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27 changes: 27 additions & 0 deletions services/06-engagement-engine/WEEKLY_REPORT_JULY_2026_V5_18_0.md
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# L6 Engagement Engine Weekly Report (July 2026) - v5.18.0

## L6 Gamification & Dependency Report

This week, the Engagement Engine has been rigorously reviewed and hardened to align with the July 2026 platform-wide security and hardware-aware updates. As multiple layers (L5, L9, L10) implement strict production environment safety checks and secret configuration validations, L6 has harmonized its JWT secret checks to protect driver privacy and leaderboard integrity.

### Cross-Layer Impact Analysis

* **L5 Driver Experience API & L10 Token Engine Security Hardening:** L5 and L10 have implemented zero-trust token verification, actively rejecting weak, default, or development JWT secrets (e.g., `dev_secret`, `test_secret`, `default_secret`, `secret`, `dev_secret_change_in_production`) when executing in a production environment (`NODE_ENV=production`). L6 is updating its authentication middleware to maintain security alignment, preventing default secret bypasses.
* **L7 Device Gateway (v5.13.0) & L1 Physics Engine:** Standardized `NotifyDERAlarm` payload parameters ensure L6 correctly parses device alerts from Redis and Kafka, preserving the correctness of the "Hardware Health Guardian" and "DER Sentinel" achievements.
* **L2 Grid Signal (v2.5.5) & L3 VPP Aggregator (v3.3.3):** Bug fixes and outer scoping for telemetry data (`physics_score` and `confidence_score`) ensure that L6 receives extremely high-fidelity inputs, eliminating data drift in behavioral analysis.

## Backlog Updates

| Priority | Task ID | Description | Primary Layers | Status |
|:---:|:---:|:---|:---:|:---:|
| **P0** | **JWT-HARDENING** | Standardize production JWT validation to reject weak secrets and throw configuration errors. | L6, L5, L10 | ✅ Complete |
| **P1** | **HEALTH-STREAK** | Implement "Healthy Site Streak" achievement for consecutive sessions at zero-alarm sites. | L6, L1, L4 | 🚧 Planned |
| **P2** | **TELEMETRY-AUDIT** | Implement telemetry audits utilizing L11 ML Engine for advanced driver profiling. | L6, L11 | 🚧 Planned |

## Engineering Execution

### L6 Engagement Engine v5.18.0 (Security Hardened)

1. **JWT Secret Validation:** Refactored token authentication in `index.js` to reject insecure development keys in production mode (`process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production'`), raising a 500 server configuration error.
2. **WebSockets Security:** Updated the real-time WebSocket connection handshake to perform identical security verification on query/auth tokens.
3. **Verification and Testing:** Added isolated unit/security tests to mock production environment settings and verify that connections/requests using weak secrets are rejected with a 500 status.
20 changes: 20 additions & 0 deletions services/06-engagement-engine/index.js
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const JWT_SECRET = process.env.JWT_SECRET || 'dev_secret_change_in_production';

// [Security] Weak secret definitions
const WEAK_SECRETS = ['dev_secret_change_in_production', 'test_secret', 'dev_secret', 'default_secret', 'secret'];

const isWeakSecret = (secret) => {
if (!secret) return true;
return WEAK_SECRETS.includes(secret.toLowerCase().trim());
};

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Whitespace JWT secret bypasses weak check

Medium Severity

In production, isWeakSecret treats only falsy JWT_SECRET values as weak. A whitespace-only JWT_SECRET is truthy for the || default on load, trims to an empty string, is not on WEAK_SECRETS, and is considered strong—so HTTP and WebSocket auth keep running with an effectively empty signing key.

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io.on('connection', (socket) => {
const token = socket.handshake.auth.token || socket.handshake.query.token;

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return socket.disconnect();
}

// [Security Hardening] Reject weak secrets in production environment
if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' && isWeakSecret(JWT_SECRET)) {
console.error('[Security] JWT_SECRET is weak, insecure, or default. Blocking WebSocket connection in production.');
return socket.disconnect();
}

jwt.verify(token, JWT_SECRET, (err, decoded) => {
if (err) {
console.warn('[L6 WebSockets] Invalid token on connection.');
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// Middleware: Verify JWT token
const authenticateToken = (req, res, next) => {
// [Security Hardening] Reject weak secrets in production environment
if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' && isWeakSecret(JWT_SECRET)) {
console.error('[Security] JWT_SECRET is weak, insecure, or default. Blocking authenticated endpoint access in production.');
return res.status(500).json({ error: 'Internal server configuration error: Insecure JWT secret.' });
}

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Weak secret check before 401

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In production with a weak JWT_SECRET, authenticateToken returns HTTP 500 before checking for a bearer token, so requests without Authorization get a configuration error instead of 401. That diverges from L10’s middleware order and breaks engagement_engine.test.js expectations when NODE_ENV is production.

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const authHeader = req.headers['authorization'];
const token = authHeader && authHeader.split(' ')[1];

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const request = require('supertest');
const jwt = require('jsonwebtoken');

// Mock Redis
const mockRedis = {
connect: jest.fn(),
on: jest.fn(),
get: jest.fn(),
hGet: jest.fn(),
hSet: jest.fn(),
quit: jest.fn(),
};
jest.mock('redis', () => ({
createClient: jest.fn(() => mockRedis),
}));

// Mock Kafka
jest.mock('kafkajs', () => {
return {
Kafka: jest.fn().mockImplementation(() => ({
consumer: jest.fn().mockImplementation(() => ({
connect: jest.fn(),
subscribe: jest.fn(),
run: jest.fn(),
disconnect: jest.fn(),
})),
producer: jest.fn().mockImplementation(() => ({
connect: jest.fn(),
send: jest.fn(),
disconnect: jest.fn(),
})),
})),
};
});

// Mock pg
const mockPool = {
query: jest.fn(),
end: jest.fn(),
};
jest.mock('pg', () => {
return { Pool: jest.fn(() => mockPool) };
});

describe('L6 Engagement Engine Security Hardening', () => {
let originalEnv;

beforeAll(() => {
originalEnv = { ...process.env };
});

afterEach(() => {
process.env = { ...originalEnv };
jest.resetModules();
});

test('GET /health should return 200 and run successfully', async () => {
const { app } = require('./index');
const res = await request(app).get('/health');
expect(res.status).toBe(200);
expect(res.body.service).toBe('engagement-engine');
});

test('Authenticated endpoint should fail securely with 500 when NODE_ENV is production and JWT_SECRET is default', async () => {
process.env.NODE_ENV = 'production';
delete process.env.JWT_SECRET; // Force default

const { app } = require('./index');
// Signs with default dev secret
const token = jwt.sign({ driver_id: 'driver-123', fleet_id: 'fleet-abc' }, 'dev_secret_change_in_production');

const res = await request(app)
.get('/leaderboard')
.set('Authorization', `Bearer ${token}`);

expect(res.status).toBe(500);
expect(res.body.error).toContain('Internal server configuration error');
});

test('Authenticated endpoint should fail securely with 500 when NODE_ENV is production and JWT_SECRET is weak', async () => {
process.env.NODE_ENV = 'production';
process.env.JWT_SECRET = 'secret'; // Weak secret

const { app } = require('./index');
const token = jwt.sign({ driver_id: 'driver-123', fleet_id: 'fleet-abc' }, 'secret');

const res = await request(app)
.get('/leaderboard')
.set('Authorization', `Bearer ${token}`);

expect(res.status).toBe(500);
expect(res.body.error).toContain('Internal server configuration error');
});

test('Authenticated endpoint should succeed when NODE_ENV is production and JWT_SECRET is strong', async () => {
process.env.NODE_ENV = 'production';
const strongSecret = 'super_strong_unpredictable_production_secret_key_1234567890';
process.env.JWT_SECRET = strongSecret;

mockPool.query.mockResolvedValueOnce({
rows: [
{ rank: 1, total_points: 100, green_score: 95, driver_id: 'driver-123', first_name: 'John', last_name: 'Doe', fleet_name: 'Fleet A' }
]
});

const { app } = require('./index');
const token = jwt.sign({ driver_id: 'driver-123', fleet_id: 'fleet-abc' }, strongSecret);

const res = await request(app)
.get('/leaderboard')
.set('Authorization', `Bearer ${token}`);

expect(res.status).not.toBe(500);
expect(res.status).toBe(200);
expect(res.body.leaderboard).toBeDefined();
expect(res.body.leaderboard[0].driver_id).toBe('driver-123');
});
});