auth: the duplicate-cookie line hides a link's token (audit A4)

Security audit 2026-10-17, finding A4 (low), stage 0. The line logged when
a request carries two unprefixed session cookies printed r.URL.Path raw,
so GET /confirm/<token> wrote the token to the log (reachable only with
PANEL_COOKIE_SECURE=false, where a sibling host can plant the bare name).
loggedPath moves from internal/web to internal/web/auth as LoggedPath
(web imports auth, not the other way) and both lines - the origin check's
refusal and the duplicate-cookie one - go through it.

Tests: TestDuplicateCookieLineHidesALinksToken; TestLoggedPathHidesTokens
moved with the function. go test ./internal/web ./internal/web/auth.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/); version
 - **The sender check keeps two `From:` and two `Sender:` lines** (audit M5),
   not every one an application sends: the judgement needs no more, and a
   hundred long lines were megabytes held per connection.
+- **A link's token stays out of the duplicate-cookie log line** (audit A4),
+  as it already did out of the origin check's.
 - **The entrypoint follows no link at the DMARC maps** (audit I2): the
   three `dmarc_*` maps root creates at the start were missing from the list
   of paths where a symbolic link is removed first.

docs/security-audit-2026-10-17.md

@@ -706,7 +706,9 @@ the argument.
   tail); TestInboundRecipientCannotWriteTheRow.
 - [x] **M5.** Keep at most two `From:`/`Sender:` values; security.md:810
   reworded. — **Opus**, 0.5 h. *Done 2026-10-17:* TestSenderKeepsTwoFromAndSenderLines.
-- [ ] **A4.** Duplicate-cookie line through `loggedPath`. — **Sonnet**, 0.25 h.
+- [x] **A4.** Duplicate-cookie line through `loggedPath`. — **Sonnet**, 0.25 h.
+  *Done 2026-10-17:* `loggedPath` moved to `auth.LoggedPath`, used by both
+  lines; TestDuplicateCookieLineHidesALinksToken.
 - [ ] **S6.** `smtpd_etrn_restrictions = reject`, `smtpd_discard_ehlo_keywords
   = etrn` in postfix-config.sh; architecture.md § Postfix one line. Done when
   an e2e `ETRN` on 25 gets `554`. — **Opus**, 0.5 h.

internal/web/auth/auth_test.go

@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ package auth
 import (
 	"database/sql"
 	"errors"
+	"log"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
 	"net/url"
+	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
@@ -88,6 +90,24 @@ func TestSessionTokenRejectsDuplicates(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// The duplicate-cookie line names the request's path, and a link's token is
+// not written to the log with it (audit 2026-10-17, A4).
+func TestDuplicateCookieLineHidesALinksToken(t *testing.T) {
+	m := testModule(t, false)
+	var buf strings.Builder
+	log.SetOutput(&buf)
+	t.Cleanup(func() { log.SetOutput(os.Stderr) })
+	r := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "http://panel.example.com/confirm/the-secret-token-of-a-link", nil)
+	r.AddCookie(&http.Cookie{Name: "selfpost_session", Value: "planted-by-a-neighbour"})
+	r.AddCookie(&http.Cookie{Name: "selfpost_session", Value: "the-real-session"})
+	if _, ok := m.sessionToken(r); ok {
+		t.Fatal("duplicate cookies accepted")
+	}
+	if got := buf.String(); strings.Contains(got, "the-secret-token-of-a-link") || !strings.Contains(got, "GET /confirm/… carries 2 cookies") {
+		t.Errorf("logged %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestSessionTokenReadsOneCookie(t *testing.T) {
 	m := testModule(t, true)
 	r := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "http://panel.example.com/domains", nil)

internal/web/auth/handlers.go

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ func (m *Module) sessionToken(r *http.Request) (string, bool) {
 		// name cannot be planted that way (see sessionCookiePrefixed).
 		logf("panel: %s %s carries %d cookies named %q — treating the request as signed out; "+
 			"another host on this domain is overwriting the session cookie, clear the cookies for the parent domain",
-			r.Method, r.URL.Path, n, name)
+			r.Method, LoggedPath(r.URL.Path), n, name)
 		return "", false
 	}
 }

internal/web/auth/links.go

@@ -400,3 +400,17 @@ func loginInfo(r *http.Request) string {
 	}
 	return ""
 }
+
+// LoggedPath is a request's path as the log may hold it: the token of a
+// password-reset or confirmation link is a secret, and the log is read by
+// more than the person the link went to (security review, 2026-10-17).
+// Every log line that names a request's path goes through it: the origin
+// check's refusal and the duplicate-cookie line (audit 2026-10-17, A4).
+func LoggedPath(p string) string {
+	for _, prefix := range []string{"/login/reset/", "/confirm/"} {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(p, prefix) && len(p) > len(prefix) {
+			return prefix + "…"
+		}
+	}
+	return p
+}

internal/web/auth/loggedpath_test.go

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package web
+package auth
 
 import "testing"
 
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ func TestLoggedPathHidesTokens(t *testing.T) {
 		"/confirm/":              "/confirm/",
 		"/account/profile":       "/account/profile",
 	} {
-		if got := loggedPath(in); got != want {
+		if got := LoggedPath(in); got != want {
-			t.Errorf("loggedPath(%q) = %q, want %q", in, got, want)
+			t.Errorf("LoggedPath(%q) = %q, want %q", in, got, want)
 		}
 	}
 }

internal/web/security.go

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ package web
 import (
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
-	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/mixeme/selfpost/internal/web/auth"
 )
 
 // contentSecurityPolicy is the panel's CSP. Everything the pages load —
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ func (s *Server) secure(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
 			// saving anything".
 			logf("panel: rejected %s %s: cross-origin request (Sec-Fetch-Site=%q Origin=%q Host=%q); "+
 				"if this was a legitimate request, check that the reverse proxy passes the original Host header through",
-				r.Method, loggedPath(r.URL.Path), r.Header.Get("Sec-Fetch-Site"), r.Header.Get("Origin"), r.Host)
+				r.Method, auth.LoggedPath(r.URL.Path), r.Header.Get("Sec-Fetch-Site"), r.Header.Get("Origin"), r.Host)
 			http.Error(w, "cross-origin request rejected", http.StatusForbidden)
 			return
 		}
@@ -169,15 +170,3 @@ func originAllowed(r *http.Request) bool {
 	}
 	return u.Host == r.Host
 }
-
-// loggedPath is a request's path as the log may hold it: the token of a
-// password-reset link is a secret, and the log is read by more than the
-// person the link went to (security review, 2026-10-17).
-func loggedPath(p string) string {
-	for _, prefix := range []string{"/login/reset/", "/confirm/"} {
-		if strings.HasPrefix(p, prefix) && len(p) > len(prefix) {
-			return prefix + "…"
-		}
-	}
-	return p
-}