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.
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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
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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) | ||
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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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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. |
…th (#485) * fix(web): stop /config/main handing out every credential it holds 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. * fix(web): stop an unrelated config edit from erasing a plugin's secret Saving any field on a plugin's config form destroyed that plugin's stored credential. On a rig with a weather API key, changing the city silently emptied the key, and the plugin stopped working at the next fetch with no indication why. The path had no guard at any step. The config partial masks secrets before rendering (pages_v3.py:740), so the browser posts them back blank; _parse_value deliberately preserves "" for optional string fields; separate_secrets routes that "" into secrets_config, which is a truthy dict; deep_merge writes it over the stored value; save_raw_file_content persists it. The blank does not even need the round-trip. merge_with_defaults injects the schema's api_key default ("") into every save, so a client that never sends the field at all still erases it. test_secret_count_message_counts_top_level_keys was counting exactly that injected blank as a saved secret field -- the visible edge of the bug, pinned as expected behaviour. remove_empty_secrets() already existed for this, with seven unit tests and a docstring describing this precise scenario ("clients will send those empty strings back ... so that existing stored secrets are not overwritten with blanks"). It was never wired into a call site. This wires it into both save paths that merge into the secrets file. A blank now means "unchanged" rather than "delete", which is the same contract the helper's tests already describe. The cost is that a secret can no longer be cleared by emptying the field; clearing needs its own affordance, since a control that erases credentials as a side effect of ordinary edits is not one. Verified by reverting the guard: the new round-trip test then fails with the stored key read back as ''. 262 web tests pass with it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW * fix(web): stop dumping the config and request headers to the journal save_main_config logged its entire POST body and the full request headers at ERROR on every save. The body is the configuration itself, and the headers carry the session cookie, so a routine settings change wrote both to the journal -- at a level that guarantees they survive any sane log filter. The lines are leftover debug output: they say "DEBUG:" in the message while calling logging.error, and they went through the root logger rather than the module logger, bypassing the level configured for this blueprint. Replaced with a debug-level line recording the shape of the request, which is the part with diagnostic value. The local `import logging` went with them; it shadowed a module-level import that was already there. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW * fix(web): stop /config/secrets handing out every credential it holds GET /api/v3/config/secrets returned config_secrets.json in full to anyone who could reach the port, and this interface has no authentication. Probed against a real rig it produced six populated credential fields: a 40-character GitHub token, a 183-character Home Assistant token, and Jellyfin and weather API keys. This is the second door onto the same credentials; #477 closes the first. Masking the response alone would have been worse than the leak. The only client fetches every secret, edits one field and posts all of them back, and save_raw_file_content replaces the file wholesale -- so a masked GET followed by the client's own save would write the mask over every credential the user had not touched. That is why this was left open when the leak was found; it needs both halves. Read side: mask_all_secret_values(), which already existed for exactly this endpoint -- its docstring names it -- and had never been wired to a call site. It leaves empty values and YOUR_* placeholders alone, so a client can still tell "set" from "not set" without being told the secret. Write side: strip the echoed mask and blanks from the submission, then merge onto what is stored, so "unchanged" means unchanged. The cost is that a secret can no longer be cleared by blanking it; that wants its own affordance, since a control that erases credentials as a side effect of saving an unrelated one is not one. Browser side: the token field is now left empty rather than filled from the response. Filling it with the mask would have stored eight bullet characters as the token the next time the user pressed Save, and filling it with the real value is the thing being fixed. It reports whether a token is saved instead. Verified end to end through the Flask endpoints, not the helpers. Reverting the masking fails the leak tests; reverting the merge fails the preservation tests; both halves are independently guarded. 278 web tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW * fix(web): stop reporting "no update" when the update check could not run check-update returned update_available=False whenever git failed. The banner is the only route to the update button, so a checkout git refuses to touch looked exactly like a current one -- permanently, with nothing on screen to act on and only a log line recording why. The common cause is an install performed as root. scripts/install/one-shot-install.sh clones into ${HOME}/LEDMatrix, never consults SUDO_USER, and contains no chown at all, while its own error text suggests running the whole thing under sudo. The result is a root-owned checkout, and on a rig this is what every git command in it does: fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '...' including the fetch this endpoint runs. Verified on real hardware rather than assumed. A failed check now reports check_failed with a message the user can act on -- for dubious ownership, the chown that fixes it. The banner shows that message instead of hiding itself, with the update button suppressed since updating cannot work until the cause is fixed. The success path is untouched. This does not fix the installer, which is the real cause; it stops the symptom being invisible. The installer needs SUDO_USER handling and a chown, and its suggestion to run as root should go. Reverting the endpoint change fails four of the five new tests; the fifth guards the success path and correctly does not move. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW * fix(web): stop the installer chmod stripping exec bits on every update git tracks five scripts as mode 644 that first_time_install.sh then chmods to 755 (start_display.sh, stop_display.sh, the two install_*_service.sh, and one-shot-install.sh does the same to first_time_install.sh). With core.fileMode true, the default on Linux, git reports all five as modified from then on, in files the user never touched. The update button stashes local changes before pulling, so it is not blocked by this. But it never pops that stash -- stash pop and stash apply appear nowhere in the update flow -- so the mode change is stashed away and left there, and the files revert: === file modes after the update button's stash === 664 first_time_install.sh <- installer had made these 755 664 start_display.sh 664 stop_display.sh 664 scripts/install/install_service.sh So every web-UI update silently strips the executable bit from the installer's own scripts, and leaves a stash entry holding the difference. start_display.sh and stop_display.sh stop working from the shell afterwards. A manual `git pull --rebase` over SSH fails outright, since nothing stashes for it: "cannot pull with rebase: You have unstaged changes". That is the likely source of the reports, since plenty of people update that way. Tracking the five as 755 -- what they should always have been, as the installer chmodding them attests -- removes the spurious mode change entirely: nothing to stash, nothing stripped, no stash entry, and manual pulls work. The pull also passes --autostash, for the case the code explicitly tolerates: when the stash fails it logs a warning and pulls anyway, and that pull is what then fails. Autostash also pops what it stashes, which the manual stash does not. Note that `git add -A` after `git update-index --chmod=+x` silently reverts the index to the on-disk mode, so the modes here were set by chmodding the files themselves. Regression test asserts the five stay tracked executable; reverting any one of them fails it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW * fix(web): ask for the restart that makes an update take effect The update button pulls new code and restarts nothing. There is no systemctl, restart, reload or reboot anywhere in the 172-line git_pull handler -- it stashes, pulls, installs changed requirements, re-removes plugins the user had uninstalled, and returns "Code updated successfully." Meanwhile both services go on running the code they loaded at boot. So the display keeps rendering the old build, the web interface keeps serving the old build, and the user is told the update worked. Nothing on screen suggests otherwise, and the next reboot is what actually applies it -- whenever that is. The affordance for this already exists: the restart-pending banner, raised after main-config saves, with a Restart Now button wired to the display service. A code update is a stronger reason to show it than a config save is. The response now reports restart_required, and applyUpdate raises the banner with wording for a code update rather than a config save. The banner's message became a parameter and is persisted next to the flag, since it outlives the page that raised it. restart_required is only true when the pull actually moved HEAD. "Already up to date" is a success too, and prompting after a no-op would train users to dismiss the prompt unread. This covers the display service, which is what the Restart Now button drives and what users notice. The web interface still picks up its own new code on its next restart; restarting it from inside a request it is serving is a larger change than this one. Reverting the flag fails the test that a pull which moved HEAD asks for a restart. 290 tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW * Mask list-shaped secrets element-wise, close two vacuous tests mask_all_secret_values treated any non-empty list as a scalar, so a secrets file holding "accounts": [{"name": "a", "token": "tok-a"}, {...}] came back as a single "••••••••". The caller could not see how many entries existed, and the raw editor was handed a string where the file holds an array. Recurse into lists in both _mask_value and _contains_mask. Lists merge by replacement, not key-wise, so strip_masked_values now drops a list outright if any element still carries the mask -- storing a half-masked list would discard the untouched entries. Two tests could pass without exercising what they claim to check: - test_git_pull_resolution asserted modes only for paths git ls-files returned. A renamed or deleted installer target is simply absent from that output, so its mode was never checked. Assert every CHMODDED path is tracked first. - test_config_secrets_masking never checked the POST status. A 500 leaves the old file in place, which satisfies every assertion that follows. Assert 200 before reading the file back. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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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