advanced_config is admin-only, but other fields are written into nginx
config as-is and the schema barely limited them. A non-admin could add
any directive through them:
- location path, forward_host and forward_path (any non-empty string)
- proxy host forward_host (a quote breaks out of set $server "...")
- redirection forward_domain_name and stream forwarding_host (their
pattern allowed ";", e.g. "example.com; return 200; #")
- access list IPv6 addresses ("%.+" zone id allowed "::1%x; allow all")
- domain names (a newline got out of the header comment)
Validation
- New lib/nginx-values.js holds the rules. Values can't contain
characters that end or change an nginx token: whitespace, control
characters, ; { } " ' # \, and no $ in a host. Location paths allow a
modifier and an unquoted or double-quoted URI, so =, ~, ~* and ^~
locations and quoted regexes keep working.
- The API schemas use the same patterns, including the certificate
schema's own copy of the domain rule. A test fails if they drift.
- generateConfig checks stored values again, so rows saved before these
rules can't inject either. The check is about nginx structure only:
a stored value the API would now reject, but which can't add
directives, still renders. If a value is unsafe, nothing is written
and the host is marked offline with the reason in nginx_err. The same
check covers per-location access lists and the Let's Encrypt request
config.
- htpasswd user names can't contain ":" or control characters, which
corrupted the file.
Fixes along the way
- IPv6 client addresses: drop zone ids, which nginx's allow/deny
rejects anyway, and fix broken escapes (literal "d" for digits, an
unescaped ".").
- Rewrite the domain rule used by redirection and stream hosts so it
can't backtrack exponentially. It accepts the same values.
- Pattern errors still say "must match pattern", but no longer quote
the regex.
Tests
- backend/test/nginx-values.test.js, run by `yarn test` and in
scripts/ci/test-and-build. Real request schemas reject an injection
set and accept valid values on every endpoint. Accepted values,
rendered through the real templates and parsed using nginx's
tokenizer rules, keep the same statement structure. The check
refuses unsafe stored rows.
- NginxValues.cy.js: injection attempts from a non-admin get 400, and
hosts using valid edge-case values come up with nginx_online true.
Security
- Check advanced_config permissions before creating a certificate on
host update (proxy, redirection and 404 hosts). A refused request
previously requested a Let's Encrypt certificate first, leaving an
orphan certificate and using up rate limit.
- Only trust X-NPM-Peer-Addr when it comes with a secret generated at
container start. The admin nginx sends both headers. Any proxy host or
stream forwarding to 127.0.0.1:3000 was also a loopback peer, so it
could forge the header and get a fresh rate-limit bucket on every
request. Without the secret (dev, or a mounted production.conf), the
header is ignored.
- Add a login limit per IP across all accounts (30 failed attempts a
minute) alongside the per-account one. Before this, one address could
spray passwords over any number of accounts. Behind a shared proxy,
everyone using that proxy shares this limit.
- Stop trusting X-Real-IP from loopback. It was only there for an older
version of the rate limiter, and it let a stream host forwarding to a
local proxy host forge the client IP and get past IP access lists.
Loopback now behaves as it does on master.
Correctness
- Refuse to delete a certificate that hosts still use (400, with counts
per host type). Their configs include its files, and a successful
revoke deleted them anyway, which broke nginx -t. Otherwise the
certificate is revoked and its files are removed even if the revoke
fails.
- Let non-admins clear a location's advanced config. Deleting the
location was already allowed and has the same effect, and a location
deleted and re-added at the same path arrives with an empty config,
which was refused.
- Clear proxy host grants (meta.proxy_host_ids) when visibility isn't
"user" or proxy hosts are hidden, and drop ids of deleted hosts.
Before, hidden grants came back when proxy hosts were shown again.
The backend enforces this; the permissions modal also stops sending
them.
- 404 host and redirection host modals now wait for the current user
to load, so an admin's advanced config change isn't dropped if they
submit before it loads.
Tests
- NonAdminHosts.cy.js: refused change doesn't create a certificate,
location rename and clear rules, grant clearing.
- Certificates.cy.js: deleting a certificate that is in use.
($http_host) forwards the raw client Host header, including the port and
any absolute-form URI mismatch, to every upstream and into the asset
cache key
- Add in-memory sliding window rate limiter for auth token endpoints with CI/test bypass and successful request exclusion
- Add user_permission meta column migration and Objection model configuration
- Support scoping allowed proxy hosts per user when in 'Created Items Only' visibility mode
- Restrict advanced nginx configuration editing on hosts to admin users only
- Fix user permissions route ID parsing and omit id from permission update payloads
- Add allowed proxy hosts selector in permissions modal and display permissions summary badges in users table
Keep the incoming Host authority for default and custom locations, with the existing hostname fallback when Host is absent. Add a built-image regression that validates Host against Origin and Referer and run it after the CI image build.
Some paths rendered host configs without fully loading the relations
the templates depend on, silently dropping access rules (and SSL):
- Enabling a proxy host loaded the access list without its clients or
auth items, so the host came back with no access restrictions.
- Requesting a Let's Encrypt certificate re-rendered every host sharing
its domains from bare rows, dropping access rules and SSL.
generateConfig now loads any referenced certificate or access list that
isn't fully loaded, so no caller can render a partial config. The two
callers above also fetch the relations themselves, and a warning is
logged when a host's access list is missing or has no rules.
Adds integration tests covering access lists across disable/enable.
Fixes#5919, #4286, #5710
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The private key of custom certificates was returned in meta by GET /api/nginx/certificates and GET /api/nginx/certificates/{id}. Add meta.certificate_key to omissions(), the same way meta.dns_provider_credentials is hidden. The key stays in the database and is still written to /data/custom_ssl on upload.
Tokens are stateless JWTs, so changing a password left every session that
the old one had opened working until its own expiry, up to a day later.
That is the case the password change is meant to close: an administrator
resetting a compromised account did not evict whoever was already in it.
The auth row already records when the password last changed, so no
migration is needed: `Access.init()` reads it alongside the user it
already loads and refuses a token whose `iat` is older. Both sides are
compared as whole seconds, which is all `iat` carries, so a token minted
in the same second as the change is kept. Postgres stores that column to
the microsecond, which is why the comparison is not done in milliseconds.
It is reported as 401 rather than the usual 403 because that is what the
frontend clears the session on, so the browser holding the dead token
lands on the login page instead of a page full of errors, and `can()`
lets that one error through unwrapped for the same reason.
Only the password does this. A user row changing (a rename, an avatar,
permissions) does not, and a user with no password auth row, which is
what a login through an external provider looks like, is not affected.
- Adds request logging in debug mode for some endpoints
- Moves certbot version determination to the startup scripts and removes
bash script encapsulation when installing plugins
- Revert loose domain validation, which was there for a specific reason
addressing CVE's
- Fix Cypress suite for cert generation
- Adds Cypress test that iterates over the entire certbot plugins list
and installs each one, ensuring at the very least that the install
works
- Fixed some plugins based on this
- (!) Still some work to do on this, hostinger is still broken at least
- Improved cypress tests for custom certs; they will generate on each
run instead of being baked in. The baked ones were due to expire soon
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