Bound the receiver rate limit per client IP across /webhook/* (closes #139)
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The receiver limiter keyed buckets on (client IP, request path). The
route pattern /webhook/{uuid} matches any single segment, so a client
that invented a fresh path per request minted a fresh bucket per
request and never refilled one: its aggregate rate against the only
unauthenticated, internet-exposed endpoint was unbounded, and every
one of those requests reached an entrypoint lookup before it 404ed.

Put a second limiter in front of it, keyed on the client IP alone and
covering the whole route at ten times the configured per-entrypoint
limit (1200/min by default). The per-entrypoint limit is unchanged and
still wanted; it just bounds nothing in aggregate on its own. Ten
entrypoints' worth of headroom lets one sender address drive several
entrypoints at full rate while still capping what one address costs
the receiver. The multiplication saturates rather than wrapping, since
nothing bounds RECEIVER_RATE_LIMIT from above and a negative limit
would reject every request.

Move the handler's INFO line for an incoming webhook below the
entrypoint lookup. The UUID is attacker-controlled path text, so
logging it first let a client write an INFO line per invented path; a
miss is already logged at DEBUG and the request is already in the
access log.
This commit is contained in:
2026-08-12 10:37:58 +00:00
parent 543005c0c2
commit b5b3e1a926
5 changed files with 164 additions and 15 deletions

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@@ -39,12 +39,6 @@ func (h *Handlers) HandleWebhook() http.HandlerFunc {
return
}
h.log.Info("webhook request received",
"entrypoint_uuid", entrypointUUID,
"method", r.Method,
"remote_addr", r.RemoteAddr,
)
entrypoint, ok := h.lookupEntrypoint(
w, r, entrypointUUID,
)
@@ -52,6 +46,18 @@ func (h *Handlers) HandleWebhook() http.HandlerFunc {
return
}
// Logged only once the UUID is known to name a real
// entrypoint. The UUID comes straight out of the path on
// the one unauthenticated endpoint, so logging it before
// the lookup let a client write an INFO line per invented
// path; the request itself is already in the access log
// and a miss is already logged at DEBUG.
h.log.Info("webhook request received",
"entrypoint_uuid", entrypointUUID,
"method", r.Method,
"remote_addr", r.RemoteAddr,
)
if !entrypoint.Active {
http.Error(w, "Gone", http.StatusGone)

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@@ -41,3 +41,13 @@ const LoginRateLimitConst = loginRateLimit
// PasswordChangeRateLimitConst exposes the
// passwordChangeRateLimit constant.
const PasswordChangeRateLimitConst = passwordChangeRateLimit
// ReceiverAggregateMultiplierConst exposes the
// receiverAggregateMultiplier constant.
const ReceiverAggregateMultiplierConst = receiverAggregateMultiplier
// ReceiverAggregateLimitForTest exposes receiverAggregateLimit for
// testing.
func ReceiverAggregateLimitForTest(perEntrypoint int) int {
return receiverAggregateLimit(perEntrypoint)
}

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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
package middleware
import (
"math"
"net/http"
"net/netip"
"slices"
@@ -33,6 +34,14 @@ const (
// requests per minute.
receiverRateInterval = 1 * time.Minute
// receiverAggregateMultiplier scales the configured
// per-entrypoint receiver limit into the aggregate limit one
// client IP may spend across the whole /webhook/* route. Ten
// entrypoints' worth lets a single sender address drive several
// entrypoints at their full rate, while still capping what one
// address costs the unauthenticated receiver.
receiverAggregateMultiplier = 10
// maxForwardedHops bounds how many X-Forwarded-For entries the
// chain walk examines. Real chains are one to three hops, but a
// client can pad the header up to MaxHeaderBytes, so without a
@@ -242,15 +251,26 @@ func (m *Middleware) postRateLimit(
}
}
// ReceiverRateLimit returns middleware that rate-limits the
// public webhook receiver endpoint per client IP per request
// path (the path contains the entrypoint UUID, so each sender
// is limited per entrypoint without affecting other senders or
// other entrypoints). The limit is Config.ReceiverRateLimit
// requests per minute. Requests over the limit receive a 429.
// Clients are identified by rateLimitKey.
// ReceiverRateLimit returns middleware that rate-limits the public
// webhook receiver endpoint with two limits in series.
//
// The inner limit is per client IP per request path: the path
// contains the entrypoint UUID, so each sender is limited per
// entrypoint without affecting other senders or other entrypoints.
// It is Config.ReceiverRateLimit requests per minute.
//
// That limit alone bounds nothing in aggregate. The route pattern
// /webhook/{uuid} matches any single segment, so a client that
// invents a fresh path per request mints a fresh bucket per request
// and never refills one — and every such request still reaches the
// handler's entrypoint lookup before it 404s. The outer limit is
// therefore keyed on the client IP alone, capping what one address
// can spend across the whole route however it varies the path.
//
// Requests over either limit receive a 429. Clients are identified
// by rateLimitKey.
func (m *Middleware) ReceiverRateLimit() func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
return httprate.Limit(
perEntrypoint := httprate.Limit(
m.params.Config.ReceiverRateLimit,
receiverRateInterval,
httprate.WithKeyFuncs(
@@ -262,4 +282,31 @@ func (m *Middleware) ReceiverRateLimit() func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
"Too many requests. Please slow down.",
)),
)
aggregate := httprate.Limit(
receiverAggregateLimit(m.params.Config.ReceiverRateLimit),
receiverRateInterval,
httprate.WithKeyFuncs(m.rateLimitKey),
httprate.WithLimitHandler(m.tooManyRequests(
"webhook receiver aggregate rate limit exceeded",
"Too many requests. Please slow down.",
)),
)
return func(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
return aggregate(perEntrypoint(next))
}
}
// receiverAggregateLimit is the per-IP aggregate limit derived from
// the configured per-entrypoint limit. The operator sets the latter
// and nothing bounds it from above, so the multiplication is
// saturated rather than allowed to wrap into a negative limit that
// would reject every request.
func receiverAggregateLimit(perEntrypoint int) int {
if perEntrypoint > math.MaxInt/receiverAggregateMultiplier {
return math.MaxInt
}
return perEntrypoint * receiverAggregateMultiplier
}

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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
"context"
"fmt"
"log/slog"
"math"
"net/http"
"net/http/httptest"
"net/netip"
@@ -670,6 +671,77 @@ func TestRateLimitKey_LongChainAllocationIsBounded(t *testing.T) {
)
}
// TestReceiverRateLimit_LimitsAggregateAcrossInventedPaths is the
// regression test for the per-path bucket key. The route pattern
// matches any single segment, so a client that never reuses a path
// never reuses a per-entrypoint bucket either, and its aggregate
// rate against the receiver is whatever it likes — with every
// request reaching an entrypoint lookup before it 404s. The IP-only
// aggregate limiter is what bounds that, so this must fail if the
// aggregate limiter is removed.
func TestReceiverRateLimit_LimitsAggregateAcrossInventedPaths(
t *testing.T,
) {
t.Parallel()
const (
limit = 3
ip = "6.6.6.6:1234"
)
aggregate := limit * middleware.ReceiverAggregateMultiplierConst
handler := receiverLimitedHandler(t, limit)
// Every request goes to a path this client has never used, so
// none of them shares a per-entrypoint bucket with another.
for i := range aggregate {
w := receiverPost(
handler, ip, fmt.Sprintf("/webhook/invented-%d", i),
)
assert.Equal(
t, http.StatusOK, w.Code,
"request %d to a distinct path should pass", i,
)
}
w := receiverPost(
handler, ip, fmt.Sprintf("/webhook/invented-%d", aggregate),
)
assert.Equal(
t, http.StatusTooManyRequests, w.Code,
"a client must not be able to raise its aggregate rate "+
"against /webhook/* by varying the path",
)
// The aggregate limit is still per client IP: exhausting one
// address must not throttle another.
w = receiverPost(handler, "6.6.6.7:1234", "/webhook/invented-0")
assert.Equal(
t, http.StatusOK, w.Code,
"a different client IP must not be affected",
)
}
// TestReceiverAggregateLimit_SaturatesOnOverflow covers the derived
// aggregate limit for a configured per-entrypoint limit large enough
// that multiplying it would wrap negative, which httprate would read
// as a limit that rejects every request.
func TestReceiverAggregateLimit_SaturatesOnOverflow(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
assert.Equal(
t, 1200,
middleware.ReceiverAggregateLimitForTest(120),
"the default limit scales by the multiplier",
)
assert.Equal(
t, math.MaxInt,
middleware.ReceiverAggregateLimitForTest(math.MaxInt),
"an overflowing limit saturates instead of wrapping",
)
}
// TestReceiverRateLimit_IgnoresForwardedFromUntrustedPeer proves
// the receiver limiter uses the same gated key function as the
// POST limiters.