/auth grants anonymous admin to any request whose X-Server-Port matches networking.listen.internal, but it read that port off the live config while nginx binds its listeners once at container start and never reloads them, so any path that swaps the running config could move the trusted port without nginx moving with it. Saving networking.listen.internal equal to the external port applied immediately despite the restart-required warning, which handed unauthenticated admin to everything reaching the external port. Snapshot the port at app creation and compare against that instead, and reject a config whose two listeners share a port number, which nginx would refuse to start with anyway.