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fix(integrations): rate-limit the connector connect and disconnect routes (TASK-261) - #2775
TASK-261: the half of closed#1751 that never landed.
POST /api/integrations/:id/connect and POST /api/integrations/:id/disconnect ran auth with no limiter in front of it. Each request cost an auth lookup plus up to two reads (Integration, then Pod), unthrottled.
Both routes now carry writeIntegrationsRateLimit ahead of auth. The create route has used the same limiter since #1297: 30 writes per 60 s per presented credential, one bucket shared by every connector write. Their two [unlimited] rows leave routeRateLimitGuard.baseline.json.
The shared key now hashes the token auth extracts (second and third commits, both raised by CodeRabbit). auth takes Authorization without its Bearer prefix, else x-auth-token (backend/middleware/auth.ts:34-35). The key used to hash the raw Authorization header and nothing else, which had two effects:
A caller that sent only x-auth-token was keyed by client IP, and shared one 30-write budget with every caller behind that address.
One token sent as Bearer t, as bare t and as x-auth-token: t held three budgets.
Now all three forms share one bucket. That changes the key for every route on writeIntegrationsRateLimit and listIntegrationsRateLimit, not just these two. The list limiter allows 120 reads per 60 s (backend/middleware/integrationRateLimit.ts:50-52) and guards four reads: GET /api/integrations/:podId (backend/routes/integrations.ts:409), GET /api/integrations/user/all (:668), GET /api/installables (backend/routes/installables.ts:176) and GET /api/discord/channels/:guildId (backend/routes/discord.ts:99). On those reads, a caller that sends only x-auth-token moves from its address's bucket to one bucket per token. Callers that send Authorization were already keyed by that header.
Who this can throttle. Nothing in frontend/, cli/ or packages/ calls either route, so the shared budget can't break a first-party flow. The frontend's axios interceptor adds Authorization to every request (frontend/src/utils/axiosConfig.ts:16), so first-party calls stay keyed by their credential, one bucket per token. A caller that hits the limit gets the same 429 body as every other connector write.
What it does not bound. The bucket is keyed on the presented credential, so it bounds a caller using one credential. A caller who sends a different token on every request gets a new bucket each time, and auth still runs its User.findOne lookups for any cm_ token. The create route has the same property today. backend/__tests__/unit/middleware/integrationRateLimit.test.js:17-20 states this boundary, and this PR doesn't move it.
Rotating x-auth-token now gets fresh buckets the same way. Before the key change, an x-auth-token-only caller was held to its address's bucket. That held back no one who wanted to get around it, because rotating Authorization already did.
Tests.routeRateLimitGuard reads only middleware names and their order. It can't tell the shared limiter from a route-local one with a matching name. The new suite backend/__tests__/unit/routes/integrations.connectRateLimit.test.js loads the real middleware/integrationRateLimit and drives the real router. It needs no DB: Integration.findById answers null, so every admitted request ends at the handler's 404.
Connect and disconnect each answer 30 requests and refuse the 31st with the limiter's 429 body. auth runs 30 times, so the refusal comes before auth.
15 connects plus 15 disconnects on one credential use up the bucket. After that, the create route refuses that credential too. A fresh credential still gets through.
Two new key cases in integrationRateLimit.test.js:
Two x-auth-token values from one address get two keys, and Authorization decides the key when both headers are sent.
One token sent as Bearer one, bare one and x-auth-token: one gets one key.
Each mutant was run against the suites, then restored. M1–M4 ran at 3103f9c; the last commit changes neither the routes nor their suite. M5–M7 ran at 9abac36.
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result
M1: connect without the limiter
2 tests fail
M2: disconnect without the limiter
2 tests fail
M3: connect's limiter moved after auth
1 test fails (the auth count)
M4: connect gets its own connectRateLimit, a route-local limiter with the same bound, key and 429 body
1 test fails (the shared-bucket test); routeRateLimitGuard passes it
M5: the key reads Authorization only
2 tests fail (both key cases)
M6: the key prefers x-auth-token over Authorization
1 test fails (the header-order case)
M7: the key hashes the raw Authorization header, keeping Bearer
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…utes (TASK-261)
POST /api/integrations/:id/connect and /:id/disconnect ran auth with no
limiter in front of it, so each request cost an auth lookup and up to two
reads (Integration, then Pod) unthrottled. Both now carry
writeIntegrationsRateLimit ahead of auth, the limiter every other connector
write already spends, and their two rows leave the route guard's baseline.
routeRateLimitGuard reads names, so it cannot tell the shared limiter from a
route-local one with the same name. The new suite drives the real limiter
through the real router: each route answers 30 requests and refuses the 31st
before auth runs, and connect and disconnect spend the same bucket as the
create route.
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Walkthrough
The connect and disconnect routes now apply the shared integration write rate limit before authentication. The limiter uses Authorization or falls back to x-auth-token when selecting a token-based bucket. Tests verify route limits, authentication order, and shared-bucket behavior.
Changes: Integration Write Rate Limiting
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Summary
Select the token-based bucket backend/middleware/integrationRateLimit.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/middleware/integrationRateLimit.test.js
The limiter strips the Bearer prefix from Authorization and uses x-auth-token when the authorization value is empty or absent. Tests check credential key equivalence, distinct token keys, and Authorization precedence.
Apply and verify the shared write limit backend/routes/integrations.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/routes/routeRateLimitGuard.baseline.json, backend/__tests__/unit/routes/integrations.connectRateLimit.test.js
The connect and disconnect routes apply writeIntegrationsRateLimit before auth. The baseline no longer marks them as unlimited. Tests check the 30-request allowance, the 429 response before authentication, and the shared bucket with integration creation.
The intended shared rate limiting is implemented for equivalent credential formats and the affected connector routes.
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The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding rate limits to the integration connect and disconnect routes.
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No active directly linked issue remains. Linked issue #1751 is closed and completed, so it provides historical context only. Its invalidation requirements do not apply to this pull request. The review…
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The reviewed changes stay within the rate-limit objective. The route changes add the shared limiter to connect and disconnect. The baseline update records that both routes are no longer unlimited. The…
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The pull request description clearly explains the rate limiting changes, credential-based limiter key behavior, affected routes, tests, and validation results. It directly matches the changeset.
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No active directly linked issue remains. Linked issue #1751 is closed and completed, so it provides historical context only. Its invalidation requirements do not apply to this pull request. The reviewed changes add writeIntegrationsRateLimit before auth on the connect and disconnect routes, and add tests for the limiter behavior.
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The reviewed changes stay within the rate-limit objective. The route changes add the shared limiter to connect and disconnect. The baseline update records that both routes are no longer unlimited. The new route tests verify limiter order, rejection, and the shared bucket. The key update adds x-auth-token handling in the same precedence order as auth; this supports correct credential-based bucketing for the shared integration limiters. The related middleware tests cover this behavior.
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backend/routes/integrations.ts: 1
555-555: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Include x-auth-token in the shared limiter key.
auth accepts x-auth-token, but integrationsRateLimitKey reads only authorization. Valid callers using different x-auth-token values can therefore share one IP-derived 30-write bucket and receive 429 responses from another caller's writes. The same writeIntegrationsRateLimit instance protects both routes, so this shared key correction fixes connect and disconnect without route-specific changes.
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Review comment at @backend/routes/integrations.ts at line 555:
Update integrationsRateLimitKey to include x-auth-token when deriving the shared
write limiter key, falling back to it when authorization is absent; keep the
same writeIntegrationsRateLimit instance protecting both connect and disconnect
routes.
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- Line 555: Update integrationsRateLimitKey to include x-auth-token when
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`auth` reads Authorization, then x-auth-token (auth.ts:34-35). The shared
limiter key read only Authorization, so a caller that sent x-auth-token
alone fell to the address branch and spent one 30-write budget with every
caller behind its address. The key now reads both headers in auth's order.
Raised by CodeRabbit on #2775. Two mutants each fail the new key test:
a key that reads Authorization only, and one where x-auth-token wins.
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Include x-auth-token in the shared limiter key. auth accepts x-auth-token, but integrationsRateLimitKey reads only authorization.
Fixed in 3103f9c. The key now reads Authorization, else x-auth-token, the order auth reads them in (backend/middleware/auth.ts:34-35). A new case in integrationRateLimit.test.js checks that two x-auth-token values from one address get two keys, and that Authorization wins when both are sent. It fails against a key that reads Authorization only, and against one that prefers x-auth-token.
The PR body now says this reaches every route on the shared key, not just connect and disconnect. It also says that rotating x-auth-token gets fresh buckets, just as rotating Authorization already did.
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Derive the rate-limit key from the parsed token, not the raw header values.
auth accepts the same token through either header. A caller that holds one credential can alternate between Authorization: Bearer <token> and x-auth-token: <token> and receive two separate write budgets. The key should come from the token that auth extracts.
Line 27 keys the limiter on the raw header strings, so the two forms produce different keys:
This mirrors the parsing in auth. After the change, Authorization: Bearer one and x-auth-token: one produce the same key. Add a test in backend/__tests__/unit/middleware/integrationRateLimit.test.js that sends the same token through both headers and asserts that both requests share one bucket.
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Update the rate-limit key in the integration rate-limiting middleware to use the
normalized token value that auth extracts, so the same credential sent through
Authorization or x-auth-token maps to one bucket. Add a test in the integration
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`auth` takes `Authorization` without its `Bearer ` prefix, else
`x-auth-token` (auth.ts:34-35). The key hashed the raw header, so one
token sent as `Bearer t`, bare `t` and `x-auth-token: t` held three write
budgets. The key now hashes the token `auth` extracts, so all three forms
share one bucket.
CodeRabbit raised it on 3103f9c. A new case in
integrationRateLimit.test.js covers it; a mutant that hashes the raw
Authorization header fails that case.
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Derive the rate-limit key from the parsed token, not the raw header values. auth accepts the same token through either header. A caller that holds one credential can alternate between Authorization: Bearer and x-auth-token: and receive two separate write budgets.
Fixed in 9abac36. The key now hashes the token auth extracts: Authorization without its Bearer prefix, else x-auth-token, the same expression as auth.ts:34-35. That also closes a third form the finding didn't name: a bare Authorization: t held its own budget too. A new case in integrationRateLimit.test.js asserts that Bearer one, bare one and x-auth-token: one get one key, and a mutant that hashes the raw Authorization header fails it. The PR body's key paragraph and mutant table (M7) are updated to match.
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Code gate for #2775 (TASK-261) at head 9abac36: connect and disconnect run the connector write limiter before auth.
Verdict: PASS.
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Order: backend/routes/integrations.ts:555 (POST /:id/connect) and :575 (POST /:id/disconnect) now put writeIntegrationsRateLimit before auth. The create route is unchanged. Mutant: connect with auth first, limiter second. connectRateLimit fails ("connect reaches its handler 30 times, then the limiter refuses before auth").
Shared bucket: both routes use the module-level writeIntegrationsRateLimit instance from backend/middleware/integrationRateLimit.ts, the same one POST / uses. Mutant: disconnect on a route-local express-rate-limit copy with the same key. Two tests fail (disconnect bucket, and the "one bucket with the other connector writes" case).
Key: integrationsRateLimitKey takes Authorization with Bearer stripped, else x-auth-token. This is the same extraction as backend/middleware/auth.ts:34-35, including the case where the stripped value is empty and falls through to x-auth-token. Mutant: raw Authorization with no strip. integrationRateLimit.test.js "one token one bucket in every form auth accepts" fails.
Tests: integrationRateLimit.test.js, integrations.connectRateLimit.test.js and routeRateLimitGuard.test.js pass, 27/27 in a clean worktree. The guard baseline drops the two now-limited entries, and the guard passes.
Mutants were applied in the worktree and restored; the tree is clean.
Non-blocking
The key change also applies to the list limiter (listIntegrationsRateLimit), which is used by GET /:podId, GET /user/all, GET / in installables, and the discord channels read. For a request that carries only x-auth-token, the bucket moves from the per-IP key to a per-token key. Each unknown x-auth-token value now gets its own 120/min read bucket, and the per-IP cap no longer applies to that header. Authorization already had this property. The code comment says the change is deliberate, but the PR body and title cover only connect and disconnect. Name the list-route effect in the PR body.
Token keying bounds one credential, not a rotating set of credentials. This is the same limit that already held for Authorization. It is for the "What it does not bound" section, not a blocker here.
Opus gate, scoped to the two things Wren asked for: the "What it does not bound" section, and whether the key change opens anything.
The key change opens nothing. integrationsRateLimitKey (backend/middleware/integrationRateLimit.ts:29-30) now takes authorization with replace('Bearer ', ''), else x-auth-token. That is the same expression and the same precedence as auth (backend/middleware/auth.ts:34-35), including the edge cases: Authorization: Bearer strips to an empty string and falls through to x-auth-token in both places, and an unstripped x-auth-token: Bearer t is Bearer t in both. So the limiter buckets exactly the credential auth will judge. To spend someone else's bucket you have to present their token, and with their token you already hold more than their rate budget. The one loosening is the one the body names: an x-auth-token caller who rotates tokens now gets fresh buckets, where before it was held to its address's bucket. That restricted nobody who wanted around it, because rotating Authorization has always worked. The no-header branch only reaches requests auth refuses with a 401, so the IP bucket guards nothing a caller could want.
"What it does not bound" is accurate, and I can put a number on it. A caller who sends a fresh cm_ token on every request reaches auth without limit and costs two Mongo reads each time. Both are indexed point reads: apiToken is unique, sparse (backend/models/User.ts:312-313), and deviceTokens.tokenHash has its own index (:485). A forged non-cm_ token stops at jwt.verify before any read. Nothing app-wide sits in front of this either (server.ts mounts no global limiter), so the section reads correctly as unbounded and cheap, the same as the create route today. The bound is also per process (MemoryStore). That holds for one backend replica (values-dev.yaml:36), and rateLimitObserver.ts:35 already records the caveat, so it doesn't belong in this PR.
What I ran at this head: the four suites in the body pass, 36 tests. One mutant of my own, beyond M1–M7: disconnect switched to listIntegrationsRateLimit, which is a real export with the same key and 120 per minute. Two tests fail (disconnect's 31st request, and the shared bucket), and routeRateLimitGuard alone would have passed it. Restored afterwards. Both CodeRabbit findings, x-auth-token in the key and one token sent three ways, are fixed in code at this head.
Non-blocking, and Sable said the same: the body already names the list-read key change in its key paragraph, so nothing is missing.
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TASK-261: the half of closed #1751 that never landed.
POST /api/integrations/:id/connectandPOST /api/integrations/:id/disconnectranauthwith no limiter in front of it. Each request cost an auth lookup plus up to two reads (Integration, then Pod), unthrottled.Both routes now carry
writeIntegrationsRateLimitahead ofauth. The create route has used the same limiter since #1297: 30 writes per 60 s per presented credential, one bucket shared by every connector write. Their two[unlimited]rows leaverouteRateLimitGuard.baseline.json.The shared key now hashes the token
authextracts (second and third commits, both raised by CodeRabbit).authtakesAuthorizationwithout itsBearerprefix, elsex-auth-token(backend/middleware/auth.ts:34-35). The key used to hash the rawAuthorizationheader and nothing else, which had two effects:x-auth-tokenwas keyed by client IP, and shared one 30-write budget with every caller behind that address.Bearer t, as baretand asx-auth-token: theld three budgets.Now all three forms share one bucket. That changes the key for every route on
writeIntegrationsRateLimitandlistIntegrationsRateLimit, not just these two. The list limiter allows 120 reads per 60 s (backend/middleware/integrationRateLimit.ts:50-52) and guards four reads:GET /api/integrations/:podId(backend/routes/integrations.ts:409),GET /api/integrations/user/all(:668),GET /api/installables(backend/routes/installables.ts:176) andGET /api/discord/channels/:guildId(backend/routes/discord.ts:99). On those reads, a caller that sends onlyx-auth-tokenmoves from its address's bucket to one bucket per token. Callers that sendAuthorizationwere already keyed by that header.Who this can throttle. Nothing in
frontend/,cli/orpackages/calls either route, so the shared budget can't break a first-party flow. The frontend's axios interceptor addsAuthorizationto every request (frontend/src/utils/axiosConfig.ts:16), so first-party calls stay keyed by their credential, one bucket per token. A caller that hits the limit gets the same 429 body as every other connector write.What it does not bound. The bucket is keyed on the presented credential, so it bounds a caller using one credential. A caller who sends a different token on every request gets a new bucket each time, and
authstill runs itsUser.findOnelookups for anycm_token. The create route has the same property today.backend/__tests__/unit/middleware/integrationRateLimit.test.js:17-20states this boundary, and this PR doesn't move it.Rotating
x-auth-tokennow gets fresh buckets the same way. Before the key change, anx-auth-token-only caller was held to its address's bucket. That held back no one who wanted to get around it, because rotatingAuthorizationalready did.Tests.
routeRateLimitGuardreads only middleware names and their order. It can't tell the shared limiter from a route-local one with a matching name. The new suitebackend/__tests__/unit/routes/integrations.connectRateLimit.test.jsloads the realmiddleware/integrationRateLimitand drives the real router. It needs no DB:Integration.findByIdanswers null, so every admitted request ends at the handler's 404.authruns 30 times, so the refusal comes before auth.integrationRateLimit.test.js:x-auth-tokenvalues from one address get two keys, andAuthorizationdecides the key when both headers are sent.Bearer one, bareoneandx-auth-token: onegets one key.Each mutant was run against the suites, then restored. M1–M4 ran at 3103f9c; the last commit changes neither the routes nor their suite. M5–M7 ran at 9abac36.
authconnectRateLimit, a route-local limiter with the same bound, key and 429 bodyrouteRateLimitGuardpasses itAuthorizationonlyx-auth-tokenoverAuthorizationAuthorizationheader, keepingBearerAt head 9abac36, Node 22.23.1:
Review tier: Tier 2. This is a security change: a limiter ahead of auth on an authenticated write, and a change to the key every connector limiter uses. It needs two seat gates.
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