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Throttle API calls with Basic auth (#7177)

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Authored by Nicolas Dorier

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Throttle API calls with Basic auth (#7177)
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This change adds speed bumps (rate limiting) to API logins that use username-and-password Basic authentication. It is a hardening fix: before, attackers could make unlimited rapid login attempts through the API; now those attempts are throttled after the account is more than five minutes old. The patch also improves error messages so the server can tell callers exactly why authentication failed, including when they are rate-limited.

Recommended action

Treat as a security hardening patch. Ensure production deployments receive this change, confirm the rate-limit zone (ZoneLimits.Login) is configured with appropriate thresholds, and monitor for any legitimate integrations that rely on repeated Basic-auth API calls from fixed IPs.

Security signals we found

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Rate limiting added to Basic authentication on Greenfield API

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Authentication failure reasons propagated to 401 JSON responses

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Test asserts repeated Basic-auth requests for an old account are throttled with 'Rate limited' message

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New accounts exempted from throttling for first 5 minutes to allow API-key onboarding

Risk score

Why this scored 66/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 18/30
Exploitability 16/25
Stealth signal 8/15
Affected reach 12/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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