# Security review

Review timestamp: 2026-09-10T12:00:10Z

## Scope

Next.js portal and APIs, Discord bot, PostgreSQL persistence, Keycloak admin authentication, and the Velocity admission plugin.

## Automated checks

- Full source Semgrep `auto`: 0 findings across 169 scanned files (331 rules; 13 files excluded by ignore patterns).
- `npm audit` and `npm audit --omit=dev`: 0 known vulnerabilities after remediation. Baseline had six affected entries (two moderate, two high, two critical), covering Next.js/Sharp, the NextAuth dependency path, Vitest/mocker, and js-yaml.
- Resolved patched versions: Next.js and eslint-config-next 16.3.4, Sharp 0.35.4, Vitest/mocker 4.1.11, js-yaml 4.3.2. Retained Next.js's PostCSS override at 8.5.25. No forced major dependency upgrades or database changes.
- TypeScript, 181 workspace tests, Next.js production build, and Velocity Java tests/shaded plugin build pass with patched dependencies. ESLint exits successfully with two new framework-rule warnings about existing `window.location.assign()` calls in `map-view-toggle.tsx`; those unrelated navigation behaviors were not changed.
- Verification is local source evidence, not a claim that patched artifacts have been deployed. API CI run 1979 passed for the preceding API source `1a01c0ed641f4eda83f81c855c38651aa116933e`.

## Implemented controls

- Discord login and session tokens use cryptographically secure randomness and are stored only as SHA-256 hashes.
- Login links expire after ten minutes, are single use, and are rate limited per Discord user with a PostgreSQL advisory lock.
- Session cookies are `httpOnly`, `sameSite=lax`, path-scoped, and secure in production.
- Admin access uses Keycloak OIDC and a required role.
- Every suggestions API route independently requires that admin session/role before reading cached or live Discord data. The configured forum is guild/type-checked and requested threads are parent/type-checked before message access. Discord credentials remain server-side; fixed-host, validated-ID requests have bounded caching, concurrency, timeouts, and rate-limit backoff. Responses are uncached and errors use safe RFC 9457 problems. See [suggestions API](admin-suggestions-api.md) for live Discord permission/intent requirements.
- User mutations verify ownership server-side.
- Mojang lookup is server-side and targets a fixed host, avoiding client-forged validation and SSRF.
- Velocity credentials are high-entropy bearer tokens stored only as hashes.
- Velocity admission and confirmed-connection requests have a 45-second clock window and database-unique request IDs for cross-instance replay prevention.
- Velocity and its API fail closed.
- Registered players require an enabled effective group; explicit assignments replace rather than combine with the protected, disabled-by-default `everyone` fallback. Disabled access always overrides scheduling.
- Enabled groups with recurring UTC windows admit only during an active login window. Window boundaries and overlap are validated server-side, malformed persisted policy fails closed, and connected sessions are not re-evaluated.
- Confirmed VPN, proxy, and Tor game connections are denied unless that same effective group has an explicit exception; `everyone` and new groups default to no exception.
- Static admission templates use a fixed allowlist of non-executable variables. Unknown placeholders and control characters are rejected, and rendered values remain plain JSON/text.
- Group, schedule, VPN-policy, identity, and membership mutations re-check the Keycloak administrator role server-side; registry assignments, policy changes, group edits, creation, deletion, and message settings commit atomically with their audit events.
- Group identity creation/rename and membership assignment/deletion use compatible PostgreSQL advisory and row locks to prevent duplicate names, stale audit records, or membership/deletion races. The protected default name and deletion restriction are enforced server-side.
- Every bearer-authenticated Velocity login uses cached IP intelligence before identity resolution, preventing account-creation races from bypassing network policy; malformed provider proxy signals classify as unknown.
- Event filters accept only event types already present in the ledger, and event detail routes remain role-protected.
- The administrator-only map defaults to bundled Natural Earth boundaries. OpenStreetMap tile requests begin only after an explicit operator opt-in; marker coordinates are not transmitted as data, but the requested tiles disclose the viewed geographic extent along with the administrator's IP and portal origin.
- Grouped-map popup labels and links are created with DOM `textContent` and server-rendered React escaping rather than interpolated HTML.
- ORM-parameterized queries are used throughout.
- CSP, clickjacking, MIME-sniffing, referrer, and browser-permission headers are configured.
- Forwarded IP headers are ignored unless `TRUST_PROXY=true` is explicitly configured.
- Private and reserved addresses are not sent to ProxyCheck.io; lookup results are cached to reduce disclosure and API usage.
- Portal and game login events include approximate network location and VPN/proxy classification when available. The administrator-only location list also exposes enriched network company, ASN, connection type, and the provider's proxy signal.
- Structured Pino logging redacts credential fields, and secrets are excluded from logs and repository configuration.

## Outstanding production requirements

- Monitor ProxyCheck.io usage, detection quality, and false positives. User account additions fail closed when classification is unavailable; hosting-provider blocking remains optional.
- Define and automate retention for exact IP addresses, cached provider responses, approximate location, and audit events.
- Add monitoring and alerts for repeated login denials, plugin authentication failures, and Discord API failures.
- Use HTTPS for the public application and Velocity API URL. Protect the Velocity configuration file because it contains the one-time-displayed API token.
- Restrict database credentials so normal application roles cannot update or delete historical event rows outside approved application paths.
- Validate migrations in staging before production. Local migration application was unavailable during development because the Docker daemon was not running.