url: handle "unsafe" characters properly in pathToFileURL

Co-authored-by: EarlyRiser42 <[email protected]>
PR-URL: #54545
Fixes: #54515
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]>

Author: aduh95

lib/internal/process/execution.js

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ function tryGetCwd() {
 
 let evalIndex = 0;
 function getEvalModuleUrl() {
-  return pathToFileURL(`${process.cwd()}/[eval${++evalIndex}]`).href;
+  return `${pathToFileURL(process.cwd())}/[eval${++evalIndex}]`;
 }
 
 /**

lib/internal/url.js

@@ -1500,44 +1500,75 @@ function fileURLToPath(path, options = kEmptyObject) {
   return (windows ?? isWindows) ? getPathFromURLWin32(path) : getPathFromURLPosix(path);
 }
 
-// The following characters are percent-encoded when converting from file path
-// to URL:
-// - %: The percent character is the only character not encoded by the
-//        `pathname` setter.
-// - \: Backslash is encoded on non-windows platforms since it's a valid
-//      character but the `pathname` setters replaces it by a forward slash.
-// - LF: The newline character is stripped out by the `pathname` setter.
-//       (See whatwg/url#419)
-// - CR: The carriage return character is also stripped out by the `pathname`
-//       setter.
-// - TAB: The tab character is also stripped out by the `pathname` setter.
+// RFC1738 defines the following chars as "unsafe" for URLs
+// @see https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt 2.2. URL Character Encoding Issues
 const percentRegEx = /%/g;
-const backslashRegEx = /\\/g;
 const newlineRegEx = /\n/g;
 const carriageReturnRegEx = /\r/g;
 const tabRegEx = /\t/g;
-const questionRegex = /\?/g;
+const quoteRegEx = /"/g;
 const hashRegex = /#/g;
+const spaceRegEx = / /g;
+const questionMarkRegex = /\?/g;
+const openSquareBracketRegEx = /\[/g;
+const backslashRegEx = /\\/g;
+const closeSquareBracketRegEx = /]/g;
+const caretRegEx = /\^/g;
+const verticalBarRegEx = /\|/g;
+const tildeRegEx = /~/g;
 
 function encodePathChars(filepath, options = kEmptyObject) {
-  const windows = options?.windows;
-  if (StringPrototypeIndexOf(filepath, '%') !== -1)
+  if (StringPrototypeIncludes(filepath, '%')) {
     filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(percentRegEx, filepath, '%25');
-  // In posix, backslash is a valid character in paths:
-  if (!(windows ?? isWindows) && StringPrototypeIndexOf(filepath, '\\') !== -1)
-    filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(backslashRegEx, filepath, '%5C');
-  if (StringPrototypeIndexOf(filepath, '\n') !== -1)
+  }
+
+  if (StringPrototypeIncludes(filepath, '\t')) {
+    filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(tabRegEx, filepath, '%09');
+  }
+  if (StringPrototypeIncludes(filepath, '\n')) {
     filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(newlineRegEx, filepath, '%0A');
-  if (StringPrototypeIndexOf(filepath, '\r') !== -1)
+  }
+  if (StringPrototypeIncludes(filepath, '\r')) {
     filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(carriageReturnRegEx, filepath, '%0D');
-  if (StringPrototypeIndexOf(filepath, '\t') !== -1)
-    filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(tabRegEx, filepath, '%09');
+  }
+  if (StringPrototypeIncludes(filepath, ' ')) {
+    filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(spaceRegEx, filepath, '%20');
+  }
+  if (StringPrototypeIncludes(filepath, '"')) {
+    filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(quoteRegEx, filepath, '%22');
+  }
+  if (StringPrototypeIncludes(filepath, '#')) {
+    filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(hashRegex, filepath, '%23');
+  }
+  if (StringPrototypeIncludes(filepath, '?')) {
+    filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(questionMarkRegex, filepath, '%3F');
+  }
+  if (StringPrototypeIncludes(filepath, '[')) {
+    filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(openSquareBracketRegEx, filepath, '%5B');
+  }
+  // Back-slashes must be special-cased on Windows, where they are treated as path separator.
+  if (!options.windows && StringPrototypeIncludes(filepath, '\\')) {
+    filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(backslashRegEx, filepath, '%5C');
+  }
+  if (StringPrototypeIncludes(filepath, ']')) {
+    filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(closeSquareBracketRegEx, filepath, '%5D');
+  }
+  if (StringPrototypeIncludes(filepath, '^')) {
+    filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(caretRegEx, filepath, '%5E');
+  }
+  if (StringPrototypeIncludes(filepath, '|')) {
+    filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(verticalBarRegEx, filepath, '%7C');
+  }
+  if (StringPrototypeIncludes(filepath, '~')) {
+    filepath = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(tildeRegEx, filepath, '%7E');
+  }
+
   return filepath;
 }
 
 function pathToFileURL(filepath, options = kEmptyObject) {
-  const windows = options?.windows;
-  if ((windows ?? isWindows) && StringPrototypeStartsWith(filepath, '\\\\')) {
+  const windows = options?.windows ?? isWindows;
+  if (windows && StringPrototypeStartsWith(filepath, '\\\\')) {
     const outURL = new URL('file://');
     // UNC path format: \\server\share\resource
     // Handle extended UNC path and standard UNC path
@@ -1568,7 +1599,7 @@ function pathToFileURL(filepath, options = kEmptyObject) {
     );
     return outURL;
   }
-  let resolved = (windows ?? isWindows) ? path.win32.resolve(filepath) : path.posix.resolve(filepath);
+  let resolved = windows ? path.win32.resolve(filepath) : path.posix.resolve(filepath);
   // path.resolve strips trailing slashes so we must add them back
   const filePathLast = StringPrototypeCharCodeAt(filepath,
                                                  filepath.length - 1);
@@ -1577,18 +1608,7 @@ function pathToFileURL(filepath, options = kEmptyObject) {
       resolved[resolved.length - 1] !== path.sep)
     resolved += '/';
 
-  // Call encodePathChars first to avoid encoding % again for ? and #.
-  resolved = encodePathChars(resolved, { windows });
-
-  // Question and hash character should be included in pathname.
-  // Therefore, encoding is required to eliminate parsing them in different states.
-  // This is done as an optimization to not creating a URL instance and
-  // later triggering pathname setter, which impacts performance
-  if (StringPrototypeIndexOf(resolved, '?') !== -1)
-    resolved = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(questionRegex, resolved, '%3F');
-  if (StringPrototypeIndexOf(resolved, '#') !== -1)
-    resolved = RegExpPrototypeSymbolReplace(hashRegex, resolved, '%23');
-  return new URL(`file://${resolved}`);
+  return new URL(`file://${encodePathChars(resolved, { windows })}`);
 }
 
 function toPathIfFileURL(fileURLOrPath) {

test/parallel/test-url-pathtofileurl.js

@@ -13,10 +13,7 @@ const url = require('url');
 {
   const fileURL = url.pathToFileURL('test\\').href;
   assert.ok(fileURL.startsWith('file:///'));
-  if (isWindows)
-    assert.ok(fileURL.endsWith('/'));
-  else
-    assert.ok(fileURL.endsWith('%5C'));
+  assert.match(fileURL, isWindows ? /\/$/ : /%5C$/);
 }
 
 {
@@ -104,6 +101,12 @@ const windowsTestCases = [
   { path: 'C:\\€', expected: 'file:///C:/%E2%82%AC' },
   // Rocket emoji (non-BMP code point)
   { path: 'C:\\🚀', expected: 'file:///C:/%F0%9F%9A%80' },
+  // caret
+  { path: 'C:\\foo^bar', expected: 'file:///C:/foo%5Ebar' },
+  // left bracket
+  { path: 'C:\\foo[bar', expected: 'file:///C:/foo%5Bbar' },
+  // right bracket
+  { path: 'C:\\foo]bar', expected: 'file:///C:/foo%5Dbar' },
   // Local extended path
   { path: '\\\\?\\C:\\path\\to\\file.txt', expected: 'file:///C:/path/to/file.txt' },
   // UNC path (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ie/file-uris-in-windows)
@@ -154,6 +157,8 @@ const posixTestCases = [
   { path: '/€', expected: 'file:///%E2%82%AC' },
   // Rocket emoji (non-BMP code point)
   { path: '/🚀', expected: 'file:///%F0%9F%9A%80' },
+  // "unsafe" chars
+  { path: '/foo\r\n\t<>"#%{}|^[\\~]`?bar', expected: 'file:///foo%0D%0A%09%3C%3E%22%23%25%7B%7D%7C%5E%5B%5C%7E%5D%60%3Fbar' },
 ];
 
 for (const { path, expected } of windowsTestCases) {