Security-sensitive batch, handled main-thread for careful judgment on
secret-leak and pepper-bypass paths.
Secret leak / pepper bypass:
- CD-016 (pepper bypass): InboundApiRepository's GetApiKeyByValueAsync no
longer hashes the candidate with the unpeppered ApiKeyHasher.Default —
ctor takes a lazy Func<IApiKeyHasher> accessor (lazy so test composition
roots without a pepper still bring up the repository), and the DI
registration wires sp.GetService<IApiKeyHasher>() so the production
peppered hasher matches the stored KeyHash. Regression test asserts
positive (peppered roundtrip) AND negative (Default hasher misses the
same key — proving the lookup uses the injected hasher).
- MgmtSvc-020 (SMTP credential leak): UpdateSmtpConfig/ListSmtpConfigs
now project through SmtpConfigPublicShape so the response payload and
audit-row afterState never carry the Credentials field — only a
HasCredentials bool. The SMTP password / OAuth2 client secret no
longer leaves the Admin-only UpdateSmtpConfig boundary the caller
already supplied it to.
Redaction:
- AuditLog-008 (test-fixture under-redact): new
SafeDefaultAuditPayloadFilter (stateless singleton) does HTTP header
redaction for the always-sensitive defaults (Authorization, X-Api-Key,
Cookie, Set-Cookie). FallbackAuditWriter, CentralAuditWriter, and
AuditLogIngestActor (both ingest paths) default to it instead of null
— composition roots that bypass AddAuditLog can no longer write
unredacted auth headers to the audit store.
- NotifService-025 (over-mask): CredentialRedactor.Scrub now only masks
the last colon-separated component (password / clientSecret) AND only
if it's >= 12 chars (typical password heuristic). Short user names
like "root" no longer become global redaction tokens that eat unrelated
diagnostic text. The full packed string is always masked regardless of
length. 3 new negative tests pin the no-over-mask contract.
Audit-row correctness / fail-loud:
- InboundAPI-025: Program.cs UseWhen predicate now excludes /api/audit,
/api/management, /api/centralui, /api/script-analysis AND requires POST
— the AuditWriteMiddleware no longer emits spurious ApiInbound rows
for audit-log query/export endpoints (write-on-read recursion broken).
- ESG-021: ApplyAuth now logs Warning (not silent) on empty
AuthConfiguration for apikey/basic, unknown AuthType, and malformed
Basic config. AuthConfiguration value NEVER logged. AuthType=none
remains silent (documented unauthenticated sentinel).
- Security-021: AddSecurity now logs a startup Warning when
RequireHttpsCookie=false — an HTTP-only deployment that previously
transmitted the cookie-embedded JWT silently in cleartext is now
audible in the log.
Defensive:
- CD-021: SwitchOutPartitionAsync's monthBoundary format string now
yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fffffff (datetime2(7) precision) so a future
sub-second / non-midnight boundary doesn't silently round to the
wrong partition.
Plus reconciled stale per-module Open-findings counters that had drifted
from earlier sessions (AuditLog, CD, ESG, IAPI, MgmtSvc, NotifService,
Security).
Build clean; all affected test projects green (Host 208, ConfigDB 242,
ESG 69, IAPI 151, MgmtSvc 100, NotifService 55, Security 85, AuditLog
247/248 — 1 pre-existing date-sensitive integration test flake on
PartitionPurgeTests, unrelated). README regenerated: 46 open (was 54).
Concurrency hazards, DI lifetime hygiene, and one verify-only confirmation
across 8 modules. Highlights:
Concurrency:
- CentralUI-030: SandboxConsoleCapture writes routed through WriteSynchronized
locking on the captured StringWriter — intra-script Task fan-out can no
longer corrupt the per-call buffer.
- Commons-021: ExternalCallResult.Response now backed by Lazy<dynamic?>
(ExecutionAndPublication) — no more benign double-parse race.
- CD-017: DeploymentManagerRepository.DeleteDeploymentRecordAsync now takes
an expected RowVersion and seeds entry.OriginalValues so EF emits
DELETE ... WHERE Id=@id AND RowVersion=@prior; stale RowVersion now
throws DbUpdateConcurrencyException instead of silent overwrite.
- Transport-009: AuditCorrelationContext.BundleImportId backed by
AsyncLocal<Guid?> so concurrent imports get per-logical-call isolation
(was a scoped instance shared via AuditService across runs).
DI / lifetime:
- AuditLog-003: All 3 AuditLog actor handlers switched to CreateAsyncScope
+ await using — async EF disposal no longer swallowed.
- AuditLog-007: INodeIdentityProvider resolution standardised on
GetRequiredService<>() (was mixed with GetService<>()).
- AuditLog-011: AddAuditLogHealthMetricsBridge guarded by sentinel
descriptor check — calling twice no longer double-registers the hosted
service.
Shutdown / supervision:
- SiteCallAudit-002: AkkaHostedService adds a CoordinatedShutdown
cluster-leave task (drain-site-call-audit-singleton) that issues a
bounded GracefulStop(10s) so failover waits for in-flight upserts.
Registration safety:
- NS-020: AkkaHostedService now guards NotificationForwarder S&F
registration with _notificationDeliveryHandlerRegistered + throws
InvalidOperationException on double-register to make the regression loud.
VERIFY-only closures:
- NotifOutbox-005: Confirmed already closed by CD-015 fix (ac96b83) —
NotificationOutboxRepository.InsertIfNotExistsAsync uses the same
raw-SQL IF NOT EXISTS + 2601/2627 swallow pattern; race eliminated.
5+ new regression tests (CentralUI sandbox WhenAll, ExternalCallResult
64-reader Barrier, AuditLog DI idempotency, RowVersion stale-throw,
SiteCallAudit-002 shutdown drain). Build clean; affected suites all green.
README regenerated: 65 open (was 75).
Async cancellation hygiene, fire-and-forget observability, retry/shutdown
semantics, and audit-row coverage across 9 modules. Highlights:
Cancellation & lifecycle:
- AuditLog-006: SqliteAuditWriter.Dispose hops to thread pool, escaping the
captured SyncContext that risked sync-over-async deadlock.
- AuditLog-010: SiteAuditTelemetryActor owns a private lifecycle CTS,
threaded through drain paths instead of CancellationToken.None.
- Comm-019: CentralCommunicationActor adds lifecycle CTS for repo calls.
- Host-019: Migration StartupRetry forwards ApplicationStopping so SIGTERM
during the bounded-retry window aborts cleanly.
Cursor / retry / counter correctness:
- AuditLog-004: SiteAuditReconciliationActor's cursor now holds at `since`
when any row's idempotent insert is still being retried (per-EventId
retry counter, MaxPermanentInsertAttempts=5 escape valve with LogCritical
abandon). No more silent abandonment of permanently-failing rows.
- ConfigDB-019: Dropped the catch-and-continue on EnsureLookaheadAsync's
SPLIT loop — by class-doc construction the catch could only mask real
failures and let the next iteration create permanent partition holes.
- HM-017/018: HealthReportSender + CentralHealthReportLoop snapshot
per-interval counters before sending, restore via new
ISiteHealthCollector.AddIntervalCounters on transport failure so counts
aren't silently lost.
Fire-and-forget / shutdown waits:
- InboundAPI-018: AuditWriteMiddleware observes faulted audit-write tasks
via OnlyOnFaulted continuation (Warning log; response unchanged).
- SnF-024: StoreAndForwardService.StopAsync awaits in-flight retry sweep
with a bounded SweepShutdownWaitTimeout (10s).
Leak / refactor:
- Comm-021: SiteStreamGrpcServer.SubscribeInstance wraps Subscribe in its
own try/catch so a throw doesn't leak the relay actor or _activeStreams
entry.
- Comm-022: VERIFIED already-closed by Comm-016's dead-code purge.
- CLI-017: BundleCommands' three subcommands delegate to ExecuteCommandAsync
(auth-failure exit-code contract unified).
Defensive / validation:
- CLI-021: CliConfig.Load wraps file-read/JSON parse so malformed config
prints a warning and returns defaults instead of crashing the CLI.
- Host-022: ParseLevel emits stderr one-shot warning for unrecognised
MinimumLevel instead of silently coercing to Information.
- ESG-019: ExternalSystemClient sets HttpClient.Timeout=Infinite so the
per-call CTS is the sole timeout source (was clipped to 100s by .NET).
- Security-020: New SecurityOptionsValidator (IValidateOptions) rejects
empty LdapServer/LdapSearchBase with ValidateOnStart.
- DM-019: Lifecycle command timeouts now emit DisableTimedOut/EnableTimedOut/
DeleteTimedOut audit entries (mirrors DeployFailed pattern).
Plus reconciled stale per-module Open-findings counters that had drifted
from prior sessions.
20+ new regression tests across 11 test projects; build clean; affected
suites all green. README regenerated: 75 open (was 93).
UTC invariant + culture-safety fixes across UI form binding, audit entity
hydrate, and locale-dependent parses. Highlights:
- CentralUI-026/027: AuditFilterBar / SiteCallsReport / NotificationReport /
EventLogs now apply SpecifyKind(Local) + ToUniversalTime() at form submit
so browser-local datetime-local inputs aren't silently treated as UTC.
- Commons-019: AuditEvent.OccurredAtUtc / IngestedAtUtc init-setters
re-tag any incoming DateTime as Kind=Utc, documenting the invariant.
- CD-018: AuditLogEntityTypeConfiguration adds UTC ValueConverters on the
*Utc DateTime columns so EF hydrate yields Kind=Utc (SQL Server's
datetime2 has no Kind metadata, so reads were returning Unspecified).
- CD-020: GetPartitionBoundariesOlderThanAsync now SpecifyKind(Utc) on the
raw-ADO read, matching the existing defence in AuditLogPartitionMaintenance.
- SEL-021: EventLogQueryService.DateTimeOffset.Parse now uses
InvariantCulture + AssumeUniversal | AdjustToUniversal.
- SR-023: Convert.ToDouble in ScriptActor + AlarmActor (4 sites) now
passes InvariantCulture so non-US locales don't mis-parse string values.
- HM-020: CentralHealthAggregator.MarkHeartbeat anchors LastHeartbeatAt to
max(receivedAt, now) on offline→online so a stale receivedAt can't
leave a recovered site one tick from re-going-offline.
3 new tests added (AuditLog UTC converter, AuditFilterBar/EventLogs/
NotificationReport-touching CentralUI tests already cover Apply paths,
heartbeat offline→online). Build clean; ConfigurationDatabase 236,
Commons 330, HealthMonitoring 71, SiteRuntime 301, SiteEventLogging 50,
CentralUI 50 — all green. README regenerated: 104 open (was 112).
CD-015: rewrite NotificationOutboxRepository.InsertIfNotExistsAsync as raw-SQL
IF NOT EXISTS … INSERT with SqlException 2601/2627 catch, ending the
at-least-once livelock on the site→central notification handoff.
DCL-018/019/020/021/022: add _subscribesInFlight guard so concurrent
same-tag subscribes don't orphan an adapter handle; delete the latent
dead _subscriptionHandles dictionary; stop double-counting
_totalSubscribed when an unresolved tag is promoted via another instance;
release adapter handles on mid-flight unsubscribe; gate the
tag-resolution retry timer with IsTimerActive so subscribe bursts don't
reset it into starvation.
SR-020: add _terminatingActorsByName shadow so a third deploy arriving
during a pending redeploy doesn't crash on InvalidActorNameException —
displaced senders get a Failed/superseded response and the latest
command wins on Terminated.
SR-024: split OperationTrackingStore reads from writes (fresh
SqliteConnection per GetStatusAsync) so long writes don't block status
queries; rewrite Dispose to drop the sync-over-async bridge that could
deadlock on a non-reentrant SyncContext; Interlocked.Exchange makes the
dispose-once flag race-safe across both paths.
Re-applies the full 10-category checklist to every src/ project — including
first-time reviews of the four newer components (AuditLog, NotificationOutbox,
SiteCallAudit, Transport) — so the code-reviews/ index reflects today's
codebase rather than the 2026-05-16 baseline. 172 new Open findings (0
Critical, 18 High, 62 Medium, 92 Low); 481 findings total across 23 modules.
regen-readme.py now derives each module's Last reviewed + Commit from its
findings.md header instead of hard-coding 2026-05-16 / 9c60592, so future
single-module re-reviews show their own date in the Module Status table.
Inbound-API bearer credentials are no longer persisted in plaintext. ApiKey now
holds a KeyHash (peppered HMAC-SHA256); the key is shown once at creation and
only its hash is stored. Lookup and validation hash the presented candidate.
Cross-module: Commons (ApiKey, ApiKeyHasher), ConfigurationDatabase (mapping +
HashApiKeyValue migration), InboundAPI (ApiKeyValidator), ManagementService
(key creation), CentralUI (ApiKeys.razor). Existing keys must be re-issued.
Establishes a per-module code review workflow under code-reviews/ and
records the 2026-05-16 baseline review (commit 9c60592): 241 findings
across all src/ modules (6 Critical, 46 High, 100 Medium, 89 Low).
This is the clean starting point for remediation work.
Joseph Doherty