Security re-audit + adversarial red-team of the honeypot deception and
brute-force ban layer. Fixes (all with regression tests):
HoneypotController::trap
- BAN EVASION: keyed ban off getRealMethod() not isMethod('post') — the
latter honors _method / X-HTTP-Method-Override, so a POST spoofed as PUT
dodged the ban entirely. Now any non-safe verb to a decoy bans.
- REFLECTED-BAN vs EVASION: removed the Origin-based skip; the Origin header
is attacker-controlled, so it was a trivial universal ban-evasion (send a
foreign Origin) worse than the narrow griefing it prevented.
- UNMASK/500: mb_scrub all attacker-controlled meta (ua/query/path/creds) so
invalid UTF-8 can't throw JsonEncodingException on the array-cast column.
- Ban now runs FIRST and independently of the audit (separate guarded
try/catch) so a failing audit can never skip the ban; deceive() always 200.
- AUDIT DoS: per-IP hourly cap via atomic Cache::add(0)+increment.
DetectHoneytoken::trip
- Same guarded ban-first / audit-second structure + per-IP audit cap
(bounds an exempt or rotating source) + mb_scrub on the path.
BruteforceGuard::banNow
- Dedup the auth.ip_banned audit per IP+reason on a 60s window (was
full bantime): collapses the scanner flood without masking a legitimate
re-ban after an operator unban, and still audits distinct reasons.
Supply-chain / release / dashboard
- Pin prod base images (caddy/mariadb/redis) by @sha256 digest.
- Atomic branch+tag push in clusev-release.sh (no orphan untagged commit).
- Route github.ref_name through a validated $TAG env in ci-staging.yml.
- Strip inline credentials from the origin URL in set-repository-url.sh
(greedy match handles an @ inside the password).
- WireGuard peer name via Js::from in wire:click; settings badge shows the
real role; Threats pill/top_ip account for honeypot_login attempts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Previously a POST to a fake login hit a Laravel 419 (CSRF) or 405, unmasking the framework, and the
phpMyAdmin/generic forms even posted to real paths (/index.php, /login). Now: the decoy paths are
CSRF-exempt (bootstrap/app.php) and drop BlockBannedIp (an already-banned prober stays inside the
deception, always fed a fake — never a revealing 403 — while the ban still blocks them from the REAL
login). Every fake form posts back to its own decoy, so a submit re-serves the fake page (looks like a
failed login) and trap() records the guessed username + password as threat intel (meta.tried_user /
tried_pass). DetectHoneytoken stays on the group, so a submitted canary is still caught.
The deceptive bodies were bare unstyled HTML — obvious to any human/scanner. Give each a
self-contained, offline-safe inline-CSS skin that mirrors the real thing (WordPress login grey
canvas + logo + blue button; phpMyAdmin blue theme + logo + fieldset; a clean generic admin card)
so the decoy is convincing enough to hold a probe. No external assets (CSP/airgap-safe).
boban