Authenticate PolicyServerPassthrough / initializePSVerification, and stop logging credentials - #1449
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds authenticated PolicyServer passthrough and initialization flows, verified identity propagation, credential redaction during command logging, protocol registration, tests, and expanded API documentation. ChangesPolicyServer authentication
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The PR authenticates both PolicyServer endpoints and changes their forwarded identity, but nested credentials in PolicyServer payloads can still be written to logs and potentially replayed or exposed. Merge should be blocked until nested redaction is fixed; the documentation formatting issue is minor. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant PolicyServerRoute
participant PolicyServerHandler
participant Authenticator
participant DDOResolver
participant PolicyServer
Client->>PolicyServerRoute: Send command and authentication fields
PolicyServerRoute->>PolicyServerHandler: Forward authentication data
PolicyServerHandler->>Authenticator: Validate token or nonce/signature
Authenticator-->>PolicyServerHandler: Return verified consumer identity
PolicyServerHandler->>DDOResolver: Resolve document DDO
DDOResolver-->>PolicyServerHandler: Return DDO
PolicyServerHandler->>PolicyServer: Forward verified identity, credentials, payload, and DDO
PolicyServer-->>Client: Return response
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Summary:
This PR introduces authentication and caller identity verification for the PolicyServer passthrough endpoints. It properly overwrites user-provided identity fields with verified ones to prevent impersonation, and adds excellent security hardening by redacting sensitive credentials from the application logs.
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• [INFO][bug] In JavaScript, arrays are considered objects (typeof [] === 'object'). If the caller maliciously or accidentally passes an array for policyServerPassthrough, it will pass this check but could cause unexpected behavior later when properties are injected into it. Consider explicitly ruling out arrays.
- if (typeof command.policyServerPassthrough !== 'object')
+ if (typeof command.policyServerPassthrough !== 'object' || Array.isArray(command.policyServerPassthrough))• [INFO][security] Excellent security practice here. Ensuring that sensitive credentials (like JWTs, signatures, and encrypted keys) are redacted before reaching the logger mitigates the risk of credential leakage in server logs.
• [INFO][security] Good job overwriting the caller-supplied consumerAddress with the verified one from the auth component. This is a critical security control to prevent users from impersonating other addresses in the passthrough payload. LGTM!
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In `@docs/PolicyServer.md`:
- Around line 175-180: Update the blockquote in PolicyServer documentation by
adding the blockquote marker to the blank separator line between the paragraphs
beginning “A caller controls action” and “The caller’s auth token leaves the
node,” preserving the existing text.
In `@src/components/httpRoutes/validateCommands.ts`:
- Around line 78-86: Update the sanitization flow around
SENSITIVE_COMMAND_FIELDS and logCommandData to recursively redact sensitive keys
within nested objects and arrays, including policyServerPassthrough and
policyServer credentials such as authorization, signature, aes_encrypted_key,
and encryptedDockerRegistryAuth. Sanitize only the logging copy, preserve the
original command object, and add a regression test covering nested PolicyServer
credentials before CORE_LOGGER.info is called.
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| > **A caller controls `action`.** A passthrough payload can claim `"action": "download"` or | ||
| > `"action": "startCompute"` and look much like the ones Ocean Node itself sends for those | ||
| > commands. The `consumerAddress` is trustworthy, but the action is not — do not grant a | ||
| > passthrough request the same authority as a node-initiated one. | ||
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| > **The caller's auth token leaves the node.** `authorization` is relayed to the |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Fix the blockquote separator.
Line 179 ends the blockquote before the next quoted paragraph. Add > on the blank line to satisfy MD028.
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In `@docs/PolicyServer.md` around lines 175 - 180, Update the blockquote in
PolicyServer documentation by adding the blockquote marker to the blank
separator line between the paragraphs beginning “A caller controls action” and
“The caller’s auth token leaves the node,” preserving the existing text.
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| // never log the caller's credentials, whatever the command is | ||
| for (const field of SENSITIVE_COMMAND_FIELDS) { | ||
| if (isDefined(logCommandData[field])) { | ||
| logCommandData[field] = REDACTED | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| if (SENSITIVE_TOKEN_COMMANDS.includes(commandStr) && isDefined(logCommandData.token)) { | ||
| logCommandData.token = REDACTED | ||
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Redact sensitive fields in nested PolicyServer payloads.
This loop only redacts root fields. policyServerPassthrough and policyServer are nested caller-controlled objects, so nested authorization, signature, aes_encrypted_key, and encryptedDockerRegistryAuth values reach CORE_LOGGER.info unredacted.
Recursively sanitize objects and arrays in logCommandData before logging. Preserve the original command object. Add a regression test with nested PolicyServer credentials.
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In `@src/components/httpRoutes/validateCommands.ts` around lines 78 - 86, Update
the sanitization flow around SENSITIVE_COMMAND_FIELDS and logCommandData to
recursively redact sensitive keys within nested objects and arrays, including
policyServerPassthrough and policyServer credentials such as authorization,
signature, aes_encrypted_key, and encryptedDockerRegistryAuth. Sanitize only the
logging copy, preserve the original command object, and add a regression test
covering nested PolicyServer credentials before CORE_LOGGER.info is called.
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PolicyServerPassthrough/initializePSVerification, and stop logging credentialsWhy
1. The passthrough endpoint was completely unauthenticated
PolicyServerPassthroughHandlerdid rate-limiting and a single presence check, then handed thecaller's object to the PolicyServer verbatim:
PolicyServer.passThroughdoes no shaping whatsoever:The only server-controlled fields in the outgoing body were
ddo(forced to the DB lookup) andnodeAddress(added byattachNodeAddress). Everything else — includingaction— wasattacker-supplied.
Two consequences:
No caller identity. The PolicyServer exists to make authorization decisions, but on this
endpoint it received nothing trustworthy about who was asking. It could not do the additional
checks it is there for.
Impersonation of the typed actions. Every other PolicyServer call site builds an explicit
{action, ...}payload from an already-authenticated handler:checkDownloaddownloaddownloadHandler.ts(aftervalidateTokenOrSignature)checkStartComputestartComputestartCompute.ts,initialize.tscheckEncrypt/checkEncryptFileencrypt/encryptFileencryptHandler.tsinitializePSVerificationinitiatePolicyServerInitializeHandlerpassThroughPolicyServerPassthroughHandlerSo a client could POST
{ "policyServerPassthrough": { "action": "download", "consumerAddress": "0xvictim", "documentId": "did:op:…" } }and produce a payload the PolicyServer cannot distinguish from one the node itself built in
checkDownload— with an arbitraryconsumerAddressand no credentials anywhere in the request.2. The sibling
initializePSVerificationroute had the same gapPolicyServerInitializeHandlerrequiredconsumerAddressbut never verified the caller ownedit, so anyone could trigger a PolicyServer verification flow on behalf of any address.
3.
validateCommandParameterslogged every credential, for every commandFound while adding auth to the above. This function logs the whole command object on every
request:
It already redacted
filesandrawData, but not credentials — soauthorization(the JWT),signature,aes_encrypted_keyandencryptedDockerRegistryAuthwere written verbatim to thelogs for
download,startCompute, every service command, the persistent-storage commands, andnow these two. The JWT is a bearer credential valid until expiry, so a log reader could replay it
as the user.
Pre-existing and repo-wide, not introduced here — but adding auth to two more endpoints would have
widened it, so it is fixed in the same PR.
How
Auth: reuse the existing helper
No new auth code. Both handlers now call the shared
CommandHandler.validateTokenOrSignature(...)immediately afterverifyParamsAndRateLimits,exactly as
PaidComputeStartHandler.handledoes:That routes to
Auth.validateAuthenticationOrToken, so the accepted credentials are the same aseverywhere else in the node: an
Authorizationtoken, orconsumerAddress+nonce+signature.validate()additionally requiresconsumerAddressand checks it withisAddress(),matching
startCompute.Ordering matters and is asserted by a test: parameter validation runs before auth, so a malformed
request gets
400and never touches the auth component.The forwarded address is the verified one, not the claimed one
This is the substantive decision.
Auth.validateAuthenticationOrTokenhas two paths:verifyConsumerSignaturebuilds its message asconsumer + nonce + command + issuerPeerId, so the address is bound into what was signed.task.consumerAddress.Most handlers in this repo then keep using
task.consumerAddressand inherit the gap: a callerholding a valid token for A can pass
consumerAddress: Band still get a 200.persistentStorage.tsis the one that does it right, binding toisAuthRequestValid.consumerAddress.This PR follows persistentStorage. The address forwarded to the PolicyServer is
authValidationResponse.consumerAddress, assigned unconditionally so it always replaces whateverthe client supplied — the same way
ddowas already forced server-side:The injection sits after the DDO-resolution block so a client cannot pre-seed these fields.
For
initializePSVerificationthe verified address is passed as theconsumerAddressargument andthe credentials ride in the free-form
policyServerobject — the only field that method forwardsunshaped:
Credentials are relayed on purpose so the PolicyServer can run its own independent checks —
it can recompute
consumerAddress + nonce + "PolicyServerPassthrough"and verify the signatureitself.
docs/PolicyServer.mdnotes that this meansPOLICY_SERVER_URLshould be an HTTPSendpoint the operator controls.
Command shape
consumerAddress/nonce/signatureare top-level fields on the command, alongside theinherited
Command.authorization— consistent withdownload,startComputeand the servicecommands, and it keeps
policyServerPassthroughas a purely opaque client payload. The HTTP routesread the token from the header and the triple from the body, the convention used in
compute.tsand
provider.ts:The P2P /
POST /directCommandpath needed no change — it JSON-parses the whole command object, sothe new fields arrive automatically.
initializePSVerificationgets its own commandPreviously both routes sent
command: PROTOCOL_COMMANDS.POLICY_SERVER_PASSTHROUGH, so the twoendpoints were indistinguishable at the dispatch layer. Now that the command string is what a
signature is scoped to, sharing it would mean a signature for one endpoint is replayable against
the other.
initializePSVerificationtherefore gets its own command:Added to both
PROTOCOL_COMMANDSandSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL_COMMANDS— the allow-list entry ismandatory, since
validateCommandParametersrejects any command not on it(
Invalid or unrecognized command), so the constant alone would have broken the route outright.PolicyServerInitializeHandleris also now registered inCoreHandlersRegistry. It was previouslyHTTP-only and unregistered; leaving it that way while adding its command to the allow-list would
have made
POST /directCommandwithPolicyServerInitializepass validation and then fail with501 Unknown command or missing handler. Registering it follows the add-a-command checklist inCLAUDE.md and makes the endpoint reachable over P2P like every other command — safe now that it is
authenticated.
One robustness fix
typeof command.policyServerPassthrough !== 'object'→400. The handler doestask.policyServerPassthrough.ddo = null, which throws aTypeError(ESM is strict mode) on astring payload — a
500on malformed input, on the path now carrying auth.Credential redaction —
validateCommands.tsApplied unconditionally, after the existing deep copy, so it covers every command:
tokenneeded care and is handled per-command:tokenmeansgetEscrowEvents,computeStart(payment.token)invalidateAuthToken,validateAuthTokenjwt.verify(task.token, …))Blanket-redacting
tokenwould have made escrow and payment logs useless, so only the twoauth-token commands are covered.
Redaction runs on the copy, so handlers still receive the real credentials — pinned by a test.
It also runs after the
structuredClone/shallow-clone fallback, so a command carrying anon-cloneable value still gets redacted.
Tests
Two new unit test files. There were zero tests touching PolicyServer or
validateCommandParametersbefore this.src/test/unit/policyServer.test.ts— 17 tests. Sinon fakes for the node (no DB, no network),PolicyServer.prototypestubbed to inspect the forwarded payload:400on missing / non-objectpolicyServerPassthrough, missing / malformedconsumerAddress401on absent credentials, on an invalid signature, and when the Auth component is unwiredvalidateAuthenticationOrToken, scoped tothe command string
ddo, and thecaller's own fields
consumerAddressinside the payload is overwritten; amismatched address alongside a valid token loses to the token's address
ddo: null; a PolicyServer denial propagates its status/bodyinitializePSVerification:401on bad auth,404on a missing DDO, and the verified address +credentials in the
policyServerblobDocs
docs/API.md— passthrough section documents the auth requirement, the request header, thenew parameters, the signed-message form and the
401. Adds a section forinitializePSVerification, which was a live but entirely undocumented route.docs/PolicyServer.md— new "Passthrough and caller identity" section with a table of whichfields are node-set vs caller-supplied, plus two warnings for PolicyServer implementors: the
caller controls
action(so a passthrough request must not be granted node-initiated authority),and the caller's token is relayed.
Migration
Callers of either endpoint must add
consumerAddressplus either anAuthorizationheader or anonce/signaturepair.On the signature path, each endpoint signs over its own command string — a signature is not
transferable between them:
/api/services/PolicyServerPassthroughconsumerAddress + nonce + "PolicyServerPassthrough"/api/services/initializePSVerificationconsumerAddress + nonce + "PolicyServerInitialize"Nothing else changes: no schema change, no config change, no new env var, and the response shape on
success is unchanged.
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