fix(admin): serve videos with their real MIME type in the admin photo view (#908) (stable) (#911)

* fix(admin): serve videos with their real MIME type in the admin photo view (#908) (stable)

The admin view route built Content-Type from the filename extension —
image/<ext> — which is invalid for videos (image/mp4). The admin player
fetches this URL into a blob that inherits the type, and browsers
refuse to play a <video> blob labeled image/*: blank/grey preview,
while download (which already uses photo.mime_type) worked fine.

Stored mime_type now wins; videos without one fall back to video/mp4,
images to the extension, and extensionless files to image/jpeg instead
of the equally invalid bare 'image/'.

Also unrefs chunkedUploadService's module-level hourly cleanup interval:
it kept Jest from exiting for any suite requiring adminPhotos (it's why
adminPhotos.reference sits on the CI ignore list). Production behavior
unchanged — the HTTP listener keeps the process alive.

New adminPhotoContentType suite pins all four MIME cases.

* fix(admin): harden admin photo Content-Type resolution (#908 review round)

External review findings, all verified:

- The header is now ALWAYS image/* or video/*. photos.mime_type is
  never echoed verbatim unless it is a video/ type — the chunked-upload
  path stores the client-sent MIME unvalidated, so a stored text/html
  served inline under the app origin was a same-origin XSS hazard.
- MIME-less videos map from the extension via the shared
  EXTENSION_TO_MIME (.mov → video/quicktime, .webm → video/webm)
  instead of a blanket video/mp4 that would mislabel them.
- Images ignore the stored MIME entirely: migration 039 backfilled
  image/jpeg onto every legacy row (PNGs included), so trusting it
  would regress previously-correct extension-derived types. Extension
  wins, normalized (jpg → image/jpeg).

Suite extended to 8 MIME cases including the XSS guard and the
039-backfill immunity.

* fix(admin): validate stored video MIME as a full header-safe token (#908 review round 2)

A prefix check let malformed client-stored values through:
'video/mp4\r\nX: y' makes res.setHeader throw ERR_INVALID_CHAR — a
permanent 500 for that photo — and a bare 'video/' is an invalid type.
Strict /^video\/[\w.+-]+$/ now gates the stored value; anything else
falls back to the extension map. Two new tests pin both shapes.

* fix(admin): map-only image Content-Type — no raw extension interpolation (#908 review round 3)

image/${ext} could synthesize image/svg+xml (scriptable when served
inline) or header-invalid values from client-controlled chunked-upload
filenames. The shared EXTENSION_TO_MIME map is now the allowlist on the
image side too; unmapped extensions serve as image/jpeg — browsers
sniff image bytes in img/blob contexts, so a mislabel is harmless where
an injected type is not.

* fix(admin): own-property lookup in the extension MIME map (#908 review round)

A client-controlled filename ending in .constructor / .__proto__ /
.toString made EXTENSION_TO_MIME[ext] return an inherited Object.prototype
member (truthy), and the downstream extMime.startsWith threw —
a permanent 500 on the admin view for that photo instead of the JPEG /
mp4 fallback. hasOwnProperty-gated now; test pins both a .constructor
image and a .__proto__ video.

* fix(admin): honor safe stored image MIME for auto-imported formats (#908 review round 2)

My previous round made the image side map-only to dodge the migration
039 image/jpeg backfill and image/svg+xml — but that regressed the S3
auto-importer (STORAGE_AUTO_IMPORT), which stores correct types for
avif/bmp/tiff/heic whose extensions aren't in EXTENSION_TO_MIME. Those
now served as image/jpeg (JPEG-labelled non-JPEG bytes).

Precedence is now mapped-extension (still corrects the 039 backfill on
PNGs) -> stored MIME IF in a safe raster allowlist (avif/bmp/tiff/heic
+ the mapped ones) -> image/jpeg. Allowlist, not a regex: image/svg+xml
stays excluded (scriptable inline). Tests pin avif preserved and svg
degraded to jpeg.

* fix(admin): allow any header-safe raster MIME, deny svg/xml (#908 review round 3)

The round-2 hand-listed Set kept missing formats the S3 auto-importer
stores (apng/ico/jxl beyond avif/bmp/tiff). Replace it with a regex:
honor image/<token> EXCEPT the scriptable svg / *+xml family. Covers
every current and future raster type in one rule while still blocking
inline-scriptable svg and header injection. Tests pin apng + x-icon
preserved, svg still degraded to jpeg.

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Co-authored-by: Paul Nothaft <[email protected]>
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@@ -1126,7 +1126,65 @@ router.get('/:eventId/photo/:photoId', adminAuth, requirePermission('photos.view
const event = await db('events').where('id', eventId).first();
const storageKey = resolvePhotoStorageKey(event, photo);
res.setHeader('Content-Type', `image/${path.extname(photo.filename).slice(1)}`);
// Content-Type resolution (#908 + external review). Invariant: the
// header is ALWAYS image/* or video/*.
// - photos.mime_type is never echoed verbatim unless it is a video/
// type: the chunked-upload path stores the client-sent MIME
// unvalidated, so a stored text/html served inline under the app
// origin would be a same-origin XSS gift.
// - Images ignore the stored value entirely — migration 039
// backfilled image/jpeg onto every legacy row (PNGs included), so
// the extension is the more trustworthy signal; normalized via the
// shared map (image/jpg → image/jpeg), jpeg fallback when unknown.
// - Videos prefer a stored video/ type, then the extension map
// (.mov → video/quicktime, .webm → video/webm, …), then video/mp4.
// The old ext-derived image/<ext> (image/mp4) is what made the
// admin player's blob unplayable (#908).
const { EXTENSION_TO_MIME } = require('../services/uploadSettings');
const ext = path.extname(photo.filename).slice(1).toLowerCase();
// Own-property lookup (review): a client-controlled filename ending in
// .constructor / .__proto__ / .toString would otherwise return an
// inherited Object.prototype member, and the extMime.startsWith below
// would throw — a permanent 500 for that photo instead of the fallback.
const extMime = Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(EXTENSION_TO_MIME, ext)
? EXTENSION_TO_MIME[ext]
: null;
// Full-token validation, not just a prefix check: the stored value is
// client-controlled, and header-invalid characters (video/mp4\r\nX: y)
// would make setHeader throw — a permanent 500 for that photo. Bare
// 'video/' is equally invalid; both fall back to the extension map.
const storedVideoMime = photo.mime_type && /^video\/[\w.+-]+$/.test(photo.mime_type)
? photo.mime_type
: null;
// Honor a stored image MIME for any header-safe RASTER type (#908
// review): the S3 auto-importer accepts arbitrary image/* from
// mime-types and stores it (avif/bmp/tiff/heic/apng/ico/jxl/…), and a
// hand-listed allowlist kept missing formats. Allow image/<token> but
// NEVER the scriptable svg / *+xml family (image/svg+xml executes
// inline). The strict token + anchors also block header injection
// (image/x\r\nY:). Migration 039's blanket image/jpeg backfill on
// legacy rows is why the mapped extension still wins ahead of this.
const storedImageMime =
photo.mime_type &&
/^image\/[\w.+-]+$/.test(photo.mime_type) &&
!/^image\/svg|xml/i.test(photo.mime_type)
? photo.mime_type
: null;
const isVideo = photo.media_type === 'video' ||
Boolean(storedVideoMime) ||
Boolean(extMime && extMime.startsWith('video/'));
// Never interpolate the raw extension on the image side: it would
// synthesize image/svg+xml (scriptable inline) or header-invalid values
// from client-controlled chunked-upload filenames. Precedence is
// mapped-extension (also corrects the 039 legacy-jpeg backfill on PNGs)
// -> safe stored raster MIME (auto-imported avif/bmp/tiff) -> image/jpeg.
// A stored type outside the allowlist degrades to image/jpeg; browsers
// sniff image bytes in <img>/blob contexts, so a mislabel is harmless
// where an injected type is not.
const contentType = isVideo
? storedVideoMime || (extMime && extMime.startsWith('video/') ? extMime : null) || 'video/mp4'
: (extMime && extMime.startsWith('image/') ? extMime : null) || storedImageMime || 'image/jpeg';
res.setHeader('Content-Type', contentType);
res.setHeader('Cache-Control', 'private, max-age=3600');
res.setHeader('Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy', 'cross-origin');