feat: drive the client's own walk routine from the hook - #15
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Movement injected as a `walk` packet only moves the character server-side: the client keeps rendering the old position and every packet it originates afterwards carries stale coordinates. It also needs the checksum byte the client computes, which we cannot reproduce. Call the client's own walk routine instead. It updates local state, animates, and builds the packet itself, so what reaches the server is indistinguishable from a real player's movement. Client state is unsynchronised, so every client call is now marshalled onto the client's own thread through a per-frame periodic detour. Packet injection takes that path too — it was calling into the client from the pipe thread — and falls back to a direct call only when the periodic signature fails to resolve. Pointers derived from a signature scan go through a VirtualQuery guard first: a drifted signature raises an SEH access violation that NativeAOT will not surface as a catchable exception, so an unchecked dereference kills the client instead of reporting a stale pattern. Adds WALK / POS / DIAG pipe commands and wires them to the Packets tab. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds client-thread synchronization, runtime bootstrap support, player movement and position commands, diagnostics, safe memory reads, window controls, remote control APIs, a client-control panel, and a headless localhost HTTP CLI. ChangesClient Control
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant HTTPClient
participant ControlServer
participant ClientDriver
participant RemoteAttachmentService
participant PipeServer
participant NosThreadSynchronizer
HTTPClient->>ControlServer: request control operation
ControlServer->>ClientDriver: invoke driver method
ClientDriver->>RemoteAttachmentService: send pipe command
RemoteAttachmentService->>PipeServer: transmit command
PipeServer->>NosThreadSynchronizer: queue client-thread work
NosThreadSynchronizer-->>PipeServer: return control result
PipeServer-->>RemoteAttachmentService: emit reply line
RemoteAttachmentService-->>ClientDriver: resolve control reply
ClientDriver-->>ControlServer: return result
ControlServer-->>HTTPClient: serialize JSON response
Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This change set still carries multiple unresolved risks from earlier in the stack (including a possible client crash from a TLS/heap corruption bug, unauthenticated privileged control endpoints, and possible duplicate command execution), and this round adds a new one: memory-read replies can leak across different pipe clients if a connection drops mid-request. None of the prior concerns were addressed by the files touched here, so the overall risk remains high and several issues should be resolved before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/Hooks.cs`:
- Around line 120-133: The position-read flow around
NosThreadSynchronizer.Invoke must return unavailable when the invocation times
out instead of falling back to PlayerManager.TryGetPosition. Retain the direct
PlayerManager.TryGetPosition fallback only when NosThreadSynchronizer.IsRunning
is false, while preserving the successful synchronized read path that assigns
readId, readX, and readY.
In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/NosThreadSynchronizer.cs`:
- Around line 105-114: Update Invoke in
src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/NosThreadSynchronizer.cs at lines 105-114 to
mark the queued item abandoned when the wait times out, and make the
client-thread dequeue path skip abandoned items. Update the fallback logic in
src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/Hooks.cs at lines 209-214 to run the direct
operation only when no client thread is available, not when queued injection
times out.
In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/PlayerManager.cs`:
- Around line 105-106: Guard `_walkInvoker4` before converting and invoking it
in the four-argument WALK path; when it is `IntPtr.Zero`, return
`NoWalkFunction` instead of making the call. Preserve the existing `walk4`
invocation for valid invoker pointers.
- Around line 97-113: Update PlayerManager.Walk so the
NosThreadSynchronizer.Invoke callback revalidates the manager with TryGetManager
when it executes, rather than using the manager captured before queuing; skip
both native walk calls when no manager is available, while preserving the
existing position and extra-argument handling.
In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/Signatures.cs`:
- Line 57: Make Signatures.Periodic uniquely identify the intended routine by
extending the signature with a stable suffix or exact operand rather than
stopping at 83 C4. Update PatternScanner.Scan or the Hooks.Install path to
reject ambiguous multiple matches, and validate that exactly one match is found
for each supported build before applying the detour.
In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools/Remote/RemoteAttachmentService.cs`:
- Line 103: Update the Walk handling in RemoteAttachmentService to reject
partial optional argument pairs: when exactly one of un0 or un1 is provided,
return false before constructing or sending the WALK command. Preserve the
existing two-argument form when both are absent and the four-argument form when
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Do not fall back to PlayerManager.TryGetPosition after a timed-out invocation. The reachable POS path runs on the pipe reader thread. After a timeout, the queued client-thread read remains pending, while line 131 reads the manager and position fields directly. The frame loop can update those unsynchronized fields during the read, producing a torn or inconsistent position. Return unavailable on timeout. Use the direct fallback only when NosThreadSynchronizer.IsRunning is false because the periodic hook never became usable.
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/Hooks.cs` around lines 120 - 133, The
position-read flow around NosThreadSynchronizer.Invoke must return unavailable
when the invocation times out instead of falling back to
PlayerManager.TryGetPosition. Retain the direct PlayerManager.TryGetPosition
fallback only when NosThreadSynchronizer.IsRunning is false, while preserving
the successful synchronized read path that assigns readId, readX, and readY.
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Invoke returns false while the work is still queued. A timed-out item stays in Pending and runs on a later tick, so callers that treat false as "never ran" execute the operation a second time.
src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/NosThreadSynchronizer.cs#L105-L114: mark the item abandoned when the wait times out, and skip it when the client thread dequeues it.src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/Hooks.cs#L209-L214: run the direct fallback only when no client thread is available, not when the queued injection timed out.
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/NosThreadSynchronizer.cs` around lines 105 -
114, Update Invoke in src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/NosThreadSynchronizer.cs
at lines 105-114 to mark the queued item abandoned when the wait times out, and
make the client-thread dequeue path skip abandoned items. Update the fallback
logic in src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/Hooks.cs at lines 209-214 to run the
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| var walk4 = (delegate* unmanaged[Cdecl]<IntPtr, int, int, int, void>)_walkInvoker4; | ||
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Revalidate the manager when queued work runs. PlayerManager.Walk captures manager before NosThreadSynchronizer.Invoke queues the callback. If the queue delays execution and the character leaves the world before the callback runs, the callback calls the native walk routine with a stale manager. Abandoning timed-out items does not cover this case because the callback can run before the timeout. Resolve the manager inside the callback and skip the walk when it is unavailable.
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/PlayerManager.cs` around lines 97 - 113,
Update PlayerManager.Walk so the NosThreadSynchronizer.Invoke callback
revalidates the manager with TryGetManager when it executes, rather than using
the manager captured before queuing; skip both native walk calls when no manager
is available, while preserving the existing position and extra-argument
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| var walk4 = (delegate* unmanaged[Cdecl]<IntPtr, int, int, int, void>)_walkInvoker4; | ||
| walk4(manager, position, extra.Un0, extra.Un1); |
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Guard _walkInvoker4 before the four-argument call.
BuildRegisterInvoker4 can return IntPtr.Zero when allocation or protection setup fails. A four-argument WALK then invokes address zero and can crash the client. Return NoWalkFunction when _walkInvoker4 is unavailable.
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/PlayerManager.cs` around lines 105 - 106,
Guard `_walkInvoker4` before converting and invoking it in the four-argument
WALK path; when it is `IntPtr.Zero`, return `NoWalkFunction` instead of making
the call. Preserve the existing `walk4` invocation for valid invoker pointers.
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Make Signatures.Periodic unique
PatternScanner.Scan returns the first matching address, and Hooks.Install passes it to Detour.Install. Signatures.Periodic stops at 83 C4, while ?? would only wildcard the imm8 operand. A duplicate prefix can therefore patch an unrelated routine and destabilize or crash the client. Add a stable suffix or exact operand, reject multiple matches, and validate one match per supported build.
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signature with a stable suffix or exact operand rather than stopping at 83 C4.
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| public bool Walk(ushort x, ushort y, int? un0 = null, int? un1 = null) | ||
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Reject partial Walk argument pairs.
IInjectionService.Walk allows callers to provide only un0 or only un1. RemoteAttachmentService then sends the two-argument WALK form, so the provided value is discarded. Return false before building the command when only one value is supplied.
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public bool Walk(ushort x, ushort y, int? un0 = null, int? un1 = null)
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+ if (un0.HasValue != un1.HasValue) return false;
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools/Remote/RemoteAttachmentService.cs` at line 103,
Update the Walk handling in RemoteAttachmentService to reject partial optional
argument pairs: when exactly one of un0 or un1 is provided, return false before
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Testing a server change meant clicking through the GUI: sign in, pick a process, attach, log in, select a character, then read a reply box. That is the slow half of the loop and none of it needs a human. NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli holds the pipe session open and exposes it over localhost HTTP, so the whole sequence runs from the command line: POST /launch auth against NosCore, start the patched client POST /attach inject the hook, open the pipe POST /inject raw packet injection (drives character select) GET /diag resolved signatures, tick count, in-world state GET /pos live character id and coordinates POST /walk movement through the client's own routine GET /packets captured traffic, cursor-paged GET /log hook status lines Command replies arrive on the pipe as unsolicited lines, so the driver registers a waiter before sending and turns each into an awaitable result rather than making callers poll the log. Also adds PEEK and SCANPLAYER to the hook. Both are for recovering a struct offset when a borrowed one does not fit the build in front of you, which is what happens with the player object: manager+0x20 is null on this client, so position reads report unavailable instead of crashing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Calling the walk routine with no character in the world killed the client outright. The manager pointer is non-null from the moment the client builds its game scene, which is well before any character exists, so "manager resolved" was never enough to make the call safe — at that point the player slot is null and the id reads -1, and the routine dereferences the player. Gate movement and position reads on the player object instead, and report player/player-id in DIAG so the distinction is visible before anything is called. The same walk that previously crashed the client now returns no-character-loaded and leaves it running. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/ClientDriver.cs`:
- Around line 39-41: Update the packet buffering logic around _packets and
PacketBufferCap to track a monotonic packet sequence plus the sequence number of
the first retained packet, rather than deriving Packets.Next solely from the
current list count. Advance the sequence on each insertion and adjust the cursor
when RemoveRange evicts packets, so callers using since=20000 continue receiving
later packets.
- Around line 209-212: Update the timeout branch in the method containing
Task.WhenAny to remove the timed-out waiter from _waiters while holding _gate
before throwing TimeoutException. Keep the waiter removal scoped to the matching
waiter instance so late replies cannot resolve stale state or interfere with
subsequent requests.
- Around line 103-105: Update the NosCoreAuthClient usage in the authentication
flow to prevent request and response bodies from being passed to Note, ensuring
passwords and authentication tokens never appear in status logs or the /log
endpoint. Preserve the existing authentication result handling and success
status message.
In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/ControlServer.cs`:
- Around line 108-110: Update the coordinate handling in the walk request flow
before calling _driver.WalkAsync: validate that both x and y are within the
ushort range, rejecting negative values and values above 65,535, then perform
the conversions only after validation.
- Around line 54-62: Update HandleAsync to authenticate the control-server
request before ReadBodyAsync or path-based dispatch, using an unpredictable
bearer token or OS-authenticated IPC mechanism; reject unauthenticated callers
without processing commands, while preserving existing handling for
authenticated requests.
In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/PipeServer.cs`:
- Line 246: Restrict the /peek command at both its HTTP handler and named-pipe
command registration before it can call PlayerManager.Peek. Require explicit
caller authentication/authorization and configure or validate named-pipe access
so unauthorized clients cannot invoke raw client-memory reads; preserve the
existing read behavior only for authorized callers.
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Preserve an absolute packet cursor after eviction.
When _packets reaches PacketBufferCap, each insertion removes one old packet. The count then remains 20,000. Packets returns that count as Next, so a caller with since=20000 never receives later packets.
Track a monotonic packet sequence and the sequence of the first retained packet.
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/ClientDriver.cs` around lines 39 - 41, Update
the packet buffering logic around _packets and PacketBufferCap to track a
monotonic packet sequence plus the sequence number of the first retained packet,
rather than deriving Packets.Next solely from the current list count. Advance
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| using var auth = new NosCoreAuthClient(serverUrl, message => Note($"auth: {message}")); | ||
| var result = await auth.AuthenticateAsync(username, password, gfLang, locale, null, ct); | ||
| Note($"auth ok, code={result.AuthCode}"); |
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Sensitive Data Exposure
Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
Do not store authentication payloads in status logs.
NosCoreAuthClient logs request and response bodies through Note. The request body includes the password, and the response body includes authentication tokens. The local /log endpoint exposes these status lines.
Disable authentication body logging or redact credentials before calling Note.
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/ClientDriver.cs` around lines 103 - 105,
Update the NosCoreAuthClient usage in the authentication flow to prevent request
and response bodies from being passed to Note, ensuring passwords and
authentication tokens never appear in status logs or the /log endpoint. Preserve
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| var completed = await Task.WhenAny(waiter.Completion.Task, Task.Delay(timeout)); | ||
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Remove a waiter when its request times out.
When Task.Delay completes first, this method throws but leaves waiter in _waiters. A late reply then resolves the stale waiter because Resolve selects the first matching prefix. The next live request can time out even if its reply arrives.
Remove the waiter under _gate before throwing.
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/ClientDriver.cs` around lines 209 - 212,
Update the timeout branch in the method containing Task.WhenAny to remove the
timed-out waiter from _waiters while holding _gate before throwing
TimeoutException. Keep the waiter removal scoped to the matching waiter instance
so late replies cannot resolve stale state or interfere with subsequent
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Authorization Bypass
Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-306 — Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Authenticate control-server requests before dispatch.
Loopback binding does not authenticate local callers. A local process can launch or attach clients, inspect memory, inject packets, or stop the server.
Require an unpredictable bearer token or an OS-authenticated IPC mechanism. Validate the caller before reading or dispatching the command.
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/ControlServer.cs` around lines 54 - 62, Update
HandleAsync to authenticate the control-server request before ReadBodyAsync or
path-based dispatch, using an unpredictable bearer token or OS-authenticated IPC
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| var x = Int(body, "x") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("walk requires 'x'."); | ||
| var y = Int(body, "y") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("walk requires 'y'."); | ||
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Reject coordinates outside the ushort range.
The direct casts wrap negative values and values above 65,535. For example, x=-1 becomes 65535, so the client receives a different destination from the request.
Validate both coordinates before conversion.
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/ControlServer.cs` around lines 108 - 110,
Update the coordinate handling in the walk request flow before calling
_driver.WalkAsync: validate that both x and y are within the ushort range,
rejecting negative values and values above 65,535, then perform the conversions
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Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Restrict raw client-memory reads to authorized callers.
/peek accepts a caller-selected address without HTTP authentication and forwards it to PlayerManager.Peek, which returns up to 512 bytes from readable client memory. The named pipe also creates this command without explicit access control or caller validation. Add authorization to both entry points before exposing this command from an elevated CLI.
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/peek command at both its HTTP handler and named-pipe command registration
before it can call PlayerManager.Peek. Require explicit caller
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Getting a character in-world was blocked on the server-selection screen, which needs a click before the client ever opens its world connection. Nothing in the driver could see that screen or act on it. Three things were in the way, none of them the game: Attach timing. WaitForClientAsync returned as soon as the process had any window, and the client's first window is a zero-size helper that exists almost immediately — so we injected into a barely-initialised process and killed it. That is what left a trail of window-less clients. Wait for a real game-sized window instead. Window identity. Process.MainWindowHandle names that same zero-size window, not the 1686x1090 'NosTale' one, so every rect and screenshot was of the wrong thing. Pick the largest captioned top-level window the process owns. DPI. The client is DPI-aware and reports physical pixels; this process was not, so on a 150%-scaled display a point read off a screenshot was clicked a few hundred pixels away. Declare per-monitor v2. With those fixed, /screenshot captures the client window alone — PrintWindow first, falling back to a screen grab when an accelerated surface refuses to render into the DC — and /click drives the real cursor, since the client reads the mouse below the window-message layer and never sees a posted WM_LBUTTONDOWN. Both work without the hook attached, which is also how we test whether the hook is at fault. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The client kept dying once it got near the world, and with every detour installed at once there was no way to tell which one did it. _NC_HOOKS in the client's environment now selects which detours to install (send, recv, login-recv, periodic), which is the only configuration available before the hook's own code runs. That bisects it: injecting with no detours is fine, send alone is fine, periodic alone is fine — send and periodic together kill the client after about twenty seconds with nothing driving it. So this is an interaction between the two detours, not a bad signature, and not the recv path that had been the obvious suspect for never capturing anything. Also guard DelphiString.Read. It dereferenced payload-4 inside a try/catch, which reads as safe and is not: an access violation is an SEH fault that NativeAOT will not surface as a catchable exception, so a wrong pointer took the client with it instead of returning null. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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230-235: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftPrevent duplicate packet injection after a synchronization timeout.
NosThreadSynchronizer.Invokereturnsfalseboth when no tick is available and when the queued callback times out. On timeout, the callback remains queued.InjectViaInvokerthen callsCallInvokerdirectly, so the queued callback can call it again later. Distinguish these outcomes before using the direct fallback, or cancel the queued callback on timeout.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/ClientDriver.cs`:
- Around line 177-178: Update the methods around Expect, RequestWindow, and
RequestClick in ClientDriver.cs to remove the registered WINDOW waiter before
throwing when RequestWindow returns false, and remove the registered CLICK
waiter before throwing when RequestClick returns false; apply the cleanup at
both specified sites so failed sends do not leave stale waiters.
In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/Input.cs`:
- Around line 54-65: Update Input.Click to check the return values of
GetCursorPos, SetForegroundWindow, and SetCursorPos, aborting before mouse_event
when any setup operation fails. Restore the previous cursor position only when
GetCursorPos succeeds.
In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/Screenshot.cs`:
- Line 70: Update the directory creation logic in Screenshot so an empty result
from Path.GetDirectoryName(path) is treated like null and replaced with the
current-directory fallback before calling Directory.CreateDirectory; preserve
existing behavior for paths that include a directory.
In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/ClientWindow.cs`:
- Around line 165-168: Update the mode == "post" path in ClientWindow.Click so
it no longer reports a successful click for posted window messages; remove this
client mode or return an explicit unsupported result instead of posting
WM_MOUSEMOVE, WM_LBUTTONDOWN, and WM_LBUTTONUP and returning "clicked x,y".
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/Hooks.cs`:
- Around line 230-235: Update InjectViaInvoker and NosThreadSynchronizer.Invoke
handling so a timed-out queued callback cannot later invoke CallInvoker after
the direct fallback runs. Distinguish “no tick available” from “callback timed
out,” or cancel the queued callback on timeout, while preserving the direct
fallback only for the no-tick case.
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| var waiter = Expect("WINDOW"); | ||
| if (!_injection.RequestWindow(mode)) throw new InvalidOperationException("Not attached."); |
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A waiter stays registered when the send fails. Both new methods call Expect before the send and then throw without removing the waiter. Resolve matches the first waiter with the prefix, so a later real reply resolves the dead waiter and the next request of the same kind times out.
src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/ClientDriver.cs#L177-L178: remove theWINDOWwaiter before throwing whenRequestWindowreturns false.src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/ClientDriver.cs#L236-L237: remove theCLICKwaiter before throwing whenRequestClickreturns false.
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/ClientDriver.cs` around lines 177 - 178,
Update the methods around Expect, RequestWindow, and RequestClick in
ClientDriver.cs to remove the registered WINDOW waiter before throwing when
RequestWindow returns false, and remove the registered CLICK waiter before
throwing when RequestClick returns false; apply the cleanup at both specified
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| SetCursorPos(point.X, point.Y); | ||
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| mouse_event(MouseEventLeftUp, 0, 0, 0, IntPtr.Zero); |
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The Win32 API functions queried have the following return values and behaviors: SetCursorPos Returns a BOOL [1][2]. It returns a nonzero value if the function succeeds, and zero if it fails [1][3]. Extended error information can be retrieved via GetLastError [1][2]. GetCursorPos Returns a BOOL [4][5]. It returns a nonzero value if the function succeeds, and zero if it fails [4][5]. Extended error information can be retrieved via GetLastError [4]. The current cursor position is retrieved by passing a pointer to a POINT structure, which is then populated with the screen coordinates [4][5]. SetForegroundWindow Returns a BOOL [6][7]. It returns a nonzero value if the window was successfully brought to the foreground, and zero if it was not [6][7]. mouse_event This function is defined to return VOID (it has no return value) [8][9]. Note that Microsoft documentation identifies this function as superseded and recommends using the SendInput function instead [9].
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- 1: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setcursorpos
- 2: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setcursorpos?redirectedfrom=MSDN
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- 6: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setforegroundwindow
- 7: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setforegroundwindow
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- 9: https://learn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-mouse_event
Abort the click when cursor or foreground setup fails.
Input.Click ignores the false results from GetCursorPos, SetForegroundWindow, and SetCursorPos before calling mouse_event. If SetCursorPos fails, the button events can target the current cursor position instead of the requested point. Restore the cursor only when GetCursorPos succeeds.
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/Input.cs` around lines 54 - 65, Update
Input.Click to check the return values of GetCursorPos, SetForegroundWindow, and
SetCursorPos, aborting before mouse_event when any setup operation fails.
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Handle a bare filename in path.
Path.GetDirectoryName returns an empty string, not null, when path holds only a filename. Directory.CreateDirectory("") then throws ArgumentException, so the capture fails. ControlServer.ScreenshotAsync passes query["path"] straight through, so ?path=shot.png reaches this line.
Treat an empty directory the same as null.
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| Directory.CreateDirectory(Path.GetDirectoryName(path) ?? "."); | |
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| Directory.CreateDirectory(string.IsNullOrEmpty(directory) ? "." : directory); |
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Cli/Screenshot.cs` at line 70, Update the
directory creation logic in Screenshot so an empty result from
Path.GetDirectoryName(path) is treated like null and replaced with the
current-directory fallback before calling Directory.CreateDirectory; preserve
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| PostMessageW(window, WmMouseMove, IntPtr.Zero, point); | ||
| PostMessageW(window, WmLButtonDown, (IntPtr)MkLButton, point); | ||
| PostMessageW(window, WmLButtonUp, IntPtr.Zero, point); | ||
| return $"clicked {x},{y}"; |
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Do not report success for ignored posted input.
mode == "post" calls ClientWindow.Click, which posts WM_MOUSEMOVE, WM_LBUTTONDOWN, and WM_LBUTTONUP, then returns "clicked x,y". The client reads mouse input below the window-message layer, so these messages do not perform the click. Remove this mode for the client or return an explicit unsupported result.
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/ClientWindow.cs` around lines 165 - 168,
Update the mode == "post" path in ClientWindow.Click so it no longer reports a
successful click for posted window messages; remove this client mode or return
an explicit unsupported result instead of posting WM_MOUSEMOVE, WM_LBUTTONDOWN,
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Every detour body is a reverse P/Invoke, and the AOT prologue expects a per-thread context in this image's static TLS slot. The loader only fills that slot for threads created after the DLL loads — we inject into a running client, so the threads that matter all predate us. RuntimeBootstrap emits a stub that does what DLL_THREAD_ATTACH would have: allocate the thread's TLS block, seed it from the image template, publish it in the TEB, then run the image's TLS callbacks and entry point. Trampolines call it first and skip the managed hook entirely when it fails, because dropping a packet beats killing the client. Two details are deliberate: the TLS slot is not rewritten afterwards (the callbacks put AOT's own context there, which is what later hook fires look for), and hook arguments now come from the PUSHAD frame rather than live registers, which the bootstrap clobbers. The config comes from the loaded image's own TLS directory, since we arrive via LoadLibrary rather than a manual mapper. _NC_BOOTSTRAP=0 turns the stub off so its effect stays measurable. Note this did not turn out to be the cause of the crashes that prompted it — those were the NosCore server, and the earlier bisect that blamed detour combinations was measuring a 15s failure through a 14s window. With the server restarted, all four detours plus the bootstrap run stable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/RuntimeBootstrap.cs`:
- Around line 229-244: Preserve the newly allocated TLS block pointer across the
GetProcessHeap and HeapAlloc calls in the foreign-thread initialization path by
moving it into the already-saved, otherwise-unused EBX register before those
calls. Update the subsequent static TLS slot store around failTlsArrayAlloc to
use EBX rather than the volatile EDX value, while leaving the existing
allocation and failure flow unchanged.
- Around line 245-246: Update Build to validate that rawDataSize plus
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The TLS block pointer in EDX is destroyed by the HeapAlloc call, so the TLS slot receives garbage.
Line 215 moves the new TLS block pointer into EDX. Line 244 stores EDX into the thread's static TLS slot. Between them, lines 229-235 call GetProcessHeap and HeapAlloc. EAX, ECX, and EDX are volatile under stdcall, so EDX does not survive those calls.
This path runs whenever FS:[0x2C] is null, which is the foreign-thread case this stub exists for. The slot then holds a leftover value from inside HeapAlloc. The AOT reverse P/Invoke prologue dereferences it on the next hook fire and takes the client down — the exact failure the file is written to prevent. The stub still returns 1, so the trampoline does not skip the hook.
Keep the block pointer in a callee-saved register across the allocation. EBX is already pushed at line 186 and is otherwise unused.
🐛 Proposed fix: hold the block pointer in EBX
code.Add(0x89); code.Add(0x00);
AddEax(4);
- code.Add(0x8B); code.Add(0xD0);
+ code.Add(0x8B); code.Add(0xD8); // MOV EBX, EAX (callee-saved)
+ code.Add(0x8B); code.Add(0xD3); // MOV EDX, EBX
if (rawDataSize != 0)
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code.Add(0xC7); code.Add(0x00); U32(staticTlsIndex + 1);
AddEax(8);
code.Add(0x8B); code.Add(0xF0);
code.Add(0x64); code.Add(0x89); code.Add(0x35); U32(TebThreadLocalStoragePointer);
Patch(hasTlsArray, code.Count);
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/RuntimeBootstrap.cs` around lines 229 - 244,
Preserve the newly allocated TLS block pointer across the GetProcessHeap and
HeapAlloc calls in the foreign-thread initialization path by moving it into the
already-saved, otherwise-unused EBX register before those calls. Update the
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| code.Add(0x8D); code.Add(0x72); code.Add(0x08); | ||
| code.Add(0xC7); code.Add(0x46); code.Add(0x30); U32(0xFFFFFFFF); |
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In NativeAOT, the offsets 0x30 and 0x58 (or 0x2c for 32-bit) relate to the Windows Thread Environment Block (TEB) structure used to locate thread-specific data, such as the Thread Local Storage (TLS) array [1]. 1. TEB Offsets: On Windows x64, the gs:[0x30] offset is used to retrieve the TEB address, while gs:[0x58] (or 0x2c for 32-bit) is used to access the ThreadLocalStoragePointer [1][2]. These are fundamental OS-level structures that NativeAOT leverages to implement efficient, inlined access to thread-static variables [2][3]. 2. TLS Implementation: NativeAOT optimizes thread-static access by inlining the lookup of the TLS base. Instead of calling a runtime helper, it directly accesses the TLS array via the TEB [2][3]. The pattern typically involves: - Reading the TEB to get the thread's TLS array [2]. - Using a stored TLS index to fetch the specific storage block for the module [2][3]. - Adding a static offset to this base to reach the desired thread-static variable [2][3]. 3. The constant 0xFFFFFFFF (often defined as WAIT_FAILED or a termination marker) is frequently used in NativeAOT internal runtime code for error signaling or as a sentinel value in structures like stack unwinding markers or event pipe identifiers [4][5][6]. 4. RuntimeBootstrap: This refers to the early initialization phase of the NativeAOT runtime. It involves setting up the Platform Abstraction Layer (PAL), garbage collector (GC), and internal thread structures before managed code can execute [7][4]. The TLS and TEB structures must be correctly initialized or accessible for the runtime to function, particularly for thread-static support [8][2]. In summary, the values 0x30 and 0x58/0x2c are standard Windows TEB offsets used for low-level thread storage access, 0xFFFFFFFF is a common sentinel/error value, and these components are integrated during the RuntimeBootstrap process to support the managed execution environment [1][2][4][6].
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- 1: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/bbdd508a/src/coreclr/nativeaot/Runtime/Pal.h
- 2: GitHub pull request 89472 in dotnet/runtime (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 3: GitHub pull request 104282 in dotnet/runtime (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 4: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/03b78171/src/coreclr/nativeaot/Runtime/unix/PalUnix.cpp
- 5: GitHub issue 119856 in dotnet/runtime (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 6: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/bbdd508a/src/coreclr/nativeaot/Runtime/eventpipe/ep-rt-aot.cpp
- 7: GitHub issue 95257 in dotnet/runtime (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 8: GitHub pull request 87148 in dotnet/runtime (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
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Bound the TLS block before emitting the stub.
HeapAlloc reserves blockSize + 4 bytes for the free-base header, then EDX advances by four bytes. The usable TLS block is therefore blockSize bytes. The emitted instructions write a dword at [EDX+0x38]. When rawDataSize + zeroFillSize < 0x3C, this write exceeds the usable block and can corrupt adjacent heap memory. Reject the bootstrap in Build with tls-block-too-small before calling Emit.
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/RuntimeBootstrap.cs` around lines 245 - 246,
Update Build to validate that rawDataSize plus zeroFillSize is at least 0x3C
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The walk routine takes four arguments, not two. Called with two, the
callee still pops the stack argument nobody pushed, so the client
emitted a walk to its own position and then died on the corrupted
stack. Passing all four moves the character and leaves the client
running; the invoker restores ESP from EBP, so the call shape is safe
to get wrong.
Verified against the server's own record: POS read 49,132 matching the
character row exactly, then walking to 53,135 and 45,128 each landed
on target, with the client emitting the intermediate steps itself
("walk 52 134 0 11", "walk 53 135 0 11") — checksum included, which is
the whole reason for driving the client's routine instead of sending
the packet ourselves.
Two bugs made this look broken for a long time. Command replies shared
the queue with captured traffic, and in-world that queue runs thousands
of packets deep, so answers arrived tens of seconds after the question
and every command appeared to time out; replies now have their own
queue and are written first. And clicks were computed from the window
rect without checking the screen: the window is taller than the
desktop, so lower controls mapped past the bottom edge, SetCursorPos
clamped, and the click silently landed on whatever else was there.
Window lookup also no longer reads captions. GetWindowTextW sends
WM_GETTEXT, and asking from the pipe thread blocks until the client's
UI thread is free — precisely when we want to look. Match on the
window class instead.
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In `@src/NosCore.DeveloperTools.Hook/PipeServer.cs`:
- Line 40: Update the pipe reply queue used by HandlePeek to associate each
queued reply with the originating pipe connection. When sending responses,
dequeue only replies matching the active connection, and when that connection
closes, remove its pending replies so a later client cannot receive stale
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Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Bind queued replies to the pipe connection.
If a client sends PEEK and disconnects before HandlePeek completes, Hooks.Replies can retain the untagged reply. The next client can receive that memory-read output.
Store a connection identifier with each queued reply. Send only replies for the active connection, and remove that connection’s pending replies when it closes.
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reply queue used by HandlePeek to associate each queued reply with the
originating pipe connection. When sending responses, dequeue only replies
matching the active connection, and when that connection closes, remove its
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Records the endpoint surface, the two unnamed walk arguments and why a wrong guess is safe, the hook-selection flag and what it is for, and the two non-obvious constraints: the driver must be elevated because UIPI drops window calls and input from lower integrity, and clicks have to drive the real cursor because the client never sees posted mouse messages.
SetForegroundWindow is refused when the calling process does not own the foreground, so the client stayed behind whatever was maximised — and injected input goes to whatever is topmost at that point, not to the window we aimed at. Clicks were landing in the editor. Setting the window topmost is not subject to that restriction; the window drops back to normal ordering afterwards so it does not sit over the desktop permanently. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Logging in was the last step still driven by synthetic mouse clicks,
because the client opens no world socket until the channel button is
pressed. Traced it with a debugger: breakpoint ws2_32 connect, click
once, read the stack. The return address led back into the client, and
walking up the call stack reached
0x4EACDC call 0x004DAB80
with the Delphi register convention — EAX the connection object, EDX
the host as a Delphi string, ECX the port. The worker it tail-calls
writes CX straight into the sockaddr, which is what pins the argument
order down. Scanning for the routine's prologue independently resolves
to the same address, so the signature is sound rather than a
hard-coded address.
The routine is detoured to record the connection object as the client
connects normally, and CONNECT <host> <port> calls it back.
Two things this turned up. The default six-byte detour splits this
prologue: it is push ebx / push esi / push edi / mov edi,ecx — exactly
five — followed by the two-byte mov esi,edx. Taking six left an
orphaned operand byte, the routine failed, and the client retried it
thousands of times a second. Five bytes is the clean boundary, and the
retry count drops from 1024-in-20-seconds to 1.
And the call demonstrably works, but not yet for the world: the object
captured at startup is the login connection, so calling it re-runs the
login handshake rather than connecting to a channel. Distinguishing the
two needs the port, which means forwarding ECX through the detour.
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The original goal was a local MCP to launch and control the NosTale client so it can be driven programmatically; so far the driver only spoke HTTP. Add an --mcp mode that runs the same ClientDriver behind an MCP stdio server (official ModelContextProtocol SDK), so an MCP host like Claude Code gets first-class tools instead of curl. Tools: launch, attach, status, position, walk, click, screenshot, inject, packets, packet_cursor, and wait_for_packet. The last is new — the assertion primitive a test loop needs: act, then block until the client's provoked packet matches a regex, instead of sleeping. One process holds one persistent driver so the hook session and launched client survive across tool calls. Logs go to stderr so stdout stays a clean MCP transport. HTTP mode is unchanged and still the default. Must run elevated (injection): start the MCP host itself as admin so this child inherits elevation without a UAC prompt that would break the stdio pipe. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds client control (movement + state reads) to the hook, driven through the client's own routines instead of synthetic packets.
Why not just inject a
walkpacketTwo reasons:
walkpacket moves the character server-side only. The client keeps rendering the old position, and every packet it originates afterwards carries stale coordinates.Calling the client's own walk routine solves both — it updates local state, animates, and builds the packet itself, so what reaches the server is indistinguishable from a real player's movement.
Thread affinity
The client keeps its game state under no synchronisation, because only one thread was ever meant to touch it. A per-frame periodic detour now provides a tick, and every client call is marshalled onto it.
Packet injection takes the same path — it was calling into the client straight from the pipe thread, which raced the frame loop. It falls back to a direct call if the periodic signature fails to resolve, so injection keeps working on a client patch that drifts it.
Crash safety
Pointers derived from a signature scan go through a
VirtualQueryguard before dereferencing. A drifted signature resolves to a plausible-looking but wrong pointer, and the resulting SEH access violation is not something NativeAOT surfaces as a catchable exception — so an unchecked read kills the client instead of reporting a stale pattern.Surface
New pipe commands, wired to a control bar on the Packets tab:
WALK <x> <y>WALKRESULT ok/not-in-world/walk-signature-not-found/client-thread-unavailablePOSPOS <id> <x> <y>orPOS unavailableDIAGWALKalso accepts a four-argument form (WALK x y <a> <b>) so the alternate call shape can be tried against a live client without rebuilding the DLL. The thunk restores ESP from EBP rather than popping, so a wrong argument-count guess is a no-op instead of a crash.Testing
Builds clean. Not yet exercised against a live client — that's the next step, against a local NosCore server.
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