Four fixes hardening the secrets and rate-limit posture a prior audit
left or that regressed:
X-Forwarded-For rate-limit bypass + memory DoS (ratelimit.go): clientIP
returned the raw XFF header, so an attacker rotating it minted unlimited
distinct limiter keys — never tripping the limit and growing the visitors
map without bound. XFF is now honored only when the immediate peer is a
configured trusted proxy (UPTOP_TRUSTED_PROXIES, CIDRs or bare IPs), using
the right-most non-trusted hop; otherwise the key is the real RemoteAddr.
The visitors map is bounded with LRU eviction as defense in depth.
Export redaction denylist -> per-provider allowlist (server.go): the old
six-key denylist missed the actual credentials — the webhook URL for
discord/slack/webhook/ntfy/gotify and api_key for opsgenie — exporting
them in the clear. redactByProvider keeps only known-safe keys per
provider type and redacts everything else, so unknown/new keys fail safe.
ImportData plaintext secrets (sqlstore.go): import inserted raw
json.Marshal(settings), bypassing the encryption AddAlert/UpdateAlert
use. It now routes through marshalSettings, so a restore with
UPTOP_ENCRYPTION_KEY set stores enc:-prefixed ciphertext, not plaintext.
Alert error credential leak (alert.go): provider Send returned the raw
*url.Error, whose URL carries the secret (Telegram bot token in the path,
webhook secrets in the URL); it was persisted to AlertHealth.LastError
and shown in the TUI. sanitizeError strips the URL, keeping the operation
and underlying cause.
Tests cover trusted/untrusted XFF + spoofed-bypass + map bound, the
allowlist per provider, encrypted-on-import round-trip, and URL-stripped
errors. README documents UPTOP_TRUSTED_PROXIES. Full suite green under
-race; golangci-lint clean.
lerko
