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`redact_secret_like_values` walked one level of a mapping, so a credential one
level deeper came back in clear:
redact_secret_like_values({"headers": {"api_key": "secret"}})
# -> {"headers": {"api_key": "secret"}}
Four operator-written JSON columns pass through it on the way to an API
response — `provider_credentials.client_args`,
`search_tool_credentials.options`, `organization_guardrails.validate_kwargs`
and `guardrail_credentials.validate_kwargs` — and none of them constrains its
shape, so a nested object is allowed in each (mozilla-ai#1125).
Both walkers recurse now, and they had to move together. `restore_redacted_values`
turns a resubmitted mask back into the stored value; left at one level while
the masking reached deeper, the next PATCH would write `***` into the database
where a credential used to be. That is worse than the leak it was fixing, so
the round trip is asserted per shape rather than the masking alone.
Three rules worth stating because they are decisions, not mechanics:
- A matching key masks its value WHOLE, dict or list included. That is what a
matching top-level key has always done to a non-scalar, so depth 0 behaves
exactly as before and the key name stays the only signal.
- Lists are walked, but a bare element is never masked: an element has no key
name to match on, so masking it would be a guess about its value. `restore`
leans on that — a `***` element came from the caller and means itself.
- Past a depth bound the subtree is masked rather than walked. The alternatives
were a RecursionError turning a read into a 500, or a depth the masking never
reaches; between "unreadable" and "leaked" this picks unreadable.
A resized list is treated as a rewrite rather than paired off by index, so a
stored credential is never spliced into a position that no longer means the
same thing.
WalkthroughChangesThe shared secret-field helpers now recursively process dictionaries and lists. Secret-like keys mask their values. Restoration preserves stored values across nested edits and depth-boundary list elements. Secret field recursion
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The depth bound is the only thing that masks a BARE list element — nothing else does, because an element has no key name to match on. The restore walk pairs a mask with its stored value by key, so such an element had no way back: an unchanged read-and-PATCH round trip wrote *** over the stored credential. The window is one level wide. A list one below the bound has its elements masked individually and hits this; a list at the bound is masked whole as its parent's value and comes back through the existing key pairing. The regression test covers all three depths around it.
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The bound's restore branch handed back the stored value whenever the caller echoed `***`. Where nothing is stored underneath, that value is None, so a mask the caller sent at exactly `_MAX_NESTING_DEPTH` came back as null and an unchanged save wrote null over what had been submitted. The shallow branch already answers this the other way: a mask on a key that is not stored is taken literally, because dropping the caller's entry is worse than keeping a placeholder it can clear. The bound now gives the same answer, and it still restores the one thing it was added for, a bare list element the bound itself masked. Also removes the em dashes this branch introduced into the two files. The prose-style rule in `.github/skills/review/SKILL.md` covers doc comments, and the base version of both files had none.
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🟠 Major · Do not restore equal-length lists by position. · src/gateway/models/secret_fields.py:104-105
104-105: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftDo not restore equal-length lists by position.
PATCH /provider-credentials/{instance}accepts arbitrary nested JSON and persistsrestore_redacted_values()output._restore_node()restores equal-length lists by index. If a client reorders two objects from the redacted response, each nested***receives the credential from the old index. The update then stores credentials under the wrong objects. The organization provider-key update has the same path.Require stable item identity before restoring masked fields. Reject updates with ambiguous list identity, or treat them as explicit rewrites without restoration. Do not guess by index. Add a test for same-length list reordering.
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A credential written one level down in any of the four free-form settings columns was returned to the API in clear. The masking that keeps
aws_secret_access_keyout of aGET /api/v1/provider-credentialsresponse only looked at the top level of the object, so this came back untouched:{"headers": {"api_key": "secret"}}Anyone who could read that row got the key. All four columns are operator-written and none constrains its shape, so a nested object is allowed in each.
Both halves of the mask now walk nested objects and lists. The second half is the reason this is one change and not two:
restore_redacted_valuesturns a resubmitted***back into the stored value, and if it had stayed at one level while the masking went deeper, the next PATCH from the dashboard would have written***into the database on top of a live credential. Worse than the leak it was fixing — so the round trip is asserted per shape, not the masking alone.Three rules that are decisions rather than mechanics:
{"credentials": {...}}comes back as{"credentials": "***"}.restoreleans on that: a***element came from the caller and means itself.RecursionErrorturning a read into a 500, or a depth the masking never reaches. Between "unreadable" and "leaked" this picks unreadable.A resized list is treated as a rewrite rather than paired off by index, so a stored credential is never spliced into a position that no longer means the same thing.
The issue asked whether a nested match should mask the whole subtree — the first rule above is my answer, and it is the one that needs no new concept: it is the existing behaviour, read at depth.
How to test it locally
23 pass. 13 are new, in two classes:
TestNestedRedaction— the reported leak, a credential inside a list of objects, a matching key masking its subtree, the bare-***-in-a-list invariant, and 40 levels of nesting masked rather than walked forever.TestNestedRoundTrip— the half that makes the first half safe. A nested credential survives an edit of its visible sibling; a masked subtree is restored whole; a list round-trips; a resized list is not paired off by index; and two controls, that a real new nested value still replaces the stored one and that a nested entry the caller dropped stays dropped. Without those last two, "restore everything" would pass every other cell while making nested credentials uneditable.Mutation-checked, all five caught:
***over the credential***list elements unmasked on restoreAlready proven by automation, nothing left to eyeball beyond a reviewer's judgement on the three rules above.
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Relevant issues
Fixes #1125. The gap was raised in review on #1120 and deferred there deliberately; this is that follow-up.
Checklist
tests/unit,tests/integration).make lint,make typecheck,make test).ruff checkon both changed files — clean;scripts/check_architecture.py— no violations.mypy src/gateway/models/secret_fields.py— clean.pytest tests/unit— 3157 passed, 29 failed, and I checked those 29 against a stashed tree: identical failures without my change, intest_router_aggregate,test_mcp_loop_responses,test_deployment_bootstrap,test_usage_cache_tokensand friends. Two more files (test_inline_platform_cost.py,test_s3_file_store.py) fail to collect in my environment on a pydanticInputTokensDetailsfield. Environmental, not this diff — but I would rather show the number than claim a green run I did not get.***), which is the point of the fix and worth calling out for the dashboard.AI Usage
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Summary
restore_redacted_valuesto preserve credentials during PATCH requests.This prevents nested credentials from appearing in API responses or being overwritten by redacted values.
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