security: fix pre-auth bypasses and restore Immich 3.x compatibility (#378)

Seven security issues from an audit, plus album pages and the map coming
up empty against Immich 3.x. Verified against a real Immich 3.0.3
instance in a production build.

Security:
- Admin session forgery via a hardcoded 'dev-fallback-secret' signing key
  that bypassed the production AUTH_SECRET guard
- /api/map ignored album passwords and returned working asset tokens;
  rewriting ?size=thumbnail to ?size=original downloaded full-resolution
  originals from protected albums
- Admin login had no rate limit, and the client IP came from a spoofable
  header, so rotating it bypassed every limit in the app
- Raw Immich asset UUIDs were serialized into the RSC payload
- Album tokens never expired server-side; a captured token replayed forever
- Path traversal into the Immich API via an unvalidated album id
- /admin ran with no enforced CSP (only Report-Only reached it)

TRUSTED_PROXIES is replaced by TRUSTED_PROXY_HOPS. The old variable
matched proxy IPs against the socket peer address, which self-hosted
Next.js never exposes, so the check could never pass: unset, the limiter
read a spoofable header; set, every request shared one bucket and a single
client could rate-limit the whole site. Migrates automatically.

Immich 3.x: GET /albums/:id no longer embeds assets. Assets now come from
POST /search/metadata with withExif: true — without that flag EXIF is
omitted and grid aspect ratios, the lightbox panel and map markers stay
empty. Drops support for Immich below 3.0, which now logs a warning.

Upgrade: requires Immich 3.0+; set TRUSTED_PROXY_HOPS (nginx = 1);
visitors of protected areas and admin sessions must log in once more.

91 unit tests (25 new); the new admin-auth and rate-limit cases were
confirmed to fail against the pre-fix code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Ralksta
2026-07-20 18:57:57 +02:00
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parent cf2e8e6ece
commit 37f7f62157
30 changed files with 821 additions and 226 deletions

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@@ -48,9 +48,17 @@ function hmac(data: string): string {
return crypto.createHmac('sha256', getConfig().authSecret).update(data).digest('hex');
}
function authToken(key: string, passwordSecret: string): string {
// Use the hash/password as part of the HMAC for a secure, unique session token
return hmac(`${key}:${passwordSecret}`);
/**
* Build a session token of the form `<expiryEpochMs>.<hmac>`.
*
* The expiry is part of the signed payload, so it cannot be extended by the
* client. Without it the token was a pure function of (slug, password) and
* therefore valid forever — the 24h lifetime existed only as the cookie's
* Max-Age, which the client enforces and an attacker replaying a captured
* token simply ignores.
*/
function authToken(key: string, passwordSecret: string, expiresAt: number): string {
return `${expiresAt}.${hmac(`${key}:${passwordSecret}:${expiresAt}`)}`;
}
function cookieName(key: string, type: 'subpage' | 'album'): string {
@@ -132,8 +140,8 @@ export function authenticate(
if (!isValid) return null;
const token = authToken(key, storedPassword);
const maxAge = TOKEN_EXPIRY_HOURS * 60 * 60;
const token = authToken(key, storedPassword, Date.now() + maxAge * 1000);
const secure = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? '; Secure' : '';
return `${cookieName(key, type)}=${token}; HttpOnly; Path=/; Max-Age=${maxAge}; SameSite=Strict${secure}`;
@@ -154,10 +162,21 @@ export function isAuthenticated(
const cookie = getCookie(cookieName(key, type));
if (!cookie) return false;
const expected = authToken(key, storedPassword);
// Legacy tokens (bare HMAC, no expiry) do not parse here and are rejected;
// the visitor simply re-enters the password.
const sep = cookie.indexOf('.');
if (sep === -1) return false;
const expiresAt = Number(cookie.slice(0, sep));
if (!Number.isFinite(expiresAt) || expiresAt <= Date.now()) return false;
const expected = authToken(key, storedPassword, expiresAt);
// Constant-time comparison to prevent timing attacks
try {
return crypto.timingSafeEqual(Buffer.from(cookie, 'hex'), Buffer.from(expected, 'hex'));
const a = Buffer.from(cookie, 'utf8');
const b = Buffer.from(expected, 'utf8');
if (a.length !== b.length) return false;
return crypto.timingSafeEqual(a, b);
} catch {
return false;
}