deploy/stack.yaml passes DATABASE_URL_FILE, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID_FILE,
OPERATOR_PASSWORD_FILE and the provider tokens as Swarm secret paths, but the
runtime only ever read the plain names. That stack could not start: the database
URL and R2 credentials were absent, and operator login raised KeyError, so it
returned 500 instead of the intended 503.
local/secrets.py resolves every <NAME>_FILE into <NAME> before configuration is
read, from the API, worker and bootstrap entrypoints. It fails closed on an
unreadable or empty secret and on a name supplied both directly and as a file,
because starting with a credential nobody intended is worse than not starting.
Only one trailing newline is stripped, so a generated password keeps any
whitespace that belongs to it, and no value reaches an error message.
The stack also passed OPERATOR_USER while the Kanban authenticates by email;
it now passes OPERATOR_EMAIL, matching the runtime.
The release gate checked this by searching local/secrets.py for the literal
"DATABASE_URL_FILE", which would pass for any file containing that string. It
now loads the module and makes it resolve every secret the stack declares, and
asserts it fails closed on a missing one. Four marker strings that stopped
matching when R2 support landed are removed rather than left to rot; the two
that still describe real blockers stay, so the gate continues to refuse a
release while payment and messaging adapters are fake.
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uvicorn does not trust forwarded headers from a peer outside
forwarded_allow_ips, so request.client.host was the web gateway for every
request. The auth-source bucket therefore counted all customers together:
60 failed logins from one attacker locked out everyone. Security events
recorded the gateway address, which made the audit trail useless for
attribution.
The gateway now overwrites X-Forwarded-For with the peer address it observed
instead of appending to whatever the client sent, so the header carries one
value the client cannot choose, and client_ip() resolves it with a fallback to
the connection peer.
The guest-session limiter was keyed on the environment name, making it one
global bucket of 120 per 15 minutes: roughly eight new visitors a minute for
the whole site before legitimate traffic started receiving 429. It is now per
source, and the ceiling is deliberately generous because offices and mobile
carriers put many real customers behind a single address.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
