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Security Assessment

anthropic / claude-opus-4-7
Caution

Monorepo demonstrates strong security awareness with JWT verification, env-based secrets, helmet/rate-limiting, and a published SECURITY.md. Primary concerns are the sheer surface area (multiple services, compose files, OAuth/2FA flows), permissive CORS fallback risk, and the need to keep JWT_SECRET synchronized across auth-api and router-api.

MEDIUMShared JWT_SECRET across services
services/router-api

router-api verifies tokens with the same HS256 JWT_SECRET as auth-api. Misconfiguration or drift between environments breaks auth or allows forgery if leaked.

Recommendation

Consider migrating to RS256/asymmetric keys so router-api only needs the public key; add a startup check that verifies a known token.

MEDIUMPermissive CORS fallback in dev
services/*

When CORS_ORIGIN is unset, services fall back to a broad allow-list for local developer ergonomics. Safe in dev, but a misconfigured deploy would expose all origins.

MEDIUMPostgres TLS not enforced
services/auth-api

Database client connects without sslmode=require. Internal network is isolated but cross-host traffic (Goose → Mesh) should be encrypted in transit.

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