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>
Introduced a request-scoped `Map` (`authCache`) in `app/api/map/route.ts` to memoize `isAuthenticated` calls.
The `getMapData` loop iterates over all albums across all locations. Albums within the same subpage slug trigger repeated `isAuthenticated` checks, which execute expensive HMAC cryptographic operations, causing performance degradation for large datasets.
Eliminates redundant cryptographic operations during map data fetching, reducing CPU utilization and response times for the Map API.
Co-authored-by: google-labs-jules[bot] <161369871+google-labs-jules[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Prevents spurious 429s during normal browsing/refreshing.
Browser now caches personalised map data for 5 minutes (private,
so CDNs/proxies won't share it between users).
- Extract EXIF and Swipe logic into custom hooks for Lightbox
- Extract Map layout data formatting into mapService
- Extract AlbumDetailView and SubpageGridView components from page router
- Restructure monolithic config.ts into clean config/ directory
- /map page with Leaflet (CartoDB dark tiles)
- Photos clustered by city/country (not per-photo)
- /api/map endpoint with encrypted cover asset IDs
- Configurable via gallery.yaml (map: true/false)
- Conditional nav link in header
- CSP updated for Leaflet CDN and tile servers
- Theme-aware popups with cover thumbnails and album links
