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Adds one-time callback request state for cross-tab and delayed activation flows.\n\nRelated to OS-983.\nDepends on #2098 for shared dependency resolutions.\nVerification: lint, type-check, build.

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  • New Features
    • Callback links now include short-lived, one-time verification. Invalid, expired, or missing verification for callback data is rejected, and the callback data is cleared.
    • Activation links use the current destination when opened.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Callback navigation now handles same-window and external-window destinations using the resolved link.

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The onboarding license step resolves its activation URL when opened. Callback actions add expiring nonces to eligible sender URLs and validate external callback senders before saving decrypted callback data.

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Callback nonce validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Add nonces to callback URLs
web/src/store/callbackActions.ts
Callback send and URL-generation methods add a nonce to eligible sender URLs and store its 30-minute expiry. They omit the sender argument when the underlying method does not support it.
Validate callback senders before saving data
web/src/store/callbackActions.ts
External sender values are validated. Nonces are checked against stored, unexpired values and removed when checked. If validation fails, the store clears callback data and sets an error status and message.

Onboarding activation URL

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve activation URL when opened
web/src/components/Onboarding/OnboardingModal.vue, web/src/components/Onboarding/steps/OnboardingLicenseStep.vue
The modal passes a URL-producing function to the license step. The step resolves the URL when activation opens and uses it for external or same-window navigation.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant callbackActions
  participant localStorage
  participant callbackLibrary
  participant callbackState
  callbackActions->>localStorage: Store nonce expiration
  callbackActions->>callbackLibrary: Send or generate URL with nonce in sender URL
  callbackLibrary-->>callbackActions: Return send result or generated URL
  callbackActions->>localStorage: Read and remove nonce expiration
  callbackActions->>callbackState: Save valid data or set error state
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c731e

No actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the inspected callback and activation flows. The change is ready for normal merge checks.

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 53360

The new callback check improves protection for nonce-bearing requests, but its behavior depends on the callback library and includes a compatibility exception. That leaves the intended protection uncertain for some callback forms. No newly exploitable path has been established.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: Nonce issuance depends on runtime function length rather than a verified sender-capability contract. If the callback library produces an absolute-sender return URL while taking either shorter branch, a legitimate callback will have no stored nonce and will be rejected. The library signature and produced URL forms remain unverified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • observed — Accepted external callback actions can install keys, set account sign-in or sign-out state, and initiate OS updates. The affected control is in the web callback flow; no infrastructure or service-topology change is established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — Browser-facing watcher calls reach the store's callback save path, and the local validator permits nonce-free relative-looking senders. Whether the imported watcher can emit such a sender from attacker-controlled navigation is unverified. The nonce-free exposure predates this PR, so this is not an established new vulnerability.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — For an external payload with a nonce, validation checks a stored safe-integer expiry and removes the record before action dispatch. Classification as external requires a forUpc payload with at least one action; it does not itself authenticate the sender.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The separate localStorage read and removal establish same-tab consumption, but do not establish atomic one-time consumption across concurrent tabs. A failure or interruption after consumption also requires recovery other than validating the same URL again; the supported recovery path was not established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Verify the callback library's sender and watcher contracts, then distinguish trusted in-process callbacks from browser-delivered callbacks at an explicit boundary rather than by sender-string syntax or function length.
  • proposed — Define the intended interruption, concurrent-tab, and partial-action recovery behavior for consumed nonces before relying on them as a cross-tab one-time guarantee.
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Comment thread web/src/store/callbackActions.ts Outdated
Comment on lines +48 to +51
sessionStorage.setItem(
`${callbackNonceStoragePrefix}${nonce}`,
String(Date.now() + callbackNonceTtlMs)
);

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P1 Badge Preserve nonce state across noopener callback tabs

When the UI is embedded, the activation flow opens the generated URL in OnboardingLicenseStep.openActivate with noopener,noreferrer, so the returning tab is a separate top-level browsing context and does not have this tab's sessionStorage. When Account redirects that tab back to the WebGUI, the nonce lookup fails and rejects an otherwise valid activation callback; persist the nonce across this flow or avoid requiring it for that isolated tab.

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Comment thread web/src/store/callbackActions.ts Outdated
const callbackEncryptionKey = import.meta.env.VITE_CALLBACK_KEY ?? '';
const callbackNonceParameter = 'callback_nonce';
const callbackNonceStoragePrefix = 'unraid-callback-nonce:';
const callbackNonceTtlMs = 10 * 60 * 1000;

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P2 Badge Allow callback flows longer than ten minutes

The nonce is unconditionally expired after ten minutes, but this store launches interactive account, purchase, renewal, and activation callbacks. A user who spends more than ten minutes signing in, completing payment, or handling approval will return with a valid callback that is rejected before its action (such as automatic key installation) runs; use an expiry compatible with these user-driven flows.

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Comment thread web/src/store/callbackActions.ts Outdated
Comment on lines +85 to +87
senderUrl = new URL(payload.sender);
} catch {
return false;

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P1 Badge Update callback test senders for nonce validation

The existing callback store tests construct valid external payloads with sender: 'test' (for example, web/__test__/store/callbackActions.test.ts:195), but new URL(payload.sender) throws for that value and this path now returns false. Those tests expect the callback to enter loading, so the callback store test suite will fail until their fixtures use absolute sender URLs or explicitly cover this rejection case.

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❌ Patch coverage is 52.47525% with 48 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 53.34%. Comparing base (d4d9733) to head (c731e2e).
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...ponents/Onboarding/steps/OnboardingLicenseStep.vue 80.00% 1 Missing ⚠️
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Review comments at @web/src/store/callbackActions.ts:
- Line 60: Update the sender URL handling in the callback action so an omitted
sender on /Tools/Update is normalized to /Tools before adding the nonce, while
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