Two defects in the update procedure I wrote last round, both of which make a
successful-looking deploy a lie.
1. The documented health check could never pass.
`curl -fsS https://DOMAIN/health` 404s against a perfectly healthy production
stack. The backend registers /health on its ROOT router, not under /api/v1, and
the production Caddyfile proxies only /api/* and /media/* — so /health fell
through to the SvelteKit catch-all, which has no such route and returns its 404
page. With -f, curl exits 22 and the `&& echo` never runs. My own gloss
("Anything other than ok means check the logs") then sent the operator chasing a
phantom outage.
e2e/Caddyfile.test has carried `reverse_proxy /health app:3000` since it was
written — precisely because the catch-all would otherwise swallow it. Production
never did. Per the fix-the-gap-not-the-doc call, production gets the same line,
and /health joins the no-store matcher so a cached response can't report the last
known state instead of the current one. Verified by running the production
Caddyfile against the real backend: /health -> 200 "ok", Cache-Control: no-store,
with /api/v1/event and / unaffected.
2. The sequence never reloaded Caddy, so a Caddyfile-only change was dropped.
`--build` only rebuilds services with a `build:` section, and caddy is a pinned
upstream image. Compose decides whether to recreate a container from its config
hash, which covers the mount SPECIFICATION but not the mounted file's CONTENTS —
so a git pull that changes ./Caddyfile produces no delta, Compose reports
`Running`, and Caddy serves its old config indefinitely. Exit code 0 throughout.
Round 1's iOS download fix (137c4ee) is exactly this shape: Caddyfile plus four
e2e files, so 100% of its production effect is in that one file. Following the
README to the letter deployed it, showed both image IDs changing, and left iOS
downloads broken.
Demonstrated rather than assumed — added a probe header to a Caddyfile, ran the
old sequence (`up -d --build`): header absent, change silently dropped. Ran the
new step 4 (`up -d --force-recreate caddy`): header served.
`--force-recreate` rather than `restart` or `caddy reload` because the bind mount
is resolved to an inode at container-create time and git pull replaces the file
rather than editing in place, so a restart can re-read the stale content — the
exact failure I hit in round 1 when `caddy reload` didn't pick up an edit.
Also rewrites the "db and caddy are untouched … so data volumes survive" sentence.
I wrote it as reassurance; "caddy is untouched" was the bug.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`/media/%70reviews/{id}.jpg` served a taken-down photo to anyone,
unauthenticated. Verified against the running stack: the literal path 404s,
the escaped one returned 200 with the full image. Same for displays,
thumbnails and originals, and any escaped byte in any position works.
Cause: the block was four `nest_service("/media/previews", 404)` route
matches sitting above a `ServeDir` on `/media`. axum matches on the RAW path
(matchit does no percent-decoding), while `ServeDir` percent-decodes when it
resolves the file. So `%70reviews` missed every blocker, fell through to the
ServeDir, and was decoded back to `previews/` on disk — reaching the bytes
with no soft-delete and no ban-hide check. That defeats a host takedown,
which is the entire point of the gate.
Remove the `/media` route tree outright instead of racing the decoder.
Nothing needs it: every media URL the backend emits is already a gated
`/api/v1/upload/{id}/{original,preview,display,thumbnail}` alias
(handlers::feed), the frontend contains zero `/media/` references, and the
`/media` in config.rs/disk.rs is the filesystem path while `media/` in
export.rs is a path inside the zip. `/media/**` now 404s regardless of
encoding. The route's own comment already said it "serves nothing" — it
wasn't a backstop, it was the vector.
Caddy keeps proxying /media/* deliberately: the app 404s it, and forwarding
means the e2e gating specs exercise the app's refusal exactly as production
would rather than being masked by the SvelteKit 404 page.
Extend the gating spec with the encoded variants — asserting only the literal
spelling is what let this sit undetected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The keepsake download navigates a hidden, same-origin iframe (deliberately:
a top-level navigation to a 404/429 would unload the PWA). Caddy stamped a
site-wide `X-Frame-Options: DENY` that also covered the proxied `/api/*`.
Blink hands a `Content-Disposition: attachment` response to the download
manager at the network layer, so Chromium never noticed. WebKit enforces XFO
on the frame navigation first and aborts the load — so on iOS Safari, the
app's primary platform, tapping Download did nothing at all, silently.
Carve the two export endpoints out to SAMEORIGIN, which still blocks
cross-origin framing. Implemented as two disjoint matchers rather than an
override: Caddy applies the FIRST `header` directive outermost, so it wins on
write and a later, more specific `header` is silently ignored (verified
against the running test stack).
Also close the test gap that let this ship:
- `06-export` ran on chromium-desktop only; add it to `webkit-iphone`, the
only engine that enforces XFO on the download frame.
- No test in the suite ever clicked a download button — every archive
assertion used Node `fetch`, which has no frame and no XFO enforcement.
Add a spec that clicks it and awaits a real `download` event. Verified
falsifiable: with the blanket DENY reinstated it fails and reports the
WebKit refusal as the cause.
- Fix `ExportPage`'s card-scoped locators, which matched nothing: the cards
carry `class="card p-5"` (a Tailwind `@apply` component class), never the
`rounded-xl` the page object looked for. This had left the "shows enabled
download buttons" test red on main.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Security audit follow-up. No Critical/High existed; these close the
Medium/Low findings.
F1 [Med] Host privilege boundary: a host could demote a peer host to
guest and then ban / PIN-reset (→ account takeover via /recover) them,
because the ban/pin-reset peer guards key off the target's *current*
role. set_role now blocks a non-admin from demoting a host.
F2 [Med] Moderation now revokes preview/thumbnail access: they are served
through visibility-checked aliases (/api/v1/upload/{id}/{preview,
thumbnail}) that filter soft-deleted / ban-hidden uploads, and direct
/media/previews|thumbnails is 404-blocked. Feed emits the gated URLs;
Caddy keeps them privately cacheable (max-age=300, short so moderation
revokes promptly — the live feed already evicts cards via SSE). Uses a
lean find_visible_media() (paths+mime only) on the media hot path.
F3 [Med/Low] npm audit fix: svelte 5.55.1→5.56.4 (SSR-XSS advisories),
devalue 5.6.4→5.8.1 (DoS). Prod deps: 0 vulnerabilities.
F4 [Low] /recover no longer leaks account existence: unknown display name
returns the same 401 as a wrong PIN, and runs a dummy bcrypt verify so
timing matches — closing the enumeration + timing oracle.
F5 [Low] SSE streams re-validate the session every ~60s and close once it
is logged out / expired, instead of running until client disconnect.
F6 [Info] X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff set at the app layer on all
media responses (defense-in-depth alongside the edge).
Tests: new e2e specs for F1 (host cannot demote peer host), F2 (preview
gated + 404 after delete + direct /media blocked), F4 (uniform 401).
40 backend unit tests + 182 e2e passing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
H1: auth extractor re-reads the live user row — trusts the DB role (not the
JWT claim) and rejects banned users mid-session. e2e proves a demoted
host loses powers and a banned host is locked out and can't self-unban.
H2: client_ip takes the right-most XFF hop (the one Caddy appends); spoofed
left-most entries are ignored, restoring IP-based throttles.
H3: Caddy excludes /api/v1/stream from `encode` so SSE isn't buffered.
H4: upload — quota increment + row insert + hashtag links now one txn.
H5: feed keyset pagination tiebroken on (created_at, id) + composite index
(migration 010); feed_delta bounded with LIMIT.
H7: LightboxModal keys its comment load off upload.id, ending the
SSE-driven refetch storm.
H8: CSP via SvelteKit kit.csp (svelte.config.js) hardens the localStorage
token model against injection.
Migration 010 also adds the latent comment/comment_hashtag indexes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Address the seven findings from the security & deployment review.
High:
- upload: make infer authoritative — reject files it can't identify
(SVG/HTML/JS) and require the detected MIME to be on an ALLOWED_MEDIA
allowlist; derive the stored MIME and on-disk extension from the
detected type, ignoring client filename/Content-Type. Closes the
stored-XSS vector via media served on-origin.
- deploy: rename docker-compose.override.yml -> docker-compose.dev.yml
so the default `docker compose up -d` no longer publishes Postgres
5432 to the host; the port map is now opt-in via -f. README updated.
Medium:
- upload: DefaultBodyLimit::disable() -> max(576 MiB) as an HTTP-level
OOM backstop; handler still enforces precise per-class size limits.
- docker: run backend and frontend as non-root users.
Low:
- social/upload: event-scope toggle_like, list_comments, add_comment,
delete_comment, edit_upload, delete_upload via find_by_id_and_event /
soft_delete_in_event — cross-event IDs now resolve to 404.
- Caddy: site-wide HSTS / nosniff / X-Frame-Options / Referrer-Policy,
plus Content-Disposition: attachment on /media/originals/*.
- .env.example: replace default Postgres password with a CHANGE_ME hint.
Out of scope: localStorage JWT (root cause fixed; httpOnly cookies are a
larger change tracked separately).
Verified: cargo build (no new warnings), cargo test (3 passed),
caddy validate, docker compose config (no 5432 published by default).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
