Gate forwarded-header trust behind trusted-proxy config (closes #88)
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Every rate limiter keyed on httprate.KeyByRealIP, which believes
True-Client-IP, X-Real-IP and the first X-Forwarded-For entry from
any peer. A client could therefore mint a fresh bucket per request
by rotating a spoofed header, or drain another client's bucket by
claiming its address, which left the receiver, login and password
change limits with no value against a deliberate attacker.

The receiver, login and password change limiters now share one key
function: the connection's own address, unless the direct peer is
inside a network listed in the new TRUSTED_PROXIES CIDR list, in
which case the forwarded client address is used. The list is empty
by default, so nothing is trusted until an operator names their
proxy; a set-but-unparseable value aborts startup, matching the
handling of the other parsed variables.

X-Forwarded-For is the only forwarded header read, from any peer.
Reverse proxies append to it but pass other client headers through
verbatim, so believing a single-valued X-Real-IP or True-Client-IP
would hand a client behind the trusted proxy a fresh bucket per
request - the same bypass, inside the deployment TRUSTED_PROXIES
exists to serve. Within a trusted request the chain is walked right
to left, since the rightmost entry is the one the nearest proxy
appended, and the first hop that is not itself a trusted proxy is
taken as the client. A hop that is not a bare address - ip:port, a
bracketed IPv6 literal, the token unknown - ends the walk and the
peer address is used, rather than continuing left into entries the
client controls.

Trusted-proxy prefixes written in IPv4-mapped form are unmapped at
parse time, since peer addresses are unmapped before matching and
such a prefix would otherwise silently never match.

Also folds in two cleanups from the same review: the 429 responder
shared by all three limiters is extracted, and the
RECEIVER_RATE_LIMIT error-path tests now assert that the failure
names the variable and wraps ErrNonPositiveValue rather than only
that some error occurred.
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2026-08-11 13:02:55 +00:00
parent 7c43e095a6
commit f5bcfdccb1
5 changed files with 743 additions and 59 deletions

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@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ import (
"errors"
"fmt"
"log/slog"
"net/netip"
"os"
"strconv"
"strings"
"time"
"go.uber.org/fx"
@@ -45,6 +47,11 @@ const (
// maxPort is the highest valid TCP port number. The lower
// bound (at least 1) is enforced by envPositiveInt.
maxPort = 65535
// mappedV4Offset is the number of leading bits an IPv4-mapped
// IPv6 prefix spends on the ::ffff:0:0/96 wrapper, so a /104
// covers the same addresses as an IPv4 /8.
mappedV4Offset = 96
)
// ErrInvalidEnvironment is returned when WEBHOOKER_ENVIRONMENT
@@ -59,6 +66,11 @@ var ErrNonPositiveValue = errors.New("value must be positive")
// TCP port number is set above the valid port range.
var ErrInvalidPort = errors.New("invalid port")
// ErrInvalidCIDR is returned when an environment variable holding a
// list of CIDR blocks contains an entry that is neither a CIDR block
// nor a bare IP address.
var ErrInvalidCIDR = errors.New("invalid CIDR")
//nolint:revive // ConfigParams is a standard fx naming convention.
type ConfigParams struct {
fx.In
@@ -90,6 +102,14 @@ type Config struct {
// client IP may send to a single webhook receiver entrypoint.
ReceiverRateLimit int
// TrustedProxies is the set of networks whose members are
// allowed to speak for the client with forwarded headers
// (X-Forwarded-For, X-Real-IP, True-Client-IP). It is empty
// unless TRUSTED_PROXIES is set, and empty means no peer is
// trusted: forwarded headers are then ignored entirely and
// clients are identified by the connection's own address.
TrustedProxies []netip.Prefix
params *ConfigParams
log *slog.Logger
}
@@ -212,6 +232,71 @@ func envDuration(
return d, nil
}
// parseCIDR parses one trusted-proxy list entry, which may be a
// CIDR block ("10.0.0.0/8") or a bare address ("10.0.0.1", treated
// as a single-host block).
//
// Both forms are unmapped, because peer addresses are unmapped
// before they are matched against the list: an IPv4-mapped prefix
// left in that form would silently never match.
func parseCIDR(entry string) (netip.Prefix, error) {
if strings.Contains(entry, "/") {
prefix, err := netip.ParsePrefix(entry)
if err != nil {
return netip.Prefix{}, err //nolint:wrapcheck // wrapped by caller
}
if addr := prefix.Addr(); addr.Is4In6() &&
prefix.Bits() >= mappedV4Offset {
prefix = netip.PrefixFrom(
addr.Unmap(), prefix.Bits()-mappedV4Offset,
)
}
return prefix.Masked(), nil
}
addr, err := netip.ParseAddr(entry)
if err != nil {
return netip.Prefix{}, err //nolint:wrapcheck // wrapped by caller
}
return netip.PrefixFrom(addr.Unmap(), addr.Unmap().BitLen()), nil
}
// envPrefixList returns the value of the named environment variable
// parsed as a comma-separated list of CIDR blocks (bare addresses
// allowed). An unset, empty, or blank value yields an empty list. A
// set value containing an unparseable entry is a hard error naming
// the key and the bad entry, so startup fails loudly rather than
// silently running with a list the operator did not intend.
func envPrefixList(key string) ([]netip.Prefix, error) {
v := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv(key))
if v == "" {
return nil, nil
}
var prefixes []netip.Prefix
for entry := range strings.SplitSeq(v, ",") {
entry = strings.TrimSpace(entry)
if entry == "" {
continue
}
prefix, err := parseCIDR(entry)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf(
"%w: %s: %q: %w", ErrInvalidCIDR, key, entry, err,
)
}
prefixes = append(prefixes, prefix)
}
return prefixes, nil
}
// resolveEnvironment reads WEBHOOKER_ENVIRONMENT, defaulting to
// dev, and rejects unrecognised values.
func resolveEnvironment() (string, error) {
@@ -282,6 +367,11 @@ func loadFromEnv() (*Config, error) {
return nil, err
}
trustedProxies, err := envPrefixList("TRUSTED_PROXIES")
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return &Config{
DataDir: envString("DATA_DIR"),
Debug: debug,
@@ -294,6 +384,7 @@ func loadFromEnv() (*Config, error) {
RetentionSweepInterval: retentionSweepInterval,
SessionIdleTimeout: sessionIdleTimeout,
ReceiverRateLimit: receiverRateLimit,
TrustedProxies: trustedProxies,
}, nil
}
@@ -335,6 +426,7 @@ func New(lc fx.Lifecycle, params ConfigParams) (*Config, error) {
"dataDir", s.DataDir,
"retentionSweepInterval", s.RetentionSweepInterval.String(),
"receiverRateLimit", s.ReceiverRateLimit,
"trustedProxies", len(s.TrustedProxies),
"hasSentryDSN", s.SentryDSN != "",
"hasMetricsAuth",
s.MetricsUsername != "" && s.MetricsPassword != "",