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This PR prevents urlscan from panicking when the API returns incomplete or malformed pagination sort values.

Previously, urlscan accessed the second sort value after only checking that the first one existed. It also used an unsafe type assertion for the first value, which could cause another panic if the API returned an unexpected type.

Pagination sort values are now validated before use and are only extracted when another page is available.

The PR also adds the missing source.Error type to error results in the AlienVault, Common Crawl, and urlscan sources. Without this type, the runner interpreted those errors as URL results and silently discarded them.

Changes

  • Reproduce the panic caused by an incomplete urlscan sort array.
  • Validate the length and types of urlscan search-after values.
  • Avoid extracting a pagination cursor when has_more is false.
  • Return an error instead of panicking on malformed pagination data.
  • Add unit tests for valid and invalid search-after values.
  • Add missing source.Error types to AlienVault, Common Crawl, and urlscan error results.

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go test ./...

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
  * Standardized error reporting for AlienVault and urlscan failures.
  * Improved handling of pagination errors, malformed cursors, rate limits, and unsuccessful responses.
  * Pagination now stops correctly when no additional results are available.

* **Tests**
  * Added coverage for typed errors, request and decoding failures, pagination validation, and cursor handling.
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AlienVault and urlscan now return typed source.Error results for failure paths. urlscan pagination validates cursor data, handles termination conditions, and includes expanded tests for error and pagination behavior.

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Source handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Explicit source error results
pkg/source/alienvault/..., pkg/source/urlscan/urlscan.go, pkg/source/alienvault/alienvault_test.go, pkg/source/urlscan/urlscan_test.go
AlienVault and urlscan request, status, decoding, rate-limit, and search URL failures now emit typed source.Error results and update error statistics. Tests cover these failure paths.
Validated urlscan pagination
pkg/source/urlscan/urlscan.go, pkg/source/urlscan/urlscan_test.go
urlscan validates pagination sort values, stops when has_more is false, rejects continuation responses without results, and tests valid and invalid cursors.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6473d

The PR safely validates pagination data and improves source error reporting, but rate-limited responses with non-JSON bodies may still return the wrong error instead of a clear rate-limit result. The change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and a bounded follow-up.

Suggested reviewers: mzack9999

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A rabbit checks each error trail,

And guards the cursor on its sail.
When pages end, the hops grow clear,
Bad sorts now raise a typed alert here.
Soft paws approve the safer route.

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Inline comments:
In `@pkg/source/urlscan/urlscan.go`:
- Around line 70-84: The buildSearchAfter function must reject non-finite and
fractional first sort values before formatting, while preserving valid integral
values. Validate the float64 with an integral-safe check, format it without
converting through int, and update the related tests in
pkg/source/urlscan/urlscan_test.go lines 275-309 to cover fractional and
non-finite rejection; the implementation change belongs in
pkg/source/urlscan/urlscan.go lines 70-84.
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  • pkg/source/alienvault/alienvault.go
  • pkg/source/commoncrawl/commoncrawl.go
  • pkg/source/urlscan/urlscan.go
  • pkg/source/urlscan/urlscan_test.go

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Fixed by rejecting fractional and non-finite cursor values and formatting the validated number without converting it to int.

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The lint check is failing before analyzing this PR because the golangci-lint binary provided by projectdiscovery/actions/golangci-lint@v1 was built with Go 1.24, while urlfinder targets Go 1.25.0.

All build jobs pass on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and CodeQL reports no new alerts. This appears to be an issue with the shared lint action rather than the changes in this PR.

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Ping @projectdiscovery — the lint test is failing because CI uses Go 1.24.0, while urlfinder requires Go 1.25.0. Could you please take a look?

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Mzack9999 force-pushed the fix/urlscan-incomplete-sort-panic branch from 89175b0 to 6473d1a Compare August 31, 2026 20:08

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In `@pkg/source/urlscan/urlscan.go`:
- Line 146: Update the response handling around the 429 status branch to inspect
resp.StatusCode and close resp.Body before attempting JSON decoding. Ensure
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}
_ = resp.Body.Close()

if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusTooManyRequests {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Check the rate-limit status before decoding the body.

A 429 response can contain HTML, plain text, or an empty body. In that case, line 137 returns a decode error before this branch runs. Check resp.StatusCode and close the body before JSON decoding so all 429 responses report urlscan rate limited.

Proposed fix
+			if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusTooManyRequests {
+				_ = resp.Body.Close()
+				results <- source.Result{
+					Source: s.Name(),
+					Error:  fmt.Errorf("urlscan rate limited"),
+					Type:   source.Error,
+				}
+				s.errors++
+				return
+			}
+
 			var data response
 			err = jsoniter.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
 			if err != nil {
 				results <- source.Result{Source: s.Name(), Error: err, Type: source.Error}
@@
-			if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusTooManyRequests {
-				results <- source.Result{
-					Source: s.Name(),
-					Error:  fmt.Errorf("urlscan rate limited"),
-					Type:   source.Error,
-				}
-				s.errors++
-				return
-			}
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if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusTooManyRequests {
if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusTooManyRequests {
_ = resp.Body.Close()
results <- source.Result{
Source: s.Name(),
Error: fmt.Errorf("urlscan rate limited"),
Type: source.Error,
}
s.errors++
return
}
var data response
err = jsoniter.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
if err != nil {
results <- source.Result{Source: s.Name(), Error: err, Type: source.Error}
}
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@pkg/source/urlscan/urlscan.go` at line 146, Update the response handling
around the 429 status branch to inspect resp.StatusCode and close resp.Body
before attempting JSON decoding. Ensure every http.StatusTooManyRequests
response returns the existing “urlscan rate limited” result, regardless of
whether the body is HTML, plain text, empty, or valid JSON; leave decoding for
other statuses unchanged.

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Mzack9999 merged commit e732aab into projectdiscovery:dev Aug 31, 2026
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