Add an egress CIDR allowlist to the SSRF guard (closes #204)
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The SSRF blocklist had no escape hatch, so the thing webhooker is
mostly for — taking a public webhook and forwarding it to something
on your own network — could not be configured at all. Every private
address, Docker sibling and loopback service was permanently
unreachable as a delivery destination.

ALLOWED_EGRESS_CIDRS (default empty) names blocks that delivery
targets may reach despite the default blocklist. It is an allowlist
and only ever adds destinations: there is no boolean, and no value
disables SSRF protection wholesale. Empty, the guard behaves exactly
as before.

A fixed set of addresses is refused before the allowlist is
consulted, so no supplied CIDR opens one — not the exact address,
not a supernet, not 0.0.0.0/0 or ::/0. It is the two link-local
blocks (169.254.0.0/16, fe80::/10) plus host routes for the cloud
metadata endpoints that sit outside them: AWS's IPv6 IMDS at
fd00:ec2::254, which lives in ordinary ULA space, and Alibaba's
100.100.100.200, which lives in CGNAT. Allowlisting fd00::/8 or
100.64.0.0/10 (Tailscale's range) is an ordinary thing for an
operator to do and must not reopen instance-credential theft. The
IPv4-compatible (::a9fe:a9fe) and NAT64 (64:ff9b::a9fe:a9fe)
spellings of 169.254.169.254 are listed too, because To4() does not
normalise them into the link-local block the way it does the
IPv4-mapped form. Reaching any of these is credential theft rather
than delivery to an internal service.

The policy now lives in one function, Guard.checkIP, which both
target-creation validation and the delivery dialer call. The two
paths previously decided separately, which is how they came to
disagree about a destination. The guard is built once from config
and injected via fx into both the handlers and the delivery engine,
so there is a single instance and a single answer.

A set-but-unparseable value aborts startup naming the variable,
reusing the existing envPrefixList parser. A non-empty list is
logged at startup with the blocks spelled out, not counted, so the
hole is visible in the log of any deployment that has one.

Tests: an allowlisted loopback CIDR both validates and delivers to a
live server (and the same URL still fails without the allowlist); a
private address outside the listed block stays refused on both
paths; every unconditionally blocked address stays refused on both
paths under an allowlist that covers it, and the set itself is
pinned entry by entry; public addresses are unaffected either way;
and config coverage for parsing, startup abort, and the warning's
contents.
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@@ -114,6 +114,109 @@ TTY detection, and security headers are always applied.
| `SESSION_IDLE_TIMEOUT` | Idle session timeout (Go duration) | `24h` |
| `RECEIVER_RATE_LIMIT` | Receiver requests/minute per IP per entrypoint (10x that per IP across the route) | `120` |
| `TRUSTED_PROXIES` | CIDRs whose forwarded headers are trusted (unset: all clients behind a proxy share one rate-limit bucket; a correct login password is never throttled either way) | `""` (none) |
| `ALLOWED_EGRESS_CIDRS` | CIDRs that delivery targets may reach despite the SSRF blocklist. Read [Allowing egress to your own network](#allowing-egress-to-your-own-network) before setting it | `""` (none) |
#### Allowing egress to your own network
By default every delivery target must resolve to a public address, and
a handful of public ones are refused too. The private and reserved
ranges — RFC 1918, loopback, CGNAT, link-local and the rest — are
refused, which stops a target from being used to make webhooker probe
the network it sits in; so are the cloud metadata endpoints listed
below that happen to live on public addresses.
That default is also inconvenient for the thing webhooker is mostly
for: taking a public webhook and forwarding it to something on your own
network. A container on the same Docker network, a box on `10.x`, a
service on `127.0.0.1` — all refused, until you name them.
`ALLOWED_EGRESS_CIDRS` is a comma-separated list of CIDR blocks (a bare
address such as `10.0.0.7` is accepted and treated as a single host),
for example `10.0.0.0/8, 172.17.0.0/16`. Addresses inside those blocks
become valid delivery destinations. Everything outside them keeps the
default answer, so this only ever adds destinations — it never removes
any, and it cannot narrow what was already reachable.
**The risk, plainly.** Each block you list is a network that anyone who
can create a delivery target can now make this process issue requests
into, and read the response body back out of via the delivery log. That
is server-side request forgery, deliberately enabled and scoped by you.
A webhooker admin account is therefore as trusted as the narrowest
thing on those networks: an unauthenticated admin panel, a database
listening without a password, or an internal API that trusts its
network position is reachable through it. List the smallest blocks that
cover the destinations you actually deliver to — prefer
`10.1.2.3/32` over `10.0.0.0/8` — and never list a block wider than the
network you are willing to expose.
Listing `0.0.0.0/0` or `::/0` opens **every** other private and
reserved range at once — loopback, RFC 1918, CGNAT, ULA, the lot. It is
a functional off switch for everything except the addresses listed as
unconditionally blocked below, and it makes any delivery target a probe
into your entire network and this host's own loopback services. Do not
list it.
Two things this setting cannot do:
- **It cannot turn the guard off.** There is no boolean, and no value
that disables SSRF protection wholesale. The guard is always on and
the list is always an allowlist; an empty list (the default) means
every private and reserved range stays refused. Note that
`0.0.0.0/0` gets you most of the way there anyway, per above.
- **It cannot open link-local or a known cloud metadata endpoint.**
These stay blocked no matter what you list, including when you list
them outright or list a supernet such as `0.0.0.0/0`, `::/0`,
`fd00::/8` or `100.64.0.0/10`:
| Blocked unconditionally | What it is |
| ----------------------- | ---------- |
| `169.254.0.0/16` | IPv4 link-local, carrying `169.254.169.254` (AWS, Azure, Alibaba, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OpenStack and others) |
| `fe80::/10` | IPv6 link-local |
| `fd00:ec2::254/128` | AWS IPv6 IMDS |
| `fd00:ec2::23/128` | AWS EKS Pod Identity Agent |
| `fd20:ce::254/128` | GCP metadata for IPv6-only instances |
| `fd00:c1::a9fe:a9fe/128` | Oracle OCI IMDS over IPv6 |
| `fd00:42::42/128` | Scaleway metadata over IPv6 |
| `fd00:a9fe:a9fe::1/128` | Linode/Akamai metadata over IPv6 |
| `100.100.100.200/32` | Alibaba Cloud metadata, inside CGNAT |
| `192.0.0.192/32` | Oracle Cloud Classic metadata |
| `168.63.129.16/32` | Azure WireServer |
| `147.75.207.243/32` | Equinix Metal metadata |
| `::a9fe:a9fe/128` | `169.254.169.254` as an IPv4-compatible IPv6 address |
| `64:ff9b::a9fe:a9fe/128` | `169.254.169.254` behind the NAT64 well-known prefix |
The IPv4-mapped form `::ffff:169.254.169.254` is covered by the
`169.254.0.0/16` entry. Reaching any of these is credential theft
rather than delivery to an internal service. Every entry outside the
two link-local blocks is a single address, so blocking it costs you
nothing else on the network around it.
The six `fd00::/8` and `fd20::/8` entries are why this matters in
practice: `fd00::/8` is an ordinary block to allowlist for your own
IPv6 network, and without those host routes that one line would hand
out cloud credentials on six providers at once. Several of them are
described as "link-local" — or even "localhost" — in their own
vendor's documentation, but they are ULAs and `fe80::/10` does not
cover them.
`168.63.129.16` and `147.75.207.243` are ordinary public addresses
rather than reserved ones, so they are the only two entries here that
are blocked without an allowlist being involved at all.
This list is not exhaustive of every cloud's metadata address — if
yours is not here, do not allowlist the block that contains it.
The list is applied at one place in the code, which both target
creation and delivery consult, so a URL that the target form accepts is
one that delivery will actually attempt — the two cannot disagree.
Delivery re-resolves and re-checks the destination at dial time, so a
hostname that resolves to an allowed address during validation and a
different one later (DNS rebinding) is still refused unless the new
address is also allowed.
A set but unparseable value aborts startup. When the list is non-empty
webhooker logs it at startup, blocks and all, so the hole is visible in
the log of any deployment that has one.
#### Metrics credentials
@@ -272,8 +375,9 @@ additionally be a number in the range 165535,
`RECEIVER_RATE_LIMIT` must be at least 1,
`RETENTION_SWEEP_INTERVAL` must be greater than zero (it is a ticker
period, so `0s` or a negative value would crash the reaper after
startup), and every entry in `TRUSTED_PROXIES` must be a CIDR block or
a bare IP address. `SESSION_IDLE_TIMEOUT` is the exception: a
startup), and every entry in `TRUSTED_PROXIES` and
`ALLOWED_EGRESS_CIDRS` must be a CIDR block or a bare IP address.
`SESSION_IDLE_TIMEOUT` is the exception: a
non-positive value there means idle expiry is disabled, not invalid.
Boolean variables (`DEBUG`, `MAINTENANCE_MODE`) accept exactly the
@@ -2084,7 +2188,15 @@ check, see [The login endpoint](#the-login-endpoint).
ranges (RFC 1918, loopback, link-local, cloud metadata) are blocked
both at target creation time (URL validation) and at delivery time
(custom HTTP transport with SSRF-safe dialer that validates resolved
IPs before connecting, preventing DNS rebinding attacks)
IPs before connecting, preventing DNS rebinding attacks). Both paths
route through a single decision function, so they cannot disagree
about a destination. An operator can permit specific blocks with
[`ALLOWED_EGRESS_CIDRS`](#allowing-egress-to-your-own-network); the
guard cannot be switched off, and link-local plus a
[pinned set](#allowing-egress-to-your-own-network) of known cloud
metadata endpoints — several of which are ULAs or public addresses
outside link-local — stay blocked whatever is listed, though listing
`0.0.0.0/0` or `::/0` does open every other private range
- **Login limiting is inverted, deliberately.** The login `POST` has
no pre-emptive rate limiter in front of it. Credentials are
verified first and only a _failed_ attempt spends budget, so a