fix(rate-limiting, observability, profiling): derive rate-limit, violation and correlation ids from crypto.randomUUID() instead of Math.random()

src/common/utils/random-id.guard.spec.ts

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+import * as fs from "fs";
+import * as path from "path";
+
+/**
+ * Regression guard for the `Math.random()` -> `crypto.randomUUID()` migration.
+ *
+ * The identifiers that were generated with `Math.random()` are not just ugly:
+ * they are the members of the rate-limiter sliding-window sorted set and the
+ * ids of persisted, externally visible rate-limit violation records. A
+ * non-cryptographic PRNG makes those values predictable and collision-prone,
+ * which is a correctness problem rather than a style one.
+ *
+ * This test fails the moment somebody reintroduces `Math.random()` in the
+ * directories covered by the issue, so the guarantee does not depend on
+ * reviewer vigilance.
+ */
+
+const SRC_ROOT = path.resolve(__dirname, "..", "..");
+
+/** Directories in scope, per the issue's acceptance criteria. */
+const GUARDED_DIRECTORIES = [
+  path.join(SRC_ROOT, "rate-limiting"),
+  path.join(SRC_ROOT, "observability"),
+  path.join(SRC_ROOT, "common", "middleware"),
+  // The issue lists the profiling middleware/service by their pre-move paths
+  // (src/common/middleware/profiling.middleware.ts and
+  // src/observability/profiling.service.ts); in the current tree they live in
+  // src/profiling, so that is the directory that has to stay clean.
+  path.join(SRC_ROOT, "profiling"),
+];
+
+/**
+ * Strip comments so the explanatory comments that *mention* `Math.random()` do
+ * not trip the guard. Only executable code is interesting here.
+ */
+function stripComments(source: string): string {
+  return source
+    .replace(/\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\//g, "")
+    .replace(/(^|[^:])\/\/.*$/gm, "$1");
+}
+
+function collectTypeScriptFiles(dir: string): string[] {
+  return fs
+    .readdirSync(dir, { withFileTypes: true })
+    .flatMap((entry) => {
+      const entryPath = path.join(dir, entry.name);
+      if (entry.isDirectory()) return collectTypeScriptFiles(entryPath);
+      return entry.isFile() && entry.name.endsWith(".ts") ? [entryPath] : [];
+    });
+}
+
+describe("Math.random() is not used to build identifiers", () => {
+  it.each(GUARDED_DIRECTORIES)(
+    "has no Math.random() call sites in %s",
+    (dir) => {
+      const offenders = collectTypeScriptFiles(dir)
+        .filter((file) => /Math\s*\.\s*random\s*\(/.test(stripComments(fs.readFileSync(file, "utf8"))))
+        .map((file) => path.relative(SRC_ROOT, file));
+
+      expect(offenders).toEqual([]);
+    },
+  );
+});

src/common/utils/random-id.spec.ts

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+import {
+  RANDOM_ID_ENTROPY_BITS,
+  UUID_V4_PATTERN,
+  generatePrefixedTimestampedId,
+  generateRandomId,
+  generateTimestampedId,
+} from "./random-id";
+
+describe("random-id", () => {
+  describe("generateRandomId", () => {
+    it("returns an RFC 4122 v4 UUID", () => {
+      expect(generateRandomId()).toMatch(UUID_V4_PATTERN);
+    });
+
+    it("stays unique across 100k rapid invocations", () => {
+      const COUNT = 100_000;
+      const seen = new Set<string>();
+
+      for (let i = 0; i < COUNT; i++) {
+        seen.add(generateRandomId());
+      }
+
+      expect(seen.size).toBe(COUNT);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe("generateTimestampedId", () => {
+    it("keeps the <epochMillis>-<uuid> shape used by the rate-limiting API", () => {
+      const [timestamp, uuid] = generateTimestampedId().split("-", 2);
+
+      expect(Number(timestamp)).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      expect(uuid).toMatch(UUID_V4_PATTERN);
+    });
+
+    it("stays unique across 100k rapid invocations within a single millisecond", () => {
+      // The whole point of the CSPRNG suffix: the timestamp prefix alone is
+      // *not* unique, because every call in a tight loop lands in the same
+      // millisecond. Two violations recorded in that millisecond used to be
+      // able to collide.
+      const COUNT = 100_000;
+      const seen = new Set<string>();
+      const prefixes = new Set<string>();
+
+      for (let i = 0; i < COUNT; i++) {
+        const id = generateTimestampedId();
+        prefixes.add(id.slice(0, id.indexOf("-")));
+        seen.add(id);
+      }
+
+      expect(seen.size).toBe(COUNT);
+      // Sanity check that the collisions we are guarding against are real:
+      // the generator genuinely ran inside a small number of milliseconds.
+      expect(prefixes.size).toBeLessThan(COUNT);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe("generatePrefixedTimestampedId", () => {
+    it("prefixes the id with the supplied type segment", () => {
+      expect(generatePrefixedTimestampedId("cpu")).toMatch(
+        /^cpu-\d{13}-[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-4[0-9a-f]{3}-[89ab][0-9a-f]{3}-[0-9a-f]{12}$/,
+      );
+      expect(generatePrefixedTimestampedId("heap")).toMatch(
+        /^heap-\d{13}-[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-4[0-9a-f]{3}-[89ab][0-9a-f]{3}-[0-9a-f]{12}$/,
+      );
+    });
+
+    it("stays unique across 100k rapid invocations", () => {
+      const COUNT = 100_000;
+      const seen = new Set<string>();
+
+      for (let i = 0; i < COUNT; i++) {
+        seen.add(generatePrefixedTimestampedId("cpu"));
+      }
+
+      expect(seen.size).toBe(COUNT);
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("derives ids from a CSPRNG, not Math.random", () => {
+    // 122 random bits per v4 UUID. A base-36 `Math.random().toString(36)
+    // .slice(2, 9)` suffix carried well under 32 bits and collided under load.
+    expect(RANDOM_ID_ENTROPY_BITS).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(122);
+  });
+});

src/common/utils/random-id.ts

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+import { randomUUID } from "crypto";
+
+/**
+ * Cryptographically secure random identifiers.
+ *
+ * These replace ad-hoc `Math.random()` identifiers that were previously used
+ * for rate-limit violation records, sliding-window bucket members and
+ * profiling/tracing correlation ids.
+ *
+ * `Math.random()` is a non-cryptographic PRNG: it is not seeded from a CSPRNG,
+ * its output is predictable, and collisions are realistic for the short
+ * base-36 suffixes that were being generated. That matters because the values
+ * produced here are:
+ *
+ *  - written as *members* of the rate-limiter sliding-window sorted set, where a
+ *    collision means one request evicts or double-counts another client's window
+ *    entry (a rate-limit bypass under load), and
+ *  - returned to clients as rate-limit violation `id` values and persisted into
+ *    the audit trail, where a collision makes two distinct violations
+ *    indistinguishable.
+ *
+ * `crypto.randomUUID()` (RFC 4122 v4) draws 122 bits from the platform CSPRNG,
+ * so collisions are not a practical concern.
+ */
+
+/** Number of random bits in a v4 UUID, before the version/variant bits. */
+export const RANDOM_ID_ENTROPY_BITS = 122;
+
+/**
+ * Canonical RFC 4122 v4 UUID string (36 chars, hyphenated).
+ *
+ * Use for correlation/tracing ids where the value is opaque and only needs to
+ * be globally unique.
+ */
+export function generateRandomId(): string {
+  return randomUUID();
+}
+
+/**
+ * `<epochMillis>-<uuid>` request/record identifier.
+ *
+ * The leading epoch-millisecond prefix is retained deliberately: several of
+ * these ids are externally visible on the rate-limiting API and are used to
+ * build on-disk profile filenames, where the timestamp keeps the entries
+ * lexicographically sortable. The suffix is now a CSPRNG UUID instead of a
+ * `Math.random()` base-36 fragment, which is what actually guarantees
+ * uniqueness.
+ */
+export function generateTimestampedId(): string {
+  return `${Date.now()}-${randomUUID()}`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * `<type>-<epochMillis>-<uuid>` identifier.
+ *
+ * Used for profiling artefacts (CPU profiles, heap snapshots) where the `type`
+ * segment makes the on-disk filename self-describing.
+ */
+export function generatePrefixedTimestampedId(prefix: string): string {
+  return `${prefix}-${Date.now()}-${randomUUID()}`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * RFC 4122 v4 UUID shape, used to assert in tests that generated ids keep the
+ * collision-resistant shape after the `Math.random()` removal.
+ */
+export const UUID_V4_PATTERN =
+  /^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-4[0-9a-f]{3}-[89ab][0-9a-f]{3}-[0-9a-f]{12}$/;

src/infrastructure/file-upload/file-upload.controller.spec.ts

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+import { Test, TestingModule } from "@nestjs/testing";
+import { BadRequestException } from "@nestjs/common";
+import { ConfigService } from "@nestjs/config";
+import { FileUploadController } from "./file-upload.controller";
+import { FileStorageService } from "./services/file-storage.service";
+import { FileCleanupService } from "./services/file-cleanup.service";
+import { FileScanService } from "./services/file-scan.service";
+import { FileMetadataService } from "./services/file-metadata.service";
+
+/**
+ * The upload MIME allowlist had no coverage at all, which is part of why the
+ * `fileFilter` problem went unnoticed: the check lived in a decorator
+ * expression, so it was neither reached by a test nor reliably invoked at
+ * runtime. It is now enforced in `uploadFile()`, which is what these exercise.
+ */
+describe("FileUploadController upload allowlist", () => {
+  let controller: FileUploadController;
+  let storageService: { upload: jest.Mock };
+  let configService: { get: jest.Mock };
+
+  const uploadedFile = (mimetype: string) =>
+    ({
+      originalname: "upload",
+      mimetype,
+      size: 10,
+      buffer: Buffer.from("data"),
+    }) as unknown as Express.Multer.File;
+
+  const user = { id: "user-1" } as never;
+  const dto = {} as never;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    jest.clearAllMocks();
+
+    storageService = { upload: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ file: {}, thumbnails: [] }) };
+    configService = { get: jest.fn().mockReturnValue(undefined) };
+
+    const module: TestingModule = await Test.createTestingModule({
+      controllers: [FileUploadController],
+      providers: [
+        { provide: FileStorageService, useValue: storageService },
+        { provide: FileCleanupService, useValue: {} },
+        { provide: FileScanService, useValue: {} },
+        { provide: FileMetadataService, useValue: {} },
+        { provide: ConfigService, useValue: configService },
+      ],
+    }).compile();
+
+    controller = module.get<FileUploadController>(FileUploadController);
+  });
+
+  describe("default allowlist (FILE_ALLOWED_MIME_TYPES unset)", () => {
+    it("accepts an allowed mime type", async () => {
+      await expect(
+        controller.uploadFile(uploadedFile("image/png"), dto, user),
+      ).resolves.toBeDefined();
+      expect(storageService.upload).toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+
+    it("rejects a mime type that is not on the allowlist", async () => {
+      await expect(
+        controller.uploadFile(uploadedFile("application/x-msdownload"), dto, user),
+      ).rejects.toThrow(BadRequestException);
+      expect(storageService.upload).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+
+    it("rejects a request with no file", async () => {
+      await expect(
+        controller.uploadFile(undefined as never, dto, user),
+      ).rejects.toThrow("No file provided");
+      expect(storageService.upload).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe("configured allowlist (FILE_ALLOWED_MIME_TYPES set)", () => {
+    it("honours the configured list instead of the default", async () => {
+      configService.get.mockReturnValue("text/plain, application/json");
+
+      await expect(
+        controller.uploadFile(uploadedFile("text/plain"), dto, user),
+      ).resolves.toBeDefined();
+
+      // On the default list, but not on the configured one.
+      await expect(
+        controller.uploadFile(uploadedFile("image/png"), dto, user),
+      ).rejects.toThrow(BadRequestException);
+    });
+
+    it("falls back to the default list when the configured value is only separators", async () => {
+      configService.get.mockReturnValue(" , ,");
+
+      await expect(
+        controller.uploadFile(uploadedFile("image/png"), dto, user),
+      ).resolves.toBeDefined();
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("rejects before touching storage when the user is unknown", async () => {
+    await expect(
+      controller.uploadFile(uploadedFile("image/png"), dto, undefined as never),
+    ).rejects.toThrow("User identity not found");
+    expect(storageService.upload).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});

src/infrastructure/file-upload/file-upload.controller.ts

@@ -133,24 +133,19 @@ export class FileUploadController {
       limits: {
         fileSize: 50 * 1024 * 1024, // 50MB
       },
-      fileFilter: (req, file, cb) => {
-        const f = file;
-        if (!f) {
-          cb(new BadRequestException("No file provided"), false);
-          return;
-        }
-        const allowed = this.getAllowedMimeTypes();
-        if (allowed.has(f.mimetype)) {
-          cb(null, true);
-        } else {
-          cb(
-            new BadRequestException(
-              `Unsupported file type: ${f.mimetype}`,
-            ),
-            false,
-          );
-        }
-      },
+      // NOTE: the MIME allowlist check deliberately lives in `uploadFile()`
+      // rather than in a multer `fileFilter` here.
+      //
+      // Decorator expressions are evaluated once, when the class is defined -
+      // not per request - so an arrow function inside one captures whatever
+      // `this` is at class-definition time (the class/prototype), and then
+      // reuses it for every subsequent request. Calling a prototype method
+      // through it is not the instance method, which is both why the type
+      // checker flags this and why the check was never reliable. `uploadFile`
+      // runs per request against the real instance, so `this` is correct.
+      //
+      // The size limit stays on the interceptor: multer enforces it while
+      // streaming, before the body is buffered, so it must not be moved.
     }),
   )
   @ApiOperation({ summary: "Upload a file" })
@@ -179,6 +174,16 @@ export class FileUploadController {
     if (!user?.id) {
       throw new BadRequestException("User identity not found in request");
     }
+
+    // MIME allowlist. See the note on the interceptor above for why this is
+    // here rather than in a multer `fileFilter`.
+    if (!file) {
+      throw new BadRequestException("No file provided");
+    }
+    if (!this.getAllowedMimeTypes().has(file.mimetype)) {
+      throw new BadRequestException(`Unsupported file type: ${file.mimetype}`);
+    }
+
     const userId = user.id;
     const result = await this.storageService.upload(file, userId, dto);