🛡️ Sentinel: Limit concurrent daemon socket connections to prevent DoS#89
🛡️ Sentinel: Limit concurrent daemon socket connections to prevent DoS#89
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Implemented a semaphore in `startSocketListener` to limit the number of concurrent active socket connections to 50. This prevents a local Denial of Service (DoS) attack where an attacker could exhaust system resources (goroutines, memory) by opening thousands of idle connections. Added `cmd/security_concurrency_test.go` to verify the regression. Updated `.jules/sentinel.md` with the security finding. Co-authored-by: minibota <1483356+minibota@users.noreply.github.com>
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Vulnerability:
The daemon's socket listener (
startSocketListenerincmd/daemon.go) spawned a new goroutine for every incoming connection without any concurrency limit. This allowed a local attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by opening thousands of connections and keeping them idle, exhausting system resources (goroutines and memory).Fix:
Implemented a semaphore pattern using a buffered channel (
maxConcurrentConnections = 50). The listener now acquires a token before spawning a handler goroutine and releases it upon completion. This limits the number of active handlers to 50, providing backpressure to the OS socket backlog when the limit is reached.Verification:
Added a new regression test
TestConcurrencyLimitincmd/security_concurrency_test.go. The test:Risk Assessment:
PR created automatically by Jules for task 9011405027792562287 started by @minibota