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An internal pentest flagged our Content-Security-Policy for allowing 'unsafe-eval' and 'unsafe-inline', which widens what an attacker could do with injected text if input filtering ever fails. This is the application half of the fix; the httpd side is in pic-sure-bdc-infrastructure#217 and pic-sure-all-in-one#256.

Removing 'unsafe-inline' needs a nonce regenerated on every response, and httpd cannot mint one that matches what SvelteKit renders. So the policy for HTML pages moves into the app (kit.csp, nonce mode) and the vhosts keep a strict floor for everything else.

'unsafe-eval' turned out to be unused — nothing in the bundle or any dependency calls eval or new Function — so it goes with no code change at all. 'unsafe-inline' needed more. The antiClickjack block in app.html is deleted: it duplicates frame-ancestors 'none' and X-Frame-Options, it already breaks for anyone with JavaScript off, and under a strict policy a single mistake there renders the whole app blank. Components that emitted a style attribute now apply styles through the CSSOM instead, which CSP doesn't govern.

One exception survives: style-src-attr 'unsafe-inline'. Skeleton's <Toaster> renders a style attribute server-side on every page from inside the library, so there's no seam to route it through. Closing it would mean replacing the toast system. script-src carries no exception of any kind.

Two things worth a reviewer's attention.

app.html seeds Plotly's stylesheet element with the nonce. Plotly writes its ~53 global rules into an element it finds rather than creating its own unnonced one — without the seed those rules are silently dropped and charts render subtly wrong with no error. SvelteKit only puts its nonce in style-src when it emits an inline <style> itself, which it never does at the default inlineStyleThreshold, hence withStyleNonce. Because every way that pairing breaks is silent, tests/unit/CspConfig.test.ts asserts the invariant directly, and fails if any directive other than style-src-attr ever regains an unsafe- source.

font-src 'self' data: is new, and it fixes a pre-existing bug rather than accommodating this change: icon fonts are inlined as data: URIs, font-src falls back to default-src 'self', and they are blocked in production today.

Also adds form-action, base-uri and object-src (ZAP flags the first as a missing fallback), drops data: from script-src, and moves ServerTokens Prod into httpd-picsure.conf so it ships with the image and can't be lost if a mounted vhost drifts.

Merge order: this one first. The two infra PRs are inert until the rebuilt image is deployed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security

    • Added a stricter Content Security Policy with nonce-based protection for scripts and styles.
    • Added safeguards against unauthorized framing and reduced server-identification details.
    • Enabled deployment-specific trusted sources for cross-domain assets and connections.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved compatibility for Plotly styles under the new security policy.
    • Preserved dynamic styling and layout behavior across popovers, facets, trees, and advanced search controls.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage validating CSP configuration, nonce handling, and security-policy restrictions.

…afe-inline' can go

An internal pentest flagged the CSP for allowing 'unsafe-eval' and 'unsafe-inline'.
Removing 'unsafe-inline' requires a nonce regenerated per response, which httpd cannot
mint to match what SvelteKit renders, so the policy for HTML moves here (kit.csp, nonce
mode) and the vhosts keep a strict floor for everything else.

'unsafe-eval' turned out to be unused - nothing in the bundle or any dependency calls
eval or new Function - so it goes with no code change. Removing 'unsafe-inline' needed
more: app.html's antiClickjack block is deleted (redundant with frame-ancestors 'none'
and X-Frame-Options, broken for noscript users, and under a strict policy a single
mistake there blanks the page), and components that rendered a style attribute now
apply styles through the CSSOM, which CSP does not govern.

One exception remains, style-src-attr 'unsafe-inline'. Skeleton's Toaster renders a
style attribute server-side on every page from inside the library, so there is no seam
to route it through. script-src carries no exception of any kind.

app.html seeds Plotly's stylesheet element with the nonce: Plotly writes its ~53 global
rules into an element it finds rather than creating an unnonced one, and without the
seed those rules are silently dropped and charts render subtly wrong. SvelteKit only
puts its nonce in style-src when it emits an inline <style> itself, which it never does
at the default inlineStyleThreshold, hence withStyleNonce.

Adds font-src 'self' data:, which the current production policy omits - icon fonts are
inlined as data: URIs and are blocked today. Adds form-action, base-uri and object-src,
and drops data: from script-src.

ServerTokens Prod moves into httpd-picsure.conf so it ships with the image and cannot
be lost if a mounted vhost drifts.
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The application now uses nonce-based CSP configuration, validates response policies, and supports deployment-specific CSP sources. Dynamic inline styles move to CSSOM attachments or utility classes. Apache responses hide version details, and the HTML template adds a Plotly stylesheet nonce seed.

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CSP policy and document wiring

Layer / File(s) Summary
Policy, build inputs, and document wiring
Dockerfile, svelte.config.js, src/app.html, httpd-picsure.conf, tests/unit/CspConfig.test.ts
Build arguments provide deployment-specific CSP sources. SvelteKit emits nonce-based directives. The HTML template seeds Plotly styles and removes the anti-clickjacking guard. Apache hides version details. Configuration tests validate the policy.
Response nonce propagation and validation
src/lib/server/csp.ts, src/hooks.server.ts, tests/unit/Csp.test.ts
CSP helpers add and validate style nonces. The server hook updates and checks the response policy, with development errors and production logging for invalid policies.
Dynamic style attachment migration
src/lib/utilities/style.ts, src/lib/components/Popover.svelte, src/lib/components/Shell.svelte, src/lib/components/explorer/*, src/lib/components/tracking/GoogleTracking.svelte, src/lib/components/tree/RadioTreeNode.svelte
The new css attachment applies dynamic declarations through CSSOM and cleans up only its own properties. Components replace inline styles with attachments or existing utility classes while preserving computed values.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6db78

The PR substantially tightens the application CSP, but its source validation still accepts pre-quoted unsafe keywords, which could weaken that protection if such values are later supplied through configuration. The change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and a follow-up to normalize and reject these values.

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  participant Browser
  participant SvelteKitHandle
  participant Resolve
  participant CSPHelpers
  participant RenderedDocument
  Browser->>SvelteKitHandle: request document
  SvelteKitHandle->>Resolve: resolve(event)
  Resolve-->>SvelteKitHandle: response with CSP header
  SvelteKitHandle->>CSPHelpers: add and validate style nonce
  CSPHelpers-->>SvelteKitHandle: updated CSP or validation result
  SvelteKitHandle-->>Browser: response with CSP header
  Browser->>RenderedDocument: apply Plotly stylesheet and CSS attachments
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In `@svelte.config.js`:
- Around line 7-13: Update the extra() helper to normalize surrounding quotes
from each CSP source before checking for unsafe- keywords and before returning
the source list, ensuring pre-quoted values such as 'unsafe-eval' are rejected
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Comment thread svelte.config.js
The guard tested source.startsWith('unsafe-'), which a pre-quoted "'unsafe-eval'"
slips past. SvelteKit only re-quotes keywords it recognises, and it recognises them
unquoted, so an unrecognised token is emitted into the header verbatim - putting a
working 'unsafe-eval' back into script-src past a check written to prevent exactly
that.

Normalise surrounding quotes before validating and before returning the list. That
also fixes the benign case: 'self' now reaches SvelteKit as self, so it is quoted by
the serialiser rather than passed through by luck.

The emitted policy is unchanged for BDC and the AIO, which set no CSP_EXTRA_* vars.
Keeps only the dev-mode style-src note in lib/server/csp.ts and a one-line
marker on the Plotly seed in app.html. The rationale lives in the PR
description. No behaviour change: the emitted policy is byte-identical.
Comment thread src/hooks.server.ts Outdated
Comment thread src/lib/utilities/style.ts
The probe is not obvious: assigning the CSS string to a detached element's cssText
delegates parsing to the browser, so normalised values and !important priorities
survive being replayed through setProperty.
The check is structural - it asks whether style-src carries a nonce - so it
fires for anything nonce-seeded in app.html, not just the Plotly stylesheet.
Naming Plotly here also pointed at a module that neither this hook nor
lib/server/csp.ts references. app.html carries the Plotly explanation on the
seed element itself, which is where you look next anyway.
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