# Security review

Review date: 2026-08-02

## Scope

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

## Automated checks

- Semgrep `auto`: 0 findings
- `npm audit`: 0 known vulnerabilities after dependency overrides
- TypeScript, ESLint, unit tests, Next.js production build: passing
- Velocity Java tests and shaded plugin build: passing

## 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Group, 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.