fix(web): stop /config/main handing out every credential it holds - #477
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The endpoint returned the raw config to anyone who could reach the port, and
this web interface has no authentication of any kind. An unauthenticated
request against a live rig returned:
github.api_token 40 chars
incoming-packages.ha_token 183 chars
jellyfin-now-playing.api_key 32 chars
ledmatrix-weather.api_key 32 chars
on-air.mqtt_password 8 chars
youtube.api_key 20 chars
youtube-stats.api_key 39 chars
A GitHub token and a Home Assistant long-lived token among them. Anything on
that LAN could read them.
The x-secret masking the plugin config endpoints use does not reach here: this
route never consults a schema, and core keys such as github.api_token have no
schema to carry the marker. Several of the fields above *are* tagged x-secret
in their plugin's schema and were still returned in full, which is what rules
out the schema route as the fix for this endpoint.
Credential-named fields are now blanked. Matching on the name is blunt, and
for a whole-config dump that is the right default: anything named like a
credential should not leave the process, and a new plugin adding a
differently-shaped secret is covered without anyone remembering to tag it.
Blanked rather than removed, and safe to blank: POST /config/main merges into
the freshly loaded config and writes only the keys it was given, so a client
that round-trips this response cannot erase a secret it never saw. The web API
suites confirm it -- 81 passing, unchanged.
On the test that matters: the first version of this suite exercised the two
helpers and nothing else, and reverting the single line that wires the
redactor into the route passed all thirty of them. A property asserted on a
helper is not a property asserted on the endpoint, and it is the endpoint that
is exposed to the network. The added test goes through the view function, and
it does fail on that revert.
This also corrects an earlier claim of mine. I reported that GET /api/v3/config
did not expose these values; that path 404s, so the check proved nothing. The
real route is /config/main and it exposed all of them.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthrough
ChangesConfiguration Secret Redaction
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The endpoint now hides credentials, but a client that reads the response and writes it back can erase the saved credentials because redacted fields are sent as empty strings. The PR is not merge-ready until this round-trip behavior is made safe and covered by a regression test. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GET /config/main
participant Loaded configuration
participant Recursive redaction
GET /config/main->>Loaded configuration: load configuration
Loaded configuration->>Recursive redaction: pass configuration
Recursive redaction-->>GET /config/main: return redacted configuration
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In `@test/test_config_main_redacts_secrets.py`:
- Around line 85-89: Resolve Ruff S105 findings in the test fixtures using
targeted suppression on the intentional api_token values or replace them with
clearly non-secret fixture construction, covering both the
test_the_original_is_not_mutated fixture and the additional fixture near the
referenced later section without changing test behavior.
In `@web_interface/blueprints/api_v3.py`:
- Around line 295-298: Update the interaction between _redact_credentials and
save_main_config so credential placeholders emitted by GET responses do not
overwrite existing stored scalar credentials during POST deep-merge; treat those
blank credential values as unchanged (or use an equivalent write-safe
representation), while preserving normal updates for explicitly supplied
credentials, and add a regression test covering a GET-to-POST round trip.
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| def test_the_original_is_not_mutated(): | ||
| """The caller holds the live config; redaction must not edit it in place.""" | ||
| config = {"github": {"api_token": "keepme"}} | ||
| _redact_credentials(config) | ||
| assert config["github"]["api_token"] == "keepme" |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Resolve the Ruff S105 findings for test fixtures.
Ruff reports S105 for the api_token fixture values at Lines 89 and 143. Suppress these intentional fixtures with a targeted # noqa: S105, or construct clearly non-secret test values in a way that satisfies the configured rule.
Also applies to: 122-143
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[error] 89-89: Possible hardcoded password assigned to: "api_token"
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In `@test/test_config_main_redacts_secrets.py` around lines 85 - 89, Resolve Ruff
S105 findings in the test fixtures using targeted suppression on the intentional
api_token values or replace them with clearly non-secret fixture construction,
covering both the test_the_original_is_not_mutated fixture and the additional
fixture near the referenced later section without changing test behavior.
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| if isinstance(value, dict): | ||
| return {k: ("" if _looks_like_a_credential(k) and not isinstance(v, (dict, list)) | ||
| else _redact_credentials(v)) | ||
| for k, v in value.items()} |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Prevent redacted values from overwriting saved credentials.
Lines 296-298 preserve credential keys with "". save_main_config() later deep-merges submitted dictionaries and overwrites existing scalar values with submitted empty strings. A client that GETs this response and POSTs its data back will erase stored credentials.
Treat blank credential fields from this response as “unchanged” during the POST merge, or use a distinct write-safe representation. Add a GET-to-POST regression test that verifies the stored credential remains unchanged.
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In `@web_interface/blueprints/api_v3.py` around lines 295 - 298, Update the
interaction between _redact_credentials and save_main_config so credential
placeholders emitted by GET responses do not overwrite existing stored scalar
credentials during POST deep-merge; treat those blank credential values as
unchanged (or use an equivalent write-safe representation), while preserving
normal updates for explicitly supplied credentials, and add a regression test
covering a GET-to-POST round trip.
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A second endpoint leaks the same credentials, and I am deliberately not fixing it in this PR.
Why I stopped rather than fix itThe naive fix — mask the GET, as this PR does for
So with What the correct fix needsBoth sides, together:
There is also an open question I could not answer from the code: whether this endpoint backs a raw JSON editor. If it does, masking shows the user blanks and merging fights their edits, and the right answer is different again — probably a presence indicator rather than a blank. Why not just do itI shipped a security change earlier in this session that review correctly caught as making things worse ( Flagging it here so it is on the record with the analysis attached, rather than filed as a fix that half-works. |
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Both findings looked at. One was right and led somewhere worse than the PR; one I'm declining. The round-trip erasure — right about the mechanism, and it is a live bug elsewhereThe concern is real, and chasing it found that the erasure already happens on Change any setting on a plugin's config form and its stored credential is destroyed. The config partial masks secrets before rendering, htmx posts every field including the blanked one,
One correction to the finding as writtenIt says The exposure is narrower than stated: credential-named keys nested under a plugin ID that live in Declining the Ruff S105 suggestionThis repo does not run Ruff — no |
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Superseded by #485, which combines the seven api_v3.py PRs so they do not conflict with each other. Every change from this PR is verified present on that branch; the branch here is untouched if you want to compare. |
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GET /api/v3/config/mainreturns the raw config, and this web interface has no authentication of any kind. An unauthenticated request against a live rig returned:github.api_tokenincoming-packages.ha_tokenjellyfin-now-playing.api_keyledmatrix-weather.api_keyon-air.mqtt_passwordyoutube.api_keyyoutube-stats.api_keyA GitHub token and a Home Assistant long-lived token among them. Anything on that LAN could read them. (Only lengths were captured — the values were never printed or stored.)
Why x-secret doesn't cover it
The masking used by the plugin config endpoints never runs here — this route doesn't consult a schema, and core keys like
github.api_tokenhave no schema to carry the marker.Several of the fields above are tagged
x-secretin their plugin's schema and were still returned in full. That rules out the schema route as the fix for this endpoint.The fix
Credential-named fields are blanked. Matching on the name is blunt, and for a whole-config dump that's the right default: anything named like a credential shouldn't leave the process, and a new plugin adding a differently-shaped secret is covered without anyone remembering to tag it.
Blanked, not removed, and safe to blank:
POST /config/mainmerges into the freshly loaded config and writes only the keys it was given, so a client round-tripping this response cannot erase a secret it never saw. The web API suites confirm it — 81 passing, unchanged.The test that mattered
The first version of this suite exercised the two helpers and nothing else. Reverting the single line that wires the redactor into the route passed all thirty of them. A property asserted on a helper is not a property asserted on the endpoint — and it's the endpoint that faces the network. The added test goes through the view function and does fail on that revert.
Correcting myself
I earlier reported that
GET /api/v3/configdid not expose these values. That path 404s, so the check proved nothing — I read a "not found" body as evidence of masking. The real route is/config/main, and it exposed all of them.Suggested action beyond this PR
The exposed GitHub and Home Assistant tokens should be treated as compromised and rotated — this has been readable to the local network for as long as the interface has been up. Fixing the endpoint doesn't un-expose them.
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