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After #3749, list_users arms regengine.is_sysadmin so users_self_or_admin FORCE RLS can return co-members. That arm must stay transaction-local and must not widen the directory across tenants.

Changes

  1. Switch list_users from session-scoped set_admin_context(True) to arm_global_admin_context / disarm_global_admin_context (SET LOCAL) inside try/finally.
  2. Keep the existing MembershipModel.tenant_id filter so the admin GUC only unlocks peer rows within the caller's tenant.
  3. Add tests/shared/test_list_users_tenant_isolation_live.py: seed two synthetic tenants with disjoint members, call list_users under each tenant as regengine_sysadmin, assert each response contains only that tenant's emails, then roll back.
  4. Update TestListUsersHappyPath mocks for the extra disarm execute.

Test plan

  • Unit: services/admin/tests/test_user_routes_1342.py::TestListUsersHappyPath
  • Live DB suite picks up tests/shared/test_list_users_tenant_isolation_live.py via the *_live.py glob
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Medium Risk
Changes how the admin user directory arms RLS bypass (SET LOCAL vs session GUC), which is security-sensitive, though scope stays tenant-filtered and is backed by new isolation tests.

Overview
list_users no longer calls session-scoped TenantContext.set_admin_context(True) to satisfy users_self_or_admin FORCE RLS for peer visibility. It now arm_global_admin_context / disarm_global_admin_context around the count and join queries inside try/finally, so regengine.is_sysadmin is transaction-local and cannot leak on pooled connections. The existing MembershipModel.tenant_id filter is unchanged.

Coverage adds a live Postgres test that seeds two tenants and asserts each list_users call returns only that tenant’s members, registers list_users on the global admin arm allowlist as tenant-scoped-directory, and adjusts unit mocks for the extra disarm execute.

The same PR also bumps pypdf to 6.21.4 (CVE notes in requirements.in) and tightens frontend follow-redirects / minimatch overrides plus lockfile churn; pyasn1 0.6.5 in the root lock.

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Switch list_users to arm/disarm_global_admin_context (SET LOCAL) with a
finally reset so the is_sysadmin GUC cannot leak across pooled checkouts.
Add a two-tenant live-Postgres regression that seeds synthetic members,
calls list_users under each tenant as regengine_sysadmin, and asserts
only that tenant's emails are returned. Update unit mocks for the
extra disarm execute.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Sellers <1@christophersellers.com>
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list_users now arms transaction-local global-admin context before its existing tenant-scoped queries and disarms it in finally. Unit mocks return count and row data on specified execute calls. A live-Postgres test seeds two tenants and checks that each tenant’s listing contains only its active members and count. The global-admin context allowlist records the list_users call site as tenant-scoped-directory. Dependency constraints raise minimum versions for follow-redirects, minimatch, and pypdf.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: Low · up to b450f

A database error during user listing can be obscured by a secondary cleanup failure, although tenant isolation and dependency resolution appear intact.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to b450f

The change bounds administrative database access more tightly while retaining tenant filters and existing authorization checks. No newly exposed cross-tenant access was established. Remaining uncertainty concerns live database configuration and unexecuted failure-path validation.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • observed — While armed on a regengine_sysadmin connection, existing policies permit cross-tenant access to users, memberships, and roles in the admin database. The flag is not itself tenant-scoped; this endpoint's returned directory is bounded by its explicit membership predicates. The base implementation already enabled the same global flag.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The inspected policies require the regengine_sysadmin database role as well as the armed flag for global access. The HTTP permission check remains outside and before the arm. Authentication's bootstrap arms are disarmed before tenant-scoped route work, so the normal request path does not establish nested active authority.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The helper pair assigns true and then false rather than restoring a captured prior value. Nested use would therefore revoke an outer arm, but no production nested invocation was established. This is a composition limitation, not an observed privilege-expansion path introduced by this endpoint change.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Add live failure-path validation for query abort, response-construction failure, and repeated requests, checking that administrative authority is absent after request teardown. Explicitly document whether nested arm/disarm use is unsupported.
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Review comments at @services/admin/app/user_routes.py:
- Line 126: Update the route’s cleanup around disarm_global_admin_context so it
runs only after the queries and PaginatedResponse construction succeed. Return
the response after disarming on the success path, and let query failures
propagate without issuing another database operation.

Review comments at @services/admin/tests/test_user_routes_1342.py:
- Around line 106-114: Add a failure-path test for list_users that makes the
count query raise, asserts the same exception propagates, and verifies no disarm
execute runs afterward. Update the list_users cleanup so it disarms only after
successful queries, relying on dependency rollback when PostgreSQL aborts the
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- Around line 123-128: In the test covering the two `list_users` calls, assert
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reused `conn` is `"false"`, verifying the transaction-local admin GUC is reset.

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# Use transaction-local SET LOCAL (arm/disarm) so the GUC cannot leak past
# this handler if the pooled connection is reused before checkout reset.
arm_global_admin_context(db)
try:

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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Supported by static analysis

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sed -n '105,175p' services/admin/app/user_routes.py
sed -n '145,215p' services/admin/app/database.py
rg -n 'def get_session|rollback\(' services/admin/app/database.py

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set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- get_session and surrounding dependency code ---'
nl -ba services/admin/app/database.py | sed -n '400,480p'
printf '%s\n' '--- admin context helper references ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.py' -e 'arm_global_admin_context(' -e 'disarm_global_admin_context(' -e 'get_session' services server regengine tests 2>/dev/null || true
printf '%s\n' '--- list_users callers or tests ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.py' -e 'list_users' -e '"/admin/users"' services server regengine tests 2>/dev/null || true

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Disarm the admin context only after successful queries.

A PostgreSQL execution error can abort the transaction. The finally block then attempts another SQL operation through disarm_global_admin_context(db). SQLAlchemy or PostgreSQL can reject that operation, which can replace the original query error. get_session rolls back only after the route cleanup completes.

Build the response, disarm the context, and return it on the success path. Let the error path re-raise without another SQL operation.

♻️ Suggested fix
-        return PaginatedResponse(items=results, total=total, skip=pagination.skip, limit=pagination.limit)
-    finally:
-        disarm_global_admin_context(db)
+        response = PaginatedResponse(items=results, total=total, skip=pagination.skip, limit=pagination.limit)
+        disarm_global_admin_context(db)
+        return response
+    except Exception:
+        # The transaction may be aborted. get_session()'s rollback()
+        # discards the transaction-local GUC.
+        raise
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Update the route’s cleanup around disarm_global_admin_context so it runs only
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Comment on lines +106 to +114
# arm_global_admin_context (SET LOCAL is_sysadmin)
return result
if call_count[0] == 2:
# Count query
result.scalar.return_value = 1
else:
elif call_count[0] == 3:
# Rows query
result.all.return_value = [(user, membership, role)]
# call 4: disarm_global_admin_context in finally

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Trivial · Security & Privacy · Quick win

Add a failure-path test for list_users.

Make the count query raise and assert that the original exception propagates. Assert that no disarm execute runs after the failed query. The production fix should disarm only after successful queries and rely on dependency rollback when PostgreSQL aborts the transaction.

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Review comment at @services/admin/tests/test_user_routes_1342.py around lines
106 - 114:
Add a failure-path test for list_users that makes the count query raise, asserts
the same exception propagates, and verifies no disarm execute runs afterward.
Update the list_users cleanup so it disarms only after successful queries,
relying on dependency rollback when PostgreSQL aborts the transaction.

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Comment on lines +123 to +128
got_a = {item.email for item in result_a.items}
assert got_a == emails_a, (
f"tenant A directory leaked or missed members: got={got_a} expected={emails_a}"
)
assert result_a.total == len(emails_a)
assert got_a.isdisjoint(emails_b)

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Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

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rg -n -F --glob '*.py' -e 'def arm_global_admin_context' -e 'def disarm_global_admin_context' -e 'current_setting(' -e 'test_list_users_returns_only_caller_tenant_members' services tests
printf '\n--- context helpers ---\n'
rg -n -F --glob '*.py' -e 'arm_global_admin_context' -e 'disarm_global_admin_context' services
printf '\n--- focused test references ---\n'
rg -n -F --glob '*.py' -e 'list_users(' -e 'regengine.is_sysadmin' tests/shared services/admin/tests | sed -n '1,240p'

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printf '%s\n' '--- database helpers ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- existing reset assertion context ---'
sed -n '1015,1070p' tests/migrations/test_v111_runtime_role_grants.py
printf '%s\n' '--- list_users unit tests ---'
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sed -n '1015,1070p' tests/migrations/test_v111_runtime_role_grants.py
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Assert that the admin GUC is reset after each list_users call.

The test uses the same connection for both calls. Add the assertion after each call to protect the transaction-local reset lifecycle.

🧪 Proposed assertions
                 assert result_a.total == len(emails_a)
                 assert got_a.isdisjoint(emails_b)
+                assert conn.execute(
+                    text("SELECT current_setting('regengine.is_sysadmin', true)")
+                ).scalar() == "false"

                 TenantContext.set_tenant_context(db, tenant_b)
                 result_b = asyncio.run(
@@
                 assert result_b.total == len(emails_b)
                 assert got_b.isdisjoint(emails_a)
+                assert conn.execute(
+                    text("SELECT current_setting('regengine.is_sysadmin', true)")
+                ).scalar() == "false"
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lines 123 - 128:
In the test covering the two `list_users` calls, assert after each call that
`current_setting('regengine.is_sysadmin', true)` on the reused `conn` is
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list_users now uses transaction-local arm/disarm for users_self_or_admin
peer visibility. Register the single call in the closed inventory with
classification tenant-scoped-directory so the exact-count gate matches.

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list_users is classified as tenant-scoped-directory; add that class to
the reviewed authority set so the allowlist closed-set check passes.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Sellers <1@christophersellers.com>
pip-audit flags seven CVEs against pypdf 6.21.2 in
packages/factory-local/requirements.lock. Raise the pin to >=6.21.4,<7
(smallest fix for CVE-2026-119203/119204/119205; also covers
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Merged main into this branch. There were no conflicts, and I made no code changes. This branch also carries #3773's dependency bump.

Local checks (Python 3.11, requirements.lock):

  • pytest services/admin/tests -n auto passed (rc=0).
  • test_user_routes_1342.py and test_global_admin_context_allowlist.py passed.
  • The new test_list_users_tenant_isolation_live.py was skipped locally because there's no live Postgres. CI's DATABASE_URL should run it.

Reviewer note: this changes the RLS admin-context arm in user_routes.py (moving it to SET LOCAL arm/disarm). Please give it a security-focused review.

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