fix(server): verify Plaid webhook signatures (GHSA-g56w-g54f-whq5)

POST /api/banking/plaid/webhooks was @PublicRoute() and processed the
body without verifying Plaid's Plaid-Verification JWT, letting any
unauthenticated client replay or fabricate webhook events for a tenant
by guessing a plaidItemId.

Add PlaidWebhookVerificationService that verifies the Plaid-Verification
ES256 JWS using a JWK fetched from plaidClient.webhookVerificationKeyGet
(cached per kid via lru-cache for 24h), enforces a 5-minute iat replay
window through jose.jwtVerify({ maxTokenAge }), and timing-safe compares
the body's SHA-256 against the request_body_sha256 claim. The webhook
controller now consumes the raw body and the plaid-verification header,
runs verification before setupPlaidTenant, and returns 400 Bad Request
on any failure - so no tenant context is ever set for an unsigned or
tampered request.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

packages/server/package.json

@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
     "fp-ts": "^2.16.9",
     "ioredis": "^5.6.0",
     "is-my-json-valid": "^2.20.5",
+    "jose": "^5.9.6",
     "js-money": "^0.6.3",
     "knex": "^3.1.0",
     "lamda": "^0.4.1",

packages/server/src/modules/BankingPlaid/BankingPlaid.module.ts

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import { BankingPlaidWebhooksController } from './BankingPlaidWebhooks.controlle
 import { SetupPlaidItemTenantService } from './command/SetupPlaidItemTenant.service';
 import { UpdateBankingPlaidTransitionsQueueJob } from './types/BankingPlaid.types';
 import { PlaidFetchTransactionsProcessor } from './jobs/PlaidFetchTransactionsJob';
+import { PlaidWebhookVerificationService } from './PlaidWebhookVerification.service';
 
 const models = [RegisterTenancyModel(PlaidItem)];
 
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ const models = [RegisterTenancyModel(PlaidItem)];
     PlaidLinkTokenService,
     PlaidApplication,
     SetupPlaidItemTenantService,
+    PlaidWebhookVerificationService,
     TenancyContext,
     PlaidFetchTransactionsProcessor,
     PlaidUpdateTransactionsOnItemCreatedSubscriber,

packages/server/src/modules/BankingPlaid/BankingPlaidWebhooks.controller.ts

@@ -1,31 +1,50 @@
-import { Body, Controller, Post } from '@nestjs/common';
+import {
-import { PlaidWebhookDto } from './dtos/PlaidItem.dto';
+  BadRequestException,
+  Body,
+  Controller,
+  Headers,
+  HttpCode,
+  Logger,
+  Post,
+  RawBodyRequest,
+  Req,
+} from '@nestjs/common';
+import { Request } from 'express';
 import { ApiOperation, ApiTags } from '@nestjs/swagger';
+import { PlaidWebhookDto } from './dtos/PlaidItem.dto';
 import { PlaidApplication } from './PlaidApplication';
 import { PublicRoute } from '../Auth/guards/jwt.guard';
 import { SetupPlaidItemTenantService } from './command/SetupPlaidItemTenant.service';
+import { PlaidWebhookVerificationService } from './PlaidWebhookVerification.service';
 
 @Controller('banking/plaid')
 @ApiTags('banking-plaid')
 @PublicRoute()
 export class BankingPlaidWebhooksController {
+  private readonly logger = new Logger(BankingPlaidWebhooksController.name);
+
   constructor(
     private readonly plaidApplication: PlaidApplication,
     private readonly setupPlaidItemTenantService: SetupPlaidItemTenantService,
+    private readonly verificationService: PlaidWebhookVerificationService,
   ) {}
 
   @Post('webhooks')
+  @HttpCode(200)
   @ApiOperation({ summary: 'Listen to Plaid webhooks' })
-  webhooks(@Body() { itemId, webhookType, webhookCode }: PlaidWebhookDto) {
+  async webhooks(
-    return this.setupPlaidItemTenantService.setupPlaidTenant(
+    @Req() req: RawBodyRequest<Request>,
-      itemId,
+    @Headers('plaid-verification') verification: string,
-      () => {
+    @Body() { itemId, webhookType, webhookCode }: PlaidWebhookDto,
-        return this.plaidApplication.webhooks(
+  ) {
-          itemId,
+    try {
-          webhookType,
+      await this.verificationService.verifyWebhook(req.rawBody, verification);
-          webhookCode,
+    } catch (err) {
-        );
+      this.logger.warn(`Plaid webhook verification failed: ${err.message}`);
-      },
+      throw new BadRequestException('Invalid Plaid webhook signature');
+    }
+    return this.setupPlaidItemTenantService.setupPlaidTenant(itemId, () =>
+      this.plaidApplication.webhooks(itemId, webhookType, webhookCode),
     );
   }
 }

packages/server/src/modules/BankingPlaid/PlaidWebhookVerification.service.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+import { createHash, timingSafeEqual } from 'crypto';
+import { Inject, Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
+import {
+  decodeProtectedHeader,
+  importJWK,
+  jwtVerify,
+  type JWK,
+  type KeyLike,
+} from 'jose';
+import * as LRUCache from 'lru-cache';
+import type { PlaidApi } from 'plaid';
+import { PLAID_CLIENT } from '../Plaid/Plaid.module';
+
+const ALLOWED_ALG = 'ES256';
+const MAX_TOKEN_AGE = '5m';
+const KEY_CACHE_MAX = 100;
+const KEY_CACHE_TTL_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+
+type ImportedKey = KeyLike | Uint8Array;
+
+@Injectable()
+export class PlaidWebhookVerificationService {
+  private readonly keyCache: LRUCache<string, ImportedKey> = new LRUCache({
+    max: KEY_CACHE_MAX,
+    maxAge: KEY_CACHE_TTL_MS,
+  });
+
+  constructor(@Inject(PLAID_CLIENT) private readonly plaidClient: PlaidApi) {}
+
+  public async verifyWebhook(
+    rawBody: Buffer | undefined,
+    verificationHeader: string | undefined,
+  ): Promise<void> {
+    if (!rawBody || rawBody.length === 0) {
+      throw new Error('Plaid webhook raw body missing');
+    }
+    if (!verificationHeader) {
+      throw new Error('Plaid-Verification header missing');
+    }
+
+    const header = decodeProtectedHeader(verificationHeader);
+    if (header.alg !== ALLOWED_ALG) {
+      throw new Error(`Unexpected webhook JWT alg: ${header.alg}`);
+    }
+    if (!header.kid) {
+      throw new Error('Webhook JWT missing kid header');
+    }
+
+    const key = await this.getVerificationKey(header.kid);
+
+    const { payload } = await jwtVerify(verificationHeader, key, {
+      algorithms: [ALLOWED_ALG],
+      maxTokenAge: MAX_TOKEN_AGE,
+    });
+
+    const expectedHash = payload['request_body_sha256'];
+    if (typeof expectedHash !== 'string') {
+      throw new Error('Webhook JWT missing request_body_sha256 claim');
+    }
+    const actualHash = createHash('sha256').update(rawBody).digest('hex');
+    if (!this.constantTimeEquals(actualHash, expectedHash)) {
+      throw new Error('Webhook body hash mismatch');
+    }
+  }
+
+  private async getVerificationKey(kid: string): Promise<ImportedKey> {
+    const cached = this.keyCache.get(kid);
+    if (cached) return cached;
+
+    const response = await this.plaidClient.webhookVerificationKeyGet({
+      key_id: kid,
+    });
+    const plaidKey = response.data.key;
+
+    if (
+      plaidKey.expired_at !== null &&
+      plaidKey.expired_at !== undefined &&
+      plaidKey.expired_at * 1000 < Date.now()
+    ) {
+      throw new Error(`Plaid verification key ${kid} is expired`);
+    }
+
+    const jwk: JWK = {
+      kty: plaidKey.kty,
+      crv: plaidKey.crv,
+      x: plaidKey.x,
+      y: plaidKey.y,
+      alg: plaidKey.alg,
+      use: plaidKey.use,
+      kid: plaidKey.kid,
+    };
+    const imported = await importJWK(jwk, ALLOWED_ALG);
+    this.keyCache.set(kid, imported);
+    return imported;
+  }
+
+  private constantTimeEquals(a: string, b: string): boolean {
+    if (a.length !== b.length) return false;
+    return timingSafeEqual(Buffer.from(a, 'utf8'), Buffer.from(b, 'utf8'));
+  }
+}