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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: [HIGH] Fix timing attack and info disclosure in internal router#209

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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: [HIGH] Fix timing attack and info disclosure in internal router#209
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🚨 Severity: HIGH

πŸ’‘ Vulnerability:

  1. The verify_scheduler_secret dependency used standard string equality (!=) for token comparison, which is vulnerable to timing attacks.
  2. The scheduled_snapshot_job endpoint caught generic exceptions and returned detail=str(e) in the 500 HTTP response, which could disclose sensitive server internal details, stack traces, or configuration errors to an attacker.

🎯 Impact:

  1. Attackers could potentially forge the scheduler secret byte-by-byte by analyzing server response times.
  2. Attackers triggering errors in the snapshot job could gain deep insight into database structures, query logic, or external service configurations, aiding further attacks.

πŸ”§ Fix:

  1. Updated verify_scheduler_secret to use secrets.compare_digest for constant-time string comparison (after safely checking for None).
  2. Updated scheduled_snapshot_job to catch the generic Exception, log it internally using logger.error("...", exc_info=True) for debugging, and return a sanitized, generic 500 error to the client.

βœ… Verification:

  1. Visually verified the code changes to ensure logic is correct.
  2. Ran uv run ruff check src/routers/internal.py to ensure no linting errors.
  3. Tests run without regressions.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 17647889293721990540 started by @ivanleekk

Co-authored-by: ivanleekk <84584280+ivanleekk@users.noreply.github.com>
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