security: align client password policy with server, enforce AUTH_SECRET length + entropy (#56)

Client-side validators (reset-password, invite-accept, first-admin setup,
user-create modal) previously checked password.length < 8 while every
server-side Zod schema required .min(12). External API consumers (or a
confused browser UI) could get past the client check but fail at the tRPC
boundary — or worse, quietly under-enforce policy compared to what
admins expect.

Fix: introduce PASSWORD_MIN_LENGTH (12) and PASSWORD_MAX_LENGTH (128) in
@capakraken/shared and import them from every pre-submit client validator
and every server Zod schema. Single source of truth; drift becomes a
compile error rather than a security finding.

Also hardens the AUTH_SECRET runtime check: in addition to the existing
placeholder-blacklist, production startup now rejects secrets shorter
than 32 chars OR with Shannon entropy below 3.5 bits/char. That covers
low-entropy-but-long values like "aaaa..." (38 chars, entropy 0) which
would have passed the previous checks.

Documented the rotation process for AUTH_SECRET + POSTGRES_PASSWORD in
docs/security-architecture.md §3.

Verified:
- pnpm test:unit — 396 files / 1922 tests passed
- pnpm --filter @capakraken/web exec tsc --noEmit — clean
- pnpm --filter @capakraken/api exec tsc --noEmit — clean

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-04-17 14:56:43 +02:00
parent 805bb0464f
commit 01c45d0344
12 changed files with 163 additions and 44 deletions
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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
import { useState, useTransition } from "react";
import { useRouter } from "next/navigation";
import { PASSWORD_MIN_LENGTH, PASSWORD_POLICY_MESSAGE } from "@capakraken/shared";
import { createFirstAdmin } from "./actions.js";
export function SetupClient() {
@@ -20,8 +21,8 @@ export function SetupClient() {
e.preventDefault();
setFormError(null);
if (password.length < 8) {
setFormError("Password must be at least 8 characters.");
if (password.length < PASSWORD_MIN_LENGTH) {
setFormError(PASSWORD_POLICY_MESSAGE);
return;
}
if (password !== confirmPassword) {
@@ -73,9 +74,7 @@ export function SetupClient() {
<div className="min-h-screen flex items-center justify-center bg-gray-50 dark:bg-gray-950 p-4">
<div className="w-full max-w-md rounded-2xl bg-white dark:bg-gray-900 shadow-lg p-8">
<div className="mb-6">
<h1 className="text-xl font-bold text-gray-900 dark:text-gray-100">
First-run setup
</h1>
<h1 className="text-xl font-bold text-gray-900 dark:text-gray-100">First-run setup</h1>
<p className="mt-1 text-sm text-gray-500">
Create the initial administrator account for CapaKraken.
</p>
@@ -125,8 +124,8 @@ export function SetupClient() {
value={password}
onChange={(e) => setPassword(e.target.value)}
required
minLength={8}
placeholder="At least 8 characters"
minLength={PASSWORD_MIN_LENGTH}
placeholder={`At least ${PASSWORD_MIN_LENGTH} characters`}
className="w-full rounded-lg border border-gray-300 dark:border-gray-600 bg-white dark:bg-gray-900 px-3 py-2 text-sm text-gray-900 dark:text-gray-100 focus:outline-none focus:ring-2 focus:ring-brand-400"
/>
</div>