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# Security Production Readiness Report
Date: 2026-03-01
Repository: /Users/bedas/Developer/GitHub/dcm
Review Type: Static security review for production readiness
## Scope
- Backend: FastAPI API, worker queue, settings and model runtime services
- Frontend: React and Vite API client and document preview rendering
- Infrastructure: docker-compose service exposure and secret configuration
## Findings
### Critical
1. Redis queue is exposed without authentication and can be abused for worker job injection.
- Impact: If Redis is reachable by an attacker, queued job payloads can be injected and executed by the worker process, leading to remote code execution and data compromise.
- Exploit path: Reach Redis on port 6379, enqueue crafted RQ jobs into queue dcm, wait for worker consumption.
- Evidence:
- docker-compose publishes Redis host port: `docker-compose.yml:21`
- worker consumes from Redis queue directly: `docker-compose.yml:77`
- queue connection uses bare Redis URL with no auth/TLS: `backend/app/worker/queue.py:15`, `backend/app/worker/queue.py:21`
- current environment binds services to all interfaces: `.env:1`
- Remediation:
- Do not publish Redis externally in production.
- Enforce Redis authentication and TLS.
- Place Redis on a private network segment with strict ACLs.
- Treat queue producers as privileged components only.
2. Untrusted uploaded content is previewed in an unsandboxed iframe.
- Impact: Stored XSS and active content execution in preview context can enable account action abuse and data exfiltration in the browser.
- Exploit path: Upload active content (for example HTML), open preview, script executes in iframe without sandbox constraints.
- Evidence:
- upload endpoint accepts generic uploaded files: `backend/app/api/routes_documents.py:493`
- MIME type is derived from bytes and persisted: `backend/app/api/routes_documents.py:530`
- preview endpoint returns original bytes inline with stored media type: `backend/app/api/routes_documents.py:449`, `backend/app/api/routes_documents.py:457`
- frontend renders preview in iframe without sandbox attribute: `frontend/src/components/DocumentViewer.tsx:486`
- preview source is a blob URL created from fetched content: `frontend/src/components/DocumentViewer.tsx:108`, `frontend/src/components/DocumentViewer.tsx:113`
- Remediation:
- Block inline preview for script-capable MIME types.
- Add strict iframe sandboxing if iframe preview remains required.
- Prefer force-download for active formats.
- Serve untrusted preview content from an isolated origin with restrictive CSP.
### High
1. Frontend distributes a bearer token to all clients.
- Impact: Any user with browser access can extract the token and replay authenticated calls, preventing per-user accountability and increasing blast radius.
- Exploit path: Read token from frontend runtime environment or request headers, replay API requests with Authorization header.
- Evidence:
- frontend consumes token from public Vite env: `frontend/src/lib/api.ts:24`
- token is attached to every request when present: `frontend/src/lib/api.ts:38`
- compose passes `VITE_API_TOKEN` from user token: `docker-compose.yml:115`
- privileged routes rely on static token role checks: `backend/app/api/router.py:19`, `backend/app/api/auth.py:47`, `backend/app/api/auth.py:51`
- Remediation:
- Replace shared static token model with per-user authentication.
- Keep secrets server-side only.
- Use short-lived credentials with rotation and revocation.
2. Default and static service secrets are present in deploy config.
- Impact: If service ports are exposed, predictable credentials and keys allow unauthorized access to data services.
- Exploit path: Connect to published Postgres or Typesense ports and authenticate with known static values.
- Evidence:
- static Postgres credentials: `docker-compose.yml:5`, `docker-compose.yml:6`
- static Typesense key in compose and runtime env: `docker-compose.yml:29`, `docker-compose.yml:55`, `docker-compose.yml:93`
- database and Typesense ports are published to host: `docker-compose.yml:9`, `docker-compose.yml:32`
- current environment uses placeholder tokens: `.env:2`, `.env:3`, `.env:4`
- Remediation:
- Use high-entropy secrets managed outside repository configuration.
- Remove unnecessary host port publications in production.
- Restrict service network access to trusted internal components.
3. ZIP recursion depth control is not enforced across queued descendants.
- Impact: Nested archives can create uncontrolled fan-out, causing CPU, queue, and storage exhaustion.
- Exploit path: Upload ZIP containing ZIPs; children are queued as independent documents without inherited depth, repeating recursively.
- Evidence:
- configured depth limit exists: `backend/app/core/config.py:28`
- extractor takes a depth argument but is called without propagation: `backend/app/services/extractor.py:302`, `backend/app/services/extractor.py:306`
- worker invokes extractor without depth context: `backend/app/worker/tasks.py:122`
- worker enqueues child archive jobs recursively: `backend/app/worker/tasks.py:225`, `backend/app/worker/tasks.py:226`
- Remediation:
- Persist and propagate archive depth per document lineage.
- Enforce absolute descendant and fan-out limits per root upload.
- Reject nested archives beyond configured depth.
### Medium
1. OCR provider path does not apply DNS revalidation equivalent to model runtime path.
- Impact: Under permissive network flags, SSRF defenses can be weakened by DNS rebinding on OCR traffic.
- Exploit path: Persist provider URL that passes initial checks, then rebind DNS to private target before OCR requests.
- Evidence:
- task model runtime enforces `resolve_dns=True`: `backend/app/services/model_runtime.py:41`
- provider normalization in app settings does not pass DNS revalidation flag: `backend/app/services/app_settings.py:253`
- OCR runtime uses persisted URL for client base URL: `backend/app/services/app_settings.py:891`, `backend/app/services/handwriting.py:159`
- Remediation:
- Apply DNS revalidation before outbound OCR requests or on every runtime load.
- Disallow private network egress by default and require explicit controlled exceptions.
2. Provider API keys are persisted in plaintext settings on storage volume.
- Impact: File system or backup compromise reveals upstream provider secrets.
- Exploit path: Read persisted settings file from storage volume or backup artifact.
- Evidence:
- settings file location under storage root: `backend/app/services/app_settings.py:133`
- provider payload includes plaintext `api_key`: `backend/app/services/app_settings.py:268`
- settings payload is written to disk as JSON: `backend/app/services/app_settings.py:680`, `backend/app/services/app_settings.py:685`
- OCR settings read returns stored API key value for runtime: `backend/app/services/app_settings.py:894`
- Remediation:
- Move provider secrets to dedicated secret management.
- If local persistence is unavoidable, encrypt sensitive fields at rest and restrict file permissions.
### Low
1. Frontend dependency is floating on latest.
- Impact: Non-deterministic installs and elevated supply chain drift risk.
- Exploit path: Fresh install resolves a newer unreviewed dependency release.
- Evidence:
- dependency pinned to latest tag: `frontend/package.json:13`
- Remediation:
- Pin exact versions and update through controlled dependency review.
## Validation Commands and Outcomes
- `/Users/bedas/Developer/Python/global_venv/bin/python backend/tests/test_security_controls.py`
- Outcome: passed, 13 tests.
- `/Users/bedas/Developer/Python/global_venv/bin/python -m unittest discover -s backend/tests -p 'test_*.py'`
- Outcome: passed, 24 tests.
## Coverage and Residual Risk
- Coverage:
- Authentication and authorization controls.
- Document upload and preview data flow.
- Worker queue and archive processing path.
- Provider configuration and outbound request handling.
- Docker service exposure and secret defaults.
- Residual risk and limits:
- Static analysis only, no live penetration testing executed.
- Perimeter controls (reverse proxy, firewall, WAF, TLS topology) were not verifiable from repository state.
- Dependency CVE scanning was not executed in this review pass.
## Delegation Report
- Primary owner by package:
- Security findings package: `security_reviewer` subagent, consolidated and validated by main thread.
- Repository reconnaissance package: main thread fallback after `explorer` interruption.
- Report authoring package: main thread.
- Agents invoked:
- `security_reviewer` (completed)
- `explorer` (interrupted)
- `awaiter` (completed validation command execution)
- Skills activated:
- `secure-delivery-gates`
- `documentation-standards`
- Required delegations not used and reason:
- `explorer` as final reconnaissance owner was required but unavailable due runtime interruption, so main thread performed direct source reconnaissance fallback.