Security audit 2026-10-17, findings W6/M9 (low), stage 4. Every
application, upstream, recipient or report-address save reloaded Postfix
through supervisord, and POST .../dns-recheck bypassed the five-minute
cache for up to ~14 resolver queries - both at whatever rate an
authenticated user pressed.
- writeChanged: each generated map is written only when its content
differs from the file on disk, and Postfix is reloaded only when one was
(sender map, inbound maps, DMARC maps). Health's Reload configuration
ends with an explicit reload (app.Service.ReloadPostfix, SenderMaps
gains Reload), so it still re-reads whatever is on disk. No debounce:
with unchanged saves gone, a burst is real changes Postfix must see.
- auth.AllowDNSRecheck: twenty forced re-checks in 15 minutes per user;
past that the outbound, inbound and settings re-check show the cached
result without the "re-checked" flash, and the log says why.
Tests: TestARebuildThatChangesNothingDoesNotReload,
TestDNSRechecksArePerUser; the fakes gain Reload. Docs: guide § Overview
and Health; CHANGELOG; plan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stage 3, step 2. Reviewed by Fable (read-only), fixed by Sonnet with a
failing test before each fix, checked by Opus. No Critical or High
finding: route authorization, tenant isolation by id, the /server/
subtree guard, output encoding and the origin check were found sound.
Fixed
- M1: a session was keyed by user name and had no link to the user. A
deleted or renamed user's cookie stayed alive (renewed on every hit,
before the user was looked up) and became a session of whoever was
later created under that name, with that account's role. The
baseline now has sessions.user_id REFERENCES users(id) ON DELETE
CASCADE; the principal is resolved by id and a session is renewed
only after its user was found. RenameSession is gone.
- M2: any user's password change deleted every other user's sessions.
It ends that user's other sessions only.
- L1: a password set on the user form ends that user's sessions (an
administrator editing their own account keeps the current one).
- L2: store, saslpasswd2 and Postfix reload errors were shown verbatim
on the application form, the inbound upstream / recipients forms and
the limit recalculation - pages a domain administrator reaches.
Validation errors (app.ValidationError, inbound.ValidationError,
store.ErrNotAutoRateLimit) keep their text; anything else is logged
and shown as "Could not save ... Check the logs and try again."
- L3: store.ListDMARCReports treated an empty domain list as "all". It
takes a scope now (AllDomains or a list; an empty list is no rows),
and the DMARC hub is open to the domain role as the plan says: the
reports of the assigned domains, without the instance-wide ingest
box. The menu entry was already shown to them and led to a 404.
- I1: /static/ answered with a listing of the embedded assets. A path
that is not a known asset is a 404.
Consequences
- The global DMARC hub lists reports of domains that were deleted
since, too.
- dev/migrate1x (not in the tree) no longer carries sessions over:
everyone signs in again after the transfer.
- docs/schema-migrations.md: the sessions row.
Recorded, not changed - for the owner:
- L4: the report-address select names the followed user and their
address to every administrator of the domain, by default the global
administrator's login name. The plan asks for it.
- L5: a delegated inbound upstream may be any host and port, loopback
and private ranges included - within the trusted-operator model; to
be listed among the accepted risks in security.md.
- L6: Account's profile is saved without the password; becomes a
requirement once password-reset mails to users.email.
- Still echoing an error's text: backup and domain import (global
only), the domain form's validation messages.
Not checked by the review: anything needing the container (e2e, real
Postfix / DNS), CSP behaviour in a live browser.
go test -count=1 ./internal/web/... ./internal/store/... ./internal/app/...
./internal/inbound/... ./internal/dmarc/... ./cmd/panel
ok (all eleven packages; dev/migrate1x also ok)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mixandClaude Opus 5.5