Address Gadfly review on #4: TOCTOU, sliding cookie, CSRF, argon2
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Fixes from the PR #23 adversarial review (graded 35 real / 1 false positive):

Security / correctness
- Race-free registration: is_admin and the registration gate are now
  computed atomically inside a single INSERT...SELECT, so concurrent
  first registrations can't both become admin or bypass closed
  registration (fixed the whole TOCTOU cluster).
- Sliding session now reaches the browser: ResolveSession returns the
  current expiry and requireAuth re-sets the cookie, so active users
  aren't logged out 30 days after login regardless of activity.
- Login CSRF: csrfGuard rejects state-changing requests whose Origin
  doesn't match PANSY_BASE_URL (no-op when unset, so the dev proxy is
  unaffected). SameSite=Lax alone didn't cover this.
- argon2id tuned to RFC 9106's second recommended profile (t=3).
- Timing equalizer can't fail open: the dummy hash is derived
  deterministically (fixed salt, no RNG) so it's always present.
- Password length (<=1024) enforced in the service for both register
  and login, not just HTTP binding tags; login rejects over-long input
  before spending argon2 work.

Error handling / robustness
- Login logs a malformed stored hash instead of silently treating it as
  a wrong password.
- Best-effort session writes (Touch/Delete during renewal, expiry, and
  corrupt-expiry cleanup) now log on failure.
- index sessions.expires_at via new migration 0002 (0001 is immutable).

Maintainability
- Extract startSessionAndRespond and abortUnauthenticated; make
  writeServiceError a free function; consistent error handling in
  decodeHash; doc/comment fixes.

Tests: over-long password, CSRF guard (cross-origin/same-origin/dev
no-op), and cookie refresh on authenticated requests; migration-version
assertions bumped to 2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JdQpdYYsTgtkJBxbcpAszi
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2026-07-18 17:04:35 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.8
parent 0e41ccd95a
commit 02c928ac6d
12 changed files with 370 additions and 150 deletions
+58 -34
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@@ -3,12 +3,17 @@ package service
import (
"context"
"errors"
"log/slog"
"strings"
"time"
"gitea.stevedudenhoeffer.com/steve/pansy/internal/domain"
)
// maxPasswordLen caps accepted password length. It bounds argon2 input and
// request work, and sits far above any real password.
const maxPasswordLen = 1024
// RegisterInput is the payload for local self-service signup.
type RegisterInput struct {
Email string
@@ -46,27 +51,22 @@ func (s *Service) Register(ctx context.Context, in RegisterInput) (*domain.User,
email := normalizeEmail(in.Email)
displayName := strings.TrimSpace(in.DisplayName)
if email == "" || displayName == "" || in.Password == "" {
if email == "" || displayName == "" || in.Password == "" || len(in.Password) > maxPasswordLen {
return nil, domain.ErrInvalidInput
}
count, err := s.store.CountUsers(ctx)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
// Closed registration still allows the very first account so a locked-down
// instance can be bootstrapped without editing config.
if count > 0 && !s.cfg.RegistrationOpen() {
return nil, domain.ErrRegistrationClosed
}
// Friendly duplicate check. The UNIQUE index is the real guard against a
// race; that path surfaces as a generic insert error (500), acceptable at
// household scale.
if _, err := s.store.GetUserByEmail(ctx, email); err == nil {
return nil, domain.ErrEmailTaken
} else if !errors.Is(err, domain.ErrNotFound) {
return nil, err
// Cheap best-effort gate so a closed instance doesn't burn argon2 work on
// signups it will reject anyway. The authoritative, race-free gate — plus
// atomic first-user-is-admin assignment and duplicate-email detection — lives
// in store.CreateUser's single INSERT.
if !s.cfg.RegistrationOpen() {
n, err := s.store.CountUsers(ctx)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if n > 0 {
return nil, domain.ErrRegistrationClosed
}
}
hash, err := hashPassword(in.Password)
@@ -78,8 +78,7 @@ func (s *Service) Register(ctx context.Context, in RegisterInput) (*domain.User,
Email: email,
DisplayName: displayName,
PasswordHash: &hash,
IsAdmin: count == 0,
})
}, s.cfg.RegistrationOpen())
}
// Login verifies an email/password pair and returns the user. Unknown-email and
@@ -89,6 +88,10 @@ func (s *Service) Login(ctx context.Context, email, password string) (*domain.Us
if !s.cfg.LocalAuth {
return nil, domain.ErrLocalAuthDisabled
}
if len(password) > maxPasswordLen {
// No stored password is this long; reject without spending argon2 work.
return nil, domain.ErrInvalidCredentials
}
u, err := s.store.GetUserByEmail(ctx, normalizeEmail(email))
switch {
@@ -105,7 +108,13 @@ func (s *Service) Login(ctx context.Context, email, password string) (*domain.Us
}
ok, err := verifyPassword(*u.PasswordHash, password)
if err != nil || !ok {
if err != nil {
// A stored hash we can't parse is a data problem, not a wrong password;
// surface it so a corrupt row doesn't silently lock a user out unnoticed.
slog.Error("service: malformed stored password hash", "user_id", u.ID, "error", err)
return nil, domain.ErrInvalidCredentials
}
if !ok {
return nil, domain.ErrInvalidCredentials
}
return u, nil
@@ -129,38 +138,53 @@ func (s *Service) CreateSession(ctx context.Context, userID int64) (token string
return raw, exp, nil
}
// ResolveSession validates a raw bearer token and returns its user. An expired
// session is deleted and treated as absent (domain.ErrNotFound). A still-valid
// session has its expiry slid forward, but only when that moves it by more than
// an hour, so a busy client doesn't write on every request.
func (s *Service) ResolveSession(ctx context.Context, rawToken string) (*domain.User, error) {
// ResolveSession validates a raw bearer token and returns its user and the
// session's current expiry (so the caller can slide the client cookie in
// lockstep with the server). An expired session is deleted and treated as absent
// (domain.ErrNotFound). A still-valid session has its expiry slid forward, but
// only when that moves it by more than an hour, so a busy client doesn't write
// on every request.
func (s *Service) ResolveSession(ctx context.Context, rawToken string) (*domain.User, time.Time, error) {
if rawToken == "" {
return nil, domain.ErrNotFound
return nil, time.Time{}, domain.ErrNotFound
}
hash := hashToken(rawToken)
sess, err := s.store.GetSession(ctx, hash)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
return nil, time.Time{}, err
}
exp, err := parseTime(sess.ExpiresAt)
if err != nil {
// A corrupt expiry means we can't trust the session; drop it.
_ = s.store.DeleteSession(ctx, hash)
return nil, domain.ErrNotFound
if delErr := s.store.DeleteSession(ctx, hash); delErr != nil {
slog.Warn("service: deleting session with corrupt expiry", "error", delErr)
}
return nil, time.Time{}, domain.ErrNotFound
}
now := s.now()
if !now.Before(exp) {
_ = s.store.DeleteSession(ctx, hash)
return nil, domain.ErrNotFound
if delErr := s.store.DeleteSession(ctx, hash); delErr != nil {
slog.Warn("service: deleting expired session", "error", delErr)
}
return nil, time.Time{}, domain.ErrNotFound
}
if newExp := now.Add(sessionTTL); newExp.Sub(exp) > time.Hour {
_ = s.store.TouchSession(ctx, hash, formatTime(newExp))
if err := s.store.TouchSession(ctx, hash, formatTime(newExp)); err != nil {
// Non-fatal: the session is still valid at its current expiry.
slog.Warn("service: sliding session expiry", "error", err)
} else {
exp = newExp
}
}
return s.store.GetUserByID(ctx, sess.UserID)
user, err := s.store.GetUserByID(ctx, sess.UserID)
if err != nil {
return nil, time.Time{}, err
}
return user, exp, nil
}
// Logout deletes the session behind a raw bearer token. It is idempotent.