Normalizes the URL and path parsing logic inside platform-server by consolidating security checks and normalizations into a single, unified parseUrl helper function.
This includes:
- Collapsing multiple consecutive leading slashes and backslashes (e.g., // or /\) to a single forward slash to avoid protocol-relative parsing of path-like & relative inputs.
- Rejecting malformed absolute URLs that are otherwise accepted by lenient DOM parsers like Domino but rejected by standard WHATWG parsers, preventing SSRF / allowedHosts validation bypasses.
- Ensuring parseDocument gets the fully parsed and normalized URL instead of raw, unvalidated configuration values, preventing virtual document hostname adoption/origin hijack.
- Moving parseUrl unit tests into a dedicated url_spec.ts test file to keep platform_location_spec.ts clean and decoupled.
(cherry picked from commit 1307ff355c)
In server-side rendering (SSR) setups, passing request URLs directly to the lower-level rendering APIs `renderModule` or `renderApplication` can expose applications to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) or Host Header Injection attacks via absolute-form request URLs.
To mitigate these vulnerabilities at the framework layer, this commit introduces the `allowedHosts` option to `PlatformConfig` (supporting exact hostnames, wildcards like `*.example.com`, or `*` to allow all).
During platform initialization inside `createServerPlatform`, the hostname of the request `url` is validated against the `allowedHosts` list. If the hostname is not authorized, bootstrap immediately throws a host validation error, preventing unauthorized rendering and silent SSRF bypasses.
Closes#68436
(cherry picked from commit 60552a73e8)
Alan Agius