feat(security): trust a forwarded IP only from a proxy, and set COOP

The rate limiter and the audit log key on the caller's address, and that address
was read with chi's middleware.RealIP — which believes X-Forwarded-For from
anyone. So a caller could set it to a new value on every request and get a fresh
password-guess bucket each time, and could write any address they liked into the
log the panel's watchers read. The one control meant for when a password is
already gone was keyed on a number the attacker got to pick.

Now the header is believed only when the machine that *connected* is a trusted
proxy — by default anything on a private network, which is the shape of a reverse
proxy or tunnel sharing the host or the docker bridge. A connection straight off
the internet is trusted for nothing and is keyed on the address it actually came
from. VERDANDE_TRUSTED_PROXIES overrides the set (CIDRs, or "none" to trust no
proxy at all); VERDANDE_REAL_IP_HEADER names the header.

Verified in the current deployment before the change: behind the Cloudflare
Tunnel a spoofed X-Real-IP already got no fresh bucket, because cloudflared
overwrites it. This makes that safety a property of the code, not of the
deployment — expose the instance directly, or put a header-passing proxy in
front, and it would have been a live hole.

Also COOP: Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin on every response, isolating
the browsing context. verdande scripts no other window, so there is nothing to
lose and a class of cross-window attacks to close.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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kristianwind
2026-08-23 23:34:34 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 8a87cfeb44
commit b4038356f0
6 changed files with 296 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -110,7 +110,10 @@ func New(cfg *config.Config, db *store.DB, log *slog.Logger, web fs.FS) *Server
r := chi.NewRouter()
r.Use(middleware.RequestID)
r.Use(middleware.RealIP)
// Not middleware.RealIP: that believes a forwarded header from anyone, which
// lets a caller pick the address the rate limiter and audit log key on. This
// one reads the header only from a trusted proxy — see realip.go.
r.Use(realIP(cfg))
r.Use(requestLogger(log))
r.Use(middleware.Recoverer)
r.Use(middleware.Timeout(30 * time.Second))
@@ -685,6 +688,11 @@ func (s *Server) securityHeaders(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
// browser ignores is not a control.
h.Set("Permissions-Policy", "camera=(), microphone=(), geolocation=(), "+
"payment=(), usb=(), interest-cohort=()")
// Isolate the browsing context: a window this page opened, or one that
// opened it, cannot keep a handle across the origin boundary. verdande
// never scripts another window, so there is nothing to lose and a whole
// class of cross-window attacks to close.
h.Set("Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy", "same-origin")
next.ServeHTTP(w, r)
})
}