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Daniel Hiller de4d768831 fix: close the gaps a security review found in the default install
Reported against 2.2.1 by someone reading the source. Every finding held.

**Sign-in had no ceiling.** Failures were logged with the caller's address
and nothing more. Two counters now — one per address, one per account —
because the two attacks look different: one source working through many
accounts is caught by the first, many sources working on one account by the
second, and behind a proxy only the second still means anything.

The count is kept in the process that serves the request. PLANKA needs no
Redis and the stock deployment is one container; run several and each keeps
its own count, which multiplies the ceiling by their number. That trade is
written where the limits are configured.

**The second factor could be guessed at leisure.** Six digits, and a
pending token that stayed valid for its full ten minutes however many codes
were wrong. Wrong codes are now counted on the session row — in the
database, so the count survives a restart and holds across every process —
and when the budget is spent the session is destroyed. After that even the
right code is refused and the login starts over from the password.

**Avatars, background images and favicons** checked the token's signature
and nothing else, so a revoked session, a deactivated account or a changed
password all kept working there for as long as the signature lasted, which
is a year by default. The five checks the API makes now live in one helper
that both use, rather than the shortened copy that had drifted from it.

**A link attachment's favicon** was fetched from wherever the URL pointed.
Storing a link is harmless — it is a string the user typed — but fetching
its icon is a request the server makes to an address the user chose, and
whether an icon came back reported on what is reachable from inside the
network. Server-side fetches now refuse private, loopback and link-local
addresses, `169.254.169.254` among them. The attachment is still created:
linking to an internal wiki is a legitimate thing to do, and it was the
server's own request that had to stop.

**The signing key.** Our own compose file ships `notsecretkey`, and it is
printed in the documentation — so on any instance that copied it, anyone can
sign a token for any account. PLANKA now says so on every start, and keeps
saying it, along with a key that is missing or shorter than 32 characters.
The placeholder carries the warning inline, where it is copied from.

**The backup script** wrote password hashes, live sessions, TOTP secrets and
SMTP credentials to an unencrypted archive. `BACKUP_PASSPHRASE` now encrypts
it, and without one the script says what it just put on disk. It also says
what it is — an example for the stock compose stack, not a backup concept —
and names the window between the database dump and the file copy, which no
ordering closes.
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JavaScript

/*!
* Copyright (c) 2024 PLANKA Software GmbH
* Licensed under the Fair Use License: https://github.com/plankanban/planka/blob/master/LICENSE.md
*/
const { URL } = require('url');
module.exports = {
inputs: {
url: {
type: 'string',
required: true,
},
},
async fn(inputs) {
const { hostname } = new URL(inputs.url);
// The link itself is only a stored string and stays whatever the user
// typed. Fetching its favicon, though, is a request the SERVER makes to an
// address the user chose — without a guard an editor could aim it at
// `169.254.169.254` or an internal service and read the outcome from
// whether an icon appeared.
const isSafe = await sails.helpers.utils.isSafeRemoteUrl(inputs.url);
if (isSafe && !sails.helpers.utils.isPreloadedFaviconExists(hostname)) {
await sails.helpers.utils.downloadFavicon(inputs.url);
}
return {
hostname,
url: inputs.url,
};
},
};