LibreChat/api/server/middleware/limiters/messageLimiters.js
Brad Russell ecd6d76bc8
🚦 fix: ERR_ERL_INVALID_IP_ADDRESS and IPv6 Key Collisions in IP Rate Limiters (#12319)
* fix: Add removePorts keyGenerator to all IP-based rate limiters

Six IP-based rate limiters are missing the `keyGenerator: removePorts`
option that is already used by the auth-related limiters (login,
register, resetPassword, verifyEmail). Without it, reverse proxies that
include ports in X-Forwarded-For headers cause
ERR_ERL_INVALID_IP_ADDRESS errors from express-rate-limit.

Fixes #12318

* fix: make removePorts IPv6-safe to prevent rate-limit key collisions

The original regex `/:\d+[^:]*$/` treated the last colon-delimited
segment of bare IPv6 addresses as a port, mangling valid IPs
(e.g. `::1` → `::`, `2001:db8::1` → `2001:db8::`). Distinct IPv6
clients could collapse into the same rate-limit bucket.

Use `net.isIP()` as a fast path for already-valid IPs, then match
bracketed IPv6+port and IPv4+port explicitly. Bare IPv6 addresses
are now returned unchanged.

Also fixes pre-existing property ordering inconsistency in
ttsLimiters.js userLimiterOptions (keyGenerator before store).

* refactor: move removePorts to packages/api as TypeScript, fix import order

- Move removePorts implementation to packages/api/src/utils/removePorts.ts
  with proper Express Request typing
- Reduce api/server/utils/removePorts.js to a thin re-export from
  @librechat/api for backward compatibility
- Consolidate removePorts import with limiterCache from @librechat/api
  in all 6 limiter files, fixing import order (package imports shortest
  to longest, local imports longest to shortest)
- Remove narrating inline comments per code style guidelines

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Co-authored-by: Danny Avila <danny@librechat.ai>
2026-03-19 21:48:03 -04:00

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const rateLimit = require('express-rate-limit');
const { ViolationTypes } = require('librechat-data-provider');
const { limiterCache, removePorts } = require('@librechat/api');
const denyRequest = require('~/server/middleware/denyRequest');
const { logViolation } = require('~/cache');
const {
MESSAGE_IP_MAX = 40,
MESSAGE_IP_WINDOW = 1,
MESSAGE_USER_MAX = 40,
MESSAGE_USER_WINDOW = 1,
MESSAGE_VIOLATION_SCORE: score,
} = process.env;
const ipWindowMs = MESSAGE_IP_WINDOW * 60 * 1000;
const ipMax = MESSAGE_IP_MAX;
const ipWindowInMinutes = ipWindowMs / 60000;
const userWindowMs = MESSAGE_USER_WINDOW * 60 * 1000;
const userMax = MESSAGE_USER_MAX;
const userWindowInMinutes = userWindowMs / 60000;
/**
* Creates either an IP/User message request rate limiter for excessive requests
* that properly logs and denies the violation.
*
* @param {boolean} [ip=true] - Whether to create an IP limiter or a user limiter.
* @returns {function} A rate limiter function.
*
*/
const createHandler = (ip = true) => {
return async (req, res) => {
const type = ViolationTypes.MESSAGE_LIMIT;
const errorMessage = {
type,
max: ip ? ipMax : userMax,
limiter: ip ? 'ip' : 'user',
windowInMinutes: ip ? ipWindowInMinutes : userWindowInMinutes,
};
await logViolation(req, res, type, errorMessage, score);
return await denyRequest(req, res, errorMessage);
};
};
/**
* Message request rate limiters
*/
const ipLimiterOptions = {
windowMs: ipWindowMs,
max: ipMax,
handler: createHandler(),
keyGenerator: removePorts,
store: limiterCache('message_ip_limiter'),
};
const userLimiterOptions = {
windowMs: userWindowMs,
max: userMax,
handler: createHandler(false),
keyGenerator: function (req) {
return req.user?.id;
},
store: limiterCache('message_user_limiter'),
};
/**
* Message request rate limiter by IP
*/
const messageIpLimiter = rateLimit(ipLimiterOptions);
/**
* Message request rate limiter by userId
*/
const messageUserLimiter = rateLimit(userLimiterOptions);
module.exports = {
messageIpLimiter,
messageUserLimiter,
};