feat(auth): throttle login, register, password reset and Subsonic auth failures (M462 #4976)
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Every password-shaped check was mounted bare, so guessing was limited only
by bcrypt cost. A shared in-memory AttemptLimiter now sits in front of them:

- login: 10 failures per account and 50 per address per 15 min, checked
  before the user lookup and bcrypt; 429 with Retry-After. A success clears
  the account's count but not the address's.
- unknown usernames run a dummy bcrypt compare, so timing no longer says
  which accounts exist.
- register: 10 per address per hour; forgot-password: 5 per address and 3
  per email per hour (applied whether or not the email matches); reset: 20
  failed tokens per address per 15 min.
- Subsonic /rest: same limits as login, counting only wrong credentials,
  since clients authenticate on every request.

Web login, register, reset and forgot-password screens say how long to
wait; web and Android carry copy for the rate_limited code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
2026-10-06 08:28:29 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 516413f4ca
commit 3bfddd0862
20 changed files with 528 additions and 16 deletions
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@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import (
"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/audit"
"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/auth"
"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/mailer"
)
@@ -47,6 +48,19 @@ func (h *handlers) handleForgotPassword(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
}
email := strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(req.Email))
// Throttled per address (a spray) and per email (a mailbomb of one
// inbox). Applied whether or not the email matches, so a 429 says
// nothing about which addresses are registered.
addr := auth.ClientIP(r, h.netSettings.Hops())
blockedAddr, waitAddr := h.forgotAddressLimit.Blocked(addr)
blockedEmail, waitEmail := h.forgotEmailLimit.Blocked(email)
if blockedAddr || blockedEmail {
writeRateLimited(w, max(waitAddr, waitEmail))
return
}
h.forgotAddressLimit.Record(addr)
h.forgotEmailLimit.Record(email)
q := dbq.New(h.pool)
var matched bool
var auditTarget pgtype.UUID