Require Clerk JWKS outside DEV_MODE so auth cannot fall back to dev tokens - #47
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughProduction authentication now warns when ChangesAuthentication configuration and enforcement
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The authentication guard change is otherwise localized, but the added production-guard tests still violate the repository’s code-execution policy and can fail backend CI. Merge should wait until the test uses an approved isolation mechanism or the exception is explicitly addressed. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@api/tests/test_auth_production_guard.py`:
- Line 29: Update the subprocess invocation in test_auth_production_guard.py to
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Restore the backend CI contract.
subprocess.run at Line 29 triggers the code-exec guard. The backend CI fails before the test suite can pass. Replace this isolation method with an allowed mechanism, or add a path-specific exception for api/tests/test_auth_production_guard.py. Do not exclude the full api/ test tree from the guard.
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[error] 28-31: Command coming from incoming request
Context: subprocess.run(
[sys.executable, "-c", "import api.auth"],
cwd=REPO_ROOT, env=env, capture_output=True, text=True,
)
Note: [CWE-78] Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection').
(subprocess-from-request)
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[error] 24-29: Security guard test detected subprocess usage in the scanned api/ directory: subprocess.run(). Exclude this test file or adjust the scan to avoid flagging its intentional subprocess checks.
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[error] 24-29: Code-exec guard failed: forbidden subprocess usage detected in the test file (subprocess documentation and subprocess.run call).
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[warning] 29-29: subprocess.run without explicit check argument
Add explicit check=False
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In `@api/tests/test_auth_production_guard.py` at line 29, Update the subprocess
invocation in test_auth_production_guard.py to use an isolation mechanism
permitted by the code-execution guard, or add a narrowly scoped exception for
this specific test file. Preserve guard coverage for the rest of the api test
tree and avoid broad api-wide exclusions.
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86-88: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAlign the
_verify_tokendocstring with the production guard.The docstring says that HMAC verification is used when
CLERK_JWKS_URLis unset. The new guard rejects that path unlessDEV_MODEis"true". State that HMAC verification is development-only.Proposed documentation fix
- Clerk RS256 JWT (via JWKS) when CLERK_JWKS_URL is set; dev HMAC token otherwise.""" + Clerk RS256 JWT (via JWKS) when configured; dev HMAC token only when DEV_MODE=true."""🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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68-69: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winSet
DEV_MODEbefore the first verification.
_verify_tokenreadsos.getenv("DEV_MODE")and rejects the HMAC token unless its value is"true". SetDEV_MODEto"true"withmonkeypatchbefore the first verification. Otherwise, the assertion can fail before the production rejection is tested.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@api/auth.py`:
- Around line 86-88: Update the _verify_token docstring to state that the
fallback HMAC token verification is available only when DEV_MODE is "true",
while retaining the JWKS-based RS256 behavior for configured CLERK_JWKS_URL.
In `@api/tests/test_auth_production_guard.py`:
- Around line 68-69: Update the test around issue_dev_token and _verify_token to
set DEV_MODE to "true" via monkeypatch before the first token verification,
ensuring the development-token acceptance assertion runs with the intended
environment.
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_verify_tokencalls_get_jwk_client(), which returnsNonewheneverCLERK_JWKS_URLis unset. When it isNonethe entire Clerk block is skipped and control falls through to HMAC verification againstSESSION_SECRET, regardless ofDEV_MODE. Production auth was silently conditional on an env var that nothing validated.The fix is a refusal in
_verify_token, not a refusal to start.api/auth.pyis imported by every router, so raising at import would also take down the patron NFC game routes, which never touch Clerk. A venue mid-session must not go down because a dashboard-only variable is missing. So:_verify_tokenhard-refuses the HMAC path outsideDEV_MODE. This is the security guarantee, and it holds whether or not Clerk is configured.CLERK_JWKS_URLoutsideDEV_MODEwarns loudly to stderr at import, matching the existingsentry-sdkImportError pattern inapi/index.py. Owner and admin login fails closed with 401; patron routes are unaffected.CLERK_JWKS_URL/CLERK_ISSUER/CLERK_SECRET_KEYtoapi/.env.example, where they were absent entirely.Four tests in
test_auth_production_guard.py, run in a subprocess so import-time behaviour is observed cleanly. Verified: flake8 clean, 29 tests pass across auth, BOLA isolation and the guard itself.An earlier revision of this branch raised
RuntimeErrorat import. Security review flagged the blast radius and it was reworked; the security property is identical either way.Summary by CodeRabbit
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