refactor(backend): sanitize user input before logging to close CRLF injection (#807)

* refactor(backend): sanitize user input before logging to close CRLF injection

Adds a small sanitizeForLog helper that strips CR, LF, tab, and ASCII
control characters (0x00-0x1F, 0x7F) from a value before it is embedded
in a console.log/warn/error/debug call. Wraps every call site where a
user-controlled value (req.params, req.body, req.query, or a value
derived from them) flows into a log message.

Closes the bulk of the open CodeQL alerts in this family:
- 96 js/log-injection
- 28 js/tainted-format-string

The helper is in backend/src/utils/safeLog.ts. Routes still pre-validate
input at the request boundary; this is the second line of defense and
gives static analyzers a sanitizer they can trace through. JSON
responses, Docker filter labels, and other non-log call sites are
intentionally left unwrapped.

* refactor(backend): printf-style format strings for tainted-log call sites

CodeQL's js/tainted-format-string rule flags template literals in the first
arg of console.X when any interpolated value is user-controlled, regardless
of whether each value is sanitized inline. The canonical mitigation is to
use a static format string and pass values as positional args.

Converts the 28 flagged template literals to printf-style ("%s") format
strings, with sanitizeForLog applied to each positional arg. Also fills in
the log-injection wraps on 9 sites where a user-controlled value was
missed in the first sweep (agents, fleet, gitSources, imageUpdates,
GitSourceService).

No behavior change at runtime. Node's util.format substitutes %s tokens
identically to template-literal interpolation.

* fix(backend): wrap nodeId/snapshotId in fleet restore debug log

CodeQL flagged the unwrapped numeric args even though they cannot
contain control chars in practice. Apply the sanitizer for taint-flow
recognition.
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2026-04-27 10:47:23 -04:00
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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import { LicenseService } from '../services/LicenseService';
import { validateImageRef } from '../utils/image-ref';
import { applySuppressions } from '../utils/suppression-filter';
import { generateSarif } from '../services/SarifExporter';
import { sanitizeForLog } from '../utils/safeLog';
import { getErrorMessage } from '../utils/errors';
import { isDebugEnabled } from '../utils/debug';
import { blockIfReplica } from '../middleware/fleetSyncGuards';
@@ -187,7 +188,7 @@ securityRouter.post('/scan', authMiddleware, (req: Request, res: Response): void
res.status(202).json({ scanId });
svc.finishScan(scanId, imageRef, nodeId, { useCache: !force, scanners }).catch((err) => {
console.error(`[Security] Scan failed for ${imageRef}:`, (err as Error).message);
console.error('[Security] Scan failed for %s:', sanitizeForLog(imageRef), sanitizeForLog((err as Error).message));
});
});