fix(09): WR-12 time a missing admin login at the configured bcrypt cost

modules/cabana/auth.go

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
 	"strings"
+	"sync"
 	"time"
 
 	"git.golem15.com/golem15/summercms/modules/backpack"
@@ -142,7 +143,7 @@ func (s *service) login(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		WriteError(w, http.StatusInternalServerError, "error", msgServerError)
 		return
 	}
-	hash := dummyPasswordHash
+	hash := s.missingUserHash()
 	if found && user.Password != "" {
 		hash = user.Password
 	}
@@ -496,11 +497,23 @@ func adminIssuer(app *backpack.App, prefix string) string {
 	return base + prefix + adminAPIVersion + "/auth/login"
 }
 
-// dummyPasswordHash keeps a missing-user login on the bcrypt path.
+// missingHashes caches the unknown-login hash per bcrypt cost.
-var dummyPasswordHash = func() string {
+var missingHashes sync.Map
-	hash, err := bouncer.HashPassword(10, "cabana-invalid-credentials")
+
-	if err != nil {
+// missingUserHash is the hash a login for an unknown (or ambiguous) identifier
-		return ""
+// is checked against, so it costs the same bcrypt work as a real admin's. It is
+// built once per cost at the service's configured cost, the cost stored hashes
+// are rehashed to on login.
+func (s *service) missingUserHash() string {
+	cost := s.bcryptCost
+	if cached, ok := missingHashes.Load(cost); ok {
+		return cached.(string)
+	}
+	hash, err := bouncer.HashPassword(cost, "cabana-invalid-credentials")
+	if err != nil {
+		// An unusable cost: fall back to the default, still on the bcrypt path.
+		hash, _ = bouncer.HashPassword(10, "cabana-invalid-credentials")
+	}
+	actual, _ := missingHashes.LoadOrStore(cost, hash)
+	return actual.(string)
 }
-	return hash
-}()

modules/cabana/auth_internal_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package cabana
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt"
+)
+
+// TestMissingUserHashUsesConfiguredCost pins WR-12: a login for an unknown
+// identifier is checked against a hash at the configured bcrypt cost, so it
+// costs the same as a real admin's (whose hash is rehashed to that cost).
+func TestMissingUserHashUsesConfiguredCost(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, cost := range []int{4, 6} {
+		s := &service{bcryptCost: cost}
+		hash := s.missingUserHash()
+		got, err := bcrypt.Cost([]byte(hash))
+		if err != nil || got != cost {
+			t.Fatalf("missing-user hash cost = %d, %v; want %d", got, err, cost)
+		}
+		if again := s.missingUserHash(); again != hash {
+			t.Fatal("missing-user hash was rebuilt instead of reused")
+		}
+	}
+}