fix(auth): correct callback URL resolution across SSR and hydration (#6217)

* fix(sso): derive the SSO callback URL during render

`callbackUrl` was seeded into `useState('/workspace')` and overwritten from
a `useEffect` that read `searchParams`, so the first painted frame always
carried the default. On any deep link with `?callbackUrl=`, the "Sign in
with email" and "Sign up" links briefly pointed at `/workspace` instead of
the requested destination, and a click landing in that window navigated to
the wrong place.

- derive `callbackUrl` from `searchParams` during render; the validation
  gate is unchanged, so an off-origin or malformed value still falls back
  to `/workspace`
- keep the warning for a rejected value in an effect, now keyed on the
  param itself rather than the `searchParams` object, so it fires once per
  actual change instead of once per identity change
- add first-frame tests via `renderToString`, which runs no effects and so
  pins exactly the window the old code got wrong

* fix(auth): resolve callback URLs against the app origin server-side

`validateCallbackUrl` compared against a sentinel base
(`https://callback-url-validator.invalid`) when `window` was undefined, so
the server rejected every absolute URL — including the same-origin ones the
function documents as valid. A component deriving a callback URL during
render therefore produced one destination in the SSR markup and a different
one after hydration.

The exposure was not new to the SSO form: `login-form.tsx` and
`signup-form.tsx` already derive their callback URL during render on
`force-dynamic` pages, so both carried the same divergence.

- resolve against the deployment's own origin server-side, so the server
  reaches the same verdict the browser will after hydration
- fall back to the sentinel when the app URL is unset or unparseable, which
  keeps the server fail-closed: absolute URLs are rejected, as before
- cover the absolute same-origin case and the unset-app-URL fallback in the
  existing suite; all 15 open-redirect rejection cases are unchanged

* fix(env): drop the getBaseUrl browser-origin fallback

The fallback was added in #6214 as a safety net while the real cause — the
hosted env script losing its `beforeInteractive` strategy — was fixed in the
same PR. With the injection ordering restored, `window.__ENV` is populated
before hydration, so the fallback is unreachable in any correctly configured
deployment.

Guessing the origin was also unsafe in the one case it could still fire. An
opaque origin — a sandboxed iframe, and `/chat/*` is deliberately embeddable
— serializes to the string `'null'`, which is truthy, so `getBaseUrl()` would
have returned `'null'` and every call site would have silently built
`null/api/...`. A throw surfaces the misconfiguration instead of encoding it
into request URLs.

- restore the unconditional throw when NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL is unset or blank
- mirror it back in the shared testing mock
- flip the two fallback tests to assert the throw, keeping whitespace-only
  coverage

Server-side behavior is unchanged: there was never a `window` to fall back
to, so callers that already guard `getBaseUrl()` (`getBaseDomain`,
`validateCallbackUrl`) keep their existing fail-closed paths.

Author: waleedlatif1

apps/sim/ee/sso/components/sso-form.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+/**
+ * @vitest-environment jsdom
+ */
+import type { ReactNode } from 'react'
+import { renderToString } from 'react-dom/server'
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+
+const { mockUseSearchParams } = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+  mockUseSearchParams: vi.fn(),
+}))
+
+vi.mock('next/navigation', () => ({
+  useRouter: () => ({ push: vi.fn(), replace: vi.fn() }),
+  useSearchParams: mockUseSearchParams,
+}))
+
+vi.mock('next/link', () => ({
+  default: ({ href, children }: { href: string; children?: ReactNode }) => (
+    <a href={href}>{children}</a>
+  ),
+}))
+
+vi.mock('@sim/emcn', () => ({
+  Button: ({ children }: { children?: ReactNode }) => <button type='button'>{children}</button>,
+  Input: () => <input />,
+  Label: ({ children }: { children?: ReactNode }) => <span>{children}</span>,
+  cn: (...values: unknown[]) => values.filter(Boolean).join(' '),
+}))
+
+vi.mock('@/lib/auth/auth-client', () => ({
+  client: { signIn: { sso: vi.fn() } },
+}))
+
+vi.mock('@/app/(auth)/components', () => ({
+  AuthSubmitButton: ({ children }: { children?: ReactNode }) => (
+    <button type='submit'>{children}</button>
+  ),
+}))
+
+vi.mock('@/lib/core/config/env', () => ({
+  getEnv: () => 'true',
+  isFalsy: (value: unknown) => value === undefined || value === 'false',
+}))
+
+import SSOForm from '@/ee/sso/components/sso-form'
+
+function renderFirstFrame(search: string): string {
+  mockUseSearchParams.mockReturnValue(new URLSearchParams(search))
+  return renderToString(<SSOForm />)
+}
+
+/**
+ * `renderToString` produces the markup of the first frame with no effects run,
+ * which is exactly the window in which a callback URL seeded from an effect is
+ * still the `/workspace` default.
+ */
+describe('SSOForm callback URL', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    mockUseSearchParams.mockReset()
+  })
+
+  it('carries a valid callbackUrl on the first rendered frame', () => {
+    const html = renderFirstFrame('callbackUrl=/workspace/abc/w/xyz')
+
+    expect(html).toContain(encodeURIComponent('/workspace/abc/w/xyz'))
+  })
+
+  it('falls back to /workspace when no callbackUrl is present', () => {
+    const html = renderFirstFrame('')
+
+    expect(html).toContain(`/login?callbackUrl=${encodeURIComponent('/workspace')}`)
+  })
+
+  it('rejects an off-origin callbackUrl and falls back to /workspace', () => {
+    const html = renderFirstFrame('callbackUrl=https://evil.example.com/steal')
+
+    expect(html).not.toContain('evil.example.com')
+    expect(html).toContain(`/login?callbackUrl=${encodeURIComponent('/workspace')}`)
+  })
+})

apps/sim/ee/sso/components/sso-form.tsx

@@ -36,21 +36,27 @@ export default function SSOForm() {
   const [email, setEmail] = useState('')
   const [emailErrors, setEmailErrors] = useState<string[]>([])
   const [showEmailValidationError, setShowEmailValidationError] = useState(false)
-  const [callbackUrl, setCallbackUrl] = useState('/workspace')
 
   const emailEnabled = !isFalsy(getEnv('NEXT_PUBLIC_EMAIL_PASSWORD_SIGNUP_ENABLED'))
 
+  /**
+   * Derived during render rather than seeded into state from an effect: the
+   * first painted frame otherwise carries the `/workspace` default, so the
+   * "Sign in with email" and "Sign up" links briefly point at the wrong
+   * destination on any deep link carrying `?callbackUrl=`.
+   */
+  const callbackParam = searchParams?.get('callbackUrl') ?? null
+  const isCallbackValid = callbackParam !== null && validateCallbackUrl(callbackParam)
+  const callbackUrl = callbackParam !== null && isCallbackValid ? callbackParam : '/workspace'
+
   useEffect(() => {
-    if (searchParams) {
-      const callback = searchParams.get('callbackUrl')
-      if (callback) {
-        if (validateCallbackUrl(callback)) {
-          setCallbackUrl(callback)
-        } else {
-          logger.warn('Invalid callback URL detected and blocked:', { url: callback })
-        }
-      }
+    if (callbackParam !== null && !isCallbackValid) {
+      logger.warn('Invalid callback URL detected and blocked:', { url: callbackParam })
+    }
+  }, [callbackParam, isCallbackValid])
 
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (searchParams) {
       const emailParam = searchParams.get('email')
       if (emailParam) {
         setEmail(emailParam)

apps/sim/lib/core/security/input-validation.test.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { envFlagsMock, resetEnvFlagsMock } from '@sim/testing'
+import { defaultMockEnv, envFlagsMock, resetEnvFlagsMock, resetEnvMock, setEnv } from '@sim/testing'
 import { afterAll, afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 import {
   validateAirtableId,
@@ -2136,6 +2136,7 @@ describe('validateCallbackUrl', () => {
   })
 
   afterEach(() => {
+    resetEnvMock()
     if (originalWindow === undefined) {
       ;(globalThis as { window?: unknown }).window = undefined
     } else {
@@ -2187,12 +2188,28 @@ describe('validateCallbackUrl', () => {
       ;(globalThis as { window?: unknown }).window = undefined
     })
 
-    it('falls back to placeholder origin and still rejects cross-origin URLs', () => {
+    it('resolves against the configured app origin and still rejects cross-origin URLs', () => {
       expect(validateCallbackUrl('/workspace')).toBe(true)
       expect(validateCallbackUrl('//evil.com')).toBe(false)
       expect(validateCallbackUrl('https://evil.com')).toBe(false)
       expect(validateCallbackUrl('javascript:alert(1)')).toBe(false)
     })
+
+    /**
+     * The server verdict has to match what the browser will decide once it
+     * hydrates, or a callback URL derived during render yields one destination
+     * in the SSR markup and another after hydration.
+     */
+    it('accepts an absolute same-origin URL, matching the browser verdict', () => {
+      expect(validateCallbackUrl(`${defaultMockEnv.NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL}/workspace/abc`)).toBe(true)
+    })
+
+    it('stays fail-closed on absolute URLs when the app URL is unset', () => {
+      setEnv({ NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL: undefined })
+
+      expect(validateCallbackUrl(`${defaultMockEnv.NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL}/workspace/abc`)).toBe(false)
+      expect(validateCallbackUrl('/workspace')).toBe(true)
+    })
   })
 })
 

apps/sim/lib/core/security/input-validation.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { createLogger } from '@sim/logger'
 import { isLoopbackIp, isPrivateIp, unwrapIpv6Brackets } from '@sim/security/ssrf'
 import * as ipaddr from 'ipaddr.js'
 import { isHosted } from '@/lib/core/config/env-flags'
+import { getBaseUrl } from '@/lib/core/utils/urls'
 
 const logger = createLogger('InputValidation')
 
@@ -1234,6 +1235,31 @@ export function validatePaginationCursor(
 
 const CALLBACK_URL_SERVER_BASE = 'https://callback-url-validator.invalid'
 
+/**
+ * Origin a callback URL is resolved and compared against.
+ *
+ * The browser uses its own origin. Server-side there is no `window`, so it uses
+ * the deployment's configured origin — which is what the browser will compare
+ * against once it hydrates. Using a sentinel here instead made the server reject
+ * every absolute URL, including the same-origin ones this function documents as
+ * valid, so a component deriving a callback URL during render produced one
+ * destination in the SSR markup and a different one after hydration.
+ *
+ * Falls back to the sentinel when the app URL is unset or unparseable, which
+ * keeps the server fail-closed: every absolute URL is rejected, as before.
+ */
+function getCallbackValidationOrigin(): string {
+  if (typeof window !== 'undefined') {
+    return window.location.origin
+  }
+
+  try {
+    return new URL(getBaseUrl()).origin
+  } catch {
+    return CALLBACK_URL_SERVER_BASE
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * Validates a callback URL to prevent open redirect attacks.
  *
@@ -1263,7 +1289,7 @@ export function validateCallbackUrl(url: string): boolean {
   try {
     if (typeof url !== 'string' || url.length === 0) return false
 
-    const base = typeof window === 'undefined' ? CALLBACK_URL_SERVER_BASE : window.location.origin
+    const base = getCallbackValidationOrigin()
     const parsed = new URL(url, base)
     return parsed.origin === base
   } catch (error) {

apps/sim/lib/core/utils/urls.test.ts

@@ -56,15 +56,20 @@ describe('getBaseUrl', () => {
     expect(getBaseUrl()).toBe('https://app.example.com')
   })
 
-  it('falls back to the page origin instead of throwing when the injected env is missing', () => {
+  /**
+   * Never guesses from `window.location.origin`: an opaque origin (a sandboxed
+   * iframe) serializes to the truthy string `'null'`, which would silently
+   * produce `null/api/...` rather than surfacing the misconfiguration.
+   */
+  it('throws in the browser rather than guessing from the page origin', () => {
     setLocation('https://www.sim.ai/workspace/ws-1/w/wf-1')
-    expect(getBaseUrl()).toBe('https://www.sim.ai')
+    expect(() => getBaseUrl()).toThrow('NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL must be configured')
   })
 
   it('treats a whitespace-only NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL as unset', () => {
     mockGetEnv.mockImplementation((key) => (key === 'NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL' ? '   ' : undefined))
     setLocation('https://www.sim.ai/')
-    expect(getBaseUrl()).toBe('https://www.sim.ai')
+    expect(() => getBaseUrl()).toThrow('NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL must be configured')
   })
 })
 

apps/sim/lib/core/utils/urls.ts

@@ -25,31 +25,26 @@ function normalizeBaseUrl(url: string): string {
  * Returns the base URL of the application from NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL
  * This ensures webhooks, callbacks, and other integrations always use the correct public URL
  *
- * In the browser, falls back to the page's own origin when the injected env is
- * unavailable. Client-side callers only ever want a URL back to the app they are
- * already served from, so the origin is a correct answer — and a throw here
- * during render tears down the whole page through the error boundary. Server-side
- * callers (webhooks, callbacks, emails) have no origin to fall back to and must
- * still fail loudly on a misconfigured deployment.
+ * Deliberately has no browser fallback to `window.location.origin`. The value is
+ * injected before hydration by `<PublicEnvScript>`, so an empty read means the
+ * deployment is misconfigured — and a same-origin guess would hide that. It also
+ * would not be safe to guess: an opaque origin (a sandboxed iframe, and `/chat/*`
+ * is embeddable) serializes to the string `'null'`, which is truthy and would
+ * silently produce `null/api/...` at every call site.
  *
  * @returns The base URL string (e.g., 'http://localhost:3000' or 'https://example.com')
- * @throws Error if NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL is not configured and no browser origin exists
+ * @throws Error if NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL is not configured
  */
 export function getBaseUrl(): string {
   const baseUrl = getEnv('NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL')?.trim()
 
-  if (baseUrl) {
-    return normalizeBaseUrl(baseUrl)
-  }
-
-  const browserOrigin = getBrowserOrigin()
-  if (browserOrigin) {
-    return browserOrigin
+  if (!baseUrl) {
+    throw new Error(
+      'NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL must be configured for webhooks and callbacks to work correctly'
+    )
   }
 
-  throw new Error(
-    'NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL must be configured for webhooks and callbacks to work correctly'
-  )
+  return normalizeBaseUrl(baseUrl)
 }
 
 /**

packages/testing/src/mocks/urls.mock.ts

@@ -26,18 +26,14 @@ function hasHttpProtocol(url: string): boolean {
 
 function getBaseUrlImpl(): string {
   const baseUrl = readEnv('NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL')?.trim()
-  if (baseUrl) {
-    // Mirrors the real module: protocol-less values get https:// under isProd.
-    const protocol = envFlagsMock.isProd ? 'https://' : 'http://'
-    return hasHttpProtocol(baseUrl) ? baseUrl : `${protocol}${baseUrl}`
+  if (!baseUrl) {
+    throw new Error(
+      'NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL must be configured for webhooks and callbacks to work correctly'
+    )
   }
-  // Mirrors the real module: the browser falls back to its own origin, only
-  // server-side (no `window`) callers throw.
-  const browserOrigin = getBrowserOriginImpl()
-  if (browserOrigin) return browserOrigin
-  throw new Error(
-    'NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL must be configured for webhooks and callbacks to work correctly'
-  )
+  // Mirrors the real module: protocol-less values get https:// under isProd.
+  const protocol = envFlagsMock.isProd ? 'https://' : 'http://'
+  return hasHttpProtocol(baseUrl) ? baseUrl : `${protocol}${baseUrl}`
 }
 
 function getInternalApiBaseUrlImpl(): string {