fix(auth): limit repeated authorization requests

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Adds bounded handling for repeated authorization requests and callbacks.\n\nRelated to OS-982.\nVerification: lint, type-check, build.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Security

  • OIDC authorization and callback requests are limited to 10 requests per minute.
  • OIDC sign-in requests reject missing, malformed, or oversized parameters.
  • Sign-in state validation rejects expired or invalid states and limits the number of pending states.

• Behavior Changes

  • General API-wide request throttling has been removed; request limits apply specifically to OIDC authorization and callback routes.

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Walkthrough

The API applies throttling to the OIDC authorize and callback routes. OIDC parameter validation enforces input types and length limits. OIDC state generation and validation track active nonces and release them on expiration or failure.

Changes

OIDC Protections

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure HTTP throttling api/src/unraid-api/auth/fastify-throttler.guard.ts, api/src/unraid-api/rest/rest.module.ts, api/src/unraid-api/app/app.module.ts	The REST module registers the throttling module and guard. The guard supports HTTP contexts and fallback throttling options. The app module no longer configures global throttling.
Apply throttling to OIDC routes api/src/unraid-api/rest/rest.controller.ts	The authorize and callback routes use the guard with a limit of 10 requests per 60,000 ms.
Validate OIDC request parameters api/src/unraid-api/graph/resolvers/sso/utils/oidc-request-handler.util.ts	Authorization and callback validation rejects non-string or empty inputs. Authorization validation also enforces maximum lengths for provider IDs, state values, and redirect URIs.
Track and validate OIDC state api/src/unraid-api/graph/resolvers/sso/session/oidc-state.service.ts	State generation validates inputs, tracks active nonces, and releases them when expired or when cache operations or validation fail.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 081a9

No actionable issue remains from this review of the OIDC state change; it is ready for normal merge checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 45132

Unauthenticated requests may prevent legitimate SSO sign-ins by filling a shared pending-request limit or consuming the callback allowance for users behind the same IP address. The demonstrated scope is sign-in availability, not account access or privilege escalation.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Public authorization requests can exhaust the new instance-wide pool of 256 pending states and block unrelated sign-in attempts until states are consumed or expire.
• Medium · security · inferred: The new callback throttle lets unauthenticated requests consume the ten-per-minute allowance shared by legitimate users presenting the same network IP.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Filling pending-state capacity can deny new OIDC authorization on the affected API instance; callback-budget exhaustion can deny callbacks from users sharing an effective request IP. The evidence does not establish cross-instance impact or a privilege gain.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — Callers able to supply a valid provider and allowed redirect can leave authorization states pending without completing callbacks. Requests from multiple IPs can collectively reach the single 256-entry cap despite each IP's route allowance.
• inferred — Callback requests consume an IP-based throttle allowance before callback parameter validation; repeated unauthenticated requests from a shared IP can therefore delay another user's sign-in.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The OIDC routes are public but explicitly guarded; the guard tracks network IP, while authorization separately validates redirect URI and state validation checks a signature and cached provider.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Failed state persistence releases its new reservation, and successful validation releases capacity. Sequential cache deletion supports replay rejection, but the existing separate cache read and delete do not establish atomic consumption under concurrent callbacks.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider coupling pending-state capacity to a suitable caller or provider budget, with an aggregate abuse control that does not let distributed callers occupy every sign-in slot.
• proposed — Assess callback limits for shared-IP users and verify the production proxy supplies an authoritative client IP before relying on it as the throttle identity.

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Scope pending-state limits to the requesting client

This bucket is shared by every user of the same OIDC provider and callback URI, rather than by the requester. Because the public authorize route only rate-limits each tracker, a client can leave 32 normal authorization redirects unfinished within the ten-minute state TTL; generateSecureState then throws for all unrelated users trying to sign in through that provider and callback, which the REST controller returns as a 400. Include a requester-specific key in this limit (or remove the shared bucket cap) so one client cannot deny SSO to others.

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❌ Patch coverage is 77.70270% with 33 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 53.42%. Comparing base (d4d9733) to head (081a980).

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@api/src/unraid-api/graph/resolvers/sso/session/oidc-state.service.ts:
- Around line 68-69: Update the capacity check in OidcStateService so
pending-state limits are isolated by a trusted provider or client scope rather
than shared across all requests. Retain a separate aggregate safety cap sized
for expected concurrent authorization load, and do not use caller-controlled
clientState as the scope key.

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• api/src/unraid-api/graph/resolvers/sso/utils/oidc-request-handler.util.ts
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