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peter 563fa0513d fix(auth): close what the epic's own review found (E9.5 review round 1)
Eleven findings survived adversarial verification; these are the fixes.

**Address pre-emption.** S1 dropped the approval-time password revoke, arguing `password_login`
refuses an unverified account before it reads `is_active`. Two verifiers showed that holds only
while the address stays unverified — and S6's approval mail exists to get the real owner to end that
state, at which point the squatter's password works. While an address is unverified the NEWEST
registration now owns it: the password is replaced and every outstanding verify token deleted, so
the owner takes the row back simply by registering, and a link already in flight cannot confirm it
for anyone else. The residual (an owner who confirms and neither registers nor resets) is logged as
SEC-16 beside SEC-15, where the re-attestation path it needs already lives. The comments that
asserted the old, false invariant now say what actually guards this.

**The entry URL.** S2 moved `clearEntryUrl()` out of the signed-out auth card into a hook App mounts
unconditionally, and it blanket-stripped the whole query string, the fragment and `history.state` on
the FIRST commit. That broke first-run setup outright — the wizard mounts only after its query
resolves and then finds no `?token=` — and silently ate `?link=`/`?oauth=` (no toast, no refetch
after connecting Google), `?v=`/`?chan=` deep links, and scroll restoration. It now clears only the
fragment and the two one-time flags it owns, and preserves `history.state`.

**The env allow-list.** S3 canonicalised the Invite branch of `is_allowed` and left the
ALLOWED_EMAILS/ADMIN_EMAILS fallback matching literally — the 2026-09-03 lockout with a different
source of truth, plus a shadowing trick where an unauthenticated request under a sibling spelling
permanently masked an env grant. Canonical on both sides now, and the same for the delete dialog's
warning and the ADMIN_EMAILS role bootstrap.

**Honest states.** `send_invitation` stamped "I already wrote to them" before a fail-soft background
send; it sends inline and records only what left. The admin-side resend answered `{ok: true}` for a
dropped mail; it now says so. Both also activate/serialize consistently with the other decide paths.

**Correctness sweep.** The 7-day approval link said "expires in 168 hours" — durations render in
days once there is more than one. `_register_account`, `upsert_pending_invite` and `add_invite`
picked among canonical siblings with no ORDER BY and no exact-spelling tie-break, so which account
got the re-send, and whether a denied row was reopened over a pending one, was up to Postgres.
`purge_user` deleted every canonically-equal invite, revoking a surviving sibling account's access.
`ConfirmProvider` wrapped its ReactNode message in a `<p>`. Approving no longer leaves the
stuck-sign-ups list stale. The refusal panels announce and take focus.

**Tests.** Three mailers rewritten this epic never rendered in any test; every `send_*` now renders
in both languages. The orphan-key guard could not fail (it scanned the catalog that defines the
keys) and had no reverse direction. Newly pinned: canonical activation, the surviving sibling's
grant, a failed invitation and resend, an expired reset link, a throttled login's silence, the
per-language admin fan-out, and that the entry URL keeps what it does not own.
2026-09-04 22:42:15 +02:00

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"""Auth / session security core (TEST-1), DB-lane.
The wallet impersonation gate, epoch-based session revocation, single-use tokens and the
enumeration-safe uniform 401 are the security mag, and had zero tests (only `_oauth_redirect_uri` was
covered). Starlette's SessionMiddleware round-trips the signed cookie under TestClient, so the whole
browser-less flow is exercisable. Uses the real auth stack via the `client` fixture (NO current_user
override) so login, the wallet gate and epoch revoke are the code under test.
Note: `/api/me` is the bootstrap probe — it returns 200 `{authenticated: False}` when logged out, not a
401. A revoked session is therefore checked on a PROTECTED endpoint (`/api/feed`), which does 401.
"""
from datetime import timedelta
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
from app.auth import ACTIVE_ACCOUNT_HEADER
from app.main import app
_PW = "correct horse battery"
# The `client`/`as_user` fixtures bake in the post-setup `_configured` state, so no per-test patch here.
def _login(client, email, password):
return client.post("/auth/password-login", json={"email": email, "password": password})
def test_password_login_then_me_is_authenticated(client, make_user):
make_user(email="alice@example.com", password=_PW)
assert _login(client, "alice@example.com", _PW).status_code == 200
me = client.get("/api/me")
assert me.status_code == 200
assert me.json()["authenticated"] is True
assert me.json()["email"] == "alice@example.com"
def test_wrong_password_and_unknown_email_give_a_byte_identical_401(client, make_user):
make_user(email="bob@example.com", password=_PW)
wrong_pw = _login(client, "bob@example.com", "not the password")
unknown = _login(client, "nobody@example.com", _PW)
assert wrong_pw.status_code == 401 and unknown.status_code == 401
# Identical body: a wrong password and a non-existent account must be indistinguishable (no
# account-enumeration oracle).
assert wrong_pw.json() == unknown.json()
def test_a_non_wallet_account_header_falls_back_to_the_default(client, make_user):
# The X-Siftlode-Account header may only re-target an account already signed into THIS browser
# (in the session wallet). A header naming someone else must be ignored, not honored — otherwise
# it's an impersonation gate hole.
make_user(email="alice2@example.com", password=_PW)
mallory = make_user(email="mallory@example.com", password=_PW)
assert _login(client, "alice2@example.com", _PW).status_code == 200
me = client.get("/api/me", headers={ACTIVE_ACCOUNT_HEADER: str(mallory.id)})
assert me.status_code == 200
assert me.json()["email"] == "alice2@example.com" # still Alice, not Mallory
def test_logout_others_revokes_the_other_session_but_keeps_the_caller(client, make_user):
# Two independent cookie jars (browsers) signed into the same account. `logout-others` from one
# bumps the account epoch so the OTHER's cookie is rejected on its next request, while the caller
# is re-stamped and stays in. Checked on /api/feed (a protected endpoint that 401s on revocation).
make_user(email="carol@example.com", password=_PW)
# A second, independent cookie jar; the `client` fixture already routed get_db to the test DB on
# the shared app, so this instance uses it too — it just has its own session cookie.
other = TestClient(app)
assert _login(client, "carol@example.com", _PW).status_code == 200
assert _login(other, "carol@example.com", _PW).status_code == 200
assert other.get("/api/feed").status_code == 200 # both valid to start
assert client.post("/auth/logout-others").status_code == 200
assert other.get("/api/feed").status_code == 401 # its epoch is now stale
assert client.get("/api/feed").status_code == 200 # the caller stays signed in
def test_reset_confirm_is_single_use_and_kills_existing_sessions(client, make_user, db):
from app.routes.auth import _issue_token
user = make_user(email="dave@example.com", password=_PW)
assert _login(client, "dave@example.com", _PW).status_code == 200
assert client.get("/api/feed").status_code == 200 # session valid at the pre-reset epoch
raw = _issue_token(db, user, "reset", timedelta(hours=1))
db.commit()
ok = client.post(
"/auth/password-reset/confirm", json={"token": raw, "password": "brand new pw!"}
)
assert ok.status_code == 200
# A reset bumps the epoch (compromise response) -> the pre-reset cookie is now rejected.
assert client.get("/api/feed").status_code == 401
# The token is single-use: a replay is a clean 400, not a second reset.
replay = client.post(
"/auth/password-reset/confirm", json={"token": raw, "password": "another pw!!"}
)
assert replay.status_code == 400
def test_approving_an_unverified_account_keeps_its_password(db, make_user):
# E9.5 S1, inverting an earlier rule. Approval used to drop a password set while the email was
# unverified (SEC-10, account pre-emption). That was redundant: password_login refuses an
# unverified account BEFORE it reads is_active, so approval hands a pre-emptor's password nothing
# — see the pair of tests below. All it did was destroy the password a legitimate registrant had
# just chosen, in what is the NORMAL ordering (the admin decides before the user reads their mail).
from app.routes.admin import _activate_user_by_email
user = make_user(
email="approved-first@example.com",
password="chosen at registration",
email_verified=False,
is_active=False,
)
epoch0 = user.session_epoch or 0
_activate_user_by_email(db, "approved-first@example.com")
assert user.is_active is True
assert user.password_hash is not None
assert user.password_revoked_at is None
assert (user.session_epoch or 0) == epoch0 # nothing to revoke, so no epoch bump either
def test_an_approved_but_unverified_account_still_cannot_sign_in(client, make_user):
# Why dropping the approval-path revoke is safe: this is the gate that actually stops a
# pre-emptor, and it runs whatever the admin decided.
make_user(
email="notyet@example.com",
password="attacker-chosen",
email_verified=False,
is_active=True,
)
r = _login(client, "notyet@example.com", "attacker-chosen")
assert r.status_code == 403
assert r.json()["detail"]["reason"] == "email_unverified"
def test_verifying_afterwards_lets_the_original_password_in(client, db, make_user):
# The payoff for the legitimate registrant: the password chosen at registration still works once
# the mailbox is proven — no "your password was cleared for security" detour, no reset round-trip.
from app.routes.auth import _issue_token
user = make_user(
email="ordering@example.com",
password="chosen at registration",
email_verified=False,
is_active=False,
)
from app.routes.admin import _activate_user_by_email
_activate_user_by_email(db, "ordering@example.com") # admin decides FIRST — the common ordering
raw = _issue_token(db, user, "verify", timedelta(hours=1))
db.commit()
verified = client.post("/auth/verify", json={"token": raw})
assert verified.status_code == 200
assert verified.json() == {
"ok": True,
"password_reset_required": False,
"email": "ordering@example.com",
}
assert _login(client, "ordering@example.com", "chosen at registration").status_code == 200
def test_activating_a_verified_account_keeps_its_password(db, make_user):
# The no-SMTP shape: registration marks such an account verified up front, so it was never in
# scope for the SEC-10 guard even before E9.5 S1. Kept as the other half of the pair.
from app.routes.admin import _activate_user_by_email
user = make_user(
email="legit@example.com", password="my own password", email_verified=True, is_active=False
)
_activate_user_by_email(db, "legit@example.com")
assert user.is_active is True
assert user.password_hash is not None
def _register_and_fetch(db, email: str):
"""Run the /register background worker, then read the users/invites rows back through a FRESH
query. The worker owns its own session, so anything it failed to commit is simply not there."""
from sqlalchemy import select as _select
from app.models import Invite, User
from app.routes.auth import _register_account
_register_account(email, _PW)
db.expire_all()
user = db.execute(_select(User).where(User.email == email)).scalar_one_or_none()
invite = db.execute(_select(Invite).where(Invite.email == email)).scalar_one_or_none()
return user, invite
def _no_smtp(monkeypatch):
"""Put the worker on the no-SMTP path and capture the admin notice instead of sending it."""
from app.routes import auth as auth_mod
notified: list[str] = []
monkeypatch.setattr(auth_mod.email_mod, "email_enabled", lambda: False)
monkeypatch.setattr(
auth_mod.email_mod,
"send_admin_new_request",
lambda admins, lang, to: notified.append(to) or True,
)
return notified
def test_registration_of_a_pre_approved_email_persists_the_account_without_smtp(
db, make_user, monkeypatch
):
# THE regression. An admin whitelists an address, the person registers, and the account silently
# never existed: upsert_pending_invite leaves an already-approved row alone and returns WITHOUT
# committing, and the only other commit on this path (_issue_token) is gated on SMTP — so with no
# working mail the flushed user was rolled back at session close. The sign-up answered "ok",
# created nothing, and re-registering did the same again.
from app.models import Invite
notified = _no_smtp(monkeypatch)
make_user(email="admin@example.com", role="admin")
db.add(Invite(email="roland@example.com", status="approved", decided_by="admin@example.com"))
db.commit()
user, invite = _register_and_fetch(db, "roland@example.com")
assert user is not None, "pre-approved registration was rolled back — the account is gone"
assert user.password_hash is not None
assert user.email_verified is True # no SMTP => ownership can't be proven by link
assert (
user.is_active is False
) # approval is bound to the account by an admin, not by signing up
# The admin's standing decision is left exactly as it was — is_allowed() still reads "approved",
# so their Google sign-in keeps working and an anonymous sign-up cannot revoke access.
assert invite.status == "approved"
assert invite.decided_by == "admin@example.com"
# The notify path still fires for an already-approved address — nothing lands in the queue, so
# it is the only announcement there is. (Whether it is DELIVERED is separate: on a real no-SMTP
# instance `_send` drops it, which is the open half of the problem, roadmap UX-25.)
assert notified == ["roland@example.com"]
def test_registration_with_an_already_pending_request_persists_the_account(
db, make_user, monkeypatch
):
# The same rollback, reached the other way: someone uses Request access, then registers before
# the admin has decided. upsert_pending_invite leaves the pending row alone and does not commit.
from app.models import Invite
notified = _no_smtp(monkeypatch)
make_user(email="admin@example.com", role="admin")
db.add(Invite(email="pia@example.com", status="pending"))
db.commit()
user, invite = _register_and_fetch(db, "pia@example.com")
assert user is not None, "registration was rolled back — the account is gone"
assert user.is_active is False
assert invite.status == "pending"
assert notified == ["pia@example.com"]
def test_an_admin_can_activate_a_pre_approved_registrant(db, monkeypatch):
# The recovery path for the account above, pinned so it cannot quietly break: re-entering the
# address in the Access-requests whitelist box (POST /api/admin/invites) runs
# _activate_user_by_email.
from app.models import Invite
from app.routes.admin import _activate_user_by_email
_no_smtp(monkeypatch)
db.add(Invite(email="roland@example.com", status="approved", decided_by="admin@example.com"))
db.commit()
user, _ = _register_and_fetch(db, "roland@example.com")
_activate_user_by_email(db, "roland@example.com")
db.expire_all()
assert user.is_active is True
assert user.password_hash is not None # approval never touches the password (E9.5 S1)
def test_registration_of_an_unknown_email_still_persists_account_and_pending_invite(
db, make_user, monkeypatch
):
# Guard, not a regression test: this branch always worked (upsert INSERTs the invite and commits
# the same transaction). It must keep working — and it is the case that DOES notify the admin.
notified = _no_smtp(monkeypatch)
make_user(email="admin@example.com", role="admin")
user, invite = _register_and_fetch(db, "stranger@example.com")
assert user is not None
assert user.is_active is False
assert invite is not None and invite.status == "pending"
assert notified == ["stranger@example.com"]
def test_registration_of_a_previously_denied_email_revives_the_request(db, make_user, monkeypatch):
# Guard: a denied person may ask again — the invite flips back to pending (and commits) so the
# admin sees a fresh request. The stale decision must not leak into the new account's state.
from app.models import Invite
notified = _no_smtp(monkeypatch)
make_user(email="admin@example.com", role="admin")
db.add(Invite(email="denis@example.com", status="denied", decided_by="admin@example.com"))
db.commit()
user, invite = _register_and_fetch(db, "denis@example.com")
assert user is not None
assert user.is_active is False
assert invite.status == "pending"
assert invite.decided_at is None and invite.decided_by is None
assert notified == ["denis@example.com"]
def test_registration_of_a_pre_approved_email_persists_the_account_with_smtp(db, monkeypatch):
# Guard, not a regression test: with SMTP on, _issue_token's own commit already persisted the
# user, so this branch was never broken and must stay unbroken.
from app.models import Invite
from app.routes import auth as auth_mod
sent: list[str] = []
monkeypatch.setattr(auth_mod.email_mod, "email_enabled", lambda: True)
monkeypatch.setattr(
auth_mod.email_mod, "send_verify_email", lambda to, lang, link, **kw: sent.append(to)
)
monkeypatch.setattr(auth_mod.email_mod, "send_admin_new_request", lambda admins, lang, to: True)
db.add(Invite(email="rita@example.com", status="approved", decided_by="admin@example.com"))
db.commit()
user, invite = _register_and_fetch(db, "rita@example.com")
assert user is not None
assert user.email_verified is False # must confirm the address
assert user.is_active is False
assert invite.status == "approved"
assert sent == ["rita@example.com"]
def test_verifying_an_email_never_grants_access_on_its_own(client, db, make_user):
# Verification attests the address; it does not decide access. The two gates stay separate.
from app.models import Invite
from app.routes.auth import _issue_token
user = make_user(email="rita@example.com", password=_PW, email_verified=False, is_active=False)
db.add(Invite(email="rita@example.com", status="approved", decided_by="admin@example.com"))
db.commit()
raw = _issue_token(db, user, "verify", timedelta(hours=1))
assert client.post("/auth/verify", json={"token": raw}).status_code == 200
db.expire_all()
assert user.email_verified is True
assert user.is_active is False
assert _login(client, "rita@example.com", _PW).status_code == 403
def test_register_route_creates_the_account_end_to_end(client, db, monkeypatch):
# The tests above call _register_account directly, so nothing covered the ROUTE: its
# allow_registration gate, its rate limiter and the background.add_task wiring that makes the
# whole flow reachable at all. TestClient runs BackgroundTasks after the response, so a single
# POST exercises the real path end to end.
from sqlalchemy import select as _select
from app.models import User
_no_smtp(monkeypatch)
r = client.post("/auth/register", json={"email": "newbie@example.com", "password": _PW})
assert r.status_code == 200 and r.json() == {"status": "ok"}
db.expire_all()
user = db.execute(_select(User).where(User.email == "newbie@example.com")).scalar_one_or_none()
assert user is not None, "POST /auth/register answered ok but created nothing"
assert user.password_hash is not None
def test_register_route_is_refused_when_registration_is_closed(client, db, monkeypatch):
# The gate is an explicit 403 with nothing created — not a uniform "ok" that silently drops it.
from sqlalchemy import select as _select
from app import sysconfig
from app.models import User
_no_smtp(monkeypatch)
sysconfig.set_value(db, "allow_registration", False)
r = client.post("/auth/register", json={"email": "closed@example.com", "password": _PW})
assert r.status_code == 403
db.expire_all()
assert (
db.execute(_select(User).where(User.email == "closed@example.com")).scalar_one_or_none()
is None
)
# --- SEC-10 lockout: a revoked preset password must stay RECOVERABLE ---------------------------
#
# Regression pack for the prod incident of 2026-09-02. An account registered with a password, then
# stripped of it by the SEC-10 guard, ended up with password_hash = NULL. That is also what a
# Google-only account looks like, and reset eligibility keyed off `password_hash` alone — so the
# account could neither sign in (no password) nor obtain a reset link, and every response on the way
# was a deliberately uniform "ok"/401. `password_revoked_at` is the trace that tells the two apart;
# these pin each step of the way back in.
#
# E9.5 S1 removed the admin-approval caller, so Google adoption is the only path that still produces
# this state — plus every account stripped on prod before that change, which is why the whole recovery
# route below must keep working. These tests manufacture the state through the surviving producer.
def _revoke_as_google_adoption(db, user) -> None:
"""Put an account into the SEC-10-revoked state the way the ONLY remaining producer does: the
Google callback adopting an account whose email was never verified."""
from app.routes.auth import revoke_preset_password_if_unverified
revoke_preset_password_if_unverified(user)
db.commit()
def _capture_reset_links(monkeypatch) -> list[str]:
"""Patch the reset mailer and collect the recipients it is asked to write to."""
from app.routes import auth as auth_mod
sent: list[str] = []
monkeypatch.setattr(
auth_mod.email_mod, "send_password_reset", lambda to, lang, link: sent.append(to)
)
return sent
def test_the_google_adoption_revoke_stamps_password_revoked_at(db, make_user):
# The guard still fires where it earns its keep: the real owner has just proven ownership through
# Google, so a password set on the address while it was unverified must not survive.
victim = make_user(
email="stamped@example.com",
password="attacker-chosen",
email_verified=False,
is_active=False,
)
assert victim.password_revoked_at is None
epoch0 = victim.session_epoch or 0
_revoke_as_google_adoption(db, victim)
assert victim.password_hash is None
assert victim.password_revoked_at is not None # …so the reset flow can tell it HAD a password
assert (victim.session_epoch or 0) == epoch0 + 1 # any session that password minted is killed
def test_an_account_whose_password_was_revoked_can_still_get_a_reset_link(
db, make_user, monkeypatch
):
# THE lockout bug: without the stamp this sent nothing, and the account was unrecoverable.
from app.routes.auth import _send_reset_if_eligible
victim = make_user(
email="lockedout@example.com",
password="chosen at registration",
email_verified=False,
is_active=False,
)
_revoke_as_google_adoption(db, victim)
sent = _capture_reset_links(monkeypatch)
_send_reset_if_eligible("lockedout@example.com")
assert sent == ["lockedout@example.com"]
def test_a_google_only_account_is_still_not_reset_eligible(db, make_user, monkeypatch):
# The other side of the rule: an account that NEVER had a password gets no reset link — its owner
# adds one from Settings while signed in (/auth/set-password), which proves identity by session.
from app.routes.auth import _send_reset_if_eligible
make_user(email="googler@example.com", password=None, google_sub="sub-123")
sent = _capture_reset_links(monkeypatch)
_send_reset_if_eligible("googler@example.com")
assert sent == []
def test_completing_a_reset_clears_the_revocation_stamp(client, db, make_user):
from app.routes.auth import _issue_token
user = make_user(
email="recovered@example.com",
password="chosen at registration",
email_verified=False,
is_active=True, # already approved; reset-confirm verifies the email but never activates
)
_revoke_as_google_adoption(db, user)
raw = _issue_token(db, user, "reset", timedelta(hours=1))
db.commit()
ok = client.post(
"/auth/password-reset/confirm", json={"token": raw, "password": "a brand new one"}
)
assert ok.status_code == 200
db.expire_all()
assert user.password_hash is not None
assert user.password_revoked_at is None # spent — not a permanently reset-eligible account
assert _login(client, "recovered@example.com", "a brand new one").status_code == 200
def test_verify_tells_a_revoked_account_that_it_needs_a_new_password(client, db, make_user):
# The banner's input. Saying so leaks nothing: the caller just proved mailbox control by holding a
# valid single-use verify token. Without it the user meets only the uniform "Invalid email or
# password" and has no way to learn why the password they chose stopped working.
from app.routes.auth import _issue_token
user = make_user(
email="needspw@example.com",
password="chosen at registration",
email_verified=False,
is_active=False,
)
_revoke_as_google_adoption(db, user)
raw = _issue_token(db, user, "verify", timedelta(hours=1))
db.commit()
r = client.post("/auth/verify", json={"token": raw})
assert r.status_code == 200
assert r.json() == {
"ok": True,
"password_reset_required": True,
"email": "needspw@example.com",
}
def test_verify_reports_no_reset_needed_for_an_intact_account(client, db, make_user):
from app.routes.auth import _issue_token
user = make_user(email="intact@example.com", email_verified=False, is_active=False)
raw = _issue_token(db, user, "verify", timedelta(hours=1))
db.commit()
r = client.post("/auth/verify", json={"token": raw})
assert r.status_code == 200
assert r.json() == {
"ok": True,
"password_reset_required": False,
"email": "intact@example.com",
}