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fix: address the follow-up findings from the #811 auth review - #818
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A request whose first Authorization value is empty or blank, whose later value carries a token, and that also sends x-api-key authenticated with x-api-key without the repeated-Authorization warning, and so fell outside the refusal planned for 0.13.0. Count that shape as a repeat the gateway ignores, so it logs the warning once. Which header authenticates is unchanged. The middleware tests now send an x-api-key that differs from every Authorization value and check the masked token id, so a passing request shows which header decided.
A temporary link renamed during the directory scan, or added before and removed after the listing, could balance the link count and let a token with another hard link be accepted. After removing the temporary links the token must now have one link; the balanced count decides only when a read-only directory keeps every temporary link in place. Each temporary name is removed only if it still holds the token. On macOS a token directory with mode 0700 and an access control list passed the mode check, although the list can let other accounts change the directory. Such a directory is now refused with a chmod -N hint.
The first Authorization value decides when it carries a token; otherwise x-api-key decides, and later Authorization values are ignored. The documents said a repeated Authorization header uses its first value, or that Authorization is used whenever both headers are sent.
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Independent adversarial review, run 1 (agent-generated)This change touches token authentication in the server and the gateway, so it follows the authentication and authorization review gate. Review record
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…ly allow entries The macOS access control list check now runs on the open directory and on the open token file, through acl_get_fd_np, so a token file that carries an allow entry (inherited from its directory, or added to it) is refused even after the directory is cleared. Only entries that are not deny entries are refused: deny entries, such as the one macOS puts on the home folder, take access away. An entry whose kind cannot be read, and a list that cannot be read, are still refused. The refusal names the path to fix, and for the directory it suggests removing the allow entries or using a directory of its own instead of clearing every entry. New tests pin the read-only exception of the link check: a temporary link that a writable directory cannot remove (EPERM), a read-only directory where one link fails with another error, and a link added elsewhere while a read-only directory is cleaned up.
… are refused x-api-key decides only when the first Authorization value is empty or blank. An unreadable first value, or Bearer without a token, is refused even with a valid x-api-key.
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acl_get_fd_np |
(c_int, c_int) -> c_void_p |
acl_get_entry |
(c_void_p, c_int, POINTER(c_void_p)) -> c_int |
acl_get_tag_type |
(c_void_p, POINTER(c_int)) -> c_int |
acl_free |
(c_void_p) -> c_int |
ACL_TYPE_EXTENDED |
0x100 |
ACL_EXTENDED_DENY |
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acl_get_entry returns -1 with EINVAL at the end of the list, which I confirmed on real files. The bound library is created once, with functools.cache.
Freeing. After a successful acl_get_fd_np, the handle is freed in a finally. That covers an early return on an allow entry, the end of the loop, and any exception. A local probe made 440k calls on an allow directory and a deny-only directory:
- With this code: maximum RSS 23.4 MB after warm-up, 23.9 MB at the end.
- A control copy without
acl_free: 199.8 MB, then 1964.9 MB.
Tests:
test_deny_entries_like_the_home_folder_default_are_accepted: a deny entry on the directory and on the token file is accepted.test_a_directory_with_an_access_control_list_entry_that_allows_access_is_refused: deny plus allow entries are refused, on an existing directory and on an empty one. Nothing is created in the empty one.test_an_access_control_list_that_cannot_be_read_is_refused:acl_get_fd_npfails withEIO. The result isTokenFileError, and no token is created.test_an_access_control_list_entry_of_unknown_kind_counts_as_allowing_access:acl_get_tag_typefails on a deny-only directory, and the directory is refused.
Finding 3: "otherwise x-api-key decides" was wrong for two first values
Fixed in f8d917fb, and made exact in 997f0d27. The server README sentence and the server_auth.py docstring were fixed in f90a1883.
New wording. "The first Authorization value decides when it carries a token, and x-api-key is then ignored. When that value is empty or blank, x-api-key decides. An unreadable first value is refused, and Bearer alone counts as the token Bearer."
Why "counts as the token" and not "is refused". f8d917fb said "Bearer without a token is refused". CodeRabbit pointed out that this is not exact: the gateway, like sie-server, reads a bare Bearer as the raw token Bearer. A test, test_extract_bearer_token_bearer_only, already pins that behaviour. So the request is refused unless an operator configured the literal token Bearer. Either way, x-api-key never decides.
I kept the parser unchanged, because refusing a configured token is an authentication change outside this non-breaking PR. The documents now say exactly what the parser does. The reply to CodeRabbit is in the thread on COMPATIBILITY.md.
Where it applies:
COMPATIBILITY.md,SECURITY.md,deploy/helm/sie-cluster/README.md,packages/sie_gateway/README.mdandarchitecture-guide.md.- The
auth.rsdoc comment ofextract_request_credential. It also says thatBeareralone is read as the raw tokenBearer. - The server README and module docstring now say the gateway uses
x-api-key"when that value is empty or blank".
OpenAPI. The apiKeyAuth text is unchanged, because the review found it accurate.
Tests (997f0d27). request_credential_uses_the_first_authorization_value now asserts:
- An unreadable first value with
x-api-key: tokgivesUnreadable. Authorization: Bearerwithx-api-key: tokgivesToken("Bearer").
Each mutation below, applied alone, makes that test fail:
- An unreadable first value falls back to
x-api-key: it fails together withrequest_credential_lets_authorization_decide. - A bare
Bearercounts as carrying no token: it fails together withtest_extract_bearer_token_bearer_only.
Evidence. rg -n "otherwise .x-api-key. decides|Otherwise .x-api-key. decides|carries no token" now finds no claim about which header decides. Its three matches are unrelated: a docs-route comment in auth.rs, an example script and a tokenizer test.
Finding 4: test gaps
Fixed in f90a1883.
New tests that run on Linux CI. They use real hard links; only unlink is made to fail.
test_a_temporary_link_that_a_writable_directory_cannot_remove_is_refused:unlinkfails withEPERM, as for an immutable file. The token is refused and the link is kept.test_a_read_only_directory_does_not_excuse_a_link_kept_by_another_error: a0500directory with two temporary links. One link fails withEPERMand the other with the realEACCES. The token is refused.test_a_link_added_elsewhere_while_a_read_only_directory_is_cleaned_is_refused: pinsremaining == after.
macOS. The ACL tests listed under findings 1 and 2 are macOS-only. CI has no macOS job, so the macOS path is verified locally only. The PR body says so, and no macOS job was added.
Mutation run. Each guard was reverted alone in server_auth.py, and test_server_auth.py was run on macOS. 166 tests pass at the head.
| Guard reverted | Failing tests |
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| Token-file ACL check | 2 (both token-file tests) |
| Allow-only rule (refuse every entry) | 1 (deny entries accepted) |
| Unreadable ACL treated as no ACL | 1 |
| Unknown entry kind treated as deny | 1 |
| Directory ACL check | 3 |
remaining == after |
1 (link added elsewhere) |
any() instead of all() |
1 (read-only directory with EPERM) |
| Any unlink errno counts as read-only | 2 (both EPERM tests) |
| Recount after cleanup | 6 |
samestat re-check |
1 |
| Read-only exception | 1 |
| Counting each name once | 3 |
The four mutations that survived the review now fail: dropping remaining == after, any() in place of all(), any errno counting as read-only, and an unreadable ACL treated as no ACL.
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mise run test -- packages/sie_server/tests/core/test_server_auth.py |
166 passed (macOS) |
mise run gateway-fmt -- --check, gateway-check, gateway-clippy |
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mise run gateway-test |
1832 lib tests passed, and 1843 with cloud-storage; the JetStream integration tests passed (at f8d917fb) |
At 997f0d27, which only adds test assertions and changes documents: gateway-fmt -- --check, gateway-clippy, and cargo test --lib middleware::auth |
passed; the auth tests: 52 passed |
test_a_concurrent_start_that_removes_its_temporary_link_mid_read_is_accepted patches os.fstat. It now acts only on the token file's fstat, because the directory check calls fstat first.
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The gateway reads Authorization: Bearer with no token as the raw token Bearer, as it always has, so x-api-key does not decide for it and the request is refused unless Bearer itself is a configured token. The documents said such a value is refused, which is not exact. A test now pins that neither an unreadable first value nor a bare Bearer lets x-api-key decide.
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…nticated requests The gateway logs the warning, once per process, only for a request that passes authentication; a refused request gets 401 without it. SECURITY.md, the Helm README, the gateway README, the architecture guide and the 0.13.0 table now say so, as the COMPATIBILITY.md item already did.
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* fix(server): make the token remediation hints safe to follow The macOS access control list hints from #818 could mislead: - Removing allow entries one by one with `chmod -a# <number>` renumbers the entries after each removal, so following the hint as written can remove an inherited deny entry. The directory hint now says to remove each allow entry by its text with `chmod -a "<entry>"`, without its number or the word inherited. - The token file hint offered `chmod -N` as an equal alternative to deleting a token that others may have read. It now leads with deleting the file to get a new token and says that `chmod -N` keeps the current one. - Paths in every suggested command, including the existing `chmod 700` and `chmod 600` hints, are quoted with `shlex.quote`, so a path with a space does not split. - The README pointed at `ls -le`, which lists the entries of a directory's contents; `ls -led` lists a directory's own. The macOS tests added `everyone deny delete` entries to their temporary directories and never removed them, so a second run with the same `--basetemp` failed in setup and pytest could not prune old base temps. A fixture now adds the entries and removes every entry under the test's temporary directory afterwards. * fix(server): refuse a macOS IPC socket directory whose ACL allows access The IPC socket is protected only by its mode, 0600. On macOS a socket inherits the inheritable entries of its directory's access control list, and connect needs only write permission, so with SIE_IPC_SOCKET_PATH in a directory that carries an inheritable allow entry, other local accounts could connect to the socket that the mode is meant to keep private. The server starts this socket on every `sie-server serve`. On macOS the server now refuses to create the socket in a directory whose access control list has an entry that allows access, using the same rule as the token directory: any entry other than a deny entry is refused, and a list that cannot be read is refused. The default directory, /tmp, carries no access control list. The ACL reader is split so that it raises OSError and the token checks keep their TokenFileError message. The sidecar's local-ingest socket has the same shape on macOS. Its README now states the requirement for SIE_SIDECAR_LOCAL_SOCKET; the sidecar ships as a Linux image, where the 0600 mode also limits inherited POSIX ACL entries through the ACL mask. * fix(server): check the IPC socket directory before removing a stale socket start() removed an existing socket at the path before the new access control list check ran. When the check then refused to start, another server still running on that path lost its socket name. The check now runs first, so a refused start leaves the directory untouched.
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fix(server): address the run-2 findings of the `superlinked#818` auth review
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Follow-up to #811. Its independent review (comment) reported five non-blocking findings. This PR fixes all five.
1. Gateway: only a later
Authorizationvalue carries a tokenBefore. Take a request with an empty or blank first
Authorizationvalue,Authorization: Bearer Aas a later value, andx-api-key: B. The gateway authenticated it asBand logged no warning.authorization_values_disagreereturned false for it, so it was also outside the refusal planned for 0.13.0.Now.
authorization_values_disagreeis also true when the first value carries no token and a later value carries one.x-api-keystill decides, and nothing new is refused in this release.x-api-key, the shape is still refused with401and logs nothing.2. Docs: which
Authorizationvalue the gateway readsSeveral documents said a repeated
Authorizationheader "uses its first value", or thatAuthorizationis used whenever both headers are sent. They now all say the same thing:Authorizationvalue decides when it carries a token, andx-api-keyis then ignored. When that value is empty or blank,x-api-keydecides. An unreadable first value is refused, andBeareralone counts as the tokenBearer.Authorizationvalues are ignored.Updated:
COMPATIBILITY.md(server item, gateway items and the 0.13.0 table row),SECURITY.md,packages/sie_gateway/README.md,packages/sie_gateway/docs/architecture-guide.md, anddeploy/helm/sie-cluster/README.md.The sweep also found these, now updated:
packages/sie_server/README.mdand theserver_auth.pydocstrings, which compare the server with the gateway.apiKeyAuthdescription in the gateway OpenAPI spec (openapi.rs, its test, andopenapi.jsonregenerated withmise run openapi -- --gateway-only).examples/coding-agent-claude-code/README.md.3. Server: the token's hard-link check
Before. Removing duplicate names (#811) did not cover every case. A scan could still see more temporary links than ever existed at the same time:
Either one balanced the count, so a token with a foreign hard link was accepted. The cleanup could also unlink whatever had replaced an entry after its
lstat.Now (
_drop_temporary_links):fstatruns again, and the token is accepted only with one link left.EACCESorEROFSand the count did not change. This keeps the existing support for a read-only data directory. In such a directory nobody can rename or add entries, so the listing is accurate.lstatright before it is unlinked, and is unlinked only if it still names the token's inode.auth-tokenexists, a start links only its own new inode, so after the cleanup a legitimate token always has one link left.test_concurrent_first_starts_agree_on_one_tokenstill passes.What remains. POSIX has no "unlink if it is still this inode" call, so a short window remains between that
lstatand theunlink. Exploiting it requires write access to the token directory. That means the owner or root, now that the directory must have mode0700and, on macOS, no access control list. Either can already replace the token itself. The only names exposed are temporary-file names, which only sie-server creates.4. Server: a macOS access control list on the token directory or the token file
Before. The privacy checks read only the mode bits. On macOS a
0700directory with an ACL entry such aseveryone allow add_file,add_subdirectory,delete_childpassed, and so did a token file witheveryone allow read.Now. One helper reads the ACL of an open descriptor with
acl_get_fd_npfrom libSystem, through the standard-libraryctypes, so no new dependency is added.check_private_directorynow opens and checks withfstat, and on the open token file.group:everyone deny deletethat macOS puts on a home folder, only take access away, so they are accepted.ENOENTandENOTSUPmean there is no ACL.chmod -Non the file.chmod -a#, or use a directory of its own. The message does not suggestchmod -Nthere, because that also removes deny entries.5. Tests that show which header authenticated
repeated_authorization_after_an_empty_oneno longer repeats thex-api-keytoken in a laterAuthorizationvalue. Its passing cases now pass only ifx-api-keydecided.middleware_lets_x_api_key_decide_after_an_empty_authorization_and_warns. It uses distinct tokens and asserts, for each case, the status, the warning count andrequest_token_id:200, one warning, token id ofx-api-key)x-api-key(200, one warning)Authorizationvalue (403, no warning)x-api-key(401, no warning)Tests added (server)
All drive the real
read_stored_tokenwith real hard links.owned_filesis wrapped only to inject the concurrent change at a fixed point.test_a_temporary_link_renamed_during_the_scan_does_not_hide_a_foreign_linktest_a_temporary_link_added_before_and_removed_after_the_listing_does_not_hide_a_foreign_linktest_a_temporary_name_that_no_longer_holds_the_token_is_not_removed: the replacement file survives, and the token is refused.test_a_temporary_link_listed_twice_in_a_directory_without_write_permission_counts_once: pins the name de-duplication in the read-only case.EACCES/EROFSfrom every removal, and an unchanged count):test_a_temporary_link_that_a_writable_directory_cannot_remove_is_refused:EPERMtest_a_read_only_directory_does_not_excuse_a_link_kept_by_another_errortest_a_link_added_elsewhere_while_a_read_only_directory_is_cleaned_is_refusedchmod +a:The macOS ACL path is verified locally only. CI has no macOS job, so these tests are skipped on the Linux runners.
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mise run lintmise run typecheckmise run test -- packages/sie_server/tests/core/test_server_auth.pyorigin/mainmise run gateway-fmt -- --check,mise run gateway-check,mise run gateway-clippymise run gateway-testcloud-storage; the integration binaries passed against JetStreamMutation checks. Each fix was reverted alone, and the listed tests failed:
test_a_temporary_name_that_no_longer_holds_the_token_is_not_removedtest_a_temporary_link_in_a_directory_without_write_permission_is_toleratedremaining == after, useany()forall(), or treat any errno as read-onlyauthorization_values_disagree_only_for_repeats_with_another_tokenandmiddleware_lets_x_api_key_decide_after_an_empty_authorization_and_warnsAuthorizationvalue decides instead of the firstReview probes, re-run against this branch.
lstatandunlink: refused, and the replacement is kept.Sibling sweep
tools/sibling_sweep.pyis not in this repository, so the sweep usedrg:rg -n -i "first value|first .?authorization|authorization.? is used|uses .?authorization|authorization.? (takes|taking) precedence|carries both|sends both|both are sent", excluding lockfiles andCHANGELOG.md. It found every document listed in section 2, plus unrelated "first value" uses in the telemetry collector tests, which were left as they are.rg -n -i "x-api-key"over Markdown, Python, TypeScript, YAML, JSON and Rust. It found the OpenAPI description and the example README. The CLI help text incli.pyand the server's refusal message name both headers without claiming precedence, so they are unchanged.rg -n "S_IMODE|0o077|0o022|0o700|st_nlink" --type py packages integrations toolsfound the mode-bit privacy checks:remove_stale_files, which does not count linkspackages/sie_audio_prep/build_wheel.py. That build tool runs on Linux CI and is not the token directory, so it is unchanged.extract_request_credential. Theauthorization_values_disagreepredicate has one caller, the warning.This changes authentication behaviour (which requests warn) and the token-file checks. An independent adversarial review will follow on this PR.
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Authorizationoverx-api-keywhen both contain credentials. It skips empty repeatedAuthorizationvalues and rejects requests with different credentials.Authorizationvalue if it contains a token; otherwise, it falls back tox-api-key. An unreadable first value is refused, andBeareralone is treated as the tokenBearer.401for conflicting, unreadable, or later-only repeatedAuthorizationtokens, and for differing repeatedx-api-keytokens. Earlier versions warn about repeatedAuthorizationcases on authenticated requests that pass.