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POST /api/auth/login에서 unknown-user quick exit을 제거하고, 사용자가 없을 때도 더미 scrypt hash에 대해 verifyPassword를 수행합니다. 실패 응답은 기존 401 {"error":"invalid credentials"} 계약을 유지하며, string이 아닌 password는 인증 입력으로 coercion하지 않고 실패시킵니다.

이번 repair에서는 .jules/sentinel.md에 중복 추가된 일반화된 보안 doctrine을 protected develop@2c328875e00e86537df3e965170be80532571cad 상태로 복원하고, 실제 코드 경계·검증 조건·OWASP Authentication Cheat Sheet 근거를 docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md에 남겼습니다.

이 변경은 존재/부재 사용자 사이의 큰 계산 경로 차이를 줄이는 defense-in-depth입니다. DB lookup·runtime scheduling·network까지 포함한 응답이 constant-time이라고 주장하지 않으며, 원격 exploit이나 HIGH severity가 측정·재현됐다고도 간주하지 않습니다. Ready 조건은 valid-user+wrong-password와 unknown-user가 같은 실패 status/body를 내고 두 경로 모두 scrypt 검증 경계를 통과한다는 regression, non-string fail-closed, 로그인 경로의 rate-limit 보존, 동일 exact head API/E2E/Security/SAST/CodeQL GREEN입니다. timing 효과를 수치로 주장하려면 동일 host/runtime에서 충분한 반복 표본의 latency distribution/effect size가 필요합니다.

Repair exact head: 890c3bc4de67e4be192e8c91f2e582b461c977a7.

Reference: OWASP Foundation, Authentication Cheat Sheet (retrieved 2026-09-10).


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- 로그인 실패 시에도 더미 해시를 이용하여 무조건 비밀번호 검증을 수행함으로써 공격자가 응답 시간을 통해 시스템 내 이메일 존재 여부를 유추할 수 없도록 수정하였습니다.
- 잘못된 타입의 입력으로 인한 애플리케이션 충돌을 방지하기 위해 비밀번호를 문자열로 명시적으로 형변환하였습니다.
- .jules/sentinel.md 에 관련 취약점 및 학습 내용을 한국어로 추가하였습니다.
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로그인 라우트가 사용자 존재 여부와 관계없이 비밀번호 검증을 수행합니다. 비문자열 비밀번호는 빈 문자열로 정규화합니다. 사용자 열거 타이밍 공격 방지 내용을 영어와 한국어 학습 항목에 추가했습니다.

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DUMMY_PASSWORD_HASH를 추가했습니다. 로그인 시 비밀번호를 문자열로 정규화합니다. 사용자 존재 여부와 관계없이 verifyPassword를 호출합니다. 관련 보안 학습 항목을 영어와 한국어로 추가했습니다.

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Login now performs password verification for unknown users to reduce timing-based account enumeration, but unprotected unauthenticated request volume can consume synchronous password-verification capacity and impair availability. The accompanying security guidance also has conflicting scope instructions that should be consolidated before merge.

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131-142: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

보안 학습 항목의 적용 범위를 하나로 정리하십시오.

Line 131-134는 모든 인증 엔드포인트를 대상으로 설명합니다. Line 135-138은 비인증 라우트로 범위를 제한합니다. Line 139-142의 한국어 항목은 이 제한을 다시 생략합니다. 개정 항목 하나만 유지하거나 기존 항목을 superseded로 표시하고, 한국어 번역에도 동일한 범위를 반영하십시오. 그렇지 않으면 향후 구현자가 서로 다른 지침을 적용할 수 있습니다.

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In @.jules/sentinel.md around lines 131 - 142, Consolidate the security guidance
in the authentication timing-attack entries so only the revised scope remains:
require dummy-hash verification and password string coercion on unauthenticated
routes, while excluding authenticated routes. Remove or mark the earlier
conflicting entry as superseded, and update the Korean entry to state the same
unauthenticated-route limitation.
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In `@server/app.mjs`:
- Line 200: 배포 설정에서 SCOPEWEAVE_RATE_LIMIT_MAX를 양수로 지정해 로그인 라우트 이전의 전역 속도 제한을
활성화하고, 동기 verifyPassword 및 scryptSync 검증을 보호하도록 동시 검증 수 제한도 설정하십시오.

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In @.jules/sentinel.md:
- Around line 131-142: Consolidate the security guidance in the authentication
timing-attack entries so only the revised scope remains: require dummy-hash
verification and password string coercion on unauthenticated routes, while
excluding authenticated routes. Remove or mark the earlier conflicting entry as
superseded, and update the Korean entry to state the same unauthenticated-route
limitation.

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@seonghobae seonghobae changed the title 🛡️ Sentinel: [HIGH] 로그인 엔드포인트의 타이밍 공격을 통한 사용자 열거 취약점 수정 fix(auth): reduce login user-enumeration timing discrepancy Sep 10, 2026
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Verified-successor consolidation: #694 current descendant 6e2aa1f370fb6d599e81ebe20e3e7b0c79469cb0 carries the same unknown-user dummy-scrypt semantic repair plus the stricter structured-email fail-closed boundary. Its code-current docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md incorporates this PR’s product/traceability evidence. The one still-valid review finding on unauthenticated scrypt resource consumption was not discarded: it is preserved as canonical Gap #696 with realistic concurrent RED/GREEN, production deployment guard, #587 rate-limit/trusted-proxy integration and performance evidence acceptance. Checks/reviews are not transferred to #694. Closing #688 unmerged only after those semantic/document/review-evidence paths have successors.

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