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- ---
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- name: api-security-auditor
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- description: API Security auditing mastery. Rate limiting architecture, API key management, payload validation, IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference) prevention, mass assignment flaws, GraphQL security, and server-side mitigations. Use when building external APIs, B2B services, or reviewing endpoint security.
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- allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep
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- version: 2.0.0
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- last-updated: 2026-04-02
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- applies-to-model: gemini-2.5-pro, claude-3-7-sonnet
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- ---
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- # API Security Auditor — Endpoint Hardening Mastery
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- > If an API endpoint exists, it will be abused.
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- > Security is not a perimeter; it is embedded deeply within every individual route controller.
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- ## Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR)
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- IDOR occurs when an application provides direct access to objects based on user-supplied input without authorization checks.
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- ```typescript
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- // ❌ VULNERABLE: Trusting the requested ID blindly
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- app.get("/api/receipts/:id", async (req, res) => {
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- const receipt = await db.receipts.findById(req.params.id);
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- res.json(receipt); // Attack: Increment ID to view others' receipts
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- app.get("/api/receipts/:id", async (req, res) => {
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- if (!receipt) return res.status(404).send();
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- if (receipt.userId !== req.user.id && req.user.role !== "admin") {
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- // ✅ BEST: Using UUIDv4/CUID/NanoID instead of sequential integers
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- ## Mass Assignment (Overposting)
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- 2. **Sequential IDs:** AI defaults to `id INT AUTO_INCREMENT`. Demand UUIDs/CUIDs for external facing IDs.
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- 3. **Mass Assignment via Spread:** `update({...req.body})` is an extremely common AI hallucination that allows role elevation.
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- 4. **Missing Pagination Bounds:** AI writes `LIMIT ${req.query.limit}`. Attackers send `limit=10000000`. Hard limit the boundaries.
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- 5. **API Keys in Query Strings:** AI writes `fetch('/api/data?apiKey=123')`. Keys belong in headers.
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- 6. **In-Memory Rate Limiting:** AI writes simple arrays/memory maps for rate limiting, which fail instantly in multi-pod deployments.
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- 7. **Returning Stack Traces:** AI error handlers often map `err.message` or `err.stack` straight to the JSON response in production.
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- 8. **Blind Pagination Links:** Returning exact internal DB IDs in 'next' cursors can leak information.
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- 9. **CORS Misconfiguration:** Returning `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` while also allowing credentials.
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- 10. **JSON Denial of Service:** AI rarely limits request body sizes. Attackers send 2GB JSON blobs to crash Node.js. Use `express.json({ limit: '100kb' })`.
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- ## 🏛️ Tribunal Integration
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- ### ✅ Pre-Flight Self-Audit
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- ```
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- ✅ Are resource endpoints strictly verifying ownership (IDOR prevention)?
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- ✅ Are object updates extracting specific fields instead of `req.body` directly?
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- ✅ Is pagination hard-capped at a reasonable maximum (e.g., 100)?
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- ✅ Are API keys heavily hashed in the database?
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- ✅ Are API keys strictly required via headers, not query parameters?
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- ✅ Is rate-limiting backed by a centralized store (Redis)?
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- ✅ Does the server explicitly cap JSON payload sizes (`limit: '100kb'`)?
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- ✅ Are external-facing resource IDs random/UUID-based, not sequential?
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- ✅ Have stack traces and verbose errors been disabled for production?
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- ✅ For GraphQL: Is query depth restricted and introspection turned off?
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- ```
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+ ---
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+ name: api-security-auditor
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+ description: API Security auditing mastery. Rate limiting architecture, API key management, payload validation, IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference) prevention, mass assignment flaws, GraphQL security, and server-side mitigations. Use when building external APIs, B2B services, or reviewing endpoint security.
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+ allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep
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+ version: 2.0.0
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+ last-updated: 2026-04-02
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+ applies-to-model: gemini-2.5-pro, claude-3-7-sonnet
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+ ---
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+
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+ # API Security Auditor — Endpoint Hardening Mastery
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR)
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+
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+ IDOR occurs when an application provides direct access to objects based on user-supplied input without authorization checks.
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+
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+ ```typescript
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+ // VULNERABLE: Trusting the requested ID blindly
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+ app.get("/api/receipts/:id", async (req, res) => {
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+ const receipt = await db.receipts.findById(req.params.id);
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+ res.json(receipt); // Attack: Increment ID to view others' receipts
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+ });
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+
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+ // ✅ SAFE: Verifying ownership
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+ app.get("/api/receipts/:id", async (req, res) => {
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+ const receipt = await db.receipts.findById(req.params.id);
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+ if (!receipt) return res.status(404).send();
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+
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+ // Explicit tenancy check
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+ if (receipt.userId !== req.user.id && req.user.role !== "admin") {
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+ return res.status(403).json({ error: "Access denied" });
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+ }
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+
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+ res.json(receipt);
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+ });
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+
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+ // ✅ BEST: Using UUIDv4/CUID/NanoID instead of sequential integers
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+ // Attackers cannot guess standard UUIDs, heavily mitigating IDOR risks.
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Mass Assignment (Overposting)
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+
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+ Occurs when web frameworks automatically bind HTTP request parameters to application models without filtering.
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+
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+ ```typescript
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+ // VULNERABLE: Direct object binding
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+ app.put("/api/users/:id", async (req, res) => {
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+ // Attack: req.body = { name: "Bob", role: "admin", isPaid: true }
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+ await db.users.update({ id: req.params.id }, req.body);
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+ res.send("Updated");
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+ });
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+
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+ // ✅ SAFE: Explicit property selection (DTOs)
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+ app.put("/api/users/:id", async (req, res) => {
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+ // Only extract explicitly allowed fields
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+ const { name, email, bio } = req.body;
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+ const safeData = { name, email, bio };
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+
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+ await db.users.update({ id: req.params.id }, safeData);
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+ res.send("Updated");
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+ });
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+
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+ // ✅ BEST: Validation libraries (Zod, Joi) handling stripping
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+ const UpdateUserSchema = z.object({
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+ name: z.string().min(2),
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+ email: z.string().email(),
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+ }).strict(); // `.strict()` throws if "role" or "isPaid" is passed
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Rate Limiting Architecture
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+
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+ ```typescript
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+ // Basic Rate Limiting (Express)
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+ import rateLimit from "express-rate-limit";
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+ import RedisStore from "rate-limit-redis";
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+
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+ // Global baseline limit
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+ export const globalLimiter = rateLimit({
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+ store: new RedisStore({ client: redisClient }),
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+ windowMs: 15 * 60 * 1000, // 15 min
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+ max: 100, // Limit each IP to 100 reqs per window
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+ standardHeaders: true, // Return rate limit info in the `RateLimit-*` headers
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+ });
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+
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+ // Aggressive endpoint-specific limit (Login, Password Reset)
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+ export const authLimiter = rateLimit({
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+ store: new RedisStore({ client: redisClient }),
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+ windowMs: 60 * 60 * 1000, // 1 Hour
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+ max: 5, // 5 login attempts per IP per hour
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+ message: "Too many login attempts, please try again later"
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+ });
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+
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+ // ❌ HALLUCINATION TRAP: In-memory rate limiting across multiple server pods
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+ // If you use basic memory stores in a load-balanced environment (K8s, ECS),
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+ // an attacker has `limit * num_pods` attempts. Always use a centralized store (Redis).
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## API Key Management
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+
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+ ```
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+ Best Practices for issuance and storage:
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+ 1. Format: Prefix keys to identify them and allow secret scanners to find them easily.
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+ - Example: `pk_live_8a9b...` (Stripe pattern).
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+ 2. Storage: NEVER store plaintext API keys in the DB.
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+ - Hash them using SHA-256 (not bcrypt, because API keys are high entropy/long).
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+ - Only show the user the plaintext key ONCE upon creation.
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+ 3. Transport: API keys must only be accepted via Headers, never in Query Params.
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+ - `Authorization: Bearer pk_live_123`
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+ - Query params are logged in server access logs and browser histories.
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## GraphQL Security Vectors
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+ ```typescript
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+ // GraphQL introduces unique DoS vectors not found in REST
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+ // 1. Query Depth Limiting (Prevent nested joins crushing the DB)
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+ // User -> Posts -> Comments -> Author -> Posts -> Comments...
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+ import depthLimit from 'graphql-depth-limit';
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+ app.use('/graphql', graphqlHTTP({ validationRules: [depthLimit(5)] }));
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+
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+ // 2. Query Cost Analysis
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+ // Prevent attackers from requesting 100,000 items in a single query
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+ // Implement cursor pagination and enforce `first: 100` limits.
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+
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+ // 3. Introspection Disabled in Production
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+ // Introspection allows attackers to download your entire schema.
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+ const server = new ApolloServer({
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+ schema,
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+ introspection: process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production'
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+ });
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---