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…ot the URL (#16457) authenticate_websocket (auth_middleware.py) put the JWT in ?token=, which lands in server access logs, browser history, and any client-side URL logging -- shared by every WS route that uses it (/ws/live, the session-presence socket from #16455). Not new: /ws/live has had this shape since #9963. Fix mirrors the convention already established for #16374 (api/process_management.py, autobot-slm-backend/api/websocket.py's _extract_ws_token): authenticate_websocket now prefers the token from the Sec-WebSocket-Protocol subprotocol (['bearer', '<jwt>']) over the query param, which remains a fallback for callers not yet migrated. Every accept() in the affected endpoints (live_events.py's two call sites, presence_ws.py's three, websocket/presence.py's one) now echoes the client's offered subprotocol -- RFC 6455 4.2.2 requires a server that accepts a handshake carrying subprotocols to choose one, or the browser fails the handshake outright. GlobalWebSocketService's /ws/live client (the only frontend client this issue names) is migrated to send the token via new WebSocket(url, ['bearer', token]) instead of embedding it in the URL, via a new buildAuthenticatedWsSubprotocols() sibling to the existing buildAuthenticatedWsUrl() helper. TerminalService/LiveEventService/ useSessionCollaboration's WS clients still use the URL form for their own backend endpoints -- out of scope here, and changing the shared helper's existing behavior wholesale without checking each of those backends already accepts a subprotocol would risk breaking their auth instead of fixing this issue's actual target. auth_middleware.py holds a frozen line-count ceiling (1094); two pre-existing comment blocks reflowed to 120 columns to hold it exactly after the new extraction logic. Not verified: AC3, whether nginx/uvicorn access logs at this deployment actually record full WS handshake URLs. No live host available to this session -- the issue itself treats this as theoretical exposure pending that confirmation, not a confirmed log leak, so left unticked rather than assumed.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWebSocket clients now send bearer tokens through the ChangesWebSocket authentication transport
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participant GlobalWebSocketService
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GlobalWebSocketService->>WebSocket: send original URL and bearer protocols
WebSocket->>authenticate_websocket: provide Sec-WebSocket-Protocol header
authenticate_websocket->>authenticate_websocket: prefer bearer token over query token
authenticate_websocket->>WebSocketEndpoint: return authentication result
WebSocketEndpoint->>WebSocket: accept or close and echo bearer protocol
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…properties (#16457) CI's Frontend Testing Suite failed: GlobalWebSocketService.auth.test.ts's new connect() test hit `TypeError: this.ws.addEventListener is not a function`. _setupConnectionTimeout uses the EventTarget-style addEventListener/ removeEventListener API (with `{ once: true }`), not just the onopen/ onclose/onmessage/onerror properties this shared mock already implemented -- a real WebSocket supports both simultaneously, this one only had one. Checked (per review) whether any existing test was silently passing because of the gap rather than genuinely not hitting it: grepped every test file referencing GlobalWebSocketService/useGlobalWebSocket -- only the new auth test and the channel test exist, and the channel test stubs connect() entirely, so it never reaches _setupConnectionTimeout at all. Nothing was silently passing; the gap was simply never exercised before this PR's own new test. Purely additive: existing onX-property consumers are unaffected (their behavior is unchanged), addEventListener listeners now also fire correctly, matching real EventTarget/WebSocket semantics where both mechanisms coexist.
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In `@autobot-backend/api/live_events.py`:
- Line 402: Update the subprotocol selection near the live-events handler in
autobot-backend/api/live_events.py:402-402 to parse offered protocols and select
bearer only on an exact match, then apply the same change near the presence
WebSocket handler in autobot-backend/api/presence_ws.py:83-83. Add regression
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In `@autobot-backend/auth_middleware.py`:
- Line 1071: Keep the token fallback in the authentication flow using
websocket.query_params.get("token") while supported clients are being migrated
to the bearer subprotocol; remove this URL-token fallback only after client
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In `@autobot-backend/websocket/presence.py`:
- Line 333: Update the subprotocol selection to parse the comma-separated
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| # RFC 6455 4.2.2 requires the server to choose one of the client's offered | ||
| # subprotocols, and a browser fails the handshake if none is echoed back. | ||
| protocols = websocket.headers.get("sec-websocket-protocol", "") | ||
| subprotocol = "bearer" if protocols.startswith("bearer") else None |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Select bearer only when it is an exact offered subprotocol.
Both endpoints use startswith("bearer"). An offer such as bearer-v2 makes the server return bearer, which was not offered. The browser rejects that handshake.
autobot-backend/api/live_events.py#L402-L402: parse the offered values and selectbeareronly for an exact match.autobot-backend/api/presence_ws.py#L83-L83: apply the same exact-match rule.- Add regression tests for a
bearer-v2offer.
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In `@autobot-backend/api/live_events.py` at line 402, Update the subprotocol
selection near the live-events handler in
autobot-backend/api/live_events.py:402-402 to parse offered protocols and select
bearer only on an exact match, then apply the same change near the presence
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| # token never lands in URL access logs/browser history; query stays a fallback during migration. | ||
| protocols = [p.strip() for p in websocket.headers.get("sec-websocket-protocol", "").split(",")] | ||
| token = protocols[1] if len(protocols) == 2 and protocols[0] == "bearer" and protocols[1] else None | ||
| token = token or websocket.query_params.get("token") |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🔵 Trivial
Sensitive Data Exposure
Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-598
Complete client migration before removing the URL-token fallback.
Unchanged clients still depend on ?token=. Keep this fallback during migration. After all supported clients use the bearer subprotocol, remove it to prevent tokens from being exposed through URLs and request logs.
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In `@autobot-backend/auth_middleware.py` at line 1071, Keep the token fallback in
the authentication flow using websocket.query_params.get("token") while
supported clients are being migrated to the bearer subprotocol; remove this
URL-token fallback only after client migration is complete.
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| # choose one of the client's offered subprotocols, and a browser fails the handshake | ||
| # if none is echoed back. | ||
| protocols = websocket.headers.get("sec-websocket-protocol", "") | ||
| subprotocol = "bearer" if protocols.startswith("bearer") else None |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Match the offered subprotocol exactly.
startswith("bearer") also accepts values such as "bearer-v2". In that case, the handler replies with "bearer", although the client did not offer it. The browser rejects that handshake.
Split the comma-separated header and select "bearer" only when it is an exact offered value. Add a near-match test.
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- subprotocol = "bearer" if protocols.startswith("bearer") else None
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| subprotocol = "bearer" if protocols.startswith("bearer") else None | |
| offered_protocols = {protocol.strip() for protocol in protocols.split(",")} | |
| subprotocol = "bearer" if "bearer" in offered_protocols else None |
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In `@autobot-backend/websocket/presence.py` at line 333, Update the subprotocol
selection to parse the comma-separated protocols and choose "bearer" only when
it appears as an exact trimmed value, not a prefix such as "bearer-v2"; add a
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…6457) websocket-mock.ts's _dispatch spread a listener snapshot into a new array before iterating; oxlint's no-useless-spread flagged it since a plain for-of can iterate an iterable directly. Not actually redundant here: addEventListener mutates the listeners array in place via push(), so without a snapshot a listener added by another listener's own callback mid-dispatch would fire within the same dispatch pass, unlike real EventTarget semantics. Swapped the spread for an equivalent Array.from() snapshot, which satisfies the lint rule (which targets `[...x]` specifically) while preserving that behavior. Black-formatted the 4 flagged test files.
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auth_middleware.authenticate_websocketonly read the JWT from?token=in the connection URL, shared by every WS route that uses it (/ws/live, and the session-presence socket from #16455). That lands in server access logs, browser history, and any client-side URL logging. Not new —/ws/livehas had this shape since #9963; flagged during #16455's review and filed separately as instructed.This isn't a fresh problem class in this codebase: #16374 already solved the identical shape for the SLM session-log stream (
api/process_management.py, mirroringautobot-slm-backend/api/websocket.py's_extract_ws_token) — token viaSec-WebSocket-Protocol(['bearer', '<jwt>']), echoed back onaccept()per RFC 6455 4.2.2 (a server that accepts a handshake carrying subprotocols must choose one, or the browser fails the handshake outright). This PR replicates that exact, already-proven convention rather than inventing a new one.What Changed
auth_middleware.py:authenticate_websocketnow prefers the token from the subprotocol header over?token=, which remains a fallback for callers not yet migrated.api/live_events.py(2accept()calls),api/presence_ws.py(3 calls),websocket/presence.py(1 call, the presence success path): each now echoes the client's offered subprotocol on everyaccept(), not just the success path — a rejected handshake still needs to satisfy RFC 6455 4.2.2./ws/live:buildAuthenticatedWsUrl.tsgains a siblingbuildAuthenticatedWsSubprotocols();GlobalWebSocketService.tsandLiveEventService.ts(both connect to/ws/live) now donew WebSocket(url, ['bearer', token])instead of embedding the token in the URL.useSessionCollaboration.ts(/ws/sessions/{id}/presence) andTerminalService.ts(/ws/{session_id}) migrated the same way.SSHTerminal.vuenever callsnew WebSocket()itself — it goes through the genericuseWebSocket()composable, which had no way to carry a subprotocol at all, so that composable gained aprotocolsoption (Ref<string[]> | string[] | undefined, read fresh viaunref()on everyconnect(); omitted, every other existing caller keeps today's single-argument form unchanged).websocket-auth-transport-guard.test.tsfails any WebSocket-related file inautobot-frontendorautobot-slm-frontendthat callsbuildAuthenticatedWsUrl()or embeds a literal?token=/&token=query string. Scoped to files that mentionWebSocketat all (not just directnew WebSocket(callers), because a narrower scope would have missedSSHTerminal.vueexactly the way review did the first time.api/ws_security.py:_resolve_ws_user's docstring corrected — it claimed a browser "can only put a JWT in the query string... cannot set custom headers", which stopped being accurate once the subprotocol path existed.auth_middleware.pyis ratchet-frozen at 1094 lines (now 1093, see security(websocket): every authenticated WebSocket echoes the bearer subprotocol through one helper (#16457) #16939) — reflowed pre-existing comment blocks to hold it exactly after adding the extraction logic.Review Response
Round 1 was blocked on
LiveEventService.ts: it connects to the same/ws/liveendpoint asGlobalWebSocketService.ts, and still sent the token via?token=in the URL — genuinely wired into the running app. The PR's "Scope note" incorrectly grouped it withTerminalService.tsanduseSessionCollaboration.tsas "their own backend endpoints"; that was factually wrong forLiveEventService.tsspecifically. Fixed: migrated to the subprotocol mechanism, and the "Scope note" corrected (see below — it has since been removed entirely, since round 2 closed the remaining two).Round 2, an independent re-review, found the "Scope note" itself was still wrong:
TerminalService.tsanduseSessionCollaboration.tsare genuinely different routes from/ws/live, but that never justified leaving them on the URL-embedding pattern — they leak the same class of exposure on their own endpoints, and the live nginx access log records$request(query string included), so this leaked real tokens today (host evidence confirming this is on #16457).SSHTerminal.vueleaked indirectly, throughuseWebSocket(). All three fixed, plus the guard described above so a fourth can't slip through the same way.Verification
python3 -m pytest autobot-backend/tests/auth_middleware_ws_subprotocol_16457_test.py autobot-backend/api/live_events_ws_subprotocol_16457_test.py autobot-backend/api/presence_ws_subprotocol_16457_test.py autobot-backend/websocket/presence_test.py autobot-backend/tests/test_websockets_auth_reject_12366.py autobot-backend/tests/test_websocket_auth_smoke.py autobot-backend/tests/test_authenticate_websocket_user_id.py autobot-backend/api/presence_ws_auth_16455_test.py autobot-backend/api/live_events_authz_review_test.py -q→ 66 passed, no regressions (no backend logic touched beyond thews_security.pydocstring across both rounds).python3 -m pyflakeson every touched.pyfile → clean.LiveEventService.auth.test.ts,useSessionCollaboration.test.ts(subprotocol assertion added),TerminalService.auth.test.ts,useWebSocket.protocols.test.ts,websocket-auth-transport-guard.test.ts— all written against the sameMockWebSocketpattern the already-mergedGlobalWebSocketService.auth.test.tsuses.useSessionCollaboration.ts,TerminalService.ts,SSHTerminal.vue, the exact three review found) → 0 after, across a measured population of 61 WebSocket-related files.node_modulesisn't installed in this worktree or by the pre-push hook. CI is the evidence of record for the frontend half.log_format; both use the defaultcombinedformat, which records$request(query string included) and never$http_sec_websocket_protocol. So the subprotocol transport this PR (and security(websocket): every authenticated WebSocket echoes the bearer subprotocol through one helper (#16457) #16939) implements genuinely keeps the token out of the access log; the URL-embedding pattern this PR removes genuinely put it there.Risks
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authenticate_websocket(and everyaccept()downstream of it) can read/echo the token from the WS subprotocol header/ws/live's frontend clients (GlobalWebSocketService.tsandLiveEventService.ts) migrated to itcombinedformat logs$requestincluding the query string, never the subprotocol headerIssue Link
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