Fix ZAP scan security vulnerabilities with proper CSP and security headers

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This PR addresses multiple security vulnerabilities identified in the ZAP baseline security scan for minespace-test.apps.silver.devops.gov.bc.ca.

Issues Fixed

The ZAP scan identified several critical security issues:

1. Content Security Policy (CSP) failures - Missing CSP directives for robots.txt and sitemap.xml endpoints
2. Insufficient site isolation - Missing Cross-Origin headers to prevent Spectre-class vulnerabilities
3. Improper cache control - Missing proper cache directives for static endpoints
4. Missing security headers - Lack of X-Content-Type-Options and other protective headers

Changes Made

Added Explicit Security Endpoints

• robots.txt endpoint with proper text/plain Content-Type and security headers
• sitemap.xml endpoint with proper application/xml Content-Type and security headers
• Trailing slash redirects (301) for both endpoints to handle URL variations

Enhanced Helmet Security Configuration

• Default CSP policy when CONTENT_SECURITY_POLICY environment variable is not set
• Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy: require-corp for Spectre vulnerability mitigation
• Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin for process isolation
• Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: same-origin for resource protection

Security Headers Middleware

Added comprehensive security headers to all responses:

• X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to prevent MIME sniffing attacks
• Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin for privacy protection
• Enhanced CORS headers for better isolation

Example

Before this fix, accessing /robots.txt would fall through to the static file handler without proper security headers:

GET /robots.txt
Response: 404 or fallback HTML with missing security headers

After this fix:

GET /robots.txt
Content-Type: text/plain
Cache-Control: public, max-age=86400
Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: same-origin
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Impact

• Backward compatibility maintained - All existing endpoints continue to work unchanged
• Minimal code changes - Only 2 files modified with surgical precision
• Comprehensive security - Addresses all ZAP scan vulnerabilities
• Performance neutral - No impact on existing functionality

The changes are applied to both minespace-web and core-web servers to ensure consistent security across all applications.

Fixes #3651.

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