security boundary: bind the inspector
listener exclusively to loopback, or require authentication and validate the
socket peer address for these routes. Do not use req.headers.host or forwarded
headers to authorize workspace activity, tool calls, refs, or diffs.
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Authorization Bypass
Reachability: External
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-346 — Origin Validation Error
Do not use the Host header as the loopback access control.
A remote client can send Host: localhost to a non-loopback listener. This permits unauthenticated access to workspace activity, tool calls, refs, and diffs.
Bind the inspector to a loopback-only listener, or protect these routes with authentication and validate the peer address without trusting forwarded headers.
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In `@src/server.ts` at line 1178, Replace the Host-header-based access control
around isLocalInspectorHost with a trusted security boundary: bind the inspector
listener exclusively to loopback, or require authentication and validate the
socket peer address for these routes. Do not use req.headers.host or forwarded
headers to authorize workspace activity, tool calls, refs, or diffs.
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Greptile SummaryThis PR adds a browser-based workspace inspector with local HTTP endpoints for activity, tool calls, diffs, and refs. The new access boundary can be bypassed when the server is exposed on a non-loopback interface, so the inspector endpoints need authentication or peer-address-based locality enforcement before merging. Confidence Score: 3/5Not safe to merge until the inspector endpoints enforce authentication or validate the actual connection peer address. A reproduced unauthenticated access-control bypass reaches the inspector handler from a non-loopback connection when only the Host header is changed. Files Needing Attention: src/server.ts: the locality middleware trusts the client-controlled Host header, while the inspector routes do not use the bearer-authentication middleware.
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| res.status(403).json({ error: "Workspace inspector is only available on a loopback host." }); | ||
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If DevSpace is bound to a non-loopback interface, this check accepts a client solely because it sends Host: localhost:<port>. The inspector routes then run without the bearer authentication used by /mcp, allowing an unauthenticated caller with a workspace ID to retrieve workspace activity, tool-call inputs and outputs, diffs, refs, and roots. Verify the actual peer address or require authentication for these routes before merging.
How this was verified: An unauthenticated non-loopback request was rejected normally but reached the inspector handler when its Host header was changed to
localhost.
Artifacts
- The authored TypeScript harness binds DevSpace to 0.0.0.0 and compares unauthenticated remote inspector requests with normal and spoofed localhost Host headers, providing a repeatable bypass check.
- Captured parent-revision execution shows the same non-loopback request comparison before the new inspector endpoint existed, with no inspector route served.
- Captured PR-head execution shows a non-loopback unauthenticated request changing from 403 Forbidden to inspector-handler 404 Not Found when Host is spoofed as localhost, proving the gate bypass.
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Stacked on #342.
Expose the same workspace inspector as a standalone
/ws/:workspaceIdbrowser surface using an HTTP transport over the existing activity/diff services. Browser routes preserve deep links into activity reviews and diff scopes, while a second Vite entry reuses the same React inspector rather than creating a parallel UI.Raw tool history can contain sensitive local output, so the standalone inspector and its APIs are intentionally restricted to loopback hosts for now instead of being exposed through DevSpace's public tunnel.
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