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peter 05121fbc99 fix(security): SEC-20's exemptions become raised ceilings, and the 413 is dressed
The module admitted its two opt-outs under a stated rule — "both enforce their own
limit on the bytes they actually read, which is what makes opting them out safe" —
and that rule is false for one of them. `POST /api/downloads/upload` declares
`file: UploadFile = File(...)`, so FastAPI parses and spools the whole multipart
part to a temp file BEFORE the first dependency runs, `require_human` included:
its in-handler cap measures bytes that have already landed. Measured on the
installed fastapi 0.141.1 / starlette 1.6.0 — starlette's max_part_size guards
non-file parts only, so an anonymous chunked upload was bounded by nothing. In the
shipped self-host compose that lands in a RAM-backed tmpfs.

The exposure predates SEC-20 (no route was capped before it); what this branch
added was the claim. So the list becomes a mapping of per-route CEILINGS instead
of a set of exemptions: every request now gets a finite number, the upload route's
being the same one the route itself enforces. `sysconfig`'s knob is bounded by it
so an admin cannot raise the handler's cap past the edge and start collecting 413s
from a layer the admin page never mentions — held by a test, not by prose.

Two more things the review caught in the same module:

The 413 was not byte-identical to `capped_body`'s after all. `json.dumps` puts
spaces where JSONResponse does not, and the test that promised to hold them
together compared PARSED JSON, so it could never have seen it. Built through the
same JSONResponse now, and compared as raw bytes.

And the middleware sat outside CORS and the security headers, so its 413 carried
neither — on the split-origin dev setup the browser drops it and the user gets a
generic network failure instead of the translated too_large, while the identical
refusal from capped_body one layer down renders fine. It moves to just inside
CORS: still ahead of the session, the setup gate and every auth dependency.

Also corrected: the docblock's "largest non-exempt body is 64 KiB, ~16x headroom"
(it is 512 KiB and 2x — the diagnostics sink, named eleven lines further down),
and CLAUDE.md's Request SIZE row, which forbade the one correct use of
capped_body that is actually in the tree.
2026-09-21 23:32:49 +02:00

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"""SEC-20 — the global request-body cap (`app/bodylimit.py`).
Two halves, deliberately kept apart:
* the MIDDLEWARE tests drive a toy ASGI app, so they pin the mechanism (declared length, counted
bytes, the exemption match) with no router, no auth and no database in the way;
* the APP tests drive the real application, so they pin that the middleware is actually wired in,
sits ahead of the auth dependencies, and refuses in the same shape `capped_body` does.
The pair that matters most is "an oversized body is refused" together with "a normal body still
gets through": the first alone would pass just as well if the cap refused *everything*.
"""
import json
import pytest
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
from starlette.requests import Request
from app import bodylimit, sysconfig
from app.bodylimit import DEFAULT_MAX_BODY_BYTES, BodyLimitMiddleware
from app.routes import diagnostics as diagnostics_routes
SMALL = b"x" * 16
OVER = b"x" * (DEFAULT_MAX_BODY_BYTES + 1)
async def _reading_app(scope, receive, send):
"""A toy app that reads the whole body the way a route does, then reports its length.
It uses a real Starlette `Request`, so the faked `http.disconnect` reaches it as the real
ClientDisconnect a real handler would see — the middleware's exception path is exercised, not
stubbed around.
"""
body = await Request(scope, receive).body()
payload = json.dumps({"read": len(body)}).encode()
await send(
{
"type": "http.response.start",
"status": 200,
"headers": [(b"content-type", b"application/json")],
}
)
await send({"type": "http.response.body", "body": payload})
def _client(**kwargs) -> TestClient:
return TestClient(BodyLimitMiddleware(_reading_app, **kwargs))
def _chunks(total: int, size: int = 64 * 1024):
"""A body with NO Content-Length: httpx sends an iterator chunked, which is exactly the shape a
declared-length check cannot see."""
sent = 0
while sent < total:
n = min(size, total - sent)
yield b"x" * n
sent += n
# --- the mechanism ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
def test_a_declared_length_over_the_cap_is_refused_without_reading_the_body():
r = _client().post("/anything", content=OVER)
assert r.status_code == 413
assert r.content == bodylimit.TOO_LARGE_BODY
def test_a_body_under_the_cap_is_passed_through_untouched():
# The mutation guard for the test above: if the cap refused everything, this would fail.
r = _client().post("/anything", content=SMALL)
assert r.status_code == 200
assert r.json() == {"read": len(SMALL)}
def test_a_chunked_body_is_refused_on_the_COUNTED_bytes():
# No Content-Length at all, so the only thing that can stop this is counting as it arrives.
r = _client().post("/anything", content=_chunks(DEFAULT_MAX_BODY_BYTES + 64 * 1024))
assert r.status_code == 413
assert r.content == bodylimit.TOO_LARGE_BODY
def test_a_chunked_body_under_the_cap_still_arrives_whole():
size = DEFAULT_MAX_BODY_BYTES - 1
r = _client().post("/anything", content=_chunks(size))
assert r.status_code == 200
assert r.json() == {"read": size}
def test_an_understated_content_length_does_not_buy_a_pass():
# The declared-length check is the cheap half; a client that lies must still be counted out.
r = _client().post("/anything", content=OVER, headers={"content-length": "10"})
assert r.status_code == 413
def test_exactly_at_the_cap_is_allowed():
size = DEFAULT_MAX_BODY_BYTES
r = _client(limit=size).post("/anything", content=b"x" * size)
assert r.status_code == 200
assert r.json() == {"read": size}
# --- the per-route ceilings ---------------------------------------------------------------------
BIG = {("POST", "/api/things/{tid}/blob"): DEFAULT_MAX_BODY_BYTES * 4}
def test_a_route_with_a_raised_ceiling_may_send_a_body_over_the_global_cap():
r = _client(routes=BIG).post("/api/things/abc/blob", content=OVER)
assert r.status_code == 200
assert r.json() == {"read": len(OVER)}
def test_a_raised_ceiling_is_still_a_ceiling():
"""The difference between this and an exemption, and the reason the list is a mapping: a route
that needs more bytes does not thereby get unlimited bytes. Left uncounted, the upload route
would let an ANONYMOUS caller stream without bound — FastAPI parses a declared body before the
first dependency, so `require_human` has not run yet when the bytes land."""
over = b"x" * (BIG[("POST", "/api/things/{tid}/blob")] + 1)
r = _client(routes=BIG).post("/api/things/abc/blob", content=over)
assert r.status_code == 413
assert r.content == bodylimit.TOO_LARGE_BODY
def test_a_raised_ceiling_counts_a_chunked_body_too():
cap = BIG[("POST", "/api/things/{tid}/blob")]
r = _client(routes=BIG).post("/api/things/abc/blob", content=_chunks(cap + 64 * 1024))
assert r.status_code == 413
def test_the_raised_ceiling_is_scoped_to_its_method_and_its_path():
client = _client(routes=BIG)
# Same path, different method.
assert client.put("/api/things/abc/blob", content=OVER).status_code == 413
# A neighbour that merely starts the same way.
assert client.post("/api/things/abc/blob/extra", content=OVER).status_code == 413
def test_a_path_parameter_cannot_swallow_a_slash():
# `{tid}` matching greedily across `/` would hand the raised ceiling to routes without one.
mw = BodyLimitMiddleware(_reading_app, routes={("POST", "/a/{tid}/b"): 99})
assert mw.limit_for("POST", "/a/one/b") == 99
assert mw.limit_for("POST", "/a/one/two/b") == DEFAULT_MAX_BODY_BYTES
def test_every_request_gets_a_finite_ceiling():
"""There is no pass-through path. A route that is not listed gets the default; one that is
listed gets its own; nothing is simply not counted."""
mw = BodyLimitMiddleware(_reading_app)
assert mw.limit_for("GET", "/api/anything") == DEFAULT_MAX_BODY_BYTES
for (method, template), cap in bodylimit.ROUTE_MAX_BODY_BYTES.items():
assert cap > DEFAULT_MAX_BODY_BYTES # the admission rule: raised, never lowered
assert mw.limit_for(method, template.replace("{sid}", "abc")) == cap
def _declared_routes(root) -> set[tuple[str, str]]:
"""Every (method, path template) the app serves.
It has to RECURSE: since FastAPI 0.141 / Starlette 1.6 an `include_router` leaves an opaque
`_IncludedRouter` in `app.routes` and keeps the real routes under its `original_router`, instead
of flattening them into the parent as older versions did. Reading `app.routes` alone finds 35
entries and none of ours; walking the tree finds all 252.
"""
found: set[tuple[str, str]] = set()
stack = [root]
while stack:
node = stack.pop()
for route in getattr(node, "routes", ()) or ():
inner = getattr(route, "original_router", None)
if inner is not None:
stack.append(inner)
continue
for method in getattr(route, "methods", None) or ():
found.add((method, route.path))
return found
@pytest.mark.parametrize(("method", "template"), sorted(bodylimit.ROUTE_MAX_BODY_BYTES))
def test_every_listed_template_still_resolves_to_a_real_route(method, template):
"""The drift guard. The list names route templates that live in another file; a renamed route
must fail the gate here, not lose its allowance silently in production."""
from app.main import app
assert (method, template) in _declared_routes(app)
def test_the_default_ceiling_clears_the_largest_body_a_default_route_takes():
"""The headroom the module's docblock claims, held as a ratio rather than as a figure in prose.
The client log sink caps itself at 512 KiB — below the default, which is why it is not listed:
the global ceiling never fires on it and raising it could only widen what it accepts."""
assert diagnostics_routes.BODY_MAX_BYTES <= DEFAULT_MAX_BODY_BYTES
assert not any(
path.startswith("/api/diagnostics") for _, path in bodylimit.ROUTE_MAX_BODY_BYTES
)
def test_the_upload_ceiling_and_the_admin_knob_cannot_drift_apart():
"""The upload route's in-handler cap is a `sysconfig` value an admin can change; this middleware
is a constant. If the knob could be set above the ceiling, an admin raising it would silently
start getting 413s from a layer the admin page never mentions. The spec's `max` is what stops
that, and it is the same number."""
spec = next(s for s in sysconfig.SPECS if s.key == "download_upload_max_bytes")
assert spec.max == bodylimit.ROUTE_MAX_BODY_BYTES[("POST", "/api/downloads/upload")]
def test_the_screenshot_ceiling_matches_the_cap_the_route_itself_enforces():
from app import debugsession
assert debugsession.SCREENSHOT_MAX_BYTES > DEFAULT_MAX_BODY_BYTES
assert (
bodylimit.ROUTE_MAX_BODY_BYTES[("POST", "/api/debug-sessions/{sid}/screenshots")]
== debugsession.SCREENSHOT_MAX_BYTES
)
# --- the real application -----------------------------------------------------------------------
def test_the_global_refusal_carries_the_baseline_security_headers(client):
"""The 413 is a response like any other, so it has to be dressed like one. The middleware sits
INSIDE the security-header and CORS layers for exactly this reason: a refusal a browser drops
for a missing header is indistinguishable from a network failure, and the user would be shown a
generic error instead of the translated `too_large`."""
r = client.post("/auth/password-login", content=OVER, headers={"content-type": "text/plain"})
assert r.status_code == 413
assert r.headers.get("x-content-type-options") == "nosniff"
assert "referrer-policy" in r.headers
def test_the_login_route_is_refused_before_a_single_dependency_runs(client, monkeypatch):
"""`/auth/password-login` is the reason SEC-20 exists: it is anonymous, it declares a body, and
FastAPI reads that body in full before the first dependency. `_login_limiter.allow` is the very
first statement of the handler, so it is the sharpest available proof that nothing ran."""
from app.routes import auth as auth_routes
reached = False
def _record(*args, **kwargs):
nonlocal reached
reached = True
return True
monkeypatch.setattr(auth_routes._login_limiter, "allow", _record)
r = client.post("/auth/password-login", content=OVER, headers={"content-type": "text/plain"})
assert r.status_code == 413
assert not reached, "the handler ran — the cap is inside the router instead of ahead of it"
def test_a_normal_login_body_still_reaches_the_handler(client, monkeypatch):
"""The mutation check for the test above. If the cap refused every body, the 413 test would
pass while the app was broken; this one would not."""
from app.routes import auth as auth_routes
reached = False
def _record(*args, **kwargs):
nonlocal reached
reached = True
return True
monkeypatch.setattr(auth_routes._login_limiter, "allow", _record)
r = client.post("/auth/password-login", json={"email": "nobody@example.com", "password": "x"})
assert r.status_code == 401
assert reached
def test_the_global_refusal_is_byte_identical_to_the_per_route_one(db, as_user, make_user):
"""Two shapes for one fact is how the `cancelled`/`canceled` bug happened. The log sink caps
itself with `capped_body`; its 413 and the middleware's must be the same bytes.
Signed in on purpose: `current_user` resolves before the body dependency, so an anonymous call
would be answered 401 and never reach the per-route cap this compares against. The body is over
the SINK's 512 KiB but under the global 1 MiB, so it is `capped_body` that refuses it.
"""
user = make_user()
db.commit()
over_the_sink = b"x" * (diagnostics_routes.BODY_MAX_BYTES + 1)
assert len(over_the_sink) < DEFAULT_MAX_BODY_BYTES
r = as_user(user).post(
"/api/diagnostics/events",
content=over_the_sink,
headers={"content-type": "application/json"},
)
assert r.status_code == 413
# RAW BYTES, not parsed JSON: the two used to differ by the two spaces `json.dumps` puts in by
# default and `JSONResponse` does not, and a structural comparison could not see it — which is
# the only kind of drift the docblock's promise was ever at risk from.
assert r.content == bodylimit.TOO_LARGE_BODY