fix: prevent snap-confine errors by sanitizing environment for xdg-open on Linux - #3529
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant BrowserLauncher
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BrowserLauncher->>child_process.spawn: Start detached xdg-open with cleaned environment
child_process.spawn->>xdg-open: Open external URL
child_process.spawn-->>BrowserLauncher: Emit error
BrowserLauncher->>ElectronShell: Fall back to shell.openExternal
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to On Linux, links may still fail to open without any fallback. Opening links concurrently in a selected browser can permanently strip environment variables from the app, which can affect later launches. These issues should be fixed before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Normal Linux launches receive a cleaned environment, but overlapping custom-browser launches can interfere with the application’s shared environment. A failed system-browser launch can also appear successful before its fallback finishes. The impact is confined to desktop browser launching on the evidence available. Retained concerns
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Review comments at @src/utils/__tests__/browserLauncher.spec.ts:
- Line 3: Reorder the child_process import to match the spec’s existing
import/order convention, and format the changed Linux test blocks to satisfy
Prettier. Keep the test behavior unchanged.
Review comments at @src/utils/browserLauncher.ts:
- Around line 80-83: Update the child-process handling around the visible
`child.on('error')` handler to detect non-zero exits and invoke the existing
`shell.openExternal(url)` fallback. Settle the promise on a successful exit only
when the opener has actually exited; do not treat a still-running opener as a
failure.
- Line 87: Update the promise around the `xdg-open` spawn so it resolves only
after spawning succeeds, or after `shell.openExternal(url)` completes on spawn
failure; do not resolve before the error handler can settle it. Update the error
test to assert the returned promise’s outcome as well as the shell fallback
call.
- Line 114: Update the browser launch flow around action() to pass a clean
environment directly to the launch operation instead of modifying process.env;
keep the process-wide environment unchanged across overlapping launches.
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[warning] Importing child_process exposes a command-execution surface; ensure any command/argument built from input is validated, and prefer execFile/spawn with an argument array over exec.
Context: import { spawn } from 'child_process';
Note: [CWE-78] Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection').
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[error] 105-110: Recursive/iterative merge copies attacker-controllable keys from a source object into a target via a computed property assignment without rejecting dangerous keys, allowing prototype pollution. Skip or block "proto", "constructor", and "prototype" keys (e.g. if (key === "__proto__" || key === "constructor" || key === "prototype") continue;), use a null-prototype object (Object.create(null)), or use a safe merge utility instead.
Context: for (const key of varsToRemove) {
if (process.env[key] !== undefined) {
originalEnv[key] = process.env[key];
delete process.env[key];
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Note: [CWE-1321] Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution').
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[error] 115-121: Recursive/iterative merge copies attacker-controllable keys from a source object into a target via a computed property assignment without rejecting dangerous keys, allowing prototype pollution. Skip or block "proto", "constructor", and "prototype" keys (e.g. if (key === "__proto__" || key === "constructor" || key === "prototype") continue;), use a null-prototype object (Object.create(null)), or use a safe merge utility instead.
Context: for (const key of varsToRemove) {
if (originalEnv[key] !== undefined) {
process.env[key] = originalEnv[key];
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delete process.env[key];
}
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Note: [CWE-1321] Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution').
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src/utils/__tests__/browserLauncher.spec.ts
[error] 3-3: child_process import should occur before import of detect-browsers
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[error] 235-235: Replace 'xdg-open',·['https://example.com'], with ⏎········'xdg-open',⏎········['https://example.com'],⏎·······
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[error] 265-265: Replace (call)·=>·call[0]·===·'error' with ⏎········(call)·=>·call[0]·===·'error'⏎······
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| import { getAvailableBrowsers, launchBrowser } from 'detect-browsers'; | |||
| import { shell } from 'electron'; | |||
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Clear the reported lint errors in this spec.
ESLint reports import/order for the new child_process import and prettier/prettier errors in the Linux tests. Move the import and format the changed test blocks so the spec passes lint.
Also applies to: 235-235, 253-253, 265-265
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[error] 3-3: child_process import should occur before import of detect-browsers
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Review comment at @src/utils/__tests__/browserLauncher.spec.ts at line 3:
Reorder the child_process import to match the spec’s existing import/order
convention, and format the changed Linux test blocks to satisfy Prettier. Keep
the test behavior unchanged.
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| child.on('error', (error) => { | ||
| console.error('Failed to open xdg-open', error); | ||
| // Fallback to electron's shell.openExternal | ||
| shell.openExternal(url).then(resolve).catch(reject); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Handle an unsuccessful xdg-open exit.
If xdg-open starts and then exits with a non-zero status, this error handler does not run. The link can remain unopened without invoking the fallback. Observe the child’s exit status and handle a failed exit; account for successful openers that remain running when deciding when to settle the promise. (r2.nodejs.org)
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[warning] Importing child_process exposes a command-execution surface; ensure any command/argument built from input is validated, and prefer execFile/spawn with an argument array over exec.
Context: import { spawn } from 'child_process';
Note: [CWE-78] Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection').
(detect-child-process-typescript)
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Review comment at @src/utils/browserLauncher.ts around lines 80 - 83:
Update the child-process handling around the visible `child.on('error')` handler
to detect non-zero exits and invoke the existing `shell.openExternal(url)`
fallback. Settle the promise on a successful exit only when the opener has
actually exited; do not treat a still-running opener as a failure.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Wait for the spawn-failure fallback before resolving.
If xdg-open cannot spawn, Node emits error after this promise has resolved. shell.openExternal(url) still runs, but its rejection cannot reach the caller. Resolve when spawning succeeds, or settle the promise after the fallback completes. Update the error test to check the returned promise, not only the shell call. (r2.nodejs.org)
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[warning] Importing child_process exposes a command-execution surface; ensure any command/argument built from input is validated, and prefer execFile/spawn with an argument array over exec.
Context: import { spawn } from 'child_process';
Note: [CWE-78] Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection').
(detect-child-process-typescript)
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Review comment at @src/utils/browserLauncher.ts at line 87:
Update the promise around the `xdg-open` spawn so it resolves only after
spawning succeeds, or after `shell.openExternal(url)` completes on spawn
failure; do not resolve before the error handler can settle it. Update the error
test to assert the returned promise’s outcome as well as the shell fallback
call.
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Do not leave process.env changed across an asynchronous launch.
If two selected-browser launches overlap, the first call can restore the removed variables before the second call finishes. The second call then deletes those variables in its finally block because its snapshot recorded them as absent. This can permanently change the environment inherited by later launches. Pass a clean environment to the launch operation without changing the process-wide environment.
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[warning] Importing child_process exposes a command-execution surface; ensure any command/argument built from input is validated, and prefer execFile/spawn with an argument array over exec.
Context: import { spawn } from 'child_process';
Note: [CWE-78] Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection').
(detect-child-process-typescript)
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Review comment at @src/utils/browserLauncher.ts at line 114:
Update the browser launch flow around action() to pass a clean environment
directly to the launch operation instead of modifying process.env; keep the
process-wide environment unchanged across overlapping launches.
After applying the fix, consider running `coderabbit review --agent` for local
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Closes #3495
When Rocket.Chat runs as an AppImage or an unwrapped Electron app on Linux, it inherently sets or inherits specific environment variables (such as
APPIMAGEorLD_LIBRARY_PATH). When a user clicks a link, the defaultshell.openExternalcall passes these variables down toxdg-open. Whenxdg-openattempts to launch the default browser, if that browser is a sandboxed Snap package (e.g. Firefox on Ubuntu), thesnap-confinesecurity binary intercepts the execution, rejects the taintedLD_LIBRARY_PATH, and silently crashes.To resolve this without altering non-Linux platforms:
shell.openExternaland natively usechild_process.spawn('xdg-open', [url]).APPDIR,APPIMAGE,LD_LIBRARY_PATH,APPIMAGE_SILENT_INSTALL,APPIMAGE_START_CWD, andGDK_BACKENDbefore spawning the child process.Focused regression coverage has been added to
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