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mesh-catalog/modules/mssql/client.ts
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jschoubben 400b2f9696 mssql: the query runs as a read-only login, one line, no variables; sqlcmd is installed (hq #193)
Proven on a throwaway server: as the administrator a caller's $(SQLCMDPASSWORD) returned
the sa password, and a line beginning ':!!' ran a program in the tools container. The
statement now runs as mesh_mssql_reader (CONNECT ANY DATABASE, SELECT ALL USER SECURABLES),
with substitution off (-x), after the module's own text on the first line, and a line break
is refused. go-sqlcmd v1.10.0 is installed at a pinned digest: the image never had sqlcmd,
so every mssql tool failed with spawn sqlcmd ENOENT.
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// mssql's admin client — mssql's own code, living in the module (novox/hq ADR 0039). Both this
// module's tools and its provisioner import it, and nothing outside mssql does.
//
// SQL is executed through `sqlcmd`, not a wire-protocol driver: the module may take NO npm
// dependency beyond @novox/mesh-sdk, and hand-rolling the TDS handshake, pre-login and query
// protocol is more surface than this should carry — so it shells out to the client the mssql
// tools ship, the same way postgres drives itself through `psql`, minio through `mc`, and mailu
// through doveadm. One boundary, `run()`, and every method is built on it.
//
// Structured rows come back as JSON: SQL Server itself renders the result with `FOR JSON`, and
// this parses the single JSON document sqlcmd prints — far more robust than parsing sqlcmd's
// column-aligned text, since SQL Server owns the quoting and typing.
import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
import { execFile } from "node:child_process";
import { promisify } from "node:util";
const run = promisify(execFile);
export interface QueryResult {
/** The leading keyword of the statement, e.g. "SELECT", "CREATE". */
readonly command: string;
readonly rows: Record<string, unknown>[];
}
export interface MssqlConn {
readonly host: string;
readonly port: number;
readonly user: string;
readonly password: string;
/**
* The read-only login's password, which the mesh mints for this module (`own-secrets.reader`).
* Absent when the mesh has not delivered it: then a caller's statement is refused, never run as
* the administrator (novox/hq issue 193).
*/
readonly readerPassword?: string;
}
/**
* The login a caller's statement runs as (novox/hq issue 193). It may connect to every database and
* read every table, and holds no other permission. A statement cannot climb out of a login the way it
* could out of a transaction wrapped around it as text, and the administrator — who can run programs
* on the server — never runs a caller's text.
*/
export const READER = "mesh_mssql_reader";
/** Who a sqlcmd invocation logs in as, and whether the text is a caller's rather than the module's. */
interface Invocation {
readonly user: string;
readonly password: string;
/**
* A caller's text: sqlcmd substitutes no `$(NAME)` in it, which would read this process's
* environment — the administrator's password among it. (Its own commands are kept out by the
* caller's text never beginning a line; see readOnlyQuery.)
*/
readonly caller: boolean;
}
export class MssqlClient {
constructor(private readonly conn: MssqlConn) {}
/** The reader is made once per process: idempotent, and repeating it re-sets a rotated password. */
private readerReady?: Promise<void>;
/**
* Build from the module's resolved environment. Reads MESH_MSSQL_* first (the documented
* names), falling back to the MESH_PROVISION_* keys the manifest already sets on the provisioner
* container. Throws if it cannot find a host and an admin password.
*/
static fromEnv(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = process.env): MssqlClient {
const url = env.MESH_PROVISION_MSSQL ? safeUrl(env.MESH_PROVISION_MSSQL) : undefined;
const host = env.MESH_MSSQL_HOST ?? url?.hostname;
const port = Number(env.MESH_MSSQL_PORT ?? url?.port ?? "1433") || 1433;
const user = env.MESH_MSSQL_USER ?? url?.username ?? "sa";
const password = env.MESH_MSSQL_PASSWORD ?? readSecretFile(env.MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE);
if (!host || !password) {
throw new Error("mssql host or admin password is not set — mssql's own code cannot reach the server");
}
const readerPassword = env.MESH_MSSQL_READER_PASSWORD ??
readSecretFile(env.MESH_MSSQL_READER_PASSWORD_FILE);
return new MssqlClient({ host, port, user, password, readerPassword });
}
get host(): string {
return this.conn.host;
}
get port(): number {
return this.conn.port;
}
/**
* Execute a batch that returns no rows (DDL and the like), through `sqlcmd`. The password is
* passed by SQLCMDPASSWORD, never on argv, the way postgres passes PGPASSWORD; `-b` makes a
* failed statement an error here rather than a success with a warning, and `-C` trusts the
* server's self-signed certificate the mssql image ships with.
*/
async exec(sql: string, database = "master"): Promise<void> {
await this.sqlcmd(sql, database);
}
/**
* Run a SELECT and return its rows as objects. The caller's SQL must be a single SELECT; it is
* wrapped so SQL Server renders the result with `FOR JSON PATH`, and the JSON document sqlcmd
* prints (split across output lines for a large result, and reassembled here) is parsed. An
* empty result yields no output at all — an empty array.
*/
async query(
select: string,
database = "master",
variables: Record<string, string> = {},
): Promise<Record<string, unknown>[]> {
const wrapped = `SET NOCOUNT ON;\n${stripTrailingSemis(select)}\nFOR JSON PATH, INCLUDE_NULL_VALUES;`;
const stdout = await this.sqlcmd(wrapped, database, variables);
return parseJsonRows(stdout);
}
/** The one execution boundary: invoke `sqlcmd` and return its concatenated stdout. */
private async sqlcmd(
sql: string,
database: string,
variables: Record<string, string> = {},
as: Invocation = { user: this.conn.user, password: this.conn.password, caller: false },
): Promise<string> {
// `-h -1` drops the column-header rule; `-y 0`/`-Y 0` lift the display-width cap so a long
// JSON document is not truncated; `-W` trims trailing whitespace so the JSON chunks rejoin
// cleanly. sqlcmd from the mssql-tools ships in the runtime container, the way `psql` ships
// with postgres's — the module owns its own code (ADR 0039) and shells out to it.
const { stdout } = await run(
"sqlcmd",
[
"-S", `${this.conn.host},${this.conn.port}`,
"-U", as.user,
"-d", database,
...(as.caller ? ["-x"] : []),
"-C",
"-b",
"-h", "-1",
"-y", "0",
"-Y", "0",
"-W",
"-Q", sql,
],
// `variables` reach sqlcmd as environment variables, which it substitutes as `$(NAME)` scripting
// variables: a value that must not appear on argv, or in the message of a failed command.
{ env: { ...process.env, ...variables, SQLCMDPASSWORD: as.password }, maxBuffer: 16 << 20 },
);
return stdout;
}
/**
* Create a login and a database it owns (mapped as a db_owner user), idempotently. The login,
* the database and the user all carry the consumer's minted name, so the consumer owns exactly
* its own database — a name it cannot learn is a database it cannot reach (ADR 0048).
*/
async createDatabaseAndLogin(database: string, login: string, password: string): Promise<void> {
const logins = await this.query(
`SELECT 1 AS ok FROM sys.server_principals WHERE name = ${literal(login)}`,
);
if (logins.length === 0) {
await this.exec(
`CREATE LOGIN ${ident(login)} WITH PASSWORD = ${literal(password)}, CHECK_POLICY = OFF`,
);
} else {
await this.exec(`ALTER LOGIN ${ident(login)} WITH PASSWORD = ${literal(password)}`);
// A disabled login is refused like a wrong password; the check the provisioner runs reports it
// lost, so applying again must enable it or the two would disagree for ever.
await this.exec(`ALTER LOGIN ${ident(login)} ENABLE`);
}
const dbs = await this.query(
`SELECT 1 AS ok FROM sys.databases WHERE name = ${literal(database)}`,
);
if (dbs.length === 0) {
// CREATE DATABASE must stand alone in its batch; it runs as its own sqlcmd invocation.
await this.exec(`CREATE DATABASE ${ident(database)}`);
}
// Map the login to a db_owner user inside the database it owns.
const users = await this.query(
`SELECT 1 AS ok FROM sys.database_principals WHERE name = ${literal(login)}`,
database,
);
if (users.length === 0) {
await this.exec(`CREATE USER ${ident(login)} FOR LOGIN ${ident(login)}`, database);
} else {
// Re-point an existing user at the login when its SID is not the login's: a database restored
// from elsewhere keeps its user under the old login's SID, orphaned. Only then, so a user that
// is already mapped is left alone.
const orphaned = await this.query(
`SELECT 1 AS ok FROM sys.database_principals WHERE name = ${literal(login)} ` +
`AND (sid IS NULL OR sid <> SUSER_SID(${literal(login)}))`,
database,
);
if (orphaned.length > 0) {
await this.exec(`ALTER USER ${ident(login)} WITH LOGIN = ${ident(login)}`, database);
}
}
await this.exec(`ALTER ROLE db_owner ADD MEMBER ${ident(login)}`, database);
}
/**
* Whether `login` exists, is enabled, has exactly `password`, and is a db_owner user of
* `database`. Read-only: the password is compared with PWDCOMPARE against the stored hash, so
* nothing logs in and no failed-login is recorded (novox/hq issue 120).
*/
async holdsLogin(database: string, login: string, password: string): Promise<boolean> {
// The password reaches sqlcmd as a scripting variable from the environment, never inside the
// query text, so it is neither on argv nor in the message of a failed command. It is the mesh's
// minted value, which carries no quote.
const server = await this.query(
`SELECT CAST(CASE WHEN EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM sys.sql_logins WHERE name = ${literal(login)} ` +
`AND is_disabled = 0 AND PWDCOMPARE(N'$(MESHHOLDSPW)', password_hash) = 1) ` +
`AND DB_ID(${literal(database)}) IS NOT NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS int) AS ok`,
"master",
{ MESHHOLDSPW: password },
);
if (Number(server[0]?.ok) !== 1) return false;
// The user must be this login's, by SID, and a db_owner. A user orphaned by a restore has the
// right name and the wrong SID, and cannot be reached through the login.
const owner = await this.query(
`SELECT CAST(CASE WHEN EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM sys.database_principals dp ` +
`JOIN sys.server_principals sp ON dp.sid = sp.sid ` +
`WHERE dp.name = ${literal(login)} AND sp.name = ${literal(login)}) ` +
`AND IS_ROLEMEMBER('db_owner', ${literal(login)}) = 1 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS int) AS ok`,
database,
);
return Number(owner[0]?.ok) === 1;
}
/** Drop a database and its login, idempotently, after evicting live connections. */
async dropDatabaseAndLogin(database: string, login: string): Promise<void> {
const dbs = await this.query(
`SELECT 1 AS ok FROM sys.databases WHERE name = ${literal(database)}`,
);
if (dbs.length > 0) {
// SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE evicts every other session before the drop.
await this.exec(`ALTER DATABASE ${ident(database)} SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE`);
await this.exec(`DROP DATABASE ${ident(database)}`);
}
const logins = await this.query(
`SELECT 1 AS ok FROM sys.server_principals WHERE name = ${literal(login)}`,
);
if (logins.length > 0) {
await this.exec(`DROP LOGIN ${ident(login)}`);
}
}
/** List the user databases (database_id > 4 excludes the system four), with size, for the tool. */
async listDatabases(): Promise<{ name: string; sizeBytes: number; state: string }[]> {
const rows = await this.query(
"SELECT d.name AS name, d.state_desc AS state, " +
"SUM(CAST(f.size AS bigint)) * 8 * 1024 AS size_bytes " +
"FROM sys.databases d JOIN sys.master_files f ON d.database_id = f.database_id " +
"WHERE d.database_id > 4 GROUP BY d.name, d.state_desc ORDER BY d.name",
);
return rows.map((r) => ({
name: String(r.name),
sizeBytes: Number(r.size_bytes ?? 0),
state: String(r.state ?? ""),
}));
}
/**
* Make the read-only login, idempotently, with the password the mesh minted for it: it may connect
* to every database and read every table, and is taken out of the administrators' role should
* anyone have put it there. Run as the administrator, because only it can make a login.
*/
async ensureReader(): Promise<void> {
const password = this.conn.readerPassword;
if (!password) throw readerMissing();
const logins = await this.query(
`SELECT 1 AS ok FROM sys.server_principals WHERE name = ${literal(READER)}`,
);
if (logins.length === 0) {
await this.exec(
`CREATE LOGIN ${ident(READER)} WITH PASSWORD = ${literal(password)}, CHECK_POLICY = OFF`,
);
} else {
await this.exec(`ALTER LOGIN ${ident(READER)} WITH PASSWORD = ${literal(password)}`);
await this.exec(`ALTER LOGIN ${ident(READER)} ENABLE`);
}
await this.exec(
`IF IS_SRVROLEMEMBER('sysadmin', ${literal(READER)}) = 1 ` +
`ALTER SERVER ROLE sysadmin DROP MEMBER ${ident(READER)}`,
);
await this.exec(`GRANT CONNECT ANY DATABASE TO ${ident(READER)}`);
await this.exec(`GRANT SELECT ALL USER SECURABLES TO ${ident(READER)}`);
}
/**
* Run a caller's SELECT against a named database as the read-only login, for the mssql_query tool
* (novox/hq issue 193). Read-only by the login, not by a transaction wrapped around the text; the
* rows are rendered by FOR JSON. Never as the administrator: without the reader's password the call
* is refused.
*/
async readOnlyQuery(database: string, sql: string): Promise<QueryResult> {
const password = this.conn.readerPassword;
if (!password) throw readerMissing();
// **One line, refused otherwise.** sqlcmd reads a line that BEGINS with `:` or `!!` as its own
// command rather than SQL, and `:!!` starts a program in this container, which holds the
// administrator's password. Its switch for refusing those (-X) makes it ignore -Q in the
// version shipped here, so instead no line of a caller's text can begin one: the text follows
// this module's own on the first line, and a line break in it is refused. Proven on a throwaway
// server: the same text at the start of a line ran a program; mid-line it is a syntax error.
if (/[\r\n]/.test(sql)) {
throw new Error(
"mssql_query: the statement must be one line — sqlcmd takes a line beginning with ':' or " +
"'!!' as a command of its own, which can start a program (novox/hq issue 193)",
);
}
this.readerReady ??= this.ensureReader().catch((err) => {
this.readerReady = undefined; // asked again next call, not failed for the process's life
throw err;
});
await this.readerReady;
const stdout = await this.sqlcmd(
`SET NOCOUNT ON; ${stripTrailingSemis(sql)}\nFOR JSON PATH, INCLUDE_NULL_VALUES;`,
database,
{},
{ user: READER, password, caller: true },
);
const command = /^\s*([A-Za-z]+)/.exec(sql)?.[1]?.toUpperCase() ?? "";
return { command, rows: parseJsonRows(stdout) };
}
}
function readerMissing(): Error {
return new Error(
"the read-only login's password was not delivered (own-secrets.reader, " +
"MESH_MSSQL_READER_PASSWORD_FILE), so the statement is refused rather than run as the " +
"administrator (novox/hq issue 193)",
);
}
/** Generate a URL-safe password. */
export function generatePassword(): string {
return randomBytes(24).toString("base64url");
}
/** Quote a T-SQL identifier (square brackets, doubled internal `]`). */
export function ident(id: string): string {
return "[" + id.replace(/]/g, "]]") + "]";
}
/** Quote a T-SQL string literal (single quotes, doubled internal quotes). */
export function literal(val: string): string {
return "'" + val.replace(/'/g, "''") + "'";
}
/** Strip trailing semicolons and whitespace so FOR JSON can be appended to a caller's SELECT. */
function stripTrailingSemis(sql: string): string {
return sql.replace(/[\s;]+$/, "");
}
function readSecretFile(path: string | undefined): string | undefined {
if (!path) return undefined;
try {
return readFileSync(path, "utf8").trim();
} catch {
return undefined;
}
}
function safeUrl(raw: string): URL | undefined {
try {
return new URL(raw);
} catch {
return undefined;
}
}
/**
* Parse the JSON a FOR JSON query prints through sqlcmd. SQL Server splits a large FOR JSON result
* into ~2033-character chunks, one per output row; with `-h -1 -W` each lands on its own line, so
* the document is reassembled by concatenating the non-empty lines. No output (an empty result, or
* a pure DDL batch) means no rows.
*/
function parseJsonRows(stdout: string): Record<string, unknown>[] {
const joined = stdout
.split(/\r?\n/)
.map((l) => l.trimEnd())
.filter((l) => l.length > 0)
.join("");
if (joined.length === 0) return [];
const parsed = JSON.parse(joined);
return Array.isArray(parsed) ? (parsed as Record<string, unknown>[]) : [parsed as Record<string, unknown>];
}