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Discard notes made before Fedi's existence, or after today (#9605)

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This PR should kill #9531 - Safeguarding against posts that are made before 2007 (Identica being made in 2008, the 'first ever activitypub software' according to wikipedia.)

Personally, if gone unnoticed, I believe that notes from the past can be used as an attack vector to silently flood a database.

Co-authored-by: Kio-td <kio.thedev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/calckey/calckey/pulls/9605
Co-authored-by: daikei <daikei@noreply.codeberg.org>
Co-committed-by: daikei <daikei@noreply.codeberg.org>
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daikei 2023-02-11 21:05:31 +00:00 committed by Kainoa Kanter
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packages/backend/src/remote/activitypub/models/note.ts
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@ -125,6 +125,23 @@ export async function createNote(
logger.info(`Creating the Note: ${note.id}`);
// Skip if note is made before 2007 (1yr before Fedi was created)
// OR skip if note is made 3 days in advance
if (note.published) {
const DateChecker = new Date(note.published)
const FutureCheck = new Date()
FutureCheck.setDate(FutureCheck.getDate() + 3) // Allow some wiggle room for misconfigured hosts
if (DateChecker.getFullYear() < 2007) {
logger.warn('Note somehow made before Activitypub was created; discarding');
return null;
}
if (DateChecker > FutureCheck) {
logger.warn('Note somehow made after today; discarding')
return null;
}
}
// Fetch author
const actor = (await resolvePerson(
getOneApId(note.attributedTo),