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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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
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package handlers
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import (
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"context"
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"net/http"
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"github.com/go-chi/chi"
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@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ func (h *Handlers) HandlePasswordChange() http.HandlerFunc {
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}
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successMessage, errorMessage, handled := h.applyPasswordChange(
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r.Context(),
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w,
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sessionUsername,
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r.FormValue("current_password"),
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@@ -66,9 +68,30 @@ func (h *Handlers) HandlePasswordChange() http.HandlerFunc {
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// 500 response itself and returns handled=false, signalling the caller
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// to stop without re-rendering the page.
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func (h *Handlers) applyPasswordChange(
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ctx context.Context,
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w http.ResponseWriter,
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username, currentPassword, newPassword, confirmPassword string,
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) (string, string, bool) {
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// This endpoint verifies one password and hashes another, at
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// 64 MB each, so it takes a slot from the same bound the login
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// endpoint uses. The bound is per hash, not per endpoint: leaving
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// this path outside it would leave a hole in it. The slot is held
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// across both hashes.
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release, ok := h.mw.BeginPasswordVerification(ctx)
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if !ok {
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h.log.Warn("password verification capacity exhausted")
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http.Error(
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w,
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"The server is busy verifying credentials. "+
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"Please try again.",
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http.StatusServiceUnavailable,
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)
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return "", "", false
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}
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defer release()
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// Load the user row so we can verify the current password and
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// persist the new hash.
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var user database.User
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