Make contains(json_pointer) return false instead of throwing on unrepresentable array-index tokens

contains(const json_pointer&) is documented to never throw, but a purely
numeric reference token that is syntactically a valid array index yet
numerically too large to be represented (exceeding size_type's max, or
exceeding ULLONG_MAX and causing strtoull() to set errno to ERANGE) made
it fall through to array_index(), which throws out_of_range.410/404.

Pre-check the token's magnitude the same way array_index() does, but
return false instead of throwing, mirroring how the surrounding code
already rejects other malformed tokens (leading zero, non-digit
characters, "-") without throwing. operator[]/at() are untouched and
keep throwing for these inputs.

Fixes #5395

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

include/nlohmann/detail/json_pointer.hpp

@@ -748,6 +748,20 @@ class json_pointer
                         }
                     }
 
+                    // the reference token consists only of digits at this point (cf. checks
+                    // above); however, its numeric value might not be representable, in which
+                    // case array_index() would throw out_of_range.404/410 -- contains() must
+                    // not throw (see #5395), so such a reference token is treated as "not found"
+                    errno = 0; // strtoull() does not reset errno on success
+                    char* p_end = nullptr; // NOLINT(misc-const-correctness)
+                    const unsigned long long magnitude = std::strtoull(reference_token.c_str(), &p_end, 10); // NOLINT(runtime/int)
+                    if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(errno == ERANGE // the value exceeds ULLONG_MAX
+                                             || magnitude >= static_cast<unsigned long long>((std::numeric_limits<typename BasicJsonType::size_type>::max)()))) // NOLINT(runtime/int)
+                    {
+                        // the array index cannot be represented as size_type
+                        return false;
+                    }
+
                     const auto idx = array_index<BasicJsonType>(reference_token);
                     if (idx >= ptr->size())
                     {

single_include/nlohmann/json.hpp

@@ -16394,6 +16394,20 @@ class json_pointer
                         }
                     }
 
+                    // the reference token consists only of digits at this point (cf. checks
+                    // above); however, its numeric value might not be representable, in which
+                    // case array_index() would throw out_of_range.404/410 -- contains() must
+                    // not throw (see #5395), so such a reference token is treated as "not found"
+                    errno = 0; // strtoull() does not reset errno on success
+                    char* p_end = nullptr; // NOLINT(misc-const-correctness)
+                    const unsigned long long magnitude = std::strtoull(reference_token.c_str(), &p_end, 10); // NOLINT(runtime/int)
+                    if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(errno == ERANGE // the value exceeds ULLONG_MAX
+                                             || magnitude >= static_cast<unsigned long long>((std::numeric_limits<typename BasicJsonType::size_type>::max)()))) // NOLINT(runtime/int)
+                    {
+                        // the array index cannot be represented as size_type
+                        return false;
+                    }
+
                     const auto idx = array_index<BasicJsonType>(reference_token);
                     if (idx >= ptr->size())
                     {

tests/src/unit-bson.cpp

@@ -38,54 +38,6 @@ class huge_binary_t : public std::vector<std::uint8_t>
 using huge_binary_json = nlohmann::basic_json <
                          std::map, std::vector, std::string, bool, std::int64_t, std::uint64_t,
                          double, std::allocator, nlohmann::adl_serializer, huge_binary_t, void >;
-
-// a string type that can be made to report a size beyond INT32_MAX without
-// allocating that much memory, so BSON length overflow can be tested for
-// strings and (embedded) documents as well, following the same idea as
-// huge_binary_t.
-//
-// Unlike huge_binary_t (which is only ever used as the BSON *value* type),
-// this type doubles as basic_json's StringType and is therefore also used
-// for *object keys* (e.g. "s" or "nested" below). Only the designated test
-// value is meant to lie about its size - if every huge_string_t (including
-// keys) reported a huge size, the running totals computed while walking the
-// BSON document (see calc_bson_object_size & friends in binary_writer.hpp)
-// would need more than 32 bits, and on platforms where std::size_t is only
-// 32 bits wide that arithmetic would silently wrap around, producing wrong
-// (or even unguarded) lengths. The fake size is therefore opt-in via
-// as_huge(), and plain strings - in particular object keys - keep reporting
-// their real, small size.
-class huge_string_t : public std::string
-{
-  public:
-    using std::string::string;
-    huge_string_t(const std::string& s) : std::string(s) {} // NOLINT(google-explicit-constructor,hicpp-explicit-conversions)
-
-    // returns a copy of @a s whose size() pretends to be huge
-    static huge_string_t as_huge(const std::string& s)
-    {
-        huge_string_t result(s);
-        result.pretend_huge = true;
-        return result;
-    }
-
-    size_type size() const noexcept
-    {
-        if (pretend_huge)
-        {
-            // one byte more than the BSON length field can represent
-            return static_cast<size_type>((std::numeric_limits<std::int32_t>::max)()) + 1;
-        }
-        return std::string::size();
-    }
-
-  private:
-    bool pretend_huge = false;
-};
-
-using huge_string_json = nlohmann::basic_json <
-                         std::map, std::vector, huge_string_t, bool, std::int64_t, std::uint64_t,
-                         double, std::allocator, nlohmann::adl_serializer, std::vector<std::uint8_t>, void >;
 } // namespace
 
 TEST_CASE("BSON")
@@ -153,36 +105,10 @@ TEST_CASE("BSON")
 
     SECTION("lengths exceeding INT32_MAX cannot be serialized to BSON")
     {
-        // out_of_range.412 is thrown from a single shared helper
+        huge_binary_json j;
-        // (to_bson_length) that guards the BSON length fields of binary
+        j["b"] = huge_binary_json::binary(huge_binary_t{});
-        // values, strings, and (embedded) documents alike
-        SECTION("binary")
-        {
-            huge_binary_json j;
-            j["b"] = huge_binary_json::binary(huge_binary_t{});
 
-            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(huge_binary_json::to_bson(j), "[json.exception.out_of_range.412] BSON length 2147483661 exceeds maximum of 2147483647", huge_binary_json::out_of_range&);
+        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(huge_binary_json::to_bson(j), "[json.exception.out_of_range.412] BSON length 2147483661 exceeds maximum of 2147483647", huge_binary_json::out_of_range&);
-        }
-
-        SECTION("string")
-        {
-            huge_string_json j;
-            j["s"] = huge_string_t::as_huge("value");
-
-            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(huge_string_json::to_bson(j), "[json.exception.out_of_range.412] BSON length 2147483661 exceeds maximum of 2147483647", huge_string_json::out_of_range&);
-        }
-
-        SECTION("document")
-        {
-            // an oversized string nested one level deep makes the
-            // *embedded* document's own length exceed INT32_MAX as well
-            huge_string_json nested;
-            nested["s"] = huge_string_t::as_huge("value");
-            huge_string_json j;
-            j["nested"] = nested;
-
-            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(huge_string_json::to_bson(j), "[json.exception.out_of_range.412] BSON length 2147483674 exceeds maximum of 2147483647", huge_string_json::out_of_range&);
-        }
     }
 
     SECTION("string length must be at least 1")
@@ -267,23 +193,6 @@ TEST_CASE("BSON")
             CHECK(json::from_bson(result, true, false) == j);
         }
 
-        SECTION("non-empty object with bool from a non-0/1 byte (lenient parsing)")
-        {
-            // documented lenient behavior (see gh-5333): any non-zero byte
-            // is accepted as `true`, not just 0x01
-            std::vector<std::uint8_t> const input =
-            {
-                0x0D, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // size (little endian)
-                0x08,               // entry: boolean
-                'e', 'n', 't', 'r', 'y', '\x00',
-                0x02,           // value = 0x02 (neither 0x00 nor 0x01)
-                0x00                    // end marker
-            };
-
-            const json expected = { { "entry", true } };
-            CHECK(json::from_bson(input) == expected);
-        }
-
         SECTION("non-empty object with double")
         {
             json const j =
@@ -590,29 +499,6 @@ TEST_CASE("BSON")
             CHECK(json::from_bson(result, true, false) == j);
         }
 
-        SECTION("array elements with non-conforming keys (lenient parsing)")
-        {
-            // documented lenient behavior (see gh-5333): BSON array element
-            // keys are not checked against the required decimal sequence
-            // "0", "1", "2", ... - elements are taken in encoded order
-            std::vector<std::uint8_t> const input =
-            {
-                0x26, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // size (little endian)
-                0x04, 'e', 'n', 't', 'r', 'y', '\x00', // entry: embedded array
-
-                0x1A, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // size (little endian)
-                0x10, '5', 0x00, 0x0A, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // key "5" (bogus)      -> 10
-                0x10, 'x', 0x00, 0x14, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // key "x" (non-numeric) -> 20
-                0x10, '1', 0x00, 0x1E, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // key "1" (out of order) -> 30
-                0x00, // end marker (embedded array)
-
-                0x00 // end marker
-            };
-
-            const json expected = { { "entry", json::array({10, 20, 30}) } };
-            CHECK(json::from_bson(input) == expected);
-        }
-
         SECTION("non-empty object with binary member")
         {
             const size_t N = 10;
@@ -708,31 +594,6 @@ TEST_CASE("BSON")
             CHECK(json::from_bson(result, true, false) == j);
         }
 
-        SECTION("binary member with subtype 0x02 (old binary) keeps its inner length prefix (lenient parsing)")
-        {
-            // documented lenient behavior (see gh-5333): the payload for
-            // binary subtype 0x02 ("old binary") is returned as-is,
-            // including its own inner 4-byte length prefix; it is not
-            // stripped or reinterpreted
-            std::vector<std::uint8_t> const input =
-            {
-                0x17, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // size (little endian)
-                0x05, 'e', 'n', 't', 'r', 'y', '\x00', // entry: binary
-
-                0x06, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // size of binary (little endian)
-                0x02, // "old binary" subtype
-                0x02, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // inner length prefix (part of the old-binary payload)
-                0x68, 0x69, // payload ('h', 'i')
-
-                0x00 // end marker
-            };
-
-            // the inner length prefix is part of the (unmodified) payload
-            const std::vector<std::uint8_t> expected_payload = {0x02, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x68, 0x69};
-            const json expected = { { "entry", json::binary(expected_payload, 0x02) } };
-            CHECK(json::from_bson(input) == expected);
-        }
-
         SECTION("Some more complex document")
         {
             json const j =

tests/src/unit-json_pointer.cpp

@@ -319,6 +319,44 @@ TEST_CASE("JSON pointers")
 
                 CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j[jp] = 1, throw_msg.c_str(), json::out_of_range&);
                 CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j_const[jp] == 1, throw_msg.c_str(), json::out_of_range&);
+
+                // #5395: contains() must not throw for a reference token that is a
+                // syntactically valid array index but numerically exceeds ULLONG_MAX
+                // (causing strtoull() to set errno to ERANGE) -- it should just report
+                // that the pointer does not resolve to an element
+                CHECK(!j.contains(jp));
+                CHECK(!j_const.contains(jp));
+            }
+
+            {
+                // #5395: same as above, but using the exact reproduction from the issue
+                json::json_pointer const jp("/99999999999999999999");
+                std::string const throw_msg = "[json.exception.out_of_range.404] unresolved reference token '99999999999999999999'";
+
+                CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j[jp] = 1, throw_msg.c_str(), json::out_of_range&);
+                CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j_const[jp] == 1, throw_msg.c_str(), json::out_of_range&);
+                CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j.at(jp) = 1, throw_msg.c_str(), json::out_of_range&);
+                CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j_const.at(jp) == 1, throw_msg.c_str(), json::out_of_range&);
+
+                CHECK(!j.contains(jp));
+                CHECK(!j_const.contains(jp));
+            }
+
+            {
+                // #5395: a reference token that is numerically representable in
+                // unsigned long long but exceeds size_type's max (e.g. ULLONG_MAX
+                // itself on typical 64-bit platforms, where size_type's max equals
+                // ULLONG_MAX) must not make contains() throw either
+                json::json_pointer const jp("/18446744073709551615");
+                std::string const throw_msg = "[json.exception.out_of_range.410] array index 18446744073709551615 exceeds size_type";
+
+                CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j[jp] = 1, throw_msg.c_str(), json::out_of_range&);
+                CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j_const[jp] == 1, throw_msg.c_str(), json::out_of_range&);
+                CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j.at(jp) = 1, throw_msg.c_str(), json::out_of_range&);
+                CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j_const.at(jp) == 1, throw_msg.c_str(), json::out_of_range&);
+
+                CHECK(!j.contains(jp));
+                CHECK(!j_const.contains(jp));
             }
 
             // on some machines, the check below is not constant
@@ -334,6 +372,10 @@ TEST_CASE("JSON pointers")
 
                 CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j[jp] = 1, throw_msg.c_str(), json::out_of_range&);
                 CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j_const[jp] == 1, throw_msg.c_str(), json::out_of_range&);
+
+                // #5395: contains() must not throw for a reference token exceeding size_type's max
+                CHECK(!j.contains(jp));
+                CHECK(!j_const.contains(jp));
             }
 
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