fix(SEC-31,SEC-32): re-partition the API-key failure limiter on (peer, key id) with probe admission

The gRPC auth failure limiter partitioned on the key id parsed out of the
*unauthenticated* token and rejected with ResourceExhausted before VerifyAsync
ran. Key ids are not secret — they ride in every token and are listed on the
dashboard — so any network peer could send 10 garbage-secret requests per minute
and deny that key indefinitely: the legitimate holder's correct secret was
refused before it was ever checked, and the success-path Reset that would clear
the block sat behind the verification the block prevented (SEC-31). The tracked
map was also flushable — any `a_b_c`-shaped junk minted a fresh partition (the
`mxgw` literal was never compared), so ~4096 throwaway tokens evicted a blocked
entry and reset the window (SEC-32).

ApiKeyFailureLimiter moves from IsBlocked/RecordFailure/Reset(string peer) to a
partition-pair API: Check/RecordFailure/Reset(ApiKeyThrottlePartition) with an
ApiKeyThrottleDecision result. Two layers share one sliding window — a composite
(transport peer, key id) partition at ApiKeyFailureLimit, and a per-key-id
aggregate across all peers at the new ApiKeyFailureAggregateLimit (default 30)
that bounds a source-rotating sprayer. An over-limit state is now a valve rather
than a wall: one request per the new ApiKeyFailureProbeIntervalSeconds (default
5) is admitted through to the real verifier, so the correct secret always reaches
the constant-time compare and resets both layers. Guarantees preserved: guessing
stays bounded per window, and the failure path still spends no store read per
attempt.

SEC-32 rides the same change set: the interceptor validates token shape (literal
`mxgw` prefix, >= 3 non-empty `_` segments, key id <= 64 chars) before minting a
key-id partition, each transport peer may mint at most 32 of them before the
overflow collapses onto its fallback partition, and eviction prefers fully
expired windows and never drops an over-limit partition below a 2x transient
overshoot ceiling. Throttled attempts increment mxgateway.auth.throttled, tagged
stage=peer|aggregate only — /metrics is unauthenticated (open SEC-14), so no key
material may appear there.

Docs in the same commit: GatewayConfiguration limiter rows plus the two new keys,
the Authentication hot-path paragraph, the Authorization SEC-11 section, and the
limiter / SecurityOptions XML remarks (the old NAT rationale described the
defective keying). Tracking rows flipped to Done with a change-log entry.

Tests: new ApiKeyFailureLimiterTests (11) covering window pruning, composite vs
aggregate trip points, probe cadence, absolute-block mode, reset across both
layers, junk-spray eviction resistance, the per-peer cap, and expired-window
eviction preference; GatewayGrpcAuthorizationInterceptorTests gains the four
SEC-31 contract tests plus NonMxgwToken_FallsBackToTransportPeerPartition (20
total); GatewayOptionsValidatorTests covers both new keys including 0 as a
supported disable value (66 total).

archreview/2026-07-12/remediation/00-tracking.md

@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ Sequenced by cluster; a cluster is one change set.
 | WRK-21 | Medium | M | owns IPC-23 fix; WRK-28 same batch | Not started | DrainEvents bound is count-based only; oversized reply kills the session and loses the drained events |
 | IPC-23 | Medium | S | WRK-21 | Not started | DrainEvents contract requirements (reply fits negotiated max, no event loss, drain-until-empty) + proto-comment/doc wave |
 | IPC-30 | Low | M | WRK-21 (same batch) | Not started | Oversized event frame stays session-fatal by design, but the death becomes structured (fault frame + logged identity) |
-| SEC-31 | Medium | M | — | Not started | Failure limiter partitions on attacker-controlled key id and blocks before verification (lockout DoS) |
-| SEC-32 | Low | S | SEC-31 | Not started | Failure-limiter LRU flushable by junk-token spray; token prefix never validated |
+| SEC-31 | Medium | M | — | Done | Failure limiter partitions on attacker-controlled key id and blocks before verification (lockout DoS) |
+| SEC-32 | Low | S | SEC-31 | Done | Failure-limiter LRU flushable by junk-token spray; token prefix never validated |
 | IPC-24 | Medium | S | — | Not started | CI's unconditional Java churn-revert masks real drift |
 | IPC-25 | Medium | M | — | Not started | Regenerate stale Go/Python worker bindings + add binding-freshness guard (Check 4) to check-codegen.ps1 |
 
@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ Full design + implementation for each row lives in the linked domain doc under i
 
 | ID | Sev | Tier | Eff | Dep | Status | Title |
 |---|---|:-:|:-:|---|---|---|
-| SEC-31 | Medium | P0 | M | — | Not started | Failure limiter: composite (peer, key-id) partitions + cross-peer aggregate with probe admission |
-| SEC-32 | Low | P0 | S | SEC-31 | Not started | Limiter LRU flushable by junk-token spray; validate token shape, cap per-peer partitions |
+| SEC-31 | Medium | P0 | M | — | Done | Failure limiter: composite (peer, key-id) partitions + cross-peer aggregate with probe admission |
+| SEC-32 | Low | P0 | S | SEC-31 | Done | Limiter LRU flushable by junk-token spray; validate token shape, cap per-peer partitions |
 | SEC-33 | Low | P1 | M | old SEC-23 (co-locate) | Not started | Host-meaningful path rooting; drop Windows literals from appsettings; validate Galaxy `SnapshotCachePath` |
 | SEC-34 | Low | P2 | S | — | Not started | Verification cache: expiry outlives TTL; `Invalidate` races in-flight repopulation |
 | SEC-35 | Info | — | S | — | N/A | Production hard-stops key on exact `Production` environment name (doc-only) |
@@ -161,3 +161,4 @@ Sequence these together rather than piecemeal — several are one change set spa
 | 2026-07-13 | Operator bring-up complete: dedicated CI ed25519 key installed in windev `administrators_authorized_keys` (authorized into `dohertj2`, which owns the working MXAccess/toolchain env — a fresh OS account would break the build; the key is independently revocable), Gitea secrets `WINDEV_SSH_KEY`/`WINDEV_SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS` + variable `WINDEV_SSH_USER=dohertj2` stored, runner→`10.100.0.48:22` egress verified on the `traefik` net, issue-write confirmed. **TST-25/TST-26 → `Done`:** credentialed `windows-x86` ran GREEN on `d769244` (Gitea run #37) — Linux runner SSHed windev, checked out the SHA in `C:\build\mxaccessgw-ci` under lock, ran the x86 Worker build + `Worker.Tests`, exit 0; `nightly-windev` correctly skipped on the push event. Branch merged to `main`. Follow-ups (old tracker): revisit **TST-05** (scheduled live smoke — now covered by `nightly-windev`) and **TST-24** (client wire tests) which this unlocks. |
 | 2026-07-13 | Ran the TST-25 acceptance checks (scripts/ci/README.md) — they caught **two real CI defects, both fixed** on `fix/tst-25-ci-key-log-leak`: (1) **CI SSH key leaked in cleartext** in the `windows-x86` step env echo (Gitea's line-oriented masker missed the multiline PEM) — rotated the CI key on windev (old pubkey revoked), stored the key **base64-encoded** so the masker redacts it to `***` (confirmed on run #38), taught `run-windev-ci.sh` to decode, dropped the redundant public known-hosts secret from the job env; (2) **bootstrap lock race** — `run-windev-ci.sh`'s pre-hand-off `git fetch`/`checkout` ran outside the worktree lock, so concurrent runs collided on `.git/index.lock`; the bootstrap now holds the lock (ps1 re-uses it via `MXGW_CI_LOCK_HELD`), retest confirmed clean serialization. Also **deflaked** `SessionManagerTests` fail-fast timing assertions (absolute `<100ms` wall-clock bound flaked under CI load; now anchored to the configured timeout / dropped for the zero-timeout case). Checks passed: unreachable-host fast-fail (exit 255/15s), deliberate-red propagation (Worker.Tests failure → exit 1), lock concurrency (2nd run waits), no-key-in-logs (masked). Merge target `df7e20d` verified GREEN via the local windev path (Worker build + 356 tests); merged to `main` `19cbf7b`. Check 6 (forced-failure nightly issue): issue endpoint+token proven live at bring-up (#124); in-CI forced-failure probe abandoned to shared-runner congestion (residual `if: failure()` gating is standard Actions). |
 | 2026-07-13 | New finding **TST-30** (`Low`/`P2`) added — surfaced during TST-25 acceptance: CI runs on a single shared `gitea-runner` (`maxParallel=1`, co-located `10.100.0.35`) interleaved with `dohertj2/lmxopcua`, and Gitea 1.26 exposes no run cancel/delete, so queue latency is unbounded under cross-repo contention and the runner is a single point of failure. Design: add a second/labelled runner + document the no-cancel reality and the `run-windev-ci.sh` bypass. Roll-ups updated (Testing Low 2→3, total 47→48; P2 9→10). |
+| 2026-08-07 | **SEC-31 + SEC-32 → `Done`** (branch `fix/sec-31-32-limiter`, one change set as planned). `ApiKeyFailureLimiter` reworked from `IsBlocked/RecordFailure/Reset(string peer)` to a partition-pair API (`Check/RecordFailure/Reset(ApiKeyThrottlePartition)` returning `ApiKeyThrottleDecision`): layer 1 is the composite `(transport peer, key id)` partition, layer 2 a per-key-id aggregate across peers (`ApiKeyFailureAggregateLimit`, default 30), and an over-limit state now admits one probe per `ApiKeyFailureProbeIntervalSeconds` (default 5) instead of blocking absolutely — so a success can reset the state while throttled, killing the 10-packets-per-minute lockout. SEC-32 rides along: the interceptor validates token shape (`mxgw` prefix, ≥3 non-empty `_` segments, key id ≤ 64 chars) before minting a key-id partition, each peer may mint at most 32 of them (overflow collapses to its fallback partition), and eviction prefers expired windows, never dropping an over-limit partition below a 2× transient overshoot ceiling. New counter `mxgateway.auth.throttled` tagged `stage=peer\|aggregate` only (no key material — `/metrics` is still unauthenticated per open SEC-14). Docs updated in the same commit (`docs/GatewayConfiguration.md` limiter rows + two new keys, `docs/Authentication.md` hot-path paragraph, `docs/Authorization.md` SEC-11 section, limiter/`SecurityOptions` XML remarks). Evidence: `dotnet build …Server` clean; `--filter ~ApiKeyFailureLimiter` 11/11 passed (new `ApiKeyFailureLimiterTests`), `--filter ~GatewayGrpcAuthorizationInterceptor` 20/20 passed (incl. the four SEC-31 contract tests and `NonMxgwToken_FallsBackToTransportPeerPartition`), `--filter ~GatewayOptionsValidator` 66/66 passed. Full suite on macOS: 804 passed / 44 failed — all 44 are the pre-existing named-pipe fake-worker classes (`WorkerClientTests`, `FakeWorkerHarnessTests`, `SessionWorkerClientFactoryFakeWorkerTests`, `GatewayEndToEnd*`), verified identical (44) on the unmodified tree. Follow-up unchanged: the new `MxGateway:Security` keys belong in old **SEC-24**'s effective-config projection when that is picked up. |