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First cut of the .NET 10 launcher, replacing NosCoreLegend/Launcher (Electron/React, to be archived).

The interesting part: the Gameforge pipe is gone

Most of the old launcher's ~990 lines existed to impersonate Gameforge's launcher. It hosted a JSON-RPC server on \.\pipe\GameforgeClientJSONRPC answering ClientLibrary.initSession / .queryAuthorizationCode / .queryGameAccountName / .isClientRunning, complete with a TNT-Installation-Id read out of HKCU\Software\Gameforge4d\TNTClient\MainApp and a spoofed User-Agent: TNTClientMS2/1.3.39, so the client's genuine gameforge_client_api.dll chain would be satisfied. You had to supply Gameforge's DLL yourself and point the launcher at it.

NosCore.DeveloperTools already made that unnecessary by replacing gf_wrapper.dll outright with a NativeAOT stub. So: no pipe, no RPC handlers, no Gameforge binary to locate. The auth code travels in _NC_AUTH_CODE and the stub returns it when the client asks for its session ticket.

Auth, the PE patches and the stub all come from NosCore.ClientTools (NosCoreIO/NosCore.DeveloperTools#18).

Two deliberate departures

  • Passwords go to Windows Credential Manager, under NosCore.Launcher:<username>. The old launcher wrote them as cleartext JSON into the user profile via electron-store. Credential Manager is encrypted, scoped to the Windows account, and — unlike a DPAPI blob in our own file — somewhere the user can actually see and revoke it.
  • The source client is never modified. The old launcher read NostaleClientX.exe, regex-replaced the IP, and wrote NosCore.exe. We patch a fresh copy from the pristine exe on every launch, because PatchServerAddress locates the address slot by Delphi AnsiString shape — a second pass over an already-patched binary is not a no-op. The settings dialog refuses a patched filename equal to the source.

Also replaced: the old byte-regex IP patch (a /\d{2,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}/g sweep over the file read as a "binary" string) with ClientPatcher.PatchServerAddress.

Config parity

Hosted launcher.json, shape-compatible with the old one so an existing hosted file still works: title, description, Links, News, Ads, Auth.Url/Auth.Port, LoginServerIp, plus a new optional BackgroundUrl. Last good fetch is cached to %LocalAppData% — the launcher has to open when the config host is down, so the cache is a real fallback, not an optimisation. Ads rotate every 7s with a dot strip; empty maps collapse rather than leaving empty frames.

Shape

Models/      LauncherConfig, UserSettings
Services/    LauncherConfigService (fetch + cache), UserSettingsService,
             CredentialStore (CredWrite/CredRead), GameLauncher (auth -> patch -> start)
ViewModels/  MainViewModel (CommunityToolkit.Mvvm)
Views/       LoginDialog, SettingsDialog, converters

MainViewModel holds no Window reference — the view supplies dialogs through two delegates.

AnyCPU, unlike DeveloperTools: the launcher only spawns the client, never shares its address space, so it carries none of the injector's 32-bit constraint. The stub is x86 but travels as prebuilt bytes inside the package.

Verified

dotnet build clean, 0 warnings with TreatWarningsAsErrors. Launched the exe and confirmed the window renders and survives startup — XAML resource and binding errors are runtime, not compile-time, so a green build alone proves nothing here.

Not yet exercised against a live server: the auth round-trip and a real client launch. That needs a running NosCore plus a NostaleClientX.exe.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a Windows desktop launcher for signing in and starting NosTale.
    • Added configurable server branding, links, news, advertisements, backgrounds, and status messages.
    • Added account sign-in with optional MFA, remember-me support, and secure credential storage.
    • Added settings for client location, region, locale, patched executable name, and configuration URL.
    • Added cached configuration loading, game client preparation, patching, and launch support.
    • Added streamlined launcher, login, and settings interfaces.
  • Documentation

    • Added setup, usage, configuration, publishing, and MIT licensing guidance.

Replaces the Electron/React launcher in NosCoreLegend/Launcher. That app
existed largely to impersonate the Gameforge launcher over a JSON-RPC named
pipe so the client's real gameforge_client_api.dll chain would be satisfied;
NosCore.DeveloperTools made that obsolete by replacing gf_wrapper.dll
outright, so the pipe, the RPC handlers and the Gameforge DLL dependency are
all gone. Auth, the PE patches and the stub come from NosCore.ClientTools.

Two departures from the app it replaces. Passwords go to Windows Credential
Manager rather than cleartext JSON in the user profile. And the source client
is never written to: each launch patches a fresh copy, because the address
slot is located by binary shape, so a second pass over an already-patched
binary is not a no-op.

Full config parity — hosted launcher.json with branding, links, news and a
rotating ads panel, cached so the launcher still opens when the host is down.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • README.md
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  • src/NosCore.Launcher/Models/LauncherConfig.cs
  • src/NosCore.Launcher/Theme.xaml
  • src/NosCore.Launcher/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs
  • src/NosCore.Launcher/Views/DarkTitleBar.cs
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The change adds a Windows WPF launcher with shared build configuration, remote configuration and caching, local settings and credential storage, sign-in, client patching, game launch, and themed launcher views.

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NosCore Launcher

Layer / File(s) Summary
Project foundation and launcher contracts
.gitignore, Directory.Build.props, Directory.Packages.props, LICENSE, NosCore.Launcher.slnx, NuGet.config, README.md, launcher.json, src/NosCore.Launcher/NosCore.Launcher.csproj, src/NosCore.Launcher/Models/*
The project adds shared compiler and package settings, a WPF project and solution, server configuration, launcher documentation, resource registration, and models for launcher configuration and user settings.
Persistence, configuration, and game launch services
src/NosCore.Launcher/Services/*
The services persist settings, store passwords with Windows Credential Manager, validate and cache remote configuration by source URL, and prepare and start the patched game client.
Launcher state and execution orchestration
src/NosCore.Launcher/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs
MainViewModel loads launcher content, sanitizes hosted URLs, manages advertisements and account state, stores credentials, opens dialogs, and launches the game.
WPF application and dialogs
src/NosCore.Launcher/App.xaml, src/NosCore.Launcher/App.xaml.cs, src/NosCore.Launcher/MainWindow.xaml, src/NosCore.Launcher/MainWindow.xaml.cs, src/NosCore.Launcher/Theme.xaml, src/NosCore.Launcher/Views/*
The WPF application wires the view model, defines the theme and converters, renders the main launcher window, and provides login and settings dialogs with input validation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MainWindow
  participant MainViewModel
  participant LauncherConfigService
  participant CredentialStore
  participant GameLauncher
  MainWindow->>MainViewModel: InitialiseAsync
  MainViewModel->>LauncherConfigService: LoadAsync
  LauncherConfigService-->>MainViewModel: launcher configuration
  MainViewModel->>CredentialStore: Load remembered credential
  MainViewModel->>GameLauncher: LaunchAsync after sign-in
  GameLauncher-->>MainViewModel: started game process
  MainViewModel-->>MainWindow: updated status and launcher state
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Sign-out can be undone after restart, saved passwords can remain unexpectedly, and some offline configurations can be mismatched. Clean builds also remain blocked until the launcher dependency is published, so these issues should be resolved before merge.

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In `@NuGet.config`:
- Around line 4-5: Provide a repository-supported restore source for the
NosCore.ClientTools package version 0.0.1 referenced by NosCore.Launcher.csproj:
add the package to a tracked local/internal feed and configure that feed in
NuGet.config, or publish version 0.0.1 to an available configured source. Ensure
restore succeeds with the existing source-clearing behavior and without relying
on optional NOSCORE_LOCAL_PACKAGES configuration.

In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/MainWindow.xaml`:
- Around line 6-7: Update the MainWindow declaration to allow resizing and
constrain its initial Width and Height to the available
SystemParameters.WorkArea dimensions, preserving access to the close, Play, and
status controls on smaller scaled displays.
- Line 21: Validate configured image URLs as absolute HTTPS URIs before
assigning either BackgroundUrl or AdItem.ImageUrl, and reject all other schemes
including file and UNC paths. Apply the validation at the shared
configuration-to-image assignment boundary so both Image.Source bindings only
receive approved HTTPS values.

In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/Services/CredentialStore.cs`:
- Line 65: Update the credential deletion flow around CredDeleteW in Delete:
check its return value, ignore ERROR_NOT_FOUND, and throw an exception
containing Marshal.GetLastWin32Error() for other failures before reporting
“Signed out.”

In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/Services/LauncherConfigService.cs`:
- Line 43: Update the cache-writing flow around _cachePath to write the
serialized configuration to a temporary file first, then move the fully written
temporary file over _cachePath atomically. Ensure cancellation or write failures
leave the existing last-good cache intact, and clean up the temporary file as
appropriate.
- Line 28: Update the cache handling in LauncherConfigService so each entry is
associated with the normalized ConfigUrl origin; when loading cached
configuration, reject and bypass entries whose stored origin differs from the
requested URI, preventing Auth and LoginServerIp from crossing servers while
preserving valid same-origin cache reuse.
- Around line 68-69: Update Parse in LauncherConfigService to validate the
deserialized LauncherConfig’s required Links, News, Ads, and Auth members before
caching it; reject invalid null values or normalize them to the established
defaults, ensuring InitialiseAsync and GameLauncher receive safe collections and
Auth.BaseAddress.
- Line 41: Validate configUrl before the _http.GetStringAsync call, requiring an
absolute URI whose scheme is HTTPS. Reject invalid or non-HTTPS URLs before
deserializing the response into LauncherConfig.

In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs`:
- Line 170: Validate the navigation target before calling Process.Start: parse
url as an absolute URI and allow only the http and https schemes, rejecting all
other values. Apply this guard in the MainViewModel navigation flow while
preserving ProcessStartInfo’s UseShellExecute behavior for accepted URLs.

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  • src/NosCore.Launcher/Services/LauncherConfigService.cs
  • src/NosCore.Launcher/Services/UserSettingsService.cs
  • src/NosCore.Launcher/Theme.xaml
  • src/NosCore.Launcher/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs
  • src/NosCore.Launcher/Views/Converters.cs
  • src/NosCore.Launcher/Views/LoginDialog.xaml
  • src/NosCore.Launcher/Views/LoginDialog.xaml.cs
  • src/NosCore.Launcher/Views/SettingsDialog.xaml
  • src/NosCore.Launcher/Views/SettingsDialog.xaml.cs

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

config = ET.parse("NuGet.config").getroot()
sources = [
    node.attrib["value"]
    for node in config.findall("./packageSources/add")
]
versions = ET.parse("Directory.Packages.props").getroot()
client_tools = [
    node.attrib.get("Version")
    for node in versions.findall(".//PackageVersion")
    if node.attrib.get("Include") == "NosCore.ClientTools"
]

print(f"Configured sources: {sources}")
print(f"NosCore.ClientTools versions: {client_tools}")

if sources == ["https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json"] and client_tools:
    raise SystemExit(
        "NosCore.ClientTools has no repository-configured local or internal restore source."
    )
PY

Repository: NosCoreIO/NosCore.Launcher

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printf '%s\n' '--- tracked files related to package restore ---'
git ls-files | rg '(^|/)(NuGet\.config|Directory\.Packages\.props|Directory\.Build[^/]*|.*\.(csproj|props|targets|sln|md|nupkg))$' | head -200

printf '%s\n' '--- references and source declarations ---'
rg -n -C 3 --hidden -g '!**/.git/**' 'NosCore\.ClientTools|packageSources|RestoreSources|RestoreAdditionalProjectSources|PackageReference|nupkg|local feed|internal feed|NuGet' .

printf '%s\n' '--- NuGet.config ---'
cat -n NuGet.config

printf '%s\n' '--- Directory.Packages.props ---'
cat -n Directory.Packages.props

Repository: NosCoreIO/NosCore.Launcher

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- local package source hook ---'
cat -n Directory.Build.props | sed -n '1,30p'

printf '%s\n' '--- build and package-source documentation ---'
rg -n -C 4 'NOSCORE_LOCAL_PACKAGES|dotnet restore|dotnet build|local package|NuGet|ClientTools' README.md

printf '%s\n' '--- NuGet availability ---'
status="$(curl -L -sS -o /tmp/noscore-clienttools-index.json -w '%{http_code}' \
  https://api.nuget.org/v3-flatcontainer/noscore.clienttools/index.json || true)"
printf 'HTTP status: %s\n' "$status"
if [ -s /tmp/noscore-clienttools-index.json ]; then
  cat /tmp/noscore-clienttools-index.json
else
  printf '%s\n' 'No response body'
fi

Repository: NosCoreIO/NosCore.Launcher

Length of output: 3006


Provide a restore source for NosCore.ClientTools.

NosCore.Launcher.csproj references NosCore.ClientTools version 0.0.1. NuGet.config clears inherited sources and leaves only nuget.org, where this version is unavailable. NOSCORE_LOCAL_PACKAGES adds a source only when explicitly configured, and no package artifact is tracked. Add the package to a repository-supported local or internal feed, configure that source, or publish version 0.0.1 before merge.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@NuGet.config` around lines 4 - 5, Provide a repository-supported restore
source for the NosCore.ClientTools package version 0.0.1 referenced by
NosCore.Launcher.csproj: add the package to a tracked local/internal feed and
configure that feed in NuGet.config, or publish version 0.0.1 to an available
configured source. Ensure restore succeeds with the existing source-clearing
behavior and without relying on optional NOSCORE_LOCAL_PACKAGES configuration.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Allow the window to fit the available work area.

A 960 by 680 non-resizable window is clipped when display scaling produces a smaller work area. Users can then lose access to the close, Play, or status controls.

Constrain the initial dimensions to SystemParameters.WorkArea and permit resizing.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/MainWindow.xaml` around lines 6 - 7, Update the
MainWindow declaration to allow resizing and constrain its initial Width and
Height to the available SystemParameters.WorkArea dimensions, preserving access
to the close, Play, and status controls on smaller scaled displays.

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<Grid>
<!-- Remote background sits over the gradient, so a missing or slow
image degrades to the theme instead of a blank window. -->
<Image Source="{Binding BackgroundUrl}" Stretch="UniformToFill" Opacity="0.55" />

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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ast-grep outline src/NosCore.Launcher/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs --view expanded
rg -n -C 5 \
  'BackgroundUrl|ImageUrl|new AdItem|Uri\.TryCreate|UriSchemeHttps|https' \
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Repository: NosCoreIO/NosCore.Launcher

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🌐 Web query:

According to official Microsoft documentation for .NET 10 WPF and Windows, can WPF Image.Source resolve UNC or file URIs, and can accessing a UNC path initiate SMB authentication?

💡 Result:

Yes, WPF's Image.Source can resolve UNC file URIs (e.g., \Server\Share\image.jpg), as the underlying BitmapImage class processes these as absolute file paths [1][2][3]. Regarding SMB authentication, accessing a UNC path through WPF can trigger SMB authentication [4][5]. Because WPF utilizes standard Windows file system APIs (such as FileWebRequest or native system calls) to resolve these paths, the operating system attempts to authenticate the request using the credentials of the user account currently running the application process [4][6]. If the target share is not accessible via the current user's security token, the access attempt may fail (e.g., with a "Logon failure" or "Access denied" error) [5]. Technical considerations: 1. Automatic Handshake: If the server challenges the request, the application may automatically attempt to use the current user's default credentials (NTLM/Kerberos/Negotiate) [4]. 2. Authentication Context: If the application needs to access a share requiring different credentials, it is often necessary to establish the connection explicitly—for example, by using the Windows API function WNetUseConnection (or equivalent) to map the necessary credentials to the server before the WPF control attempts to load the resource [6]. 3. Path Handling: While WPF generally handles UNC paths correctly, ensure that paths are passed as absolute URIs to avoid issues with relative resolution, particularly if the application context affects base URI resolution [3][7][8].

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printf '%s\n' '--- MainViewModel relevant flow ---'
sed -n '80,115p' src/NosCore.Launcher/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs

printf '%s\n' '--- config loading and image model definitions ---'
rg -n -C 6 'class LauncherConfigService|LoadAsync|BackgroundUrl|class Ad|record Ad|Img' src/NosCore.Launcher/Services src/NosCore.Launcher/Models src/NosCore.Launcher/ViewModels

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🌐 Web query:

site:learn.microsoft.com WPF Image Source BitmapImage URI UNC file URI Windows SMB authentication

💡 Result:

In WPF, the BitmapImage control uses the underlying Windows imaging infrastructure and does not natively support providing custom credentials (such as username/password) for accessing UNC file paths [1][2][3]. When you set the UriSource of a BitmapImage to a UNC path, the application attempts to access the file using the security context of the user running the process [4]. If that user does not have permission to access the remote share, the image will fail to load [4]. To work around this limitation, you must establish an authenticated connection to the remote share at the operating system level before the WPF control attempts to load the image. Common approaches include: 1. Persistent Network Mapping: You can use the Windows net use command to map the share to a drive letter or create a persistent connection with explicit credentials, which the Windows OS will then use when the application accesses that path [5][6]. This can be executed via the Process class in C#: Process.Start("net.exe", "use \\server\share password /USER:domain\username"); 2. Programmatic Authentication (Windows API): For more robust, non-persistent, or per-session handling, you can use the Windows Networking (WNet) API to establish a connection programmatically. Functions such as WNetAddConnection2 or WNetAddConnection3 allow you to supply credentials to a specific network resource [7]. This approach avoids permanent drive mapping and provides better control over the lifecycle of the connection. 3. Stream-based Loading: If you are unable to establish a system-wide authentication context, an alternative is to manually authenticate to the share using a library or API that supports it (such as a managed SMB client library), open the file as a Stream, and then use the BitmapImage.StreamSource property to load the image [8][2][9]. This bypasses the need for the WPF framework to handle the file system access directly. Note that modern Windows environments typically require NTLMv2 or Kerberos authentication and may block legacy protocols like SMB1 [7]. Ensure that the target server and the client machine are configured to support the same SMB protocol versions and that both share and NTFS permissions are correctly configured for the user account being used [7].

Citations:


Sensitive Data Exposure

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Restrict configured image sources to HTTPS URIs.

Hosted configuration values reach both Image.Source bindings without scheme validation. Reject non-HTTPS URIs before assigning BackgroundUrl or AdItem.ImageUrl. UNC or file: URIs can access local or remote resources and may trigger SMB authentication with the process identity.

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In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/MainWindow.xaml` at line 21, Validate configured image
URLs as absolute HTTPS URIs before assigning either BackgroundUrl or
AdItem.ImageUrl, and reject all other schemes including file and UNC paths.
Apply the validation at the shared configuration-to-image assignment boundary so
both Image.Source bindings only receive approved HTTPS values.

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public static void Delete(string username)
{
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(username)) return;
CredDeleteW(TargetName(username), CredentialType.Generic, 0);

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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🌐 Web query:

Microsoft Learn CredDeleteW return value ERROR_NOT_FOUND behavior

💡 Result:

The CredDeleteW function, which deletes a credential from the user's credential set, returns FALSE when it fails [1][2]. When this failure occurs, the GetLastError function can be used to retrieve a more specific status code to determine the cause of the error [1][2]. If the function returns the ERROR_NOT_FOUND error code (value 1168), it explicitly indicates that no credential exists matching the specified TargetName [1][2]. In this context, the function behaves as expected by signaling that the requested deletion operation could not be completed because the target credential could not be located in the credential management database [1][2].

Citations:


Sensitive Data Exposure

Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-459

Handle CredDeleteW failures correctly.

If CredDeleteW returns false, ignore ERROR_NOT_FOUND because Delete also runs when Remember is disabled and no credential exists. Throw an exception with Marshal.GetLastWin32Error() for other errors before reporting "Signed out.".

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In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/Services/CredentialStore.cs` at line 65, Update the
credential deletion flow around CredDeleteW in Delete: check its return value,
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Security Misconfiguration

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-319 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Require an absolute HTTPS URL for hosted configuration.

Validate configUrl before calling GetStringAsync. The response is deserialized into trusted LauncherConfig data and can control authentication URLs, LoginServerIp, and launcher links.

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In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/Services/LauncherConfigService.cs` at line 41, Validate
configUrl before the _http.GetStringAsync call, requiring an absolute URI whose
scheme is HTTPS. Reject invalid or non-HTTPS URLs before deserializing the
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Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-73

Allow only HTTP and HTTPS navigation targets.

The hosted configuration reaches Process.Start with UseShellExecute=true. Parse an absolute URI and reject every scheme except http and https before starting the process.

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In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs` at line 170, Validate the
navigation target before calling Process.Start: parse url as an absolute URI and
allow only the http and https schemes, rejecting all other values. Apply this
guard in the MainViewModel navigation flow while preserving ProcessStartInfo’s
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The first cut invented a new dark-panel aesthetic and left the background as a
remote URL only, so with no config URL set it opened on a bare gradient and
looked nothing like the launcher it replaces. Ships the original artwork as
the floor under an optional hosted background, and ports the palette and
layout from the old LESS: light grey text outlined against the photo, black
washes at 40/60 percent, a 300px pipe-separated nav box, a 250px square PLAY
button, and 350px news and ads columns.

WPF has no text-shadow, so the four-way black outline the original drew on
every glyph becomes a zero-depth drop shadow, which keeps text legible over
arbitrary artwork for the same reason.

Also addresses the review on the hosted config, all of which turns on the same
fact: launcher.json is attacker-controlled from our point of view, and its
strings reached two dangerous sinks unchecked. Process.Start with
UseShellExecute hands any registered protocol handler its argument, and
Image.Source resolves file: and UNC sources — the latter meaning an outbound
SMB handshake carrying the user's credentials. UrlPolicy now gates both to
absolute http(s) at the boundary.

Alongside that: the cache records which URL produced it, so repointing at
another server cannot be answered by the previous server's Auth and
LoginServerIp; the cache is written temp-then-move, since truncating it before
the new bytes land destroys the offline fallback it exists for; explicit nulls
in the JSON are normalised, because they overwrite property initialisers and
would throw on first use; CredDeleteW failures no longer report a clean sign
out; and the window shrinks to the work area rather than pushing PLAY off a
scaled display.

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Pushed 1b5d4fd. Eight of the nine findings are addressed; one is deferred with a reason.

Fixed

  • MainViewModel.cs:170 (CWE-73, shell-execute) and MainWindow.xaml:21 (CWE-200, image sources) — same root cause, one fix: a new UrlPolicy gates every URL out of the hosted config to absolute http or https, applied at the boundary in InitialiseAsync and again in OpenUrl. The Image.Source one was the better catch of the two — a UNC source really would trigger an outbound SMB handshake with the process identity.
  • LauncherConfigService.cs:28 — the cache now records the URL that produced it and is only served back for that same URL. Repointing at another server can no longer be answered by the previous server's Auth and LoginServerIp.
  • LauncherConfigService.cs:41configUrl is validated before the request. Deliberately http or https rather than https-only: self-hosted servers and localhost testing routinely have no certificate, and rejecting them would make the launcher unusable against a dev NosCore. A bad URL now returns a specific error instead of silently falling through to the cache.
  • LauncherConfigService.cs:43 — temp file then move.
  • LauncherConfigService.cs:69 — explicit nulls normalised. Confirmed real: "Links": null overwrites the property initialiser, so InitialiseAsync would have thrown on the Where, and "Auth": null on config.Auth.BaseAddress.
  • CredentialStore.cs:65Delete returns whether the credential is actually gone, treating ERROR_NOT_FOUND as success because it also runs on sign-in with Remember unticked. A real failure now says so instead of reporting a clean sign out.
  • MainWindow.xaml:7 — the window shrinks to SystemParameters.WorkArea. Kept non-resizable rather than making it resizable: it is a fixed-composition launcher over a background photo, and the actual harm flagged — losing access to PLAY and the status strip — is solved by the clamp.

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erwan-joly and others added 2 commits September 12, 2026 18:06
They were Segoe MDL2 Assets codepoints, and E13D is not a glyph in that font,
so the account button rendered as tofu. Depending on the font at all was the
real mistake — it is not guaranteed installed, and a missing glyph fails
silently as a box rather than falling back to anything legible.

Drawn as Path geometry now. Each fills from its button's Foreground, so hover
and the signed-in trigger still drive the icon colour.

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Restoring the original look rewrote Theme.xaml and dropped the FieldLabel
style, which both dialogs still referenced. An unresolved StaticResource
throws XamlParseException while the window is being constructed, so opening
either one took the process down — Settings was just the one reached first.

Adds FieldLabel back, plus a DialogError style for the two validation
messages that were carrying an inline colour. Dialog text now uses DialogText
rather than Body: Body carries the drop-shadow outline meant to keep text
legible over the background photo, which on a flat dialog panel only reads as
a smudge.

Verified by driving both buttons through UI Automation and confirming the
process survives and a second window appears.

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Sensitive Data Exposure

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-459

Handle deletion failure when Remember is false.

When CredentialStore.Delete returns false, the password can remain in Credential Manager. Preserve the result and warn the user instead of clearing Status.

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+        var credentialDeleteFailed = false;
         if (credentials.Remember)
         {
             CredentialStore.Save(credentials.Username, credentials.Password);
         }
         else
         {
-            CredentialStore.Delete(credentials.Username);
+            credentialDeleteFailed = !CredentialStore.Delete(credentials.Username);
         }
         _settingsService.Save(Settings);

         _pendingPassword = credentials.Password;
         _pendingMfa = credentials.Mfa;
         IsSignedIn = true;
-        Status = string.Empty;
+        Status = credentialDeleteFailed
+            ? "Signed in, but the saved password could not be removed from Credential Manager."
+            : string.Empty;
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In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs` at line 266, Update the
deletion flow around CredentialStore.Delete to preserve its boolean result when
Remember is false; if deletion fails, warn the user and do not clear Status,
while retaining the existing success behavior when deletion succeeds.
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In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/Services/LauncherConfigService.cs`:
- Line 70: Update the SourceUrl comparison in LoadAsync to use
StringComparison.Ordinal so path and query casing remain distinct when
validating cached entries. Add a test covering URLs that differ only by path or
query case and verify the cache does not return the wrong configuration.

In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs`:
- Line 191: Update the sign-out flow around MainViewModel and
CredentialStore.Delete(Username) to set Settings.RememberMe to false and persist
Settings after deletion, regardless of whether deletion returns true or false.
If saving Settings fails, report that the signed-out state could not be
persisted.

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In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs`:
- Line 266: Update the deletion flow around CredentialStore.Delete to preserve
its boolean result when Remember is false; if deletion fails, warn the user and
do not clear Status, while retaining the existing success behavior when deletion
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if (ReadCache() is { } cached && string.Equals(cached.SourceUrl, configUrl, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))

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printf '%s\n' '--- URL policy bindings ---'
rg -n -C 4 'class UrlPolicy|static class UrlPolicy|TryParse\(|SourceUrl|ReadCache|WriteCacheAsync|LoadAsync' src/NosCore.Launcher
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Preserve path and query case in the cache key.

LoadAsync stores the raw configUrl in CacheEntry.SourceUrl. If the fetch fails, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase can match a cached URL that differs only in path or query case and return the wrong configuration. Use StringComparison.Ordinal, and add a test for case-distinct path and query URLs.

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In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/Services/LauncherConfigService.cs` at line 70, Update
the SourceUrl comparison in LoadAsync to use StringComparison.Ordinal so path
and query casing remain distinct when validating cached entries. Add a test
covering URLs that differ only by path or query case and verify the cache does
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{
if (IsSignedIn)
{
var cleared = CredentialStore.Delete(Username);

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Broken Authentication

Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-613 — Insufficient Session Expiration

Persist the signed-out state. If CredentialStore.Delete(Username) returns false, the credential can remain stored. Set Settings.RememberMe to false and save Settings during sign-out. If saving fails, report that the signed-out state could not be persisted.

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In `@src/NosCore.Launcher/ViewModels/MainViewModel.cs` at line 191, Update the
sign-out flow around MainViewModel and CredentialStore.Delete(Username) to set
Settings.RememberMe to false and persist Settings after deletion, regardless of
whether deletion returns true or false. If saving Settings fails, report that
the signed-out state could not be persisted.

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The bundled background was official NosTale artwork lifted from the launcher
this replaces. It is Gameforge's, and a public repo under our name cannot
redistribute it — I raised that when adding it and then set it aside to match
the original look, which was the wrong call.

Replaced with a backdrop drawn entirely in XAML: gradient sky, moon and glow,
three layered ridge silhouettes and a vignette. Original work, nothing to
license, no binary in the tree, and it scales cleanly when the window clamps
to a smaller work area. Operators who own artwork still override the whole
thing with BackgroundUrl.

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Four things visible in the running app.

The built-in auth endpoint said https://localhost while LoginServerIp already
said 127.0.0.1 — two spellings of the same intent in one default. Both are
127.0.0.1 now, so the launcher signs in against a local NosCore with nothing
configured, and the status line says which address it is using rather than
reporting the unset config URL as a problem. It is not one: no config URL is
the local-development case.

The title bar repeated the heading, so the server name appeared twice. The bar
keeps only the window controls; the heading carries the name, as the original
did with a logo there.

The Region dropdown rendered as a white box with near-invisible text. A WPF
ComboBox paints from system theme brushes and ignores Background and
Foreground setters, so it needed a replacement template rather than a setter.
Its items got one too, otherwise the popup stays light.

The dialogs keep system chrome — a modal wants a real close button — which
left a light title bar over a dark body. DWM draws it dark now.

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