Improve unicode control character detection (#1539)

Cargo.lock

@@ -2453,6 +2453,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "toml",
  "touch",
  "tracing",
+ "unicode-general-category",
  "url",
  "urlencoding",
  "users",
@@ -4782,6 +4783,12 @@ version = "0.3.10"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d54675592c1dbefd78cbd98db9bacd89886e1ca50692a0692baefffdeb92dd58"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-general-category"
+version = "0.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2281c8c1d221438e373249e065ca4989c4c36952c211ff21a0ee91c44a3869e7"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-ident"
 version = "1.0.6"

Cargo.toml

@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ tracing-subscriber = { version = "^0.3.16", features = ["env-filter"] }
 # tracing-forest = { path = "/Users/william/development/tracing-forest/tracing-forest" }
 tracing-forest = { git = "https://github.com/QnnOkabayashi/tracing-forest.git", rev = "77daf8c8abf010b87d45ece2bf656983c6f8cecb" }
 
+unicode-general-category = "0.6.0"
 url = "^2.3.1"
 urlencoding = "2.1.2"
 users = "^0.11.0"

server/lib/Cargo.toml

@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ nonempty = { workspace = true, features = ["serialize"] }
 
 tracing = { workspace = true, features = ["attributes"] }
 
+unicode-general-category.workspace = true
 url = { workspace = true, features = ["serde"] }
 urlencoding.workspace = true
 uuid = { workspace = true, features = ["serde", "v4" ] }

server/lib/src/value.rs

@@ -76,12 +76,6 @@ lazy_static! {
         #[allow(clippy::expect_used)]
         Regex::new("[\n\r\t]").expect("Invalid singleline regex found")
     };
-
-    pub static ref ESCAPES_RE: Regex = {
-        #[allow(clippy::expect_used)]
-        Regex::new(r"\x1b\[([\x30-\x3f]*[\x20-\x2f]*[\x40-\x7e])")
-            .expect("Invalid escapes regex found")
-    };
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialOrd, Ord, Eq, PartialEq, Hash)]
@@ -1701,15 +1695,23 @@ impl Value {
 
     pub(crate) fn validate_str_escapes(s: &str) -> bool {
         // Look for and prevent certain types of string escapes and injections.
-        if !ESCAPES_RE.is_match(s) {
-            true
-        } else {
-            warn!(
-                "value contains invalid escape chars forbidden by \"{}\"",
-                *ESCAPES_RE
-            );
-            false
-        }
+        // Formerly checked with
+        /*
+        pub static ref ESCAPES_RE: Regex = {
+            #[allow(clippy::expect_used)]
+            Regex::new(r"\x1b\[([\x30-\x3f]*[\x20-\x2f]*[\x40-\x7e])")
+                .expect("Invalid escapes regex found")
+        };
+        */
+        use unicode_general_category::{get_general_category, GeneralCategory};
+
+        s.chars().all(|c| match get_general_category(c) {
+            GeneralCategory::Control => {
+                warn!("value contains invalid unicode control character",);
+                false
+            }
+            _ => true,
+        })
     }
 }