Stop hard-blocking sessions on IP/user-agent change

Session IP and user-agent were enforced as an exact-match gate on
every authenticated request and on refresh: any mismatch threw
Invalid session binding / Session binding mismatch and forced a
logout. In production this made the app nearly unusable, because
real users' IPs change constantly and normally in ways that have
nothing to do with account theft — mobile network handovers,
corporate NAT pools, VPNs, CDN edge changes, Wi-Fi/cellular
switching.

The still-enforced single-use rotating session nonce plus
refresh-token rotation and revocation already prevent a stolen
token from being replayed on another device, so the hard IP/UA gate
was mostly adding false-positive lockouts rather than real security.

Now IP and user-agent changes are recorded as a SESSION_BINDING_DRIFT
abuse event (feeding the existing risk-scoring system) instead of
rejecting the request, so the security signal isn't lost, it's just
no longer a blanket block on legitimate use.
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MOHAN 2026-08-26 20:49:46 +05:30
parent 90dfe65fa3
commit 70701aa124
2 changed files with 40 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ export class AuthService {
if (!record || record.revokedAt || record.expiresAt < new Date() || !record.session) { if (!record || record.revokedAt || record.expiresAt < new Date() || !record.session) {
throw new UnauthorizedException("Invalid or expired refresh token."); throw new UnauthorizedException("Invalid or expired refresh token.");
} }
this.assertSessionMatches(record.session, context); await this.assertSessionMatches(record.session, context);
const sessionNonce = this.createSessionNonce(); const sessionNonce = this.createSessionNonce();
await this.prisma.refreshToken.update({ where: { id: record.id }, data: { revokedAt: new Date() } }); await this.prisma.refreshToken.update({ where: { id: record.id }, data: { revokedAt: new Date() } });
await this.prisma.session.update({ await this.prisma.session.update({
@ -511,21 +511,33 @@ export class AuthService {
return { session, sessionNonce }; return { session, sessionNonce };
} }
private assertSessionMatches( private async assertSessionMatches(
session: { revokedAt: Date | null; expiresAt: Date; ipHash: string; userAgentHash: string; nonceHash?: string | null }, session: { id: string; userId: string; revokedAt: Date | null; expiresAt: Date; ipHash: string; userAgentHash: string; nonceHash?: string | null },
context?: RequestContext, context?: RequestContext,
) { ) {
if (session.revokedAt || session.expiresAt < new Date()) { if (session.revokedAt || session.expiresAt < new Date()) {
throw new UnauthorizedException("Session expired."); throw new UnauthorizedException("Session expired.");
} }
const ipHash = this.hashBindingValue(context?.ipAddress ?? "unknown-ip");
const userAgentHash = this.hashBindingValue(context?.userAgent ?? "unknown-user-agent");
if (session.ipHash !== ipHash || session.userAgentHash !== userAgentHash) {
throw new UnauthorizedException("Session binding mismatch.");
}
if (!session.nonceHash || !context?.sessionNonce || session.nonceHash !== this.hashToken(context.sessionNonce)) { if (!session.nonceHash || !context?.sessionNonce || session.nonceHash !== this.hashToken(context.sessionNonce)) {
throw new UnauthorizedException("Session nonce mismatch."); throw new UnauthorizedException("Session nonce mismatch.");
} }
// IP and user-agent are monitored as abuse/risk signals rather than
// enforced as a hard match — see JwtAuthGuard for the same reasoning.
const ipHash = this.hashBindingValue(context?.ipAddress ?? "unknown-ip");
const userAgentHash = this.hashBindingValue(context?.userAgent ?? "unknown-user-agent");
const ipChanged = session.ipHash !== ipHash;
const userAgentChanged = session.userAgentHash !== userAgentHash;
if (ipChanged || userAgentChanged) {
await this.abuseService?.recordEvent({
userId: session.userId,
eventType: "SESSION_BINDING_DRIFT",
riskPoints: ipChanged && userAgentChanged ? 6 : 3,
severity: "low",
ipAddress: context?.ipAddress,
userAgent: context?.userAgent,
metadata: { ipChanged, userAgentChanged, via: "refresh" },
});
}
} }
private createSessionNonce(): string { private createSessionNonce(): string {

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@ -52,14 +52,32 @@ export class JwtAuthGuard implements CanActivate {
session.userId !== payload.sub || session.userId !== payload.sub ||
session.revokedAt || session.revokedAt ||
session.expiresAt < new Date() || session.expiresAt < new Date() ||
session.ipHash !== this.hashBindingValue(requestContext.ipAddress ?? "unknown-ip") ||
session.userAgentHash !== this.hashBindingValue(requestContext.userAgent ?? "unknown-user-agent") ||
!session.nonceHash || !session.nonceHash ||
!requestContext.sessionNonce || !requestContext.sessionNonce ||
session.nonceHash !== this.hashBindingValue(requestContext.sessionNonce) session.nonceHash !== this.hashBindingValue(requestContext.sessionNonce)
) { ) {
throw new UnauthorizedException("Invalid session binding."); throw new UnauthorizedException("Invalid session binding.");
} }
// IP and user-agent are recorded and monitored as abuse/risk signals
// rather than enforced as a hard match: real users legitimately change
// IP mid-session (mobile networks, corporate NAT pools, VPNs, CDN edge
// changes) far more often than an attacker would be replaying a stolen
// token, and the still-enforced single-use rotating nonce plus
// refresh-token rotation already prevent token replay from another
// device.
const ipChanged = session.ipHash !== this.hashBindingValue(requestContext.ipAddress ?? "unknown-ip");
const userAgentChanged = session.userAgentHash !== this.hashBindingValue(requestContext.userAgent ?? "unknown-user-agent");
if (ipChanged || userAgentChanged) {
await this.abuseService.recordEvent({
userId: session.userId,
eventType: "SESSION_BINDING_DRIFT",
riskPoints: ipChanged && userAgentChanged ? 6 : 3,
severity: "low",
ipAddress: requestContext.ipAddress,
userAgent: requestContext.userAgent,
metadata: { ipChanged, userAgentChanged },
});
}
const nextNonce = crypto.randomBytes(32).toString("base64url"); const nextNonce = crypto.randomBytes(32).toString("base64url");
const response = context.switchToHttp().getResponse<{ setHeader(name: string, value: string): void }>(); const response = context.switchToHttp().getResponse<{ setHeader(name: string, value: string): void }>();
await this.prisma.session.update({ await this.prisma.session.update({