fix: harden WebSocket limits (maxPayload + use TCP peer IP) - #20
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Document the merged hardening PRs and bump version: - sanitize /api/validate-address response + input (#18) - limit /api/network-info to public fields (#19) - cap WebSocket frame size via maxPayload (#20) Note: #20's TCP-peer WS-IP change was dropped on merge (would break the per-IP WS cap behind the proxy); #16's trusted-proxy resolution is kept. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Motivation
/api/wsendpoint accepted large frames (ws default ~100 MiB) and trusted attacker-controlledX-Forwarded-Forvalues for per-IP connection limits, enabling unauthenticated DoS vectors.Description
WEBSOCKET_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES(default65536) and document it in.env.exampleandREADME.md.WebSocketServervia itsmaxPayloadoption to limit accepted frame size.X-Forwarded-Forbased logic with aresolveClientIpimplementation that returns the TCP peer address (socket.remoteAddress) so per-IP connection caps cannot be bypassed by spoofed headers.server/index.ts, plus the environment/example docs in.env.exampleandREADME.md.Testing
npm run typecheckwhich completed successfully.npm test(Vitest) and all tests passed (42 passed).Codex Task