# Security Audit Report

**Date:** 2026-02-06  
**Status:** Completed Initial Assessment

## Executive Summary

This document tracks security vulnerabilities found in DocuElevate and their remediation status.

## Critical Vulnerabilities (Fixed) ✅

### 1. Outdated Authlib with Known Vulnerabilities
**Status:** ✅ FIXED  
**Severity:** HIGH  
**Description:** Authlib version 1.3.2 had two critical vulnerabilities:
- CVE: Denial of Service via Oversized JOSE Segments
- CVE: JWS/JWT accepts unknown crit headers (RFC violation → possible authz bypass)

**Fix:** Updated `requirements.txt` to require `authlib>=1.6.5`

### 2. Starlette DoS Vulnerability
**Status:** ✅ FIXED  
**Severity:** MEDIUM  
**Description:** Starlette 0.41.3 vulnerable to O(n^2) DoS via Range header merging in `FileResponse`

**Fix:** Updated `requirements.txt` to require `starlette>=0.49.1`

### 3. Weak SESSION_SECRET Default
**Status:** ✅ FIXED  
**Severity:** HIGH  
**Description:** Default SESSION_SECRET value in `app/main.py` was a predictable string that could be exploited if not overridden

**Fix:** 
- Enhanced validation in `app/main.py` to raise error if auth is enabled without proper secret
- Updated default to be clearly marked as insecure for development only
- Added generation instructions in error message

## Medium Risk Issues (Fixed) ✅

### 4. Insufficient .gitignore Protection
**Status:** ✅ FIXED  
**Severity:** MEDIUM  
**Description:** .gitignore didn't adequately protect against accidentally committing sensitive files (credentials, private keys, secrets)

**Fix:** Enhanced `.gitignore` with comprehensive patterns for:
- Various environment file formats
- Credential JSON files
- Private keys (.pem, .key, .pfx, etc.)
- SSH keys
- Explicit exclusion of patterns where needed

## Best Practices Implemented

### Dependency Management
- ✅ Version pinning for security-critical packages (authlib, starlette)
- ✅ Advisory database checks integrated into development workflow
- ⏳ TODO: Add automated dependency vulnerability scanning in CI/CD

### Authentication & Secrets
- ✅ Strong validation for SESSION_SECRET (minimum 32 characters)
- ✅ Error-on-missing for critical security settings when auth enabled
- ✅ Clear documentation of secret generation methods
- ✅ .env.demo file for configuration examples (no real secrets)

### Configuration Security
- ✅ All secrets loaded from environment variables
- ✅ No hardcoded credentials in codebase
- ✅ Proper masking in configuration validators

## Ongoing Security Measures

### CI/CD Security
- ⏳ **TODO:** Add CodeQL scanning to GitHub Actions
- ⏳ **TODO:** Add Bandit (Python security linter) to CI pipeline
- ⏳ **TODO:** Add dependency vulnerability scanning (Safety, pip-audit)
- ⏳ **TODO:** Make security scans blocking (fail on critical issues)

### Code Security
- ⏳ **TODO:** Implement rate limiting on API endpoints
- ⏳ **TODO:** Add CSRF protection for state-changing operations
- ⏳ **TODO:** Implement request size limits
- ⏳ **TODO:** Add input sanitization for all user inputs
- ⏳ **TODO:** Implement proper API key rotation mechanisms

### Infrastructure Security
- ✅ TrustedHostMiddleware configured
- ✅ ProxyHeadersMiddleware for reverse proxy setup
- ⏳ **TODO:** Add security headers (HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options)
- ⏳ **TODO:** Implement proper CORS configuration
- ⏳ **TODO:** Add request logging with sensitive data masking

## Recommendations

### High Priority
1. **Enable CodeQL scanning** - Automated security vulnerability detection
2. **Implement rate limiting** - Prevent abuse and DoS attacks
3. **Add comprehensive input validation** - Prevent injection attacks
4. **Implement API authentication** - Secure all API endpoints properly

### Medium Priority
1. **Add security headers** - Improve browser-side security
2. **Implement audit logging** - Track security-relevant events
3. **Add automated security testing** - Integration with CI/CD
4. **Document security architecture** - Security design decisions

### Low Priority
1. **Security training documentation** - For contributors
2. **Penetration testing** - Professional security assessment
3. **Bug bounty program** - Community security contributions

## Security Contact

For security issues, please follow the guidelines in [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md).

## Audit History

| Date | Auditor | Scope | Critical Issues | Status |
|------|---------|-------|-----------------|--------|
| 2026-02-06 | Automated Agent | Dependencies, Auth, Config | 3 | Fixed |

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**Next Audit Due:** 2026-05-06 (Quarterly)
