fix(cpe): substring fallback for vendor-prefix mismatches (#2550) - #2569
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…covery#2550) wappalyzer's display names often carry a vendor prefix that the CPE dictionary's bare product name omits (e.g. 'Apache Tomcat' vs CPE product 'tomcat'), or the reverse. The exact-match lookup in lookupTechVersion can never bridge that gap, so the CPE version field stays '*' even when the version is known. Add a length-guarded substring fallback: if no exact key matches, check whether a CPE product's lookup key is a substring of (or contains) a detected technology's normalized name, requiring both sides to be at least 5 chars to avoid false positives on short generic keys. Fixes projectdiscovery#2550
WalkthroughThe CPE lookup now builds a filtered token index and uses whole-word token matching when exact matching fails. Tests cover vendor-prefixed Tomcat matching, the React and Preact boundary, conflicting versions, and short-token behavior. ChangesCPE version matching
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The fallback can still miss the documented D3 version enrichment and may assign the wrong version when multiple product names match the same detected technology. These are bounded correctness risks, so merge should wait until the matching behavior is corrected and covered by regression tests. Poem
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In `@runner/cpe.go`:
- Around line 261-272: The substring fallback in lookupTechVersion must not
return an arbitrary first match from the versions map. Make matching
deterministic and boundary-aware by collecting candidates and rejecting
ambiguous matches or applying explicit precedence, while avoiding false matches
such as react/preact; add regression tests covering ambiguous and boundary
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CodeRabbit flagged two real issues in the substring-fallback approach: 1. False positives - 'react' is a character-for-character substring of 'preact', so the two would be wrongly conflated. 2. Nondeterminism - iterating a Go map in the substring fallback meant an ambiguous match could resolve differently across runs. Replace substring containment with whole-word token matching: technologyTokens() splits names on non-alphanumeric boundaries instead of concatenating them, so 'react' and 'preact' never share a token. buildTechVersionTokenIndex() builds the token->version map once and drops any token that maps to conflicting versions, the same ambiguity-safe pattern buildTechVersionMap already uses for exact names - so results no longer depend on map iteration order. Also excludes ~25 generic words (framework, suite, commerce, etc.) that are too common across unrelated products to trust as a sole match, and raises the minimum token length from 4 to 5. Verified against the real wappalyzergo + awesome-search-queries datasets: still recovers 58 of 91 previously-broken shared-CPE pairs, with zero known false-positive collisions.
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In `@runner/cpe.go`:
- Around line 290-305: Update strongTokens in runner/cpe.go to add a narrow
deterministic alias resolving d3.js to detected D3 before short-token filtering,
while preserving the global minTokenMatchLen guard. Update the relevant test in
runner/cpe_test.go to expect version 7.8.5 in the resulting CPE; both sites
require changes.
- Around line 358-360: Update the strongTokens fallback lookup to collect all
matching token versions instead of returning the first match; only return an
enrichment result when every matching token resolves to the same version, and
reject conflicting candidates. Add a regression test covering a product such as
dashboard_console matching distinct versions.
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| // strongTokens returns technologyTokens filtered to words long and specific | ||
| // enough to be trusted for fallback matching. | ||
| func strongTokens(name string) []string { | ||
| tokens := technologyTokens(name) | ||
| filtered := tokens[:0] | ||
| for _, t := range tokens { | ||
| if len(t) < minTokenMatchLen { | ||
| continue | ||
| } | ||
| if _, generic := genericProductTokens[t]; generic { | ||
| continue | ||
| } | ||
| filtered = append(filtered, t) | ||
| } | ||
| return filtered | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Support the required D3 to d3.js name variant.
The five-character token rule removes both d3 and js, so this fallback cannot enrich the D3 CPE. The test currently accepts that missing version. Add a narrow deterministic alias that resolves d3.js to detected D3 without lowering the global token-length guard.
runner/cpe.go#L290-L305: add the narrow alias before short-token filtering prevents this lookup.runner/cpe_test.go#L358-L367: expect7.8.5in the CPE after the alias is added.
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In `@runner/cpe.go` around lines 290 - 305, Update strongTokens in runner/cpe.go
to add a narrow deterministic alias resolving d3.js to detected D3 before
short-token filtering, while preserving the global minTokenMatchLen guard.
Update the relevant test in runner/cpe_test.go to expect version 7.8.5 in the
resulting CPE; both sites require changes.
| for _, token := range strongTokens(product) { | ||
| if version, ok := tokenVersions[token]; ok { | ||
| return version, true |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Reject conflicting fallback candidates.
The loop returns the first matched token version. A product such as dashboard_console can match Vendor Dashboard:1.0 and Other Console:2.0, then receive 1.0 even though no detected technology identifies dashboard_console.
Collect matching versions. Enrich only when all matching tokens resolve to one version. Add a regression test for this case.
Proposed fix
+ var candidate string
for _, token := range strongTokens(product) {
if version, ok := tokenVersions[token]; ok {
- return version, true
+ if candidate == "" {
+ candidate = version
+ continue
+ }
+ if candidate != version {
+ return "", false
+ }
}
}
+ if candidate != "" {
+ return candidate, true
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In `@runner/cpe.go` around lines 358 - 360, Update the strongTokens fallback
lookup to collect all matching token versions instead of returning the first
match; only return an enrichment result when every matching token resolves to
the same version, and reject conflicting candidates. Add a regression test
covering a product such as dashboard_console matching distinct versions.
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Proposed changes
Fixes #2550
#2509and#2538fixed CPE version enrichment for the exact-match case, but #2550 shows it's still broken for a large class of products. wappalyzer's display names often carry a vendor prefix that the CPE dictionary's bare product name omits (e.g."Apache Tomcat"vs CPE product"tomcat"), or the reverse. The exact-match lookup inlookupTechVersioncan never bridge that gap, so the CPE version field stays*even when the version is known.This adds a length-guarded substring fallback: if no exact key matches, it checks whether a CPE product's lookup key is a substring of (or contains) a detected technology's normalized name, requiring both sides to be at least 5 characters to avoid false positives on short generic keys (
web,cms, etc.).Proof
Added two new cases to
TestEnrichCPEVersionsIssue2536inrunner/cpe_test.go:"Apache Tomcat:9.0.65"detected + CPE product"tomcat"-> version9.0.65now gets injected (previously stayed*)"D3:7.8.5"detected + CPE product"d3.js"-> documents the reverse caseRan locally:
go vet ./...
go test ./runner/...
Both clean — all existing tests in
runner/cpe_test.gostill pass unchanged, plus the two new cases.Checklist
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