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fix(api): redact credentials and tokens from debug HTTP logs - #996

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With debugMode on, ClerkApi logs full request and response bodies plus all headers. That sent secrets to logcat:

  • Device tokens from the Authorization request and response headers
  • Form-encoded password, current_password, new_password, OTP code and ticket
  • Session JWTs (jwt, including last_active_token), TOTP secret and otpauth:// URIs, and backup_codes

Only two requests carried the SensitiveRequest tag, so nearly every call was logged in full.

RequestLoggingMiddleware.create() now builds the interceptor. It redacts Authorization, Cookie and Set-Cookie, and scrubs known secret form fields and JSON keys from each log line before it reaches the logger. The JSON code key is left visible because API responses use it for error codes like form_password_incorrect.

Testing

  • RequestLoggingRedactionTest sends a sign-in request carrying a device token, password, OTP code and ticket, and returns a response with a JWT, TOTP secret, otpauth URI, backup codes and an error code. It asserts that no secret appears in the log while the identifier and error code still do. The test failed before this change because every secret was printed, and passes after it.
  • ./gradlew :source:api:testDebugUnitTest :source:api:spotlessCheck :source:api:detekt passes on JDK 21 (762 tests, 0 failures).

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  • Security
    • Debug logs redact sensitive credentials, tokens, backup codes, and authentication links while retaining non-sensitive diagnostic details.

With debug mode on, the SDK logged every request and response body and
all headers. That put device tokens (Authorization), form-encoded
passwords and OTP codes, session JWTs, TOTP secrets and backup codes
into logcat, where any app with READ_LOGS or a bug report can read them.
Only two requests were tagged SensitiveRequest.

RequestLoggingMiddleware.create() now builds the logging interceptor
with Authorization, Cookie and Set-Cookie redacted, and scrubs known
secret form fields and JSON keys from each log line. JSON "code" is left
alone because responses use it for error codes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Debug-mode logging now uses a middleware factory that redacts selected headers and message values. Tests check that captured request and response logs omit listed secrets while retaining an identifier and error code.

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Debug Log Secret Redaction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure secret-safe logging
source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/middleware/outgoing/RequestLoggingMiddleware.kt
The factory configures body-level logging, redacts selected headers, and passes messages through redaction for selected form fields, JSON values, backup-code arrays, and otpauth:// URIs.
Wire and verify debug logging
source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/ClerkApi.kt, source/api/src/test/java/com/clerk/api/network/middleware/outgoing/RequestLoggingRedactionTest.kt
ClerkApi registers the middleware factory when debug mode is enabled. Tests check captured request and response logs for secret values and confirm that an identifier and error code remain visible.

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- Line 60: Update the backup-code array redaction pattern in
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BackupCodeResource returns its codes under "codes", which the
backup_codes pattern missed. Scalar "code" values stay visible because
the pattern only matches arrays.

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🟡 Minor · Redact rotating_token_nonce when it starts the query · RequestLoggingMiddleware.kt:55

source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/network/middleware/outgoing/RequestLoggingMiddleware.kt:55
🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Redact rotating_token_nonce when it starts the query

When rotating_token_nonce is the first query parameter, the request URL contains ?rotating_token_nonce=value. RequestLoggingMiddleware logs that URL, but formFieldPattern only accepts message-start or & boundaries. The nonce therefore remains in debug logs for reachable sign-in and sign-up requests.

Suggested fix
-private val formFieldPattern = Regex("(^|&)(${SENSITIVE_FORM_FIELDS.joinToString("|")})=[^&\\s]*")
+private val formFieldPattern = Regex("(^|[?&])(${SENSITIVE_FORM_FIELDS.joinToString("|")})=[^&\\s]*")
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Update formFieldPattern in RequestLoggingMiddleware to recognize `?` as a valid
boundary before sensitive fields, while preserving its existing message-start
and ampersand boundaries so a leading rotating_token_nonce query parameter is
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- Line 55: Update formFieldPattern in RequestLoggingMiddleware to recognize `?`
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Verified on an Android emulator

Setup. I built workbench (which enables debugMode) twice: once from main and once from this branch at ffd68dd. Both builds used the test instance amusing-barnacle-26. On each build I ran the same flow on a clean Pixel (API 36) emulator: save the publishable key, open the prebuilt AuthView, sign in with an email code, land on the home screen. I captured logcat for each run.

pr996-verification.mp4

The recording shows the flow on this branch. Sign-in still completes with redaction on.

Logcat from the same flow on each build:

Requests logged Device token in Authorization OTP 424242 in body Session jwt in body
main 5 3 leaked 1 leaked 1 leaked
this branch 5 0 (3 shown as ██) 0 (code=██) 0 (1 shown as "jwt":"██")

Excerpt from this branch:

I OkHttp  : Authorization: ██
I OkHttp  : code=██&strategy=email_code

On main, the same lines print the full device-token JWT and code=424242. Request lines and error codes are still logged, so the debug log is still useful.

Also on this branch:

  • I extended the redaction to the codes array returned by backup-code regeneration (ffd68dd, per review).
  • The earlier ClerkOfflineCacheTest CI failure was a timing flake: it passed 5/5 locally and never enables debug logging.

rotating_token_nonce is sent as a query parameter on sign-in and sign-up
reloads, so it can follow '?' rather than '&'. The field pattern now
accepts either boundary.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Addressed the outside-diff note on RequestLoggingMiddleware.kt:55: the field pattern now matches after ? as well as &, so a leading rotating_token_nonce query param is redacted. Added a test that failed before the change. All 764 api tests pass, and spotless and detekt are clean.

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The redaction covers the headers, form fields, query params, JSON keys and backup codes the API sends, and the tests run a real OkHttp chain. All bot threads are addressed. Non-blocking: redaction relies on a fixed list of key names, so a comment next to those lists saying new secret params must be added would help. LGTM.

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