Verify login credentials before spending rate-limit budget (closes #150)
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With TRUSTED_PROXIES empty behind the reverse proxy production is required to run behind, every login POST keyed on the proxy's address and shared one 5/minute bucket. A stranger sending five POSTs a minute -- 0.08 requests per second, from anywhere -- kept that bucket permanently full, and the operator's own correct password was answered 429 indefinitely with no second administrative path. The login POST no longer has a pre-emptive limiter. The handler verifies credentials first and spends budget only on a FAILED attempt, so a correct password is never throttled whatever the counters hold. Three things follow, and are implemented together because the first is unsafe without the other two: - Failures are counted per (client bucket, submitted username), five per minute, after which further failures get 429 with a Retry-After. A successful login clears the counter, so mistyping and then succeeding does not leave the operator throttled. - Both key sets are capped at 1024 entries. The submitted username is attacker-controlled, so past the first cap failures fall back to a counter keyed on the client alone, and past both caps a failure is answered as throttled without being recorded. Tracked state stays under half a megabyte and does not grow with invented usernames. - Concurrent Argon2id verifications are capped at two, a 128 MB ceiling at 64 MB per hash. Every password-hashing endpoint takes a slot, including the password-change endpoint, which holds one across both its hashes. A request that waits five seconds without a slot is answered 503 and no hash runs for it. An unknown username is verified against a dummy hash instead of returning early, so a nonexistent account costs the same time as a real one and the response cannot be used to enumerate usernames. The password-change limiter is unchanged: RequireAuth runs ahead of it, so only a request already carrying a valid session reaches its bucket. Also adds the missing test for the third bucketKey call site, where the peer is a trusted proxy but the forwarded chain names no client. Every existing test of that fallback uses an IPv4 proxy, where bucketKey is the identity function, so dropping the /64 masking there left the suite green. README and the TRUSTED_PROXIES startup warning updated: a shared bucket now costs precision, not the availability of the admin path.
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@@ -430,10 +430,14 @@ func loadFromEnv() (*Config, error) {
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// what is in front of the process, which this code cannot observe:
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// with nothing in front, the peer is the client and the limits are
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// per-client as intended; behind a reverse proxy the peer is the proxy
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// for every request, so all clients share one bucket per limiter. The
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// login limiter's bucket is the dangerous one: any remote client can
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// keep it full, which denies the only administrative login to everyone
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// until the process restarts.
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// for every request, so all clients share one bucket per limiter.
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//
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// The login endpoint no longer spends budget on arrival — it verifies
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// credentials first and charges only failures — so a shared bucket
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// cannot deny the operator a correct password. What it does collapse
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// is the failure counting: one client's wrong passwords throttle
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// everyone else's wrong passwords, and the receiver's limits become
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// service-wide ceilings.
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//
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// The warning is deliberately not gated on WEBHOOKER_ENVIRONMENT. That
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// variable defaults to dev, so gating on it would silence the warning
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@@ -454,11 +458,11 @@ func (c *Config) warnSharedRateLimitBucket(log *slog.Logger) {
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"this process that is the client itself and the limits "+
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"are per-client as intended. Behind a reverse proxy the "+
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"peer is the proxy on every request, so all clients "+
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"share one bucket per limit and any remote client can "+
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"keep the login limit full, denying the admin login — "+
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"the only administrative path — until restart. If "+
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"anything proxies to this process, set TRUSTED_PROXIES "+
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"to its address.",
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"share one bucket per limit: the receiver limits become "+
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"service-wide ceilings, and one client's failed logins "+
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"throttle every other client's failed logins — a "+
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"correct password still gets in. If anything proxies to "+
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"this process, set TRUSTED_PROXIES to its address.",
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"environment", c.Environment,
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"trustedProxies", len(c.TrustedProxies),
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)
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@@ -629,8 +629,9 @@ func testTrustedProxiesSuccess(
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// TestSharedRateLimitBucketWarning covers the startup warning that
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// tells an operator a deployment behind a reverse proxy shares one
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// rate-limit bucket between every client, which makes the admin login
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// remotely deniable. It must fire whenever TRUSTED_PROXIES is empty,
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// rate-limit bucket between every client, which turns the receiver
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// limits into service-wide ceilings and collapses login failure
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// counting. It must fire whenever TRUSTED_PROXIES is empty,
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// in any environment: WEBHOOKER_ENVIRONMENT defaults to dev, so gating
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// on it would silence the warning for exactly the operator who never
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// configured the deployment. It stays quiet once proxies are named.
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@@ -707,7 +708,15 @@ func TestSharedRateLimitBucketWarning(t *testing.T) {
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assert.Contains(t, logged, `"level":"WARN"`)
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assert.Contains(t, logged, "TRUSTED_PROXIES")
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assert.Contains(t, logged, "share one bucket")
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assert.Contains(t, logged, "denying the admin login")
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assert.Contains(
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t, logged, "throttle every other client's failed logins",
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)
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// The warning must not claim a lockout the login
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// endpoint no longer permits: credentials are verified
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// before any budget is spent.
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assert.Contains(
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t, logged, "a correct password still gets in",
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)
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// The text must stay accurate for a developer with
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// nothing in front of the process, where an empty
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// list costs nothing.
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