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fix(stack-auth,stack-profile): clamp server expires_in and wipe secret buffers - #1553
Fixes CIP-5159 (R3 and R4 from the weekly review).
Unchecked expires_in arithmetic. The auth server's expires_in was added to the clock with no limit. On the token paths, now + expires_in panics in debug builds and wraps in release builds, because the release profile has no overflow-checks. A wrapped value gives a token that is already expired, which causes a refresh loop. The device-code deadline, Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(expires_in), panics in every build profile.
Secrets in plain Strings that are never wiped. The JSON for auth.json and secretkey.json passed through to_string_pretty and read_to_string buffers that were freed without being wiped. CS_CLIENT_ACCESS_KEY was held as a bare String until it was parsed.
Changes
token::expires_at_after(now, expires_in) is now the single place where a server expires_in becomes expires_at. It caps the lifetime at 30 days (MAX_TOKEN_LIFETIME_SECS) and uses a saturating add, the same rule is_expired_at already follows. Both Token::refresh and device-code polling use it.
The device-code lifetime is capped at one hour (MAX_DEVICE_CODE_LIFETIME_SECS) when the code is received, so the poll deadline cannot overflow. PendingDeviceCode::expires_in() reports the lifetime that is actually enforced. The debug trace logs both that value and the server's value.
stack-profile has a new private SecretBuf. It is a Zeroizing<Vec<u8>> that never lets the Vec reallocate itself. When it needs more room, it copies into a larger buffer and wipes the old one. ProfileStore::write serialises into it with serde_json::to_writer_pretty. ProfileStore::load reads the file straight into it with SecretBuf::read_from and parses with from_slice. fs::read was not used because it reallocates, and leaves unwiped copies, whenever file metadata under-reports the file's length.
AutoStrategyBuilder holds the access key as a SecretToken, which wipes on drop and masks Debug. It wraps the key as soon as it reads it from the environment. detect_inner now borrows the key as Option<&str>.
Adds a @cipherstash/auth patch changeset.
Verification
cargo test -p stack-auth -p stack-profile --all-features: all pass. These are the stack-auth lib tests (297), stack-profile (67), and the integration and doc tests.
Red first: with the arithmetic reverted, the five new expiry tests fail. Four panic with overflow, and the deadline test panics inside tokio's Instant add.
cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings passes with all features and with no default features. Clippy also passes for stack-profile on wasm32-wasip1 (lib). cargo fmt --check and cargo doc are clean.
I could not run scripts/check-auth-npm-changeset.mjs locally because there are no node_modules. The changeset follows the format of the existing @cipherstash/auth ones.
Review notes
Out of scope, worth a follow-up:/api/authorise returns an absoluteexpiry (authorize_dto.rs). It involves no arithmetic, so it cannot overflow. It is still unbounded, though: a hostile expiry: u64::MAX would stop AutoRefresh from ever refreshing. Capping it means passing now into the From<AuthoriseResponse> mapping, which touches the refreshers that CIP-5152 and CIP-5158 are also changing, so I left it out of this PR.
Known limit: when a JSON string contains escape sequences, serde_json decodes it through its own scratch buffer, and that buffer is not wiped. Tokens and keys are base64 or JWTs and contain no escapes, so they never take that path. The comment in load says so.
The process environment block still holds its own copy of CS_CLIENT_ACCESS_KEY. That copy is outside the crate's reach.
Nearby work: auto_strategy.rs is also touched by the CIP-5158 thread (CS_WORKSPACE_CRN). This PR only changes the access-key lines and drops .into() from four detect_inner test calls.
Related
Linear: CIP-5159
CIP-3435 (ServiceToken zeroize) covers a different type.
…t buffers
A server-supplied `expires_in` was added to the clock unchecked. On the
token paths `now + expires_in` panics in debug and wraps in release (no
overflow-checks), giving an already-expired token and a refresh loop; the
device-code deadline `Instant::now() + Duration` panics in every profile.
Token lifetimes now go through one helper, `expires_at_after`, which clamps
to 30 days and saturates, the rule `is_expired_at` already followed. Device
codes are clamped to one hour when received, so the deadline cannot
overflow and `PendingDeviceCode::expires_in()` reports what is enforced.
The JSON that carries `auth.json` and `secretkey.json` to and from disk was
held in plain Strings and freed unwiped, undercutting `ZeroizeOnDrop` on
the secrets inside. It is now serialised into a writer that wipes on drop
and on every growth (a Zeroizing<Vec> alone frees its old allocation
unwiped when it reallocates), and read through `fs::read`, which sizes the
buffer once, into a Zeroizing<Vec<u8>>. The access key from
`CS_CLIENT_ACCESS_KEY` or `with_access_key` is held as Zeroizing<String>
until it is parsed into an `AccessKey`.
Fixes CIP-5159.
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…wiping
- Read profile files through `SecretBuf::read_from` rather than `fs::read`.
`fs::read` only avoids reallocating when the file's metadata length is
right; on a filesystem that under-reports it, the Vec grows and frees
unwiped copies, and the final probe read goes through an unwiped stack
buffer. `SecretBuf` (renamed from `ZeroizingWriter`) reads straight into
its own wiped buffer.
- Hold the builder's access key as a `SecretToken`, the crate's existing
secret type, rather than a bare `Zeroizing<String>`, so it is also masked
in `Debug`.
- Log the enforced device-code lifetime next to the server's, so the trace
matches what polling does.
- Drop a test that called `reserve` itself and so could not catch `write`
skipping it; add `read_from` tests for short, interrupted and failed reads.
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Token and device-code lifetimes now have maximums. Device-code polling uses a deadline measured from code issuance. Access keys use SecretToken during credential detection. Profile JSON reads and writes use a zeroizing buffer, and profile loading rejects invalid UTF-8.
Changes: Authentication and secret handling
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Token and device-code expiry caps packages/stack-auth/src/token.rs, packages/stack-auth/src/device_code/*, .changeset/auth-expiry-and-secret-wiping.md
Token lifetimes are capped at 30 days, and device-code lifetimes at one hour. Polling uses the deadline set when begin receives the code. Tests cover lifetime caps and deadline behavior.
Access-key wrapping in credential detection packages/stack-auth/src/auto_strategy.rs
Explicit and environment-provided access keys are wrapped in SecretToken. Detection borrows their string values. Non-UTF-8 environment values are zeroized and treated as absent.
Secret buffers for profile JSON packages/stack-profile/src/secret_buf.rs, packages/stack-profile/src/profile_store.rs, packages/stack-profile/src/lib.rs, packages/stack-profile/Cargo.toml
Profile JSON reads and writes use SecretBuf, which zeroizes its storage on drop and when it grows. Loading validates the full buffer as UTF-8 before JSON parsing and returns an InvalidData I/O error for invalid UTF-8.
cipherstash/stack#1341: This PR changes profile-file reading and access-key handling, but does not implement Python credential discovery.
Possibly related PRs
cipherstash/stack#1549: Both PRs affect profile data and access-key handling used during workspace-pinned authentication.
cipherstash/stack#1172: Both PRs affect token expiry in the refresh flow; this PR caps the lifetime from refresh responses.
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…ckfiles
stack-profile gained a `zeroize` dependency, and six detached Cargo
workspaces resolve it by path: both Go guests, EQL and the three fuzz
crates. The Go guest job checks its lockfiles with --locked and failed on
the stale entry. Each lockfile gains only the one dependency line.
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Findings (5): 5 minor — 2 inline, 3 below.
packages/stack-auth/src/authorize_dto.rs:37 (outside diff) minorFrom<AuthoriseResponse> copies the server's absolute expiry into expires_at unbounded, so expiry: u64::MAX means is_expired_at never fires and AutoRefresh keeps a dead token until restart. The PR body already defers this; it needs a tracked follow-up: pass now into the mapping and use resp.expiry.min(now.saturating_add(MAX_TOKEN_LIFETIME_SECS)).
packages/stack-auth/src/token_store.rs:171 (outside diff) minorInMemoryTokenStore::save and TokenStoreFn::save (:244, :269) build the token JSON with serde_json::to_string, which starts at 128 bytes and frees an unwiped buffer holding the token on each growth; Zeroizing wipes only the final one. Serialise with to_writer into a SecretBuf (needs exposing it from stack-profile, which stack-auth already depends on).
packages/stack-auth/src/transport.rs:346 (outside diff) minor Same leak in post_json (to_vec, reproduced with an access key plus audience, and an OIDC JWT) and in post_form (:356, serde_urlencoded::to_string, reproduced with the refresh token from Token::refresh). Serialise both into a SecretBuf-style writer.
…reads
Review follow-ups on #1553.
- Reading through `SecretBuf` + `from_slice` leaves UTF-8 validation to
serde_json, so a non-UTF-8 profile file is now `ProfileError::Json`
rather than `ProfileError::Io` with `InvalidData`. Pin that with a test
and say so in the changeset.
- `read_from` grew the buffer for every read, so even a 2 KB profile grew
to 8 KiB for the end-of-file probe. It now grows only when less than
512 bytes are spare, and reads into all the spare capacity it has.
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token_store.rs and transport.rs, growing String/Vec serialisation of tokens and request bodies. These are real, but they are in code CIP-5159 did not cover. The fix is to share SecretBuf with stack-auth, which changes the crate boundary, so it gets its own change.
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…alidate UTF-8
Review follow-ups on #1553.
- The device-code deadline is now fixed when `begin` receives the code
and stored on `PendingDeviceCode`. Before, it was computed when polling
started, so a caller that waited before polling got a fresh window. The
deadline is enforced across sleeps (`sleep_until` the earlier of the
next poll and the deadline) and across in-flight requests
(`timeout_at`), so polling stops at the deadline and a success that
arrives after it is not saved.
- `load` validates the whole file as UTF-8 before parsing. `from_slice`
skips the bytes of an ignored field, so it accepted invalid UTF-8 in an
unknown field. An invalid file is again `ProfileError::Io` with
`InvalidData`, as it was under `read_to_string`, which reverts the
`Json` mapping the previous commit introduced.
- `SecretBuf::reserve` uses `try_reserve_exact` rather than
`Vec::with_capacity`, so an oversized input returns an error instead of
aborting the process.
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…ing it
Review follow-up on #1553. On Unix, `std::env::var` returns
`VarError::NotUnicode` holding the whole value when it is not UTF-8, and
`.ok()` dropped that copy of the key without wiping it.
`access_key_from_env` now wipes it first. The value is still treated as
unset, as before, since it cannot be a valid access key.
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The mutants gate found that turning the poll sleep's deadline from
now + interval into now - interval left every test passing: the loop
then polls without waiting, and under paused time the run spins until
the gate's timeout. The new test lets the pending answer through for
exactly the polls that fit before the deadline, then denies access, so
a loop that skips the wait fails at once rather than hanging.
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The mutants gate still timed out on the poll-wait mutant. With the wait
gone, every test whose server keeps answering authorization_pending or
slow_down spins: paused time only advances when the runtime is idle, so
the deadline never arrives and the run hangs past the gate's timeout
before the new test's failure can count.
Each of those token mocks now allows a set number of polls and answers
access_denied after that, so under the mutant all six tests fail in
under a second instead of hanging. The polls each test allows are at
least what the real loop makes, so the tests pass unchanged on the
current code.
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read_from resized the buffer to its whole capacity before every read,
zero-filling all of the spare tail, then truncated back to the bytes
read. A reader that returns short reads into a large buffer had the
same tail zeroed again on every call, so the cost grew with the square
of the file size. Each read now gets a window of at most one chunk.
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Summary
Fixes CIP-5159 (R3 and R4 from the weekly review).
expires_inarithmetic. The auth server'sexpires_inwas added to the clock with no limit. On the token paths,now + expires_inpanics in debug builds and wraps in release builds, because the release profile has nooverflow-checks. A wrapped value gives a token that is already expired, which causes a refresh loop. The device-code deadline,Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(expires_in), panics in every build profile.Strings that are never wiped. The JSON forauth.jsonandsecretkey.jsonpassed throughto_string_prettyandread_to_stringbuffers that were freed without being wiped.CS_CLIENT_ACCESS_KEYwas held as a bareStringuntil it was parsed.Changes
token::expires_at_after(now, expires_in)is now the single place where a serverexpires_inbecomesexpires_at. It caps the lifetime at 30 days (MAX_TOKEN_LIFETIME_SECS) and uses a saturating add, the same ruleis_expired_atalready follows. BothToken::refreshand device-code polling use it.MAX_DEVICE_CODE_LIFETIME_SECS) when the code is received, so the poll deadline cannot overflow.PendingDeviceCode::expires_in()reports the lifetime that is actually enforced. The debug trace logs both that value and the server's value.stack-profilehas a new privateSecretBuf. It is aZeroizing<Vec<u8>>that never lets theVecreallocate itself. When it needs more room, it copies into a larger buffer and wipes the old one.ProfileStore::writeserialises into it withserde_json::to_writer_pretty.ProfileStore::loadreads the file straight into it withSecretBuf::read_fromand parses withfrom_slice.fs::readwas not used because it reallocates, and leaves unwiped copies, whenever file metadata under-reports the file's length.AutoStrategyBuilderholds the access key as aSecretToken, which wipes on drop and masksDebug. It wraps the key as soon as it reads it from the environment.detect_innernow borrows the key asOption<&str>.@cipherstash/authpatch changeset.Verification
cargo test -p stack-auth -p stack-profile --all-features: all pass. These are the stack-auth lib tests (297), stack-profile (67), and the integration and doc tests.Instantadd.cargo clippy --all-targets -D warningspasses with all features and with no default features. Clippy also passes for stack-profile onwasm32-wasip1(lib).cargo fmt --checkandcargo docare clean.scripts/check-auth-npm-changeset.mjslocally because there are nonode_modules. The changeset follows the format of the existing@cipherstash/authones.Review notes
/api/authorisereturns an absoluteexpiry(authorize_dto.rs). It involves no arithmetic, so it cannot overflow. It is still unbounded, though: a hostileexpiry: u64::MAXwould stopAutoRefreshfrom ever refreshing. Capping it means passingnowinto theFrom<AuthoriseResponse>mapping, which touches the refreshers that CIP-5152 and CIP-5158 are also changing, so I left it out of this PR.loadsays so.CS_CLIENT_ACCESS_KEY. That copy is outside the crate's reach.auto_strategy.rsis also touched by the CIP-5158 thread (CS_WORKSPACE_CRN). This PR only changes the access-key lines and drops.into()from fourdetect_innertest calls.Related
ServiceTokenzeroize) covers a different type.Generated by Claude Code
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