URLParser: stop crashing on URL-encoded forms that do not fit a Vector - #520
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes crash-on-overflow semantics in WTF's URL parser — foundational code shared by every caller — a human look is still worthwhile to confirm the empty-form fallback and the capacity-guard bound are the intended trade-offs.
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tryGetUTF8swap:Expected<CString, ...>is truth-tested and dereferenced correctly; matches existingtryGetUTF8call sites.isValidCapacityForVector<char16_t>guard mirrors theVector<char16_t, 1024> buffer(string.size())allocation infromUTF8ReplacingInvalidSequences, and the all-ASCII carve-out matches that function'scharactersAreAllASCIIfast path.tryParseURLEncodedFormloop:nulloptpairs are still skipped (not treated as failure);maxPairsis compared before the append so the bound is exact;tryAppendis theFailureAction::Reportoverload.parseURLEncodedFormwrapper preserves signature; only the previously-crashing overflow case now yields an empty form.
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Overview
The PR touches two files in WTF: Source/WTF/wtf/URLParser.cpp and Source/WTF/wtf/URLParser.h. It hardens formURLDecode against allocation failure by replacing StringView::utf8() (which RELEASE_ASSERTs on overflow) with tryGetUTF8(), and adds a pre-check on the percent-decoded byte count before handing it to String::fromUTF8ReplacingInvalidSequences. It also introduces tryParseURLEncodedForm(StringView, size_t maxPairs) that uses Vector::tryAppend and returns std::nullopt on capacity exhaustion or when maxPairs is exceeded, and reimplements parseURLEncodedForm as a thin wrapper returning an empty form on failure. The header gains <limits> and the new exported declaration.
Security risks
URL parsing is security-adjacent, but this change is purely defensive: it converts process-abort paths (CRASH() in Vector::allocateBuffer, RELEASE_ASSERT in utf8() and fromUTF8ReplacingInvalidSequences) into std::nullopt returns. No new parsing logic, no new input interpretation, no relaxation of validation. The isValidCapacityForVector<char16_t> bound ((UINT_MAX >> 1) / 2) exactly matches the allocation the callee performs at WTFString.cpp:494, and the all-ASCII exemption matches the callee's fast path at WTFString.cpp:491. I see no injection, auth, or data-exposure surface here.
Level of scrutiny
Medium-to-high. The diff is small (~30 lines) and mechanical, following the well-established WebKit try* / FailureAction::Report pattern. However, WTF is the platform-abstraction layer under all of JSC and Bun, and URL/form parsing is called from URLSearchParams, FormData, .formData() body readers, and WebCore's URL.cpp. The one intentional behavior change — parseURLEncodedForm returning an empty form instead of crashing on giant inputs — is a policy call a maintainer should sign off on, even though it only affects inputs that previously aborted the process.
Other factors
The change is self-contained with no callers modified in this repo (Bun-side callers land in a companion PR). The maxPairs default of SIZE_MAX means the new bound is inert unless a caller opts in, so existing parseURLEncodedForm semantics are preserved for all in-range inputs. The nullopt-skip for undecodable segments in the loop matches the old behavior (parseQueryNameAndValue returning nullopt was already silently skipped). No test changes are included here; verification is described as happening in the Bun-side PR. Given the foundational location, deferring for a human confirmation is the safer call despite finding no defects.
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In `@Source/WTF/wtf/URLParser.cpp`:
- Around line 3893-3897: Make the decode flow in formURLDecode fully fallible:
use fallible buffer growth in percentDecode and a fallible UTF-8 conversion
instead of String::fromUTF8ReplacingInvalidSequences, then propagate allocation
or conversion failure as std::nullopt to tryParseURLEncodedForm rather than
allowing a crash.
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…r result Pin WEBKIT_VERSION to the preview build of oven-sh/WebKit#520, which adds URLParser::tryParseURLEncodedForm(input, maxPairs). It appends with tryAppend and returns nullopt once the form has more pairs than maxPairs or than the Vector can grow to. URLSearchParams and DOMFormData call it and throw "URLSearchParams maximum size exceeded" or "FormData maximum size exceeded" on nullopt. The copied parse loops and the growth helper are gone. append() and set() use tryAppend with the same size check, so an allocation failure throws too. The IDL record converter appends with tryAppend and throws like the sequence converter, so new URLSearchParams(record) and new Headers(record) no longer abort in the conversion. URLDecomposition's setters and DOMURL::setFullURL return ExceptionOr<void>. url.search = ... with a query too large for URLSearchParams now throws instead of emptying the params and reporting success. An invalid URL from a component setter is still ignored, per the URL spec.
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…r result Pin WEBKIT_VERSION to the preview build of oven-sh/WebKit#520, which adds URLParser::tryParseURLEncodedForm(input, maxPairs). It appends with tryAppend and returns nullopt once the form has more pairs than maxPairs or than the Vector can grow to. URLSearchParams and DOMFormData call it and throw "URLSearchParams maximum size exceeded" or "FormData maximum size exceeded" on nullopt. The copied parse loops and the growth helper are gone. append() and set() use tryAppend with the same size check, so an allocation failure throws too. The IDL record converter appends with tryAppend and throws like the sequence converter, so new URLSearchParams(record) and new Headers(record) no longer abort in the conversion. URLDecomposition's setters and DOMURL::setFullURL return ExceptionOr<void>. url.search = ... with a query too large for URLSearchParams now throws instead of emptying the params and reporting success. An invalid URL from a component setter is still ignored, per the URL spec.
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3893-3897: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 MajorMake the complete decode path fallible.
The capacity check only rejects sizes that cannot fit in
Vector<char16_t>. It does not handle allocation failure.percentDecode()still grows its buffer through the crash-on-failure path, andString::fromUTF8ReplacingInvalidSequences()constructs a non-fallibleVector<char16_t>buffer. An allocation failure can therefore terminate the process beforetryParseURLEncodedForm()returnsstd::nullopt.The upstream WTF implementation maps
Vector::grow()toFailureAction::CrashandtryGrow()toFailureAction::Report; its replacement decoder constructsVector<char16_t, 1024> buffer(string.size()). (raw.githubusercontent.com)#!/bin/bash set -euo pipefail vector_header="$(fd -i '^Vector\.h$' Source/WTF | head -n 1)" string_source="$(fd -i '^WTFString\.cpp$' Source/WTF | head -n 1)" url_parser="$(fd -i '^URLParser\.cpp$' Source/WTF | head -n 1)" test -n "$vector_header" test -n "$string_source" test -n "$url_parser" rg -n -A4 -B4 'grow\(size_t|tryGrow\(size_t|FailureAction::(Crash|Report)' "$vector_header" rg -n -A20 -B4 'fromUTF8ReplacingInvalidSequences' "$string_source" rg -n -A8 -B4 'percentDecode\(byteCast|output\.grow\(input\.size\(\)\)' "$url_parser"🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@Source/WTF/wtf/URLParser.cpp`:
- Around line 3893-3897: Make the URL-decoding path fallible by updating
percentDecode and the replacement UTF-8 decoder used by tryParseURLEncodedForm
to use non-crashing allocation APIs and report allocation failure as
std::nullopt. Ensure the decoder’s UTF-16 buffer uses the existing fallible
Vector configuration, while preserving successful decoding behavior and the
current capacity validation.
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…r result Pin WEBKIT_VERSION to the preview build of oven-sh/WebKit#520, which adds URLParser::tryParseURLEncodedForm(input, maxPairs). It appends with tryAppend and returns nullopt once the form has more pairs than maxPairs or than the Vector can grow to. URLSearchParams and DOMFormData call it and throw "URLSearchParams maximum size exceeded" or "FormData maximum size exceeded" on nullopt. The copied parse loops and the growth helper are gone. append() and set() use tryAppend with the same size check, so an allocation failure throws too. The IDL record converter appends with tryAppend and throws like the sequence converter, so new URLSearchParams(record) and new Headers(record) no longer abort in the conversion. URLDecomposition's setters and DOMURL::setFullURL return ExceptionOr<void>. url.search = ... with a query too large for URLSearchParams now throws instead of emptying the params and reporting success. An invalid URL from a component setter is still ignored, per the URL spec.
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…r result Pin WEBKIT_VERSION to the preview build of oven-sh/WebKit#520, which adds URLParser::tryParseURLEncodedForm(input, maxPairs). It appends with tryAppend and returns nullopt once the form has more pairs than maxPairs or than the Vector can grow to. URLSearchParams and DOMFormData call it and throw "URLSearchParams maximum size exceeded" or "FormData maximum size exceeded" on nullopt. The copied parse loops and the growth helper are gone. append() and set() use tryAppend with the same size check, so an allocation failure throws too. The IDL record converter appends with tryAppend and throws like the sequence converter, so new URLSearchParams(record) and new Headers(record) no longer abort in the conversion. URLDecomposition's setters and DOMURL::setFullURL return ExceptionOr<void>. url.search = ... with a query too large for URLSearchParams now throws instead of emptying the params and reporting success. An invalid URL from a component setter is still ignored, per the URL spec.
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…r result Pin WEBKIT_VERSION to the preview build of oven-sh/WebKit#520, which adds URLParser::tryParseURLEncodedForm(input, maxPairs). It appends with tryAppend and returns nullopt once the form has more pairs than maxPairs or than the Vector can grow to. URLSearchParams and DOMFormData call it and throw "URLSearchParams maximum size exceeded" or "FormData maximum size exceeded" on nullopt. The copied parse loops and the growth helper are gone. append() and set() use tryAppend with the same size check, so an allocation failure throws too. The IDL record converter appends with tryAppend and throws like the sequence converter, so new URLSearchParams(record) and new Headers(record) no longer abort in the conversion. URLDecomposition's setters and DOMURL::setFullURL return ExceptionOr<void>. url.search = ... with a query too large for URLSearchParams now throws instead of emptying the params and reporting success. An invalid URL from a component setter is still ignored, per the URL spec.
parseURLEncodedForm appended every pair with Vector::append, which CRASH()es when a 1.5x growth step asks for a capacity over isValidCapacityForVector. With 16-byte pairs that is the 116597314th pair. formURLDecode called StringView::utf8(), which RELEASE_ASSERTs when the UTF-8 form of a name or value does not fit a Vector, and then String::fromUTF8ReplacingInvalidSequences, which crashes on more than 2^30 - 1 non-ASCII bytes. tryParseURLEncodedForm(input, maxPairs) appends with tryAppend and returns nullopt past maxPairs or once the Vector cannot grow. parseURLEncodedForm keeps its signature and returns an empty form in that case. formURLDecode uses tryGetUTF8 and checks the char16_t Vector capacity. It returns nullopt for a value it cannot decode, which parseQueryNameAndValue already treats as a pair to skip.
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…r result Pin WEBKIT_VERSION to the preview build of oven-sh/WebKit#520, which adds URLParser::tryParseURLEncodedForm(input, maxPairs). It appends with tryAppend and returns nullopt once the form has more pairs than maxPairs or than the Vector can grow to. URLSearchParams and DOMFormData call it and throw "URLSearchParams maximum size exceeded" or "FormData maximum size exceeded" on nullopt. The copied parse loops and the growth helper are gone. append() and set() use tryAppend with the same size check, so an allocation failure throws too. The IDL record converter appends with tryAppend and throws like the sequence converter, so new URLSearchParams(record) and new Headers(record) no longer abort in the conversion. URLDecomposition's setters and DOMURL::setFullURL return ExceptionOr<void>. url.search = ... with a query too large for URLSearchParams now throws instead of emptying the params and reporting success. An invalid URL from a component setter is still ignored, per the URL spec.
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URLParser::parseURLEncodedFormappends every pair withVector::append.Vector::allocateBuffercallsCRASH()when a 1.5x growth step asks for a capacity overisValidCapacityForVector, so a form with 116597314 pairs (16 bytes each) aborts the process. In Bun that isnew URLSearchParams("a=&".repeat(116597314)),FormData.from(),url.searchParams, and every.formData()body reader (url: throw a RangeError instead of aborting when URLSearchParams or FormData outgrows its Vector bun#40577).formURLDecodecallsStringView::utf8(), whichRELEASE_ASSERTs when the UTF-8 form of one name or value does not fit aVector, and thenString::fromUTF8ReplacingInvalidSequences, which crashes past 2^30 - 1 non-ASCII bytes.FormData.from(new ArrayBuffer(1073741826))hits that (url: reject URL-encoded input over the WTF decode limit instead of aborting bun#40567). Theif (utf8.isNull())check shows the function was written to skip such a pair, bututf8()no longer returns null on failure.Fix
tryParseURLEncodedForm(StringView, size_t maxPairs)appends withtryAppendand returnsnulloptpastmaxPairsor once theVectorcannot grow. A caller with an error channel (Bun'sURLSearchParamsandDOMFormData) throws aRangeErroronnullopt.maxPairslets Bun's tests reach the bound with 65536 pairs through its synthetic allocation limit. The real bound needs about 6 GiB.parseURLEncodedForm(StringView)keeps its signature and returns an empty form in that case, soURL.cpp(queryParameters,differingQueryParameters) and the WebCore callers need no change.formURLDecodeusestryGetUTF8and checksisValidCapacityForVector<char16_t>beforefromUTF8ReplacingInvalidSequences(the all-ASCII path does not allocate thatVector, so it stays allowed). It returnsnulloptfor a value it cannot decode, andparseQueryNameAndValuealready skips such a pair.76882271d74a6e7f5ca09db301d64302b1f4cd67) plus this one commit, so the preview build differs from the pin by this change only. Bun consumes it in url: throw a RangeError instead of aborting when URLSearchParams or FormData outgrows its Vector bun#40577.Verification
URLParser.cppandURL.cppcompile against the new header with the flags from the pinned build'scompile_commands.json(clang++-21 -std=c++23 -fsyntax-only).maxPairsset to 65536 and expect aRangeErrorat 65537, through the constructor,url.searchParams,url.href =,FormData.from()and the.formData()readers.