detections/_docs/05_security/security_report.md

# Security Audit Report

**Date**: 2026-03-31
**Scope**: Azaion.Detections (full codebase)
**Verdict**: FAIL

## Summary

| Severity | Count |
|----------|-------|
| Critical | 1     |
| High     | 3     |
| Medium   | 5     |
| Low      | 5     |

## OWASP Top 10 Assessment

| Category | Status | Findings |
|----------|--------|----------|
| A01 Broken Access Control | FAIL | 3 |
| A02 Security Misconfiguration | FAIL | 2 |
| A03 Software Supply Chain Failures | FAIL | 2 |
| A04 Cryptographic Failures | FAIL | 1 |
| A05 Injection | PASS | — |
| A06 Insecure Design | FAIL | 2 |
| A07 Authentication Failures | FAIL | 1 |
| A08 Software or Data Integrity Failures | PASS | — |
| A09 Logging & Alerting Failures | FAIL | 1 |
| A10 Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions | FAIL | 1 |

## Findings

| # | Severity | Category | Location | Title |
|---|----------|----------|----------|-------|
| 1 | Critical | A03 Supply Chain | requirements.txt (uvicorn→h11) | HTTP request smuggling via h11 CVE-2025-43859 |
| 2 | High | A04 Crypto | src/main.py:67-99 | JWT decoded without signature verification |
| 3 | High | A01 Access Control | src/main.py (all routes) | No authentication required on any endpoint |
| 4 | High | A03 Supply Chain | requirements.txt (python-multipart) | ReDoS via python-multipart CVE-2026-28356 |
| 5 | Medium | A01 Access Control | src/main.py:608-627 | SSE stream broadcasts cross-user data |
| 6 | Medium | A06 Insecure Design | src/main.py:348-469 | No rate limiting on inference endpoints |
| 7 | Medium | A02 Misconfig | Dockerfile, Dockerfile.gpu | Containers run as root |
| 8 | Medium | A03 Supply Chain | requirements.txt | Unpinned critical dependencies |
| 9 | Medium | A02 Misconfig | Dockerfile, Dockerfile.gpu | No TLS and no security headers |
| 10 | Low | A06 Insecure Design | src/main.py:357 | No request body size limit |
| 11 | Low | A10 Exceptions | src/main.py:63,490 | Silent exception swallowing |
| 12 | Low | A09 Logging | src/main.py | Security events not logged |
| 13 | Low | A01 Access Control | src/main.py:449-450 | Exception details leaked in responses |
| 14 | Low | A07 Auth | src/main.py:54-64 | Token refresh failure silently ignored |

### Finding Details

**F1: HTTP Request Smuggling via h11** (Critical / A03)
- Location: `requirements.txt` — unpinned `uvicorn[standard]` pulls `h11-0.14.0`
- Description: CVE-2025-43859 (CVSS 9.1). Lenient parsing of chunked-coding line terminators enables HTTP request smuggling.
- Impact: Bypass security controls, cache poisoning, session hijacking, data leakage
- Remediation: Pin `h11>=0.15.0` in requirements.txt

**F2: JWT Decoded Without Signature Verification** (High / A04)
- Location: `src/main.py:67-99` (`TokenManager._decode_exp`, `decode_user_id`)
- Description: JWT payloads are base64-decoded without cryptographic signature verification. Any client can forge tokens with arbitrary claims.
- Impact: Full user impersonation — attacker crafts JWT with target's user ID to access their AI settings, post annotations under their account
- Remediation: Use PyJWT with signature verification against the issuer's public key

**F3: No Authentication on Endpoints** (High / A01)
- Location: `src/main.py` — all route handlers
- Description: All endpoints are publicly accessible. Bearer tokens are optional.
- Impact: Unauthorized inference triggering, resource exhaustion, unauthorized access to SSE event stream
- Remediation: Add FastAPI dependency injection for auth middleware on `/detect`, `/detect/{media_id}`, `/detect/stream`

**F4: python-multipart ReDoS** (High / A03)
- Location: `requirements.txt` — unpinned `python-multipart`
- Description: CVE-2026-28356 (CVSS 7.5). `parse_options_header()` regex causes exponential backtracking on malicious headers.
- Impact: Denial of service
- Remediation: Pin `python-multipart>=1.3.1`

**F5: SSE Stream Cross-User Data Leak** (Medium / A01)
- Location: `src/main.py:608-627`
- Description: All detection events broadcast to all connected SSE clients without filtering.
- Impact: Any client sees all users' detection results (media IDs, coordinates, status)
- Remediation: Associate SSE queues with authenticated users; filter events by ownership

**F6: No Rate Limiting** (Medium / A06)
- Location: `src/main.py:348-469`, `src/main.py:494-605`
- Description: No rate limiting on compute-intensive inference endpoints.
- Impact: DoS via inference exhaustion (2 worker threads)
- Remediation: Add slowapi or similar rate limiting middleware

**F7: Docker Containers Run as Root** (Medium / A02)
- Location: `Dockerfile:10`, `Dockerfile.gpu:10`
- Description: No USER directive; processes run as root inside containers.
- Impact: Container escape or compromise gives root filesystem access
- Remediation: Add non-root user (`adduser --disabled-password appuser && USER appuser`)

**F8: Unpinned Critical Dependencies** (Medium / A03)
- Location: `requirements.txt`
- Description: `fastapi`, `uvicorn[standard]`, `python-multipart` are unpinned.
- Impact: Supply chain attack via compromised PyPI package; inconsistent builds across environments
- Remediation: Pin all dependencies to specific versions

**F9: No TLS / No Security Headers** (Medium / A02)
- Location: `Dockerfile` CMD, `src/main.py` (app setup)
- Description: Uvicorn runs without TLS. No security headers middleware.
- Impact: Data in transit is unencrypted; missing browser security protections
- Remediation: Terminate TLS at reverse proxy or add `--ssl-*` flags; add security headers middleware

**F10-F14**: Low severity findings (request size limits, exception handling, logging gaps) documented in `static_analysis.md` and `owasp_review.md`.

## Dependency Vulnerabilities

| Package | CVE | Severity | Fix Version |
|---------|-----|----------|-------------|
| h11 (via uvicorn) | CVE-2025-43859 | Critical | h11>=0.15.0 |
| python-multipart | CVE-2026-28356 | High | >=1.3.1 |
| opencv-python | — | Low (outdated) | 4.13.0.92 |

## Recommendations

### Immediate (Critical/High)

1. **Pin h11>=0.15.0** to fix HTTP request smuggling vulnerability
2. **Pin python-multipart>=1.3.1** to fix ReDoS vulnerability
3. **Pin all dependencies** to specific versions in requirements.txt
4. **Add JWT signature verification** using PyJWT with the issuer's public key
5. **Add authentication middleware** requiring valid tokens on /detect, /detect/{media_id}, /detect/stream

### Short-term (Medium)

6. **Filter SSE events by user** — associate queues with authenticated sessions
7. **Add rate limiting** on inference endpoints (slowapi or nginx rate limiting)
8. **Run containers as non-root** — add USER directive to Dockerfiles
9. **Add security headers** middleware (X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, HSTS)
10. **Configure TLS** at reverse proxy level or add Dockerfile HEALTHCHECK

### Long-term (Low / Hardening)

11. **Add request body size limits** via uvicorn config or middleware
12. **Log security events** — authentication failures, token refresh failures, rate limit hits
13. **Replace silent exception handling** with proper error logging
14. **Set up CI/CD** with dependency scanning, SAST, and secret scanning
15. **Add CORS configuration** if browser clients will access the API directly