/** * Phase 2 adversarial — small-scale DDoS / oversized-body tests. These are * NOT real load tests. We just verify that obvious abuse is rate-limited * or rejected gracefully without crashing the backend. */ import { test, expect } from '../../fixtures/test'; import { mintSseTicket } from '../../helpers/sse'; import { seedUpload } from '../../helpers/seed'; import { BASE } from '../../helpers/env'; test.describe('Adversarial — small-scale abuse', () => { // Note: the truncate auto-fixture resets every rate-limit toggle back to false // before each test, so we re-enable in beforeEach (not beforeAll). test.beforeEach(async ({ api, adminToken }) => { await api.patchConfig(adminToken, { rate_limits_enabled: 'true', join_rate_enabled: 'true' }); }); test('20 parallel /join from one IP — rate limiter catches the excess', async () => { const requests = Array.from({ length: 20 }, (_, i) => fetch(`${BASE}/api/v1/join`, { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify({ display_name: `Flood${i}_${Date.now()}` }), }) ); const statuses = (await Promise.all(requests)).map((r) => r.status); // 5/min limit → at least some should be 429. expect(statuses.filter((s) => s === 429).length).toBeGreaterThan(0); // Server stays up — at least one succeeded. expect(statuses.some((s) => s === 201 || s === 409)).toBe(true); }); // The comment body cap lives in [backend/src/handlers/social.rs] `add_comment`: // if text_chars == 0 || text_chars > 500 → 400 // It must be exercised against a REAL upload: the handler looks the upload up (and // 404s) *before* it reaches the length check, so posting to a non-existent id proves // nothing about the cap. async function postComment(jwt: string, uploadId: string, body: string) { return fetch(`${BASE}/api/v1/upload/${uploadId}/comments`, { method: 'POST', headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${jwt}`, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify({ body }), }); } test('comment body over the 500-char cap is rejected with 400', async ({ guest }) => { const g = await guest('LongComment'); const uploadId = await seedUpload(g.jwt); const res = await postComment(g.jwt, uploadId, 'A'.repeat(501)); expect(res.status, '501 chars must be rejected by the length cap').toBe(400); const json: any = await res.json().catch(() => ({})); expect((json.message ?? '').toLowerCase()).toMatch(/500 zeichen/); }); test('comment body exactly at the 500-char cap is accepted', async ({ guest }) => { const g = await guest('MaxComment'); const uploadId = await seedUpload(g.jwt); // The boundary must be inclusive — otherwise the "cap" is really 499 and the // rejection test above would also pass on an off-by-one implementation. const res = await postComment(g.jwt, uploadId, 'A'.repeat(500)); expect(res.status, '500 chars is the documented maximum and must be accepted').toBe(201); }); test('10 MB comment body never reaches the handler (body-size limit rejects it)', async ({ guest, }) => { const g = await guest('BigComment'); const uploadId = await seedUpload(g.jwt); const huge = 'A'.repeat(10 * 1024 * 1024); const res = await postComment(g.jwt, uploadId, huge); // This asserts ONLY what it can prove: a 10 MB JSON body is refused somewhere on the // path (Caddy's request-body limit → 502/413, or the backend's own body limit → 413, // or the 500-char cap if it does get through → 400). The upload exists, so a 404 here // would be a bug, and a 201 would mean we stored a 10 MB comment. expect([400, 413, 502]).toContain(res.status); }); test('SSE: 10 concurrent streams from one user do not crash the server', async ({ guest }) => { const g = await guest('SseFlood'); // The stream endpoint authenticates via single-use tickets (POST /stream/ticket), // not the raw JWT — a `?token=` open is rejected with 400. Mint one ticket per stream. // (These streams must be held open concurrently, so we can't use the openStream // helper which opens-and-aborts a single stream.) const tickets = await Promise.all(Array.from({ length: 10 }, () => mintSseTicket(g.jwt))); const controllers = tickets.map(() => new AbortController()); const requests = tickets.map((ticket, i) => fetch(`${BASE}/api/v1/stream?ticket=${encodeURIComponent(ticket)}`, { signal: controllers[i].signal, }) ); const responses = await Promise.all(requests); // All accepted (or some rate-limited — both fine). for (const r of responses) { expect([200, 429]).toContain(r.status); } // Tear them all down so the next test doesn't see leaked connections. controllers.forEach((c) => c.abort()); // Sanity: a new request still works. const ping = await fetch(`${BASE}/api/v1/me/context`, { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${g.jwt}` }, }); expect(ping.status).toBe(200); }); test('malformed JSON in /join is rejected with 400, not 500', async () => { const res = await fetch(`${BASE}/api/v1/join`, { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: '{"display_name":', }); expect([400, 422]).toContain(res.status); expect(res.status).not.toBe(500); }); });