diff --git a/docs/requirements/Component-Transport.md b/docs/requirements/Component-Transport.md
index 2bf921ed..b1ef7fdc 100644
--- a/docs/requirements/Component-Transport.md
+++ b/docs/requirements/Component-Transport.md
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ flowchart TD
class T muted
```
-The component is central-hosted. It is registered in `ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host` for central roles only, never for site roles — even when a bundle carries site-scoped config (T18), Transport only writes the central configuration database, never the site clusters. All persistence flows through existing audited repository interfaces in `ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.ConfigurationDatabase` — the component does not call `DbContext.SaveChangesAsync` directly. `BundleSessionStore` is in-process on the active central node (matching Blazor Server circuit affinity): 30-minute TTL, eviction on expiry, 3-strike passphrase lockout per session, and a `MaxConcurrentImportSessions` cap (default 8; arch-review 05 Task 24 — startup-validated as `> 0` by `TransportOptionsValidator`, since a zero/negative cap would reject every import session forever) bounding the decrypted-content footprint since each open session pins a fully-decrypted bundle in memory. **The cap is observable (register row 53):** open (unexpired) sessions are published as the `scadabridge.central.transport.import_sessions.open` gauge on the `ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge` meter — already in the `ObservedMeters` allowlist, so no telemetry config change is needed — and a rejection at the cap logs at Warning with the current count, the cap and the TTL. Reclaiming a store full of *expired* sessions is not a cap hit and logs nothing. **A log line is not alertable, so register row 66 adds the counter `scadabridge.central.transport.import_sessions.rejected`** on the same meter, incremented at the same single genuine-rejection point (the post-eviction recheck — never on the reclaim-then-succeed path, and never when re-opening an already-open session id). Alert on the counter; interpret it against the gauge — rejections rising while the gauge stays below the cap means genuine concurrency (raise the cap), whereas rejections rising while the gauge is pinned at the cap means a leaked session (raising the cap only defers it).
+The component is central-hosted. It is registered in `ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host` for central roles only, never for site roles — even when a bundle carries site-scoped config (T18), Transport only writes the central configuration database, never the site clusters. All persistence flows through existing audited repository interfaces in `ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.ConfigurationDatabase` — the component does not call `DbContext.SaveChangesAsync` directly. `BundleSessionStore` is in-process on the active central node (matching Blazor Server circuit affinity): 30-minute TTL, eviction on expiry, 3-strike passphrase lockout per session, and a `MaxConcurrentImportSessions` cap (default 8; arch-review 05 Task 24 — startup-validated as `> 0` by `TransportOptionsValidator`, since a zero/negative cap would reject every import session forever) bounding the decrypted-content footprint since each open session pins its decrypted content in memory. **Resident footprint (review 2026-10-21 04/M2):** the session holds a Brotli-compressed copy of the decrypted content JSON — not the plaintext, and not a parsed DTO (the `SecretsBlock` values are plaintext once the content is decrypted, and immutable strings cannot be zeroed; a byte buffer can) — and `LoadAsync` zeroes the plaintext as soon as it is compressed; `PreviewAsync`/`ApplyAsync` deserialise straight from the compressed stream. The buffered upload zip is released once the manifest and content entry are extracted. Worst case per session is still bounded only by `MaxBundleEntryDecompressedMb` (200 MB — an adversarial incompressible payload), so the hard ceiling is `MaxConcurrentImportSessions` × ~200 MB (1.6 GB at the default 8); a real export compresses ~5–10x, so typically 8 × 20–40 MB at the largest bundle size. One in-flight `LoadAsync` additionally peaks at roughly the zip (≤ `MaxBundleSizeMb`) plus the content entry and its decrypted copy (each ≤ `MaxBundleEntryDecompressedMb`). **The cap is observable (register row 53):** open (unexpired) sessions are published as the `scadabridge.central.transport.import_sessions.open` gauge on the `ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge` meter — already in the `ObservedMeters` allowlist, so no telemetry config change is needed — and a rejection at the cap logs at Warning with the current count, the cap and the TTL. Reclaiming a store full of *expired* sessions is not a cap hit and logs nothing. **A log line is not alertable, so register row 66 adds the counter `scadabridge.central.transport.import_sessions.rejected`** on the same meter, incremented at the same single genuine-rejection point (the post-eviction recheck — never on the reclaim-then-succeed path, and never when re-opening an already-open session id). Alert on the counter; interpret it against the gauge — rejections rising while the gauge stays below the cap means genuine concurrency (raise the cap), whereas rejections rising while the gauge is pinned at the cap means a leaked session (raising the cap only defers it).
**Session release is explicit, not TTL-only (register row 43).** `ApplyAsync` releases the session it applied (zero-then-remove, T-007), and `IBundleImporter.Abandon(sessionId)` does the same for a session that will never be applied. Every abandonment path calls it: the Central UI wizard on new upload / Back-to-Upload / `ResetSessionState` / lockout reset / `Dispose` (navigation away or circuit teardown), the CLI `transport preview` handler (a preview never applies), and the CLI `transport import` handler for the aborts that precede apply (blocker rows, unresolved mappings). `Abandon` is idempotent — double release, an unknown id, and an already-expired id are all silent no-ops — and since session ids are random GUIDs handed only to their opener, abandoning the id you hold can never evict another operator's in-progress import. Relying on the TTL alone was an availability *and* secret-lifetime defect: eight abandoned wizards exhausted `MaxConcurrentImportSessions` and locked out every import on the active node for 30 minutes, each still holding its decrypted bundle content. **TTL expiry zeroes too (review 2026-10-21 04/C3):** a session dropped because it expired — lazily on `Get`, or by the `EvictExpired` sweep — has its content buffer zeroed by `BundleSessionStore` as it is removed, so every release path (apply, abandon, expiry) follows the same zero-then-remove discipline.
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons/Types/Transport/BundleSession.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons/Types/Transport/BundleSession.cs
index 7a2c3a5b..f525dadf 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons/Types/Transport/BundleSession.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons/Types/Transport/BundleSession.cs
@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ public sealed class BundleSession
public Guid SessionId { get; init; }
/// Parsed manifest from the uploaded bundle.
public BundleManifest Manifest { get; init; } = null!;
- /// Decrypted bundle content bytes; empty until the bundle is successfully unlocked.
+ ///
+ /// The decrypted bundle content, held Brotli-compressed by the importer (review
+ /// 2026-10-21 04/M2) — still sensitive (it decompresses to the plaintext content,
+ /// secret values included), so every release path zeroes it before dropping the
+ /// session. Empty until the bundle is successfully unlocked.
+ ///
public byte[] DecryptedContent { get; init; } = Array.Empty();
/// UTC timestamp after which this session is considered expired and must be re-uploaded.
public DateTimeOffset ExpiresAt { get; init; }
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Transport/Import/BundleImporter.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Transport/Import/BundleImporter.cs
index 9f7438cc..dd56c664 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Transport/Import/BundleImporter.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Transport/Import/BundleImporter.cs
@@ -184,54 +184,11 @@ public sealed class BundleImporter : IBundleImporter
{
ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(bundleStream);
- // Copy to a seekable buffer — manifest + content readers each open a
- // fresh ZipArchive over the same bytes, so the upstream stream needs to
- // be seekable. A caller-supplied FileStream is seekable but a Kestrel
- // request stream is not, so we always normalise to MemoryStream.
- var ms = new MemoryStream();
- await bundleStream.CopyToAsync(ms, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
- ms.Position = 0;
-
- // Size cap is in MB; multiply in long arithmetic so the comparison
- // doesn't overflow at the int boundary for large MaxBundleSizeMb.
- var maxBytes = _options.Value.MaxBundleSizeMb * 1024L * 1024L;
- if (ms.Length > maxBytes)
- {
- throw new InvalidOperationException(
- $"Bundle exceeds maximum allowed size of {_options.Value.MaxBundleSizeMb} MB.");
- }
-
- // T-006: zip-bomb / decompression-bomb defences. We enforce three caps
- // BEFORE any entry is decompressed by ReadManifest / ReadContentBytes:
- // 1) total entry count
- // 2) per-entry decompressed length
- // 3) per-entry compression ratio (Length / CompressedLength)
- // Each cap is configurable via TransportOptions so an operator can tune
- // for an environment with legitimately large or unusually compressible
- // bundles. Using ZipArchiveEntry.Length / .CompressedLength avoids
- // reading the entry payload at all.
- ms.Position = 0;
- ValidateArchiveEnvelope(ms);
-
- BundleManifest manifest;
- try
- {
- ms.Position = 0;
- manifest = _bundleSerializer.ReadManifest(ms);
- }
- catch (InvalidDataException)
- {
- // Preserve the serializer's specific "manifest missing/null" message
- // — the caller wants to surface a precise diagnostic to the operator.
- throw;
- }
- catch (Exception ex)
- {
- throw new InvalidDataException("Bundle is missing or has a malformed manifest.json.", ex);
- }
-
- ms.Position = 0;
- var contentBytes = _bundleSerializer.ReadContentBytes(ms, manifest);
+ // Review 2026-10-21 04/M2: the whole uploaded zip (≤ MaxBundleSizeMb) is
+ // buffered inside ReadEnvelopeAsync only, so it becomes unreachable as soon
+ // as the manifest and the content entry have been extracted, rather than
+ // staying live alongside the decrypted copy for the rest of this method.
+ var (manifest, contentBytes) = await ReadEnvelopeAsync(bundleStream, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
// Validate format version + content-hash + manifest shape. Reject paths
// surface as distinct exceptions so the UI can disambiguate the cause.
@@ -338,17 +295,97 @@ public sealed class BundleImporter : IBundleImporter
decryptedContent = contentBytes;
}
+ // Review 2026-10-21 04/M2: the session pins a Brotli-compressed copy of the
+ // decrypted content JSON, not the plaintext itself — bundle JSON (script
+ // bodies, config) typically compresses ~5–10x, and the session lives up to
+ // BundleSessionTtlMinutes. A parsed DTO was rejected as the resident form:
+ // the bundle's SecretsBlock values are plaintext strings once the content is
+ // decrypted, and immutable strings cannot be zeroed — a byte[] can, so the
+ // zero-then-remove discipline (T-007, 04/C3) still covers the only resident
+ // copy. The plaintext buffer is zeroed as soon as it has been compressed.
+ byte[] sessionContent;
+ try
+ {
+ sessionContent = CompressSessionContent(decryptedContent);
+ }
+ finally
+ {
+ Array.Clear(decryptedContent, 0, decryptedContent.Length);
+ }
+
var ttl = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(_options.Value.BundleSessionTtlMinutes);
var session = new BundleSession
{
SessionId = Guid.NewGuid(),
Manifest = manifest,
- DecryptedContent = decryptedContent,
+ DecryptedContent = sessionContent,
ExpiresAt = _timeProvider.GetUtcNow() + ttl,
};
return _sessionStore.Open(session);
}
+ ///
+ /// Buffers the uploaded bundle, enforces the size and zip-envelope caps, and
+ /// extracts the manifest plus the raw content entry. The buffered zip lives only
+ /// for the duration of this call (review 2026-10-21 04/M2).
+ ///
+ /// The uploaded bundle stream (need not be seekable).
+ /// Cancellation token.
+ /// The parsed manifest and the content entry's bytes (ciphertext when encrypted).
+ private async Task<(BundleManifest Manifest, byte[] ContentBytes)> ReadEnvelopeAsync(
+ Stream bundleStream, CancellationToken ct)
+ {
+ // Copy to a seekable buffer — manifest + content readers each open a
+ // fresh ZipArchive over the same bytes, so the upstream stream needs to
+ // be seekable. A caller-supplied FileStream is seekable but a Kestrel
+ // request stream is not, so we always normalise to MemoryStream.
+ var ms = new MemoryStream();
+ await bundleStream.CopyToAsync(ms, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+ ms.Position = 0;
+
+ // Size cap is in MB; multiply in long arithmetic so the comparison
+ // doesn't overflow at the int boundary for large MaxBundleSizeMb.
+ var maxBytes = _options.Value.MaxBundleSizeMb * 1024L * 1024L;
+ if (ms.Length > maxBytes)
+ {
+ throw new InvalidOperationException(
+ $"Bundle exceeds maximum allowed size of {_options.Value.MaxBundleSizeMb} MB.");
+ }
+
+ // T-006: zip-bomb / decompression-bomb defences. We enforce three caps
+ // BEFORE any entry is decompressed by ReadManifest / ReadContentBytes:
+ // 1) total entry count
+ // 2) per-entry decompressed length
+ // 3) per-entry compression ratio (Length / CompressedLength)
+ // Each cap is configurable via TransportOptions so an operator can tune
+ // for an environment with legitimately large or unusually compressible
+ // bundles. Using ZipArchiveEntry.Length / .CompressedLength avoids
+ // reading the entry payload at all.
+ ms.Position = 0;
+ ValidateArchiveEnvelope(ms);
+
+ BundleManifest manifest;
+ try
+ {
+ ms.Position = 0;
+ manifest = _bundleSerializer.ReadManifest(ms);
+ }
+ catch (InvalidDataException)
+ {
+ // Preserve the serializer's specific "manifest missing/null" message
+ // — the caller wants to surface a precise diagnostic to the operator.
+ throw;
+ }
+ catch (Exception ex)
+ {
+ throw new InvalidDataException("Bundle is missing or has a malformed manifest.json.", ex);
+ }
+
+ ms.Position = 0;
+ var contentBytes = _bundleSerializer.ReadContentBytes(ms, manifest);
+ return (manifest, contentBytes);
+ }
+
///
/// T-006: validates the zip envelope against the configured caps BEFORE any
/// entry payload is decompressed. Reads only the central-directory headers
@@ -410,16 +447,7 @@ public sealed class BundleImporter : IBundleImporter
throw new InvalidOperationException($"Bundle session {sessionId} is locked.");
}
- BundleContentDto content;
- try
- {
- content = JsonSerializer.Deserialize(session.DecryptedContent, ContentJsonOptions)
- ?? throw new InvalidDataException("Session content deserialized to null.");
- }
- catch (JsonException ex)
- {
- throw new InvalidDataException("Session content is not a valid BundleContentDto.", ex);
- }
+ var content = ReadSessionContent(session);
var items = new List();
@@ -1317,16 +1345,7 @@ public sealed class BundleImporter : IBundleImporter
throw new InvalidOperationException($"Bundle session {sessionId} is locked.");
}
- BundleContentDto content;
- try
- {
- content = JsonSerializer.Deserialize(session.DecryptedContent, ContentJsonOptions)
- ?? throw new InvalidDataException("Session content deserialized to null.");
- }
- catch (JsonException ex)
- {
- throw new InvalidDataException("Session content is not a valid BundleContentDto.", ex);
- }
+ var content = ReadSessionContent(session);
var bundleImportId = Guid.NewGuid();
// Set the correlation BEFORE the transaction so any audit writes
@@ -1749,6 +1768,45 @@ public sealed class BundleImporter : IBundleImporter
///
private void BumpGraphWatermark() => _watermark?.BumpAll();
+ ///
+ /// Review 2026-10-21 04/M2: compresses decrypted bundle content JSON into the
+ /// form pinned on a . The caller owns (and zeroes)
+ /// .
+ ///
+ /// The decrypted content JSON.
+ /// The Brotli-compressed content.
+ internal static byte[] CompressSessionContent(byte[] plaintext)
+ {
+ using var output = new MemoryStream(capacity: Math.Max(256, plaintext.Length / 4));
+ using (var brotli = new BrotliStream(output, CompressionLevel.Fastest, leaveOpen: true))
+ {
+ brotli.Write(plaintext, 0, plaintext.Length);
+ }
+ return output.ToArray();
+ }
+
+ ///
+ /// Review 2026-10-21 04/M2: deserializes a session's content straight from its
+ /// compressed form, so no plaintext copy of the content JSON is materialised.
+ ///
+ /// The open bundle session.
+ /// The bundle content DTO.
+ /// The session content is not a valid .
+ internal static BundleContentDto ReadSessionContent(BundleSession session)
+ {
+ try
+ {
+ using var compressed = new MemoryStream(session.DecryptedContent, writable: false);
+ using var brotli = new BrotliStream(compressed, CompressionMode.Decompress);
+ return JsonSerializer.Deserialize(brotli, ContentJsonOptions)
+ ?? throw new InvalidDataException("Session content deserialized to null.");
+ }
+ catch (JsonException ex)
+ {
+ throw new InvalidDataException("Session content is not a valid BundleContentDto.", ex);
+ }
+ }
+
///
/// T-007: zeros the session's
/// buffer in place so any caller still holding a reference observes the
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Transport/TransportOptions.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Transport/TransportOptions.cs
index 6b6c9051..a94ee16b 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Transport/TransportOptions.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Transport/TransportOptions.cs
@@ -30,9 +30,20 @@ public sealed class TransportOptions
public int MaxBundleEntryCompressionRatio { get; set; } = 50;
///
/// Maximum number of concurrently-open import sessions. Each open
- /// session pins a fully-decrypted bundle (up to
- /// of plaintext) in memory until it expires or is applied/cancelled, so this
- /// bounds the N×~200 MB decrypted-content footprint the central node can hold.
+ /// session pins a Brotli-compressed copy of its decrypted content JSON in memory
+ /// until it expires or is applied/cancelled (review 2026-10-21 04/M2).
+ ///
+ /// Worst-case resident footprint: the decrypted content is bounded by
+ /// (200 MB), and an adversarial,
+ /// incompressible payload can keep its compressed copy close to that size, so
+ /// the hard ceiling is N × ~200 MB (1.6 GB at the default 8). A real export
+ /// compresses ~5–10x, so the typical footprint is N × 20–40 MB at the largest
+ /// bundle size. A single in-flight LoadAsync additionally peaks at
+ /// roughly the uploaded zip (≤ , released once the
+ /// entries are extracted) plus the content entry and its decrypted copy (each
+ /// ≤ ), and each PreviewAsync/
+ /// ApplyAsync materialises one content DTO graph while it runs.
+ ///
///
public int MaxConcurrentImportSessions { get; set; } = 8;
/// Gets or sets the maximum number of failed passphrase unlock attempts before a session is locked.
diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Transport.Tests/Import/BundleImporterLoadTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Transport.Tests/Import/BundleImporterLoadTests.cs
index a0bbad00..7ff07877 100644
--- a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Transport.Tests/Import/BundleImporterLoadTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Transport.Tests/Import/BundleImporterLoadTests.cs
@@ -197,8 +197,7 @@ public sealed class BundleImporterLoadTests
Assert.NotEmpty(session.DecryptedContent);
// The decrypted payload must round-trip back to the original DTO so the
// PreviewAsync phase can deserialize it directly from the session.
- var roundTripped = JsonSerializer.Deserialize(
- session.DecryptedContent, BundleJsonOptions);
+ var roundTripped = BundleImporter.ReadSessionContent(session);
Assert.NotNull(roundTripped);
Assert.Single(roundTripped!.Templates);
Assert.Equal("Pump", roundTripped.Templates[0].Name);
@@ -718,6 +717,37 @@ public sealed class BundleImporterLoadTests
Assert.NotNull(otherSession);
}
+ // ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+ // Review 2026-10-21 04/M2 — resident session footprint.
+ // ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+ ///
+ /// Verifies that an open session pins a compressed copy of the decrypted content
+ /// rather than the raw plaintext JSON, and that the copy round-trips to the DTO.
+ ///
+ /// A task that represents the asynchronous operation.
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task LoadAsync_pins_a_compressed_copy_of_the_content_on_the_session()
+ {
+ var rig = BuildRig();
+ var bigDescription = string.Concat(Enumerable.Repeat("pump station telemetry ", 20_000));
+ var content = SmallContent() with
+ {
+ Templates = new[] { SmallContent().Templates[0] with { Description = bigDescription } },
+ };
+ var plaintextLength = JsonSerializer.SerializeToUtf8Bytes(content, BundleJsonOptions).Length;
+ using var packed = PackEncryptedBundle(
+ rig.Serializer, rig.ManifestBuilder, rig.Encryptor, content, "secret123");
+
+ var session = await rig.Importer.LoadAsync(packed, passphrase: "secret123");
+
+ Assert.True(
+ session.DecryptedContent.Length < plaintextLength / 4,
+ $"session pins {session.DecryptedContent.Length} bytes for {plaintextLength} bytes of plaintext");
+ var roundTripped = BundleImporter.ReadSessionContent(session);
+ Assert.Equal(bigDescription, roundTripped.Templates[0].Description);
+ }
+
// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Register row 43 — abandoned-session release.
// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────