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fix(jellycompat): redact credentials from request and debug logs - #1008

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Problem

Related issue: N/A, narrow security fix.

Jellyfin-compatible requests can put a session token or API key in ApiKey or api_key. The request logger writes r.URL.RawQuery under the ordinary query attribute, so the existing key-based log redactor does not mask it. The HandleSeasons panic logger has the same path. Rejected requests are logged too.

Optional JELLYCOMPAT_DEBUG_LOG capture also writes complete URLs and request/response bodies directly to its file. That can retain login Pw/Password fields, returned AccessToken values and tokens inside playback URLs. This file writer bypasses the slog redactor.

This is a CWE-532 credential-exposure fix. Someone who can read retained or exported logs could reuse a still-valid credential with its existing permissions. It does not establish unauthenticated access to logs, an administrator-level credential, or an actual account compromise. The normal request-log exposure was reproduced on a running deployment; debug-body exposure was reproduced in tests, not by enabling debug capture on production.

Approach

I kept the fix at the logging boundary so clients can keep using the compatibility protocol without changes:

  • Add shared query, request-URL and JSON helpers in internal/logredact.
  • Use query redaction in both normal compatibility request logs and the seasons panic path. Match credential aliases case-insensitively after decoding, handle duplicate keys, and omit malformed queries instead of falling back to the original input.
  • Remove URL userinfo and fragments, redact credential query parameters, and preserve ordinary parameters. Apply this to debug request URLs and URL strings in JSON, including relative stream URLs.
  • Recursively mask credential-bearing JSON fields, including Jellyfin's Pw alias. Preserve exact JSON numbers. Omit incomplete, scalar and non-JSON bodies rather than writing an unsafe raw-text fallback.
  • Capture request bytes as the handler reads them, up to the existing 256 KiB limit. The old debug middleware replaced the request body with that limited prefix, so a larger request was truncated before reaching its handler. The new wrapper forwards the full stream and its read/close results.

This changes diagnostic output, not live authentication, request parameters, response bodies, route registration or API schemas. The contribution is based on upstream main at dc887b3c567303ca5554e3a1101d2dd6324345a4; it contains no deployment settings or unrelated fork changes.

Validation

CodeRabbit follow-up

Current contribution revision: ad4eb4df.

I addressed the two diagnostic-quality findings from CodeRabbit:

  • Ordinary metadata containing question marks or embedded links stays unchanged. URL detection requires a rooted path or a valid scheme prefix. I did not use the proposed whitespace exclusion, because a URL with spaces can still carry a credential. Regression cases cover plain text, embedded links, root-relative and absolute URLs with spaces, mixed-case schemes and malformed URLs.
  • Request capture records whether reads actually exceeded the 256 KiB capture budget. Only then does it report truncation. Tests cover one byte below, exactly at and one byte above the limit with an unknown content length, and confirm the handler receives the complete request.

TestSanitizeJSONPreservesOrdinaryText and the oversized case of TestDebugLoggerReportsActualRequestTruncation failed on the previous PR revision and pass with this follow-up. The full focused redaction/debug test selection and targeted vet passed. Upstream CI for this new revision is pending.

The original deployment evidence below applies to the initial fix, not this follow-up. This follow-up has not been deployed or merged into the fork's production main. The docstring coverage warning is not being addressed with boilerplate comments on test functions; the new production helper has a contract comment.

Before/after evidence

The initial four middleware regressions were run before implementation on 08691635c6c315f091e224603271036071ee97db. They reproduced query leaks, panic-path leaks, debug URL/body leaks, unsafe raw-body fallback and request truncation. The affected logging implementation at that baseline matches the upstream base. These tests pass with the fix.

The same five changed files were deployed in fork revision 8d5b5c34ff050c1039ccead5e68c890e553b3dc1. This is separate from the upstream contribution revision 88ca57e7afb6df86bd5a07af53adecbf9c670f79; file comparisons confirmed they contained the same initial fix before the CodeRabbit follow-up.

Live verification used deliberately invalid synthetic tokens, never a real credential. A GET to /Users/Me returned 401 before and after deployment. The following are verifier counters, not reconstructed raw log lines. Private request logs are deliberately excluded.

To repeat the query check, replace the reserved example host with a test instance, send the request below, and inspect only the request-log entry carrying codex_log_probe=redaction-check. The expected response is 401 in both versions. The old logger retains the synthetic token; the patched logger replaces its value with [REDACTED] while keeping Limit=20. Repeat with the aliases listed below. The example token is deliberately non-functional.

curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' \
  'https://media.example.invalid/Users/Me?ApiKey=synthetic-only-not-a-real-token&Limit=20&codex_log_probe=redaction-check'

Before:

{"phase":"before","http_status":401,"matching_log_lines":1,"synthetic_secret_logged":true}

After, using ApiKey, API_KEY, %41piKey and Api%5fKey (all four requests returned 401):

{"phase":"after","matching_log_lines":4,"synthetic_secret_logged":false,"redaction_present":true,"safe_parameter_retained":true}

After deployment, both health checks returned 200 and the container was healthy with no restarts. Subsequent read-only checks found an active, unpaused playback session updated within four seconds and 30 successful POST /Sessions/Playing/Progress responses with status 204 in a five-minute sample. That demonstrates continuing server-side playback reporting, not a fresh-start, seek or client-rendering test.

Regression coverage

  • TestRequestLoggerRedactsQueryCredentials and TestSeasonsPanicLoggerRedactsQueryCredentials: secret removal at the actual sinks, retained safe parameters, and unchanged live requests/statuses.
  • TestDebugLoggerRedactsCredentialsAndPreservesTraffic: passwords, nested credential fields, access tokens and stream URLs are masked while the handler and client receive unchanged bodies.
  • TestDebugLoggerOmitsUnsafeBodiesWithoutTruncatingRequests: malformed/form bodies and oversized requests do not leak through the raw fallback or truncate the handler's input.
  • TestDebugRequestBodyPreservesReadAndCloseErrors and TestDebugLoggerFilterLeavesRequestUnread: original I/O results and the user-agent filter remain intact.
  • The TestSanitize* cases cover aliases, percent-encoded and duplicate query keys, invalid encodings, URL userinfo/fragments, escaped/duplicate JSON keys, arrays, exact large numbers and unsafe body representations.

Commands and CI

Initial-fix evidence, before the CodeRabbit follow-up:

On contribution revision 88ca57e7afb6df86bd5a07af53adecbf9c670f79:

git diff upstream/main HEAD --check
GOMAXPROCS=2 go test -p 1 ./internal/logredact ./internal/jellycompat -run 'Test(Sanitize|RequestLoggerRedacts|SeasonsPanicLoggerRedacts|Debug)' -count=1 -timeout=2m
GOMAXPROCS=2 go vet -p 1 ./internal/logredact ./internal/jellycompat

All three passed. Full CI for this exact contribution revision also passed: Go, Web and Docs hygiene are green. Upstream-owned PR checks will run separately after publication; those are not being reported as passed in advance.

The full gate runs make embed-stub, go build ./..., gofmt -l ., go vet ./..., changed-line golangci-lint, make test-go, settings-binding and playback-fixture checks, plus web lint/format/build/tests and docs-path hygiene. The fork-hosted dispatch compares lint against its origin/main; the upstream PR check will compare against the upstream target. Neither is described as a full-tree lint cleanup.

Additional evidence for the deployed fork revision, not a substitute for this PR's revision checks: Go/Web/docs and PostgreSQL integration passed, and both container architectures built successfully. The earlier development revision failed four lint checks; those corrections are included in this PR. Debug logging stayed disabled on production, so its enabled-mode evidence is from regression tests.

API v2 / Huma compatibility

I checked the Huma foundation and pilot work (#936 and #941), plus the recent playback work in #1002 and #1005. The API v2 contract explicitly keeps Jellyfin compatibility outside the native v2 contract. Huma is mounted through humachi on the native API listener; this fix stays in compatibility logging and standard-library redaction helpers.

At apiv2 revision 26661d76f451ed790cf74221538b1048a8d193d6, the existing affected logging files and internal/logredact are identical to the upstream base. Applying the complete contribution diff to a temporary index populated from that revision passed git apply --cached --check without conflicts. The reviewed playback PRs did not change this patch's logging files.

The compatibility claim is therefore source and patch compatibility with the inspected v2 branch, not a claim that the full Huma runtime or migration suite was executed. No v2 operations, OpenAPI artifacts, client bindings or playback contracts change. Apple and Android changes are not required for this logging-only patch. Recheck integration when the v2 branch moves.

Benchmarks

Not run. Query parsing and JSON redaction add work to the logging path; I am not claiming zero overhead or a performance improvement. The debug capture remains bounded at 256 KiB. Latency, throughput and allocation effects have not been measured.

Risks

  • Diagnostic query ordering/encoding and JSON field ordering can change. Non-JSON, malformed and incomplete body captures are intentionally replaced by omission markers; raw XML, forms and text will no longer be dumped verbatim.
  • Redaction follows recognised credential fields and URL representations. This is not a general guarantee that arbitrary free-text messages or every other logger in the repository contain no sensitive information.
  • Existing logs are not rewritten, and exposed credentials are not automatically revoked. Operators should identify and revoke affected sessions/keys separately and review log retention and access.
  • No database migration, settings change, authentication change or production deployment is part of this upstream PR.

Checklist

  • I read and can explain the complete diff. Agent review is complete; human maintainer review is requested.
  • This pull request addresses one concern: credential-safe compatibility diagnostics, including preserving requests while capturing them.

AI Disclosure

AI-assisted with Astra. I directed the task and designed the work.

  • Harness: OpenAI Codex desktop.
  • Tool(s): Codex Security plugin, CodeRabbit (external review suggestions), Git, GitHub CLI, Go tooling and SSH for authorised deployment verification.
  • Model(s): Astra (gpt-6-astra), confirmed for this task. CodeRabbit did not report its underlying model identifier.
  • Involvement: AI-assisted implementation, tests, review, verification and PR drafting under my direction. No claim of independent human code review.
  • Adversarial review: a same-agent review traced the query, panic, debug URL and body sinks; checked encoded/duplicate aliases, malformed input and nested JSON; and checked ordinary request/response bytes, request-length limits, I/O errors and filtering. The debug request-truncation defect was addressed and covered by regression tests. Separate workers were not used, so this is not an independent multi-agent review. All reported patch lint failures were corrected and revalidated.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Sensitive credentials are now redacted from diagnostic logs, including request URLs, query strings, request bodies, response bodies, and panic-recovery messages.
    • Malformed, oversized, or unsafe diagnostic content is omitted rather than logged.
    • Truncated request-body captures are clearly marked.
    • Traffic remains unaffected while debug logging captures sanitized information.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for credential redaction, safe handling of malformed content, truncation notices, body-read errors, and filtered requests.

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The change adds query, URL, and JSON sanitizers. Request logging, debug logging, and season panic recovery now redact credentials. Debug request-body capture preserves handler traffic and propagates read and close errors. Tests cover redaction and unsafe input handling.

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Diagnostic log redaction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sanitizer contracts and validation
internal/logredact/diagnostic.go, internal/logredact/diagnostic_test.go
Adds query, URL, and JSON sanitizers. Secret keys are masked, URL user information and fragments are removed, and invalid or unsafe bodies are omitted.
Debug body capture and redaction
internal/jellycompat/logging.go, internal/jellycompat/logging_test.go
The debug middleware observes request bodies without consuming them ahead of the handler. It logs sanitized URLs and JSON bodies while preserving traffic and read/close errors.
Request and panic logging integration
internal/jellycompat/logging.go, internal/jellycompat/handlers_items.go, internal/jellycompat/logging_test.go
Request logging and season panic recovery sanitize query values. Tests verify redaction while preserving harmless diagnostics and request behavior.

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Diagnostic logging now redacts credential-bearing URLs, queries, and JSON while preserving request handling and bounded debug capture behavior. No current merge-blocking risk is identified.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant DebugMiddleware
  participant Handler
  participant LogWriter
  Client->>DebugMiddleware: Send URL, query, and request body
  DebugMiddleware->>Handler: Forward request through debugRequestBody
  Handler-->>DebugMiddleware: Return response
  DebugMiddleware->>LogWriter: Write sanitized URL and JSON body
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internal/jellycompat/logging.go (1)

234-236: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Report request-body truncation so the omission message is not misleading.

The capture is bounded by debugMaxBodyCapture. A larger JSON request body is captured truncated, so SanitizeJSON returns the omission message. The log then shows the captured byte count followed by "not a complete JSON object or array", which attributes the omission to a malformed body. The response branch already prints a truncation line at Line 242.

♻️ Proposed truncation notice for the request capture
 			if requestCapture != nil && requestCapture.body.Len() > 0 {
 				_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(logFile, "Request Body (%d bytes captured):\n", requestCapture.body.Len())
+				if requestCapture.body.Len() >= debugMaxBodyCapture {
+					fmt.Fprintf(logFile, "[truncated at %d bytes]\n", debugMaxBodyCapture)
+				}
 				writeIndentedJSON(logFile, requestCapture.body.Bytes())
 			}
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In `@internal/jellycompat/logging.go` around lines 234 - 236, Update the
request-body logging branch around requestCapture and writeIndentedJSON to
detect when the captured body reached the debugMaxBodyCapture limit and print a
truncation notice, matching the existing response-branch behavior. Ensure the
notice distinguishes intentionally truncated JSON from malformed or incomplete
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In `@internal/logredact/diagnostic.go`:
- Around line 92-93: Update the URL-detection condition in the value
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In `@internal/jellycompat/logging.go`:
- Around line 234-236: Update the request-body logging branch around
requestCapture and writeIndentedJSON to detect when the captured body reached
the debugMaxBodyCapture limit and print a truncation notice, matching the
existing response-branch behavior. Ensure the notice distinguishes intentionally
truncated JSON from malformed or incomplete request bodies.

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