The security review of 39d874a (FRE-369) found the address fix recorded
the wrong thing twice. Both are fixed here; the branch is the same one
under review, this commit does not rewrite it.
Q1 — the first x-forwarded-for hop is attacker-chosen text. In
client → Cloudflare → same-host proxy → app, both proxies *append*, so
the header arrives as `<client spoof…>, <true client>, <CF edge>` and
`split(",")[0]` took the sender's own invention — the loopback-peer gate
was sound, the hop selection defeated it. Preference is now
`cf-connecting-ip` (Cloudflare overwrites it, so a client value never
survives the edge), then x-forwarded-for counted from the right with one
trusted hop discounted, then the direct peer. Every candidate must parse
as an address. h3's `getRequestIP(…, { xForwardedFor: true })` has the
same leftmost flaw and is documented as not a fix.
Q4 — the table held full client addresses indefinitely. Every analytics
entry now passes through `truncateIpAddress` in `enrichAnalyticsEntry`
(IPv4 /24, IPv6 /56, unparseable dropped), so no writer can persist a
full address by accident. Retention got the schedule it never had:
`/api/analytics/retention` on a daily Vercel cron, Bearer-authenticated
and fail-closed, with the window parameterised (the old
`cleanupOldAnalytics` spliced the number into the SQL). Default 365 days
rather than the review's 90 so enabling the cron is not itself a
destructive event — the tighter window is an operational decision, named
on the task.
Also from the review: the module doc now forbids feeding this helper into
any security decision; `isLoopbackAddress` parses instead of
string-matching (`::ffff:127.9.9.9`, `0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1`); and `host` is
normalised (lowercased, port stripped) so `nook.freno.me:443` cannot
silently miss the `host = ?` scope. The weekly loopback caveat matches
the truncated shapes writers produce now, and says plainly that "unique
visitors" counts prefixes.
Gap 1 — click and served share one label: trackDownload now takes a
stage ("click" | "served") carried on a new VisitorAnalytics.stage
column; the Nook door and the tRPC proxy record clicks, the DMG file
route records served. summariseDownloads() and the /analytics downloads
block are untouched — the stage is a separate column, so the path
grouping cannot change.
Gap 2 — checkout start records nothing: the checkout route records a
created Stripe session through the shared trackRequest writer (same
referrer, campaign, country dimensions as every door) under its own
path, and STAGES.checkout reads it instead of the /checkout page proxy.
Gap 3 — loopback addresses, no host dimension: every writer now
resolves the client address through resolveClientIp, which trusts
x-forwarded-for only when the direct peer is the loopback production
proxy (trust boundary stated in request-client.ts), and records the
host on each row through the same site-context extractor routing uses.
stage and host reach the table through VISITOR_ANALYTICS_ADDED_COLUMNS;
the weekly job applies the same bootstrap before reading so it renders
seven stages against a database no deploy has migrated yet.
The weekly read splits downloadClick/dmgServed, scopes visits to
nook.freno.me, and computes its caveats from the window: pre-instrumentation
rows are stated and excluded, and the loopback warning now fires only
when rows recorded since the instrumentation still carry it.
