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).
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).
Resolves the auth-theme batch from the 2026-05-28 baseline review (8 findings
across Security/CentralUI/ManagementService/CLI). The most consequential gaps:
NotificationReport + SiteCallsReport now route through SiteScopeService so a
site-scoped Deployment user cannot see or act on other sites' rows (CUI-028);
QueryAuditLogCommand is no longer "any authenticated user" — gated Admin-only
to match /api/audit/query's strictness (MS-018); RoleMapper preserves the
broader grant when a user is in both an unscoped and scoped Deployment LDAP
group, instead of silently narrowing to the scoped set (Sec-016); and the
dead SiteScopeRequirement/Handler are deleted so SiteScopeService is
unambiguously the sole site-scoping mechanism (Sec-017). Pending findings:
172 → 164.
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.
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