diff --git a/src/databases/officer_db/src/queries/notify.ts b/src/databases/officer_db/src/queries/notify.ts
index b6201393..895666d6 100644
--- a/src/databases/officer_db/src/queries/notify.ts
+++ b/src/databases/officer_db/src/queries/notify.ts
@@ -37,9 +37,21 @@ export async function getPushDevices(userId: number, appSlug?: string): Promise<
   return db.select().from(pushDevices).where(where);
 }
 
-/** Sign-out, or a hard rejection from Apple/Google (410 Unregistered, UNREGISTERED). */
-export async function deletePushDevice(token: string): Promise<void> {
-  await db.delete(pushDevices).where(eq(pushDevices.token, token));
+/**
+ * Sign-out, or a hard rejection from Apple/Google (410 Unregistered, UNREGISTERED).
+ *
+ * `userId` is optional because the two callers are genuinely different. The APNs/FCM paths delete a
+ * token the provider has just declared dead, which is true for whoever owns it — they pass nothing. The
+ * `DELETE /_officer/devices/:token` route is reached by a signed-in account naming a token in the URL,
+ * so it MUST pass its own id: a token is the address of a device, not a secret, and without the
+ * predicate any account could deregister another's device by guessing or replaying one.
+ */
+export async function deletePushDevice(token: string, userId?: number): Promise<void> {
+  const where =
+    userId === undefined
+      ? eq(pushDevices.token, token)
+      : and(eq(pushDevices.token, token), eq(pushDevices.userId, userId));
+  await db.delete(pushDevices).where(where);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/servers/api/auth/reset-password.ts b/src/servers/api/auth/reset-password.ts
index d0a819c3..05fdb412 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/auth/reset-password.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/auth/reset-password.ts
@@ -6,11 +6,18 @@ import argon2 from 'argon2';
 import * as errors from '@@/custom-errors';
 import { validatePassword } from './validate-password';
 
+// The token must be a reset-password token and nothing else. `verifyToken` — which only renders the form
+// — has always checked `purpose`; this handler, which actually rewrites the password, did not, so any
+// valid signed JWT was accepted here. A 30-day session token is a valid signed JWT, which made this a
+// route from "holds a session token" to "owns the account": it rewrites the password (locking the real
+// owner out, since passwordChangedAt invalidates their other tokens) and forces `status: 'Active'`,
+// re-enabling an account somebody had deliberately suspended. The two handlers now agree.
 export const resetPasswordHandler: Handler = async function (ctx) {
   const { password, verificationCode } = ctx.get('body');
   validatePassword(password);
-  const userInfo = (await verify(verificationCode)) as User;
-  if (!userInfo) throw errors.UNAUTHORIZED();
+  const userInfo = (await verify(verificationCode)) as User & { purpose?: string };
+  if (!userInfo?.id) throw errors.UNAUTHORIZED();
+  if (userInfo.purpose !== 'reset-password') throw errors.UNAUTHORIZED();
   const passwordHash = await argon2.hash(password);
   await updateUser(userInfo.id, { password: passwordHash, status: 'Active', passwordChangedAt: new Date() });
 
diff --git a/src/servers/sidecar/notify/devices.ts b/src/servers/sidecar/notify/devices.ts
index 2b8efa06..b67521e8 100644
--- a/src/servers/sidecar/notify/devices.ts
+++ b/src/servers/sidecar/notify/devices.ts
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@ import { upsertPushDevice, getPushDevices, deletePushDevice } from 'officerdb';
 
 // Device registration, reached through the platform's authenticated proxy.
 //
-// The owner comes from X-Officer-User, injected by createSidecarProxy and trusted because this server
+// The caller comes from X-Officer-User, injected by createSidecarProxy and trusted because this server
 // binds loopback only. Nothing else can reach it.
+//
+// Every route here is scoped to that id, including the DELETE — which takes a token from the URL, and a
+// token is the address of a device rather than a secret.
 
 const PLATFORMS = new Set(['ios', 'android']);
 const ENVIRONMENTS = new Set(['production', 'sandbox']);
@@ -72,7 +75,7 @@ export async function handleDeviceRoute(req: Request, url: URL): Promise<Respons
 
   const match = url.pathname.match(/^\/_officer\/devices\/(.+)$/);
   if (match && req.method === 'DELETE') {
-    await deletePushDevice(decodeURIComponent(match[1]!));
+    await deletePushDevice(decodeURIComponent(match[1]!), userId);
     return Response.json({ ok: true });
   }
 
diff --git a/src/servers/sidecar/notify/index.ts b/src/servers/sidecar/notify/index.ts
index 9502ffda..e16e0774 100644
--- a/src/servers/sidecar/notify/index.ts
+++ b/src/servers/sidecar/notify/index.ts
@@ -61,12 +61,17 @@ const server = Bun.serve({
       if (!body.type || !VALID_TYPES.includes(body.type)) {
         return Response.json({ error: `type must be one of ${VALID_TYPES.join(', ')}` }, { status: 400 });
       }
-      // Producers inside the tailnet POST directly and say who to notify. A browser reaching this
-      // through /api/notify cannot know its own id, so the proxy's injected header stands in — the
-      // platform already authenticated whoever sent it.
+      // Producers inside the tailnet POST directly over loopback and say who to notify — the queue and
+      // the email sidecar have no session to speak from, so the body is their only way to name a user.
+      //
+      // The header WINS where it is present, and that ordering is the whole access control here. A
+      // request carrying X-Officer-User arrived through createSidecarProxy, meaning a signed-in browser
+      // sent it; letting its body override the id the platform authenticated would let any account with
+      // the `notify` capability push to any other account's devices. A direct producer sets no header,
+      // so its body is still honoured.
       const headerUser = Number(req.headers.get('X-Officer-User'));
-      const userId = typeof body.userId === 'number' ? body.userId : headerUser;
-      if (!Number.isFinite(userId) || userId <= 0) {
+      const userId = Number.isFinite(headerUser) && headerUser > 0 ? headerUser : body.userId;
+      if (typeof userId !== 'number' || !Number.isFinite(userId) || userId <= 0) {
         return Response.json({ error: 'userId is required (body or X-Officer-User)' }, { status: 400 });
       }