fix(GRO-2586): enforce trusted-origins allowlist on Better Auth CORS responses (#219)

fix(GRO-2586): enforce trusted-origins allowlist on Better Auth CORS responses

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>

UAT_PLAYBOOK.md

@@ -110,6 +110,9 @@ Expected: one row, `role = 'groomer'`. If zero rows return, the request hit the
 | TC-API-1.26 | Auto-provision skipped during OOBE | During fresh setup (needsSetup: true), complete OIDC login — verify no duplicate staff record created before setup completes | No duplicate staff, OOBE completes successfully | Duplicate staff record, 403 before setup, auto-provision interferes with OOBE |
 | TC-API-1.27 | Multi-origin CORS — demo host sign-in | `POST /api/auth/sign-in/social` with `callbackURL=https://demo.groombook.dev` | 200 OK, no origin-mismatch error | 400/403 "Origin mismatch" |
 | TC-API-1.28 | Multi-origin CORS — farh.net host sign-in | `POST /api/auth/sign-in/social` with `callbackURL=https://groombook.farh.net` | 200 OK, no origin-mismatch error | 400/403 "Origin mismatch" |
+| TC-API-1.29 | CORS — untrusted origin blocked (GRO-2586) | POST /api/auth/sign-in/social with `Origin: https://evil.example.com` header | Response has **no** `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header — attacker origin is not reflected | `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://evil.example.com` present in response |
+| TC-API-1.30 | CORS — trusted origin allowed (GRO-2586) | POST /api/auth/sign-in/social with `Origin: https://uat.groombook.dev` header | `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://uat.groombook.dev` + `Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true` | CORS header absent or trusted origin rejected |
+| TC-API-1.31 | CORS — untrusted preflight blocked (GRO-2586) | `curl -i -X OPTIONS https://uat.groombook.dev/api/auth/sign-in/social -H 'Origin: https://evil.example.com' -H 'Access-Control-Request-Method: POST'` | Response has **no** `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://evil.example.com` | Preflight reflects attacker origin |
 
 ### 4.2 Client Management
 

src/__tests__/authCors.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { enforceAuthCors } from "../lib/auth-cors.js";
+
+const TRUSTED = ["https://uat.groombook.dev", "https://dev.groombook.dev"];
+
+/** Simulates Better Auth reflecting the request Origin (the pre-fix bug). */
+function makeReflectedResponse(origin: string | null): Response {
+  return new Response('{"ok":true}', {
+    status: 200,
+    headers: {
+      "Content-Type": "application/json",
+      ...(origin
+        ? {
+            "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": origin,
+            "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials": "true",
+          }
+        : {}),
+    },
+  });
+}
+
+describe("enforceAuthCors (GRO-2586)", () => {
+  it("passes trusted origin through with credentials", () => {
+    const origin = "https://uat.groombook.dev";
+    const res = enforceAuthCors(origin, TRUSTED, makeReflectedResponse(origin));
+    expect(res.headers.get("Access-Control-Allow-Origin")).toBe(origin);
+    expect(res.headers.get("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials")).toBe("true");
+  });
+
+  it("strips ACAO for attacker origin (credentialed cross-origin read blocked)", () => {
+    const origin = "https://evil.example.com";
+    const res = enforceAuthCors(origin, TRUSTED, makeReflectedResponse(origin));
+    expect(res.headers.get("Access-Control-Allow-Origin")).toBeNull();
+    expect(res.headers.get("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("strips ACAO when no Origin header (undefined)", () => {
+    const res = enforceAuthCors(undefined, TRUSTED, makeReflectedResponse(null));
+    expect(res.headers.get("Access-Control-Allow-Origin")).toBeNull();
+    expect(res.headers.get("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("preserves non-CORS response headers and status from Better Auth", () => {
+    const origin = "https://evil.example.com";
+    const res = enforceAuthCors(origin, TRUSTED, makeReflectedResponse(origin));
+    expect(res.headers.get("Content-Type")).toBe("application/json");
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+  });
+
+  it("second trusted origin is also allowed", () => {
+    const origin = "https://dev.groombook.dev";
+    const res = enforceAuthCors(origin, TRUSTED, makeReflectedResponse(origin));
+    expect(res.headers.get("Access-Control-Allow-Origin")).toBe(origin);
+  });
+
+  it("empty string origin is treated as untrusted", () => {
+    const res = enforceAuthCors("", TRUSTED, makeReflectedResponse(""));
+    expect(res.headers.get("Access-Control-Allow-Origin")).toBeNull();
+  });
+});

src/index.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { Hono } from "hono";
 import { logger } from "hono/logger";
 import { cors } from "hono/cors";
 import { getAuth, initAuth, getActiveProviders } from "./lib/auth.js";
+import { enforceAuthCors } from "./lib/auth-cors.js";
 import { clientsRouter } from "./routes/clients.js";
 import { petsRouter } from "./routes/pets.js";
 import { servicesRouter } from "./routes/services.js";
@@ -200,9 +201,10 @@ api.use("*", resolveStaffMiddleware);
 // Better-Auth handler — mounted as sub-app to handle all /api/auth/* routes
 // authMiddleware and resolveStaffMiddleware both skip /api/auth/ paths
 const authRouter = new Hono();
-authRouter.all("/*", (c) => {
+authRouter.all("/*", async (c) => {
   try {
-    return getAuth().handler(c.req.raw);
+    const res = await getAuth().handler(c.req.raw);
+    return enforceAuthCors(c.req.header("origin"), TRUSTED_ORIGINS, res);
   } catch {
     return c.json({ error: "Authentication not configured" }, 503);
   }

src/lib/auth-cors.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/**
+ * Enforces the trusted-origins CORS allowlist on a raw Response from Better Auth.
+ * Better Auth reflects the request Origin into Access-Control-Allow-Origin
+ * regardless of the trustedOrigins config, allowing credentialed cross-origin reads
+ * from arbitrary attacker origins. This wrapper strips CORS headers for any origin
+ * not in the allowlist. (GRO-2586)
+ */
+export function enforceAuthCors(
+  requestOrigin: string | undefined,
+  trustedOrigins: string[],
+  res: Response
+): Response {
+  const headers = new Headers(res.headers);
+  if (requestOrigin && trustedOrigins.includes(requestOrigin)) {
+    headers.set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", requestOrigin);
+    headers.set("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials", "true");
+  } else {
+    headers.delete("Access-Control-Allow-Origin");
+    headers.delete("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials");
+  }
+  return new Response(res.body, { status: res.status, statusText: res.statusText, headers });
+}