Reviewing the error handlers outside instances/ turned up three that masked or
swallowed the failure they caught:
- appsettings/settings.get_settings() runs on every request (middleware) and
loads app_settings from the database. Its bare `except: pass` left `entries`
unbound on a database error, so the next line raised UnboundLocalError
instead; it also caught KeyboardInterrupt/SystemExit. It now catches
DatabaseError and returns, keeping the already-loaded values.
- vrtManager.network.refresh_dhcp_leases raised a formatted string
(`raise f"..."`), which Python rejects with TypeError, hiding the real
DHCPLeases failure. It now raises util.OperationError, which the API/HTML
error handling already renders as a libvirt error, and clears self.leases.
- storages.views.get_volumes caught libvirtError and answered 200 with an empty
body, so the caller could not tell a failed pool read from an empty pool. It
now returns 400 with the error.
The other broad handlers reviewed (appsettings/nwfilters/virtsecrets views,
storages/upload cleanup and recovery paths, vrtManager display getters) report
the error or are best-effort and were left as they are.
Tests: get_settings() survives a database error during the query and during
iteration without raising and still loads a real value; refresh_dhcp_leases
raises OperationError (keeping the cause) not TypeError; get_volumes returns 400
on a listing failure and the sorted volumes on success. The tests fail on the
previous code.
Nothing limited failed logins: a password could be guessed at the speed
the server answers. django-axes (8.3.1, Django 5.2, Python 3.10-3.13)
now counts them.
- A user is locked for the address the failed logins come from
(username and IP together), so an attacker cannot lock someone out
from elsewhere and users behind one NAT address do not share a lock.
A successful login resets the count. axes sits in front of every
authentication: the login page with or without OTP, LDAP and the API.
- The number of failed logins (default 5) and the lock time in minutes
(default 15) are on the Settings page (LOGIN_FAILURE_LIMIT,
LOGIN_LOCKOUT_MINUTES, added by migration appsettings.0014) and apply
at once; an invalid value falls back to the default. Unlock with
"manage.py axes_reset_username <username>".
- Behind the bundled nginx every request comes from 127.0.0.1; the
client address is read from X-Real-IP, which nginx sets, but only for
requests from a loopback address or from LOGIN_TRUSTED_PROXIES, so a
forged header does not escape a lock.
settings.py.template gets the app, middleware, backend and AXES_*
settings; README tells existing installations what to copy. Tests that
call client.login now pass a request, which the axes backend needs.
The new tests fail with axes disabled.
The upload session was recorded only after the first chunk had been
written, and a retried first chunk was refused when its part file was
missing. The session (with its upload id) is now written before the
part file is created, the part file is created by whichever chunk finds
none, and a missing part file is an error only after the first chunk.
An interrupted first chunk can be sent again without adopting an
unrelated file.
