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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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/apierror"
"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/audit"
"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/auth"
"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
)
@@ -42,6 +43,15 @@ func (h *handlers) handleResetPassword(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
return
}
// Tokens carry 256 bits, so guessing one is hopeless; the limit is on
// failed tries per address so that nobody gets to find that out at our
// expense.
addr := auth.ClientIP(r, h.netSettings.Hops())
if blocked, wait := h.resetLimit.Blocked(addr); blocked {
writeRateLimited(w, wait)
return
}
q := dbq.New(h.pool)
// Look up the reset record so we know which user to update before
@@ -50,6 +60,7 @@ func (h *handlers) handleResetPassword(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
reset, err := q.GetPasswordReset(r.Context(), req.Token)
if err != nil {
if errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows) {
h.resetLimit.Record(addr)
writeErr(w, apierror.BadRequest("invalid_token", ""))
return
}
@@ -69,6 +80,7 @@ func (h *handlers) handleResetPassword(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
return
}
if rows == 0 {
h.resetLimit.Record(addr)
writeErr(w, apierror.BadRequest("invalid_token", ""))
return
}