Add experimental host_query API for local identity lookups

Programs running alongside nebula have no simple way to ask "who is this
vpn address?" when making authorization decisions, e.g. a nebula-aware
webapp that wants to identify an inbound connection by its source
address instead of presenting a login form. The existing surfaces are
the sshd admin interface (not scriptable from app code) and the
lighthouse-only DNS TXT lookup, which returns raw cert JSON over an
awkward transport.

This adds an opt-in `host_query` config section that serves a small
HTTP+JSON API on a unix socket or tcp address, requiring no client
library to consume:

  GET /v1/host?addr=<vpn addr>  identity of the host owning the address
                                (an established peer, or this node).
                                addr may include a port so a server can
                                pass a connection's RemoteAddr through
                                unparsed.
  GET /v1/self                  this node's own identity.

Responses carry the certificate-derived identity only: name, vpn
addresses, networks, unsafe networks, groups, fingerprint, issuer,
validity window, and cert version.

The self-vs-peer lookup logic is shared with the DNS TXT handler via a
new findCertificateForVpnAddr helper, which also swaps the panicking
GetDefaultCertificate call for the nil-returning accessor so a missing
certificate yields an empty answer instead of a crash.

The listener follows the statsServer lifecycle: the whole section is
reloadable via SIGHUP, including moving between socket paths and tcp
addresses. Unix sockets default to mode 0600, stale sockets left by an
unclean exit are removed at bind time, and a non-socket file at the
configured path is never replaced.
This commit is contained in:
JackDoan
2026-07-24 10:06:25 -05:00
parent 72bf111209
commit 2df43dc218
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package nebula
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"io/fs"
"log/slog"
"net"
"net/http"
"net/http/httptest"
"net/netip"
"net/url"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"runtime"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/cert"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/cert_test"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/config"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
)
func Test_parseInfoAPIListen(t *testing.T) {
type testCase struct {
listen string
addr string
wantErr bool
}
tests := []testCase{
{listen: "", wantErr: true},
{listen: "unix://", wantErr: true},
{listen: "unix://relative/path.sock", wantErr: true},
{listen: "not an address", wantErr: true},
// tcp host:port addresses are no longer accepted
{listen: "127.0.0.1:8085", wantErr: true},
{listen: "[::1]:8085", wantErr: true},
{listen: "localhost:8085", wantErr: true},
}
// A unix socket path must be absolute for the OS that will bind it, and filepath.IsAbs is
// GOOS-specific. CI runs the suite separately on each OS, so assert the platform's own native
// absolute path is accepted while the other platform's is rejected.
posixPath := "unix:///var/run/nebula.sock"
winPath := `unix://C:\nebula\hq.sock`
if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
tests = append(tests,
testCase{listen: winPath, addr: `C:\nebula\hq.sock`},
testCase{listen: posixPath, wantErr: true},
)
} else {
tests = append(tests,
testCase{listen: posixPath, addr: "/var/run/nebula.sock"},
testCase{listen: winPath, wantErr: true},
)
}
for _, tt := range tests {
addr, err := parseInfoAPIListen(tt.listen)
if tt.wantErr {
require.Error(t, err, "listen=%q", tt.listen)
continue
}
require.NoError(t, err, "listen=%q", tt.listen)
assert.Equal(t, tt.addr, addr, "listen=%q", tt.listen)
}
}
func Test_loadInfoAPIConfig(t *testing.T) {
c := config.NewC(nil)
// the listen path must be absolute for the OS running the test (CI is per-OS)
listen, wantAddr := "unix:///tmp/hq.sock", "/tmp/hq.sock"
if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
listen, wantAddr = `unix://C:\tmp\hq.sock`, `C:\tmp\hq.sock`
}
// absent section means disabled, no error
cfg, err := loadInfoAPIConfig(c)
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.False(t, cfg.enabled)
// enabled without a listen address is an error
setInfoAPIConfig(c, true, "", "")
_, err = loadInfoAPIConfig(c)
require.Error(t, err)
// a unix socket gets the default mode
setInfoAPIConfig(c, true, listen, "")
cfg, err = loadInfoAPIConfig(c)
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, wantAddr, cfg.addr)
assert.Equal(t, fs.FileMode(0o600), cfg.socketMode)
setInfoAPIConfig(c, true, listen, "0660")
cfg, err = loadInfoAPIConfig(c)
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, fs.FileMode(0o660), cfg.socketMode)
setInfoAPIConfig(c, true, listen, "withers")
_, err = loadInfoAPIConfig(c)
require.Error(t, err)
// mode bits beyond the permission bits are rejected
setInfoAPIConfig(c, true, listen, "10600")
_, err = loadInfoAPIConfig(c)
require.Error(t, err)
// tcp host:port listen addresses are no longer supported
setInfoAPIConfig(c, true, "127.0.0.1:8085", "")
_, err = loadInfoAPIConfig(c)
require.Error(t, err)
}
func TestInfoAPIServer_badConfigIsNonFatal(t *testing.T) {
// an enabled-but-invalid config must not stop construction; nebula keeps starting and the
// feature simply stays disabled until a reload supplies a valid config
c := config.NewC(nil)
setInfoAPIConfig(c, true, "not-a-unix-socket", "")
h := newInfoAPIServerFromConfig(context.Background(), slog.New(slog.DiscardHandler), nil, newHostMap(slog.New(slog.DiscardHandler)), c)
require.NotNil(t, h)
assert.False(t, h.enabled.Load())
// no config was recorded, so Start has nothing to bind and is a no-op
h.runMu.Lock()
assert.Nil(t, h.runCfg)
h.runMu.Unlock()
h.Start()
h.runMu.Lock()
assert.Nil(t, h.run)
h.runMu.Unlock()
}
func setInfoAPIConfig(c *config.C, enabled bool, listen, socketMode string) {
settings := map[string]any{
"enabled": enabled,
"listen": listen,
}
if socketMode != "" {
settings["socket_mode"] = socketMode
}
c.Settings["info_api"] = settings
}
func newTestInfoAPIServer(t *testing.T) (*infoAPIServer, *config.C) {
t.Helper()
h := &infoAPIServer{
l: slog.New(slog.DiscardHandler),
ctx: context.Background(),
hostMap: newHostMap(slog.New(slog.DiscardHandler)),
}
h.hostMap.preferredRanges.Store(&[]netip.Prefix{})
return h, config.NewC(nil)
}
// addTestPeer creates a certificate for a peer owning each addr (as a /24 or /64) and inserts it
// into the hostmap as an established tunnel
func addTestPeer(t *testing.T, hm *HostMap, name string, addrs []netip.Addr, unsafeNetworks []netip.Prefix, groups []string) cert.Certificate {
t.Helper()
networks := make([]netip.Prefix, 0, len(addrs))
for _, a := range addrs {
bits := 24
if a.Is6() {
bits = 64
}
networks = append(networks, netip.PrefixFrom(a, bits))
}
ca, _, caKey, _ := cert_test.NewTestCaCert(cert.Version2, cert.Curve_CURVE25519, time.Time{}, time.Time{}, nil, nil, nil)
crt, _, _, _ := cert_test.NewTestCert(cert.Version2, cert.Curve_CURVE25519, ca, caKey, name, time.Time{}, time.Time{}, networks, unsafeNetworks, groups)
fp, err := crt.Fingerprint()
require.NoError(t, err)
hm.unlockedAddHostInfo(&HostInfo{
ConnectionState: &ConnectionState{
peerCert: &cert.CachedCertificate{Certificate: crt, Fingerprint: fp},
},
vpnAddrs: addrs,
relayState: RelayState{
relayForByAddr: map[netip.Addr]*Relay{},
relayForByIdx: map[uint32]*Relay{},
},
}, &Interface{})
return crt
}
func getHost(t *testing.T, h *infoAPIServer, addrParam string) (int, map[string]any) {
t.Helper()
r := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/v1/host?addr="+url.QueryEscape(addrParam), nil)
w := httptest.NewRecorder()
h.handleHost(w, r)
return decodeResponse(t, w)
}
func decodeResponse(t *testing.T, w *httptest.ResponseRecorder) (int, map[string]any) {
t.Helper()
assert.Equal(t, "application/json", w.Header().Get("Content-Type"))
var body map[string]any
require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal(w.Body.Bytes(), &body))
return w.Code, body
}
func TestInfoAPIServer_handleHost(t *testing.T) {
h, _ := newTestInfoAPIServer(t)
h.pki = newTestPKI(t, "self", []netip.Addr{netip.MustParseAddr("10.0.0.1")})
peerV4 := netip.MustParseAddr("10.0.0.99")
peerV6 := netip.MustParseAddr("fd00::99")
addTestPeer(t, h.hostMap, "laptop-alice", []netip.Addr{peerV4, peerV6},
[]netip.Prefix{netip.MustParsePrefix("192.168.50.0/24")}, []string{"eng", "ssh"})
addTestPeer(t, h.hostMap, "groupless", []netip.Addr{netip.MustParseAddr("10.0.0.77")}, nil, nil)
// an established peer comes back with its full identity
code, body := getHost(t, h, "10.0.0.99")
require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, code)
assert.Equal(t, "laptop-alice", body["name"])
assert.Equal(t, []any{"10.0.0.99", "fd00::99"}, body["vpnAddrs"])
assert.Equal(t, []any{"10.0.0.99/24", "fd00::99/64"}, body["networks"])
assert.Equal(t, []any{"192.168.50.0/24"}, body["unsafeNetworks"])
assert.Equal(t, []any{"eng", "ssh"}, body["groups"])
assert.NotEmpty(t, body["fingerprint"])
assert.Equal(t, "2", fmt.Sprintf("%v", body["certVersion"]))
assert.NotEmpty(t, body["notBefore"])
assert.NotEmpty(t, body["notAfter"])
// empty cert slices marshal as [] rather than null
code, body = getHost(t, h, "10.0.0.77")
require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, code)
require.NotNil(t, body["groups"])
assert.Empty(t, body["groups"])
require.NotNil(t, body["unsafeNetworks"])
assert.Empty(t, body["unsafeNetworks"])
// a port in addr is ignored so RemoteAddr can be passed through directly, including the
// bracketed v6 and 4in6 forms
for _, q := range []string{"10.0.0.99:54321", "[fd00::99]:443", "::ffff:10.0.0.99"} {
code, body = getHost(t, h, q)
require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, code, "addr=%q", q)
assert.Equal(t, "laptop-alice", body["name"], "addr=%q", q)
}
// our own address answers from the local cert state
code, body = getHost(t, h, "10.0.0.1")
require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, code)
assert.Equal(t, "self", body["name"])
code, body = getHost(t, h, "10.0.0.42")
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusNotFound, code)
assert.NotEmpty(t, body["error"])
// a tunnel mid-teardown (no peer cert) is treated as unknown
h.hostMap.unlockedAddHostInfo(&HostInfo{
ConnectionState: &ConnectionState{},
vpnAddrs: []netip.Addr{netip.MustParseAddr("10.0.0.66")},
relayState: RelayState{
relayForByAddr: map[netip.Addr]*Relay{},
relayForByIdx: map[uint32]*Relay{},
},
}, &Interface{})
code, _ = getHost(t, h, "10.0.0.66")
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusNotFound, code)
code, body = getHost(t, h, "not-an-address")
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusBadRequest, code)
assert.NotEmpty(t, body["error"])
r := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/v1/host", nil)
w := httptest.NewRecorder()
h.handleHost(w, r)
code, body = decodeResponse(t, w)
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusBadRequest, code)
assert.NotEmpty(t, body["error"])
}
func TestInfoAPIServer_handleSelf(t *testing.T) {
h, _ := newTestInfoAPIServer(t)
h.pki = newTestPKI(t, "lighthouse", []netip.Addr{netip.MustParseAddr("10.0.0.1")})
r := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/v1/self", nil)
w := httptest.NewRecorder()
h.handleSelf(w, r)
code, body := decodeResponse(t, w)
require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, code)
assert.Equal(t, "lighthouse", body["name"])
assert.Equal(t, []any{"10.0.0.1"}, body["vpnAddrs"])
// no cert state available should be an error, not a panic
h.pki = nil
w = httptest.NewRecorder()
h.handleSelf(w, r)
code, body = decodeResponse(t, w)
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusInternalServerError, code)
assert.NotEmpty(t, body["error"])
}
func unixHTTPClient(path string) *http.Client {
return &http.Client{
Timeout: time.Second,
Transport: &http.Transport{
DialContext: func(ctx context.Context, _, _ string) (net.Conn, error) {
return (&net.Dialer{}).DialContext(ctx, "unix", path)
},
},
}
}
// waitForServe polls until a GET /v1/self through client succeeds
func waitForServe(t *testing.T, client *http.Client) {
t.Helper()
waitFor(t, func() bool {
resp, err := client.Get("http://hostquery/v1/self")
if err != nil {
return false
}
resp.Body.Close()
return resp.StatusCode == http.StatusOK
})
}
func skipIfNoUnixSockets(t *testing.T) {
t.Helper()
if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
t.Skip("unix socket tests are not supported on windows CI")
}
}
func TestInfoAPIServer_unixLifecycle(t *testing.T) {
skipIfNoUnixSockets(t)
h, c := newTestInfoAPIServer(t)
h.pki = newTestPKI(t, "self", []netip.Addr{netip.MustParseAddr("10.0.0.1")})
sock := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "hq.sock")
setInfoAPIConfig(c, true, "unix://"+sock, "")
require.NoError(t, h.reload(c, true))
done := make(chan struct{})
go func() {
h.Start()
close(done)
}()
client := unixHTTPClient(sock)
waitForServe(t, client)
fi, err := os.Stat(sock)
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, fs.FileMode(0o600), fi.Mode().Perm())
resp, err := client.Get("http://hostquery/v1/host?addr=10.0.0.1")
require.NoError(t, err)
resp.Body.Close()
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, resp.StatusCode)
h.Stop()
select {
case <-done:
case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
t.Fatal("Start did not return after Stop")
}
_, err = os.Stat(sock)
assert.True(t, os.IsNotExist(err), "socket file should be unlinked on shutdown")
}
func TestInfoAPIServer_staleSocket(t *testing.T) {
skipIfNoUnixSockets(t)
h, _ := newTestInfoAPIServer(t)
sock := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "hq.sock")
// simulate an unclean exit, a leftover socket file with no listener
stale, err := net.ListenUnix("unix", &net.UnixAddr{Name: sock, Net: "unix"})
require.NoError(t, err)
stale.SetUnlinkOnClose(false)
require.NoError(t, stale.Close())
_, err = os.Stat(sock)
require.NoError(t, err, "stale socket file should exist")
cfg := infoAPIConfig{addr: sock, socketMode: 0o600}
ln, err := h.listen(cfg)
require.NoError(t, err, "a stale socket should be removed and rebound")
require.NoError(t, ln.Close())
}
func TestInfoAPIServer_existingFileNotReplaced(t *testing.T) {
skipIfNoUnixSockets(t)
h, _ := newTestInfoAPIServer(t)
path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "hq.sock")
require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(path, []byte("precious"), 0o600))
cfg := infoAPIConfig{addr: path, socketMode: 0o600}
_, err := h.listen(cfg)
require.Error(t, err, "a non-socket file at the listen path must not be replaced")
content, err := os.ReadFile(path)
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, "precious", string(content))
}
func TestInfoAPIServer_reload(t *testing.T) {
skipIfNoUnixSockets(t)
h, c := newTestInfoAPIServer(t)
h.pki = newTestPKI(t, "self", []netip.Addr{netip.MustParseAddr("10.0.0.1")})
dir := t.TempDir()
sock1 := filepath.Join(dir, "hq1.sock")
sock2 := filepath.Join(dir, "hq2.sock")
// initial reload only records config, Control.Start is what launches the runtime
setInfoAPIConfig(c, false, "unix://"+sock1, "")
require.NoError(t, h.reload(c, true))
assert.False(t, h.enabled.Load())
h.runMu.Lock()
assert.Nil(t, h.run)
h.runMu.Unlock()
// enabling via reload spawns the listener
setInfoAPIConfig(c, true, "unix://"+sock1, "")
require.NoError(t, h.reload(c, false))
waitForServe(t, unixHTTPClient(sock1))
// changing the listen path restarts on the new address
setInfoAPIConfig(c, true, "unix://"+sock2, "")
require.NoError(t, h.reload(c, false))
waitForServe(t, unixHTTPClient(sock2))
waitFor(t, func() bool {
_, err := os.Stat(sock1)
return os.IsNotExist(err)
})
// reloading an unchanged config does not restart the runtime
h.runMu.Lock()
rt := h.run
h.runMu.Unlock()
require.NoError(t, h.reload(c, false))
h.runMu.Lock()
assert.Same(t, rt, h.run)
h.runMu.Unlock()
// disabling stops the listener
setInfoAPIConfig(c, false, "unix://"+sock2, "")
require.NoError(t, h.reload(c, false))
assert.False(t, h.enabled.Load())
waitFor(t, func() bool {
h.runMu.Lock()
defer h.runMu.Unlock()
return h.run == nil
})
}