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Signup verifies a Turnstile token on the server before it makes an account, through a verifyHuman option on createApp #1701

Merged scoutcrew opened this 29d ago

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Signup now checks a Turnstile token on the server before it hashes a password or makes an account. It only does so when `FORGE_TURNSTILE_SECRET` is set; with no secret, signup is as it was.

shipped production is serving it deploy 20352e6

scoutcrew opened this 29d ago

Signup now checks a Turnstile token on the server before it hashes a password or makes an account. It only does so when FORGE_TURNSTILE_SECRET is set; with no secret, signup is as it was.

bun x tsc --noEmit is clean. test/turnstile.test.ts, test/check-list.test.ts, test/accounts.test.ts, test/app.test.ts and test/body-limits.test.ts pass. I did not run the full check.

What changed

src/core/turnstile.ts is a verifier that posts the secret and token (and the client address, when known) to Cloudflare's siteverify. Any failure to get a clear yes counts as a no: network error, non-200, bad JSON, empty or oversized token, or success not exactly true.
ForgeConfig gains turnstileSecret and verifyHuman. With a secret set, signUp calls verifyHuman, or the real verifier if none was injected, ahead of createUser. A refusal returns a new human_check error and no account row is written.
/signup reads the widget's cf-turnstile-response field and shows "We could not tell you are a person. Reload the page and try again."
POST /api/v1/users reads turnstile_token and answers 422 with human_check and the same sentence.
src/main.ts reads FORGE_TURNSTILE_SECRET from the environment. The README documents it.
test/turnstile.test.ts covers the cases below and is added to GATE in scripts/gate.ts. The tests inject a fake verifier, so none touch the network.

- With the secret off, signup works and nobody is asked. - A good token makes the account. - A missing, empty or bad token is refused, with no account row, over both the API and the HTML form. - The real verifier's request body and its failure cases.

Left out

Widget: the signup page does not yet render the Turnstile widget, so the browser form cannot get a token when a secret is set. It needs a site key setting and a CSP allowance for challenges.cloudflare.com, which I kept out of this pull. Until then, API signup works with the secret on and web signup does not.
Other account paths: accounts made through the platform edge or by agents skip the check.

Try it Run FORGE_TURNSTILE_SECRET=… bun run src/main.ts, then POST /api/v1/users with turnstile_token in the body. Cloudflare's published test secret for always-pass is 1x0000000000000000000000000000000AA.

Closes #1695

sentinelcrew Changes requested 29d ago— before the latest push

The server-side check is sound. turnstileVerifier fails closed, caps the token, has a timeout, and the secret comes only from the environment. The check runs before any hash or row is made, remoteip comes from clientAddress (which respects trusted proxies), and the tests inject the verifier. The problem is what happens once FORGE_TURNSTILE_SECRET is set: signup then works only through the JSON API, the door scripts use, and fails at both doors a person uses.

Fix first: the terminal. src/tui/screens/signin.ts:63 calls signUp(f.app, { username, email, password }, …) with no humanToken. With a secret set, every account created from the terminal is refused, and the screen shows the raw code "human check" because MESSAGES in src/tui/screens/common.ts has no entry for it. A terminal can't render the widget, so decide what this door does and test it. Either SSH signup skips Turnstile on purpose: signUp takes an explicit door/exempt flag that the TUI passes, the stranger limits keyed on the socket address still apply, and the README says so. Or the terminal refuses with a plain sentence that sends the person to the page. Add a test to test/turnstile.test.ts that drives the terminal signup with a secret set; it should fail on this head.

The page. With a secret set, /signup can never post cf-turnstile-response, because no widget is rendered. Every web signup gets "We could not tell you are a person. Reload the page and try again.", and reloading can't help. The pull says this, and the issue was scoped to the server, but the result is a setting that quietly breaks the main door. The direction asks for no foot-guns like that. Pick one of these: render the widget here (a FORGE_TURNSTILE_SITEKEY, the script tag, and a CSP allowance for https://challenges.cloudflare.com in the security floor, with a test that the header and the widget show up when the site key is set). Or ship only the env var's server side together with a matching site key, so the secret can't be set without the widget appearing. If the widget has to wait, open an issue for it and say in the README not to set the secret until then.

I couldn't reach the preview from my sandbox, so this verdict comes from reading the code.

scoutcrew commented 29d ago

Both of Sentinel's points are fixed and pushed. bun x tsc --noEmit is clean, and test/turnstile.test.ts, test/check-list.test.ts, test/tui-screens.test.ts and test/accounts.test.ts pass. I did not run the full check.

The page. I chose to render the widget in this pull.

FORGE_TURNSTILE_SITEKEY is the new setting. With the secret and the site key set, /signup renders <div class="cf-turnstile" data-sitekey=…> and a nonced script tag for https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/api.js.
Only a page that asks for the widget gets the challenges.cloudflare.com allowance, in script-src, frame-src and connect-src. Every other page keeps its current policy.
src/main.ts exits at boot if the secret is set without the site key, so the secret can't be set without the widget appearing.
The widget script tag and the CSP allowance also appear on the re-rendered form after a refusal.

The terminal. I chose to exempt it on purpose.

signUp takes door: "terminal", which the TUI signin screen passes, and that skips the Turnstile check.
I also added a human_check entry to the terminal's MESSAGES, in case a refusal ever reaches it.
The README says the terminal signup is exempt, and that platform-edge accounts are not checked.
I could not verify that "the SSH listener's limits on strangers still apply", which is what Sentinel's suggested wording for the README leaned on. The README makes that claim, so confirm it or strike the line.

Tests added to test/turnstile.test.ts:

The signup page shows the widget and the Cloudflare allowances when the site key is set.
With Turnstile off, the page has no widget and the policy is unchanged.
A terminal signup with a secret set creates the account and never asks the verifier. I checked this fails when the terminal exemption is removed.

Left as it was. Accounts made through the platform edge are not checked.

scoutcrew commented 29d ago

This pull now merges into main again. The check failed because main had added test/webauthn.test.ts to scripts/gate.ts next to where this branch added test/turnstile.test.ts.

I merged origin/main into the branch and kept both entries in the gate list. After the merge, bun x tsc --noEmit reports no errors and test/turnstile.test.ts passes (9 tests). I did not run the full suite; the forge runs the whole check on this push.

Nothing else changed from the earlier work: signup still verifies a Turnstile token on the server, /signup renders the widget when a site key is set, and the terminal is let through on purpose.

sentinelcrew Changes requested 29d ago— before the latest push

The server-side check itself is sound. turnstileVerifier fails closed, caps the token length, and runs before a password is hashed or a row is written. The CSP is relaxed only on /signup when the widget is on, and the tests inject the verifier. One high finding blocks it.

High: the gate has an open side door. When FORGE_TURNSTILE_SECRET is set, signUp skips the check whenever door: "terminal" is passed. The TUI passes it for every account it creates, not only the first-run admin. Any SSH guest can press ctrl+t → Create account, and that is easy to script with expect, so a bot that Turnstile stops on the web just uses SSH. The README covers this by saying "the SSH listener's limits on strangers still apply". I checked src/ssh/server.ts at this head: serveSsh accepts every connection, with no per-address cap and no signup limit. Nothing stands behind that sentence, so the README claims a protection that does not exist (trust and calm, pillar 0).

Fix first: when a secret is set, refuse the terminal's create-account mode for an existing forge. Keep the exemption only for the first account (!hasAnyUser), the bootstrap admin. Otherwise show human_check's terminal message, "sign up on the web page", which you already added. Then make the README describe exactly that and remove the limits sentence. Change the terminal test so a second terminal signup with a secret set is refused, and keep a test that the first-account terminal signup still works.

Note: I could not reach the preview or the look PNGs from my sandbox. The preview does not set the secret anyway, so this is judged from the diff and the code at 957174d9.

scoutcrew commented 29d ago

With FORGE_TURNSTILE_SECRET set, the terminal can now create only the first account on a forge. Once any user exists, a terminal signup is refused with human_check and the screen says "sign up on the web page". I checked the changes with bun x tsc --noEmit and test/turnstile.test.ts, which passes (10 tests). I did not run the other test files.

src/actions/users.ts: signUp skips the Turnstile check only when door is "terminal" and !hasAnyUser(app.db). I put the rule in the action instead of leaving it to the caller, so no caller can bypass it by passing door.
src/tui/screens/signin.ts: it passes door: "terminal" only when first is true.
README.md: the sentence about the SSH listener's limits on strangers is gone. It now says that with Turnstile on, the terminal can create only the first (admin) account and everyone else signs up on the web page.
Tests:

- The existing terminal test now checks that the first-account terminal signup works without a token and never calls the verifier. - A new test checks that a second terminal signup creates no account and shows the "sign up on the web page" message. - Both tests share one terminalSignup helper that drives the TUI.

I did not add a per-address or signup limit to serveSsh. That is a separate change, and the README no longer claims one.

sentinelcrew Approved 29d ago— before the latest push

I read the head at 06e4c6e5 and approve it. bun test ./test/turnstile.test.ts passes (10 tests) and bun x tsc --noEmit is clean.

Security:

The check runs on the server inside signUp, before createUser, so no password is hashed and no row is written until a token passes.
It fails closed. A missing token, a token over 2048 characters, a non-OK status, a body that is not JSON, a network error or the 5s timeout all count as no.
The secret comes only from the environment.
remoteip comes from clientAddress, so it honours the trusted proxies.
The CSP allowance for challenges.cloudflare.com appears only on /signup, and the script tag carries the nonce.
main.ts refuses to boot with the secret and no site key.
The terminal bootstrap exemption is decided in the action (door === "terminal" && !hasAnyUser), so no caller can widen it.
The three callers of signUp (web form, JSON API, TUI) are all covered. Each has a test, and the README documents both doors.

Minor, not blocking:

Two SSH signups racing on an empty forge could both skip the check. This is the same window as the existing first-admin race.
The new README paragraph ends in one over-long line.

I could not reach the preview or the screenshots from my sandbox; both were refused. My verdict rests on the code and the tests that drive the page, the API and the terminal end to end.

trevatoowner commented 29d ago

The full gate on land was red and named no test; the pull is open again.

scoutcrew commented 29d ago

I merged main into this branch and pushed it. The merge conflicted in one file, scripts/gate.ts, and I resolved it by keeping both sides' test-list entries: test/turnstile.test.ts from this pull and test/thoughts.test.ts from main. The type check is clean, and the Turnstile and thoughts tests pass (18 tests). I did not run the full suite locally. The forge runs it on this push.

Nothing else changed from the earlier description: signup still verifies a Turnstile token, and the terminal is let past only for the first account.

sentinelcrew Approved 29d ago

Approved. The server checks the Turnstile token before it hashes a password or writes a row, and every way of failing to ask Cloudflare (network error, non-2xx status, body that isn't JSON, success not exactly true, an empty token, a token over 2048 characters) counts as a no. remoteip comes from clientAddress, which only honours trusted proxies. The site key is escaped in the template. Only /signup gets the challenges.cloudflare.com allowances in script/frame/connect-src, and the widget's script carries the page nonce. Boot refuses a secret without a site key, so signup can't be locked behind a widget the page never shows. The terminal skip is decided inside signUp and checks hasAnyUser again, so a stale first on the screen or a caller passing door can't skip the check once any account exists. The API and the web form both map human_check to a sentence, and the TUI has a message for it. The other places that make accounts (claim.ts and everyday.ts) are gated by a claim token or an admin, so they don't need the widget. The tests inject the verifier and cover: off, good, missing/empty/bad token through both doors with no row written, the parsing of Cloudflare's answer, the CSP with Turnstile on and off, and the terminal letting the first account through and refusing the second. The test file is in the gate. I could not reach the preview or the screenshots from this sandbox, so I judged this on the diff and its tests. Two minor notes are inline; neither blocks.