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53 changes: 50 additions & 3 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -42,9 +42,15 @@ Sign in with an existing admin account. To create the first one:
- **Local development:** load [`seed_dev.sql`](seed_dev.sql), which seeds
`admin@test.com` / `password` (alongside a seed driver).

Deactivating a user blocks new logins immediately, but it doesn't revoke
sessions already issued — any existing session cookie or JWT for that user
stays valid until it expires (up to 24 hours).
Signing out of the admin UI revokes that session's token server-side, so the
cookie is dead even if someone copied its value — the same revocation
`POST /api/v1/auth/logout` performs for API clients.
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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rg -n -C 12 'revokeSessionCookie|RevokeToken|admin logout' --glob '*.go'
rg -n -C 10 'admin.*logout|session.*logout|revocation.*fail' --glob '*_test.go'

Repository: OneBusAway/vehicle-positions

Length of output: 166


Broken Authentication (CWE-613): Insufficient Session Expiration

Reachability: External · Exploitability: Moderate

Qualify the logout guarantees for legacy JWTs without jti.

handleLogout returns 204 without revocation when a token has no jti, and authentication continues to accept that token. Qualify all three statements to exclude legacy tokens without jti; do not attribute the issue to persistence-error handling.

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  • README.md#L243-L244
  • docs/development.md#L92-L95
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In `@README.md` around lines 45 - 47, Qualify the logout guarantees to exclude
legacy JWTs without a jti, since handleLogout returns 204 without revoking them
and authentication still accepts them. Update README.md lines 45-47 and 243-244,
plus docs/development.md lines 92-95; do not attribute this limitation to
persistence-error handling.

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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli.


Deactivating a user still blocks new logins immediately without revoking
sessions already issued: an existing session cookie or JWT for that user stays
valid until it expires (up to 24 hours) or until that session is logged out.
Forcing a deactivated user's sessions to end is a follow-up — it needs a
per-user cutoff rather than the per-token blocklist added here.

Behind a reverse proxy (nginx, an ALB, etc.), set `TRUST_PROXY_HEADERS=true`
so the server reads the real client IP and scheme from `X-Forwarded-For` /
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -155,6 +161,7 @@ The feed is served at a configurable HTTP endpoint (e.g., `GET /gtfs-rt/vehicle-
|Endpoint |Method|Purpose |
|--------------------------------|------|----------------------------------------------------|
|`POST /api/v1/auth/login` |POST |Driver login → returns JWT |
|`POST /api/v1/auth/logout` |POST |Revoke the caller's own JWT → 204 No Content |
|`POST /api/v1/locations` |POST |Single location report from driver app |
|`GET /gtfs-rt/vehicle-positions`|GET |GTFS-RT feed (protobuf or JSON) |
|`GET /api/v1/admin/vehicles` |GET |List vehicles |
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -218,6 +225,45 @@ curl -i -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/v1/locations \
-d '{"vehicle_id":"bus-1","latitude":-1.29,"longitude":36.82,"timestamp":1752566400}{"extra":1}'
```

**`POST /api/v1/auth/logout` — token revocation**

JWTs are stateless, so until now the only way to end a session early was to
rotate `JWT_SECRET`, which logs out every user at once. Logout records the
token's `jti` claim in a `revoked_tokens` blocklist, and every authenticated
request checks it, so a single token can be retired for the rest of its
lifetime.

- Authenticated (`Authorization: Bearer <token>`), but not admin-only — every
user can log themselves out.
- Revokes the caller's own token; there is no way to revoke someone else's.
- Returns `204 No Content` on success, `401 Unauthorized` without a valid
token, and `500 Internal Server Error` if the revocation can't be recorded.
- The revocation check fails closed: if the database is unreachable,
authenticated requests are rejected rather than allowed through.
- The admin UI's `vp_session` cookie carries the same JWT, so logging out
through the API also ends that browser session (and vice versa).

```bash
# Log in, use the token, then revoke it
TOKEN=$(curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/v1/auth/login \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"email":"admin@test.com","password":"password"}' | jq -r .token)

curl -i -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/v1/auth/logout \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" # -> 204 No Content

curl -i http://localhost:8080/api/v1/admin/status \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" # -> 401 {"error":"invalid token"}
```

Tokens issued before this endpoint existed carry no `jti` and cannot be
revoked. They are still accepted (so deploying doesn't sign everyone out) and
logged with a warning; because tokens live 24 hours, that warning stops
appearing within a day of deploying.

Revocation rows are never deleted — the table grows one row per logout. A
periodic cleanup job keyed on `expires_at` is a planned follow-up.

**Technology Stack:**

- **Language:** Go (aligns with Maglev and OTSF’s server-side direction)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -353,6 +399,7 @@ This timeline follows the GSoC 2026 standard coding period (May 25 – August 24

- Implement user authentication:
- `POST /api/v1/auth/login` — email + password → JWT token
- `POST /api/v1/auth/logout` — revoke the caller's token server-side
- JWT middleware for all authenticated endpoints
- Token refresh flow
- Implement API key authentication for feed consumers (separate from user auth)
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17 changes: 14 additions & 3 deletions admin_page_handlers.go
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Expand Up @@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ type adminUI struct {
vehicleCreator VehicleCreator
userManager userManager
assignments assignmentManager
tokenChecker TokenChecker
tokenRevoker TokenRevoker
jwtSecret []byte
loginLimiter *LoginRateLimiter
cfg adminUIConfig
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -103,6 +105,8 @@ func newAdminUI(store appStore, tracker *Tracker, jwtSecret []byte, limiter *Log
vehicleCreator: store,
userManager: store,
assignments: store,
tokenChecker: store,
tokenRevoker: store,
jwtSecret: jwtSecret,
loginLimiter: limiter,
cfg: cfg,
Expand All @@ -113,7 +117,7 @@ func newAdminUI(store appStore, tracker *Tracker, jwtSecret []byte, limiter *Log
// static assets — that's the caller's responsibility (main's handler
// construction), keeping this function focused on admin routes only.
func registerAdminUI(mux *http.ServeMux, ui *adminUI) {
protect := requireAdminPage(ui.jwtSecret)
protect := requireAdminPage(ui.jwtSecret, ui.tokenChecker)

mux.HandleFunc("GET /admin/login", ui.loginPage)
mux.HandleFunc("POST /admin/login", ui.loginSubmit)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -142,15 +146,15 @@ func registerAdminUI(mux *http.ServeMux, ui *adminUI) {
}

func (ui *adminUI) rootRedirect(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
if _, ok := adminClaimsFromCookie(r, ui.jwtSecret); ok {
if _, ok := adminClaimsFromCookie(r, ui.jwtSecret, ui.tokenChecker); ok {
http.Redirect(w, r, "/admin/dashboard", http.StatusSeeOther)
return
}
http.Redirect(w, r, "/admin/login", http.StatusSeeOther)
}

func (ui *adminUI) loginPage(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
if _, ok := adminClaimsFromCookie(r, ui.jwtSecret); ok {
if _, ok := adminClaimsFromCookie(r, ui.jwtSecret, ui.tokenChecker); ok {
http.Redirect(w, r, "/admin/dashboard", http.StatusSeeOther)
return
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -223,7 +227,14 @@ func (ui *adminUI) renderLogin(w http.ResponseWriter, status int, errMsg, email
})
}

// logout revokes the session's JWT server-side and clears the cookie. The
// route is deliberately unauthenticated (an expired session must still be
// able to log out), so a cookie that no longer validates is simply cleared.
// A revocation failure is logged but still clears the cookie and redirects:
// leaving the user stuck on an error page would not make the token any less
// valid.
func (ui *adminUI) logout(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
revokeSessionCookie(r, ui.jwtSecret, ui.tokenRevoker)
clearSessionCookie(w)
http.Redirect(w, r, "/admin/login", http.StatusSeeOther)
}
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34 changes: 34 additions & 0 deletions admin_page_handlers_test.go
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Expand Up @@ -149,6 +149,40 @@ func TestAdminLogout(t *testing.T) {
assert.Equal(t, -1, w.Result().Cookies()[0].MaxAge)
}

// TestAdminLogoutRevokesSession verifies the admin UI's sign-out ends the
// token server-side, not just the browser's copy of it: after logging out,
// the same cookie value must no longer open an admin page.
func TestAdminLogoutRevokesSession(t *testing.T) {
ui := newTestAdminUI(t)
revocations := newFakeRevocations()
ui.tokenChecker = revocations
ui.tokenRevoker = revocations
mux := http.NewServeMux()
registerAdminUI(mux, ui)

cookie := cookieFor(t, "admin")

before := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/admin/dashboard", nil)
before.AddCookie(cookie)
beforeRec := httptest.NewRecorder()
mux.ServeHTTP(beforeRec, before)
require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, beforeRec.Code, "the session must work before logout")

logout := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/admin/logout", nil)
logout.AddCookie(cookie)
logoutRec := httptest.NewRecorder()
mux.ServeHTTP(logoutRec, logout)
require.Equal(t, http.StatusSeeOther, logoutRec.Code)
assert.Contains(t, revocations.revoked, jtiOf(t, cookie.Value), "sign-out must revoke the session token")

after := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/admin/dashboard", nil)
after.AddCookie(cookie)
afterRec := httptest.NewRecorder()
mux.ServeHTTP(afterRec, after)
assert.Equal(t, http.StatusSeeOther, afterRec.Code, "a replayed cookie must no longer work")
assert.Equal(t, "/admin/login", afterRec.Header().Get("Location"))
}

func TestAdminPagesRedirectWithoutSession(t *testing.T) {
ui := newTestAdminUI(t)
mux := http.NewServeMux()
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70 changes: 64 additions & 6 deletions admin_session.go
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Expand Up @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ package main
import (
"log/slog"
"net/http"
"time"
"strconv"

"github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5"
)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -31,13 +31,56 @@ func setSessionCookie(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, token string, trus
Name: sessionCookieName,
Value: token,
Path: "/",
MaxAge: int((24 * time.Hour).Seconds()),
MaxAge: int(tokenLifetime.Seconds()),
HttpOnly: true,
SameSite: http.SameSiteLaxMode,
Secure: requestIsSecure(r, trustProxy),
})
}

// revokeSessionCookie revokes the JWT carried by the session cookie, so
// signing out of the admin UI ends the token itself and not just the browser's
// copy of it. It is best-effort by design: the caller clears the cookie and
// redirects regardless, and a cookie that no longer parses has nothing to
// revoke. Errors are logged rather than returned for the same reason.
func revokeSessionCookie(r *http.Request, secret []byte, revoker TokenRevoker) {
c, err := r.Cookie(sessionCookieName)
if err != nil || c.Value == "" {
return
}
claims, err := parseSessionToken(c.Value, secret)
if err != nil {
slog.Debug("admin logout: session cookie no longer valid, nothing to revoke", "error", err)
return
}
jti, _ := claims["jti"].(string)
if jti == "" {
// Pre-revocation token; see checkRevoked.
slog.Warn("admin logout: session token has no jti, nothing to revoke", "sub", claims["sub"])
return
}
sub, err := claims.GetSubject()
if err != nil {
slog.Warn("admin logout: unreadable sub claim", "error", err)
return
}
userID, err := strconv.ParseInt(sub, 10, 64)
if err != nil {
slog.Warn("admin logout: sub claim is not a user ID", "sub", sub, "error", err)
return
}
expiresAt, err := claims.GetExpirationTime()
if err != nil || expiresAt == nil {
slog.Warn("admin logout: unreadable exp claim", "sub", sub, "error", err)
return
}
if err := revoker.RevokeToken(r.Context(), jti, userID, expiresAt.Time); err != nil {
slog.Error("admin logout: failed to revoke session token", "sub", sub, "error", err)
return
}
slog.Info("admin session token revoked", "sub", sub)
}

func clearSessionCookie(w http.ResponseWriter) {
http.SetCookie(w, &http.Cookie{
Name: sessionCookieName,
Expand All @@ -50,8 +93,14 @@ func clearSessionCookie(w http.ResponseWriter) {
}

// adminClaimsFromCookie validates the session cookie's JWT via the shared
// parseSessionToken path and additionally requires the admin role.
func adminClaimsFromCookie(r *http.Request, secret []byte) (jwt.MapClaims, bool) {
// parseSessionToken path, rejects a revoked token via the shared checkRevoked
// path, and additionally requires the admin role.
//
// This is the browser half of the revocation enforcement in requireAuth: both
// carry the same JWT, so a token revoked through POST /api/v1/auth/logout must
// end the admin session too. A checker error is treated as "no session" —
// fail closed, matching requireAuth.
func adminClaimsFromCookie(r *http.Request, secret []byte, checker TokenChecker) (jwt.MapClaims, bool) {
c, err := r.Cookie(sessionCookieName)
if err != nil || c.Value == "" {
return nil, false
Expand All @@ -60,6 +109,15 @@ func adminClaimsFromCookie(r *http.Request, secret []byte) (jwt.MapClaims, bool)
if err != nil {
return nil, false
}
revoked, err := checkRevoked(r.Context(), claims, checker)
if err != nil {
slog.Error("admin session: revocation check failed", "error", err, "path", r.URL.Path)
return nil, false
}
if revoked {
slog.Warn("admin session: rejected revoked token", "sub", claims["sub"], "path", r.URL.Path)
return nil, false
}
if role, _ := claims["role"].(string); role != "admin" {
return nil, false
}
Expand All @@ -68,10 +126,10 @@ func adminClaimsFromCookie(r *http.Request, secret []byte) (jwt.MapClaims, bool)

// requireAdminPage guards HTML admin pages: unauthenticated or non-admin
// visitors are redirected to the login page (303) rather than given JSON.
func requireAdminPage(secret []byte) func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
func requireAdminPage(secret []byte, checker TokenChecker) func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
return func(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
claims, ok := adminClaimsFromCookie(r, secret)
claims, ok := adminClaimsFromCookie(r, secret, checker)
if !ok {
http.Redirect(w, r, "/admin/login", http.StatusSeeOther)
return
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