Self-Audit: beacon_api.py (#6460)

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• https://github.com/Scottcjn/rustchain-bounties/blob/main/README.md
• Self-Audit: beacon_api.py (#6460) #7432

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Self-Audit: beacon_api.py

Wallet: RTC4642c5ee8467f61ed91b5775b0eeba984dd776ba
Module reviewed: node/beacon_api.py
Lines reviewed: whole-file

1. HIGH: Contract creation and update endpoints have no authentication

• Severity: high
• Location: beacon_api.py:430-490 (create_contract, update_contract)
• Description: The /api/contracts POST and PUT endpoints accept requests without any authentication. Anyone can create contracts on behalf of any agent_id, or change the state of any contract (e.g., mark it 'completed' to steal reputation).
• Impact: An attacker could create fake contracts between agents, or manipulate contract states to inflate/deflate agent reputation scores.

2. MEDIUM: Chat endpoint allows impersonation of any agent

• Severity: medium
• Location: beacon_api.py:780-820
• Description: The /api/chat POST endpoint accepts any agent_id without verification. Anyone can send messages that appear to come from any agent. Messages are stored in the database with the provided agent_id.
• Impact: An attacker could spam the chat system with fake messages attributed to any agent.

3. MEDIUM: No rate limiting on any beacon API endpoints

• Severity: medium
• Location: All endpoints
• Description: None of the beacon API endpoints have rate limiting. An attacker could spam registration, contract creation, or chat endpoints.
• Impact: Potential for DoS attacks and database bloat.

4. LOW: Bounty sync endpoint has no authentication

• Severity: low
• Location: beacon_api.py:530-600
• Description: The /api/bounties/sync endpoint can be called by anyone to trigger GitHub API requests. While it only reads data, repeated calls could exhaust GitHub API rate limits.
• Impact: Could disrupt bounty synchronization if rate limited by GitHub.

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Self-Audit Report — beacon_api.py

Wallet: RTC6d1f27d28961279f1034d9561c2403697eb55602
PR: Scottcjn/Rustchain#4176 (also fixes #7434 x402_config)

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Finding 1: Unvalidated float() conversion (MEDIUM)

File: beacon_api.py lines 461-462
Problem: float(data['amount']) without try/except — non-numeric input ("N/A", "1,000", null) raises ValueError/TypeError, caught by bare except Exception, returning generic internal_error. Negative amounts also pass through unchecked.
Fix: Wrapped in try/except + explicit amount_val > 0 check. Returns 400 with descriptive error.

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Finding 2: European decimal crash in bounty sync (LOW)

File: beacon_api.py lines 652-654
Problem: Regex (\d+(?:\.\d+)?) then .replace(',', '') — 1.000 RTC (European "one thousand") parses as 1 and gets silently skipped because the trailing RTC doesn't match after the numeric match.
Fix: Proper thousands/decimal separator detection via separator counting heuristic.

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Finding 3: No agent_id validation in complete_bounty (LOW)

File: beacon_api.py lines 761-796
Problem: agent_id passed directly to SQL update without existence check or format validation. Even with admin-key protection, a malicious admin could mark bounties complete for arbitrary fake agent_id strings, polluting the reputation table.
Fix: Added isinstance(agent_id, str) and len(agent_id) <= 200 guard before any DB write.