Base clientSecretAuth on the verification result - #481
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`req.clientSecretAuth` was set from the presence of the client-secret header or body field, before anything compared it against the stored hash, so it reported "authenticated" for any string. The revenue guard read the same raw value. Both should follow whether the secret actually matched. Verification now runs once, right after the client loads, and its result feeds the flag, the revenue guard, and the final authorization check. The origin paths no longer return before that computation, so a browser request that happens to carry a non-matching secret reports clientSecretAuth false while still being authorized by its origin. Correct server-side SDK traffic and normal origin-authorized browser traffic behave exactly as before. Verification now also runs on inputs that previously skipped it, so only successful verifications are cached: the cache key embeds the supplied secret, and caching negatives would let a caller create entries with keys of their choosing. Clients with no stored secret skip the cache entirely. The read compares against "true" so entries written by earlier releases, which could hold "false", are not read as a pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesClient secret authentication
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The authentication correction is well covered, but the new cache path can expose client secrets, reject ingestion during Redis failures, and enable expensive unauthenticated verification traffic. These issues make the current change unsafe to merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SDK Client
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SDK Client->>validateSdkRequest: Send client secret and request data
validateSdkRequest->>Redis: Read positive verification cache
Redis-->>validateSdkRequest: Return cached verification
validateSdkRequest->>verifyPassword: Verify secret when cache misses
verifyPassword-->>validateSdkRequest: Return verification result
validateSdkRequest->>Redis: Store successful verification for 300 seconds
validateSdkRequest-->>SDK Client: Accept or reject the request
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In `@apps/api/src/utils/auth.ts`:
- Line 61: Update the cacheKey construction in the authentication utility to
exclude the raw clientSecret and its reversible Base64 encoding; use an
appropriate keyed digest of clientSecret instead, while preserving the
clientId-based cache-key structure.
- Line 65: Update verifyClientSecret’s Redis cache lookup to catch failures from
getRedisCache().get(cacheKey) and treat them as a cache miss, allowing execution
to continue to verifyPassword and the origin check. Preserve the existing
cached-true behavior when the read succeeds.
- Around line 136-140: Update clientHook around verifyClientSecret to enforce
per-client and source-IP rate limits before any verifyPassword/scrypt work,
covering the /track and /event callers before the CORS decision; preserve
disabled caching for failed secrets.
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Rate-limit failed secret verification before the CORS decision.
The /track and /event routes invoke clientHook without a route-level limiter. Distinct invalid secrets miss the cache and run verifyPassword with scrypt before CORS authorization. Add per-client and source-IP limits before verifyPassword, while keeping failed-secret caching disabled.
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In `@apps/api/src/utils/auth.ts` around lines 136 - 140, Update clientHook around
verifyClientSecret to enforce per-client and source-IP rate limits before any
verifyPassword/scrypt work, covering the /track and /event callers before the
CORS decision; preserve disabled caching for failed secrets.
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Out of scope for this PR: this asks for a new per-client/source-IP rate limiter in front of verifyClientSecret, which is a feature addition, not a fix to the verification-result logic this PR is about. Worth its own issue/PR if the team wants it.
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@lindesvard, acknowledged. The rate-limiting concern is separate from the verification-result changes in this PR. I will keep it as a non-blocking follow-up item.
Would you like me to open a GitHub issue for the per-client and source-IP limiter?
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Thanks for the report that led to this. The client secret is now verified before it's trusted, so a guessed or incorrect secret can no longer bypass the revenue-tracking guard or the bot filter. This is merged and should go out with the next deploy, usually within a day or so. |
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What changed
req.clientSecretAuthwas set from the presence of the client-secret header or body field, before anything compared it against the stored hash. It reported "authenticated" for any string a caller cared to send. The revenue guard invalidateSdkRequestread the same raw value rather than a verification result. Both now follow whether the secret actually matched.The restructure:
verifyClientSecrethelper and runs once, right after the client and project load, producing a singlesecretVerifiedboolean.req.clientSecretAuth = secretVerified. The field stays, since server-side SDK traffic relies on it, and it is still true for a correct secret.allowUnsafeRevenueTracking || secretVerified.ignoreCorsAndSecretand allowed-origin paths no longer return beforesecretVerifiedhas been computed. The authorization outcome is otherwise unchanged:ignoreCorsAndSecret, an allowed origin, or a verified secret each authorize the request, and none of them still givesIngestion: Invalid cors or secret.A browser request that carries a non-matching secret is still authorized by its origin, but now reports
clientSecretAuthfalse. Correct server-side SDK traffic and normal origin-authorized browser traffic behave exactly as before.Caching
Verification now runs on requests that previously skipped it via the origin paths, which changes what reaches the cache. The cache key embeds the caller-supplied secret, so the helper only writes on a successful verification, and skips the cache entirely when the client has no stored secret. Otherwise any caller could fill the cache with keys of their choosing.
The read compares strictly against
"true". Keys written by the current release can hold"false", and those must not be read as a pass after deploy.One tradeoff: the helper talks to Redis directly instead of going through
getCache, so this key no longer uses the in-process LRU tier.getCachewrites whatever the function returns for the full TTL and has no way to skip a write, and adding that option to a shared package felt like the larger change. Verified secrets still get the 5 minute Redis cache, so the argon2 hash is not repeated per request.Evidence
apps/api/src/utils/auth.ts:62-64(before) setreq.clientSecretAuth = trueon presence alone.apps/api/src/utils/auth.ts:124-131(before) gated revenue onclient.project.allowUnsafeRevenueTracking || clientSecret, the raw string.apps/api/src/utils/auth.ts:163-173(before) held the onlyverifyPasswordcall, reached only when the origin paths at133-161did not return first.packages/redis/cachable.ts:46-55writes the function result for the full TTL unconditionally, includingfalse.Consumers of the flag, read and left unchanged:
apps/api/src/hooks/is-bot.hook.ts:20,apps/api/src/bots/suspicion.ts:67,apps/api/src/controllers/track.controller.ts:214,apps/api/src/controllers/event.controller.ts:56. BothPOST /trackand the deprecatedPOST /eventgo throughapps/api/src/hooks/client.hook.ts, so both pick this up.Tests
New
apps/api/src/utils/auth.test.tscovers the origin-plus-bad-secret case (authorized, flag false, revenue rejected), the same request without__revenue(the ordinary browser case, must not regress), a correct secret with no origin (authorized, flag true, revenue accepted), bothallowUnsafeRevenueTrackingsettings with no secret, an absentclient.secretwith a supplied string (no cache read or write), and the two cache-read cases.apps/api/src/hooks/is-bot.hook.test.tsgains a bot user-agent arriving with an unverified secret, confirming bot handling still runs. The existing case where a verified secret skips bot handling still passes.Checked against the old semantics: reverting the two behavioural lines fails 5 of the 10 new tests.
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packages/mcp/src/auth.ts:108has the same cache-the-negative shape. It is a different entry point and rejects on a failed verification rather than carrying the result forward, so it is not part of this change.is-bot.hook.test.tsanduseIterableCallbackReturnon the pre-existing corsfindcallback, are identical on the base commit and were left alone.Checks
vitest run src/utils/auth.test.ts src/hooks/is-bot.hook.test.tsinapps/api: 14 passed.tsc --noEmitinapps/api: clean.biome checkon the three touched files: same two findings as the base commit, no new ones.apps/apisuite: 10 of 11 files pass.src/routes/insights.router.test.tstimes out because Postgres and ClickHouse are not running in this environment, not from anything here.Summary by CodeRabbit