Enhanced auth token / remember me (#27606)

Closes #27455

> The mechanism responsible for long-term authentication (the 'remember
me' cookie) uses a weak construction technique. It will hash the user's
hashed password and the rands value; it will then call the secure cookie
code, which will encrypt the user's name with the computed hash. If one
were able to dump the database, they could extract those two values to
rebuild that cookie and impersonate a user. That vulnerability exists
from the date the dump was obtained until a user changed their password.
> 
> To fix this security issue, the cookie could be created and verified
using a different technique such as the one explained at
https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/04/secure-authentication-php-with-long-term-persistence#secure-remember-me-cookies.

The PR removes the now obsolete setting `COOKIE_USERNAME`.

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/modules/context/context_cookie.go b/modules/context/context_cookie.go
index 9ce67a5298..b6f8dadb56 100644
--- a/modules/context/context_cookie.go
+++ b/modules/context/context_cookie.go
@@ -4,16 +4,11 @@
 package context
 
 import (
-	"encoding/hex"
 	"net/http"
 	"strings"
 
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/setting"
-	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/util"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/web/middleware"
-
-	"github.com/minio/sha256-simd"
-	"golang.org/x/crypto/pbkdf2"
 )
 
 const CookieNameFlash = "gitea_flash"
@@ -45,42 +40,3 @@ func (ctx *Context) DeleteSiteCookie(name string) {
 func (ctx *Context) GetSiteCookie(name string) string {
 	return middleware.GetSiteCookie(ctx.Req, name)
 }
-
-// GetSuperSecureCookie returns given cookie value from request header with secret string.
-func (ctx *Context) GetSuperSecureCookie(secret, name string) (string, bool) {
-	val := ctx.GetSiteCookie(name)
-	return ctx.CookieDecrypt(secret, val)
-}
-
-// CookieDecrypt returns given value from with secret string.
-func (ctx *Context) CookieDecrypt(secret, val string) (string, bool) {
-	if val == "" {
-		return "", false
-	}
-
-	text, err := hex.DecodeString(val)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", false
-	}
-
-	key := pbkdf2.Key([]byte(secret), []byte(secret), 1000, 16, sha256.New)
-	text, err = util.AESGCMDecrypt(key, text)
-	return string(text), err == nil
-}
-
-// SetSuperSecureCookie sets given cookie value to response header with secret string.
-func (ctx *Context) SetSuperSecureCookie(secret, name, value string, maxAge int) {
-	text := ctx.CookieEncrypt(secret, value)
-	ctx.SetSiteCookie(name, text, maxAge)
-}
-
-// CookieEncrypt encrypts a given value using the provided secret
-func (ctx *Context) CookieEncrypt(secret, value string) string {
-	key := pbkdf2.Key([]byte(secret), []byte(secret), 1000, 16, sha256.New)
-	text, err := util.AESGCMEncrypt(key, []byte(value))
-	if err != nil {
-		panic("error encrypting cookie: " + err.Error())
-	}
-
-	return hex.EncodeToString(text)
-}
diff --git a/modules/setting/security.go b/modules/setting/security.go
index 90f614d4cd..92caa05fad 100644
--- a/modules/setting/security.go
+++ b/modules/setting/security.go
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ var (
 	SecretKey                          string
 	InternalToken                      string // internal access token
 	LogInRememberDays                  int
-	CookieUserName                     string
 	CookieRememberName                 string
 	ReverseProxyAuthUser               string
 	ReverseProxyAuthEmail              string
@@ -104,7 +103,6 @@ func loadSecurityFrom(rootCfg ConfigProvider) {
 	sec := rootCfg.Section("security")
 	InstallLock = HasInstallLock(rootCfg)
 	LogInRememberDays = sec.Key("LOGIN_REMEMBER_DAYS").MustInt(7)
-	CookieUserName = sec.Key("COOKIE_USERNAME").MustString("gitea_awesome")
 	SecretKey = loadSecret(sec, "SECRET_KEY_URI", "SECRET_KEY")
 	if SecretKey == "" {
 		// FIXME: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/16832