security: log redaction, magic-link enumeration, federation doc cap

Three Low/Info hardening items from the 2026-06-10 security review.

OAuth/credential log redaction:
- oauth-flow.server.ts logged the raw exception on code-exchange
  failure; a provider error can embed the auth code / token response,
  which would land in logs + Sentry. Log only e.message now.
- manager.markNeedsRelink bounded the provider-supplied reason string
  to 200 chars before logging.

Magic-link account enumeration:
- createMagicToken now returns null (instead of throwing "No account
  found for this email") when no account matches; the login route
  always responds { step: "magic-link-sent" }, minting a token and
  sending mail only for a real account. The public login form can no
  longer be used to probe which emails are registered. Registration's
  email/username "already in use/taken" messages are intentionally
  unchanged — standard signup UX, and the passkey ceremony can't be
  made to fake-succeed.

Federation remote-document size cap:
- assertRemoteDocSize rejects an actor/outbox document over 4 MB once
  serialized, applied in the ingest fetchJson seam. Fedify owns the
  transfer (with its own SSRF + redirect limits) and our poll uses the
  authenticated loader for secure-mode instances, so this is a
  downstream guard on iteration/persistence, complementing the existing
  per-poll item cap.

Tests: assertRemoteDocSize unit cases; a gated (FEDERATION_INTEGRATION=1)
integration test asserting an unsigned POST to /users/:u/inbox is
rejected with 401 — a regression guard for Fedify's signature
verification.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

apps/journal/app/lib/auth.server.ts

@@ -277,12 +277,16 @@ function generateLoginCode(): string {
   return String(num).padStart(6, "0");
 }
 
-export async function createMagicToken(email: string): Promise<{ token: string; code: string }> {
+export async function createMagicToken(
+  email: string,
+): Promise<{ token: string; code: string } | null> {
   const db = getDb();
 
-  // Check user exists
+  // Returns null (not an error) when no account matches, so the caller
+  // can respond identically whether or not the email is registered —
+  // closing the account-enumeration oracle on the public login form.
   const [user] = await db.select().from(users).where(eq(users.email, email));
-  if (!user) throw new Error("No account found for this email");
+  if (!user) return null;
 
   const token = randomBytes(32).toString("base64url");
   const code = generateLoginCode();

apps/journal/app/lib/connected-services/manager.ts

@@ -165,7 +165,10 @@ export async function markNeedsRelink(
     .set({ status: "needs_relink" })
     .where(eq(connectedServices.id, serviceId));
   // Reason is logged but not persisted yet — add a column if/when we surface it in UI.
-  console.warn(`[connected-services] ${serviceId} flipped to needs_relink: ${reason}`);
+  // Bounded: `reason` can carry provider-side error text, so cap its length
+  // to avoid dumping a large/sensitive blob into logs.
+  const safeReason = reason.length > 200 ? `${reason.slice(0, 200)}…` : reason;
+  console.warn(`[connected-services] ${serviceId} flipped to needs_relink: ${safeReason}`);
 }
 
 // Provider-side revocation (e.g. a Garmin deregistration notification):

apps/journal/app/lib/connected-services/oauth-flow.server.ts

@@ -110,7 +110,13 @@ export async function completeOAuthFlow(
     });
     return { status: "linked", state };
   } catch (e) {
-    console.error(`OAuth callback failed for ${manifest.id}:`, e);
+    // Log only the error message, never the raw exception object — a
+    // provider's thrown error can embed the authorization code or token
+    // exchange response, which would then land in logs / Sentry.
+    console.error(
+      `OAuth callback failed for ${manifest.id}:`,
+      e instanceof Error ? e.message : String(e),
+    );
     const code =
       typeof (e as { code?: string }).code === "string"
         ? (e as { code: string }).code

apps/journal/app/lib/federation-ingest.server.test.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ const {
   isHostBackingOff,
   resetHostBackoff,
   pollRemoteActor,
+  assertRemoteDocSize,
 } = await import("./federation-ingest.server.ts");
 
 function trailsCreate(overrides: Record<string, unknown> = {}, noteOverrides: Record<string, unknown> = {}) {
@@ -129,3 +130,15 @@ describe("429 backoff (7.4)", () => {
     });
   });
 });
+
+describe("assertRemoteDocSize", () => {
+  it("accepts a normal-sized document", () => {
+    expect(() => assertRemoteDocSize({ type: "Person", name: "Alice" })).not.toThrow();
+    expect(() => assertRemoteDocSize(null)).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it("rejects a document over the 4 MB cap", () => {
+    const huge = { type: "OrderedCollection", orderedItems: ["x".repeat(5 * 1024 * 1024)] };
+    expect(() => assertRemoteDocSize(huge)).toThrow(/too large/);
+  });
+});

apps/journal/app/lib/federation-ingest.server.ts

@@ -28,6 +28,22 @@ const HOST_PACE_MS = 5_000;
 const CONFLICT_STREAK_LIMIT = 5;
 /** Backoff after a 429 without a usable Retry-After (7.4). */
 const DEFAULT_BACKOFF_MS = 15 * 60 * 1000;
+/**
+ * Reject a fetched actor/outbox document larger than this once serialized.
+ * Fedify owns the transfer (and applies its own SSRF + redirect limits),
+ * so this is a downstream guard: it stops us iterating/persisting an
+ * absurdly large document from a hostile remote, on top of the existing
+ * per-poll item cap. A legitimate actor doc or 50-item page is a few KB.
+ */
+const MAX_REMOTE_DOC_BYTES = 4 * 1024 * 1024; // 4 MB
+
+/** Throws if a remote document's serialized size exceeds the cap. */
+export function assertRemoteDocSize(document: unknown): void {
+  const size = JSON.stringify(document ?? null).length;
+  if (size > MAX_REMOTE_DOC_BYTES) {
+    throw new Error(`remote document too large: ${size} bytes (cap ${MAX_REMOTE_DOC_BYTES})`);
+  }
+}
 /**
  * Cap an honored Retry-After at the poll interval — anything longer is
  * equivalent to "skip until a later sweep", and an absurd header from
@@ -228,6 +244,7 @@ function defaultDeps(): PollDeps {
       const ctx = federation.createContext(new URL(getOrigin()), undefined);
       const loader = await ctx.getDocumentLoader({ identifier: signerUsername });
       const { document } = await loader(url);
+      assertRemoteDocSize(document);
       return document;
     },
     async pace(host) {

apps/journal/app/routes/api.auth.login.ts

@@ -69,16 +69,20 @@ export async function action({ request }: Route.ActionArgs) {
       });
       if (!perIp.allowed) return tooManyRequests(perIp.resetMs);
 
-      const { token, code: loginCode } = await createMagicToken(email);
+      // Always respond "sent" regardless of whether the account exists,
-      const origin = getOrigin();
+      // so the response can't probe which emails are registered. A token
-      const link = `${origin}/auth/verify?token=${token}`;
+      // is only minted (and mail only sent) for a real account.
-      // In dev, return the link and code directly
+      const minted = await createMagicToken(email);
-      if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production") {
+      if (minted) {
-        console.log(`[Magic Link] ${email}: ${link} (code: ${loginCode})`);
+        const origin = getOrigin();
-        return data({ step: "magic-link-sent", devLink: link, code: loginCode });
+        const link = `${origin}/auth/verify?token=${minted.token}`;
+        // In dev, return the link and code directly for a real account.
+        if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production") {
+          console.log(`[Magic Link] ${email}: ${link} (code: ${minted.code})`);
+          return data({ step: "magic-link-sent", devLink: link, code: minted.code });
+        }
+        await sendMagicLink(email, link, minted.code);
       }
-
-      await sendMagicLink(email, link, loginCode);
       return data({ step: "magic-link-sent" });
     }
 

apps/journal/app/routes/users.$username.inbox.integration.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterEach } from "vitest";
+import { eq } from "drizzle-orm";
+import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
+import { getDb } from "~/lib/db";
+import { users } from "@trails-cool/db/schema/journal";
+
+// Regression guard for the inbox's HTTP Signature requirement. Fedify
+// verifies signatures on inbox listeners by default; this fails loudly
+// if a future config change or Fedify upgrade silently stops rejecting
+// unsigned activities — the property the whole federation trust model
+// rests on.
+//
+// Talks to real Postgres + builds the Fedify instance, so it's gated
+// behind FEDERATION_INTEGRATION=1 like the sibling federation
+// integration tests (the recipient actor must exist for Fedify to get
+// as far as verifying the signature, rather than 404ing).
+const runIntegration = process.env.FEDERATION_INTEGRATION === "1";
+const ORIGIN = process.env.ORIGIN ?? "http://localhost:3000";
+
+const createdUserIds: string[] = [];
+
+async function makePublicUser(username: string): Promise<void> {
+  const db = getDb();
+  const id = randomUUID();
+  await db.insert(users).values({
+    id,
+    email: `${username}@example.test`,
+    username,
+    domain: new URL(ORIGIN).host,
+    profileVisibility: "public",
+  });
+  createdUserIds.push(id);
+}
+
+function unsignedInboxRequest(username: string): Request {
+  return new Request(`${ORIGIN}/users/${username}/inbox`, {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/activity+json" },
+    // Deliberately NO Signature header.
+    body: JSON.stringify({
+      "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
+      id: "https://attacker.example/activities/1",
+      type: "Follow",
+      actor: "https://attacker.example/users/mallory",
+      object: `${ORIGIN}/users/${username}`,
+    }),
+  });
+}
+
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+function routeArgs(request: Request, username: string): any {
+  return {
+    request,
+    params: { username },
+    context: {},
+    unstable_url: new URL(request.url),
+    unstable_pattern: "/users/:username/inbox",
+  };
+}
+
+describe.runIf(runIntegration)("POST /users/:username/inbox — signature enforcement", () => {
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    process.env.FEDERATION_ENABLED = "true";
+    process.env.ORIGIN ??= ORIGIN;
+  });
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    const db = getDb();
+    for (const id of createdUserIds.splice(0)) {
+      await db.delete(users).where(eq(users.id, id));
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("rejects an unsigned activity with 401 (never 2xx)", async () => {
+    const username = `inbox-unsigned-${Date.now()}`;
+    await makePublicUser(username);
+
+    const { action } = await import("./users.$username.inbox.ts");
+    const resp = (await action(routeArgs(unsignedInboxRequest(username), username))) as Response;
+
+    // The contract that matters: an unsigned activity is never accepted.
+    expect(resp.status).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(400);
+    expect(resp.status).toBeLessThan(500);
+    expect(resp.status).toBe(401);
+  });
+});