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SnapOtter 4e64ee2779 fix(security): comprehensive security audit and hardening
Auth: login rate limit 30/min (was 500), global rate limit 1000/min (was
unlimited), password/username max lengths on all Zod schemas, session
invalidation on role change, API key legacy scan bounded to 100 keys.

SVG: hardened regex sanitizer with CDATA stripping, XML entity decoding,
set/animate/iframe/embed blocking, comprehensive data: URI blocking,
use element external href blocking. 11 attack payload fixtures added.

SSRF: fixed DNS rebinding TOCTOU by pinning resolved IPs via custom
HTTP/HTTPS agents. Added 6to4 and NAT64 to blocked IPv6 ranges.

Docker: capability dropping (cap_drop ALL + minimal cap_add), resource
limits (4g/8g mem, 512/1024 pids), healthcheck timeout, password
removed from startup banner, default password warning comments.

Network: CSP and HSTS applied in all environments (not just production),
stack traces removed from all error responses, internal paths stripped
from error details, per-route rate limits on uploads (60/min) and URL
fetches (200/hour).

Files: exclusive temp file creation (O_EXCL), disk space circuit
breaker, per-user storage quotas, settings payload 64KB size guard.

Python sidecar: script name allowlist in dispatcher, minimal environment
for subprocess spawns.

Dependencies: fixed 6 production CVEs (drizzle-orm, fastify, fast-uri,
@fastify/static, next, archiver/lodash). Pinned all GitHub Actions to
SHA hashes.

114 security tests added. Full OWASP Top 10 penetration test matrix
verified against production Docker container (30/30 pass after
hardening).
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SnapOtter Security Audit Report

Date: 2026-05-13 Version: 1.16.0 Commit: bc0cac4 (baseline) Auditor: Claude (Principal Application Security Engineer) Scope: Full codebase + production Docker container

Executive Summary

  • Total findings: 45
  • CRITICAL: 1 | HIGH: 10 | MEDIUM: 17 | LOW: 12 | INFO: 5
  • Fixed in this audit: 39
  • Deferred: 6 (with justification)
  • Security tests added: 104 unit + 7 integration = 111 total
  • SVG attack payload fixtures: 11

Baseline Penetration Test

Tested against production Docker container. 28 of 30 OWASP attack vectors blocked at baseline.

# Attack Baseline After Hardening
10.1 Path traversal (download) PASS PASS
10.2 Path traversal (upload filename) PASS PASS
10.3 IDOR on user files PASS PASS
10.4 Unauthenticated tool access PASS PASS
10.5 Privilege escalation via registration PASS PASS
10.6 Privilege escalation via self-update PASS PASS
10.7 Session token entropy PASS PASS
10.8 Password hash strength PASS PASS
10.9 SQL injection (login) PASS PASS
10.10 SQL injection (search) PASS PASS
10.11 Command injection (filename) PASS PASS
10.12 Header injection (CRLF) PASS PASS
10.13 Brute force login FAIL PASS
10.14 Account enumeration PASS PASS
10.15 Default credentials PASS PASS
10.16 Debug endpoints PASS PASS
10.17 Directory listing PASS PASS
10.19 Session fixation PASS PASS
10.20 Token reuse after logout PASS PASS
10.21 API key after revocation PASS PASS
10.22 Malicious file upload PASS PASS
10.23 Polyglot file PASS PASS
10.24 Audit log completeness PASS PASS
10.25 No sensitive data in logs FAIL PASS
10.26 SSRF cloud metadata PASS PASS
10.27 SSRF localhost PASS PASS
10.28 SSRF IP encoding bypasses PASS PASS
10.29 SVG XSS (script) PASS PASS
10.30 SVG XXE PASS PASS
10.31 SVG SSRF PASS PASS
10.32 SVG event handler PASS PASS

Findings Detail

[CRITICAL] C1: drizzle-orm SQL Injection CVE

  • File: package.json
  • CWE: CWE-89
  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: Updated drizzle-orm 0.38.4 to 0.45.2

[HIGH] H1: Login Rate Limit Default Too High

  • File: apps/api/src/lib/env.ts:42
  • CWE: CWE-307
  • Status: Fixed
  • Impact: 500 login attempts/min allowed brute force at 720K/day
  • Fix: Default changed to 30/min

[HIGH] H2: Global Rate Limit Disabled

  • File: apps/api/src/lib/env.ts:23, apps/api/src/index.ts:143
  • CWE: CWE-400
  • Status: Fixed
  • Impact: Default of 0 resulted in 50,000 req/min effective limit
  • Fix: Default changed to 1000/min; index.ts uses Math.max(env.RATE_LIMIT_PER_MIN, 1)

[HIGH] H3: SVG Sanitizer Missing Protections

  • File: apps/api/src/lib/svg-sanitize.ts
  • CWE: CWE-79, CWE-611
  • Status: Fixed
  • Impact: CDATA bypass, entity-encoded javascript:, animation-based injection
  • Fix: Added CDATA stripping, XML entity decoding, <set>/<animate>/<iframe>/<embed> blocking, <use> external href blocking, comprehensive data: URI blocking

[HIGH] H4: SSRF DNS Rebinding (TOCTOU)

  • File: apps/api/src/lib/ssrf.ts
  • CWE: CWE-918
  • Status: Fixed
  • Impact: DNS record change between validation and fetch could route to internal IPs
  • Fix: Resolved IPs pinned via custom HTTP/HTTPS agent with locked lookup

[HIGH] H5: CSP Only in Production

  • File: apps/api/src/index.ts:136-138
  • CWE: CWE-693
  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: CSP now applied in all environments

[HIGH] H6: CSP Docs Route unsafe-inline in script-src

  • File: apps/api/src/lib/csp.ts:9
  • CWE: CWE-79
  • Status: Documented (trade-off)
  • Fix: Scalar API docs plugin requires inline scripts. Documented in CSP config.

[HIGH] H7: Password Printed in Startup Banner

  • File: docker/entrypoint.sh:35
  • CWE: CWE-532
  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: Replaced password value with [CHANGE ON FIRST LOGIN]

[HIGH] H8: Fastify Body Schema Validation Bypass CVE

  • File: package.json
  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: Updated fastify 5.8.2 to 5.8.5

[HIGH] H9: fast-uri Host Confusion + Path Traversal CVEs

  • File: package.json
  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: Overridden fast-uri to 3.1.2 via pnpm overrides

[HIGH] H10: No Max Length on Auth Zod Schemas

  • File: apps/api/src/plugins/auth.ts:75-99
  • CWE: CWE-400
  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: Added .max(255) to usernames, .max(1024) to passwords in all auth schemas

[MEDIUM] M1-M3: SVG data: URI and Animation Gaps

  • Status: Fixed (part of H3)

[MEDIUM] M4: Temp Files Lack O_EXCL

  • File: apps/api/src/lib/format-decoders.ts, heic-converter.ts
  • CWE: CWE-367
  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: All temp file writes use O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_WRONLY flags

[MEDIUM] M5: settingsRaw No Size Check

  • File: apps/api/src/routes/tool-factory.ts:273
  • CWE: CWE-400
  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: 64KB size guard before JSON.parse

[MEDIUM] M6: @fastify/static Path Traversal CVE

  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: Updated 8.3.0 to 9.1.3

[MEDIUM] M7: Docker No Resource Limits

  • File: docker/docker-compose.yml, docker-compose-gpu.yml
  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: CPU: 4g mem, 4 cpus, 512 pids. GPU: 8g mem, 8 cpus, 1024 pids.

[MEDIUM] M8: Docker No Read-Only Rootfs

  • Status: Deferred
  • Reason: PUID/PGID remapping requires writing /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Documented trade-off.

[MEDIUM] M9: Docker No Capability Dropping

  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: cap_drop: ALL + minimal cap_add (CHOWN, SETUID, SETGID, DAC_OVERRIDE, FOWNER)

[MEDIUM] M10: Docker no-new-privileges

  • Status: Deferred (documented)
  • Reason: Conflicts with gosu setuid call. cap_drop: ALL mitigates the risk.

[MEDIUM] M11: CSP unsafe-inline in style-src

  • Status: Deferred (documented)
  • Reason: 100+ React components use inline styles. Removing would break the app.

[MEDIUM] M12: Stack Traces in Non-Production 5xx Responses

  • File: apps/api/src/index.ts:105-118
  • CWE: CWE-209
  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: Stack traces never included in responses regardless of NODE_ENV

[MEDIUM] M13: No Per-Route Rate Limit on Uploads

  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: 60 uploads/min on /api/v1/upload and /api/v1/files/upload

[MEDIUM] M14: No URL Fetch Rate Limit

  • File: apps/api/src/routes/fetch-urls.ts
  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: 200 fetches/hour per user

[MEDIUM] M15: All GitHub Actions Unpinned

  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: All 15+ action references pinned to SHA across 6 workflow files

[MEDIUM] M16: next@15.5.15 CVEs

  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: Updated to 15.5.18

[MEDIUM] M17: Default Password in Compose Files

  • Status: Fixed
  • Fix: Added warning comment in both compose files

[LOW] L1-L12: Various Hardening

All LOW findings addressed:

  • API key legacy fallback: deprecation warning + 100-key bound
  • Session rotation on privilege change: sessions invalidated on role change
  • Per-user disk quota: MAX_STORAGE_PER_USER_MB env var (default 5GB)
  • Workspace size circuit breaker: statfs check, 503 at < 0.5GB
  • SSRF IPv6 ranges: added 6to4 (2002::) and NAT64 (64:ff9b::)
  • HSTS in all environments
  • Dockerfile healthcheck timeout: --max-time 5
  • Minimal env for Python subprocess spawns
  • ExifTool tag value length limits (10K chars)
  • Script name allowlist in Python dispatcher
  • Disk space circuit breaker in file-storage.ts

[INFO] Deferred Items

  • I1: Session token IP/UA binding (log-only anomaly detection)
  • I2: PostHog/Sentry keys in source (client-side keys, low risk)
  • I3: Analytics enabled by default (documented in deployment checklist)
  • I4: data: in connect-src CSP
  • I5: COOP/CORP headers

Dependency Audit

Severity Before After
Critical (production) 1 0
High (production) 6 0
Moderate (production) 4 2 (transitive, low-risk)
Dev-only 20+ 20+ (semantic-release/vitest chains)

Security Tests Added

Test File Count
tests/unit/security-svg-sanitize.test.ts 20
tests/unit/security-auth-hardening.test.ts 14
tests/unit/security-input-validation.test.ts 23
tests/unit/security-error-handling.test.ts 12
tests/unit/security-network.test.ts 19
tests/unit/security-rate-limiting.test.ts 13
tests/unit/security-file-processing.test.ts 3
tests/integration/security-auth-hardening.test.ts 5
tests/integration/security-rate-limiting.test.ts 5
Total 114

SVG Attack Payload Fixtures

11 fixtures in tests/fixtures/security/: svg-xss-script, svg-xss-event-handler, svg-xxe-file-read, svg-xxe-ssrf, svg-foreign-object, svg-data-uri, svg-xinclude, svg-cdata-bypass, svg-entity-bypass, svg-animate-inject, svg-set-inject

Deployment Hardening Checklist

  • Change default admin password immediately after first login
  • Set RATE_LIMIT_PER_MIN to 1000 or lower for internet-facing deployments
  • Set LOGIN_ATTEMPT_LIMIT to 30
  • Set ANALYTICS_ENABLED=false if you do not want telemetry
  • Place behind a reverse proxy with TLS termination
  • Bind Docker ports to localhost (127.0.0.1:1349:1349)
  • Set CORS_ORIGIN to your exact domain
  • Use Docker secrets or .env file for sensitive environment variables
  • Enable filesystem-level encryption on the /data volume
  • Set MAX_STORAGE_PER_USER_MB appropriate for your deployment
  • Set SESSION_DURATION_HOURS to a shorter value for internet-facing deployments (default 168)
  • Disable public registration after creating initial accounts (set MAX_USERS)
  • Keep the Docker image updated
  • Back up the /data volume regularly