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Chris CoutinhoandClaude Opus 4.8 4fc2b10945 fix(security): require WEBHOOK_SECRET for the Nextcloud webhook receiver
GHSA-8vh3-g2qg-2h2c (CVSS 9.1, CWE-306): POST /webhooks/nextcloud had no
authentication when WEBHOOK_SECRET was unset (the default). The receiver
trusted the attacker-supplied user.uid and fed it to Qdrant, letting an
unauthenticated network caller delete or re-index any user's vector
embeddings.

Webhooks now require WEBHOOK_SECRET end-to-end:

- app.py: the /webhooks/nextcloud route is only mounted when WEBHOOK_SECRET
  is set; otherwise it 404s and a startup warning notes vector sync falls
  back to the polling scanner.
- webhook_receiver.py: removed the warn-and-accept fallback. No secret -> 503,
  missing/invalid bearer -> 401; the payload is never processed unauthenticated.
- webhook_routes.py / api/webhooks.py: webhook_auth_pair() raises
  WebhookSecretNotConfigured instead of returning authMethod="none"; both
  registration entry points return a clear 503 so no dead unauthenticated
  webhooks are created.

Also expose webhooks availability to the Astrolabe UI via GET /api/v1/status
("webhooks_enabled": bool), set WEBHOOK_SECRET on the docker-compose
semantic-search dev services, and update env.sample + ADR-010 / ADR-018 /
webhook-management-guide docs.

Vector sync still works without a secret via the polling scanner.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 18:18:34 +02:00

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"""HTTP receiver for Nextcloud webhooks.
Routes inbound webhooks to the same processor send-stream the scanner uses.
The receiver is registered as a Starlette route at ``/webhooks/nextcloud``
in :mod:`nextcloud_mcp_server.app`.
"""
import hmac
import logging
import anyio
from starlette.requests import Request
from starlette.responses import JSONResponse
from nextcloud_mcp_server.config import get_settings
from nextcloud_mcp_server.vector.webhook_parser import extract_document_task
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
_warned_about_missing_secret = False
def _warn_missing_secret_once() -> None:
"""Log a one-time WARNING when WEBHOOK_SECRET is unset.
The receiver refuses unauthenticated POSTs in this case (returns 503), and
``app.py`` does not even mount the route without a secret — this branch is
defense-in-depth for any caller that wires the handler directly. The
operator should set WEBHOOK_SECRET to enable webhook-driven vector sync.
"""
global _warned_about_missing_secret
if _warned_about_missing_secret:
return
_warned_about_missing_secret = True
logger.warning(
"WEBHOOK_SECRET is not set; /webhooks/nextcloud rejects all requests "
"(503). Set WEBHOOK_SECRET and re-register webhooks to enable "
"Authorization: Bearer validation and webhook-driven vector sync."
)
async def handle_nextcloud_webhook(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
"""Receive a Nextcloud webhook and queue a DocumentTask for vector sync.
Returns quickly so NC's webhook worker is not blocked. The task producer is
read from ``request.app.state.task_producer`` (the in-memory send stream when
``INGEST_QUEUE=memory``, or the procrastinate producer when
``INGEST_QUEUE=postgres``); when vector sync isn't running we return 503 so
NC retries delivery.
``WEBHOOK_SECRET`` is **required** (GHSA-8vh3-g2qg-2h2c). The endpoint is
only mounted by ``app.py`` when the secret is configured, and every request
must carry ``Authorization: Bearer <secret>`` (registered via ``authData``
so NC forwards it on every delivery). The ``user.uid`` in the payload is
attacker-controllable and is fed to Qdrant, so an unauthenticated request
could delete or re-index any user's embeddings — never process one. Missing
or invalid headers are rejected with 401 before any further work; if the
secret is somehow unset we refuse with 503 rather than fall back to
unauthenticated processing.
"""
secret = get_settings().webhook_secret
if not secret:
# Defense-in-depth: the route should not be mounted without a secret,
# but if this handler is reached anyway, refuse rather than process an
# unauthenticated, attacker-controlled payload.
_warn_missing_secret_once()
return JSONResponse(
{
"status": "unavailable",
"reason": "webhook authentication not configured",
},
status_code=503,
)
provided = request.headers.get("authorization", "").encode("utf-8")
expected = f"Bearer {secret}".encode("utf-8")
# Use compare_digest to avoid the character-by-character short-circuit
# of `==`. Comparing as bytes is the conventional form and avoids any
# surprise with non-ASCII input. compare_digest still returns False
# for differing lengths but isn't fully constant-time across them;
# that's fine here — a secret length leak is not a sensitive signal.
if not hmac.compare_digest(provided, expected):
# Intentionally omit WWW-Authenticate. RFC 7235 §4.1 says a 401
# SHOULD carry it, but Nextcloud's webhook delivery worker has no
# auth-flow state machine to negotiate against — the bearer is a
# static shared secret configured out-of-band via WEBHOOK_SECRET,
# and a challenge response wouldn't change client behaviour.
# Surfacing it would only mislead operators into expecting a
# renegotiation that doesn't exist.
logger.warning("Webhook rejected: missing or invalid Authorization header")
return JSONResponse(
{"status": "unauthorized"},
status_code=401,
)
try:
payload = await request.json()
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("Webhook payload was not valid JSON: %s", e)
return JSONResponse(
{"status": "error", "message": "invalid JSON"},
status_code=400,
)
task = extract_document_task(payload)
if task is None:
event_class = (payload.get("event") or {}).get("class", "<missing>")
logger.debug("Webhook ignored (unsupported event): %s", event_class)
return JSONResponse(
{"status": "ignored", "reason": "unsupported event"},
status_code=200,
)
producer = getattr(request.app.state, "task_producer", None)
if producer is None:
logger.warning(
"Webhook received but vector sync is not running; rejecting so NC retries"
)
return JSONResponse(
{"status": "unavailable", "reason": "vector sync not running"},
status_code=503,
)
try:
with anyio.fail_after(1.0):
await producer.send(task)
except TimeoutError:
# Queue is saturated (default 10 000 tasks). Returning 503 lets NC
# retry rather than pinning this handler until its outbound timeout
# fires; the queue-pressure signal also surfaces in metrics.
logger.warning(
"Webhook task drop: queue full for %s_%s",
task.doc_type,
task.doc_id,
)
return JSONResponse(
{"status": "unavailable", "reason": "queue full"},
status_code=503,
)
except Exception as e:
logger.error(
"Failed to queue webhook task for %s_%s: %s",
task.doc_type,
task.doc_id,
e,
)
return JSONResponse(
{"status": "error", "message": "queue unavailable"},
status_code=500,
)
logger.info(
"Webhook queued %s_%s (%s) for user %s",
task.doc_type,
task.doc_id,
task.operation,
task.user_id,
)
return JSONResponse(
{
"status": "queued",
"doc_type": task.doc_type,
"doc_id": task.doc_id,
"operation": task.operation,
},
status_code=200,
)