crowdsec: register the Traefik bouncer with LAPI (fix fail-open)
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The Traefik bouncer plugin's API key was never registered with LAPI — the
crowdsec stack reads many keys from Vault but not ingress_crowdsec_api_key, and
the chart registers no bouncer. So LAPI returned 403 to the plugin, which with
updateMaxFailure=-1 failed open and enforced NOTHING: no community-blocklist
bans, and the (now-Turnstile-wired) captcha never fired. cscli bouncers list was
empty; the registration was likely lost in the MySQL->PostgreSQL DB migration
with no IaC to recreate it.

Seed the bouncer at LAPI startup via BOUNCER_KEY_traefik, valued from the same
Vault key the middleware presents — so they match by construction, and the
bouncer re-registers automatically on every LAPI start (survives DB wipes).

- stacks/crowdsec/main.tf: read ingress_crowdsec_api_key, pass to module.
- module main.tf: new sensitive var + thread into the values templatefile.
- values.yaml: BOUNCER_KEY_traefik on lapi.env.
- docs/architecture/security.md: document registration + fail-open history and
  the proxied-app coverage caveat.

Activates enforcement (community blocklist bans + captcha) on non-proxied apps;
internal IPs stay bypassed (clientTrustedIPs), fail-open-on-LAPI-down preserved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Viktor Barzin 2026-06-19 17:08:28 +00:00
parent 56dadda453
commit a5bb4db9c5
4 changed files with 28 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -29,4 +29,7 @@ module "crowdsec" {
crowdsec_dash_machine_id = data.vault_kv_secret_v2.secrets.data["crowdsec_dash_machine_id"]
crowdsec_dash_machine_password = data.vault_kv_secret_v2.secrets.data["crowdsec_dash_machine_password"]
slack_webhook_url = data.vault_kv_secret_v2.secrets.data["alertmanager_slack_api_url"]
# Same key the traefik-stack bouncer middleware uses seeded into LAPI so the
# bouncer authenticates and pulls decisions (was unregistered 403 fail-open).
ingress_bouncer_key = data.vault_kv_secret_v2.secrets.data["ingress_crowdsec_api_key"]
}

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@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ variable "tier" { type = string }
variable "slack_webhook_url" { type = string }
variable "mysql_host" { type = string }
variable "postgresql_host" { type = string }
variable "ingress_bouncer_key" {
type = string
sensitive = true
description = "API key for the Traefik CrowdSec bouncer plugin. Seeded into LAPI via BOUNCER_KEY_traefik so the bouncer authenticates and pulls decisions — the same key the traefik-stack middleware presents."
}
module "tls_secret" {
source = "../../../../modules/kubernetes/setup_tls_secret"
@ -148,7 +153,7 @@ resource "helm_release" "crowdsec" {
repository = "https://crowdsecurity.github.io/helm-charts"
chart = "crowdsec"
values = [templatefile("${path.module}/values.yaml", { homepage_username = var.homepage_username, homepage_password = var.homepage_password, DB_PASSWORD = var.db_password, ENROLL_KEY = var.enroll_key, SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL = var.slack_webhook_url, mysql_host = var.mysql_host, postgresql_host = var.postgresql_host })]
values = [templatefile("${path.module}/values.yaml", { homepage_username = var.homepage_username, homepage_password = var.homepage_password, DB_PASSWORD = var.db_password, ENROLL_KEY = var.enroll_key, SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL = var.slack_webhook_url, mysql_host = var.mysql_host, postgresql_host = var.postgresql_host, INGRESS_CROWDSEC_API_KEY = var.ingress_bouncer_key })]
timeout = 1200
wait = true
wait_for_jobs = true

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@ -126,6 +126,15 @@ lapi:
secretKeyRef:
name: crowdsec-lapi-secrets
key: dbPassword
# Register the Traefik bouncer at LAPI startup with the SAME API key the
# traefik-stack middleware uses (Vault `ingress_crowdsec_api_key`). Before
# this the bouncer was never registered → LAPI returned 403 → the plugin
# failed open (updateMaxFailure=-1) and enforced NOTHING (no bans, no
# captcha). Idempotent across the 3 LAPI replicas / restarts, and
# re-registers automatically if the LAPI DB is ever wiped (the root cause:
# the prior manual registration was lost in the MySQL→PostgreSQL migration).
- name: BOUNCER_KEY_traefik
value: "${INGRESS_CROWDSEC_API_KEY}"
dashboard:
enabled: true
env: