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Canonical issue

Progresses #913 / #898 (CWE-117 log-injection hardening). Sibling to #810.

Outcome

StructuredFormatter now neutralizes CR/LF (and other line separators) in the
fully rendered log record, so no user-controlled value — interpolated into a
message, an exc_info=True traceback, or a structured extra field — can forge
a fake log line. Each record is guaranteed to occupy exactly one physical line.

Scope

  • Included:
    • src/youtube_extension/backend/config/logging_config.py — escape line
      separators at the single StructuredFormatter.format() chokepoint.
    • tests/unit/test_logging_config_crlf.py — regression tests asserting on
      rendered stream output.
  • Explicitly excluded:

Risk

  • Risk level: low
  • Failure mode: exception tracebacks now render on a single (escaped) physical
    line instead of multiple lines. Text is preserved and greppable; this is also
    required for correctness under JSON logging, where embedded newlines break the
    per-line JSON object.
  • Rollback: revert the single commit; no data or schema migration involved.

Verification

Tied to head 9ee059c:

  • Focused tests — tests/unit/test_logging_config_crlf.py: 4 passed
    (message vector, exc_info traceback vector, all targeted separators, clean
    payload unchanged). Asserted against rendered handler output, not a
    helper's return value.
  • Reproduction confirmed the vector before the fix (forged content on its
    own physical line via both message and traceback) and its elimination after
    (9 physical lines → 2; no forged line-starts).
  • ruff check clean on both changed files.
  • Required CI — will run on the PR.
  • Review threads resolved — none open (new branch).

Production evidence

Not applicable to a Vercel preview: this is a Python-only backend logging change
and is not exercised by the Next.js apps/web build. Behavior is verified by the
focused unit tests and the before/after reproduction above.

Agent handoff

  • One canonical issue is linked
  • No competing PR implements the same issue — fix(security): sanitize user-controlled values in API logs (CWE-117 log injection) #810 is router-scoped
    (_safe_log() per sink); this is the central formatter fix it explicitly
    recommended as a sibling.
  • Acceptance criteria are satisfied
  • Required checks pass on the current head — pending CI
  • Human decision is requested only for merge approval to protected main

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groupthinking and others added 4 commits August 2, 2026 13:20
invalidate_by_tags() issued smembers+delete one tag at a time, so the
caller's wall-clock latency grew linearly with tag count and stale
entries stayed readable for the whole window.

Fan the per-tag work out with asyncio.gather, reusing the per-layer
tag-write semaphore already introduced for set() so the combined
fan-out cannot exhaust the shared connection pool. One permit covers
both commands for a tag since the delete depends on the smembers
result.

Closes #1261.

Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
CodeRabbit's adversarial review of #1262 found the permit-scope comment
factually wrong: it claimed holding one permit across the smembers/delete
pair keeps concurrently-held pool connections at the permit count "instead
of twice it". redis.asyncio checks a connection out only for each command
and returns it to the pool between the two awaits, so acquiring the permit
per command would cap in-flight commands at the same limit. The real reason
to hold across the pair is scheduling determinism and avoiding permit churn,
not preventing a doubling of held connections.

- Rewrite the inline comment in invalidate_by_tags() to state the true policy.
- Fix the matching docstring of test_invalidate_holds_one_permit_across_both_commands.
- Add test_invalidate_starts_no_command_after_context_exit_on_cancel, the
  cancellation regression guard CodeRabbit asked for: cancel mid-smembers and
  assert no Redis command starts after the connection context manager exits.

No behaviour change; scheduling and return values are untouched. 163 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RJP3fieq6JJdEAZXQsJ3J6
The cancellation guard added in e0ebdb3 passes against the pre-change
serial implementation on main, so it cannot detect a regression back to
sequential invalidation, and its smembers mock has no try/finally, so it
never observes whether a cancelled child actually unwound. Measured:
running it against `git show origin/main:intelligent_cache.py` yields
1 passed.

Replace it with test_invalidate_cancellation_drains_before_conn_closes,
which asserts a strict superset:

- all three tags are in flight concurrently, via a bounded wait that
  fails with a diagnostic instead of hanging when they are not;
- every cancelled child runs its finally before __aexit__ closes the
  connection (recorded by a try/finally in the smembers mock);
- no Redis command starts after __aexit__ (the original assertion).

Against pristine main this test fails, taking the class prove-fail count
from 3 to 4. Also notes in the permit-scope comment that holding one
permit across the pair bounds how many tags can sit half-invalidated
when a delete fails.

Full file 163 passed; wider sweep 474 passed; ruff parity unchanged.

Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
…WE-117)

StructuredFormatter did not sanitize the rendered log record, so any
user-controlled value carrying CR/LF — interpolated into a message, an
`exc_info=True` traceback (`str(exc)`), or a structured `extra` field —
could splice a forged log line (CWE-117). This was confirmed against
rendered handler output, not just a helper's return value.

Fix at the single formatter chokepoint: escape CR/LF and the other line
separators in the fully rendered record so every sink is covered at once
and each record occupies exactly one physical line. Escaping (rather than
dropping) keeps the original text greppable.

Adds focused regression tests asserting on rendered stream output for the
message vector, the traceback vector, all targeted separators, and that a
clean payload is left unescaped.

Sibling to the per-sink `_safe_log()` hardening tracked on #810/#913: this
addresses the traceback/extras vector centrally on `main`, independent of
that PR's router-scoped change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Mb4JRePtEQKAgaDEZHicqA
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Agent Completion Truth Gate: BLOCKED

Reasons: invalid_payload

Machine-readable verdict
{
  "details": {
    "invalid_fields": [
      "issue.number",
      "policy.agent_login",
      "policy.run_id"
    ]
  },
  "reasons": [
    "invalid_payload"
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Status — automated remediation run (head 9ee059c)

This PR lands a self-contained CWE-117 fix: CR/LF (and other line separators) are now neutralized centrally in StructuredFormatter, so no user-controlled value — via an interpolated message, an exc_info=True traceback, or a structured extra field — can forge a fake log line. Each record is guaranteed to occupy one physical line.

Verified locally on 9ee059c:

  • tests/unit/test_logging_config_crlf.py4 passed (message vector, exc_info traceback vector, all targeted separators, clean payload left unescaped), asserted against rendered handler output.
  • Before/after reproduction: forged content on its own physical line → eliminated (9 physical lines → 2).
  • ruff check clean on both changed files.
  • Vercel preview READY (Python-only change; not exercised by the apps/web build).

Blocker — agent-completion/truth-gate/pr-1266 is BLOCKED (invalid_payload). The gate requires a trusted agent-provenance chain: a pre-dispatch frozen-intent issue (description + acceptance criteria + declared file scope), a terminal agent-result event authored by the declared agent with matching run_id/head_sha, and a Copilot review of the current head. This change was produced by an unattended scheduled remediation run with no pre-registered frozen-intent issue, so no such provenance exists. I will not fabricate or backdate that chain to force the gate green — consistent with the disposition recorded on #810 ("do not weaken or impersonate the gate"). The gate is behaving correctly here.

Next step (human/owner) — pick one:

  1. Register this under the repo's real agent-dispatch flow: open a frozen-intent issue scoping src/youtube_extension/backend/config/logging_config.py + tests/unit/test_logging_config_crlf.py, then let the agent-completion flow emit a trusted result; or
  2. Review and merge under human authority.

Not auto-merging to protected main. Staged merge command once approved:

gh pr merge 1266 --squash

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@groupthinking I will review the StructuredFormatter line-separator neutralization and its regression tests.

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