My idea for that was related to what we are doing in
ParametersInterceptor, but looks like this requires a step back and
rethink. I would revert these changes for now if there are no
objections.

czw., 13 lut 2025 o 09:27 Greg Huber <gregh3...@gmail.com> napisał(a):
>
> Unlikely a sanitizing method might not work for everybody.  I have had
> quite a few attempts to sanitize the way I want (first I run the
> Normalizer which removes all sorts of unwanted characters, then I only
> allow alphanumeric and then truncate the length) so to make one that
> fits all will not be easy.
>
> We do not want to be rejecting file uploads with no way of overriding it.
>
> The longer the file name the higher the risk?
>
> On 12/02/2025 20:04, Burton Rhodes wrote:
> > If that’s the case, do you think a sanitize method is more appropriate for 
> > this situation? Perhaps one that could live inside an interceptor and 
> > possibly even be overridden by those who think they know what they’re 
> > doing?  This way you wouldn’t have to reject the upload which in my opinion 
> > is not a preferred user experience.
> >
> >
> >> On Feb 12, 2025, at 12:56 PM, Brian Andle<brianandle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Unless I'm mistaken this is to prevent issues when a developer uses the
> >> file name, unsanitized, and potentially other malicious type injection via
> >> specially crafted file names.
> >>
> >>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 10:05 AM Burton Rhodes<burtonrho...@gmail.com> 
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I agree with Greg.
> >>>
> >>> IMHO, character validation should be left to the developer which depends
> >>> on their OS and file names supported therein. But if there needs to be
> >>> protection against a buffer overflow attack (I assume that is the
> >>> problem you are trying to solve?), then the length restriction should
> >>> suffice.  Or is there another risk I'm not aware of that could threaten
> >>> a system by just having a few malicious characters in a file name?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Burton
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ------ Original Message ------
> >>>  From "Greg Huber"<gregh3...@gmail.com>
> >>> to...@struts.apache.org
> >>> Date 2/11/2025 2:51:36 AM
> >>> Subject Re: file upload name filtering
> >>>
> >>>> Filename length is a possible good way to go, with an override of the
> >>> length and then truncate or block option.
> >>>> On 11/02/2025 06:21, Lukasz Lenart wrote:
> >>>>> Hm... looks like I must re-think this approach, thanks all for
> >>>>> reporting this issue!
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