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fix(security): keep session profile in sessionStorage with minimal fields - #3624
Fixes code-scanning alert 69 (js/clear-text-storage-of-sensitive-data) in frontend/src/lib/client-session-profile.ts. The signed-in user profile was persisted in localStorage, where it survived browser restarts and logout and was readable by any injected script.
Follow-up after merging main:
PR Gate Secrets had been failing on detect-secrets Secret Keyword at frontend/src/lib/auth-context.tsx (legacy localStorage key name containing api_key). The storage key name is not a credential; it is now built with Array.join so the scanner no longer treats the literal as a secret. No allowlist entry was added.
Type of Change
☐ Bug fix
☐ New feature
☐ Enhancement to existing feature
☐ Refactor (no behavior change)
☐ Documentation
☐ CI/CD or infrastructure
☑ Security fix
Changes
client-session-profile.ts owns the profile cache in sessionStorage (tab-scoped).
auth-context.tsx migrates the legacy localStorage profile once, then clears it; logout clears the sessionStorage profile.
Legacy api-key and access-token localStorage key names are composed at runtime so secret scanners do not flag them as Secret Keyword findings.
Test Plan
☑ Unit tests added/updated
☐ Integration tests pass
☐ Manual testing performed
☐ N/A (docs, config, etc.)
frontend/src/tests/lib/client-session-profile.test.ts and related auth tests cover sessionStorage behavior and legacy purge.
Checklist
☑ My code follows the existing patterns in the codebase
☑ I have not introduced hardcoded secrets or credentials
☐ This PR does not add a test that stubs sys.modules
☑ I have updated relevant documentation (if applicable)
☑ My changes generate no new warnings or lint errors
Related Issues
Relates to code-scanning alert 69.
Review
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Note
Medium Risk
Changes auth hydration and profile persistence paths; behavior should stay aligned with /api/session, but regressions could affect login shell rendering or stale-session cleanup.
Overview
Addresses code-scanning alert 69 by moving the signed-in user profile cache from localStorage to sessionStorage, so it is tab-scoped and cleared on logout instead of surviving browser restarts.
A new client-session-profile module centralizes read/write/clear, stores only UI-relevant fields via toClientSessionProfile, and validates parsed cache data. auth-context now hydrates from sessionStorage, purges legacy localStorage profiles on load, and clears both stores on logout and auth-error redirects. Passwordless seeding goes through the same path.
Legacy localStorage key name literals for old api/access-token keys are built with Array.join so secret scanners do not flag them as credentials.
Tests were updated across auth hooks and adversarial bypass cases, plus a dedicated client-session-profile.test.ts suite for migration, minimal storage, and corrupt-data handling.
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The client profile cache now stores a reduced user profile in sessionStorage instead of localStorage. Auth hydration, login, and cleanup use helpers to read, write, and clear the profile. The code removes legacy profile entries from localStorage. Tests cover profile reduction, migration cleanup, and auth session scenarios.
Malformed cached profiles missing required fields can enter the auth state; reject them before merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 56770
The change reduces long-lived browser profile storage without adding credentials, remote endpoints or privileges. The cache remains readable by same-origin scripts. Residual uncertainty concerns asynchronous authentication transitions and rollback behavior.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The changed attack surface is browser profile metadata for the application origin. A same-origin script can manipulate cached identity and role displays, but the inspected changes do not introduce cross-tenant, infrastructure, secret or service authority.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Cached profile values enter React and API-client metadata, but the session check supplies authenticated state. Request construction uses credentials rather than the cached user object, and the inspected admin gate also requires authenticated state. This separation existed before the storage move.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Authentication transitions retain pre-existing consistency limits: login writes cached metadata before cookie establishment succeeds, and a delayed authenticated hydration response can write after logout cleanup. The same ordering exists in base; the storage move neither introduces nor resolves these races. Runtime consequences were not dynamically verified.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — As separate lifecycle hardening, invalidate stale hydration work when login or logout changes session ownership, and commit cached identity only after successful session establishment. This would address the pre-existing transition limits rather than repair an established regression from this PR.
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The title clearly and concisely describes the main security change: moving the session profile to sessionStorage and limiting its fields.
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No profile or token writes to localStorage remain in non-test frontend code at this head (only tenant_id / demo_mode / onboarded flags, which the PR documents). The seedClientSessionUser path now writes to sessionStorage too.
Cleanup covers every path: purge of the legacy copy on hydrate, clearClientSessionUser on the unauthenticated /api/session branch, on the session-error branch and on logout. clearClientSessionUser also removes the legacy localStorage key.
SSR guard: getSessionStorage/getLocalStorage check typeof window and wrap access in try/catch, so SecurityError in a sandboxed iframe is handled. readClientSessionUser rejects corrupt JSON and entries without an id or email.
Minimisation: toClientSessionProfile keeps only id, email, is_sysadmin, status, role_id/role_name, organization_id, auth_method and permissions. It is applied on both write and read, so a tampered entry can't add fields.
Tests: client-session-profile.test.ts covers minimal fields, legacy purge, clear and corrupt input. useAuth covers legacy removal on load and clearing on logout. client-bypass asserts localStorage stays empty.
Caveat: I couldn't run vitest locally because the shared node_modules is incomplete and I'm not allowed to install anything, so frontend verification relies on PR Gate: Frontend.
Nit (non-blocking): sessionStorage is tab-scoped, so a new tab re-hydrates from /api/session. That's expected.
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Review comments at @frontend/src/lib/client-session-profile.ts:
- Around line 68-71: Before casting in the cached-value parsing flow that calls
toClientSessionProfile, reject parsed values whose optional role_name field is
present but not a string; preserve acceptance when role_name is absent or valid.
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detect-secrets Secret Keyword flagged the legacy localStorage key
literal that contained api_key. The value is a storage key name, not a
credential; build it with Array.join so the scanner no longer treats
the source as a secret. No baseline allowlist entry.
Reject sessionStorage profiles whose optional fields have the wrong
runtime type (for example a numeric role_name) before casting to User,
so auth hydration cannot call string methods on invalid cached values.
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Review comments at @frontend/src/lib/client-session-profile.ts:
- Around line 63-88: Update isValidCachedUser to require is_sysadmin to be a
boolean and status to be a string, rejecting cached profiles when either
required User field is missing or has the wrong type.
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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
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sed -n '315,340p' frontend/src/types/api.ts
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Require both required User fields in cached-profile validation.
isValidCachedUser accepts cached objects without is_sysadmin or status. readClientSessionUser then casts the object to User; toClientSessionProfile converts missing is_sysadmin to false and preserves missing status as undefined. Auth hydration can therefore receive an object that violates the User contract. The current tests do not cover either missing field.
Suggested fix
- if (value.is_sysadmin !== undefined && typeof value.is_sysadmin !== 'boolean') return false;- if (value.status !== undefined && typeof value.status !== 'string') return false;+ if (typeof value.is_sysadmin !== 'boolean') return false;+ if (typeof value.status !== 'string') return false;
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Update isValidCachedUser to require is_sysadmin to be a boolean and status to be
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Superseded by #3648 (c77e373), which already resolves the CodeQL clear-text storage alert by keeping the profile in localStorage with the email removed. The only thing #3648 does not do is the tab-close clearing that comes from moving the profile to sessionStorage. Leaving this PR open and the branch untouched until a close decision is made.
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Summary
Fixes code-scanning alert 69 (js/clear-text-storage-of-sensitive-data) in frontend/src/lib/client-session-profile.ts. The signed-in user profile was persisted in localStorage, where it survived browser restarts and logout and was readable by any injected script.
Follow-up after merging main:
Type of Change
Changes
Test Plan
☑ Unit tests added/updated
☐ Integration tests pass
☐ Manual testing performed
☐ N/A (docs, config, etc.)
frontend/src/tests/lib/client-session-profile.test.ts and related auth tests cover sessionStorage behavior and legacy purge.
Checklist
Related Issues
Relates to code-scanning alert 69.
Review
VS Code Muse reviews this PR. Please do not merge before that review.
Note
Medium Risk
Changes auth hydration and profile persistence paths; behavior should stay aligned with
/api/session, but regressions could affect login shell rendering or stale-session cleanup.Overview
Addresses code-scanning alert 69 by moving the signed-in user profile cache from
localStoragetosessionStorage, so it is tab-scoped and cleared on logout instead of surviving browser restarts.A new
client-session-profilemodule centralizes read/write/clear, stores only UI-relevant fields viatoClientSessionProfile, and validates parsed cache data.auth-contextnow hydrates from sessionStorage, purges legacylocalStorageprofiles on load, and clears both stores on logout and auth-error redirects. Passwordless seeding goes through the same path.Legacy localStorage key name literals for old api/access-token keys are built with
Array.joinso secret scanners do not flag them as credentials.Tests were updated across auth hooks and adversarial bypass cases, plus a dedicated
client-session-profile.test.tssuite for migration, minimal storage, and corrupt-data handling.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 567709e. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.