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Private-api sessions now accept only the tokens Ecency's own clients send: a message issued to the ecency.app HiveSigner app, typed code or posting. Any other signed message is refused before any node lookup.

Checked against every first-party sender: web (HiveSigner, Keychain, Hive Keeper, key and wallet logins, all exchanged for a posting token), mobile (key, in-app HiveSigner, HiveAuth), and Ecency Waves (self-signed code tokens and HiveSigner tokens). All of them keep working.

Also:

  • A refused token is logged by its app and type labels, so a client locked out by this is visible in the logs.
  • The "Invalid token structure" log line names the missing fields instead of printing the token.

Tests: SessionTokenTests uses real signatures. The full suite passes (601).

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Private API session validation now accepts only code and posting tokens issued to the Ecency app. Tokens from other apps, login proofs, and messages without an accepted type are rejected before account lookup.
    • Valid Ecency code and posting tokens continue to work as sessions, including posting tokens signed through HiveSigner.

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Restrict private-API sessions to Ecency app codes and posting tokens

🐞 Bug fix 🧪 Tests 📝 Documentation 🕐 20-40 Minutes

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• Accept only ecency.app codes and posting tokens as private-API sessions.
• Reject other signed messages before account lookup and log safe app and type labels.
• Add real-signature tests for accepted and rejected tokens; document the session rule.
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graph TD
  REQ["Private API token"] --> STRUCT{"Valid structure?"} --> SCOPE{"Ecency session?"} --> SIG["Recover signature"] --> ACC["Account key lookup"] --> OK["Session accepted"]
  STRUCT -- "invalid" --> DENY["Reject token"]
  SCOPE -- "other app or type" --> DENY
  ACC -- "key mismatch" --> DENY
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High-Level Assessment

Keep the explicit app-and-type allowlist before account lookup. Rejecting only known non-session types would leave other signed messages eligible, while signer-specific restrictions would risk excluding valid self-signed and HiveSigner-issued sessions.

Files changed (4) +193 / -35

Bug fix (1) +53 / -16
PrivateApi.Core.csEnforce Ecency session eligibility before account lookup +53/-16

Enforce Ecency session eligibility before account lookup

• Replaces the login-only exclusion with an allowlist for 'ecency.app' code and posting messages. Logs bounded app/type labels for refused sessions, avoids printing malformed tokens, and makes account reads and HiveSigner cache resets controllable for tests.

dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.Core.cs

Tests (2) +134 / -19
SessionTokenTests.csTest session validation with real signatures +105/-0

Test session validation with real signatures

• Adds end-to-end tests for self-signed and HiveSigner-signed Ecency tokens and verifies that other messages trigger no account reads. Uses a replaceable account lookup and resets shared test state.

dotnet/EcencyApi.Tests/SessionTokenTests.cs

TokenTypeTests.csCover the Ecency session allowlist +29/-19

Cover the Ecency session allowlist

• Replaces login-only predicate tests with accepted app/type combinations and rejected missing, malformed, differently cased, or unrelated values.

dotnet/EcencyApi.Tests/TokenTypeTests.cs

Documentation (1) +6 / -0
CLAUDE.mdDocument the private-API session boundary +6/-0

Document the private-API session boundary

• Explains that only 'ecency.app' code and posting tokens pass 'ValidateCode', and that other messages are rejected before account reads.

CLAUDE.md

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ValidateCode now accepts only tokens issued to ecency.app with type posting or code. Other token shapes are rejected before account lookup. Tests cover accepted tokens, rejected tokens, and account-read behavior.

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Session token validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session eligibility and account lookup
dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.Core.cs
ValidateCode checks the app and type before account lookup. Account reads use the ValidationAccounts delegate, and log labels are sanitized.
Validation tests and guidance
dotnet/EcencyApi.Tests/SessionTokenTests.cs, dotnet/EcencyApi.Tests/TokenTypeTests.cs, CLAUDE.md
Tests cover accepted Ecency posting and code tokens, rejected token shapes, and account reads. The guidance describes the app and type requirements.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c81e0

The change correctly restricts private-api sessions to Ecency posting and code tokens. Each refused request now writes a log line, and repeated refused requests can consume the size-capped container logs. Replace the log with a bounded metric or a sampled diagnostic; this is a small fix and does not block merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c81e0

The tighter session check does not show an authentication bypass. However, rejected requests now produce a log entry before signature verification, so repeated unauthenticated requests could consume the service’s capped log capacity.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Every structurally valid, non-session token now generates a log entry before signature verification. Repeated unauthenticated requests could consume capped container logs and obscure security-relevant events; no request-volume control was established for this branch.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The eligibility change applies to private API requests using ValidateCode, whether called directly or through RequireAuthedUsername. The supplied evidence does not establish the full route inventory or independently attackable deployment scope.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A caller can repeatedly submit structurally valid tokens with a disallowed app or type to trigger the new refusal log without supplying a valid signature. Repetition could exhaust capped log capacity; the evidence does not demonstrate an authentication bypass or establish external throttling.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The app/type gate is followed, not replaced, by recovered-signature and posting-authority checks. Tests show rejected other-app and generic messages cause no account reads, while accepted HiveSigner tokens undergo author and HiveSigner reads.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The mutable lookup seam could affect an in-flight validation if changed concurrently, because author and HiveSigner reads occur separately. The identified writer is test setup, not a demonstrated production request path, so a production authority failure is not established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Keep refusal visibility without one log entry per unauthenticated request, for example through bounded aggregation or rate-limited counters, while preserving the sanitized labels.
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- Around line 134-135: Remove the per-request Console.WriteLine from
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🐞 Bugs (0) 📘 Rule violations (2) 📎 Requirement gaps (0) 🎨 UX issues (0) 🔗 Cross-repo conflicts (0) 📜 Skill insights (0)

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Remediation recommended

1. Rejected sessions write to the console 📘 Rule violation ➹ Performance
Description
The new refusal branch in ValidateCode calls Console.WriteLine instead of a warning-level logger
when IsEcencySession returns false. Private-api handlers invoke this validator while handling
requests, so a client sending a token for another app causes a synchronous console write on the
request path.
Code

dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.Core.cs[R134-135]

+                Console.WriteLine(
+                    $"Token refused as a session: app={LogLabel(obj, "app")} type={LogLabel(obj, "type")}");
Evidence
Rule 2667887 disallows console writes in request hot paths. The changed branch writes to the
console, and the cited handler calls the validator for an incoming request.

Rule 2667887: Avoid low-value logging in request hot paths
dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.Core.cs[130-136]
dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.Misc.cs[68-76]

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The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
The new session-refusal branch writes directly to the console during request handling.
## Fix Focus Areas
- dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.Core.cs[130-136]
## Recommended Fix
Replace the console write with a warning-level logger call while retaining the sanitized app and type labels.

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2. Session denials lack endpoint coverage 📘 Rule violation ▣ Testability
Description
The new IsEcencySession check changes the authentication result used by private-api handlers, but
the new tests call ValidateCode directly and no endpoint-specific divergence was added to
dotnet/parity/driver.py. For a signed token issued to another app, handlers such as Activities
now receive null and return a 401 response without a matching HTTP test or parity entry.
Code

dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.Core.cs[130]

+            if (!IsEcencySession(signedMessage))
Evidence
Rule 2667942 requires both endpoint-matched tests and a parity divergence entry for changed HTTP
behavior. The new check rejects additional tokens; an affected handler maps rejection to 401, while
the added tests exercise only the validator and the parity divergence list has no entry for this
change.

Rule 2667942: Require tests and parity divergence docs for observable endpoint behavior changes
dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.Core.cs[125-136]
dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.Misc.cs[68-76]
dotnet/EcencyApi.Tests/SessionTokenTests.cs[83-99]
dotnet/parity/driver.py[273-285]

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## Issue description
The shared session check changes HTTP-visible denials without endpoint-level tests or a parity divergence entry.
## Fix Focus Areas
- dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.Core.cs[125-136]
- dotnet/EcencyApi.Tests/SessionTokenTests.cs[83-99]
- dotnet/parity/driver.py[273-285]
## Recommended Fix
Add an HTTP-level test for an affected private endpoint using a signed token from another app, and document that endpoint's changed behavior relative to the reference in the parity divergences.

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Console.WriteLine(
$"Token refused as a session: app={LogLabel(obj, "app")} type={LogLabel(obj, "type")}");

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Remediation recommended

1. Rejected sessions write to the console 📘 Rule violation ➹ Performance

The new refusal branch in ValidateCode calls Console.WriteLine instead of a warning-level logger
when IsEcencySession returns false. Private-api handlers invoke this validator while handling
requests, so a client sending a token for another app causes a synchronous console write on the
request path.
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## Issue description
The new session-refusal branch writes directly to the console during request handling.

## Fix Focus Areas
- dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.Core.cs[130-136]

## Recommended Fix
Replace the console write with a warning-level logger call while retaining the sanitized app and type labels.

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Addressed in 932fc62, same as the CodeRabbit thread: the write happens at most once per kind of refusal and 32 lines per process, not per request. This service logs through the console everywhere, so it stays consistent with that.

// it for. Nothing else signed by the same keys is one: another app's
// token, a sign-in proof ("login"), a signed message. Decided before
// any node lookup: the shape alone settles it.
if (!IsEcencySession(signedMessage))

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Remediation recommended

2. Session denials lack endpoint coverage 📘 Rule violation ▣ Testability

The new IsEcencySession check changes the authentication result used by private-api handlers, but
the new tests call ValidateCode directly and no endpoint-specific divergence was added to
dotnet/parity/driver.py. For a signed token issued to another app, handlers such as Activities
now receive null and return a 401 response without a matching HTTP test or parity entry.
Agent Prompt
## Issue description
The shared session check changes HTTP-visible denials without endpoint-level tests or a parity divergence entry.

## Fix Focus Areas
- dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.Core.cs[125-136]
- dotnet/EcencyApi.Tests/SessionTokenTests.cs[83-99]
- dotnet/parity/driver.py[273-285]

## Recommended Fix
Add an HTTP-level test for an affected private endpoint using a signed token from another app, and document that endpoint's changed behavior relative to the reference in the parity divergences.

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No parity entry needed. The harness only sends invalid codes (invalid, badcode), and those are refused identically before and after this change. No catalogued case sends a correctly signed token, so no response diverges. The new rule is covered by SessionTokenTests with real signatures.

A refused or malformed token is logged the first time its kind is seen,
at most 32 lines per process, so request paths stay quiet.
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