Phase 2a of the change-safety work. Change Guard could already rescue a device
after a bad change; this predicts the break beforehand and refuses it.
Rather than blocklisting "risky operations" — which is how deleting an *unused*
bond and a routine VLAN edit both slipped through — the engine derives the
invariants that must hold for the manager to keep reaching the device, simulates
the planned change against LIVE device state, and reports any invariant that flips
from satisfied to violated. Novel change shapes are covered for free, and each
invariant explains itself, so the warning names the real mechanism.
- pathModel.ts: captures a live snapshot over the API (no SSH) and resolves the
management path — which address, interface, bridge, VLAN and physical ingress
port the session depends on, each with the reason it is load-bearing.
- invariants.ts: nine checks drawn from MikroTik's documented behaviour, notably
that the bridge IS the CPU port and must be a member of the management VLAN.
- analyzeChange.ts: simulates the change and diffs invariants, returning
safe / warning / critical plus the path used to reach the verdict.
- withGuardedChange now runs the analysis first and returns 409 with the verdict
unless the caller passes confirm_lockout; analysis failures never block a change.
- New GET /:id/management-path and POST /:id/preflight (analyse without applying).
Three bugs were found by testing against the live switch rather than fixtures:
- Invariants read vlan-filtering from the frozen path instead of the snapshot under
evaluation, so "enable vlan-filtering" — the single most important case — was
invisible.
- VLAN membership is spread across BOTH a static row and a dynamic "added by pvid"
row. Simulating only the first match hid the danger; membership now tracks static
and effective separately, and a bridge left in the VLAN only by the dynamic row is
reported as a warning rather than silently safe.
- Requiring the ingress port to be UNTAGGED in the management VLAN flagged a healthy
tagged trunk. Because a pre-existing violation is (correctly) not reported as new,
that false positive silently suppressed real detections. Verdicts now also list
pre-existing violations so this can't hide again.
Verified on the production 100G switch: changing the ingress port's PVID off the
management VLAN is refused with 409 and the switch is left untouched (pvid still 1);
removing the bridge from VLAN 1 is correctly reported as a warning because a dynamic
PVID row would still cover it; unrelated VLAN edits stay safe. 29 changeGuard tests,
152 backend tests, full CI preflight green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Change Guard shipped covering only 4 routes (service toggle, bond create/delete,
bridge vlan-filtering). The most recent real incident — a VLAN change that removed
a switch from management — went through PUT /:id/ports/:name/vlan, which was NOT
guarded. Neither were the bridge-VLAN CRUD routes, IP address changes, or route
changes, all of which can sever the manager's own path.
Guarded routes go from 4 to 12, adding:
- port.vlan PUT /:id/ports/:name/vlan (PVID + tagged/untagged membership)
- vlan.add POST /:id/vlans
- vlan.update PUT /:id/vlans/:vlanDbId
- vlan.delete DELETE /:id/vlans/:vlanDbId
- ip.add POST /:id/ip-addresses
- ip.remove DELETE /:id/ip-addresses/:addrId
- route.add POST /:id/routing
- route.remove DELETE /:id/routing/:routeId
Each now takes a device-side restore point and arms a self-restore before applying,
disarming only once the device is proven still reachable.
Two correctness details while converting:
- vlan.delete removes the local DB row in afterConfirmed, so a change that
auto-reverts no longer leaves the UI claiming a VLAN was deleted when the device
restored it.
- The VLAN CRUD routes previously returned a bare array, which would have been
spread into the guard response object. They now return a message; the frontend
ignores these bodies and re-queries, so no client change is needed.
Verified live against the production 100G switch: a guarded VLAN add and delete
both returned protected/confirmed, were recorded in device_change_guards, and the
switch was left in its original state. 133 backend tests pass; full CI preflight green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The backend Lint job failed on the new createBond error path: ESLint's
preserve-caught-error rule (in effect since the eslint 10.7 bump) requires a
rethrown error to carry the original. Pass `{ cause: err }`, which also makes the
underlying RouterOS failure visible in the error chain instead of only inside the
message string.
No behavior change beyond the richer error. Verified with the exact CI commands:
`npm run lint` and `npm run build` both exit 0, 133 backend tests pass, and the
redeployed build still guards correctly (guarded change commits, disabling the
management service is refused with 409).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A user change can sever the manager's own path to a device with no warning and no
way back. Most recently, deleting an *unused* bond on a switch took the whole
switch offline. This adds a safety net, and fixes the bug that caused that
specific incident.
Root cause of the bond incident (DeviceCollector.deleteBond):
- Slaves were re-added to the bridge ONLY when the bond itself was a bridge
member. For an unbridged bond the restore loop never ran, so the member ports
were released from the bond and left in no bridge at all — the ports stopped
forwarding and the switch dropped off the network.
- The restore in both deleteBond and createBond was wrapped in `.catch(() => {})`,
so a failed restore was swallowed and the route still returned 200 OK.
- Restores also dropped PVID, silently returning tagged ports to VLAN 1.
Now: port settings (PVID, frame-types, ingress-filtering, edge, horizon) are
captured and carried over, and restore failures are reported instead of hidden.
Change Guard (services/changeGuard/ChangeGuard.ts):
Before a risky change the device saves a restore point and arms a scheduler that
restores it after N seconds. The change is applied, then reachability is proven
on a NEW connection; success disarms the scheduler, failure leaves the device to
restore itself and come back. Because the restore point is created before the
scheduler, a binary restore rolls back to a config containing neither the
scheduler nor the change — self-cleaning, with no revert loop.
- Works entirely over the RouterOS API. This matters: every recovery artifact
today requires SSH, so devices without SSH credentials had no rollback target
at all (cf. #86).
- Modes: `binary` (exact restore incl. deleted interfaces, reboots) or `script`
(/import, no reboot but additive). Configurable via change_guard_* settings.
- Per-device Redis lock, `device_change_guards` audit table, and startup
reconciliation for guards left pending by a manager restart.
- Degrades gracefully: if protection can't be armed the change still runs and the
response says it was unprotected.
Wired into bond create/delete, bridge vlan-filtering, and /ip/service. Disabling
the service the manager is connected through is now refused outright (409) — the
mgmt-service signal already existed but was confined to the read-only posture
endpoint.
Also: replaces the bare confirm() on "Destroy Bond" with a ChangeGuardDialog that
explains the risk and the protection, and reports the outcome (including "the
device is restoring itself"). Fixes getAppSettings omitting
config_snapshot_enabled/interval, which made the v0.17.4 snapshot toggle a no-op.
Verified on real hardware (hAP-class switch): capability probe confirmed
/system/backup/save and scheduler add/remove work over the API; a guarded change
armed, applied, verified and committed leaving zero schedulers and zero files on
the device; disabling the api service was refused with 409. 133 backend tests
pass, including 7 guard state-machine tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to the decoder DoS fix (7e11115), closing the remaining hardening
items from the same adversarial-review triage.
Bounded template cache (was unbounded):
- Templates now carry a lastUsed timestamp, refreshed whenever one decodes data.
- New exported pruneTemplateCache() evicts templates idle past a TTL then
enforces a hard cap, least-recently-used first. The collector runs it on its
existing 60s map-refresh timer (30 min TTL, 10k entries) — no new timer.
Bounded per-source bookkeeping:
- unknownExporterIds is capped; sources beyond the cap share one overflow
pseudo-exporter instead of allocating a new id each (client attribution
doesn't depend on exporter identity, so only per-exporter stats coarsen).
- Pseudo ids now come from a monotonic counter rather than map size, so they
can't collide after eviction.
UDP ingress guards (the socket is unauthenticated by protocol design):
- Drop datagrams too small to carry a header before doing any parsing work.
- New PacketRateLimiter: fixed-window per-source cap (2000 pkt/s), with the
counter map cleared each window and a cap on distinct sources per window so
spoofed source IPs can't grow it.
- getStats() now reports packetsDropped and templatesCached.
Canonical IPv6 rendering:
- formatIPv6 applies RFC 5952 zero-compression (2001:db8::1, not the fully
expanded form) and unwraps IPv4-mapped addresses (::ffff:192.0.2.1 ->
192.0.2.1) so those flows match client/exporter IPs instead of appearing as
separate IPv6 endpoints.
Adds 7 tests (rate limiter windows//caps/isolation, cache TTL + LRU eviction,
lastUsed refresh, IPv6 canonical + mapped + no-run forms); 126 backend tests pass.
Verified live: flooding the collector with 3000 packets from one source dropped
614 once over the cap while the backend stayed healthy and served the API,
malicious templates were still refused (cache held only the 2 real ones), and
real exporter flows kept decoding right through it (260 -> 336).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A NetFlow v9/IPFIX template declaring a field of length 0 produced a template
with minLength 0. parseDataSet's loop condition (off + minLength <= setEnd) then
stayed true while the field pass advanced `off` by 0 — an infinite loop.
Impact: the collector socket is UDP and unauthenticated, so any host able to
reach the NetFlow port could hang the entire backend with a single 36-byte
packet — Node is single-threaded, so the event loop never yields again and the
API, poller, sockets and health checks all stop. Only reachable while NetFlow is
enabled (off by default).
Two layers of defense in decoder.ts:
- parseTemplates rejects any field with length 0 (meaningless in v9/IPFIX) and
refuses to cache a template whose computed minLength is 0.
- parseDataSet asserts forward progress: if a full field pass consumes no bytes,
break instead of spinning. Guards any future zero-width path.
Adds 5 regression tests covering the hang case, a zero-length field among valid
ones, a variable-length field whose length byte is 0, absurd/truncated field
lengths, and that valid v9/IPFIX traffic still decodes afterwards.
Verified: the exact packet that previously hung the process now returns
immediately with no template cached; 20 attack packets fired at the live
collector left the backend healthy and serving, and real exporter flows kept
decoding (102 -> 152 flows across the test). 119 backend tests pass.
Found via an adversarial review; the report identified the infinite loop but
attributed it to the variable-length branch, which provably terminates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Resolves#87 — virtual APs removed directly on the device (WinBox/WebFig) kept
showing in the radios/interface lists, and neither refresh button cleared them.
Two distinct bugs:
1. Stale rows. The collectors upsert every interface found on the device but
never removed rows for interfaces that disappeared, so deleted radios lingered
forever. Added a prune to collectWirelessInterfaces, collectInterfaces (same
bug for deleted VLANs/bridges/bonds) and collectSecurityProfiles, deleting
stored rows whose names are no longer present on the device.
Safety: the prune only runs when the device list was fetched successfully.
Fetches that previously swallowed errors into an empty array now return null
and skip the prune, so a transient API failure can never be mistaken for
"everything was deleted". /interface/print already throws on failure.
2. Full sync skipped wireless entirely. collectAll() — what POST /devices/:id/sync
runs — never called collectWirelessInterfaces/collectSecurityProfiles, so a
manual resync could not refresh radios or clear stale ones; only the 5-minute
slow poll touched them. collectAll now collects wireless data for wireless_ap
devices, making the fix reachable on demand.
Verified on a live hAP-class AP: injected a ghost virtual-AP row, ran a sync, and
the ghost was removed while all 7 real interfaces (and offline devices' rows)
were retained. 114 backend tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Resolves#86 — MikroTik Manager was attempting SSH connections to devices that
have no SSH credentials configured, flooding RouterOS logs with failed logins.
Cause: config snapshots (a separate feature from scheduled backups, enabled by
default, hourly) capture `/export` over SSH via BackupService.exportConfig, which
silently falls back to the API credentials for the SSH login. On devices where
SSH was never set up, that auth fails every interval (and on each restart), and
there was no UI switch to turn it off.
- PollerService.processConfigSnapJob now skips devices without SSH credentials,
so no SSH connection is attempted where SSH isn't configured. Manual "Capture
snapshot" / backup actions are unchanged (user-initiated, with error feedback).
- Add a "Configuration Snapshots" section to Settings → General: enable toggle,
interval, and retention (the feature was on-by-default with no UI control),
with a note that it runs over SSH and only on devices that have SSH creds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Address the actionable findings from an adversarial review:
- 2FA enrollment now requires the current password (/totp/setup), so a
hijacked session or XSS can't enable TOTP and lock the real user out.
SSO-only accounts (no local password) are told to set one first. Frontend
collects the password before starting setup.
- OIDC config rejects default_role='admin': auto-provisioning unmatched users
straight to admin is almost never intended — admin must come from an explicit
group → role mapping.
- Rate limiter no longer fails fully open on a Redis outage. Redis calls are
bounded by an 800ms timeout (the client uses maxRetriesPerRequest:null, so
commands would otherwise hang, not throw), and on failure a per-process
in-memory sliding-window fallback keeps /login and other limited endpoints
throttled. Verified with Redis stopped: attempts throttle (429) instead of
hanging or passing unlimited.
Findings intentionally not actioned: the "API-token auth is fire-and-forget"
report was a false positive (Express awaits next(), which is called inside the
promise), and the webhook DB-pool and JWT-revocation items are either
overstated or a separate architectural decision.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Address the open CodeQL code-scanning alerts:
- guestWifi voucher codes now use rejection sampling so the character
distribution is uniform (fixes js/biased-cryptographic-random).
- Scheduled-report recipient validation replaced the backtracking email regex
with a linear split-based check (fixes js/polynomial-redos).
- Add .github/codeql/codeql-config.yml excluding js/missing-rate-limiting:
rate limiting is applied globally via app.use('/api', rateLimitRedis) plus
per-route limiters, which CodeQL can't attribute to individual handlers, so
that rule fired ~38 false positives.
Remaining alerts are dismissed as accepted/false-positive (RouterOS MD5 API
login and self-signed cert acceptance are protocol-mandated; log sites already
strip CRLF).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add OpenID Connect single sign-on so the platform can authenticate against
any standards-compliant provider (Entra ID, Okta, Google Workspace, Keycloak,
Authentik, …) alongside local accounts. Resolves the feature request in #73.
Flow (backend-driven Authorization Code + PKCE):
- GET /api/auth/oidc/login builds the authorize URL and stores the PKCE/nonce
transaction in Redis (single-use, 10m TTL); the callback validates the ID
token via openid-client (JWKS signature, iss/aud/exp/nonce), resolves the
identity to a local user, and mints the platform's normal session JWT —
handed to the SPA via URL fragment. No sessions/cookies introduced.
Identity mapping (users table gains email/oidc_subject/oidc_issuer/
auth_provider; password_hash now nullable; partial unique indexes):
- First sign-in auto-provisions a user, or links to an existing local account
when the IdP email is verified and matches.
- Roles derive from a configurable IdP group -> role map with a default
fallback; existing users are never auto-demoted on a groupless login.
Configuration (admin-only, no env/redeploy needed):
- Stored as an app_settings row with the client secret encrypted at rest
(utils/crypto); masked in responses and excluded from GET /api/settings.
- New UI: Settings -> SSO / OIDC panel (issuer/client, claim + group->role
mapping, provisioning toggles, discovery test, copyable redirect URI), a
login-page SSO button, and an SSO badge in Users & Roles.
Security: local break-glass login preserved; PKCE + single-use state; email
linking requires email_verified; same-site-only post-login redirect.
Adds openid-client@^5 (CommonJS). 17 new unit tests (claim/role mapping,
username derivation, config secret round-trip/masking); 114 backend tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Update-availability fixes:
- The backend read its version from npm_package_version, which is unset
when the container runs `node dist/index.js` directly, so current was
always "0.0.0" and every release looked newer — the "update available"
banner never cleared. Read the bundled package.json instead
(routes/system.ts), falling back to npm_package_version.
- Move the update notification out of the top-of-app banner into the
Operations dashboard (a dedicated notice under the network-status hero),
shown only when genuinely behind and cleared once up to date.
Security banner:
- Replace the now-dead jwt_secret_default / encryption_key_default checks
with the current secrets_not_persisted warning (auto-generated secrets
that couldn't be persisted), matching the self-healing secrets model.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to the /terminal authorization fix: a full-codebase security
review surfaced several more issues, fixed here. All changes are designed
to roll out with no interruption to existing deployments — no forced
migration, no manual re-key, no boot failure.
Self-healing secret management (utils/secrets.ts):
- JWT_SECRET / ENCRYPTION_KEY auto-generate to strong values on first boot
and persist to the app_data volume (0600, outside the DB) when not set
to a strong value in the environment. Replaces the prior behavior of
running on the public repo defaults.
- decrypt() tries the current key plus every legacy/default key, so
existing device credentials keep decrypting after a key change; a
startup sweep re-encrypts stale rows forward (db/reencryptCredentials.ts).
- verifyToken() accepts the current signing secret plus prior *strong*
secrets (never the public defaults), so rotation doesn't invalidate live
sessions; sessions signed with a default secret require one re-login.
- Dockerfile pre-creates /app/data as the app user so the non-root
process can persist to a fresh named volume; app_data volume added to
both compose files; compose secret defaults changed to empty (auto-gen).
Authorization / input:
- Default Socket.IO namespace now requires a valid JWT (was unauthenticated
and broadcasting fleet-activity events); frontend sends the token and
drops the shared socket on logout.
- Webhook delivery blocks SSRF to loopback/private/link-local/CGNAT ranges
and pins the request to the validated IP (WebhookService.ts).
- Rate limit added to /auth/totp/verify; global mutation backstop on /api.
- Password policy (>=10 chars, letter+digit) enforced on set/change/create.
- system.ts used verifyToken as middleware (always 500); now requireAuth.
Hardening:
- CSP + HSTS/nosniff/frame-deny headers in nginx, scoped to allow the
OpenStreetMap tile/geocoding hosts the maps use.
Docs/tests:
- README secret section rewritten for the self-healing model.
- New unit tests for secret resolution, persistence, rotation, and
legacy-key decryption (97 tests pass).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Socket.IO /terminal namespace validated the JWT but discarded the
role, so a read-only viewer (403'd on every REST write) could connect
and open an interactive SSH shell on any managed device using the
device's stored router-admin credentials — a full bypass of the role
model (reported CVSS 9.6).
- Gate the namespace handshake by role: only admin/operator may connect;
viewers are rejected with "Console access denied for this role".
- Re-check the role at the start handler (defense in depth) and attach
the verified payload to socket.data.
- Audit-log terminal session opens (and rate-limit hits) to audit_log.
- Rate-limit shell starts per user (5 / 60s, in-memory sliding window).
- Frontend: gate the Terminal button (DeviceDetailPage) and dashboard
"Open terminal" quick action behind canWrite so viewers don't see it.
Validated on the local docker stack: viewer rejected from /terminal,
admin still connects; viewer remains 403 on POST /api/devices.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New GET /api/firmware/changelog/:version proxies MikroTik's official
per-version release notes (download.mikrotik.com/routeros/<ver>/CHANGELOG)
with strict version validation and process-lifetime caching
- ChangelogModal: "What's new in X.Y.Z" on the device Config tab's
update box and on the Firmware page's latest-version cells opens the
changelog in-app, with an external mikrotik.com link and graceful
fallback when the CDN is unreachable
- Security posture: a pending RouterOS update is now a medium-severity
finding and a pending RouterBOOT upgrade a low-severity one; titles
are version-free so Common Findings aggregates the fleet into one row
- chore(deps): npm audit fix bumps morgan (GHSA-4vj7-5mj6-jm8m); both
workspaces audit clean
Validation: backend tsc/lint/92 tests, frontend tsc/lint/build/11 tests,
endpoint tested (valid/invalid/unknown versions), browser-verified on
Firmware page, device Config tab, Security Center, and device Security
tab; security review of the diff found no findings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Guest WiFi (Hotspot): one-click captive-portal wizard that creates the guest
SSID (virtual AP per radio), VLAN/bridge segregation + L3 VLAN interface, pool,
DHCP, portal, rate-limited guest profile, and masquerade; vouchers with limits +
printable sheets; live guest sessions; walled garden.
Network intelligence: per-client device fingerprinting (vendor/hostname →
category) with a persisted per-client override on the detail page; rogue/neighbor
AP detection from stored AP scans (evil-twin flagging); Mist-style anomaly
insights (client-count/CPU vs same-hour 14-day baseline + error bursts) in the
Operations engine.
Firmware orchestration: staged wave-based RouterOS rollouts (canary first) with
pre-upgrade backup, reboot-ride-out, version verification, halt-on-failure, and
scheduling; live per-device progress + cancel.
Platform & automation: scoped API tokens (mtm_, read/write, hashed at rest,
Bearer auth in requireAuth); outbound webhooks (12 events, HMAC-signed) fired
from the alert pipeline + firmware orchestrator; scheduled email reports.
api-ssl: RouterOSClient negotiates TLS on port 8729 and accepts RouterOS's
default self-signed certs (rejectUnauthorized:false), so SSL-secured API devices
connect without manual cert trust. Fixes#57.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Global search:
- Clicking/Enter on a client result now opens that client's detail page
(/clients/<mac>) instead of dumping to the clients list.
Operations dashboard (new backend route /api/operations):
- GET /insights: server-side attention engine (offline, updates, CPU/memory
pressure, missing backups, recent outages, weak WiFi clients, co-channel
overlap, high TX retries, error events) + per-device capacity + merged
activity feed (config changes, audit actions, alerts; login noise filtered).
- POST /backup-all and /sync-all: fleet-wide actions over online devices.
- Quick Actions now execute: Run discovery, Backup all, Sync config, and
Open terminal (device picker -> live SSH TerminalModal); inline status.
- New cards: Capacity & health meters, Security posture rollup (reuses
per-device posture, cached), Recent activity feed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wireless RF Health (fleet Wireless page + per-AP Radios tab):
- Channel usage map across 2.4/5/6 GHz with co-channel overlap; operating
channel resolved live from /interface/wifi/monitor on the wifi package
(auto-channel radios report no frequency in /print).
- AP deployment density: client RSSI distribution on the -90..-30 dBm scale
with a coverage-gap warning.
- AP radio TX retries histogram (0%->35%+) with band selector, derived from
per-client CCQ (new wireless_radio_quality InfluxDB series).
- WiFi connectivity success funnel (Association/Auth/DHCP) derived from logs.
Per-port connected clients (Ports tab):
- New card lists clients physically connected to a selected port (host/MAC/
IP/VLAN/connection time, linked to client pages).
- Distinguishes physical clients from the raw MAC table: uplink/trunk ports
are auto-detected (topology neighbor, multi-VLAN MAC spread, or high MAC
count) and show an uplink explainer + "view MAC table" disclosure instead
of every reachable MAC.
- Added clients.first_seen ("connected since"); set once, preserved across polls.
- Traffic by Application: donut + legend side-by-side, larger donut with
center total label, percentage in tooltip; card now sizes to its content
- New Inbound Packets area chart below the throughput chart (packets field
now summed per direction in /traffic/timeseries)
- New Flow Sources & Data Health card: collector listening state, packets
received, flows attributed, attribution rate, per-exporter flow/packet
counts and last-seen; low-attribution hint for NAT-in-path exporters
- /traffic/apps now returns per-app packets alongside bytes
- Restructured bottom row: Top Talkers (left) | Application + Data Health
stacked (right) for alignment
- Tightened Top Talkers row spacing
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
UI/UX refinements on top of v0.14.0-beta, all validated on the test server:
- Logo: new theme-aware compass iconmark (light/dark SVGs swapped via the
dark class), sized to 45px; favicon updated to match. Wordmark casing
corrected to "MikroTik Manager" (font size unchanged).
- Navigation icons enlarged 15 -> 17px.
- Dashboard: "Connected clients" line chart converted to a bar chart with a
category axis + light downsampling so bars stay readably thick across ranges.
- Clients: sorting is now server-side across the whole dataset (was sorting
only the current page, so Type/others appeared to do nothing on a uniform
page); table uses a fixed column layout + keepPreviousData so columns no
longer jump or blank out when sorting/paging. Backend clients route gains
whitelisted sort/dir params (safe numeric IP sort, deterministic tiebreaker).
- Connections tab: surfaces the live /ip/firewall/connection/tracking state
(on/auto/off pill) and clearer empty-state copy explaining auto-mode.
Lint/typecheck/build/jest green in both workspaces; npm audit --audit-level=high
clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A dedicated top-level Security section plus a Meraki/UniFi-grade firewall built
on the full RouterOS feature set.
Security Center (new /security page)
- Fleet hardening scores, per-device posture list, and a "Common Findings"
rollup aggregating identical issues across the fleet
- "Manage" deep-links into the device's Security tab (?tab= support added)
Firewall & NAT (per device + in Security Center)
- Friendly rule builder: Allow/Drop/Reject chips, Any/Address/Address-List
pickers, port presets, connection-state chips, logging, live plain-English
preview
- Address lists as reusable objects, referenced from rules
- Rule reordering (/ip/firewall/{filter,nat}/move); per-rule hit counters
(print stats) with dead-rule highlighting + reset
- NAT wizards: Port Forward / Masquerade / 1:1 NAT + Custom
- Safe-apply lockout guard: backend 409 on an unscoped input drop/reject that
would sever management; UI confirms before forcing (detectLockoutRisk, tested)
Access & security
- Security posture audit: graduated, de-duplicated scoring that never proposes
disabling the management service the platform connects through (no self-
lockout); switch-aware input-firewall severity; service hardening table
- Bandwidth: simple-queue CRUD + one-click "Limit this client" on client detail
- Active connections viewer
These L3 features are available on all managed RouterOS devices (routers,
switches, APs), not gated by device type.
Backend: DeviceCollector address-list/move/stats/connections/queues/service
methods; device routes for all of the above; firewallSafety + firewallSummary
utils with unit tests (19 new).
Security: bump nodemailer 8 -> 9.0.1 to clear GHSA-p6gq-j5cr-w38f (our
createTransport/sendMail usage is unaffected by the advisory's raw-option path).
Verified live against RouterOS devices; lint/typecheck/build/jest green in both
workspaces; npm audit --audit-level=high clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The two per-client usage charts exposed different time windows: "Wireless
Usage" offered 2h/24h/7d while "App Traffic (NetFlow)" offered 1h/24h/7d/30d.
Worse, selecting 1h (or any range with no flows in window) made the whole
App Traffic card unmount — including its range buttons, so it couldn't be
recovered without reloading.
- AppTrafficCard now uses 2h/24h/7d (default 24h), matching Wireless Usage
- Card visibility latches on first non-empty result, so switching to an
empty range shows an inline "No traffic data yet for this range" state
instead of unmounting the card (latch derived via guarded setState in
render — no effect)
- Backend /api/traffic/* now accepts the '2h' range (rangeToFlux +
windowForRange: 2h -> 2m buckets); previously '2h' silently fell back to 24h
Verified in the live stack with Playwright: ranges render as 2h/24h/7d (no
1h/30d), and clicking 2h on a client with data only outside the 2h window
keeps the card mounted with an empty-state and recovers on switching back.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Configuration History:
- Per-device snapshots from the full RouterOS /export (.rsc) — config-only, so
counters/operational state no longer cause phantom changes; deduped by content hash
- New Config History tab: snapshot timeline, readable line diff, on-demand Capture
(with honest 'no changes' feedback), one-click rollback via the linked .rsc backup
- Snapshot and its backup are one artifact: badged 'Config Snapshot' on the Backups
page, FK ON DELETE CASCADE keeps them in lockstep; delete is gated by a warning modal
- New config_drift alert event (off by default); periodic snapshot poll with
configurable cadence/retention (config_snapshot_interval_min/_retention)
- New endpoints under /api/config-history (list/get/diff/capture/rollback/delete)
Scheduled Backups:
- Replaced the raw cron textbox in Settings with Frequency (Daily/Weekly/Monthly)
+ time + day pickers; cron is generated/parsed behind the scenes
- Fixed cronMatchesNow to evaluate day-of-month/month/day-of-week (it previously
only checked minute/hour, so weekly/monthly schedules ran every day)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause: backend filtered switches by status='online', so a mid-poll-cycle
device (briefly 'unknown') caused the endpoint to return [] — and the frontend
rendered nothing when the array was empty.
- Backend: query ALL switch devices (not just online ones); unreachable devices
already fall through to the Promise.allSettled error path and render with an
error badge, so no data is lost
- Frontend: replace silent `length > 0 &&` guard with a three-way ternary that
shows a "No managed switches found" message when the array is empty, so the
user always sees feedback instead of a blank section
- Frontend: add staleTime: 60_000 to the SNMP query to prevent the hair-trigger
background refetch that raced with the poller on every navigation
Backend: GET /api/system/version-check fetches frontend/package.json from
the main branch on GitHub, caches result in app_settings for 24 hours,
and compares semver against the running version. Fails silently (no banner)
for air-gapped or firewalled deployments.
Frontend: dismissible blue update banner in SecurityBanners (rendered
between TopBar and main content) — only visible when a newer version is
detected. Shows target version and docker compose update command.
Backend: accept target_device_id — connect to target, enable btest
server, run test from source using target credentials, disable server
in finally (even on failure). Manual IP mode preserved as fallback.
Frontend: device picker dropdown (all managed devices except self) as
default mode; toggle to Manual IP for non-managed targets with a warning
that the server must be pre-enabled. Results show target IP in labels.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After sniffer stops, poll /file/print every 500ms (up to 10s) until
RouterOS reports the capture file, then use the exact 'name' field as
the SFTP path. Falls back to stripping the leading slash if the first
attempt gets "No such file". Eliminates the hardcoded path assumption.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Frontend: blob error responses (from responseType:'blob' calls) are now
decoded back to text/JSON so the actual backend error message surfaces
in the UI instead of generic "Request failed with status code 500"
- Backend: step-by-step console.log through capture flow so the exact
failure point is visible in server logs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
RouterOS SFTP root maps to the device filesystem root, not /flash/.
Capture file is written as /<name>.pcap, not /flash/<name>.pcap.
Also stop any in-progress capture before reconfiguring, add a 2s
flush delay between sniffer stop and SFTP download, improve error
messages to expose exact failure point, and delete remote file after download.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Packet capture: RouterOS sniffer + SFTP download to PCAP for Wireshark analysis
- Bandwidth test: RouterOS /tool/bandwidth-test with TX/RX Mbps result display
- Both exposed in the Tools tab on device detail pages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add 'Copy VLANs from Another Switch' — a 3-step modal available on the
VLANs tab of any switch device. Step 1 selects a source switch and which
VLAN IDs to copy (VLAN 1 deselected by default with a management risk
warning). Step 2 lets the user assign interfaces on the target device
per VLAN: clicking a port chip cycles it through None → Tagged → Untagged
→ None, with a live summary and bridge picker per VLAN. Conflict detection
identifies VLANs already present on the target and offers per-VLAN
Skip/Overwrite with the port grid disabling itself when Skip is active.
Step 3 shows the full plan before a single apply call executes all
operations over one device connection and reports per-VLAN results.
Also fix CPU load display on the Devices page for hardware switches that
report 0% CPU via ASIC offloading — the previous filter (v > 0) silently
dropped all valid zero readings; now filters on field presence instead.
New Syslog page under Network Services exposes RouterOS logging actions
and routing rules with full CRUD. Logging actions define destinations
(remote syslog server, memory, disk, echo); logging rules define which
topics route to which action.
Single Device and All Devices modes are functionally identical — All
Devices applies changes across every online device in parallel and
shows per-entry coverage badges indicating which devices have each
action or rule. Toggle enable/disable works in both modes.
Remote actions display address:port with facility/severity in a single
Destination column; memory/disk/echo rows show no irrelevant remote
fields. Syslog KPI card added to the Network Services overview.
RouterOS vs RouterBOOT distinction:
- Rename "Firmware Updates" → "RouterOS Updates" everywhere (Config tab,
dashboard banner, devices list tooltip) to accurately reflect what is
being updated
- Add RouterBOOT bootloader upgrade support as a distinct operation:
new DeviceCollector methods checkRouterboardUpgrade() and
installRouterboardUpgrade() using /system/routerboard/print and
/system/routerboard/upgrade
- New API endpoints: POST /api/devices/:id/check-routerboard and
POST /api/devices/:id/install-routerboard
- Daily poller now also checks RouterBOOT upgrade status while already
connected during firmware check cycle, with first-discovery alerts
Config tab update panel:
- Combine RouterOS and RouterBOOT into a single "Software & Firmware
Updates" card with two subsections separated by a divider
- Pre-populate both sections from stored DB state on load — no longer
requires a manual "Check" click to see a known pending update
- Enforce update order: when both are pending, show a blue info banner
explaining RouterOS must be installed first, and disable the
RouterBOOT "Upgrade & Reboot" button until the RouterOS update clears
- Fix GET /api/devices/:id to include firmware_update_available,
latest_ros_version, routerboard_upgrade_available, upgrade_firmware_version
(these were missing from the detail endpoint)
Dashboard & devices list:
- Combined amber banner now shows two distinct rows: RouterOS (N) with
device links and RouterBOOT (N) with device links — one dismiss for both
- Devices list: amber ArrowUpCircle = RouterOS update, blue Cpu icon =
RouterBOOT upgrade, each with distinct tooltips
- Fix GET /api/devices (list) to include routerboard_upgrade_available and
upgrade_firmware_version (these were missing, causing RouterBOOT
notifications to never appear on the dashboard)
DB migration:
- Add routerboard_upgrade_available BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE
- Add upgrade_firmware_version VARCHAR(20)
Discovery system fixes:
- Fix duplicate entries: replace single-key (mac || ip || identity) dedup
with three cross-referenced indexes so a neighbor seen via LLDP by one
device and via MNDP by another always merges into one row
- Fix offline devices persisting: handleDeviceFailure now deletes
topology_links for the offline device (same pattern as clients)
- Add periodic stale-link sweep every 15 min that removes topology_links
rows older than 20 min as a safety net for devices that go offline
without cleanly triggering handleDeviceFailure
* fix(security): default-secret banners, login rate limiting, real-IP passthrough
- app.set('trust proxy', 1) so req.ip resolves to real client IP behind nginx
- loginRateLimit() middleware on POST /api/auth/login; limits read from
app_settings (login_rate_limit_max / login_rate_limit_window_sec) with
60-second cache; falls back to 10/60s when Redis/DB unavailable
- GET /api/auth/security-status returns warnings for default JWT_SECRET,
ENCRYPTION_KEY, and admin/admin credential — non-breaking for dev
- SecurityBanners component in AppLayout: yellow banner for default secrets,
red banner + change-password link for default admin password
- Login rate limit settings exposed in Settings > General tab
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(security): rate-limit /security-status, suppress CodeQL false positive on /login
- Add allMethods option to rateLimitRedis so it can apply to GET routes
- Apply rateLimitRedis (10 req/60s per user) to GET /auth/security-status
to prevent bcrypt-based CPU exhaustion by authenticated users
- Add lgtm suppression comment on POST /login — CodeQL does not recognize
our custom loginRateLimit() middleware; rate limiting is in place
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Denis Evers <git@evers.sh>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* devices: hide discovered neighbors that are already managed
Discovered Devices showed every unresolved MikroTik neighbor, even when
the neighbor was obviously the same device a managed node is reporting
through a different link / MAC / alias. Since we already know every
managed device interface MAC, primary IP, and system identity, we can
flag those rows.
- /api/devices/discovered now annotates each row with duplicate_of_device_id
and duplicate_of_device_name when the neighbor matches a managed device
by interface MAC, primary IP, or system identity.
- Add a Hide duplicates of managed devices toggle (default on) above the
table, with a count of how many matches were found. When enabled, the
list hides matched rows; when disabled, matches stay visible but are
dimmed and tagged Already managed so the origin is clear.
- Suppress the Add to Manager action for rows that are already a
managed device, since adding them would create a second record for the
same hardware.
Co-authored-by: Denis <denis-ev@users.noreply.github.com>
* devices: safer duplicate handling, try-all safeguards, and timezone/firmware fixes
Co-authored-by: Denis <denis-ev@users.noreply.github.com>
* Non-blocking follow-ups: parsePort util, tests, bulk-add queue, preset rate limit
Co-authored-by: Denis <denis-ev@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(security): tighten CORS, Redis rate limits, and preset access controls
Require explicit CORS origins in production, align Socket.IO CORS with HTTP,
default Docker Compose to local HTTPS origins, and remove the in-memory
mutation limiter in favor of Redis. Also add operator-use flags for credential
presets in the UI and harden bulk-add job access and client error messages.
Co-authored-by: Denis <denis-ev@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: Cursor Agent <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Squash-merge of PR #28 from @denis-ev. All three review blockers addressed: encryption key management documented, string truncation replaced with skip+warn validation, and undefined return on duplicate merge fixed with proper 500. Local test stack verified against cloned prod DB — migrations, new features, and backend all clean.
Sets up Jest + ts-jest for the backend and adds 47 tests across 5
suites covering crypto utilities, OUI vendor lookup, auth middleware,
AlertService dispatch/cooldown logic, and DeviceCollector uptime parsing.
2GT-RichandClaude Opus 4.8
