hub: make the login lockout that LOGIN_FAIL_MAX described

LOGIN_FAIL_MAX was declared as "max failures in window before extra
delay" and then never read anywhere in the file. _record_failure() only
ever slept a flat LOGIN_FAIL_DELAY. So the Hub's entire defence against
online guessing was a constant 2 second pause per wrong password: no
escalation, no lockout, no ban, and fail2ban is configured for SSH only.

Worse, the old 60 second window could not have worked even if the
constant had been wired up. With a delay per attempt, reaching 10
failures takes about 80 seconds, so the earliest failures aged out of the
window before the count could ever reach the limit.

- security_helpers.py: new LoginThrottle. The delay ramps with the
  failure count (2s, 4s, ... capped at 10s), and once LOGIN_FAIL_MAX
  failures land inside the window the address is refused outright for
  LOGIN_LOCKOUT_SECONDS (5 minutes). A successful login clears the
  address, so an operator who fumbles a password is not penalised later.
  The sleep is never taken under the lock, so one slow client cannot
  stall every other login. Tracked addresses are evicted, so a
  distributed sweep cannot grow the table without bound.
  The window moves from 60s to 900s so the whole ramp fits inside it.
  clock and sleep are injectable, which is what makes it testable.
- server.py: /api/login checks the lockout before the scrypt hash, so a
  locked-out client costs almost nothing to reject, and answers 429 with
  a human-readable wait instead of a bare 401.
- tests/test_login_throttle.py: covers the ramp, the cap, the lockout
  firing and expiring, per-address isolation, clearing on success,
  eviction, and that the limit is actually reachable inside the window.

Verified against the real app with TestClient: 10 wrong passwords return
401 and the 11th returns 429 "Too many failed attempts. Try again in
about 5 minute(s)." A correct password clears the counter.
This commit is contained in:
Security Fix
2026-10-02 02:24:29 -05:00
committed by naturallaw777
parent c33457fff2
commit 7d784eb653
3 changed files with 375 additions and 14 deletions
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import json
import os
import re
import tempfile
import threading
import time
import urllib.parse
@@ -245,6 +246,141 @@ def _validate_ssh_pubkey(key: str) -> str:
return key
# ── Login throttling ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#
# Delays applied after each failed login, and the lockout that follows once an
# address has tripped LOGIN_FAIL_MAX inside the window.
#
# LOGIN_FAIL_WINDOW has to be longer than the time it takes to reach
# LOGIN_FAIL_MAX failures under the ramping delay: with a 2s ramp capped at
# LOGIN_FAIL_MAX_DELAY, 10 attempts take about 80 seconds, so a 60 second
# window would silently expire the earliest failures and the counter could
# never reach the limit. 900s (15 minutes) keeps the whole ramp inside it.
LOGIN_FAIL_DELAY = 2.0 # base delay; the nth failure waits n x this
LOGIN_FAIL_MAX_DELAY = 10.0 # ceiling for a single delay
LOGIN_FAIL_WINDOW = 900.0 # rolling window failures are counted in
LOGIN_FAIL_MAX = 10 # failures in the window that trigger a lockout
LOGIN_LOCKOUT_SECONDS = 300.0 # how long the lockout lasts
# Cap on how many addresses are tracked, so a distributed sweep cannot grow
# the table without bound.
_LOGIN_THROTTLE_MAX_IPS = 4096
class LoginThrottle:
"""Per-address failed-login tracking with a ramping delay and a lockout.
The delay ramps so a script hammering the login form slows down as it goes,
and once LOGIN_FAIL_MAX failures land inside the window the address is
refused outright for LOGIN_LOCKOUT_SECONDS. A successful login clears the
address so a legitimate user who fumbles a password is not penalised later.
``sleep`` and ``clock`` are injectable so tests run without waiting.
"""
def __init__(
self,
fail_delay=LOGIN_FAIL_DELAY,
max_delay=LOGIN_FAIL_MAX_DELAY,
window=LOGIN_FAIL_WINDOW,
max_failures=LOGIN_FAIL_MAX,
lockout=LOGIN_LOCKOUT_SECONDS,
max_tracked_ips=_LOGIN_THROTTLE_MAX_IPS,
sleep=None,
clock=None,
):
self._fail_delay = float(fail_delay)
self._max_delay = float(max_delay)
self._window = float(window)
self._max_failures = int(max_failures)
self._lockout = float(lockout)
self._max_tracked_ips = int(max_tracked_ips)
self._sleep = sleep if sleep is not None else time.sleep
self._clock = clock if clock is not None else time.monotonic
self._lock = threading.Lock()
self._failures: dict[str, list[float]] = {}
# ── internals ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
def _prune(self, ip, now):
"""Drop timestamps outside the window; return what is left."""
keep = [t for t in self._failures.get(ip, ()) if now - t < self._window]
if keep:
self._failures[ip] = keep
else:
self._failures.pop(ip, None)
return keep
def _evict(self, now):
"""Forget addresses that can no longer affect anything."""
horizon = max(self._window, self._lockout)
for ip in [i for i, ts in self._failures.items()
if ts and now - max(ts) > horizon]:
self._failures.pop(ip, None)
while len(self._failures) > self._max_tracked_ips:
oldest = min(self._failures, key=lambda i: max(self._failures[i]))
self._failures.pop(oldest, None)
# ── public API ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
def delay_for(self, count):
"""Return the delay owed after *count* failures in the current window."""
if count <= 0:
return 0.0
return min(self._fail_delay * count, self._max_delay)
def failure_count(self, ip):
"""Return the failures currently counted against *ip*."""
with self._lock:
return len(self._prune(ip, self._clock()))
def is_locked_out(self, ip):
"""Return True while *ip* is inside a lockout."""
now = self._clock()
with self._lock:
failures = self._prune(ip, now)
if len(failures) < self._max_failures:
return False
return (now - failures[-1]) < self._lockout
def remaining_lockout(self, ip):
"""Return the seconds left in *ip*'s lockout, or 0.0 if not locked out."""
now = self._clock()
with self._lock:
failures = self._prune(ip, now)
if len(failures) < self._max_failures:
return 0.0
return max(0.0, self._lockout - (now - failures[-1]))
def record_failure(self, ip):
"""Record a failure for *ip* and serve out the delay it has earned.
Returns the delay that was applied. The lock is never held across the
sleep, so one slow client cannot stall every other login.
"""
now = self._clock()
with self._lock:
failures = list(self._prune(ip, now))
failures.append(now)
self._failures[ip] = failures
count = len(failures)
self._evict(now)
delay = self.delay_for(count)
if delay > 0:
self._sleep(delay)
return delay
def clear(self, ip):
"""Forget *ip*, e.g. after a successful login."""
with self._lock:
self._failures.pop(ip, None)
def tracked_addresses(self):
"""Return how many addresses are currently being tracked."""
with self._lock:
return len(self._failures)
# ── Persistent Hub session store ─────────────────────────────────────────────
def load_session_store(path: str) -> dict[str, float]: