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Siavash Sameni dceaf82934 audit: 2026-05-30 full-codebase audit — report, issues, docs, runbooks
Full-codebase-audit 2026-05-30 outputs:
- Audit report: 09 - Audits/Full Codebase Audit - 2026-05-30.md
- 81 issue files ISSUE-055..135 (decisions + 1 skipped no-brainer).
- Scanner docs from scratch (was zero): architecture, data model, API ref, payment
  flow, operations runbook + repo README.
- Doc-sync updates across API reference, data models, flows, design system.
- Secret Rotation Runbook (08 - Operations) for the exposed credentials.
- Reusable workflow guide (07 - Development) + .claude/workflows/full-codebase-audit.js.

Issues remain status:open intentionally — the code fixes are uncommitted-then-committed
working-tree changes per repo and aren't "resolved" until merged/deployed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 18:48:04 +04:00

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issue, title, severity, domain, labels, status, created, source
issue title severity domain labels status created source
092 Backend: JWT refresh and access tokens share the same secret; middleware skips token type check medium Authentication
security
backend
jwt
open 2026-05-30 Full Codebase Audit 2026-05-30

Backend: JWT refresh and access tokens share the same secret; middleware skips token type check

Severity: medium Domain: Authentication Labels: security, backend, jwt

Description

src/services/auth/authService.ts:44 signs both access and refresh tokens with the same secret. authenticateToken middleware does not check token.type, so a refresh token can be presented as an access token and accepted by protected routes.

Options

  1. Add a type:'access' claim check in authenticateToken middleware (reject type:'refresh').
  2. Use separate secrets for access vs refresh tokens.
  3. Add audience/issuer claims and verify them in middleware.

Recommendation

Enforce a token-type check in the middleware (reject refresh tokens) and ideally split secrets. Both changes touch core auth verification.

Affected Files

  • backend/src/services/auth/authService.ts:44
  • backend/src/middleware/authenticateToken.ts (or equivalent)

References