smallwebwaf/internal/servewaf/bans.go

package servewaf

// The heuristic active_ban, and the code that makes bans, which several
// heuristics share. active_ban reads SWWAF_MODE; the bans are the ban ledger's.

import (
	"context"
	"net/netip"
	"time"

	"sneak.berlin/go/smallwebwaf/internal/alerts"
	"sneak.berlin/go/smallwebwaf/internal/bans"
	"sneak.berlin/go/smallwebwaf/internal/ratelimit"
	"sneak.berlin/go/smallwebwaf/internal/reputation"
	"sneak.berlin/go/smallwebwaf/internal/requestlog"
)

// banResponse is a refusal answered with SWWAF_BAN_RESPONSE, and logged
// with action.
func (rq *request) banResponse(action string) *refusal {
	return &refusal{status: rq.h.config.BanResponse, action: action}
}

// activeBan refuses a client a ban covers: a ban on a netblock the client is
// in, in force at now. It notes for the log line when that ban ends. A request
// that makes the ban permanent, or in observe mode would have, raises the alert
// for it. Its figures are the ban's netblock and when it ends.
type activeBan struct{}

func (activeBan) name() string { return "active_ban" }

func (activeBan) check(_ context.Context, rq *request, now time.Time) *verdict {
	check := rq.h.ledger.Check
	if rq.h.config.Observe {
		check = rq.h.ledger.Find // the ban refuses nothing, and stays as it is
	}

	ban, banned, madePermanent := check(rq.client, now)
	if banned {
		rq.line.BanExpires = banExpires(ban)
	}

	if madePermanent {
		ban.Expires = time.Time{} // the ban made permanent, which Find leaves as it is
		rq.alertBan(ban)
	}

	if !banned {
		return nil
	}

	return &verdict{
		action: requestlog.ActionBanned,
		figures: map[string]any{
			figureNetblock: ban.Netblock.String(), "ban_expires": rq.line.BanExpires,
		},
	}
}

// limitFigures are the figures of a heuristic that broke hit, a limit: its
// window, the count and the limit.
func limitFigures(hit ratelimit.Hit) map[string]any {
	return map[string]any{
		figureWindow: hit.Window, figureCount: hit.Count, figureLimit: hit.Limit,
	}
}

// countedBytes returns the request's bytes, once it has ended, as the
// byte limits and the anomaly thresholds count them: the response's body
// bytes, the request's, or both, as SWWAF_BYTES_COUNT says.
func (rq *request) countedBytes() int64 {
	response, request := rq.out.bytes, rq.requestBytes

	switch rq.h.config.BytesCount {
	case "response":
		return response
	case "request":
		return request
	default: // both
		return response + request
	}
}

// banForLimit bans the client's netblock at now for a broken limit, the
// one hit names, notes the offence for the log line and counts the hit in
// the metrics. status is what the client was sent, or is sent:
// SWWAF_BAN_RESPONSE for a request over a rate limit, what the report says for
// one whose bytes broke a byte limit, the refusal for one that broke the
// error burst. The ban's notes give the client's limit percentage for a
// rate limit or a byte limit; the error burst is not lowered. The ban sets
// the client's counters back to zero. In observe mode it makes no ban and
// sets nothing back, and raises the alert for the ban it would have made,
// if that alert would be sent.
func (rq *request) banForLimit(now time.Time, hit ratelimit.Hit, status int) {
	switch hit.Kind {
	case ratelimit.KindBytes:
		rq.line.LimitHit = hit.Window + "_bytes" // as counts names the byte totals
	case ratelimit.KindRefusals:
		rq.line.LimitHit = requestlog.LimitHitErrorBurst
	default:
		rq.line.LimitHit = hit.Window
	}

	rq.line.Offence = requestlog.OffenceLimit
	rq.h.metrics.LimitHit(hit)

	netblock := rq.h.netblock(rq.client)
	if rq.h.config.Observe && !rq.wouldAlertBan(netblock, now, bans.CauseLimit) {
		return
	}

	notes := bans.Notes{
		ASN:        rq.line.ASN,
		ASName:     rq.line.ASName,
		Country:    rq.line.Country,
		Kind:       hit.Kind,
		Limit:      hit.Limit,
		Window:     hit.Window,
		Count:      hit.Count,
		Reputation: rq.reputation,
		Request:    rq.noted(now, status),
		Requests:   rq.netblockRequests(netblock),
	}

	switch hit.Kind {
	case ratelimit.KindRequests:
		notes.LimitPercent, notes.LimitPercentSetting = rq.limitPercent.logged()
	case ratelimit.KindBytes:
		notes.LimitPercent, notes.LimitPercentSetting = rq.bytesPercent.logged()
	}

	if rq.h.config.Observe {
		ban, wouldBan := rq.h.ledger.WouldBanForLimit(netblock, now, notes)
		if wouldBan {
			rq.alertBan(ban)
		}

		return
	}

	ban, made := rq.h.ledger.BanForLimit(netblock, now, notes)
	rq.h.limiter.Reset(rq.h.clientGroup(rq.client))
	rq.line.BanExpires = banExpires(ban)

	if made {
		rq.alertBan(ban)
	}
}

// banForAttack bans the client's netblock at now for a clear sign of
// attack, which notes name: the ban rule that matched, or the trap path
// asked for. It fills in the rest of the notes. In observe mode it makes
// no ban, and raises the alert for the ban it would have made, if that
// alert would be sent.
func (rq *request) banForAttack(now time.Time, notes bans.Notes) {
	netblock := rq.h.netblock(rq.client)
	if rq.h.config.Observe && !rq.wouldAlertBan(netblock, now, bans.CauseAttack) {
		return
	}

	notes.ASN = rq.line.ASN
	notes.ASName = rq.line.ASName
	notes.Country = rq.line.Country
	notes.Reputation = rq.reputation
	notes.Request = rq.noted(now, rq.h.config.BanResponse)
	notes.Requests = rq.netblockRequests(netblock)

	if rq.h.config.Observe {
		ban, wouldBan := rq.h.ledger.WouldBanForAttack(netblock, now, notes)
		if wouldBan {
			rq.alertBan(ban)
		}

		return
	}

	ban, made := rq.h.ledger.BanForAttack(netblock, now, notes)
	rq.line.BanExpires = banExpires(ban)

	if made {
		rq.alertBan(ban)
	}
}

// banForCrowdSec bans the client's netblock at now until decision,
// CrowdSec's decision on the client, ends. In observe mode it makes no
// ban, and raises the alert for the ban it would have made, if that alert
// would be sent.
func (rq *request) banForCrowdSec(now time.Time, decision reputation.Decision) {
	netblock := rq.h.netblock(rq.client)
	if rq.h.config.Observe && !rq.wouldAlertBan(netblock, now, bans.CauseCrowdSec) {
		return
	}

	notes := bans.Notes{
		ASN:        rq.line.ASN,
		ASName:     rq.line.ASName,
		Country:    rq.line.Country,
		Reputation: rq.reputation,
		Request:    rq.noted(now, rq.h.config.BanResponse),
		Requests:   rq.netblockRequests(netblock),
	}

	if rq.h.config.Observe {
		ban, wouldBan := rq.h.ledger.WouldBanForCrowdSec(netblock, now, decision.Expires,
			decision.Scenario, notes)
		if wouldBan {
			rq.alertBan(ban)
		}

		return
	}

	ban, made := rq.h.ledger.BanForCrowdSec(netblock, now, decision.Expires,
		decision.Scenario, notes)
	rq.line.BanExpires = banExpires(ban)

	if made {
		rq.alertBan(ban)
	}
}

// wouldAlertBan reports whether the alert for a ban on netblock for cause
// made at now would be sent. In observe mode the ban the request would
// have made is worked out only then, at most once per
// SWWAF_ALERT_COOLDOWN and never with no webhook set: its notes count the
// netblock's requests, which can mean going through every client.
func (rq *request) wouldAlertBan(
	netblock netip.Prefix, now time.Time, cause string,
) bool {
	event := alerts.EventBan
	if rq.h.ledger.WouldBePermanent(netblock, now, cause) {
		event = alerts.EventPermanentBan
	}

	return rq.h.alerts.WouldSend(event, netblock)
}

// alertBan raises the alert for ban, which the request made, or made
// permanent: permanent_ban for a permanent ban, ban for another. Its
// detail gives the ban's cause, when it ends, and its notes, and in
// observe mode, where ban is the ban that would have been made, or made
// permanent, mode, observe.
func (rq *request) alertBan(ban bans.Ban) {
	event := alerts.EventBan
	if ban.Permanent() {
		event = alerts.EventPermanentBan
	}

	detail := map[string]any{
		"cause": ban.Cause, "ban_expires": banExpires(ban), "notes": ban.Notes,
	}
	if rq.h.config.Observe {
		detail["mode"] = "observe"
	}

	rq.h.alerts.Raise(alerts.Alert{
		Event:    event,
		Host:     rq.site,
		Client:   rq.client,
		Netblock: ban.Netblock,
		ASN:      ban.Notes.ASN,
		ASName:   ban.Notes.ASName,
		Country:  ban.Notes.Country,
		Reason:   ban.Reason,
		Detail:   detail,
	})
}

// noted is the request, at now, with status, what the client was sent, or
// in observe mode would have been, as the notes of the ban it makes keep
// it.
func (rq *request) noted(now time.Time, status int) bans.Request {
	return bans.Request{
		Time:      now,
		Method:    rq.line.Method,
		Host:      rq.line.Host,
		Path:      rq.requestURI,
		Status:    status,
		UserAgent: rq.line.UserAgent,
	}
}

// netblockRequests is how many requests netblock has sent since it was
// first seen, this one included: the histories count it only once it has
// ended.
func (rq *request) netblockRequests(netblock netip.Prefix) int64 {
	return rq.h.limiter.Requests(netblock) + 1
}

// netblock is the netblock a ban on client covers: its IPv4 address,
// widened to SWWAF_BAN_SCOPE_V4_PREFIX, or the IPv6 group clientGroup
// counts it in.
func (h *handler) netblock(client netip.Addr) netip.Prefix {
	addr := client.Unmap()
	if addr.Is4() {
		return netip.PrefixFrom(addr, h.config.BanScopeV4Prefix).Masked()
	}

	return h.clientGroup(addr)
}

// banExpires is when ban ends, as the log line gives it: a time, or
// permanent.
func banExpires(ban bans.Ban) string {
	if ban.Permanent() {
		return permanent
	}

	return requestlog.FormatTime(ban.Expires)
}