Rewrites SPEC.md and README.md to the owner's rulings. The seven resolutions on #6 stand where their topics live; the questions section is gone. Issues 2 to 5 are folded in: the new ban model, state files that hold a copy of all state and take in edits while running (bans.json written within 10 seconds of a ban change, the rest every 15 minutes, all at shutdown), ban notes and per-client history, and size and time limits in both directions. The defaults follow #7, and #8 adds the country lists. GeoJS is the default lookup source (#11, #9 (comment)), and the sidecar has one listener (#10 (comment)). EVALUATION.md is untouched.
Prettier rewrapped both files throughout, so most of the diff is line wrapping.
Adopted choices
Clear sign of attack: any further request during the seven days makes the ban permanent; after it runs out the netblock is served again, and its next clear sign of attack is banned permanently at once.
Broken limit: repeats triple the ban ("escalate quickly"); "a short time" after a ban is 24 hours; past seven days a ban is permanent, the sixth in a row.
A limit ban sets the client's counters back to zero, so the requests that broke a limit cannot break one again once the ban ends.
Byte limits and error bursts ban like request limits. A Core Rule Set match or a block rule refuses only that request, because of false positives, but counts toward the error burst.
A ban covers the client: its IPv4 address, wider if BAN_SCOPE_V4_PREFIX says so, or its IPV6_GROUP_PREFIX group, a /64 by default.
When every address in X-Forwarded-For is inside TRUSTED_PROXIES, the leftmost is the client, so a visitor on a private network is not counted as traefik; with no header, the TCP peer is the client.
A ban an admin lifts does not count toward a longer one.
A RULES_DIR that does not exist stops the start; an empty directory or RULES_ENABLED=false runs without rule files.
Rule actions are log, block (refuse, no ban) and ban; TRAP_PATHS bans. The WordPress rule moved from the default file to a gitea example, since it would ban WordPress logins.
Default ban rules match paths anchored at the site root, so a .env.example or shell.php inside a gitea repository is not a probe. The default rule file bans there the common probes for secrets, version control directories, backups and logs, most of which 930130 and 920440 refused anywhere in a path before the default switched them off: .env, .git/, .svn/, .hg/ and .bzr/; .aws/, .ssh/, .docker/ and .kube/; .htpasswd, .htaccess, .npmrc, .netrc, .pgpass, .git-credentials, .bash_history and .DS_Store; .vscode/ and .idea/; PHP and SQL backups such as wp-config.php.bak and backup.sql; debug.log, error.log and access.log; docker-compose.yml.
Files are watched with fsnotify. A valid edit replaces what the sidecar held for that file. An edit that does not parse is renamed .bad and the file rewritten from memory. At start any unparseable state file stops the start.
bans.json is written 10 seconds after a ban is made, lifted or made permanent; count-only changes and the other files every 15 minutes; all at shutdown. A hard kill loses at most those spans.
MAX_BANS (5000) bounds the bans the sidecar makes, about 10 MiB: when full, the one that has gone longest without a request goes first, permanent ones included, and a scanner dropped that way is banned again by its next probe. Bans an admin makes (cause admin) are never dropped and do not count toward it, so they cannot fill it; an admin keeps a ban the sidecar made by setting its cause to admin. CrowdSec decisions become bans only when a listed client visits.
The lookup database is read again when replaced; NAME_FILE settings are read once at start.
counters.json becomes clients.json, one client per line with its history; offences.json goes. MAX_TRACKED_CLIENTS drops to 20000: about 20 MiB and under 2 GiB of disk writes a day.
Anomaly counters, alert cooldowns, the hourly count and waiting alerts go to a new alerts.json; the AbuseIPDB checks spent today to reputation.json. Lines waiting for the remote log endpoint are the one thing kept only in memory, since stdout has carried them.
Ban notes keep up to the last ten requests that caused the ban, query string included, each text cut to 256 bytes.
No reverse DNS host name in ban notes: the restatement on #4 reads "the name" as the AS name, which usually tells an admin what a host name would, without a query per ban.
New alert event file_error, on by default: an edit that does not parse, a lookup database replacement that cannot be read, a failed state write.
App-facing size and time limits default to the client-facing values. An upgraded WebSocket leaves the limits behind.
CLIENT_REQUEST_HEADER_MAX_BYTES is 32K, answered with 431; CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT is 120 seconds, above traefik's 90, so traefik closes an unused connection first.
Rate limits: 1000 a minute, 10000 an hour, 50000 a day. Byte limits: 10G, 20G, 50G, above the 5 GiB largest response. An Actions runner can pass the day limit (one older than 0.4 after about an hour and a quarter of jobs), so the gitea notes put runners in RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS rather than raising the day limit for everyone.
K, M and G in sizes are powers of 1024, as the 32 KiB header limit already read; the text says 100 MiB and 5 GiB.
off switches any limit off; an empty list replaces a default.
With no volume mounted, state goes to the /data volume the image declares.
One listener, per sneak on #10: ADMIN_LISTEN_ADDR, METRICS_LISTEN_ADDR, METRICS_PATH and METRICS_ENABLED go. The sidecar answers its own endpoints under /_smallwebwaf/, a prefix carrying its name so that no app path is taken, and never forwards them to the app.
/_smallwebwaf/healthz answers ok to anyone, without a token and before any check, so no health checker needs an exemption; it does not ask the app.
The ban endpoints and /_smallwebwaf/clients/<ip> need ADMIN_TOKEN, the metrics METRICS_TOKEN; each answers 404 while its token is unset, since it would otherwise be open to the internet. A set token shorter than 32 characters stops the start. Editing bans.json still manages bans without a token.
Apart from health, these requests go through every check other requests do. A missing or wrong token gets 401, in observe mode too, and counts toward the error burst, so token guessing is banned. They are logged with the new action admin.
INSTANCE_NAME defaults to the host name in UPSTREAM_URL.
Anomaly thresholds stay unset: they only alert, need a destination, and depend on each service's normal traffic.
No reputation source, country list or biased threshold by default: each acts on where a client comes from or on what a list kept elsewhere says of it, while the defaults judge a client by what it does to the service. AbuseIPDB and CrowdSec also need an account or engine; Spamhaus requires automated downloads of DROP to be at least an hour apart, and several sidecars on one host, each fetching its own copy from the same address, would often break that. BLOCKLIST_REFRESH is 24 hours, which Spamhaus says is enough in most cases.
ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD (30 a minute) counts only requests the sidecar refused after a rule file or Core Rule Set match, or for a missing or wrong token, so a client trying one attack or token after another is banned. The app's own answers are not counted: gitea answers registry and package clients 404 by design, often hundreds of times a minute, which no threshold tells from a scanner. What the defaults catch instead: the default rule file bans a scanner's first probe at the site root for secrets, version control directories, backups, logs or web shells, and its known user agents; the Core Rule Set refuses injection, traversal and other attacks in URLs and headers; the request limits stop a fast scanner.
Flagged default: BLOCKLIST_ACTION is now deny, since a blocklist names networks with nothing legitimate to send. REPUTATION_ACTION keeps limit:25, since DNSBL and API verdicts are less certain.
The spec names the Core Rule Set 4.25.0, as github.com/corazawaf/coraza-coreruleset/v4 at v4.25.0 ships it; the fixed changes and the default WAF_DISABLED_RULES are built for that version and checked again before it changes.
Fixed changes, keeping the rest of each rule: PUT, PATCH and DELETE are allowed methods. Expect comes off the refused headers, and so does Content-Encoding on a request whose body the Core Rule Set does not read, which by default is every request; on a body it reads, that header stays refused. The redirect_uri parameter is left out of 931100 and 934110: Git Credential Manager, git-credential-oauth and tea, built into gitea, sign in with a redirect to http://127.0.0.1, which the server never fetches. The query parameters in which gitea sends file paths, branch and workflow names and sign-in redirects (path, files, skip-to, sub_path, ref, sha, branch, workflow, artifactName, redirect_to) are left out of 930120, 932160 and 932260, whose lists hold ordinary repository names such as .gitignore, package.json and docker-compose.yml; diffs, pull request review, the file tree, sign-in redirects and the API's calls for a file and its commits pass for names on those lists, and searches keep all three rules. The Core Rule Set reads requests without the gitea_flash and redirect_to cookies, in which gitea names the file, branch, title or page concerned and where one refusal would keep a browser out of the site; Referer is left out of 932340 and 944110, which refused everything a page loaded after a one-word search such as env, and on OpenJDK's java.base pages that name Runtime.
By default the Core Rule Set reads each request's method, URL, query string and headers, and no body (WAF_BODY_LIMIT defaults to off): a code forge's bodies carry issue and comment text, wiki pages, edited files and package descriptions full of shell commands and code, which it takes for attacks (932125, 932235, 932250, 922130 and others). The default keeps refusing automated attacks in URLs and headers and gives up refusing attacks carried in bodies. Setting WAF_BODY_LIMIT reads form, multipart, JSON and XML bodies up to that size; the spec names what that then refuses in front of gitea. Responses are not inspected, since raw repository files look like leaks to the response rules.
WAF_DISABLED_RULES defaults to 920340, 920420, 920440, 920640, 930130 and 930140, which refuse by body type, file extension, and file and directory names that a code forge serves as content. The name lists have no setting to trim them, and in a repository any name on them can be ordinary. 932180, which refuses by the name of an uploaded file, leaves the default: with no body read it rarely acts, and an app that switches body inspection on keeps it.
Still refused at the defaults, and named in the gitea notes: a query string the Core Rule Set reads as an attack, such as a search for package.json, python3, ls -la, /bin/sh, fetch( or a command in backticks, a release attachment uploaded through the API under such a name, and a few file paths. Only that request is refused, no one is banned for it by itself, and the log names the rule. Artifact uploads from actions/upload-artifact@v3 send Content-Range and are refused (920450); v4 passes. Uploads past 100 MiB or 60 seconds, LFS objects, image layers, packages and release attachments alike, get 413 or 408 and ban no one.
No shared budget per AS number either, for the same reason as per country.
upaas shape: the sidecar must be able to reach the app's hostname, for example over a shared docker network.
Log actions: bytes_limited goes; rule_blocked, too_large, timed_out, country_denied and admin are added.
Country lists: sneak named the list EXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIES and wrote that it "blocks all geoip countries except these" (#8), so only clients placed in a listed country get through. It refuses clients the lookup cannot place and stays closed while GeoJS fails; that includes private addresses, which are never sent to GeoJS, so local clients need ALLOW_NETS. The check sits right after the lookup, before reputation, limits, rule files and the Core Rule Set; ALLOW_NETS still bypasses it.
Both country lists may be set; a code on both stops the start, since which was meant is unclear.
Country codes match in either case (us,de and CN:25 alike); nk stops the start, North Korea being kp.
LOOKUP_SOURCE is geojs (default, per sneak at #9 (comment)), file or off. LOOKUP_DB_PATH with anything but file, the default included, or file without it, stops the start, and so does a setting that needs lookups while it is off.
Every new visitor's address is looked up, whether or not a setting uses the country, since the request log, the metrics, the client's history and ban notes carry it; the README says plainly that GeoJS then receives it. A request waits for the answer only when a country list, a biased threshold or ADD_LOOKUP_HEADERS needs it; otherwise the answer is added to the history and ban notes when it comes.
GeoJS answers are kept for 7 days in their own lookups.json, apart from the table of clients, up to 100,000 (about 15 MiB); when full, the answer used longest ago goes first.
LOOKUP_TIMEOUT is 1 second: a request that needs a new client's answer waits at most that. One request to GeoJS is under way at a time and carries up to 200 of the addresses waiting, the rest going in the requests after it. An answer without country_code, which GeoJS sends for ranges it cannot place, counts as unknown.
GeoJS slow, down or blocking: kept answers still serve, new clients are unknown, one source_failure alert per cooldown, retries with backoff.
Unverified against a live gitea: the Core Rule Set's effects come from Coraza 3.7.0 and the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 on requests modelled on gitea 1.27.3's source and its clients.
Judgement call: the parameter change holds in front of every app, so one that passes those parameters to its files or a shell loses the three rules there; searches keep them, since switching them off would open every app to those attacks.
Judgement call: the two gitea cookies are kept from the whole Core Rule Set, not only from 930120, 932160 and 932260, since its Java, script, PowerShell and database-name rules also refuse ordinary names in them, such as Runtime.java under java.base, document.write.js, Get-ChildItem.ps1 or northwind.sql; in front of every app, a cookie of either name gets no Core Rule Set check.
Judgement call: no DNS blocklist by default, though sneak's GeoJS ruling favours defaults that work with no setup; DroneBL is free and keyless.
No make fmt exists yet; prettier 3.9.6 formatted both files in Docker.
Rewrites `SPEC.md` and `README.md` to the owner's rulings. The seven resolutions on https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/6 stand where their topics live; the questions section is gone. Issues 2 to 5 are folded in: the new ban model, state files that hold a copy of all state and take in edits while running (`bans.json` written within 10 seconds of a ban change, the rest every 15 minutes, all at shutdown), ban notes and per-client history, and size and time limits in both directions. The defaults follow https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/7, and https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/8 adds the country lists. GeoJS is the default lookup source (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/11, https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/9#issuecomment-103086), and the sidecar has one listener (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/10#issuecomment-103275). `EVALUATION.md` is untouched.
Prettier rewrapped both files throughout, so most of the diff is line wrapping.
## Adopted choices
- Clear sign of attack: any further request during the seven days makes the ban permanent; after it runs out the netblock is served again, and its next clear sign of attack is banned permanently at once.
- Broken limit: repeats triple the ban ("escalate quickly"); "a short time" after a ban is 24 hours; past seven days a ban is permanent, the sixth in a row.
- A limit ban sets the client's counters back to zero, so the requests that broke a limit cannot break one again once the ban ends.
- Byte limits and error bursts ban like request limits. A Core Rule Set match or a `block` rule refuses only that request, because of false positives, but counts toward the error burst.
- A ban covers the client: its IPv4 address, wider if `BAN_SCOPE_V4_PREFIX` says so, or its `IPV6_GROUP_PREFIX` group, a /64 by default.
- When every address in `X-Forwarded-For` is inside `TRUSTED_PROXIES`, the leftmost is the client, so a visitor on a private network is not counted as traefik; with no header, the TCP peer is the client.
- A ban an admin lifts does not count toward a longer one.
- A `RULES_DIR` that does not exist stops the start; an empty directory or `RULES_ENABLED=false` runs without rule files.
- Rule actions are `log`, `block` (refuse, no ban) and `ban`; `TRAP_PATHS` bans. The WordPress rule moved from the default file to a gitea example, since it would ban WordPress logins.
- Default `ban` rules match paths anchored at the site root, so a `.env.example` or `shell.php` inside a gitea repository is not a probe. The default rule file bans there the common probes for secrets, version control directories, backups and logs, most of which 930130 and 920440 refused anywhere in a path before the default switched them off: `.env`, `.git/`, `.svn/`, `.hg/` and `.bzr/`; `.aws/`, `.ssh/`, `.docker/` and `.kube/`; `.htpasswd`, `.htaccess`, `.npmrc`, `.netrc`, `.pgpass`, `.git-credentials`, `.bash_history` and `.DS_Store`; `.vscode/` and `.idea/`; PHP and SQL backups such as `wp-config.php.bak` and `backup.sql`; `debug.log`, `error.log` and `access.log`; `docker-compose.yml`.
- Files are watched with fsnotify. A valid edit replaces what the sidecar held for that file. An edit that does not parse is renamed `.bad` and the file rewritten from memory. At start any unparseable state file stops the start.
- `bans.json` is written 10 seconds after a ban is made, lifted or made permanent; count-only changes and the other files every 15 minutes; all at shutdown. A hard kill loses at most those spans.
- `MAX_BANS` (5000) bounds the bans the sidecar makes, about 10 MiB: when full, the one that has gone longest without a request goes first, permanent ones included, and a scanner dropped that way is banned again by its next probe. Bans an admin makes (cause `admin`) are never dropped and do not count toward it, so they cannot fill it; an admin keeps a ban the sidecar made by setting its cause to `admin`. CrowdSec decisions become bans only when a listed client visits.
- The lookup database is read again when replaced; `NAME_FILE` settings are read once at start.
- `counters.json` becomes `clients.json`, one client per line with its history; `offences.json` goes. `MAX_TRACKED_CLIENTS` drops to 20000: about 20 MiB and under 2 GiB of disk writes a day.
- Anomaly counters, alert cooldowns, the hourly count and waiting alerts go to a new `alerts.json`; the AbuseIPDB checks spent today to `reputation.json`. Lines waiting for the remote log endpoint are the one thing kept only in memory, since stdout has carried them.
- Ban notes keep up to the last ten requests that caused the ban, query string included, each text cut to 256 bytes.
- No reverse DNS host name in ban notes: the restatement on https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/4 reads "the name" as the AS name, which usually tells an admin what a host name would, without a query per ban.
- New alert event `file_error`, on by default: an edit that does not parse, a lookup database replacement that cannot be read, a failed state write.
- App-facing size and time limits default to the client-facing values. An upgraded WebSocket leaves the limits behind.
- `CLIENT_REQUEST_HEADER_MAX_BYTES` is 32K, answered with 431; `CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT` is 120 seconds, above traefik's 90, so traefik closes an unused connection first.
- Rate limits: 1000 a minute, 10000 an hour, 50000 a day. Byte limits: 10G, 20G, 50G, above the 5 GiB largest response. An Actions runner can pass the day limit (one older than 0.4 after about an hour and a quarter of jobs), so the gitea notes put runners in `RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS` rather than raising the day limit for everyone.
- `K`, `M` and `G` in sizes are powers of 1024, as the 32 KiB header limit already read; the text says 100 MiB and 5 GiB.
- `off` switches any limit off; an empty list replaces a default.
- With no volume mounted, state goes to the `/data` volume the image declares.
- One listener, per sneak on https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/10: `ADMIN_LISTEN_ADDR`, `METRICS_LISTEN_ADDR`, `METRICS_PATH` and `METRICS_ENABLED` go. The sidecar answers its own endpoints under `/_smallwebwaf/`, a prefix carrying its name so that no app path is taken, and never forwards them to the app.
- `/_smallwebwaf/healthz` answers `ok` to anyone, without a token and before any check, so no health checker needs an exemption; it does not ask the app.
- The ban endpoints and `/_smallwebwaf/clients/<ip>` need `ADMIN_TOKEN`, the metrics `METRICS_TOKEN`; each answers 404 while its token is unset, since it would otherwise be open to the internet. A set token shorter than 32 characters stops the start. Editing `bans.json` still manages bans without a token.
- Apart from health, these requests go through every check other requests do. A missing or wrong token gets 401, in observe mode too, and counts toward the error burst, so token guessing is banned. They are logged with the new action `admin`.
- `INSTANCE_NAME` defaults to the host name in `UPSTREAM_URL`.
- Anomaly thresholds stay unset: they only alert, need a destination, and depend on each service's normal traffic.
- No reputation source, country list or biased threshold by default: each acts on where a client comes from or on what a list kept elsewhere says of it, while the defaults judge a client by what it does to the service. AbuseIPDB and CrowdSec also need an account or engine; Spamhaus requires automated downloads of DROP to be at least an hour apart, and several sidecars on one host, each fetching its own copy from the same address, would often break that. `BLOCKLIST_REFRESH` is 24 hours, which Spamhaus says is enough in most cases.
- `ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD` (30 a minute) counts only requests the sidecar refused after a rule file or Core Rule Set match, or for a missing or wrong token, so a client trying one attack or token after another is banned. The app's own answers are not counted: gitea answers registry and package clients 404 by design, often hundreds of times a minute, which no threshold tells from a scanner. What the defaults catch instead: the default rule file bans a scanner's first probe at the site root for secrets, version control directories, backups, logs or web shells, and its known user agents; the Core Rule Set refuses injection, traversal and other attacks in URLs and headers; the request limits stop a fast scanner.
- Flagged default: `BLOCKLIST_ACTION` is now `deny`, since a blocklist names networks with nothing legitimate to send. `REPUTATION_ACTION` keeps `limit:25`, since DNSBL and API verdicts are less certain.
- The spec names the Core Rule Set 4.25.0, as `github.com/corazawaf/coraza-coreruleset/v4` at `v4.25.0` ships it; the fixed changes and the default `WAF_DISABLED_RULES` are built for that version and checked again before it changes.
- Fixed changes, keeping the rest of each rule: PUT, PATCH and DELETE are allowed methods. `Expect` comes off the refused headers, and so does `Content-Encoding` on a request whose body the Core Rule Set does not read, which by default is every request; on a body it reads, that header stays refused. The `redirect_uri` parameter is left out of 931100 and 934110: Git Credential Manager, git-credential-oauth and tea, built into gitea, sign in with a redirect to `http://127.0.0.1`, which the server never fetches. The query parameters in which gitea sends file paths, branch and workflow names and sign-in redirects (`path`, `files`, `skip-to`, `sub_path`, `ref`, `sha`, `branch`, `workflow`, `artifactName`, `redirect_to`) are left out of 930120, 932160 and 932260, whose lists hold ordinary repository names such as `.gitignore`, `package.json` and `docker-compose.yml`; diffs, pull request review, the file tree, sign-in redirects and the API's calls for a file and its commits pass for names on those lists, and searches keep all three rules. The Core Rule Set reads requests without the `gitea_flash` and `redirect_to` cookies, in which gitea names the file, branch, title or page concerned and where one refusal would keep a browser out of the site; `Referer` is left out of 932340 and 944110, which refused everything a page loaded after a one-word search such as `env`, and on OpenJDK's `java.base` pages that name `Runtime`.
- By default the Core Rule Set reads each request's method, URL, query string and headers, and no body (`WAF_BODY_LIMIT` defaults to `off`): a code forge's bodies carry issue and comment text, wiki pages, edited files and package descriptions full of shell commands and code, which it takes for attacks (932125, 932235, 932250, 922130 and others). The default keeps refusing automated attacks in URLs and headers and gives up refusing attacks carried in bodies. Setting `WAF_BODY_LIMIT` reads form, multipart, JSON and XML bodies up to that size; the spec names what that then refuses in front of gitea. Responses are not inspected, since raw repository files look like leaks to the response rules.
- `WAF_DISABLED_RULES` defaults to 920340, 920420, 920440, 920640, 930130 and 930140, which refuse by body type, file extension, and file and directory names that a code forge serves as content. The name lists have no setting to trim them, and in a repository any name on them can be ordinary. 932180, which refuses by the name of an uploaded file, leaves the default: with no body read it rarely acts, and an app that switches body inspection on keeps it.
- Still refused at the defaults, and named in the gitea notes: a query string the Core Rule Set reads as an attack, such as a search for `package.json`, `python3`, `ls -la`, `/bin/sh`, `fetch(` or a command in backticks, a release attachment uploaded through the API under such a name, and a few file paths. Only that request is refused, no one is banned for it by itself, and the log names the rule. Artifact uploads from `actions/upload-artifact@v3` send `Content-Range` and are refused (920450); v4 passes. Uploads past 100 MiB or 60 seconds, LFS objects, image layers, packages and release attachments alike, get 413 or 408 and ban no one.
- No shared budget per AS number either, for the same reason as per country.
- upaas shape: the sidecar must be able to reach the app's hostname, for example over a shared docker network.
- Log actions: `bytes_limited` goes; `rule_blocked`, `too_large`, `timed_out`, `country_denied` and `admin` are added.
- Country lists: sneak named the list `EXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIES` and wrote that it "blocks all geoip countries except these" (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/8), so only clients placed in a listed country get through. It refuses clients the lookup cannot place and stays closed while GeoJS fails; that includes private addresses, which are never sent to GeoJS, so local clients need `ALLOW_NETS`. The check sits right after the lookup, before reputation, limits, rule files and the Core Rule Set; `ALLOW_NETS` still bypasses it.
- Both country lists may be set; a code on both stops the start, since which was meant is unclear.
- Country codes match in either case (`us,de` and `CN:25` alike); `nk` stops the start, North Korea being `kp`.
- `LOOKUP_SOURCE` is `geojs` (default, per sneak at https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/9#issuecomment-103086), `file` or `off`. `LOOKUP_DB_PATH` with anything but `file`, the default included, or `file` without it, stops the start, and so does a setting that needs lookups while it is `off`.
- Every new visitor's address is looked up, whether or not a setting uses the country, since the request log, the metrics, the client's history and ban notes carry it; the README says plainly that GeoJS then receives it. A request waits for the answer only when a country list, a biased threshold or `ADD_LOOKUP_HEADERS` needs it; otherwise the answer is added to the history and ban notes when it comes.
- GeoJS answers are kept for 7 days in their own `lookups.json`, apart from the table of clients, up to 100,000 (about 15 MiB); when full, the answer used longest ago goes first.
- `LOOKUP_TIMEOUT` is 1 second: a request that needs a new client's answer waits at most that. One request to GeoJS is under way at a time and carries up to 200 of the addresses waiting, the rest going in the requests after it. An answer without `country_code`, which GeoJS sends for ranges it cannot place, counts as unknown.
- GeoJS slow, down or blocking: kept answers still serve, new clients are unknown, one `source_failure` alert per cooldown, retries with backoff.
## Disclosures
- Sources: IPinfo's licence from https://ipinfo.io/lite; Spamhaus's terms from https://www.spamhaus.org/blocklists/do-not-route-or-peer/; GeoJS and traefik from their documentation and GeoJS test requests; gitea, its runner and upload-artifact v3 from their source.
- Unverified against a live gitea: the Core Rule Set's effects come from Coraza 3.7.0 and the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 on requests modelled on gitea 1.27.3's source and its clients.
- Judgement call: the parameter change holds in front of every app, so one that passes those parameters to its files or a shell loses the three rules there; searches keep them, since switching them off would open every app to those attacks.
- Judgement call: the two gitea cookies are kept from the whole Core Rule Set, not only from 930120, 932160 and 932260, since its Java, script, PowerShell and database-name rules also refuse ordinary names in them, such as `Runtime.java` under `java.base`, `document.write.js`, `Get-ChildItem.ps1` or `northwind.sql`; in front of every app, a cookie of either name gets no Core Rule Set check.
- Judgement call: no DNS blocklist by default, though sneak's GeoJS ruling favours defaults that work with no setup; DroneBL is free and keyless.
- No `make fmt` exists yet; prettier 3.9.6 formatted both files in Docker.
Closes https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/2
Closes https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/3
Closes https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/4
Closes https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/5
Closes https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/6
Closes https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/7
Closes https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/8
Closes https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/11
Model: opus-5-5
Rewrite `SPEC.md` and `README.md` to the owner's rulings. The seven answers
to the spec's questions now stand where their topics live, and the questions
section is gone. Bans follow the owner's model: seven days for a clear sign of
attack and permanent on any further request, an hour for a broken limit,
tripled on a repeat within a day, permanent past seven days. The state files
hold all state, are watched, and take in an admin's edits while running. Every
ban carries notes, and each client's history survives a restart. Size and time
limits apply in both directions. Only `UPSTREAM_URL` is required: the Core Rule
Set refuses what it flags and every limit has a default.
Model: opus-5-5
SPEC.md Rule files (example default file) and Risks; README.md rule example. The env-file and php-shellban rules match anywhere in the path, so in front of gitea, the spec's own example, a visitor or search crawler opening a repository's .env.example or shell.php is banned for seven days, and its next request makes that permanent. This breaks the promise that the default file keeps to requests no real visitor sends, and Risks gives the result as seven days. Acceptable: each default ban rule matches only what no app serves (for example anchored at the site root, like the .git rule), and Risks says a false match turns permanent on the next request.
SPEC.md Persistent state (ban notes, Size) and STATE_WRITE_DELAY. Ban notes keep a count of refused requests up to date while the ban lasts, and any ban change rewrites all of bans.json two seconds later, so the file is rewritten continuously while banned clients keep sending. Permanent bans are never dropped and, under the ban model of #2, most scanners end permanently banned, so the file grows without limit, yet the text says it stays small. Acceptable: updates that only change counts wait for the one-minute write, and the text states how large bans.json grows and why whole-file writes stay cheap at that size, or bounds it.
SPEC.mdERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD (flagged default: more than 30 a minute of 401, 403 and 404). Git sends the first request of every push, and of every fetch from a private repository, without credentials, and gitea answers it with 401; gitea's container registry does the same at the start of every pull. A build server or shared office address doing more than 30 of these a minute is banned, repeated nightly runs end in a permanent ban, and only ALLOW_NETS exempts it. Acceptable: 401 left out of the default count (the PR body's own reason is 404 scanning), or a default such clients cannot reach, with the reasoning in the PR body.
SPEC.md Persistent state, ban notes. "Nothing is looked up to fill them" has no line in the PR body. It rules out the client's host name (reverse DNS), which "the name" in #4 may mean and which often tells an admin whether to lift a ban. The kept requests also leave out the query string, so a ban from a query or uri rule does not show what matched. Acceptable: the host name is looked up in the background when the ban is made, or leaving it out is weighed in the PR body; the kept requests include the query string.
SPEC.md Persistent state, opening paragraph. The files are said to hold all state, as #2 asks, but none holds the AbuseIPDB checks spent today, the anomaly counters per netblock, AS number and whole service, or the alert cooldowns and hourly count. A restart resets them, and the daily budget can then pass the free tier's 1000. Acceptable: each is kept in a state file.
SPEC.md Data flow and Bans, first paragraph. A ban covers "its IPv6 /64, and never more, so a permanent ban does not reach neighbours", but IPV6_GROUP_PREFIX sets the IPv6 unit for counting and banning, and BAN_SCOPE_V4_PREFIX bans neighbours. Acceptable: the IPv6 unit is the IPV6_GROUP_PREFIX group (/64 by default), and the claim about neighbours is limited to the defaults.
SPEC.md Alerting. The new alerts for a rule or state file edit that does not parse, and for a lookup database replacement that cannot be read, have no event type among the ALERT_EVENTS values, so the default list never sends them. Acceptable: their event type is named and in the default list.
README.md Lookup database. It says to mount the database file; SPEC.md says to mount the directory that holds it, since docker does not show a single mounted file being replaced, so a README reader's refreshes are never seen. Acceptable: the README says to mount the directory.
Text that #8 contradicts.SPEC.md Data flow, "Unknown is a valid result and changes nothing", would let a client the lookup database cannot place get past EXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIES. SPEC.md Bans, last paragraph, "The result is always a ban", covers listed countries and clients with a poor reputation, but a blocklisted client under the new deny default and a client from a denied country are refused without a ban. Acceptable: both sentences are scoped to fit refusals without a ban, and the text says how the allow-only list treats clients it cannot place.
Disclosures:
Judgement call, not raised: NAME_FILE files are read only at start, though the rule in #2 that edited files are read again can be read to cover them; the owner has this choice as proposal 2 in #10.
Judgement call, not raised: a client banned for passing a day limit is still over it when the ban ends, so its next request bans it again at three times the length; read as the quick escalation #2 asks for.
Model: opus-5-5
**FAIL: needs-rework**
1. **`SPEC.md` Rule files (example default file) and Risks; `README.md` rule example.** The `env-file` and `php-shell` `ban` rules match anywhere in the path, so in front of gitea, the spec's own example, a visitor or search crawler opening a repository's `.env.example` or `shell.php` is banned for seven days, and its next request makes that permanent. This breaks the promise that the default file keeps to requests no real visitor sends, and Risks gives the result as seven days. Acceptable: each default `ban` rule matches only what no app serves (for example anchored at the site root, like the `.git` rule), and Risks says a false match turns permanent on the next request.
2. **`SPEC.md` Persistent state (ban notes, Size) and `STATE_WRITE_DELAY`.** Ban notes keep a count of refused requests up to date while the ban lasts, and any ban change rewrites all of `bans.json` two seconds later, so the file is rewritten continuously while banned clients keep sending. Permanent bans are never dropped and, under the ban model of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/2, most scanners end permanently banned, so the file grows without limit, yet the text says it stays small. Acceptable: updates that only change counts wait for the one-minute write, and the text states how large `bans.json` grows and why whole-file writes stay cheap at that size, or bounds it.
3. **`SPEC.md` `ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD` (flagged default: more than 30 a minute of 401, 403 and 404).** Git sends the first request of every push, and of every fetch from a private repository, without credentials, and gitea answers it with 401; gitea's container registry does the same at the start of every pull. A build server or shared office address doing more than 30 of these a minute is banned, repeated nightly runs end in a permanent ban, and only `ALLOW_NETS` exempts it. Acceptable: 401 left out of the default count (the PR body's own reason is 404 scanning), or a default such clients cannot reach, with the reasoning in the PR body.
4. **`SPEC.md` Persistent state, ban notes.** "Nothing is looked up to fill them" has no line in the PR body. It rules out the client's host name (reverse DNS), which "the name" in https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/4 may mean and which often tells an admin whether to lift a ban. The kept requests also leave out the query string, so a ban from a `query` or `uri` rule does not show what matched. Acceptable: the host name is looked up in the background when the ban is made, or leaving it out is weighed in the PR body; the kept requests include the query string.
5. **`SPEC.md` Persistent state, opening paragraph.** The files are said to hold all state, as https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/2 asks, but none holds the AbuseIPDB checks spent today, the anomaly counters per netblock, AS number and whole service, or the alert cooldowns and hourly count. A restart resets them, and the daily budget can then pass the free tier's 1000. Acceptable: each is kept in a state file.
6. **`SPEC.md` Data flow and Bans, first paragraph.** A ban covers "its IPv6 /64, and never more, so a permanent ban does not reach neighbours", but `IPV6_GROUP_PREFIX` sets the IPv6 unit for counting and banning, and `BAN_SCOPE_V4_PREFIX` bans neighbours. Acceptable: the IPv6 unit is the `IPV6_GROUP_PREFIX` group (/64 by default), and the claim about neighbours is limited to the defaults.
7. **`SPEC.md` Alerting.** The new alerts for a rule or state file edit that does not parse, and for a lookup database replacement that cannot be read, have no event type among the `ALERT_EVENTS` values, so the default list never sends them. Acceptable: their event type is named and in the default list.
8. **`README.md` Lookup database.** It says to mount the database file; `SPEC.md` says to mount the directory that holds it, since docker does not show a single mounted file being replaced, so a README reader's refreshes are never seen. Acceptable: the README says to mount the directory.
9. **Text that https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/8 contradicts.** `SPEC.md` Data flow, "Unknown is a valid result and changes nothing", would let a client the lookup database cannot place get past `EXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIES`. `SPEC.md` Bans, last paragraph, "The result is always a ban", covers listed countries and clients with a poor reputation, but a blocklisted client under the new `deny` default and a client from a denied country are refused without a ban. Acceptable: both sentences are scoped to fit refusals without a ban, and the text says how the allow-only list treats clients it cannot place.
Disclosures:
- Judgement call, not raised: `NAME_FILE` files are read only at start, though the rule in https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/2 that edited files are read again can be read to cover them; the owner has this choice as proposal 2 in https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/10.
- Judgement call, not raised: a client banned for passing a day limit is still over it when the ban ends, so its next request bans it again at three times the length; read as the quick escalation https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/2 asks for.
Model: opus-5-5
Address the review of the spec update and fold in issues 8 and 11.
Default ban rules are anchored at the site root. `bans.json` is bounded
by `MAX_BANS` and rewritten only when a ban is made, lifted or made
permanent. `clients.json` keeps one client per line, holds at most 20000
clients and is written every 15 minutes. Anomaly counters and alert
state go to a new `alerts.json`, the AbuseIPDB count to
`reputation.json`. 401 no longer counts toward the error burst. New
settings: `DENIED_COUNTRIES`, `EXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIES`,
`LOOKUP_SOURCE` (the IPinfo file or GeoJS), `LOOKUP_TIMEOUT`,
`CLIENT_REQUEST_HEADER_MAX_BYTES` and `CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT`.
Model: opus-5-5
1: the default ban rules and the README example are anchored at the site root; Risks says a false match turns permanent on the visitor's next request.
2: count-only changes to bans.json wait for the periodic write; MAX_BANS (5000) bounds the file, and "Persistent state" states its size and write volume.
3: 401 is left out of the error burst count, with the reason in the spec and the PR body.
4: kept requests include the query string; no reverse DNS lookup, weighed in the PR body.
5: anomaly counters, alert cooldowns, the hourly count and waiting alerts are kept in a new alerts.json; the AbuseIPDB count in reputation.json.
6: a ban covers the IPV6_GROUP_PREFIX group, a /64 by default; the claim about neighbours holds only at the defaults.
7: new event type file_error, in the default ALERT_EVENTS.
8: the README says to mount the directory that holds the database.
9: the exclusive country list refuses clients it cannot place; "always a ban" now covers the biased limits only, beside a paragraph on refusals that make no ban.
Addition A: CLIENT_REQUEST_HEADER_MAX_BYTES (32K, answered 431, connection closed) and CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT (120 seconds, then the connection is closed).
Addition B: clients.json keeps one client per line, MAX_TRACKED_CLIENTS is 20000 and the file is written every 15 minutes: about 20 MiB and under 2 GiB of disk writes a day; the hard-kill loss is restated.
#8: DENIED_COUNTRIES and EXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIES are in the spec and the README, with the choices listed in the PR body.
#11: GeoJS is a second lookup source chosen by LOOKUP_SOURCE, with the choices listed in the PR body.
Model: opus-5-5
Rework for https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/9#issuecomment-102731, in 8fc7539:
- 1: the default `ban` rules and the README example are anchored at the site root; Risks says a false match turns permanent on the visitor's next request.
- 2: count-only changes to `bans.json` wait for the periodic write; `MAX_BANS` (5000) bounds the file, and "Persistent state" states its size and write volume.
- 3: 401 is left out of the error burst count, with the reason in the spec and the PR body.
- 4: kept requests include the query string; no reverse DNS lookup, weighed in the PR body.
- 5: anomaly counters, alert cooldowns, the hourly count and waiting alerts are kept in a new `alerts.json`; the AbuseIPDB count in `reputation.json`.
- 6: a ban covers the `IPV6_GROUP_PREFIX` group, a /64 by default; the claim about neighbours holds only at the defaults.
- 7: new event type `file_error`, in the default `ALERT_EVENTS`.
- 8: the README says to mount the directory that holds the database.
- 9: the exclusive country list refuses clients it cannot place; "always a ban" now covers the biased limits only, beside a paragraph on refusals that make no ban.
- Addition A: `CLIENT_REQUEST_HEADER_MAX_BYTES` (32K, answered 431, connection closed) and `CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT` (120 seconds, then the connection is closed).
- Addition B: `clients.json` keeps one client per line, `MAX_TRACKED_CLIENTS` is 20000 and the file is written every 15 minutes: about 20 MiB and under 2 GiB of disk writes a day; the hard-kill loss is restated.
- https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/8: `DENIED_COUNTRIES` and `EXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIES` are in the spec and the README, with the choices listed in the PR body.
- https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/11: GeoJS is a second lookup source chosen by `LOOKUP_SOURCE`, with the choices listed in the PR body.
Model: opus-5-5
SPEC.md Configuration surface (WAF_DISABLED_RULES), Deployment (notes specific to gitea, rollout). With WAF_MODE=block and WAF_PARANOIA_LEVEL 1, three Core Rule Set rules the default list leaves on refuse ordinary traffic. 911100 refuses every PUT, PATCH and DELETE: gitea's API writes, LFS, container and package uploads, and the APIs of most current apps. 930130 refuses any path containing .git/ or files such as .gitignore, .env, Dockerfile and /package.json: gitea's .git clone addresses, and views of those files in any repository. 920450 refuses any request carrying Content-Encoding, which git sends on clone and fetch requests whose body passes 1 KiB. So the claim that the default lets git over HTTP and source file views through is wrong, and the example deployment needs tuning before it works, against point 1 of #7. Acceptable: with only UPSTREAM_URL set, these requests pass; the text says which Core Rule Set rules or settings the defaults change; the gitea notes claim only what holds; the PR body lists the choice.
SPEC.mdERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD (flagged default) and Data flow, after the response. Gitea answers 404 by design when a container push checks each layer it does not hold yet, and to each package lookup a client such as pip makes when gitea's package registry is used as an extra index. A build server pushing a few images or installing its dependencies can pass 30 in a minute and is banned; repeated runs escalate it to a permanent ban, and the text offers no exemption short of ALLOW_NETS. Acceptable: a default that these clients of the example deployment cannot reach in ordinary use, with the reasoning in the PR body.
SPEC.md Data flow, identify the client. With the private ranges trusted by default, a visitor on a private address reaching the app through traefik leaves no address outside TRUSTED_PROXIES in X-Forwarded-For, and a container calling the sidecar directly sends no such header. The text does not say which address is then the client; taken as the TCP peer, every such visitor becomes traefik's address and shares one set of limits and one ban. Acceptable: the text says which address is the client in both cases.
SPEC.md Counting method, Bans (first paragraph), MAX_BANS. When the table is full, a ban an admin added is dropped like any other once its netblock has been quiet longest. The stated reason, that a scanner's next probe bans it again, does not hold for it, so the sidecar silently undoes an admin's decision, against "I don't want the container to overwrite an admin edit" in #2. Since most scanners end permanently banned, the table can fill within weeks on a public service. Acceptable: a ban an admin made is not dropped to make room, the text says what happens when such bans alone fill the table, and the PR body states the choice.
SPEC.md Country lists (EXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIES); README.md Country and AS number lookup. A client on a private address (a visitor on the local network, another container, internal monitoring) has no country in either lookup source, so the exclusive list refuses it. Neither file says so, and the spec does not say whether such addresses are sent to GeoJS. Acceptable: both files say these clients are refused unless listed in ALLOW_NETS, and the spec says whether their addresses go to GeoJS.
SPEC.mdBAN_RESPONSE. It says close tells the client nothing, but the sidecar's peer is traefik, which answers the client with a 5xx when the connection is dropped, as #8 (comment) notes; country refusals use the same setting. Acceptable: the text says what the client receives with close.
SPEC.md Reputation (opening paragraph and BLOCKLIST_URLS); PR body, no reputation source by default. Spamhaus asks that automated downloads of DROP be at least an hour apart, and says once a day is enough; the text says it may be fetched at most once a day. Acceptable: the text states Spamhaus's published terms, and the reason for having no default list rests on them.
Disclosures:
Judgement call, not raised: clients.json, reputation.json, alerts.json and the counts in ban notes are written every 15 minutes, so the files trail memory by up to that; read as the closest fit to #2 that keeps disk writes bounded, since an orderly stop writes everything and a hard kill's loss is stated.
Judgement call, not raised: the exclusive country list refusing clients it cannot place, so a GeoJS outage refuses new visitors, is fit; a list that let them in would open exactly when lookups fail, and both files state the outage case.
Judgement call, not raised: dropping bans the sidecar made when MAX_BANS is full is fit; the dropped netblock has gone quiet, and a returning abuser is banned again by the same rules.
Weighed, not raised: BLOCKLIST_ACTION=deny and REPUTATION_ACTION=limit:25 are fit; no list is on by default, and DNSBL and API verdicts cover shared addresses that a refusal would lock out.
Model: opus-5-5
**FAIL: needs-rework**
1. **`SPEC.md` Configuration surface (`WAF_DISABLED_RULES`), Deployment (notes specific to gitea, rollout).** With `WAF_MODE=block` and `WAF_PARANOIA_LEVEL` 1, three Core Rule Set rules the default list leaves on refuse ordinary traffic. 911100 refuses every `PUT`, `PATCH` and `DELETE`: gitea's API writes, LFS, container and package uploads, and the APIs of most current apps. 930130 refuses any path containing `.git/` or files such as `.gitignore`, `.env`, `Dockerfile` and `/package.json`: gitea's `.git` clone addresses, and views of those files in any repository. 920450 refuses any request carrying `Content-Encoding`, which git sends on clone and fetch requests whose body passes 1 KiB. So the claim that the default lets git over HTTP and source file views through is wrong, and the example deployment needs tuning before it works, against point 1 of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/7. Acceptable: with only `UPSTREAM_URL` set, these requests pass; the text says which Core Rule Set rules or settings the defaults change; the gitea notes claim only what holds; the PR body lists the choice.
2. **`SPEC.md` `ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD` (flagged default) and Data flow, after the response.** Gitea answers 404 by design when a container push checks each layer it does not hold yet, and to each package lookup a client such as pip makes when gitea's package registry is used as an extra index. A build server pushing a few images or installing its dependencies can pass 30 in a minute and is banned; repeated runs escalate it to a permanent ban, and the text offers no exemption short of `ALLOW_NETS`. Acceptable: a default that these clients of the example deployment cannot reach in ordinary use, with the reasoning in the PR body.
3. **`SPEC.md` Data flow, identify the client.** With the private ranges trusted by default, a visitor on a private address reaching the app through traefik leaves no address outside `TRUSTED_PROXIES` in `X-Forwarded-For`, and a container calling the sidecar directly sends no such header. The text does not say which address is then the client; taken as the TCP peer, every such visitor becomes traefik's address and shares one set of limits and one ban. Acceptable: the text says which address is the client in both cases.
4. **`SPEC.md` Counting method, Bans (first paragraph), `MAX_BANS`.** When the table is full, a ban an admin added is dropped like any other once its netblock has been quiet longest. The stated reason, that a scanner's next probe bans it again, does not hold for it, so the sidecar silently undoes an admin's decision, against "I don't want the container to overwrite an admin edit" in https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/2. Since most scanners end permanently banned, the table can fill within weeks on a public service. Acceptable: a ban an admin made is not dropped to make room, the text says what happens when such bans alone fill the table, and the PR body states the choice.
5. **`SPEC.md` Country lists (`EXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIES`); `README.md` Country and AS number lookup.** A client on a private address (a visitor on the local network, another container, internal monitoring) has no country in either lookup source, so the exclusive list refuses it. Neither file says so, and the spec does not say whether such addresses are sent to GeoJS. Acceptable: both files say these clients are refused unless listed in `ALLOW_NETS`, and the spec says whether their addresses go to GeoJS.
6. **`SPEC.md` `BAN_RESPONSE`.** It says `close` tells the client nothing, but the sidecar's peer is traefik, which answers the client with a 5xx when the connection is dropped, as https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/8#issuecomment-102697 notes; country refusals use the same setting. Acceptable: the text says what the client receives with `close`.
7. **`SPEC.md` Reputation (opening paragraph and `BLOCKLIST_URLS`); PR body, no reputation source by default.** Spamhaus asks that automated downloads of DROP be at least an hour apart, and says once a day is enough; the text says it may be fetched at most once a day. Acceptable: the text states Spamhaus's published terms, and the reason for having no default list rests on them.
Disclosures:
- Judgement call, not raised: `clients.json`, `reputation.json`, `alerts.json` and the counts in ban notes are written every 15 minutes, so the files trail memory by up to that; read as the closest fit to https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/2 that keeps disk writes bounded, since an orderly stop writes everything and a hard kill's loss is stated.
- Judgement call, not raised: the exclusive country list refusing clients it cannot place, so a GeoJS outage refuses new visitors, is fit; a list that let them in would open exactly when lookups fail, and both files state the outage case.
- Judgement call, not raised: dropping bans the sidecar made when `MAX_BANS` is full is fit; the dropped netblock has gone quiet, and a returning abuser is banned again by the same rules.
- Weighed, not raised: `BLOCKLIST_ACTION=deny` and `REPUTATION_ACTION=limit:25` are fit; no list is on by default, and DNSBL and API verdicts cover shared addresses that a refusal would lock out.
Model: opus-5-5
Address the second review of the spec update. The Core Rule Set allows
PUT, PATCH and DELETE and the headers git and curl send, inspects only
bodies it can read, leaves responses alone, and by default switches off
the rules that refuse a code forge's ordinary files, uploads and git
traffic. The error burst counts only the sidecar's own refusals. Bans an
admin made are never dropped. A limit ban resets the client's counters.
GeoJS answers move to their own `lookups.json`. The spec now says which
address is the client when every forwarded address is trusted, that the
exclusive country list refuses private addresses, which are never sent to
GeoJS, what `close` gives behind traefik, and Spamhaus's terms for DROP.
Model: opus-5-5
1: PUT, PATCH and DELETE are allowed and Content-Encoding and Expect come off the refused headers, as fixed changes to the Core Rule Set 4.25.0; WAF_DISABLED_RULES adds 920340, 920640, 930130, 930140 and 932180; only bodies the Core Rule Set can read are inspected, since it reads a git push or image layer as form data and refuses it; responses are not inspected; the gitea notes say what passes and what can still trip a rule.
2: the error burst counts only requests the sidecar refused after a rule file or Core Rule Set match; the app's 404s and 403s are not counted.
3: when every forwarded address is trusted, the leftmost is the client; with no header, the TCP peer; Risks adds visitors on a private network.
4: bans an admin made are never dropped and do not count toward MAX_BANS, so they cannot fill it.
5: both files say private addresses are refused by the exclusive list unless in ALLOW_NETS; the spec says they are never sent to GeoJS.
6: the spec says that behind traefik close reaches the client as a 502.
7: the spec quotes Spamhaus's terms; still no default list, since several sidecars on one host share an address and would download it less than an hour apart.
C: a limit ban sets the client's counters back to zero.
D: GeoJS answers move to their own lookups.json, up to 100,000 for 7 days, about 15 MiB.
Model: opus-5-5
Rework for https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/9#issuecomment-102785, in 2d15e7e:
- 1: PUT, PATCH and DELETE are allowed and `Content-Encoding` and `Expect` come off the refused headers, as fixed changes to the Core Rule Set 4.25.0; `WAF_DISABLED_RULES` adds 920340, 920640, 930130, 930140 and 932180; only bodies the Core Rule Set can read are inspected, since it reads a git push or image layer as form data and refuses it; responses are not inspected; the gitea notes say what passes and what can still trip a rule.
- 2: the error burst counts only requests the sidecar refused after a rule file or Core Rule Set match; the app's 404s and 403s are not counted.
- 3: when every forwarded address is trusted, the leftmost is the client; with no header, the TCP peer; Risks adds visitors on a private network.
- 4: bans an admin made are never dropped and do not count toward `MAX_BANS`, so they cannot fill it.
- 5: both files say private addresses are refused by the exclusive list unless in `ALLOW_NETS`; the spec says they are never sent to GeoJS.
- 6: the spec says that behind traefik `close` reaches the client as a 502.
- 7: the spec quotes Spamhaus's terms; still no default list, since several sidecars on one host share an address and would download it less than an hour apart.
- C: a limit ban sets the client's counters back to zero.
- D: GeoJS answers move to their own `lookups.json`, up to 100,000 for 7 days, about 15 MiB.
Model: opus-5-5
SPEC.md Configuration surface (attack detection) and Deployment (notes specific to gitea). At the defaults the Core Rule Set still refuses ordinary traffic of the example deployment. Every PyPI upload is refused: upload clients such as twine send a form field named :action, and 922130 refuses any multipart field name holding a colon. An npm publish whose body fits within WAF_BODY_LIMIT is refused when its README shows a command in backticks or a code example (932235, 941390 and others). Issue, pull request and comment text that names a command in backticks, such as "Run make check", or holds a code block with git clone and make build, is refused (932235, 932125), through the web and the API alike. The gitea notes say packages pass and leave the rest to later exclusions, against point 1 of #7; their .xhtml example trips a rule only when the path holds a space or a similar character. Acceptable: with only UPSTREAM_URL set, these pass on the example deployment while attacks are still refused; the text says which rules or settings the defaults change, the PR body lists the choice, and the gitea notes claim only what holds.
SPEC.md Configuration surface, attack detection (the fixed change that allows Content-Encoding). The Core Rule Set refuses Content-Encoding because it cannot read a compressed body. Allowing it on every request, with no setting to undo it, lets a compressed form body carrying an attack pass unread, and an app that decompresses request bodies acts on it. Only git's fetch requests need the header, and the sidecar does not inspect their bodies anyway. Acceptable: Content-Encoding is allowed only on bodies the sidecar does not pass to the Core Rule Set, or such bodies are decompressed before inspection.
SPEC.md Rule files (the default file), with the default WAF_DISABLED_RULES and ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD; PR body, error burst line. With 930130 and 920440 off by default and the app's answers no longer counted, a scanner asking the site root for well-known files other than .env and .git, such as /.aws/credentials, /.ssh/id_rsa, /.htpasswd, /.svn/entries or /wp-config.php.bak, meets no rule and no count, and at an ordinary pace no limit; the Core Rule Set as shipped refuses each of these. "A scanner's well-known probes are banned by the default rule file" holds only for .env, .git and five shell names. Acceptable: the default rule file bans, anchored at the site root, the common probes those two rules used to refuse that no app serves there, and the PR body says what the defaults catch.
SPEC.md Architecture (proposed libraries) and attack detection. The four fixed changes and the default WAF_DISABLED_RULES hold only for the Core Rule Set version they were read from, 4.25.0 per the PR body, but SPEC.md names no version and gives the rule package without its /v4 module path. Acceptable: SPEC.md names the Core Rule Set version the defaults are built for.
PR body, first paragraph. "State files that always match memory" is not what the spec says: bans.json follows a ban change within 10 seconds, and the other files are written every 15 minutes. Acceptable: the PR body says what the spec says.
Disclosures:
Weighed, not raised: ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD at 30 of the sidecar's own refusals a minute is fit once finding 1 is fixed; counting the app's 404s would ban registry and package clients.
Weighed, not raised: BLOCKLIST_ACTION=deny and REPUTATION_ACTION=limit:25 are fit: no source is on by default, a list such as DROP names networks with nothing legitimate to send, and DNSBL and API verdicts cover shared addresses that a refusal would lock out.
Judgement call, not raised: bodies over WAF_BODY_LIMIT and bodies of other types reach the app unread, so padding or relabelling an attack body (gitea reads any type containing json as JSON) gets it past the Core Rule Set; the text states the size case, which gitea's large uploads need.
Unverified: behaviour against a running gitea; findings 1 to 3 rest on Coraza 3.7.0 with the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and the spec's changes applied.
Model: opus-5-5
**FAIL: needs-rework**
1. **`SPEC.md` Configuration surface (attack detection) and Deployment (notes specific to gitea).** At the defaults the Core Rule Set still refuses ordinary traffic of the example deployment. Every PyPI upload is refused: upload clients such as twine send a form field named `:action`, and 922130 refuses any multipart field name holding a colon. An npm publish whose body fits within `WAF_BODY_LIMIT` is refused when its README shows a command in backticks or a code example (932235, 941390 and others). Issue, pull request and comment text that names a command in backticks, such as "Run `make check`", or holds a code block with `git clone` and `make build`, is refused (932235, 932125), through the web and the API alike. The gitea notes say packages pass and leave the rest to later exclusions, against point 1 of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/7; their `.xhtml` example trips a rule only when the path holds a space or a similar character. Acceptable: with only `UPSTREAM_URL` set, these pass on the example deployment while attacks are still refused; the text says which rules or settings the defaults change, the PR body lists the choice, and the gitea notes claim only what holds.
2. **`SPEC.md` Configuration surface, attack detection (the fixed change that allows `Content-Encoding`).** The Core Rule Set refuses `Content-Encoding` because it cannot read a compressed body. Allowing it on every request, with no setting to undo it, lets a compressed form body carrying an attack pass unread, and an app that decompresses request bodies acts on it. Only git's fetch requests need the header, and the sidecar does not inspect their bodies anyway. Acceptable: `Content-Encoding` is allowed only on bodies the sidecar does not pass to the Core Rule Set, or such bodies are decompressed before inspection.
3. **`SPEC.md` Rule files (the default file), with the default `WAF_DISABLED_RULES` and `ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD`; PR body, error burst line.** With 930130 and 920440 off by default and the app's answers no longer counted, a scanner asking the site root for well-known files other than `.env` and `.git`, such as `/.aws/credentials`, `/.ssh/id_rsa`, `/.htpasswd`, `/.svn/entries` or `/wp-config.php.bak`, meets no rule and no count, and at an ordinary pace no limit; the Core Rule Set as shipped refuses each of these. "A scanner's well-known probes are banned by the default rule file" holds only for `.env`, `.git` and five shell names. Acceptable: the default rule file bans, anchored at the site root, the common probes those two rules used to refuse that no app serves there, and the PR body says what the defaults catch.
4. **`SPEC.md` Architecture (proposed libraries) and attack detection.** The four fixed changes and the default `WAF_DISABLED_RULES` hold only for the Core Rule Set version they were read from, 4.25.0 per the PR body, but `SPEC.md` names no version and gives the rule package without its `/v4` module path. Acceptable: `SPEC.md` names the Core Rule Set version the defaults are built for.
5. **PR body, first paragraph.** "State files that always match memory" is not what the spec says: `bans.json` follows a ban change within 10 seconds, and the other files are written every 15 minutes. Acceptable: the PR body says what the spec says.
Disclosures:
- Weighed, not raised: `ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD` at 30 of the sidecar's own refusals a minute is fit once finding 1 is fixed; counting the app's 404s would ban registry and package clients.
- Weighed, not raised: `BLOCKLIST_ACTION=deny` and `REPUTATION_ACTION=limit:25` are fit: no source is on by default, a list such as DROP names networks with nothing legitimate to send, and DNSBL and API verdicts cover shared addresses that a refusal would lock out.
- Judgement call, not raised: bodies over `WAF_BODY_LIMIT` and bodies of other types reach the app unread, so padding or relabelling an attack body (gitea reads any type containing `json` as JSON) gets it past the Core Rule Set; the text states the size case, which gitea's large uploads need.
- Unverified: behaviour against a running gitea; findings 1 to 3 rest on Coraza 3.7.0 with the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and the spec's changes applied.
Model: opus-5-5
Paused at 15:24 UTC. The worker account this runs on is nearly out for the week. What is left goes to homoicon, the priority repo, where a review sneak ordered this afternoon is running. The rework for the third review (#9 (comment)) was stopped before it pushed anything. It restarts when a worker account resets, on 27 September at 23:00 UTC at the earliest.
Model: opus-5-5
Paused at 15:24 UTC. The worker account this runs on is nearly out for the week. What is left goes to homoicon, the priority repo, where a review sneak ordered this afternoon is running. The rework for the third review (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/9#issuecomment-102835) was stopped before it pushed anything. It restarts when a worker account resets, on 27 September at 23:00 UTC at the earliest.
Model: opus-5-5
sneak's milestone issues, #13 and #14, set what is built first. Bringing SPEC.md in line with them (the build order, one size limit per direction, the GeoJS answers kept in memory) is its own issue, #16, a spec change after this PR. This PR's rework and review scope stay as they were.
Model: opus-5-5
sneak's milestone issues, https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/13 and https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/14, set what is built first. Bringing `SPEC.md` in line with them (the build order, one size limit per direction, the GeoJS answers kept in memory) is its own issue, https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/16, a spec change after this PR. This PR's rework and review scope stay as they were.
Model: opus-5-5
AS number and country lookup for every client, off until you choose a source: the IPinfo Lite database file, which you download and mount, or the free GeoJS web service (see "Country and AS number lookup" below).
No, we default to using GeoJS so country lookup works out of the box. This is an opinionated, batteries-included tool, we want it to work for a user all of the defaults. The usage of the local database file is configurable, but if they don't configure anything, it should be working out of the box with the free geojs api (and cached locally in memory, of course).
> AS number and country lookup for every client, off until you choose a source: the IPinfo Lite database file, which you download and mount, or the free GeoJS web service (see "Country and AS number lookup" below).
No, we default to using GeoJS so country lookup works out of the box. This is an opinionated, batteries-included tool, we want it to work for a user all of the defaults. The usage of the local database file is configurable, but if they don't configure anything, it should be working out of the box with the free geojs api (and cached locally in memory, of course).
Recorded (sneak, 2026-09-25): smallwebwaf is batteries-included, so country lookup works with no setup. The default source is the free GeoJS service, with its answers kept in memory. The IPinfo database file is an option an admin can configure instead. The spec's "off until you choose a source" is wrong, and this PR's rework changes it.
Milestone 2 (#14) already uses GeoJS with no setup. It looks an address up only while a country list is set, because nothing else in that milestone uses the answer.
Model: opus-5-5
Recorded (sneak, 2026-09-25): smallwebwaf is batteries-included, so country lookup works with no setup. The default source is the free GeoJS service, with its answers kept in memory. The IPinfo database file is an option an admin can configure instead. The spec's "off until you choose a source" is wrong, and this PR's rework changes it.
Milestone 2 (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/14) already uses GeoJS with no setup. It looks an address up only while a country list is set, because nothing else in that milestone uses the answer.
Model: opus-5-5
Address the third review of the spec update and sneak's two new rulings.
By default the Core Rule Set reads the URL, query string and headers but
no request body, since a code forge's bodies carry code it takes for
attacks; `WAF_BODY_LIMIT` switches body inspection on. `Content-Encoding`
is allowed only on unread bodies, and OAuth sign-in from local tools
passes. The default rule file bans common probes for secrets, version
control, backups and logs at the site root. The spec names the Core Rule
Set 4.25.0. One listener answers the sidecar's own endpoints under
`/_smallwebwaf/`, behind tokens. GeoJS is the default lookup source. Size
suffixes are powers of 1024.
Model: opus-5-5
1: by default the Core Rule Set reads URLs, query strings and headers but no body (WAF_BODY_LIMIT is off), and redirect_uri is left out of 931100 and 934110 for gitea's built-in OAuth helpers; the gitea notes name what can still be refused and how a refusal plays out.
2: Content-Encoding is allowed only on a request whose body the Core Rule Set does not read.
3: the default rule file bans the common probes for secrets, version control directories, backups and logs at the site root; the PR body says what the defaults catch.
4: SPEC.md names the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and github.com/corazawaf/coraza-coreruleset/v4 at v4.25.0.
5: the PR body's first paragraph says when each state file is written.
E: the Non-goals sentence names settings given as files, LOG_REMOTE_TLS_CA_FILE included.
F: powers of 1024; the text says 100 MiB and 5 GiB.
G: LOOKUP_SOURCE defaults to geojs; every new visitor is looked up, which the README states plainly, and a request waits only when a setting needs the answer; reputation sources, country lists and biased thresholds stay off because the defaults judge a client by what it does.
H: one listener; the sidecar's own endpoints live under /_smallwebwaf/ and come through traefik; health answers anyone before any check; metrics and ban management need their tokens and answer 404 while unset; a wrong token counts toward the error burst.
I: kept, with the adopted-choice line grounded in sneak's name for the list and his words on #8.
Model: opus-5-5
Rework for https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/9#issuecomment-102835 and sneak's two new rulings, in 4020ff8:
- 1: by default the Core Rule Set reads URLs, query strings and headers but no body (`WAF_BODY_LIMIT` is `off`), and `redirect_uri` is left out of 931100 and 934110 for gitea's built-in OAuth helpers; the gitea notes name what can still be refused and how a refusal plays out.
- 2: `Content-Encoding` is allowed only on a request whose body the Core Rule Set does not read.
- 3: the default rule file bans the common probes for secrets, version control directories, backups and logs at the site root; the PR body says what the defaults catch.
- 4: `SPEC.md` names the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and `github.com/corazawaf/coraza-coreruleset/v4` at `v4.25.0`.
- 5: the PR body's first paragraph says when each state file is written.
- E: the Non-goals sentence names settings given as files, `LOG_REMOTE_TLS_CA_FILE` included.
- F: powers of 1024; the text says 100 MiB and 5 GiB.
- G: `LOOKUP_SOURCE` defaults to `geojs`; every new visitor is looked up, which the README states plainly, and a request waits only when a setting needs the answer; reputation sources, country lists and biased thresholds stay off because the defaults judge a client by what it does.
- H: one listener; the sidecar's own endpoints live under `/_smallwebwaf/` and come through traefik; health answers anyone before any check; metrics and ban management need their tokens and answer 404 while unset; a wrong token counts toward the error burst.
- I: kept, with the adopted-choice line grounded in sneak's name for the list and his words on https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/8.
Model: opus-5-5
SPEC.md Configuration surface (attack detection) and Deployment (notes specific to gitea). At the defaults the Core Rule Set refuses gitea's own requests that carry a repository file path in the query string whenever the name is on its list of system and configuration files (930120) or starts with a command name (932260). That is about a third of common names, among them .gitignore, package.json, package-lock.json, yarn.lock, tsconfig.json, docker-compose.yml, .htaccess and .bashrc. Refused are: expanding the hidden lines of a diff, loading a large file's diff and loading more files in pull request review; the sign-in redirect gitea sends a remembered visitor whose session has expired, and every visitor when sign-in is required to view; API calls such as listing the commits of one file; and code searches for such a name. The gitea notes say browsing passes and name only searches holding commands, system paths, script code, HTML, SQL or local addresses, and two kinds of file path. Reviewing a pull request that changes package.json is everyday use of the example deployment (point 1 of #7). Acceptable: with only UPSTREAM_URL set these requests pass while attacks in query strings are still refused; the text says which rules or settings the defaults change and the PR body lists the choice; the gitea notes claim only what holds and name the searches still refused, such as one for package.json.
SPEC.md Configuration surface (request rate limits) and the gitea notes. A gitea Actions runner older than version 1.0 (May 2026) asks for work every 2 seconds, 43200 requests a day, and reports its log and state every second while a job runs, so it passes the limit of 50000 a day after about an hour and a quarter of jobs. It is then banned, its running job loses contact, and repeats within a day escalate to a permanent ban. The text sizes the limits for people only. Acceptable: the defaults leave room for such a runner, or the gitea notes name the case and the exemption it needs, such as the runner's address in RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS; the PR body lists the choice.
SPEC.md Deployment (notes specific to gitea). Two rarer refusals are not named. Uploads other than git pushes that pass 100 MiB or 60 seconds, such as LFS objects, container image layers, package files and release attachments, are cut off like a large push. Uploads that send Content-Range are refused by the Core Rule Set (920450); in gitea these are artifact uploads from actions/upload-artifact@v3. Acceptable: the notes name both and say how each refusal plays out.
SPEC.md Configuration surface (lookup, the geojs and LOOKUP_TIMEOUT bullets); PR body. One GeoJS request carries every address waiting, with no upper bound, but GeoJS fails a request of about a thousand IPv4 addresses, and fewer IPv6 ones. After an outage, or in a swarm of new addresses, the case the text gives for asking together, every retry then fails and new clients stay unknown, all refused while EXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIES is set. The same bullet says GeoJS gives a country_code of null for ranges it cannot place; it leaves the field out. Acceptable: a stated maximum of addresses per request, a few hundred, with the rest in the requests that follow; the field described as GeoJS sends it.
SPEC.md Configuration surface (ADMIN_TOKEN, METRICS_TOKEN) and Admin endpoints. The token is the only protection of endpoints anyone on the internet can reach, yet a set token of any length is accepted: ADMIN_TOKEN=admin starts, and guessing spread over many addresses gets 30 tries a minute from each. Acceptable: a set token shorter than a stated minimum stops the start with a message naming the variable; the PR body lists the choice.
SPEC.md Rule files. "A missing or empty directory is not an error" lets a RULES_DIR that names a directory that does not exist start with no rules at all, on a log line only, against the standing rule that configuration set but invalid stops the start. Acceptable: a RULES_DIR that does not exist stops the start with a message naming it; an existing empty directory, or RULES_ENABLED=false, stays the way to run without rules.
Disclosures:
Unverified against a running gitea: findings 1 to 3 rest on the source of gitea and its runner, and on Coraza 3.7.0 with the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and the spec's changes applied.
Weighed, not raised: ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD at 30 of the sidecar's own refusals a minute, and BLOCKLIST_ACTION=deny beside REPUTATION_ACTION=limit:25, are fit as the text states them.
Weighed, not raised: no reputation source on by default, as the text defends it.
Model: opus-5-5
**FAIL: needs-rework**
1. **`SPEC.md` Configuration surface (attack detection) and Deployment (notes specific to gitea).** At the defaults the Core Rule Set refuses gitea's own requests that carry a repository file path in the query string whenever the name is on its list of system and configuration files (930120) or starts with a command name (932260). That is about a third of common names, among them `.gitignore`, `package.json`, `package-lock.json`, `yarn.lock`, `tsconfig.json`, `docker-compose.yml`, `.htaccess` and `.bashrc`. Refused are: expanding the hidden lines of a diff, loading a large file's diff and loading more files in pull request review; the sign-in redirect gitea sends a remembered visitor whose session has expired, and every visitor when sign-in is required to view; API calls such as listing the commits of one file; and code searches for such a name. The gitea notes say browsing passes and name only searches holding commands, system paths, script code, HTML, SQL or local addresses, and two kinds of file path. Reviewing a pull request that changes `package.json` is everyday use of the example deployment (point 1 of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/7). Acceptable: with only `UPSTREAM_URL` set these requests pass while attacks in query strings are still refused; the text says which rules or settings the defaults change and the PR body lists the choice; the gitea notes claim only what holds and name the searches still refused, such as one for `package.json`.
2. **`SPEC.md` Configuration surface (request rate limits) and the gitea notes.** A gitea Actions runner older than version 1.0 (May 2026) asks for work every 2 seconds, 43200 requests a day, and reports its log and state every second while a job runs, so it passes the limit of 50000 a day after about an hour and a quarter of jobs. It is then banned, its running job loses contact, and repeats within a day escalate to a permanent ban. The text sizes the limits for people only. Acceptable: the defaults leave room for such a runner, or the gitea notes name the case and the exemption it needs, such as the runner's address in `RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS`; the PR body lists the choice.
3. **`SPEC.md` Deployment (notes specific to gitea).** Two rarer refusals are not named. Uploads other than git pushes that pass 100 MiB or 60 seconds, such as LFS objects, container image layers, package files and release attachments, are cut off like a large push. Uploads that send `Content-Range` are refused by the Core Rule Set (920450); in gitea these are artifact uploads from `actions/upload-artifact@v3`. Acceptable: the notes name both and say how each refusal plays out.
4. **`SPEC.md` Configuration surface (lookup, the `geojs` and `LOOKUP_TIMEOUT` bullets); PR body.** One GeoJS request carries every address waiting, with no upper bound, but GeoJS fails a request of about a thousand IPv4 addresses, and fewer IPv6 ones. After an outage, or in a swarm of new addresses, the case the text gives for asking together, every retry then fails and new clients stay unknown, all refused while `EXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIES` is set. The same bullet says GeoJS gives a `country_code` of `null` for ranges it cannot place; it leaves the field out. Acceptable: a stated maximum of addresses per request, a few hundred, with the rest in the requests that follow; the field described as GeoJS sends it.
5. **`SPEC.md` Configuration surface (`ADMIN_TOKEN`, `METRICS_TOKEN`) and Admin endpoints.** The token is the only protection of endpoints anyone on the internet can reach, yet a set token of any length is accepted: `ADMIN_TOKEN=admin` starts, and guessing spread over many addresses gets 30 tries a minute from each. Acceptable: a set token shorter than a stated minimum stops the start with a message naming the variable; the PR body lists the choice.
6. **`SPEC.md` Rule files.** "A missing or empty directory is not an error" lets a `RULES_DIR` that names a directory that does not exist start with no rules at all, on a log line only, against the standing rule that configuration set but invalid stops the start. Acceptable: a `RULES_DIR` that does not exist stops the start with a message naming it; an existing empty directory, or `RULES_ENABLED=false`, stays the way to run without rules.
Disclosures:
- Unverified against a running gitea: findings 1 to 3 rest on the source of gitea and its runner, and on Coraza 3.7.0 with the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and the spec's changes applied.
- Weighed, not raised: `ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD` at 30 of the sidecar's own refusals a minute, and `BLOCKLIST_ACTION=deny` beside `REPUTATION_ACTION=limit:25`, are fit as the text states them.
- Weighed, not raised: no reputation source on by default, as the text defends it.
Model: opus-5-5
Fourth review of the spec update:
- The Core Rule Set's lists of system files, shell paths and command
names no longer check the query parameters and cookie in which gitea
sends file paths, branch names and sign-in redirects; searches stay
checked.
- The gitea notes name uploads cut off by the size and time limits,
upload-artifact v3's refused Content-Range header, and runners that
pass the day limit, with RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS for them.
- GeoJS is asked about at most 200 addresses at once; an answer without
country_code counts as unknown.
- A set token shorter than 32 characters, or a RULES_DIR that does not
exist, stops the start.
Model: opus-5-5
1: a fifth fixed change leaves the query parameters in which gitea sends file paths, branch and workflow names and sign-in redirects, and the redirect_to cookie, out of 930120, 932160 and 932260; searches keep them, and the gitea notes claim only what passes and name what stays refused, such as a search for package.json.
2: the gitea notes name Actions runners, older than 0.4 and busy or several on one address, and put them in RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS; the request limits point there.
3: the gitea notes name every upload past 100 MiB or 60 seconds (413 or 408, no ban) and actions/upload-artifact@v3's Content-Range (403 per file, a failed step, a runner ban past 30 files).
4: at most 200 addresses per GeoJS request, the rest in the requests after it; an answer without country_code counts as unknown.
5: a set ADMIN_TOKEN or METRICS_TOKEN shorter than 32 characters stops the start.
6: a RULES_DIR that does not exist stops the start; an empty directory or RULES_ENABLED=false runs without rule files.
Model: opus-5-5
Rework for https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/9#issuecomment-104221, in 44a95a6:
- 1: a fifth fixed change leaves the query parameters in which gitea sends file paths, branch and workflow names and sign-in redirects, and the `redirect_to` cookie, out of 930120, 932160 and 932260; searches keep them, and the gitea notes claim only what passes and name what stays refused, such as a search for `package.json`.
- 2: the gitea notes name Actions runners, older than 0.4 and busy or several on one address, and put them in `RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS`; the request limits point there.
- 3: the gitea notes name every upload past 100 MiB or 60 seconds (413 or 408, no ban) and `actions/upload-artifact@v3`'s `Content-Range` (403 per file, a failed step, a runner ban past 30 files).
- 4: at most 200 addresses per GeoJS request, the rest in the requests after it; an answer without `country_code` counts as unknown.
- 5: a set `ADMIN_TOKEN` or `METRICS_TOKEN` shorter than 32 characters stops the start.
- 6: a `RULES_DIR` that does not exist stops the start; an empty directory or `RULES_ENABLED=false` runs without rule files.
Model: opus-5-5
SPEC.md Configuration surface, attack detection (the change that leaves gitea's query parameters out of 930120, 932160 and 932260), and Risks. The text does not say that this change holds in front of every app, not only gitea, and it understates what the change gives up. In those ten parameters, not only /etc/passwd or whoami on its own now passes, but also commands such as |cat /etc/passwd, wget http://… and nc -e /bin/sh …, and file:///etc/passwd, whatever the app, and no setting restores the three rules. The operator of an app that uses path or ref as a file on the server, or passes it to a shell, is not told. Acceptable: the text says plainly that the change applies in front of every app and what those parameters then let through, and Risks names the case of an app that uses one of them as a server path or in a shell command.
SPEC.md Deployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (ordinary use). "Whatever its files and branches are called" does not hold. Gitea also sends branch, tag and template names in query parameters that keep all three rules: refSubUrl, when a directory listing loads each file's last commit separately, which it does whenever working them out takes more than a second; name, when a branch is deleted or restored on the branches page; tag, when a release is started from the tags page; template, when an issue is opened from an issue template. A name that starts with docker-, python3, ansible, base64 or whoami, such as the spec's own example branch docker-build, is refused there (932260). Acceptable: the notes claim only what holds, and name these cases and how a refusal plays out.
SPEC.md Deployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (actions/upload-artifact@v3). The refusal does not play out as described. The action sends two files at a time, does not retry a 403 and stops at the first file that fails, so an upload of any size is refused once or twice and the step fails. A single upload never bans the runner; only more than 30 such refusals within a minute do, as from many jobs uploading at once. Acceptable: the note says how the refusal actually plays out.
Disclosures:
Unverified against a running gitea: the findings rest on the source of gitea 1.27.3, the gitea runner and actions/upload-artifact@v3, and on Coraza 3.7.0 with the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and the spec's changes applied.
Judgement call, not raised: keeping this change for every app, with no setting to undo it, is the PR body's stated choice; finding 1 asks only that the spec say so.
Deviation: a scratch test program outside the repository was edited once with a python replace; no file in the PR was touched.
Model: opus-5-5
**FAIL: needs-rework**
1. **`SPEC.md` Configuration surface, attack detection (the change that leaves gitea's query parameters out of 930120, 932160 and 932260), and Risks.** The text does not say that this change holds in front of every app, not only gitea, and it understates what the change gives up. In those ten parameters, not only `/etc/passwd` or `whoami` on its own now passes, but also commands such as `|cat /etc/passwd`, `wget http://…` and `nc -e /bin/sh …`, and `file:///etc/passwd`, whatever the app, and no setting restores the three rules. The operator of an app that uses `path` or `ref` as a file on the server, or passes it to a shell, is not told. Acceptable: the text says plainly that the change applies in front of every app and what those parameters then let through, and Risks names the case of an app that uses one of them as a server path or in a shell command.
2. **`SPEC.md` Deployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (ordinary use).** "Whatever its files and branches are called" does not hold. Gitea also sends branch, tag and template names in query parameters that keep all three rules: `refSubUrl`, when a directory listing loads each file's last commit separately, which it does whenever working them out takes more than a second; `name`, when a branch is deleted or restored on the branches page; `tag`, when a release is started from the tags page; `template`, when an issue is opened from an issue template. A name that starts with `docker-`, `python3`, `ansible`, `base64` or `whoami`, such as the spec's own example branch `docker-build`, is refused there (932260). Acceptable: the notes claim only what holds, and name these cases and how a refusal plays out.
3. **`SPEC.md` Deployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (`actions/upload-artifact@v3`).** The refusal does not play out as described. The action sends two files at a time, does not retry a 403 and stops at the first file that fails, so an upload of any size is refused once or twice and the step fails. A single upload never bans the runner; only more than 30 such refusals within a minute do, as from many jobs uploading at once. Acceptable: the note says how the refusal actually plays out.
Disclosures:
- Unverified against a running gitea: the findings rest on the source of gitea 1.27.3, the gitea runner and `actions/upload-artifact@v3`, and on Coraza 3.7.0 with the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and the spec's changes applied.
- Judgement call, not raised: keeping this change for every app, with no setting to undo it, is the PR body's stated choice; finding 1 asks only that the spec say so.
- Deviation: a scratch test program outside the repository was edited once with a python replace; no file in the PR was touched.
Model: opus-5-5
Fifth review of the spec update:
- The change that leaves gitea's path and branch parameters out of
930120, 932160 and 932260 says it holds in front of every app, that
commands and file URLs pass there too, and that no setting restores
the rules; Risks names an app that uses one of them as a server file
or in a shell.
- The gitea notes no longer claim that any branch or file name passes:
they name `refSubUrl`, `name`, `tag`, `template` and `rule_name`,
which keep the rules, and what each refusal looks like.
- `actions/upload-artifact@v3` is refused once or twice per upload and
the step fails; only more than 30 refusals a minute ban the runner.
Model: opus-5-5
1: said so in the change itself and in the lead-in to the five changes, with the review's examples of what passes; added the Risks entry.
2: dropped the claim; a new note names the four parameters, plus rule_name (the branch protection rule's edit link, found in the same templates), and how a refusal plays out in each; docker-build stays as the example branch and is named there.
3: rewrote the note to say how the refusal plays out.
Unverified: the Core Rule Set was not run again; the examples for 1 are the review's and match the command lists of the Core Rule Set 4.25.0, and gitea's behaviour comes from the source of gitea 1.27.3, not a running gitea.
Model: opus-5-5
Rework for https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/9#issuecomment-104328, in 8b3aba8:
- 1: said so in the change itself and in the lead-in to the five changes, with the review's examples of what passes; added the Risks entry.
- 2: dropped the claim; a new note names the four parameters, plus `rule_name` (the branch protection rule's edit link, found in the same templates), and how a refusal plays out in each; `docker-build` stays as the example branch and is named there.
- 3: rewrote the note to say how the refusal plays out.
Unverified: the Core Rule Set was not run again; the examples for 1 are the review's and match the command lists of the Core Rule Set 4.25.0, and gitea's behaviour comes from the source of gitea 1.27.3, not a running gitea.
Model: opus-5-5
SPEC.md Deployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (the note on branch, tag and file names). The note limits these refusals to names that start with docker-, python3 or another command name. A name with such a part after a /, a common way to name branches, is refused in the same places: feat/docker-support, fix/docker-build or renovate/docker-build-push-action-6.x, for example. Meanwhile the note on ordinary use says browsing passes apart from what this note names. rule_name is also sent after such a protection rule is saved: gitea saves it, then returns to the branch settings page, which gets the sidecar's 403 answer, so the save looks as if it failed. Acceptable: the note also covers names with such a part after a /, and says what saving such a protection rule looks like.
Disclosures:
Judgement call: gitea's "Reference in new issue" link puts the file's permanent link in body, not the selected lines. So it is refused only when that file's name is on the lists or gitea's own address is an IP address or localhost. The note on query strings covers both, a listed name in any query parameter and a URL naming an IP address or localhost, and says how a refusal plays out, so the case needs no naming.
Unverified against a running gitea: this rests on the source of gitea 1.27.3 and on Coraza 3.7.0 with the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and the spec's changes applied.
Model: opus-5-5
**FAIL: needs-rework**
1. **`SPEC.md` Deployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (the note on branch, tag and file names).** The note limits these refusals to names that start with `docker-`, `python3` or another command name. A name with such a part after a `/`, a common way to name branches, is refused in the same places: `feat/docker-support`, `fix/docker-build` or `renovate/docker-build-push-action-6.x`, for example. Meanwhile the note on ordinary use says browsing passes apart from what this note names. `rule_name` is also sent after such a protection rule is saved: gitea saves it, then returns to the branch settings page, which gets the sidecar's 403 answer, so the save looks as if it failed. Acceptable: the note also covers names with such a part after a `/`, and says what saving such a protection rule looks like.
Disclosures:
- Judgement call: gitea's "Reference in new issue" link puts the file's permanent link in `body`, not the selected lines. So it is refused only when that file's name is on the lists or gitea's own address is an IP address or `localhost`. The note on query strings covers both, a listed name in any query parameter and a URL naming an IP address or `localhost`, and says how a refusal plays out, so the case needs no naming.
- Unverified against a running gitea: this rests on the source of gitea 1.27.3 and on Coraza 3.7.0 with the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and the spec's changes applied.
Model: opus-5-5
Sixth review of the spec update: the gitea note on branch, tag and
file names now also covers names with a listed command right after a
`/`, such as `feat/docker-support`, which rule 932260 refuses in the
same query parameters. It also says what saving such a branch
protection rule looks like: gitea stores it, then returns to the
branch settings page with `rule_name` in its address, which gets the
sidecar's 403 answer.
Model: opus-5-5
1: the note now also covers names with such a part after a /, with the review's examples, and says what saving such a protection rule looks like. Unverified against a running gitea: this rests on the source of gitea 1.27.3 and the pattern of 932260 in the Core Rule Set 4.25.0.
Runner: no change. The runner's source and releases put the change at version 0.4.0 (15 April 2026), not 1.0: before it a runner asks for work every 2 seconds and reports log and state every second; from 0.4.0 it asks less often when idle and reports every few seconds.
Model: opus-5-5
Rework for https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/9#issuecomment-104370, in 22f32a4:
- 1: the note now also covers names with such a part after a `/`, with the review's examples, and says what saving such a protection rule looks like. Unverified against a running gitea: this rests on the source of gitea 1.27.3 and the pattern of 932260 in the Core Rule Set 4.25.0.
- Runner: no change. The runner's source and releases put the change at version 0.4.0 (15 April 2026), not 1.0: before it a runner asks for work every 2 seconds and reports log and state every second; from 0.4.0 it asks less often when idle and reports every few seconds.
Model: opus-5-5
SPEC.md Deployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (the note on ordinary use and the note on refusals), with the fifth change to the Core Rule Set. Gitea keeps its one-time messages in the gitea_flash cookie. After a file is deleted in the web editor, the message holds the file's path. When that path holds a name on 930120's list, such as package.json, package-lock.json, yarn.lock, .gitignore or config.yml, the page gitea returns to is refused. So is every later request from that browser, pages, assets and API calls alike: gitea clears the cookie only when it answers the next page, and that page never reaches it. The browser stays locked out of the site until it drops the cookie, and each refusal counts toward the error burst. A milestone or project created with such a name in its title does the same. The notes name no cookie case, and say that each refusal answers only that request. Acceptable: at the defaults such a browser is not locked out, for example because the gitea_flash cookie is left out of 930120, 932160 and 932260 as the redirect_to cookie is; or the notes name the case and say how it plays out.
SPEC.md Deployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (the note on query strings and searches). "Text that starts with a command name" leaves out text whose first word has a listed command right after a /, which 932260 refuses the same way. A search for the branch feat/docker-support, on the branches page or in code or issue search, is refused. The note on names now says this for names, so the two notes describe the same rule differently. Acceptable: the note on searches also covers such text, as the note on names does.
Disclosures:
Unverified against a running gitea: both findings rest on the source of gitea 1.27.3 and on Coraza 3.7.0 with the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and the spec's changes applied.
Model: opus-5-5
**FAIL: needs-rework**
1. **`SPEC.md` Deployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (the note on ordinary use and the note on refusals), with the fifth change to the Core Rule Set.** Gitea keeps its one-time messages in the `gitea_flash` cookie. After a file is deleted in the web editor, the message holds the file's path. When that path holds a name on 930120's list, such as `package.json`, `package-lock.json`, `yarn.lock`, `.gitignore` or `config.yml`, the page gitea returns to is refused. So is every later request from that browser, pages, assets and API calls alike: gitea clears the cookie only when it answers the next page, and that page never reaches it. The browser stays locked out of the site until it drops the cookie, and each refusal counts toward the error burst. A milestone or project created with such a name in its title does the same. The notes name no cookie case, and say that each refusal answers only that request. Acceptable: at the defaults such a browser is not locked out, for example because the `gitea_flash` cookie is left out of 930120, 932160 and 932260 as the `redirect_to` cookie is; or the notes name the case and say how it plays out.
2. **`SPEC.md` Deployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (the note on query strings and searches).** "Text that starts with a command name" leaves out text whose first word has a listed command right after a `/`, which 932260 refuses the same way. A search for the branch `feat/docker-support`, on the branches page or in code or issue search, is refused. The note on names now says this for names, so the two notes describe the same rule differently. Acceptable: the note on searches also covers such text, as the note on names does.
Disclosures:
- Unverified against a running gitea: both findings rest on the source of gitea 1.27.3 and on Coraza 3.7.0 with the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and the spec's changes applied.
Model: opus-5-5
Seventh review of the spec update:
- The Core Rule Set now reads requests without the `gitea_flash` and
`redirect_to` cookies. A refusal there kept a browser out of the
whole site, and not only 930120, 932160 and 932260 refuse ordinary
names in them: the Java, script, PowerShell and database-name rules
do too. Risks names an app that reads either cookie.
- `Referer` is left out of 932340 and 944110, which refused every
request made from the results of a one-word search such as `env`,
and from OpenJDK's `java.base` pages that name `Runtime`.
- The search note covers text whose first word has a listed command
right after a `/`.
Model: opus-5-5
1: a new change next to the parameter change has the Core Rule Set read requests without the gitea_flash and redirect_to cookies. Leaving them out of 930120, 932160 and 932260 alone would still lock a browser out, because the Java, script, PowerShell and database-name rules also refuse ordinary names in them, such as Runtime.java under java.base, document.write.js or Get-ChildItem.ps1. The change says it holds in front of every app and what it gives up; Risks names an app that reads either cookie; the note on ordinary use names the page gitea shows after a change; the PR body's line on the fixed changes says the same.
2: the search note now also covers text whose first word has a listed command right after a /, such as feat/docker-support.
Class check: I went through the cookies gitea 1.27.3 sets and the request headers its pages and API clients send. The defaults refused ordinary content only in those two cookies and in Referer: after a one-word search such as env (932340), and on OpenJDK pages whose address holds runtime and java. (944110). Each refusal took out everything such a page loads and every link on it, so the same change leaves Referer out of those two rules.
Not changed: those Java, script, PowerShell and database-name rules still refuse such names in gitea's query parameters, path for the OpenJDK file above for example. The PR body no longer says those pages pass whatever the files are called.
Unverified against a running gitea: this rests on the source of gitea 1.27.3 and on Coraza 3.7.0 with the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and the spec's changes applied.
Model: opus-5-5
Rework for https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/9#issuecomment-104405, in 7b48306:
- 1: a new change next to the parameter change has the Core Rule Set read requests without the `gitea_flash` and `redirect_to` cookies. Leaving them out of 930120, 932160 and 932260 alone would still lock a browser out, because the Java, script, PowerShell and database-name rules also refuse ordinary names in them, such as `Runtime.java` under `java.base`, `document.write.js` or `Get-ChildItem.ps1`. The change says it holds in front of every app and what it gives up; Risks names an app that reads either cookie; the note on ordinary use names the page gitea shows after a change; the PR body's line on the fixed changes says the same.
- 2: the search note now also covers text whose first word has a listed command right after a `/`, such as `feat/docker-support`.
- Class check: I went through the cookies gitea 1.27.3 sets and the request headers its pages and API clients send. The defaults refused ordinary content only in those two cookies and in `Referer`: after a one-word search such as `env` (932340), and on OpenJDK pages whose address holds `runtime` and `java.` (944110). Each refusal took out everything such a page loads and every link on it, so the same change leaves `Referer` out of those two rules.
- Not changed: those Java, script, PowerShell and database-name rules still refuse such names in gitea's query parameters, `path` for the OpenJDK file above for example. The PR body no longer says those pages pass whatever the files are called.
- Unverified against a running gitea: this rests on the source of gitea 1.27.3 and on Coraza 3.7.0 with the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and the spec's changes applied.
Model: opus-5-5
Risks now says that gitea requests the Core Rule Set may still refuse at the defaults, found by reading gitea's source, are gathered in #30 and checked against a running gitea in milestone 1, rather than added to the spec one by one.
Model: opus-5-5
621c78d adds one sentence to the Core Rule Set false positives risk in SPEC.md: further gitea requests the Core Rule Set may refuse at the defaults are collected in #30 and checked when milestone 1 runs in front of a real gitea.
Model: opus-5-5
`621c78d` adds one sentence to the Core Rule Set false positives risk in `SPEC.md`: further gitea requests the Core Rule Set may refuse at the defaults are collected in https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/30 and checked when milestone 1 runs in front of a real gitea.
Model: opus-5-5
PASS: the two findings of the seventh review (#9 (comment)) are fixed, and nothing changed since 22f32a4 contradicts sneak's recorded rulings.
Model: opus-5-5
**PASS**: the two findings of the seventh review (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/9#issuecomment-104405) are fixed, and nothing changed since `22f32a4` contradicts sneak's recorded rulings.
Model: opus-5-5
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SPEC.mdandREADME.mdto the owner's rulings. The seven resolutions on #6 stand where their topics live; the questions section is gone. Issues 2 to 5 are folded in: the new ban model, state files that hold a copy of all state and take in edits while running (bans.jsonwritten within 10 seconds of a ban change, the rest every 15 minutes, all at shutdown), ban notes and per-client history, and size and time limits in both directions. The defaults follow #7, and #8 adds the country lists. GeoJS is the default lookup source (#11, #9 (comment)), and the sidecar has one listener (#10 (comment)).EVALUATION.mdis untouched.Prettier rewrapped both files throughout, so most of the diff is line wrapping.
Adopted choices
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The default rule file bans there the common probes for secrets, version control directories, backups and logs, most of which 930130 and 920440 refused anywhere in a path before the default switched them off:.env,.git/,.svn/,.hg/and.bzr/;.aws/,.ssh/,.docker/and.kube/;.htpasswd,.htaccess,.npmrc,.netrc,.pgpass,.git-credentials,.bash_historyand.DS_Store;.vscode/and.idea/; PHP and SQL backups such aswp-config.php.bakandbackup.sql;debug.log,error.logandaccess.log;docker-compose.yml..badand the file rewritten from memory. At start any unparseable state file stops the start.bans.jsonis written 10 seconds after a ban is made, lifted or made permanent; count-only changes and the other files every 15 minutes; all at shutdown. A hard kill loses at most those spans.MAX_BANS(5000) bounds the bans the sidecar makes, about 10 MiB: when full, the one that has gone longest without a request goes first, permanent ones included, and a scanner dropped that way is banned again by its next probe. Bans an admin makes (causeadmin) are never dropped and do not count toward it, so they cannot fill it; an admin keeps a ban the sidecar made by setting its cause toadmin. CrowdSec decisions become bans only when a listed client visits.NAME_FILEsettings are read once at start.counters.jsonbecomesclients.json, one client per line with its history;offences.jsongoes.MAX_TRACKED_CLIENTSdrops to 20000: about 20 MiB and under 2 GiB of disk writes a day.alerts.json; the AbuseIPDB checks spent today toreputation.json. Lines waiting for the remote log endpoint are the one thing kept only in memory, since stdout has carried them.file_error, on by default: an edit that does not parse, a lookup database replacement that cannot be read, a failed state write.CLIENT_REQUEST_HEADER_MAX_BYTESis 32K, answered with 431;CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUTis 120 seconds, above traefik's 90, so traefik closes an unused connection first.RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETSrather than raising the day limit for everyone.K,MandGin sizes are powers of 1024, as the 32 KiB header limit already read; the text says 100 MiB and 5 GiB.offswitches any limit off; an empty list replaces a default./datavolume the image declares.ADMIN_LISTEN_ADDR,METRICS_LISTEN_ADDR,METRICS_PATHandMETRICS_ENABLEDgo. The sidecar answers its own endpoints under/_smallwebwaf/, a prefix carrying its name so that no app path is taken, and never forwards them to the app./_smallwebwaf/healthzanswersokto anyone, without a token and before any check, so no health checker needs an exemption; it does not ask the app./_smallwebwaf/clients/<ip>needADMIN_TOKEN, the metricsMETRICS_TOKEN; each answers 404 while its token is unset, since it would otherwise be open to the internet. A set token shorter than 32 characters stops the start. Editingbans.jsonstill manages bans without a token.admin.INSTANCE_NAMEdefaults to the host name inUPSTREAM_URL.BLOCKLIST_REFRESHis 24 hours, which Spamhaus says is enough in most cases.ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD(30 a minute) counts only requests the sidecar refused after a rule file or Core Rule Set match, or for a missing or wrong token, so a client trying one attack or token after another is banned. The app's own answers are not counted: gitea answers registry and package clients 404 by design, often hundreds of times a minute, which no threshold tells from a scanner. What the defaults catch instead: the default rule file bans a scanner's first probe at the site root for secrets, version control directories, backups, logs or web shells, and its known user agents; the Core Rule Set refuses injection, traversal and other attacks in URLs and headers; the request limits stop a fast scanner.BLOCKLIST_ACTIONis nowdeny, since a blocklist names networks with nothing legitimate to send.REPUTATION_ACTIONkeepslimit:25, since DNSBL and API verdicts are less certain.github.com/corazawaf/coraza-coreruleset/v4atv4.25.0ships it; the fixed changes and the defaultWAF_DISABLED_RULESare built for that version and checked again before it changes.Expectcomes off the refused headers, and so doesContent-Encodingon a request whose body the Core Rule Set does not read, which by default is every request; on a body it reads, that header stays refused. Theredirect_uriparameter is left out of 931100 and 934110: Git Credential Manager, git-credential-oauth and tea, built into gitea, sign in with a redirect tohttp://127.0.0.1, which the server never fetches. The query parameters in which gitea sends file paths, branch and workflow names and sign-in redirects (path,files,skip-to,sub_path,ref,sha,branch,workflow,artifactName,redirect_to) are left out of 930120, 932160 and 932260, whose lists hold ordinary repository names such as.gitignore,package.jsonanddocker-compose.yml; diffs, pull request review, the file tree, sign-in redirects and the API's calls for a file and its commits pass for names on those lists, and searches keep all three rules. The Core Rule Set reads requests without thegitea_flashandredirect_tocookies, in which gitea names the file, branch, title or page concerned and where one refusal would keep a browser out of the site;Refereris left out of 932340 and 944110, which refused everything a page loaded after a one-word search such asenv, and on OpenJDK'sjava.basepages that nameRuntime.WAF_BODY_LIMITdefaults tooff): a code forge's bodies carry issue and comment text, wiki pages, edited files and package descriptions full of shell commands and code, which it takes for attacks (932125, 932235, 932250, 922130 and others). The default keeps refusing automated attacks in URLs and headers and gives up refusing attacks carried in bodies. SettingWAF_BODY_LIMITreads form, multipart, JSON and XML bodies up to that size; the spec names what that then refuses in front of gitea. Responses are not inspected, since raw repository files look like leaks to the response rules.WAF_DISABLED_RULESdefaults to 920340, 920420, 920440, 920640, 930130 and 930140, which refuse by body type, file extension, and file and directory names that a code forge serves as content. The name lists have no setting to trim them, and in a repository any name on them can be ordinary. 932180, which refuses by the name of an uploaded file, leaves the default: with no body read it rarely acts, and an app that switches body inspection on keeps it.package.json,python3,ls -la,/bin/sh,fetch(or a command in backticks, a release attachment uploaded through the API under such a name, and a few file paths. Only that request is refused, no one is banned for it by itself, and the log names the rule. Artifact uploads fromactions/upload-artifact@v3sendContent-Rangeand are refused (920450); v4 passes. Uploads past 100 MiB or 60 seconds, LFS objects, image layers, packages and release attachments alike, get 413 or 408 and ban no one.bytes_limitedgoes;rule_blocked,too_large,timed_out,country_deniedandadminare added.EXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIESand wrote that it "blocks all geoip countries except these" (#8), so only clients placed in a listed country get through. It refuses clients the lookup cannot place and stays closed while GeoJS fails; that includes private addresses, which are never sent to GeoJS, so local clients needALLOW_NETS. The check sits right after the lookup, before reputation, limits, rule files and the Core Rule Set;ALLOW_NETSstill bypasses it.us,deandCN:25alike);nkstops the start, North Korea beingkp.LOOKUP_SOURCEisgeojs(default, per sneak at #9 (comment)),fileoroff.LOOKUP_DB_PATHwith anything butfile, the default included, orfilewithout it, stops the start, and so does a setting that needs lookups while it isoff.ADD_LOOKUP_HEADERSneeds it; otherwise the answer is added to the history and ban notes when it comes.lookups.json, apart from the table of clients, up to 100,000 (about 15 MiB); when full, the answer used longest ago goes first.LOOKUP_TIMEOUTis 1 second: a request that needs a new client's answer waits at most that. One request to GeoJS is under way at a time and carries up to 200 of the addresses waiting, the rest going in the requests after it. An answer withoutcountry_code, which GeoJS sends for ranges it cannot place, counts as unknown.source_failurealert per cooldown, retries with backoff.Disclosures
Runtime.javaunderjava.base,document.write.js,Get-ChildItem.ps1ornorthwind.sql; in front of every app, a cookie of either name gets no Core Rule Set check.make fmtexists yet; prettier 3.9.6 formatted both files in Docker.Closes #2
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Model: opus-5-5
FAIL: needs-rework
SPEC.mdRule files (example default file) and Risks;README.mdrule example. Theenv-fileandphp-shellbanrules match anywhere in the path, so in front of gitea, the spec's own example, a visitor or search crawler opening a repository's.env.exampleorshell.phpis banned for seven days, and its next request makes that permanent. This breaks the promise that the default file keeps to requests no real visitor sends, and Risks gives the result as seven days. Acceptable: each defaultbanrule matches only what no app serves (for example anchored at the site root, like the.gitrule), and Risks says a false match turns permanent on the next request.SPEC.mdPersistent state (ban notes, Size) andSTATE_WRITE_DELAY. Ban notes keep a count of refused requests up to date while the ban lasts, and any ban change rewrites all ofbans.jsontwo seconds later, so the file is rewritten continuously while banned clients keep sending. Permanent bans are never dropped and, under the ban model of #2, most scanners end permanently banned, so the file grows without limit, yet the text says it stays small. Acceptable: updates that only change counts wait for the one-minute write, and the text states how largebans.jsongrows and why whole-file writes stay cheap at that size, or bounds it.SPEC.mdERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD(flagged default: more than 30 a minute of 401, 403 and 404). Git sends the first request of every push, and of every fetch from a private repository, without credentials, and gitea answers it with 401; gitea's container registry does the same at the start of every pull. A build server or shared office address doing more than 30 of these a minute is banned, repeated nightly runs end in a permanent ban, and onlyALLOW_NETSexempts it. Acceptable: 401 left out of the default count (the PR body's own reason is 404 scanning), or a default such clients cannot reach, with the reasoning in the PR body.SPEC.mdPersistent state, ban notes. "Nothing is looked up to fill them" has no line in the PR body. It rules out the client's host name (reverse DNS), which "the name" in #4 may mean and which often tells an admin whether to lift a ban. The kept requests also leave out the query string, so a ban from aqueryorurirule does not show what matched. Acceptable: the host name is looked up in the background when the ban is made, or leaving it out is weighed in the PR body; the kept requests include the query string.SPEC.mdPersistent state, opening paragraph. The files are said to hold all state, as #2 asks, but none holds the AbuseIPDB checks spent today, the anomaly counters per netblock, AS number and whole service, or the alert cooldowns and hourly count. A restart resets them, and the daily budget can then pass the free tier's 1000. Acceptable: each is kept in a state file.SPEC.mdData flow and Bans, first paragraph. A ban covers "its IPv6 /64, and never more, so a permanent ban does not reach neighbours", butIPV6_GROUP_PREFIXsets the IPv6 unit for counting and banning, andBAN_SCOPE_V4_PREFIXbans neighbours. Acceptable: the IPv6 unit is theIPV6_GROUP_PREFIXgroup (/64 by default), and the claim about neighbours is limited to the defaults.SPEC.mdAlerting. The new alerts for a rule or state file edit that does not parse, and for a lookup database replacement that cannot be read, have no event type among theALERT_EVENTSvalues, so the default list never sends them. Acceptable: their event type is named and in the default list.README.mdLookup database. It says to mount the database file;SPEC.mdsays to mount the directory that holds it, since docker does not show a single mounted file being replaced, so a README reader's refreshes are never seen. Acceptable: the README says to mount the directory.Text that #8 contradicts.
SPEC.mdData flow, "Unknown is a valid result and changes nothing", would let a client the lookup database cannot place get pastEXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIES.SPEC.mdBans, last paragraph, "The result is always a ban", covers listed countries and clients with a poor reputation, but a blocklisted client under the newdenydefault and a client from a denied country are refused without a ban. Acceptable: both sentences are scoped to fit refusals without a ban, and the text says how the allow-only list treats clients it cannot place.Disclosures:
NAME_FILEfiles are read only at start, though the rule in #2 that edited files are read again can be read to cover them; the owner has this choice as proposal 2 in #10.Model: opus-5-5
Rework for #9 (comment), in
8fc7539:banrules and the README example are anchored at the site root; Risks says a false match turns permanent on the visitor's next request.bans.jsonwait for the periodic write;MAX_BANS(5000) bounds the file, and "Persistent state" states its size and write volume.alerts.json; the AbuseIPDB count inreputation.json.IPV6_GROUP_PREFIXgroup, a /64 by default; the claim about neighbours holds only at the defaults.file_error, in the defaultALERT_EVENTS.CLIENT_REQUEST_HEADER_MAX_BYTES(32K, answered 431, connection closed) andCLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT(120 seconds, then the connection is closed).clients.jsonkeeps one client per line,MAX_TRACKED_CLIENTSis 20000 and the file is written every 15 minutes: about 20 MiB and under 2 GiB of disk writes a day; the hard-kill loss is restated.DENIED_COUNTRIESandEXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIESare in the spec and the README, with the choices listed in the PR body.LOOKUP_SOURCE, with the choices listed in the PR body.Model: opus-5-5
FAIL: needs-rework
SPEC.mdConfiguration surface (WAF_DISABLED_RULES), Deployment (notes specific to gitea, rollout). WithWAF_MODE=blockandWAF_PARANOIA_LEVEL1, three Core Rule Set rules the default list leaves on refuse ordinary traffic. 911100 refuses everyPUT,PATCHandDELETE: gitea's API writes, LFS, container and package uploads, and the APIs of most current apps. 930130 refuses any path containing.git/or files such as.gitignore,.env,Dockerfileand/package.json: gitea's.gitclone addresses, and views of those files in any repository. 920450 refuses any request carryingContent-Encoding, which git sends on clone and fetch requests whose body passes 1 KiB. So the claim that the default lets git over HTTP and source file views through is wrong, and the example deployment needs tuning before it works, against point 1 of #7. Acceptable: with onlyUPSTREAM_URLset, these requests pass; the text says which Core Rule Set rules or settings the defaults change; the gitea notes claim only what holds; the PR body lists the choice.SPEC.mdERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD(flagged default) and Data flow, after the response. Gitea answers 404 by design when a container push checks each layer it does not hold yet, and to each package lookup a client such as pip makes when gitea's package registry is used as an extra index. A build server pushing a few images or installing its dependencies can pass 30 in a minute and is banned; repeated runs escalate it to a permanent ban, and the text offers no exemption short ofALLOW_NETS. Acceptable: a default that these clients of the example deployment cannot reach in ordinary use, with the reasoning in the PR body.SPEC.mdData flow, identify the client. With the private ranges trusted by default, a visitor on a private address reaching the app through traefik leaves no address outsideTRUSTED_PROXIESinX-Forwarded-For, and a container calling the sidecar directly sends no such header. The text does not say which address is then the client; taken as the TCP peer, every such visitor becomes traefik's address and shares one set of limits and one ban. Acceptable: the text says which address is the client in both cases.SPEC.mdCounting method, Bans (first paragraph),MAX_BANS. When the table is full, a ban an admin added is dropped like any other once its netblock has been quiet longest. The stated reason, that a scanner's next probe bans it again, does not hold for it, so the sidecar silently undoes an admin's decision, against "I don't want the container to overwrite an admin edit" in #2. Since most scanners end permanently banned, the table can fill within weeks on a public service. Acceptable: a ban an admin made is not dropped to make room, the text says what happens when such bans alone fill the table, and the PR body states the choice.SPEC.mdCountry lists (EXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIES);README.mdCountry and AS number lookup. A client on a private address (a visitor on the local network, another container, internal monitoring) has no country in either lookup source, so the exclusive list refuses it. Neither file says so, and the spec does not say whether such addresses are sent to GeoJS. Acceptable: both files say these clients are refused unless listed inALLOW_NETS, and the spec says whether their addresses go to GeoJS.SPEC.mdBAN_RESPONSE. It saysclosetells the client nothing, but the sidecar's peer is traefik, which answers the client with a 5xx when the connection is dropped, as #8 (comment) notes; country refusals use the same setting. Acceptable: the text says what the client receives withclose.SPEC.mdReputation (opening paragraph andBLOCKLIST_URLS); PR body, no reputation source by default. Spamhaus asks that automated downloads of DROP be at least an hour apart, and says once a day is enough; the text says it may be fetched at most once a day. Acceptable: the text states Spamhaus's published terms, and the reason for having no default list rests on them.Disclosures:
clients.json,reputation.json,alerts.jsonand the counts in ban notes are written every 15 minutes, so the files trail memory by up to that; read as the closest fit to #2 that keeps disk writes bounded, since an orderly stop writes everything and a hard kill's loss is stated.MAX_BANSis full is fit; the dropped netblock has gone quiet, and a returning abuser is banned again by the same rules.BLOCKLIST_ACTION=denyandREPUTATION_ACTION=limit:25are fit; no list is on by default, and DNSBL and API verdicts cover shared addresses that a refusal would lock out.Model: opus-5-5
Rework for #9 (comment), in
2d15e7e:Content-EncodingandExpectcome off the refused headers, as fixed changes to the Core Rule Set 4.25.0;WAF_DISABLED_RULESadds 920340, 920640, 930130, 930140 and 932180; only bodies the Core Rule Set can read are inspected, since it reads a git push or image layer as form data and refuses it; responses are not inspected; the gitea notes say what passes and what can still trip a rule.MAX_BANS, so they cannot fill it.ALLOW_NETS; the spec says they are never sent to GeoJS.closereaches the client as a 502.lookups.json, up to 100,000 for 7 days, about 15 MiB.Model: opus-5-5
FAIL: needs-rework
SPEC.mdConfiguration surface (attack detection) and Deployment (notes specific to gitea). At the defaults the Core Rule Set still refuses ordinary traffic of the example deployment. Every PyPI upload is refused: upload clients such as twine send a form field named:action, and 922130 refuses any multipart field name holding a colon. An npm publish whose body fits withinWAF_BODY_LIMITis refused when its README shows a command in backticks or a code example (932235, 941390 and others). Issue, pull request and comment text that names a command in backticks, such as "Runmake check", or holds a code block withgit cloneandmake build, is refused (932235, 932125), through the web and the API alike. The gitea notes say packages pass and leave the rest to later exclusions, against point 1 of #7; their.xhtmlexample trips a rule only when the path holds a space or a similar character. Acceptable: with onlyUPSTREAM_URLset, these pass on the example deployment while attacks are still refused; the text says which rules or settings the defaults change, the PR body lists the choice, and the gitea notes claim only what holds.SPEC.mdConfiguration surface, attack detection (the fixed change that allowsContent-Encoding). The Core Rule Set refusesContent-Encodingbecause it cannot read a compressed body. Allowing it on every request, with no setting to undo it, lets a compressed form body carrying an attack pass unread, and an app that decompresses request bodies acts on it. Only git's fetch requests need the header, and the sidecar does not inspect their bodies anyway. Acceptable:Content-Encodingis allowed only on bodies the sidecar does not pass to the Core Rule Set, or such bodies are decompressed before inspection.SPEC.mdRule files (the default file), with the defaultWAF_DISABLED_RULESandERROR_BURST_THRESHOLD; PR body, error burst line. With 930130 and 920440 off by default and the app's answers no longer counted, a scanner asking the site root for well-known files other than.envand.git, such as/.aws/credentials,/.ssh/id_rsa,/.htpasswd,/.svn/entriesor/wp-config.php.bak, meets no rule and no count, and at an ordinary pace no limit; the Core Rule Set as shipped refuses each of these. "A scanner's well-known probes are banned by the default rule file" holds only for.env,.gitand five shell names. Acceptable: the default rule file bans, anchored at the site root, the common probes those two rules used to refuse that no app serves there, and the PR body says what the defaults catch.SPEC.mdArchitecture (proposed libraries) and attack detection. The four fixed changes and the defaultWAF_DISABLED_RULEShold only for the Core Rule Set version they were read from, 4.25.0 per the PR body, butSPEC.mdnames no version and gives the rule package without its/v4module path. Acceptable:SPEC.mdnames the Core Rule Set version the defaults are built for.PR body, first paragraph. "State files that always match memory" is not what the spec says:
bans.jsonfollows a ban change within 10 seconds, and the other files are written every 15 minutes. Acceptable: the PR body says what the spec says.Disclosures:
ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLDat 30 of the sidecar's own refusals a minute is fit once finding 1 is fixed; counting the app's 404s would ban registry and package clients.BLOCKLIST_ACTION=denyandREPUTATION_ACTION=limit:25are fit: no source is on by default, a list such as DROP names networks with nothing legitimate to send, and DNSBL and API verdicts cover shared addresses that a refusal would lock out.WAF_BODY_LIMITand bodies of other types reach the app unread, so padding or relabelling an attack body (gitea reads any type containingjsonas JSON) gets it past the Core Rule Set; the text states the size case, which gitea's large uploads need.Model: opus-5-5
Paused at 15:24 UTC. The worker account this runs on is nearly out for the week. What is left goes to homoicon, the priority repo, where a review sneak ordered this afternoon is running. The rework for the third review (#9 (comment)) was stopped before it pushed anything. It restarts when a worker account resets, on 27 September at 23:00 UTC at the earliest.
Model: opus-5-5
sneak's milestone issues, #13 and #14, set what is built first. Bringing
SPEC.mdin line with them (the build order, one size limit per direction, the GeoJS answers kept in memory) is its own issue, #16, a spec change after this PR. This PR's rework and review scope stay as they were.Model: opus-5-5
No, we default to using GeoJS so country lookup works out of the box. This is an opinionated, batteries-included tool, we want it to work for a user all of the defaults. The usage of the local database file is configurable, but if they don't configure anything, it should be working out of the box with the free geojs api (and cached locally in memory, of course).
Recorded (sneak, 2026-09-25): smallwebwaf is batteries-included, so country lookup works with no setup. The default source is the free GeoJS service, with its answers kept in memory. The IPinfo database file is an option an admin can configure instead. The spec's "off until you choose a source" is wrong, and this PR's rework changes it.
Milestone 2 (#14) already uses GeoJS with no setup. It looks an address up only while a country list is set, because nothing else in that milestone uses the answer.
Model: opus-5-5
Rework for #9 (comment) and sneak's two new rulings, in
4020ff8:WAF_BODY_LIMITisoff), andredirect_uriis left out of 931100 and 934110 for gitea's built-in OAuth helpers; the gitea notes name what can still be refused and how a refusal plays out.Content-Encodingis allowed only on a request whose body the Core Rule Set does not read.SPEC.mdnames the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 andgithub.com/corazawaf/coraza-coreruleset/v4atv4.25.0.LOG_REMOTE_TLS_CA_FILEincluded.LOOKUP_SOURCEdefaults togeojs; every new visitor is looked up, which the README states plainly, and a request waits only when a setting needs the answer; reputation sources, country lists and biased thresholds stay off because the defaults judge a client by what it does./_smallwebwaf/and come through traefik; health answers anyone before any check; metrics and ban management need their tokens and answer 404 while unset; a wrong token counts toward the error burst.Model: opus-5-5
FAIL: needs-rework
SPEC.mdConfiguration surface (attack detection) and Deployment (notes specific to gitea). At the defaults the Core Rule Set refuses gitea's own requests that carry a repository file path in the query string whenever the name is on its list of system and configuration files (930120) or starts with a command name (932260). That is about a third of common names, among them.gitignore,package.json,package-lock.json,yarn.lock,tsconfig.json,docker-compose.yml,.htaccessand.bashrc. Refused are: expanding the hidden lines of a diff, loading a large file's diff and loading more files in pull request review; the sign-in redirect gitea sends a remembered visitor whose session has expired, and every visitor when sign-in is required to view; API calls such as listing the commits of one file; and code searches for such a name. The gitea notes say browsing passes and name only searches holding commands, system paths, script code, HTML, SQL or local addresses, and two kinds of file path. Reviewing a pull request that changespackage.jsonis everyday use of the example deployment (point 1 of #7). Acceptable: with onlyUPSTREAM_URLset these requests pass while attacks in query strings are still refused; the text says which rules or settings the defaults change and the PR body lists the choice; the gitea notes claim only what holds and name the searches still refused, such as one forpackage.json.SPEC.mdConfiguration surface (request rate limits) and the gitea notes. A gitea Actions runner older than version 1.0 (May 2026) asks for work every 2 seconds, 43200 requests a day, and reports its log and state every second while a job runs, so it passes the limit of 50000 a day after about an hour and a quarter of jobs. It is then banned, its running job loses contact, and repeats within a day escalate to a permanent ban. The text sizes the limits for people only. Acceptable: the defaults leave room for such a runner, or the gitea notes name the case and the exemption it needs, such as the runner's address inRATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS; the PR body lists the choice.SPEC.mdDeployment (notes specific to gitea). Two rarer refusals are not named. Uploads other than git pushes that pass 100 MiB or 60 seconds, such as LFS objects, container image layers, package files and release attachments, are cut off like a large push. Uploads that sendContent-Rangeare refused by the Core Rule Set (920450); in gitea these are artifact uploads fromactions/upload-artifact@v3. Acceptable: the notes name both and say how each refusal plays out.SPEC.mdConfiguration surface (lookup, thegeojsandLOOKUP_TIMEOUTbullets); PR body. One GeoJS request carries every address waiting, with no upper bound, but GeoJS fails a request of about a thousand IPv4 addresses, and fewer IPv6 ones. After an outage, or in a swarm of new addresses, the case the text gives for asking together, every retry then fails and new clients stay unknown, all refused whileEXCLUSIVELY_ALLOWED_COUNTRIESis set. The same bullet says GeoJS gives acountry_codeofnullfor ranges it cannot place; it leaves the field out. Acceptable: a stated maximum of addresses per request, a few hundred, with the rest in the requests that follow; the field described as GeoJS sends it.SPEC.mdConfiguration surface (ADMIN_TOKEN,METRICS_TOKEN) and Admin endpoints. The token is the only protection of endpoints anyone on the internet can reach, yet a set token of any length is accepted:ADMIN_TOKEN=adminstarts, and guessing spread over many addresses gets 30 tries a minute from each. Acceptable: a set token shorter than a stated minimum stops the start with a message naming the variable; the PR body lists the choice.SPEC.mdRule files. "A missing or empty directory is not an error" lets aRULES_DIRthat names a directory that does not exist start with no rules at all, on a log line only, against the standing rule that configuration set but invalid stops the start. Acceptable: aRULES_DIRthat does not exist stops the start with a message naming it; an existing empty directory, orRULES_ENABLED=false, stays the way to run without rules.Disclosures:
ERROR_BURST_THRESHOLDat 30 of the sidecar's own refusals a minute, andBLOCKLIST_ACTION=denybesideREPUTATION_ACTION=limit:25, are fit as the text states them.Model: opus-5-5
Rework for #9 (comment), in
44a95a6:redirect_tocookie, out of 930120, 932160 and 932260; searches keep them, and the gitea notes claim only what passes and name what stays refused, such as a search forpackage.json.RATE_LIMIT_EXEMPT_NETS; the request limits point there.actions/upload-artifact@v3'sContent-Range(403 per file, a failed step, a runner ban past 30 files).country_codecounts as unknown.ADMIN_TOKENorMETRICS_TOKENshorter than 32 characters stops the start.RULES_DIRthat does not exist stops the start; an empty directory orRULES_ENABLED=falseruns without rule files.Model: opus-5-5
FAIL: needs-rework
SPEC.mdConfiguration surface, attack detection (the change that leaves gitea's query parameters out of 930120, 932160 and 932260), and Risks. The text does not say that this change holds in front of every app, not only gitea, and it understates what the change gives up. In those ten parameters, not only/etc/passwdorwhoamion its own now passes, but also commands such as|cat /etc/passwd,wget http://…andnc -e /bin/sh …, andfile:///etc/passwd, whatever the app, and no setting restores the three rules. The operator of an app that usespathorrefas a file on the server, or passes it to a shell, is not told. Acceptable: the text says plainly that the change applies in front of every app and what those parameters then let through, and Risks names the case of an app that uses one of them as a server path or in a shell command.SPEC.mdDeployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (ordinary use). "Whatever its files and branches are called" does not hold. Gitea also sends branch, tag and template names in query parameters that keep all three rules:refSubUrl, when a directory listing loads each file's last commit separately, which it does whenever working them out takes more than a second;name, when a branch is deleted or restored on the branches page;tag, when a release is started from the tags page;template, when an issue is opened from an issue template. A name that starts withdocker-,python3,ansible,base64orwhoami, such as the spec's own example branchdocker-build, is refused there (932260). Acceptable: the notes claim only what holds, and name these cases and how a refusal plays out.SPEC.mdDeployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (actions/upload-artifact@v3). The refusal does not play out as described. The action sends two files at a time, does not retry a 403 and stops at the first file that fails, so an upload of any size is refused once or twice and the step fails. A single upload never bans the runner; only more than 30 such refusals within a minute do, as from many jobs uploading at once. Acceptable: the note says how the refusal actually plays out.Disclosures:
actions/upload-artifact@v3, and on Coraza 3.7.0 with the Core Rule Set 4.25.0 and the spec's changes applied.Model: opus-5-5
Rework for #9 (comment), in
8b3aba8:rule_name(the branch protection rule's edit link, found in the same templates), and how a refusal plays out in each;docker-buildstays as the example branch and is named there.Unverified: the Core Rule Set was not run again; the examples for 1 are the review's and match the command lists of the Core Rule Set 4.25.0, and gitea's behaviour comes from the source of gitea 1.27.3, not a running gitea.
Model: opus-5-5
FAIL: needs-rework
SPEC.mdDeployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (the note on branch, tag and file names). The note limits these refusals to names that start withdocker-,python3or another command name. A name with such a part after a/, a common way to name branches, is refused in the same places:feat/docker-support,fix/docker-buildorrenovate/docker-build-push-action-6.x, for example. Meanwhile the note on ordinary use says browsing passes apart from what this note names.rule_nameis also sent after such a protection rule is saved: gitea saves it, then returns to the branch settings page, which gets the sidecar's 403 answer, so the save looks as if it failed. Acceptable: the note also covers names with such a part after a/, and says what saving such a protection rule looks like.Disclosures:
body, not the selected lines. So it is refused only when that file's name is on the lists or gitea's own address is an IP address orlocalhost. The note on query strings covers both, a listed name in any query parameter and a URL naming an IP address orlocalhost, and says how a refusal plays out, so the case needs no naming.Model: opus-5-5
Rework for #9 (comment), in
22f32a4:/, with the review's examples, and says what saving such a protection rule looks like. Unverified against a running gitea: this rests on the source of gitea 1.27.3 and the pattern of 932260 in the Core Rule Set 4.25.0.Model: opus-5-5
FAIL: needs-rework
SPEC.mdDeployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (the note on ordinary use and the note on refusals), with the fifth change to the Core Rule Set. Gitea keeps its one-time messages in thegitea_flashcookie. After a file is deleted in the web editor, the message holds the file's path. When that path holds a name on 930120's list, such aspackage.json,package-lock.json,yarn.lock,.gitignoreorconfig.yml, the page gitea returns to is refused. So is every later request from that browser, pages, assets and API calls alike: gitea clears the cookie only when it answers the next page, and that page never reaches it. The browser stays locked out of the site until it drops the cookie, and each refusal counts toward the error burst. A milestone or project created with such a name in its title does the same. The notes name no cookie case, and say that each refusal answers only that request. Acceptable: at the defaults such a browser is not locked out, for example because thegitea_flashcookie is left out of 930120, 932160 and 932260 as theredirect_tocookie is; or the notes name the case and say how it plays out.SPEC.mdDeployment as a sidecar, notes specific to gitea (the note on query strings and searches). "Text that starts with a command name" leaves out text whose first word has a listed command right after a/, which 932260 refuses the same way. A search for the branchfeat/docker-support, on the branches page or in code or issue search, is refused. The note on names now says this for names, so the two notes describe the same rule differently. Acceptable: the note on searches also covers such text, as the note on names does.Disclosures:
Model: opus-5-5
Rework for #9 (comment), in
7b48306:gitea_flashandredirect_tocookies. Leaving them out of 930120, 932160 and 932260 alone would still lock a browser out, because the Java, script, PowerShell and database-name rules also refuse ordinary names in them, such asRuntime.javaunderjava.base,document.write.jsorGet-ChildItem.ps1. The change says it holds in front of every app and what it gives up; Risks names an app that reads either cookie; the note on ordinary use names the page gitea shows after a change; the PR body's line on the fixed changes says the same./, such asfeat/docker-support.Referer: after a one-word search such asenv(932340), and on OpenJDK pages whose address holdsruntimeandjava.(944110). Each refusal took out everything such a page loads and every link on it, so the same change leavesRefererout of those two rules.pathfor the OpenJDK file above for example. The PR body no longer says those pages pass whatever the files are called.Model: opus-5-5
621c78dadds one sentence to the Core Rule Set false positives risk inSPEC.md: further gitea requests the Core Rule Set may refuse at the defaults are collected in #30 and checked when milestone 1 runs in front of a real gitea.Model: opus-5-5
PASS: the two findings of the seventh review (#9 (comment)) are fixed, and nothing changed since
22f32a4contradicts sneak's recorded rulings.Model: opus-5-5