fix(serializers): bound untrusted msgpack decode depth and header allocation (LAB-2503)

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What & why (LAB-2503)

Every cache read decodes MessagePack bytes the backend controls. msgpack-python's C unpacker pre-allocates each container (PyList_New(n)) before decoding its children, and nested headers stack those allocations depth-first. The ticket assumed an "82 MB hard ceiling"; that was an artifact of the array16(10000) probe — with array32 headers claiming len(input) the library defaults allow ~8 × 1024 × len(input): 10 KB → 67 MB measured, linear in input, and N concurrent poisoned reads multiply it.

The fix

unpackb_bounded(data, **opts) in serializers/base.py, now the only msgpack.unpackb call site (auto, standard, decode_interop_value):

1. Zero-copy structural walk first — check_msgpack_structure(data, MSGPACK_MAX_NESTING) in the Rust extension (rust/src/msgpack_bounds.rs, opcode table mirrors cachekit-rs check_structure). Header-only: str/bin/ext payloads are skipped by offset, the input is borrowed in place (bytes, or the read-only memoryview-of-bytes the read path carries), and the only allocation is one u64 per open collection. Rejects nesting past 1024 (MSGPACK_MAX_NESTING, cachekit's own ceiling, bounded above by the C unpacker's stack) and any point where the elements still owed by open headers exceed the remaining input — so a 15 KB array16(2000) spine is rejected at the 8th header, not after a 1024-level descent. Every element that survives is backed by ≥ 1 byte, so the real decode's total pre-allocation is bounded by len(data) rather than depth × declared length. Rejections raise ValueError naming the bound; all read paths already turn that into a controlled cache miss. Measured: 2–13 % of decode time on collection-heavy payloads (1M ints: 2.1 ms vs 29.3 ms), ~0 on a 50 MiB bin, 0 B Python-heap peak.
2. Explicit max_*_len=len(data) on unpackb — unreachable once the walk passes; defence in depth against a walk regression, documented as such.

Also fixed on the way (found by the new test): AutoSerializer fail-open — when a checksum-verified ByteStorage envelope's payload failed to decode, the except Exception fallback re-decoded the envelope bytes as plain MessagePack and returned its positional fields as the cached value (the LAB-1765 class of bug). Now raises SerializationError. The plain path's final error now carries the envelope/msgpack/numpy reasons instead of surfacing only "expected NUMPY_RAW header".

Exception contract. The broad except Exception clauses in AutoSerializer.deserialize now catch PAYLOAD_DECODE_ERRORS (ValueError, TypeError, KeyError, AttributeError, OverflowError, BufferError, SyntaxError — defined once in base.py, shared with StandardSerializer), so a missing optional dependency (RuntimeError) bubbles instead of reading as a corrupt entry. Round 3 closed the remaining forged-dtype escapes:

• SyntaxError: numpy's comma-string dtype parser runs ast.literal_eval on a forged shape prefix such as "(1,f8" — escaped every route (NUMPY_RAW, __ndarray__ hook, columnar). Caught in the shared tuple and in _deserialize_numpy's own clause.
• M8[0ns] (zero datetime unit multiplier) passes np.frombuffer and then kills the process with SIGFPE inside pandas — a signal no except catches. _dtype_from_untrusted refuses it before any array is built, and on the columnar (DataFrame/Series) routes refuses anything the writer never emits (_is_plain_numpy_numeric, the write-side predicate).
• The DataFrame/Series metadata routes decoded outside any normaliser, so a bomb behind a forged original_type="dataframe" frame left AutoSerializer.deserialize as a bare ValueError, which cache_handler logs as a backend fault (no eviction, no tamper hook). _decode_columnar now wraps those four call sites.

History: the first version of the walk used msgpack.Unpacker(...).skip(), whose feed() copies the input — that +1× transient tripped the File-backend 3.5× allocation bound in CI (4.00×). The Rust walk replaced it; the bound passes. Round 3: Security Lints (clippy pedantic on 1.97) refused to compile the walk — doc_markdown, missing_errors_doc, and cast_possible_truncation on pos += payload as usize; fixed with the checked usize::try_from form cachekit-rs#73 uses, semantics unchanged.

Tests

tests/unit/protocol/test_decode_bounds.py: the protocol's decode-bounds.json vendored verbatim from cachekit-io/protocol#59 head 2d56cce (13 reject / 2 accept, sha256 + count pinned; the three new vectors probe 32-bit wrap and map-pair counting) run through 7 decode paths — unpackb_bounded, interop, standard plain/envelope, auto plain/envelope, and CacheSerializationHandler.deserialize_data on a forged CK v3 frame — asserting rejection as ValueError/SerializationError with tracemalloc peak < 2 MiB + 4×input on every reject vector, decode on every accept vector, the 1024/1025 nesting boundary, trailing-byte rejection, validate_data rejecting a bomb within the same peak budget, and a bomb behind a forged dataframe/series frame reaching the auto handler as SerializationError; every fixed-width marker family (float/int 8–64, fixext 1–16, ext8/16/32, str/bin 8/16/32) walked to its exact width (clean at exact length, truncation one byte short, trailing byte reaches the decoder as ExtraData), the reserved 0xc1 marker rejected, and mutable exporters (bytearray, memoryview over one) accepted. tests/unit/test_auto_serializer_new_types.py: forged __ndarray__ payloads (itemsize past C long → OverflowError; "(1,f8" → SyntaxError; M8[0ns]) are SerializationError on the plain and verified-envelope paths, and the object hook's own SerializationError propagates unwrapped. tests/unit/test_auto_serializer_numpy_integrity.py: five forged NUMPY_RAW entries × raw/checksummed reach _deserialize_numpy's except clause; M8[0ns] is refused. tests/unit/test_auto_serializer_mutation_and_corruption.py: every DataFrame/Series read route round-trips (metadata × integrity, and metadata-less via the envelope's format_id); forged column dtypes (M8[0ns], m8[0ns], U4) are refused on both kinds, and an ndarray smuggled via the __ndarray__ hook into any field the writer fills with a list or dict (the document, each column, columns, index, object data) is refused before pandas sees it (seven cases), and a column type marker other than the two the writer emits ("forged", and a list nested 1000 deep, which repr() cannot walk on 3.10/3.11) is refused on both kinds. Unit + critical green (2218 + 248); tests/performance/test_large_object_memory.py 8/8 including the previously red File-backend bound; codecov/patch 71 % → ~88 % measured locally.

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Round 1 (skip-based walk), expert panel at critical stakes: security NO FINDINGS; craftsman/bug-hunter findings applied (empty StackError message, hidden decode error behind the NumPy fallback, dishonest "two bounds" docstring, feed-copy cost recorded); catchphrase cuts applied.

Round 2 (Rust walk), same panel: security NO FINDINGS after 200k fuzz probes (no abort under panic=abort, no walker/decoder desync vs msgpack-python 1.2.1 across all 256 markers, depth boundary matches the C unpacker exactly); bug-hunter found the OverflowError/TypeError gaps the exception narrowing exposed (fixed + pinned); craftsman/catchphrase: pure walk moved out of the FFI file, PAYLOAD_DECODE_ERRORS centralised, stale StackError-era comments rewritten, BytesView folded to two variants, unreachable UnpackException dropped.

Round 3 (this push), same panel plus a verification pass: bug-hunter and security independently found the SyntaxError escape (Kody had named OverflowError, which is unreachable from a dtype string on numpy 1.26–2.3 — measured — but the class of gap was real); security found the un-normalised DataFrame/Series metadata routes; the verification pass found the M8[0ns] SIGFPE and that the first handler test used the default serializer and guarded nothing (fixed: auto handler + message match). A follow-up adversarial pass (774 fork-isolated probes across NUMPY_RAW, the __ndarray__ hook, columnar documents and decoder options; 0 signals, 0 hangs, 0 out-of-proportion allocations) found the last two contract escapes: an ndarray substituted via the __ndarray__ hook for a columnar field makes pandas raise AssertionError (datetime64 with unit multiplier ≠ 1, e.g. M8[2s]) or indexing raise IndexError, both outside the tuple — closed by _expect, a shape gate mirroring exactly what _serialize_dataframe / _serialize_series emit, so no dead exception types were added.

Round 4 (merge + CodeRabbit): merged main (0.18.0; the free-threaded lane now importorskips the numpy/pandas test modules — one import conflict resolved). CodeRabbit's three findings applied: the README vectors link is pinned to the vendored protocol commit 2d56cce (it pointed at main, where the file does not exist until protocol#59 merges); unpackb_bounded snapshots mutable exporters (bytearray, a memoryview over one) to bytes once so the walk and the decoder see one immutable document — bytes and a memoryview of bytes stay zero-copy, mirroring the Rust bytes_view containment proof; and the marker-width table test landed as a Python test through the extension, because CI has no cargo test lane where a #[cfg(test)] module would run. Kody's assert-in-tests rule re-fired on the new test lines and was rejected as before. Emulating the free-threaded lane locally (no numpy/pandas) exposed a regression of this PR's own except-narrowing: the plain path's NumPy fallback raised RuntimeError for a missing numpy, so 13 protocol reject vectors went red on that lane. The fallback could never succeed (NUMPY_RAW entries are routed structurally at the top of deserialize), so it is deleted; the miss reads not a decodable MessagePack payload, pinned with HAS_NUMPY monkeypatched off. Craftsman/catchphrase: two dead except SerializationError: raise clauses deleted, a __cause__ assertion that could not fail for its stated purpose deleted, untrue comments corrected. Rejected: a regex whitelist on NUMPY_RAW dtype strings (the checked-dtype helper closes the measured crash without narrowing what round-trips today); changing cache_handler's ValueError re-raise (encryption cache_key semantics, out of scope). Deferred with tickets: ByteStorage.retrieve error typing (checksum mismatch vs not-an-envelope both raise ValueError), the unreachable format_id == "numpy" route inside the verified envelope, core-shared zero-copy walk for py/rs/wasm (this PR ships the py-local one).

Round 5 (CodeRabbit's fourth finding): the DataFrame/Series decoders read every column whose type was not "numeric" as object data, so a forged marker reconstructed as a valid frame. Both switches are one allow-list helper now, _column_values, refusing anything but "numeric" / "object" as SerializationError (and retiring the duplicated frombuffer/dtype-gate branch). Panel at high stakes: bug-hunter and security independently caught a defect in the first cut — echoing the marker with repr() walks an attacker-chosen structure, and a list nested ~1000 deep (admitted by the 1024-level walk) raises RecursionError on 3.10/3.11, outside the catch tuple; fixed by echoing only a str (capped at 40 chars) or the type name, pinned by a test on both kinds that runs in every lane and verified on 3.11. Security also measured the column-name echo in the same message turning an 8 KB envelope into a 4 MB error line; capped at the two sites this round writes. Rejected for this PR and tracked in a Multica follow-up: deleting the decoders' bytes-accepting preamble (live for the direct-call tests; a forged non-dict body already fails closed via the catch tuple), folding the writer's numeric/object trio (write-path refactor), and bounding the {e} echo at the cache_handler wrap sites, where a global bound belongs.

Docs

README "Production Hardened" bullet (its decode-bounds.json link resolves once protocol#59 merges); unpackb_bounded docstring is the canonical rationale (doctest-executed); mechanism documented on check_msgpack_structure in rust/src/msgpack_bounds.rs (# Errors section); PAYLOAD_DECODE_ERRORS and _dtype_from_untrusted document every exception type and why. Protocol spec/vectors: cachekit-io/protocol#59. Sibling: cachekit-io/cachekit-rs#73.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Security

  • Added safeguards for untrusted cache data, including limits on nesting depth, declared allocations and incomplete MessagePack structures.
  • Malformed or forged cache entries now fail safely as cache misses or controlled serialization errors.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved validation of NumPy, DataFrame and Series payloads before reconstruction.
  • Standardised handling of corrupted payloads and invalid data types.

• Tests

  • Added comprehensive coverage for boundary conditions, malformed payloads, oversized declarations and valid nested structures.
  • Verified consistent behaviour across supported decoding paths.

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Walkthrough

The change adds Rust-backed MessagePack structural validation, bounded decoding across cache paths, untrusted dtype validation, controlled serializer errors, shared protocol vectors, and regression tests for forged payloads.

Changes

Bounded cache decoding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
MessagePack structure validation rust/src/lib.rs, rust/src/msgpack_bounds.rs, rust/src/python_bindings.rs	The Rust validator checks nesting, declared lengths, payload bounds, truncation, and reserved markers. Python bindings expose validation and shared buffer-view handling.
Shared bounded decoding src/cachekit/serializers/base.py, src/cachekit/serializers/standard_serializer.py, src/cachekit/interop.py	unpackb_bounded validates structure and caps MessagePack lengths before decoding. Interop and standard serializer paths use the shared decoder and error group.
Serializer payload and dtype validation src/cachekit/serializers/auto_serializer.py	AutoSerializer validates NumPy and columnar dtypes, uses bounded decoding for envelopes and columnar data, and converts malformed payloads into SerializationError.
Protocol vectors and regression tests tests/unit/protocol/fixtures/decode-bounds.json, tests/unit/protocol/test_decode_bounds.py, tests/unit/test_auto_serializer_*, README.md	Shared vectors and tests cover malformed structures, nesting limits, memory limits, forged arrays, forged dtypes, envelope failures, and controlled cache misses. The README documents the bounds.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d0b59

Forged NUMPY_RAW cache data can be accepted as an empty array, and valid typed-memoryview input can fail before bounded decoding. These decode-path issues should be fixed before merge; the support documentation should also be narrowed to avoid misleading users.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CacheReader
  participant AutoSerializer
  participant unpackb_bounded
  participant RustValidator
  participant MessagePack
  CacheReader->>AutoSerializer: deserialize untrusted cache payload
  AutoSerializer->>unpackb_bounded: decode payload
  unpackb_bounded->>RustValidator: validate structure and nesting
  RustValidator-->>unpackb_bounded: accept or reject
  unpackb_bounded->>MessagePack: decode with bounded lengths
  MessagePack-->>AutoSerializer: value or decode error
  AutoSerializer-->>CacheReader: value or SerializationError

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734-741: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject incomplete NumPy shape fields.

When shape_len is not divisible by four, _deserialize_numpy can parse truncated shape data as (0,). An empty <f8 payload then produces a valid empty array instead of SerializationError.

Require a complete, four-byte-aligned shape field. Add raw and checksummed regression cases.

Proposed fix

 shape_len = int.from_bytes(data[offset : offset + 2], byteorder="little")
 offset += 2
+if shape_len % 4 != 0 or len(data) - offset < shape_len:
+    raise ValueError("Invalid NumPy shape field")
 shape_data = data[offset : offset + shape_len]

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In `@rust/src/msgpack_bounds.rs`:
- Line 20: Add table-driven Rust tests in the test module for
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734-741: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject non-aligned NUMPY_RAW shape metadata before parsing dimensions. AutoSerializer.deserialize() routes reachable NUMPY_RAW data to _deserialize_numpy(), where partial four-byte chunks are parsed as dimensions. A forged one-byte zero chunk can therefore produce shape (0,) and construct an empty array instead of raising SerializationError. Reject shape lengths that are not multiples of four and reject truncated shape metadata before NumPy construction.

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validate NUMPY_RAW shape metadata before parsing dimensions: reject shape
metadata whose length is not a multiple of four and reject truncated shape data,
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Narrow the [data] blocker wording.

NumPy 2.4 and later provide cp314t wheels for Linux, macOS and Windows. Do not list NumPy as an unconditional blocker. Keep [data] unsupported while pandas and pyarrow coverage remains incomplete, and document any older NumPy version or platform restriction.

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_deserialize_numpy() path to validate NUMPY_RAW shape metadata before parsing
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msgpack-python 1.2.1 unpackb max_bin_len memoryview nbytes source

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In msgpack-python 1.2.1, the max_bin_len parameter is a deprecated option used to limit the maximum allowed size of binary data during unpacking [1][2][3]. When using msgpack.unpackb, the max_bin_len limit (and other similar max_*_len limits) is automatically configured based on the length of the input data (len(packed)) rather than being set to a static default value [2][4][3]. In the underlying implementation, if max_bin_len is not explicitly provided, it defaults to the length of the input buffer [4]. Regarding memoryview and nbytes: 1. The msgpack-python library supports memoryview objects as input for unpackb [5]. 2. Internally, the library determines the size of the input buffer using the buffer protocol. In the msgpack/_unpacker.pyx source code, the function get_data_from_buffer is used to retrieve the buffer and its length from the input object [4]. 3. When a memoryview is provided, its total number of bytes is accessible via its .nbytes property [5]. The library handles this via the buffer protocol, which exposes the underlying data length to the unpacking logic [4]. While max_bin_len exists as a legacy parameter, it is recommended to use the modern max_buffer_size parameter when unpacking data from untrusted sources, as it provides a more robust security mechanism for limiting memory usage [1][2][6]. If you encounter a ValueError related to max_bin_len, it indicates that the binary data being unpacked exceeds the configured threshold [7][8].

Citations:

• 1: https://msgpack-python.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html
• 2: https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
• 3: https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python/blob/main/ChangeLog.rst
• 4: https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python/blob/main/msgpack/_unpacker.pyx
• 5: GitHub issue 126 in msgpack/msgpack-python (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
• 6: https://pypi.org/project/msgpack/1.2.1/
• 7: GitHub issue 360 in msgpack/msgpack-python (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
• 8: https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python/blob/main/msgpack/unpack.h

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PyO3 PyBuffer<u8>::get memoryview format H compatibility

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In PyO3, the format string character 'H' (representing an unsigned short) is fully compatible with PyBuffer, but it is not compatible with PyBuffer [1][2][3]. When you use PyBuffer::get(obj), PyO3 performs a validation check against the buffer's format string [4][5]. This process relies on the Element trait, which maps Python buffer protocol format strings to Rust types [1][3]. The mapping for 'H' (unsigned short, 2 bytes) is explicitly defined to be compatible with unsigned 16-bit integers (e.g., u16) [2][6][3]. Because PyBuffer expects an item size of 1 byte and a format string typically corresponding to 'B' (unsigned char) or 'b' (signed char), attempting to get a PyBuffer from a buffer formatted as 'H' will fail the compatibility check [4][5][3]. If you need to access a buffer formatted as 'H' in Rust, you should use PyBuffer [1][3]. If the buffer provides 'H' format but you specifically need to treat the data as bytes, you may need to perform a type-safe conversion or cast after ensuring the dimensions and element size alignment are correct, rather than relying on PyBuffer's native generic extraction [4][5].

Citations:

• 1: https://docs.rs/pyo3/latest/pyo3/buffer/trait.Element.html
• 2: https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/blob/92e47e10/src/buffer.rs
• 3: https://deepwiki.com/PyO3/pyo3/4.5-buffer-protocol
• 4: https://docs.rs/pyo3/latest/pyo3/buffer/struct.PyBuffer.html
• 5: https://docs.rs/pyo3/latest/src/pyo3/buffer.rs.html
• 6: https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/blob/5c6807df/src/buffer.rs

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Copy non-byte-format memoryviews before decoding.

unpackb_bounded retains a typed memoryview backed by bytes, then passes it to check_msgpack_structure. The Rust binding requests PyBuffer<u8>, so a view such as memoryview(b"\xc4\x04abcd").cast("H") can fail before msgpack.unpackb runs. The max_bin_len=3 failure does not occur on this path.

Copy views that are not C-contiguous byte-format views. Use data.nbytes for retained views, because a multidimensional byte view can have fewer elements than bytes.

Proposed fix

-    if not isinstance(data, bytes) and not (isinstance(data, memoryview) and isinstance(data.obj, bytes)):
+    if isinstance(data, memoryview):
+        if not isinstance(data.obj, bytes) or not data.c_contiguous or data.format != "B":
+            data = bytes(data)
+    elif not isinstance(data, bytes):
         data = bytes(data)
-    n = len(data)
+    n = data.nbytes if isinstance(data, memoryview) else len(data)

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In `@src/cachekit/serializers/base.py` at line 390, Update the data normalization
around unpackb_bounded and check_msgpack_structure to copy memoryviews unless
they are C-contiguous byte-format views backed by bytes; use the copied bytes
for decoding. For retained memoryviews, calculate the size with data.nbytes
rather than element count, while preserving the existing max_bin_len validation.

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