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fix: escape carriage returns in serialized signing output - #588
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A carriage return in signed text reaches the DOM through a character reference, and canonicalization digests it as 
. xmldom's serializer writes it raw in text nodes, and an XML parser turns a raw carriage return into a line feed, so getSignedXml(), getSignatureXml() and getOriginalXmlWithIds() returned documents that no longer held the signed data and failed verification. Write each remaining raw carriage return as 
. The signer parses its input, so outside attribute values, which xmldom already escapes, they can only be in text. Fixes node-saml#587 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 2 included reviews per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe signing flow now preserves carriage returns in serialized XML. Transform processing supports node-set and octet conversions with XML validation. Signature resolution supports copied documents and rejects ambiguous matches. Integration tests cover synchronous and callback-based signing. ChangesXML Signature Processing
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SignedXml
participant TransformPipeline
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participant SignatureResolver
SignedXml->>TransformPipeline: process transforms and canonicalize data
TransformPipeline->>XMLParser: parse octet transform output
XMLParser-->>TransformPipeline: return validated document
TransformPipeline-->>SignedXml: return canonicalized node-set
SignedXml->>SignatureResolver: resolve signature in copied document
SignatureResolver-->>SignedXml: return unique SignatureValue match
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1390-1390: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winNormalize XML whitespace in
SignatureValuebefore signature-node lookup.
loadSignature()removes only CR/LF characters, whilefindLoadedSignature()compares rawtextContent. A valid signature loaded from a separate XML document can use different base64 wrapping, sofindLoadedSignature()can return no match. The enveloped-signature transform then keeps the embedded signature because the selected node is not a descendant of the transformed node. The reference digest can fail.
SignatureValueuses the XML Schemabase64Binarytype. Its allowed XML whitespace includes spaces and tabs. Use one normalizer in both paths.Proposed fix
+ private normalizeSignatureValue(value: string): string { + return value.replace(/[\t\n\r ]/g, ""); + } + ... - this.signatureValue = signatureValue.data.replace(/\r?\n/g, ""); + this.signatureValue = this.normalizeSignatureValue(signatureValue.data); ... - const signatureValue = utils.findChildren(this.signatureNode, "SignatureValue")[0]?.textContent; + const signatureValue = this.normalizeSignatureValue( + utils.findChildren(this.signatureNode, "SignatureValue")[0]?.textContent ?? "", + ); ... - utils.findChildren(signature, "SignatureValue")[0]?.textContent === signatureValue, + this.normalizeSignatureValue( + utils.findChildren(signature, "SignatureValue")[0]?.textContent ?? "", + ) === signatureValue,🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/signed-xml.ts`:
- Line 1390: Introduce and reuse a single XML Schema base64Binary whitespace
normalizer for SignatureValue values. Update both loadSignature() and
findLoadedSignature() so spaces, tabs, CR, and LF are removed before storing or
comparing SignatureValue text, while preserving the existing signature-node
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Tests should not call deprecated APIs. getOriginalXmlWithIds() goes through the same serialize() helper as getSignedXml() and getSignatureXml(), whose tests keep the fix covered. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
A carriage return in signed text reaches the DOM through a character reference (
or
), and canonicalization digests it as
. xmldom's serializer writes it raw in text nodes, and an XML parser turns a raw carriage return into a line feed (XML 1.0 §2.11). The XML thatcomputeSignature()produced therefore no longer held the signed data, and it failed verification.computeSignature()now writes every raw carriage return in its serialized output as
. The signer parses its input, so a carriage return can only sit in text or in an attribute value, and xmldom already escapes attribute values. This applies to:getSignedXml(), on both the synchronous and callback pathsgetSignatureXml(), which had the same bug for text inds:Objectcontent: an enveloping signature over such an Object failed verificationgetOriginalXmlWithIds()(deprecated)Compatibility
Output changes only for documents with a carriage return in text, and signatures over those did not verify before. Digests and verification are unchanged, so there is no README Upgrading note.
This PR, #585 and #589 merge cleanly in any order, and the combined suite passes.
Fixes #587
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