Authenticate the simulator before it posts location reports - #96
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POST /api/v1/locations is wrapped in requireAuth, but the simulator only ever set Content-Type, so every report came back 401 and `make simulate` reported 100% failures. Log in once via POST /api/v1/auth/login and attach the returned session token to each request with a RoundTripper, which keeps sendReport's signature unchanged. Credentials come from -email/-password, defaulting to ADMIN_BOOTSTRAP_EMAIL and ADMIN_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD so the same pair that bootstraps the admin also drives the simulator. Missing credentials or a failed login now exit with a clear message instead of starting N vehicles that all 401.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe simulator validates URLs, warns about report-rate limits, authenticates with bootstrap credentials, and sends bearer-authenticated reports. The Makefile and development documentation use one vehicle with a six-second interval. ChangesSimulator security and authentication
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The authenticated simulator can still produce unexpected rate-limit failures and exposes bootstrap credentials through command-line arguments or unsafe login redirects. These security and behavior issues should be corrected before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Simulator
participant AuthServer
participant ReportServer
Simulator->>AuthServer: POST /api/v1/auth/login with credentials
AuthServer-->>Simulator: Return session token
Simulator->>ReportServer: Send report with Authorization: Bearer token
ReportServer-->>Simulator: Return report response
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In `@cmd/simulator/main.go`:
- Line 165: Update the simulator URL validation and bearerTransport flow to
reject non-HTTPS destinations before login or report requests, preventing
Authorization headers from being sent over cleartext HTTP. Reuse the existing
URL/configuration validation symbols and preserve HTTPS request behavior.
- Line 165: Update bearerTransport.RoundTrip so Authorization is not sent to
untrusted redirect destinations: either reject cross-origin redirects in the
report client or verify the request URL matches the trusted API origin before
setting the bearer token. Preserve token attachment for requests to the trusted
origin.
- Line 176: Validate the -url value before constructing the login request in the
simulator flow around http.NewRequestWithContext: require HTTPS for remote
origins, while allowing HTTP only for explicitly trusted local development
endpoints such as localhost or loopback addresses. Reject noncompliant URLs
before sending credentials.
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The simulator posts a password to /api/v1/auth/login and then puts the returned token on every report through bearerTransport. Against an http:// destination both go on the wire in cleartext. Reject plain HTTP before login, except for loopback: the default is http://localhost:8080 and that is how the simulator is normally run, so a blanket HTTPS requirement would break the tool for its actual use.
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Every simulated vehicle uses the one token from the single login in main, and the server keys its limiter on the JWT sub at one report per 5s, so N vehicles contend for one bucket. make simulate ran 5 vehicles every 3s against a budget of about 6 reports in 30s, so most of the run was 429 counted as failed. The 401 storm the PR removed had become a 429 storm. Default to one vehicle every 6s, which fits the budget, and warn at startup whenever the requested rate cannot fit so the reason is visible rather than showing up as failures. Fixing this properly needs one account per vehicle, and there is no registration endpoint to create them with, so that is left alone.
The custom example ran 20 vehicles every 2s, which is 40x the one report per 5s the server allows for the single shared login.
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You are right, and I verified each step rather than taking it:
I did not do the per-vehicle login. There is no registration endpoint, only
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Do not expose the bootstrap password as a command-line argument.
Command-line arguments can expose the password through shell history and process inspection. Read it from
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133-133: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winSensitive Data Exposure (CWE-319): Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
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Reject redirects on the login client.
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In `@cmd/simulator/main.go`:
- Around line 54-56: Update reportBudgetWarning and the report scheduling flow
so synchronized vehicle tickers cannot burst reports under one driver identity;
stagger initial reports or serialize sends at the per-driver cadence rather than
relying only on vehicles * perDriverReportInterval. Update the existing
2-vehicles/10-seconds test to assert the warning behavior under synchronized
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In `@cmd/simulator/main.go`:
- Line 102: Remove the password flag declaration from the simulator startup
configuration and obtain the bootstrap password only from
ADMIN_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD, a protected file, or an interactive prompt. Update the
surrounding login setup to use the selected secure source without accepting a
command-line password argument.
- Line 133: Update the HTTP client used by login in the login flow to reject
redirects by configuring its CheckRedirect policy, or permit only same-origin
HTTPS redirects before credentials are forwarded; keep the existing timeout and
login behavior unchanged.
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Account for synchronized report bursts.
reportBudgetWarning treats average rate as safe when interval >= vehicles * 5s. Each vehicle starts a ticker with the same interval, so two vehicles at 10 seconds can send reports almost simultaneously under one driver identity. One report can still receive 429, while the warning remains silent. Stagger the first reports or serialize reports at the per-driver cadence, and update the 2 vehicles / 10 seconds test case.
This review uses the per-driver rate-limit contract and ticker behavior shown in the supplied context.
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In `@cmd/simulator/main.go` around lines 54 - 56, Update reportBudgetWarning and
the report scheduling flow so synchronized vehicle tickers cannot burst reports
under one driver identity; stagger initial reports or serialize sends at the
per-driver cadence rather than relying only on vehicles *
perDriverReportInterval. Update the existing 2-vehicles/10-seconds test to
assert the warning behavior under synchronized reporting.
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The auth mechanics here are well built. I checked the login flow against the real handler and it matches on every axis — endpoint path, the {"email","password"} request shape, and the {"token"} response field. The bearerTransport RoundTripper is the right shape for this, the response body is closed and size-limited, and non-200 and empty-token responses are hard failures rather than something the simulator limps past. checkBaseURL refusing plain HTTP to non-loopback hosts is a nice touch I didn't ask for.
One blocker, and it's about whether the change achieves its goal rather than about the auth code itself.
All simulated vehicles share one identity, and the rate limiter is per-driver. login() runs once in main, and the single resulting token goes into one http.Client that every vehicle goroutine shares. Server-side, handlePostLocation keys the limiter on the JWT sub claim, and ratelimit.go builds rate.NewLimiter(rate.Every(5*time.Second), 1) — one report per five seconds, per user, burst 1.
So every simulated vehicle contends for a single bucket. make simulate runs 5 vehicles at a 3s interval for 30s, which attempts roughly 50 reports against a budget of about 7. The bare go run ./cmd/simulator defaults are worse: 10 vehicles, 10s interval, 5 minutes is around 300 attempts against about 60. The PR body's goal is that make simulate works with no extra steps, and as written it trades a 100% 401 failure rate for an ~85% 429 rate. The symptom changes; the simulator still mostly doesn't work.
The fix is one authenticated identity per simulated vehicle — register or seed N driver accounts and log each goroutine in separately, so each gets its own rate-limit bucket. That also makes the simulation more faithful, since real drivers are distinct users. If you'd rather keep a single account for now, the defaults need to fit inside the 5s-per-driver budget, and make simulate should be honest about only simulating one vehicle.
Two smaller things worth folding in while you're here:
docs/development.mddocumentsmake simulateand a custom-vehicles 20 -interval 2sinvocation with no mention of credentials. After this change bothlog.FatalunlessADMIN_BOOTSTRAP_*is set. You updated the Makefile help text; the dev guide needs the same.login()runs once andgenerateJWTissues a 24-hour token, so-duration 0(documented as "run until Ctrl+C") silently degrades to 100% 401s after a day. Fine to leave for a dev tool, but a comment noting it would save someone a confusing afternoon.
Happy to re-review as soon as the identity-per-vehicle piece is in.
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POST /api/v1/locations is registered behind
authMiddlewareinmain.go:80, butcmd/simulatoronly ever setsContent-Type. So every report the simulator sends comes back 401, andmake simulatefinishes reporting 100% failures.The fix
The simulator now logs in once via
POST /api/v1/auth/loginand attaches the returned token to each request.I attached it with a
RoundTripperrather than threading a token argument throughsimulateVehicleandsendReport, because that keeps both signatures unchanged and leaves the existing tests that callsendReportdirectly untouched.Credentials come from
-email/-password, defaulting toADMIN_BOOTSTRAP_EMAILandADMIN_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD. Those are the same variablesmain.go:168uses to bootstrap the admin, so whoever brought the server up already has them set andmake simulateworks with no extra steps.Missing credentials or a failed login now exit immediately with a message naming the cause, instead of starting N goroutines that each 401 on a timer.
Tests
Four added, all against
httptestservers:TestLoginReturnsTokenasserts the method, path and body sent to the login endpointTestLoginRejectsBadCredentialscovers a 401 from loginTestLoginRejectsEmptyTokencovers a 200 with no token in the bodyTestBearerTransportSetsAuthorizationHeaderis the regression test: it runssendReportagainst a recording server and asserts the header arrivesI checked that the last one actually fails without the fix. Swapping the client back to a plain
&http.Client{}givesexpected: "Bearer tok-123", actual: "".go build ./...,go vetandgo test ./...all pass.Summary by CodeRabbit
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