navidrome/server
Deluan Quintão c3b9b4ecb3
fix(subsonic): rate limit failed authentication attempts (#6185)
* fix(subsonic): limit failed authentication attempts per client IP and username

The Subsonic API checked credentials on every request with no limit on failures, so any
account could be brute-forced over /rest/*. Failed u+p, t+s and jwt attempts are now capped
per (client IP, lower-cased username) using AuthRequestLimit and AuthWindowLength, the same
settings that guard the UI login. Every request carries credentials, so only failures count:
a slot is taken before the check and given back on success or on a server error, which also
stops concurrent guesses from overshooting the limit.

Blocked attempts get the same response as a wrong password (HTTP 200, error code 40, no
Retry-After), so an attacker cannot tell a block from a wrong guess. Reverse proxy and
internal authentication are not limited. The client IP helper behind ClientIPRateLimiter is
now exported as server.ClientIP, so spoofed forwarding headers cannot open a fresh bucket.

* refactor(subsonic): simplify failed authentication limiter

Release the limiter slot from a single place in authenticate(), after the user lookup and
credential check, instead of separately in the canceled branch. Store attempt counters by
value instead of by pointer, and drop limiter unit tests that only repeated the middleware
specs.

* fix(subsonic): wait for an in-flight auth check instead of rejecting

Slots were reserved before the credential check and only released afterwards, so once
AuthRequestLimit checks for the same client IP and username overlapped, the next request was
answered with error code 40 even when its credentials were valid. Clients that fan out parallel
requests hit this constantly: a burst of six valid logins lost one, a burst of fifty lost forty
five, and the web UI authenticates its own /rest calls the same way.

A key now carries a slot channel of AuthRequestLimit capacity, and a request waits on it rather
than failing when other checks for that key are in flight. Failures are recorded after the check,
and a request is only rejected when the key already reached the limit within the window. A waiting
request gives up if its context is canceled. Concurrent guesses still cannot run unchecked: at most
AuthRequestLimit checks run at once and the rest are turned away as soon as the failures land.

* docs(subsonic): state the real guess ceiling of the auth limiter

The comment claimed a burst cannot overshoot, which reads as a hard cap of AuthRequestLimit. Allowing concurrent checks means a window admits up to 2*limit-1 guesses, so say that instead.
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backgrounds fix: assorted scanner, plugin, and server fixes from the Go 1.27 work (#6050) 2026-08-30 21:24:50 -04:00
events fix(ui): activity Indicator switching constantly between online/offline (#5054) 2026-02-17 14:47:20 -05:00
filter perf(genre): index genre filtering via join tables across all APIs (#5940) 2026-08-11 08:00:50 -04:00
imghttp feat(artwork): new artwork pipeline with background resolution and Low Quality Image Placeholders (#5847) 2026-08-09 15:03:27 -04:00
jellyfin docs(README): update Docker networking instructions for UDP discovery 2026-09-19 17:10:49 -04:00
nativeapi feat(jellyfin): add Quick Connect sign-in (#6174) 2026-09-19 14:57:01 -04:00
public fix(plugins): build public URLs on the caller's address instead of localhost (#6059) 2026-08-31 21:27:43 -04:00
subsonic fix(subsonic): rate limit failed authentication attempts (#6185) 2026-09-20 22:02:23 -04:00
testdata fix(server): improve error message for encrypted TLS private keys (#4742) 2025-11-28 17:08:34 -05:00
auth.go fix(auth): ExtAuth logout redirect on unauthenticated loads, and warning spam from untrusted sources (#6176) 2026-09-19 17:08:49 -04:00
auth_test.go fix(auth): ExtAuth logout redirect on unauthenticated loads, and warning spam from untrusted sources (#6176) 2026-09-19 17:08:49 -04:00
initial_setup.go fix(transcoding): include ffprobe in MSI and fall back gracefully when absent (#5326) 2026-04-07 20:11:38 -04:00
initial_setup_test.go Upgrade Ginkgo to V2 2022-07-26 16:53:17 -04:00
middlewares.go fix(subsonic): rate limit failed authentication attempts (#6185) 2026-09-20 22:02:23 -04:00
middlewares_test.go fix(server): key the login rate limit on a trust-aware client IP 2026-09-10 08:59:01 -04:00
serve_index.go feat(jellyfin): add Quick Connect sign-in (#6174) 2026-09-19 14:57:01 -04:00
serve_index_test.go feat(jellyfin): add Quick Connect sign-in (#6174) 2026-09-19 14:57:01 -04:00
server.go fix: miscellaneous fixes for shares, artwork resize, auth limits, and watcher start (#6098) 2026-09-11 15:03:54 -04:00
server_suite_test.go Rename log.LevelCritical to log.LevelFatal 2022-12-21 14:53:36 -05:00
server_test.go ci: run Go tests on Windows (#5380) 2026-04-19 13:16:47 -04:00
throttle_backlog.go chore: go fix 2026-05-28 22:13:05 -03:00
throttle_backlog_test.go fix(test): prevent flaky deadlock in throttle backlog test (#5474) 2026-05-06 11:03:11 -04:00