fix(security): close the case-sensitivity bypass in the API rate limiter
Express's `case sensitive routing` is off by default, so /API/admin/events reaches the same handler as /api/admin/events. Both the gate's `/api/` prefix test and rateLimitService's public-endpoint classification compared the raw path, so simply upper-casing a letter skipped the limiter entirely. Verified against a real Express app before fixing: /api/admin/events routes and hits the gate; /API/admin/events and /Api/Admin/Events route and miss it. Both now match on a lower-cased path. The auth gate added alongside was already immune -- its patterns carry the `i` flag for exactly this reason. Not changed: rateLimitSecurity.hasValidAdminToken's /api/admin/ test has the same shape, but there the case-sensitive comparison fails safe -- an upper-cased path simply does not get the admin skip, so it is rate limited rather than exempted. Making it case-insensitive would widen a skip, so it is left alone. maintenance.js's isAdminRoute is fail-safe for the same reason.
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@@ -54,6 +54,15 @@ describe('apiRateLimitGate — delegation', () => {
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expect(limiterCalls).toEqual(['/api/admin/events']);
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});
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it('still limits an upper-cased /api path, which Express routes the same', async () => {
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// Express's `case sensitive routing` is off by default, so /API/admin/events
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// reaches the same handler. A case-sensitive prefix test in the gate was a
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// free bypass of the limiter.
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const res = await request(buildApp()).get('/API/admin/events');
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expect(res.status).toBe(429);
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expect(limiterCalls).toEqual(['/API/admin/events']);
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});
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it('leaves non-/api requests alone', async () => {
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const res = await request(buildApp()).get('/photos/x.jpg');
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expect(res.status).toBe(200);
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