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webhooker/internal/middleware/ratelimit.go
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Scan the X-Forwarded-For chain without splitting it (closes #133)
The 64-hop cap bounded the walk but not the allocation: the chain was
split before it was capped, so a padded header cost a []string
proportional to its whole length on every request to the
unauthenticated receiver.

Cut hops off the right end of each header value in place with
strings.LastIndexByte instead, and walk multiple header values in
reverse rather than joining them. Bucket assignment is unchanged: the
walk still counts every comma-separated entry against the cap, skips
empty ones, stops at the first hop that is not a trusted proxy, and
falls back to the peer on an unreadable hop or an exhausted cap.

Measured over a 1 MB chain: 1,606,043 bytes allocated per call before,
16 bytes after.
2026-08-12 10:04:55 +00:00

266 lines
8.5 KiB
Go

package middleware
import (
"net/http"
"net/netip"
"slices"
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/go-chi/httprate"
)
const (
// loginRateLimit is the maximum number of login attempts
// per interval.
loginRateLimit = 5
// loginRateInterval is the time window for the rate limit.
loginRateInterval = 1 * time.Minute
// passwordChangeRateLimit is the maximum number of password
// change attempts per interval. Each attempt verifies the
// current password, so the endpoint must be rate-limited
// like any other password-based authentication endpoint.
passwordChangeRateLimit = 5
// passwordChangeRateInterval is the time window for the
// password change rate limit.
passwordChangeRateInterval = 1 * time.Minute
// receiverRateInterval is the time window for the webhook
// receiver rate limit. The configured limit is expressed in
// requests per minute.
receiverRateInterval = 1 * time.Minute
// maxForwardedHops bounds how many X-Forwarded-For entries the
// chain walk examines. Real chains are one to three hops, but a
// client can pad the header up to MaxHeaderBytes, so without a
// bound every request pays a walk proportional to whatever the
// client sent.
maxForwardedHops = 64
)
// normalizeAddr strips the IPv4-in-IPv6 wrapper and any zone from
// addr so that comparisons and bucket keys are canonical.
func normalizeAddr(addr netip.Addr) netip.Addr {
return addr.Unmap().WithZone("")
}
// isTrustedProxy reports whether addr belongs to a network the
// operator listed in TRUSTED_PROXIES. The list is empty by default,
// so by default nothing is trusted.
func (m *Middleware) isTrustedProxy(addr netip.Addr) bool {
for _, prefix := range m.params.Config.TrustedProxies {
if prefix.Contains(addr) {
return true
}
}
return false
}
// forwardedClientAddr returns the client address named by this
// request's X-Forwarded-For chain. It is consulted only for requests
// whose direct peer is a trusted proxy.
//
// X-Forwarded-For is the only header read. X-Real-IP and
// True-Client-IP are deliberately ignored: the reverse proxies in
// common use append to X-Forwarded-For and pass any other header the
// client sent through untouched, so believing a single-valued header
// would let a client behind the trusted proxy name its own bucket —
// the very bypass this gating exists to close.
//
// The chain is walked right to left, because the rightmost entry is
// the one the nearest proxy appended and everything to its left may
// have been written by the client. The first hop that is not itself
// a trusted proxy is the client. A hop that cannot be read as a bare
// address ends the walk: past it the chain is not the shape assumed
// here, so the caller falls back to the peer address.
//
// Only the last maxForwardedHops entries are examined. A longer chain
// is padding, and running out of hops falls back to the peer address
// the same way an unreadable hop does.
//
// The entries are cut off the right end of each header value in place
// rather than split out of it: the receiver is unauthenticated and a
// client can pad the header up to MaxHeaderBytes, so splitting would
// allocate in proportion to the padding (about 8 MB for a 1 MB
// header) before the cap could discard any of it. Multiple header
// values are walked in reverse for the same reason, since joining
// them copies the whole chain.
func (m *Middleware) forwardedClientAddr(
r *http.Request,
) (netip.Addr, bool) {
seen := 0
for _, value := range slices.Backward(
r.Header.Values("X-Forwarded-For"),
) {
for last := false; !last && seen < maxForwardedHops; seen++ {
hop := value
comma := strings.LastIndexByte(value, ',')
if comma < 0 {
last = true
} else {
hop, value = value[comma+1:], value[:comma]
}
hop = strings.TrimSpace(hop)
if hop == "" {
continue
}
addr, err := netip.ParseAddr(hop)
if err != nil {
return netip.Addr{}, false
}
if addr = normalizeAddr(addr); !m.isTrustedProxy(addr) {
return addr, true
}
}
}
return netip.Addr{}, false
}
// rateLimitKey is the client identity every rate limiter in this
// package buckets on. Forwarded headers are honoured only when the
// direct peer (RemoteAddr) is inside the configured trusted-proxy
// set; otherwise the peer address itself is the key. Without that
// gate any client could mint a fresh bucket per request, or starve
// another client's bucket, by picking an X-Forwarded-For value —
// which makes every limit here decorative against a deliberate
// attacker.
func (m *Middleware) rateLimitKey(r *http.Request) (string, error) {
return m.clientKey(r), nil
}
// clientKey computes the bucket key described on rateLimitKey.
func (m *Middleware) clientKey(r *http.Request) string {
peer, err := netip.ParseAddr(ipFromHostPort(r.RemoteAddr))
if err != nil {
// Not an address we can reason about; key on the raw
// value, the most specific identity left. On a
// Unix-socket listener every peer carries the same
// RemoteAddr and so shares one bucket, which is the
// fail-closed direction.
return r.RemoteAddr
}
peer = normalizeAddr(peer)
if !m.isTrustedProxy(peer) {
return peer.String()
}
if addr, ok := m.forwardedClientAddr(r); ok {
return addr.String()
}
return peer.String()
}
// tooManyRequests returns the 429 handler shared by every limiter:
// it logs the rejection with logMessage and answers with
// responseMessage. httprate adds the Retry-After header (RFC 6585).
func (m *Middleware) tooManyRequests(
logMessage, responseMessage string,
) http.HandlerFunc {
return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
m.log.Warn(logMessage, "path", r.URL.Path)
http.Error(w, responseMessage, http.StatusTooManyRequests)
}
}
// LoginRateLimit returns middleware that enforces per-IP rate
// limiting on login attempts using go-chi/httprate. Only POST
// requests are rate-limited; GET requests (rendering the login
// form) pass through unaffected. When the rate limit is exceeded,
// a 429 Too Many Requests response is returned. Clients are
// identified by rateLimitKey.
func (m *Middleware) LoginRateLimit() func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
return m.postRateLimit(
loginRateLimit,
loginRateInterval,
"login rate limit exceeded",
"Too many login attempts. Please try again later.",
)
}
// PasswordChangeRateLimit returns middleware that enforces
// per-IP rate limiting on password change attempts. The change
// endpoint verifies the current password, so without a limit a
// stolen session could be used to brute-force it; the limit
// matches the login endpoint's.
func (m *Middleware) PasswordChangeRateLimit() func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
return m.postRateLimit(
passwordChangeRateLimit,
passwordChangeRateInterval,
"password change rate limit exceeded",
"Too many password change attempts. "+
"Please try again later.",
)
}
// postRateLimit builds middleware that enforces a per-IP rate
// limit on POST requests only; all other methods pass through
// unaffected. Requests over the limit receive a 429 with the
// given response message, and each rejection is logged with the
// given log message. Clients are identified by rateLimitKey.
func (m *Middleware) postRateLimit(
limit int,
interval time.Duration,
logMessage, responseMessage string,
) func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
limiter := httprate.Limit(
limit,
interval,
httprate.WithKeyFuncs(m.rateLimitKey),
httprate.WithLimitHandler(
m.tooManyRequests(logMessage, responseMessage),
),
)
return func(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
limited := limiter(next)
return http.HandlerFunc(func(
w http.ResponseWriter,
r *http.Request,
) {
// Only rate-limit POST requests.
if r.Method != http.MethodPost {
next.ServeHTTP(w, r)
return
}
limited.ServeHTTP(w, r)
})
}
}
// ReceiverRateLimit returns middleware that rate-limits the
// public webhook receiver endpoint per client IP per request
// path (the path contains the entrypoint UUID, so each sender
// is limited per entrypoint without affecting other senders or
// other entrypoints). The limit is Config.ReceiverRateLimit
// requests per minute. Requests over the limit receive a 429.
// Clients are identified by rateLimitKey.
func (m *Middleware) ReceiverRateLimit() func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
return httprate.Limit(
m.params.Config.ReceiverRateLimit,
receiverRateInterval,
httprate.WithKeyFuncs(
m.rateLimitKey,
httprate.KeyByEndpoint,
),
httprate.WithLimitHandler(m.tooManyRequests(
"webhook receiver rate limit exceeded",
"Too many requests. Please slow down.",
)),
)
}