Bound username length at creation (closes #184)

A login stores the username in the session cookie, which cannot carry
a value past about 4096 bytes, so a username of about 2 KB or more
could never log in and the login answered 500.

Usernames are now limited to 1024 bytes, about half of what the cookie
can carry. The User model rejects a longer one with
ErrUsernameTooLong, and a check constraint on the users table rejects
it for any path that bypasses the model. The comment on
MaxUsernameBytes gives the arithmetic.

Model: opus-5-5

README.md

@@ -157,6 +157,11 @@ 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.
 
+Besides the private and reserved ranges, the default blocklist refuses
+public cloud metadata addresses: currently only `168.63.129.16`, Azure's
+WireServer, which serves an Azure VM its credentials. Because it is a
+public address, listing it in `ALLOWED_EGRESS_CIDRS` reopens it.
+
 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
@@ -195,15 +200,16 @@ Two things this setting cannot do:
   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 cloud metadata endpoint that
-  discloses credentials or user data.** An address is on the list below
-  when both of these hold: the provider fixes it, so it cannot collide
-  with anything you run; and reaching it hands out credentials, user
-  data or bootstrap material. Those 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`. Treat this as
-  best effort rather than a guarantee — it is a hand-maintained list
-  and the caveat below the table applies:
+- **It cannot open link-local, or a cloud metadata endpoint at a
+  non-public address that discloses credentials or user data.** An
+  address is on the list below when it is not a public address and both
+  of these hold: the provider fixes it, so it cannot collide with
+  anything you run; and reaching it hands out credentials, user data or
+  bootstrap material. Those 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`. Treat this as best
+  effort rather than a guarantee — it is a hand-maintained list and the
+  caveat below the table applies:
 
   | Blocked unconditionally | What it is |
   | ----------------------- | ---------- |
@@ -242,7 +248,8 @@ Two things this setting cannot do:
   encodings, which the default blocklist does not match. A publicly
   routable metadata address is not listed here, because nothing on this
   list can be reopened and blocking one that way would leave you no
-  escape hatch at all.
+  escape hatch at all; Azure's `168.63.129.16` is refused by the default
+  blocklist instead, as described above.
 
   This list is not exhaustive of every cloud's metadata address — if
   yours is not here, do not allowlist the block that contains it.
@@ -1465,7 +1472,7 @@ A registered user of the webhooker service.
 | Field      | Type     | Description |
 | ---------- | -------- | ----------- |
 | `id`       | UUID     | Primary key |
-| `username` | string   | Unique login name |
+| `username` | string   | Unique login name, at most 1024 bytes so that it fits in the session cookie |
 | `password` | string   | Argon2id hash (never exposed via API) |
 
 **Relations:** Has many Webhooks. Has many APIKeys.
@@ -2405,14 +2412,14 @@ Removing either cap fails 14 subtests.
 
 `internal/middleware/logbound_test.go` and
 `internal/handlers/logbound_test.go` drive 8 KB of client-chosen text
-at each of these — 1 KB at `invalid password`, whose accounts are
-shared with the successful-login line, where a username past 4 KB
-overflows the session cookie and answers 500 before that line is
-written — through both handlers, and through seven fills: plain text
-as the baseline, and then the quotation mark, backslash, tab, newline,
-C0 control and astral non-printable, six characters the wider of the
-two handlers spends more on than the client spent sending them. Every
-case holds each line to the 2,560-byte ceiling. That per-line ceiling
+at each of these — just under 1 KB at `invalid password`, whose
+accounts are shared with the successful-login line and so must stay
+within the 1024-byte username limit — through both handlers, and
+through seven fills: plain text as the baseline, and then the
+quotation mark, backslash, tab, newline, C0 control and astral
+non-printable, six characters the wider of the two handlers spends
+more on than the client spent sending them. Every case holds each
+line to the 2,560-byte ceiling. That per-line ceiling
 is what the figure above states, and every row establishes it.
 
 Three of the sites go further and bound the whole flood's output — the

internal/config/config.go

@@ -192,9 +192,10 @@ type Config struct {
 	// alwaysBlockedNetworks stays blocked no matter what is listed
 	// here. That set is link-local plus the cloud metadata
 	// endpoints outside it that disclose credentials or user data
-	// at a provider-fixed address; it is not exhaustive of every
-	// cloud's metadata address. See alwaysBlockedNetworks for the
-	// authoritative list and the criterion it is built from.
+	// at a provider-fixed, non-public address; it is not
+	// exhaustive of every cloud's metadata address. See
+	// alwaysBlockedNetworks for the authoritative list and the
+	// criterion it is built from.
 	AllowedEgressCIDRs []netip.Prefix
 
 	params *ConfigParams
@@ -746,12 +747,14 @@ func (c *Config) warnEgressAllowlist(log *slog.Logger) {
 
 	log.Warn(
 		"ALLOWED_EGRESS_CIDRS lets delivery targets reach these "+
-			"otherwise-blocked private/reserved networks. Anyone "+
-			"who can create a delivery target can now make this "+
-			"process issue requests into them, and read back the "+
-			"response. Link-local and the known cloud instance "+
-			"metadata endpoints outside it stay blocked "+
-			"regardless of what is listed here.",
+			"otherwise-blocked networks. Anyone who can create a "+
+			"delivery target can now make this process issue "+
+			"requests into them, and read back the response. Only "+
+			"the addresses the README lists as blocked "+
+			"unconditionally stay blocked regardless of what is "+
+			"listed here; a public cloud metadata address such as "+
+			"168.63.129.16 is reachable once it, or a block "+
+			"covering it, is listed.",
 		"allowedEgressCIDRs",
 		strings.Join(PrefixStrings(c.AllowedEgressCIDRs), ","),
 	)

internal/config/config_test.go

@@ -834,12 +834,13 @@ func TestEgressAllowlistWarning(t *testing.T) {
 			// to be able to read back which networks are open.
 			assert.Contains(t, logged, "10.0.0.0/8")
 			assert.Contains(t, logged, "127.0.0.0/8")
-			// What stays shut. Asserted on the clause naming the
-			// wider set rather than on "Link-local" alone, so the
-			// string cannot narrow back to link-local only while
-			// the always-blocked set covers ULA, CGNAT and two
-			// public metadata addresses as well.
-			assert.Contains(t, logged, "metadata endpoints outside it")
+			// What stays shut is the whole unconditional set, not
+			// link-local alone; a public metadata address is not in
+			// it, so a listed block covering it opens it.
+			assert.Contains(t, logged, "blocked unconditionally")
+			assert.Contains(t, logged, "168.63.129.16 is reachable")
+			// The listed blocks need not be private or reserved.
+			assert.NotContains(t, logged, "private/reserved")
 		})
 	}
 }

internal/database/model_user.go

@@ -1,13 +1,57 @@
 package database
 
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+
+	"gorm.io/gorm"
+)
+
+// MaxUsernameBytes is the longest username, in bytes, that a user may
+// have. The same number appears in the check constraint on
+// User.Username, because a struct tag cannot reference a constant.
+//
+// A login stores the username in the session cookie, and both
+// securecookie and browsers refuse a cookie value past about 4096
+// bytes. That value is the session base64-encoded twice, so it holds
+// 4096 × 3/4 × 3/4 = 2304 bytes of session, and the signature,
+// timestamp and the session's other values take about 270 of those: a
+// username longer than about 2030 bytes can never log in. The limit is
+// about half that, so the session can carry more values later without
+// locking out an account whose username is already at the limit.
+const MaxUsernameBytes = 1024
+
+// ErrUsernameTooLong is returned when a user is saved with a username
+// longer than MaxUsernameBytes.
+var ErrUsernameTooLong = errors.New("username is too long")
+
 // User represents a user of the webhooker service
+//
+//nolint:lll // a struct tag cannot wrap
 type User struct {
 	BaseModel
 
-	Username string `gorm:"uniqueIndex;not null" json:"username"`
+	Username string `gorm:"uniqueIndex;not null;check:length(CAST(username AS BLOB)) <= 1024" json:"username"`
 	Password string `gorm:"not null"                                                          json:"-"` // Argon2 hashed
 
 	// Relations
 	Webhooks []Webhook `json:"webhooks,omitempty"`
 	APIKeys  []APIKey  `json:"apiKeys,omitempty"`
 }
+
+// BeforeSave rejects a username longer than MaxUsernameBytes, so every
+// path that saves a user through GORM gets ErrUsernameTooLong rather
+// than the database's constraint error. The check constraint behind it
+// holds for any path that writes the table without this model.
+func (u *User) BeforeSave(_ *gorm.DB) error {
+	if len(u.Username) > MaxUsernameBytes {
+		return fmt.Errorf(
+			"%w: %d bytes, limit is %d",
+			ErrUsernameTooLong,
+			len(u.Username),
+			MaxUsernameBytes,
+		)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}

internal/database/model_user_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+package database_test
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/google/uuid"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/database"
+)
+
+// usernameAtLimit is exactly MaxUsernameBytes long, built from a
+// two-byte character. A check that counted characters rather than bytes
+// would see half the length and let the one-byte-longer name through.
+func usernameAtLimit() string {
+	return strings.Repeat("é", database.MaxUsernameBytes/2)
+}
+
+func TestUserCreate_RejectsOverlongUsername(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db := startedTestDB(t)
+
+	err := db.Create(&database.User{
+		Username: usernameAtLimit() + "x",
+		Password: "hash",
+	}).Error
+
+	require.ErrorIs(t, err, database.ErrUsernameTooLong)
+}
+
+func TestUserCreate_AcceptsUsernameAtLimit(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db := startedTestDB(t)
+
+	require.NoError(t, db.Create(&database.User{
+		Username: usernameAtLimit(),
+		Password: "hash",
+	}).Error)
+}
+
+// TestUsersTable_EnforcesUsernameLimitWithoutTheModel inserts with raw
+// SQL, as a path that bypassed User.BeforeSave would, so only the
+// table's check constraint stands between it and an over-long
+// username. Accepting the name at the limit and refusing the next byte
+// also pins the constraint's number to MaxUsernameBytes.
+func TestUsersTable_EnforcesUsernameLimitWithoutTheModel(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db := startedTestDB(t)
+
+	insert := "INSERT INTO users (id, username, password) VALUES (?, ?, ?)"
+
+	require.NoError(t, db.Exec(
+		insert, uuid.New().String(), usernameAtLimit(), "hash",
+	).Error)
+
+	err := db.Exec(
+		insert, uuid.New().String(), usernameAtLimit()+"x", "hash",
+	).Error
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "CHECK constraint failed")
+}

internal/delivery/ssrf.go

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ var (
 		"hostname resolved to no IP addresses",
 	)
 	errBlockedIP = errors.New(
-		"blocked private/reserved IP range",
+		"blocked private, reserved or cloud metadata address",
 	)
 	errBlockedMetadata = errors.New(
 		"blocked link-local or cloud instance metadata " +
@@ -37,9 +37,10 @@ var (
 	)
 )
 
-// blockedNetworks contains all private/reserved IP ranges
-// that should be blocked to prevent SSRF attacks. An operator
-// can permit specific blocks out of this set with
+// blockedNetworks is the default blocklist: the private and
+// reserved IP ranges, plus the public cloud metadata addresses,
+// that are blocked to prevent SSRF attacks. An operator can
+// permit specific blocks out of this set with
 // ALLOWED_EGRESS_CIDRS; see Guard.
 //
 //nolint:gochecknoglobals // package-level network list is appropriate here
@@ -122,6 +123,8 @@ func init() {
 		"::1/128",
 		"fc00::/7",
 		"fe80::/10",
+		// Azure WireServer, a public address that serves VM credentials.
+		"168.63.129.16/32",
 	})
 
 	// Every entry is named. The set must not grow or shrink
@@ -216,8 +219,8 @@ func matchesAny(networks []*net.IPNet, ip net.IP) bool {
 }
 
 // isBlockedIP checks whether an IP address falls within
-// any blocked private/reserved network range, before any
-// operator allowlist is considered.
+// the default blocklist, before any operator allowlist is
+// considered.
 func isBlockedIP(ip net.IP) bool {
 	return matchesAny(blockedNetworks, ip)
 }
@@ -320,7 +323,7 @@ func (g *Guard) allows(ip net.IP) bool {
 //
 //  1. alwaysBlockedNetworks is refused before the allowlist is
 //     consulted, so no configured CIDR reaches link-local or a
-//     cloud instance metadata endpoint.
+//     cloud metadata endpoint at a non-public address.
 //  2. The allowlist is consulted next, so a listed private
 //     network becomes reachable.
 //  3. Everything else keeps the default blocklist's answer.

internal/delivery/ssrf_allowlist_test.go

@@ -390,6 +390,41 @@ func TestGuardAllowlist_PublicUnaffected(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestGuardAllowlist_AzureWireServerReopenable covers Azure's
+// WireServer, a public address that serves VM credentials. The
+// default guard refuses it, but because it is public it sits in
+// the default blocklist rather than the unconditional set, so an
+// operator who lists it can reach it.
+func TestGuardAllowlist_AzureWireServerReopenable(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const wireServerIP = "168.63.129.16"
+
+	target := "http://" + wireServerIP + "/?comp=versions"
+
+	defaultGuard := delivery.NewTestGuard()
+
+	err := defaultGuard.ValidateTargetURL(context.Background(), target)
+	require.Error(t, err,
+		"WireServer must be refused with no allowlist set",
+	)
+	assert.NotContains(t, err.Error(), metadataRefusalClause,
+		"WireServer must be refused by the default blocklist, "+
+			"which an allowlist can override",
+	)
+
+	assertDialRefused(t, defaultGuard, target)
+
+	listed := delivery.NewTestGuard(
+		netip.MustParsePrefix(wireServerIP + "/32"),
+	)
+
+	assert.NoError(t,
+		listed.ValidateTargetURL(context.Background(), target),
+		"an operator who lists WireServer must be able to reach it",
+	)
+}
+
 // TestGuardCheckIP_BothPathsShareOneDecision asserts that the
 // validator and the dialer are not two policies that happen to
 // agree: both are defined in terms of checkIP, so the exported

internal/handlers/auth_test.go

@@ -453,3 +453,33 @@ func TestLogin_SuccessCreatesSession(t *testing.T) {
 		"the issued cookie must carry an authenticated session",
 	)
 }
+
+// TestLogin_UsernameAtLimitCanLogIn shows that a username of exactly
+// database.MaxUsernameBytes still fits in the session cookie. Past
+// what the cookie can carry, a correct login answers 500.
+func TestLogin_UsernameAtLimitCanLogIn(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	var (
+		h  *handlers.Handlers
+		db *database.Database
+	)
+
+	app := newTestApp(t, &h, &db)
+	app.RequireStart()
+
+	t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
+
+	username := strings.Repeat("a", database.MaxUsernameBytes)
+
+	hash, err := database.HashPassword(operatorPassword)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, db.DB().Create(&database.User{
+		Username: username,
+		Password: hash,
+	}).Error)
+
+	w := submitLogin(h, sharedProxyPeer, username, operatorPassword)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusSeeOther, w.Code)
+}

internal/handlers/logbound_test.go

@@ -339,11 +339,9 @@ const storedUserPassword = "correct-horse-battery-staple"
 // storedFillBytes is the raw length of the client-chosen value in
 // those accounts' usernames. It is well past the 512-byte field
 // budget, so the line is still truncated, but short enough that the
-// session cookie a successful login writes stays inside
-// securecookie's 4 KB limit: the cookie is written BEFORE the
-// "user logged in" line, so an 8 KB username answers 500 and never
-// reaches it.
-const storedFillBytes = 1024
+// whole username, markers and fill name included, stays within
+// database.MaxUsernameBytes.
+const storedFillBytes = 960
 
 // storedFill builds a username fill of storedFillBytes raw bytes out
 // of repetitions of ch, with both markers at its far end.

internal/middleware/recoverer.go

@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ func (w *recoverResponseWriter) Unwrap() http.ResponseWriter {
 // what the access log records and the metrics count, and outside the
 // sentryhttp handler, whose Repanic option depends on something
 // further out recovering what it re-raises.
+//
+// Unlike http.Error on its own, it deletes any Set-Cookie the handler
+// set before panicking, because a request that failed must not hand
+// the client a credential; every other header is left to http.Error.
+// See https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/webhooker/issues/193.
 func (s *Middleware) Recoverer() func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
 	return func(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
 		return http.HandlerFunc(func(
@@ -164,6 +169,8 @@ func (s *Middleware) Recoverer() func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
 					return
 				}
 
+				rw.Header().Del("Set-Cookie")
+
 				http.Error(
 					rw,
 					http.StatusText(

internal/middleware/recoverer_test.go

@@ -304,16 +304,44 @@ func TestRecovererRepanicsErrAbortHandler(t *testing.T) {
 	)
 }
 
+// TestRecovererDropsSetCookieFromTheRecovered500 covers a handler that
+// sets a cookie and a redirect target and then panics before sending
+// anything. A request that failed must not hand the client a
+// credential, so the 500 carries no cookie; Location is left alone.
+func TestRecovererDropsSetCookieFromTheRecovered500(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	probe := newRecovererProbe(
+		t, false,
+		func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+			w.Header().Set("Set-Cookie", "session=x")
+			w.Header().Set("Location", "/after")
+
+			panic(panicMarker)
+		},
+	)
+
+	resp, err := probe.get(t)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, resp.Body.Close())
+
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusInternalServerError, resp.StatusCode)
+	assert.Empty(t, resp.Cookies())
+	assert.Equal(t, "/after", resp.Header.Get("Location"))
+}
+
 // TestRecovererKeepsAnAlreadyCommittedResponse covers a handler that
 // panics after sending its status. The bytes are already on the wire,
-// so a second WriteHeader would change nothing the client sees and
-// would draw net/http's "superfluous response.WriteHeader" report.
+// cookie included, so a second WriteHeader would change nothing the
+// client sees and would draw net/http's "superfluous
+// response.WriteHeader" report.
 func TestRecovererKeepsAnAlreadyCommittedResponse(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
 	probe := newRecovererProbe(
 		t, false,
 		func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+			w.Header().Set("Set-Cookie", "session=x")
 			w.WriteHeader(committedStatus)
 			_, _ = w.Write([]byte("partial"))
 
@@ -331,6 +359,7 @@ func TestRecovererKeepsAnAlreadyCommittedResponse(t *testing.T) {
 
 	assert.Equal(t, committedStatus, resp.StatusCode)
 	assert.Equal(t, "partial", string(body))
+	assert.Len(t, resp.Cookies(), 1)
 
 	record := probe.panicRecord(t)
 	assert.Equal(t, panicMarker, record["panic"])