KNOWN REGRESSION (Phase 3 fix): platform_admin / superadmin no longer has cross-workspace 'see everything' view. Every route migrated tonight (2.2a-2.2m) deliberately removed the role-based bypass per design doc - cross-workspace visibility will come via dedicated admin endpoints in Phase 3, not magic role bypasses. Until Phase 3 ships, platform admins must switch-workspace to see other workspaces' data.
Express's req.ip was resolving to a Cloudflare edge address (e.g.
172.70.x.x) for any request fronted by Cloudflare, because trust proxy
was set to '1' — that trusts the immediate hop, which IS Cloudflare.
All activity_log rows from API paths captured the proxy, not the
client. The WebSocket path was unaffected and recorded the real IP.
Two layers of defense:
1. trust proxy now lists Cloudflare's published v4 + v6 ranges plus
loopback / linklocal / uniquelocal (config/cloudflareIps.js). With
this list req.ip resolves to the original client when fronted by
CF, and X-Forwarded-For from any non-trusted source is ignored —
so the value can't be spoofed.
2. New getClientIp(req) helper in services/activity.js prefers the
CF-Connecting-IP header but only honors it when the immediate TCP
peer is itself a trusted address. Same gate as trust proxy, so a
visitor who hits the origin directly with a forged header is
logged at their real address.
Routed all five activity-log call sites (auth login success/failure,
admin password reset, generic activityLogger middleware, and the
in-memory rate-limiter key) through the helper.
Logging-only change. No schema changes. Existing rows are not
modified — fix applies to new entries going forward.
Verified locally:
- Bare loopback hit logs 127.0.0.1 (not a proxy address).
- Helper unit cases including an untrusted peer (203.0.113.7) sending
a forged CF-Connecting-IP correctly fall back to the real peer.
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