Restrict CORS middleware to localhost and Tauri origins (#640) #886
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Document API security measures regarding CORS configuration, including allowed origins and permitted HTTP methods.
…r issue AOSSIE-Org#640 - Create detailed documentation of CORS vulnerability and security fix - Include implementation guide with code examples - Add configuration instructions and best practices - Include testing procedures and monitoring guidelines - Add migration guide and FAQ section - Document breaking changes and mitigation strategies
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughReplaces permissive wildcard CORS with an explicit localhost/Tauri/Vite whitelist, tightens allowed methods/headers, adds extensive CORS unit tests, updates microservice startup/logging behavior, and adds documentation and mkdocs navigation entries describing the security fix. Changes
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docs/new-feature.md (1)
1-20: Consider renaming this file to reflect its content.The filename
new-feature.mdis generic and doesn't convey that this document covers API Security & CORS configuration. Consider renaming to something more descriptive likeapi-security.mdorcors-configuration.mdfor better discoverability.Additionally, the list indentation uses 4 spaces (lines 10-14), while the project's markdownlint configuration expects 2 spaces. This is a minor formatting preference.
backend/tests/test_cors_middleware.py (1)
14-108: Tests use a mock CORSMiddleware rather than the actual FastAPI middleware.The test file defines its own
CORSMiddlewareclass to test CORS logic in isolation. While this provides good unit test coverage for the logic, consider adding integration tests that verify the actualfastapi.middleware.cors.CORSMiddlewarebehaves as expected with your configuration. This would catch any discrepancies between your mock and FastAPI's actual implementation.
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sync-microservice/main.py (1)
25-39: CORS configuration is consistent with the main backend.The origins list and middleware configuration match
backend/main.py, ensuring uniform security policy across services.backend/tests/test_cors_middleware.py (2)
693-728: Performance tests are good for catching regressions.The timing-based assertions (< 1 second for 1000 calls, < 0.5 seconds for 100 calls) provide reasonable guards against performance degradation. These thresholds are generous enough to avoid flaky tests on slower CI runners.
252-259: The middleware should normalize origin hosts to lowercase per RFC 6454 before comparison.RFC 6454 requires that user agents normalize the host component of origins to lowercase when constructing or serializing origins. The current test asserts that
https://EXAMPLE.COMis rejected whenhttps://example.comis allowed, which contradicts RFC 6454's normalization requirement. While CORS comparison itself is case-sensitive (RFC 6454 origin equality requires identical serialized components), the specification mandates that origins are normalized to lowercase beforehand. Real browsers normalize origins before comparison; the middleware's case-sensitive rejection of differently-cased hosts does not follow the spec and will reject valid requests from browsers that have already normalized the origin.Likely an incorrect or invalid review comment.
backend/main.py (1)
110-124: CORS configuration correctly restricts origins.The whitelist approach properly addresses the security vulnerability from issue #640. The explicit origins, methods, and headers follow the principle of least privilege. The origins list matches the sync-microservice configuration, ensuring consistency.
The exclusion of the PATCH method is intentional—no endpoints in the codebase use PATCH requests. If future features require custom headers (e.g.,
X-Request-ID), they'll need to be added to theallow_headerslist.
| ```javascript | ||
| // Allowed origins configuration | ||
| const ALLOWED_ORIGINS = [ | ||
| 'http://localhost:3000', | ||
| 'http://localhost:8000', | ||
| 'https://pictopy.example.com', | ||
| 'https://www.pictopy.example.com', | ||
| // Add additional trusted origins as needed | ||
| ]; | ||
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| #### 2. CORS Middleware Configuration | ||
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| app.use(cors({ | ||
| origin: function(origin, callback) { | ||
| // Allow requests with no origin (like mobile apps or curl requests) | ||
| if (!origin) return callback(null, true); | ||
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| if (ALLOWED_ORIGINS.indexOf(origin) === -1) { | ||
| const msg = 'The CORS policy for this site does not allow access from the specified Origin.'; | ||
| return callback(new Error(msg), false); | ||
| } | ||
| return callback(null, true); | ||
| }, | ||
| credentials: true, | ||
| methods: ['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'DELETE', 'PATCH', 'OPTIONS'], | ||
| allowedHeaders: ['Content-Type', 'Authorization'], | ||
| exposedHeaders: ['X-Total-Count', 'X-Page-Number'], | ||
| maxAge: 86400 // 24 hours | ||
| })); | ||
| ``` |
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Documentation examples use Express.js, but the backend is Python/FastAPI.
The code examples throughout this document use JavaScript/Express.js syntax (e.g., app.use(cors({...})), helmet, npm install), but the actual implementation in backend/main.py uses Python/FastAPI. This mismatch could confuse contributors.
Consider updating the examples to use FastAPI syntax that matches the actual implementation, or clearly note that these are conceptual examples and refer readers to the actual Python implementation.
🔎 Example of FastAPI-compatible documentation
-```javascript
-// Allowed origins configuration
-const ALLOWED_ORIGINS = [
- 'http://localhost:3000',
+```python
+# Allowed origins configuration
+origins = [
+ "http://localhost:1420",
+ "http://localhost:5173",
+ "tauri://localhost",
+ "https://tauri.localhost",
+]
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+app.add_middleware(
+ CORSMiddleware,
+ allow_origins=origins,
+ allow_credentials=True,
+ allow_methods=["GET", "POST", "PUT", "DELETE", "OPTIONS"],
+ allow_headers=["Content-Type", "Accept", "Authorization"],
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written in Express/JavaScript but the project backend is Python/FastAPI; replace
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starlette.middleware.cors.CORSMiddleware (configure allow_origins,
allow_credentials, allow_methods, allow_headers, max_age) or explicitly mark the
JS snippet as conceptual, and ensure the FastAPI origins list and settings match
backend/main.py (copy the origins array and middleware options from
backend/main.py), also update any npm/helmet references to the corresponding
Python tooling/notes.
| - Overview: backend/index.md | ||
| - Security: backend/security.md |
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45-164: [DUPLICATE] Documentation examples use Express.js, but the backend is Python/FastAPI.This issue was previously flagged in the review of an earlier commit and remains unresolved. The code examples throughout lines 45–164 use JavaScript/Express.js syntax (e.g.,
const app = express(),npm install cors,app.use(cors({...}))), but the actual backend implementation uses Python/FastAPI with Starlette'sCORSMiddleware. This mismatch continues to create confusion for contributors trying to understand the implementation.Update all code examples to use FastAPI syntax matching the actual Python implementation in
backend/main.py, or clearly mark these as conceptual examples and refer readers to the actual Python backend code.🔎 Example: FastAPI-compatible CORS configuration
# Allowed origins configuration origins = [ "http://localhost:1420", "http://localhost:5173", "tauri://localhost", "https://tauri.localhost", ] app.add_middleware( CORSMiddleware, allow_origins=origins, allow_credentials=True, allow_methods=["GET", "POST", "PUT", "DELETE", "OPTIONS"], allow_headers=["Content-Type", "Accept", "Authorization"], max_age=86400, )
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3-3: Minor: Add commas after years in dates per style guide.Lines 3 and 337 show dates in month-day-year format without commas after the year. Some style guides recommend the comma for clarity (e.g., "December 29, 2025,").
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| ``` | ||
| Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://localhost:3000 | ||
| Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH | ||
| Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, Authorization | ||
| Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true | ||
| ``` |
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The code block starting at line 186 is missing a language identifier. Add a language tag (e.g., http or yaml) to the fence for proper syntax highlighting.
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backend/app/logging/setup_logging.py (1)
255-255: Hardcoded "[uvicorn]" prefix is misleading for asyncio logs.Line 255 always prefixes log messages with "[uvicorn]", even when the InterceptHandler processes logs from the asyncio logger (configured at lines 294-297). This makes it impossible to distinguish between uvicorn and asyncio log sources.
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sync-microservice/main.py (1)
17-23: Consider making origins environment-configurable.While the explicit whitelist significantly improves security over wildcards, hardcoding origins reduces flexibility across different deployment environments (development, staging, production). Consider reading allowed origins from environment variables or a configuration file.
Example: Environment-based configuration
-# Define allowed origins -origins = [ - "http://localhost:1420", - "http://localhost:5173", - "tauri://localhost", - "https://tauri.localhost", -] +# Define allowed origins from environment or defaults +import os + +DEFAULT_ORIGINS = [ + "http://localhost:1420", + "http://localhost:5173", + "tauri://localhost", + "https://tauri.localhost", +] + +origins = os.getenv("ALLOWED_ORIGINS", ",".join(DEFAULT_ORIGINS)).split(",")This allows overriding via
ALLOWED_ORIGINS="http://localhost:1420,http://localhost:5173,tauri://production-origin"without code changes.
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📚 Learning: 2025-10-13T16:40:22.622Z
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Learning: In the PictoPy project's centralized logging system (backend/app/logging/setup_logging.py and sync-microservice/app/logging/setup_logging.py), stack traces should not be shown in logs. When rerouting logs through InterceptHandler, exc_info and stack_info should not be preserved.
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Learning: In backend/app/utils/microservice.py, the stream_logs function uses print() instead of logger to forward sync-microservice output because the sync-microservice already formats its logs using its own logging setup (get_sync_logger and LoggerWriter). Using logger would result in double-prefixing.
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backend/app/logging/setup_logging.py (1)
247-250: LGTM! Recursion prevention logic is correct.The remapping of "uvicorn" and "asyncio" module names to their "_redirect" variants effectively prevents the InterceptHandler from triggering itself recursively. This ensures that when these intercepted loggers emit messages, they route through alternative logger names that don't have the InterceptHandler attached.
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1-12: LGTM!The imports are well-organized and the logger initialization correctly uses
get_sync_logger(__name__).
14-15: LGTM!The simplified FastAPI instantiation with lifespan management is clean and appropriate.
25-32: Excellent security improvement!Replacing wildcard CORS settings with explicit origins, methods, and headers significantly reduces the attack surface. The allowed methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS) and headers (Content-Type, Accept, Authorization) cover standard REST API usage appropriately.
34-37: LGTM!Router mounting is clean and straightforward. Routers are included without version prefixes as intended.
40-57: LGTM!The main execution block correctly addresses all issues from previous reviews:
- Logging functions now receive the required
component_nameargument.redirect_stdout_stderris properly used as a context manager.- The startup flow (logging setup → server configuration → startup logging → server launch) is logical and well-structured.
17-23: The origins list already includes production Tauri origins.The CORS origins in sync-microservice/main.py include
"tauri://localhost"and"https://tauri.localhost", which are the standard production origins for Tauri applications on macOS/Linux and Windows respectively. The backend/main.py file explicitly documents these as production origins in code comments. Consider adding similar comments to sync-microservice/main.py for clarity, as the current list serves both development (http://localhost:1420,http://localhost:5173) and production (tauri://localhost,https://tauri.localhost) scenarios.
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647-648: Missing blank line between test methods.PEP 8 recommends blank lines to separate method definitions. Add a blank line after line 647.
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# Should raise AttributeError when headers is None with pytest.raises(AttributeError): cors_middleware_default.process_request(mock_request) + def test_multiple_preflight_requests(self, cors_middleware_default):
693-724: Performance tests with absolute thresholds may be flaky in CI.Hardcoded time thresholds (< 1.0s, < 0.5s) can cause spurious failures on slow CI runners or under load. Consider:
- Using
pytest-benchmarkfor proper performance testing- Increasing thresholds with margin (e.g., 5s) to avoid flakiness
- Marking these as
@pytest.mark.slowto skip in fast CI runs🔎 Example with pytest.mark.slow
+import pytest + # Performance Tests class TestCORSMiddlewarePerformance: """Tests for CORS middleware performance characteristics.""" + @pytest.mark.slow def test_origin_lookup_performance(self, cors_middleware_open): """Test that origin lookup is efficient.""" - import time + import time # Move to module level ideally # ... rest of test ... - # Should complete in reasonable time (< 1 second for 1000 calls) - assert (end - start) < 1.0 + # Generous threshold to avoid CI flakiness + assert (end - start) < 5.0
695-696: Movetimeimport to module level.Importing
timeinside test methods adds minor overhead and reduces readability. Standard practice is to import at the top of the file.import pytest from unittest.mock import Mock, patch, MagicMock from typing import Dict, List, Optional +import timeAlso applies to: 710-711
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| allow_headers: List[str] = None, | ||
| expose_headers: List[str] = None, | ||
| max_age: int = 600, | ||
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| """Initialize CORS middleware with configuration.""" | ||
| self.app = app | ||
| self.allow_origins = allow_origins or ["*"] | ||
| self.allow_credentials = allow_credentials | ||
| self.allow_methods = allow_methods or ["GET", "POST", "PUT", "DELETE", "OPTIONS"] | ||
| self.allow_headers = allow_headers or ["*"] | ||
| self.expose_headers = expose_headers or [] | ||
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| """Get the allowed origin for response header.""" | ||
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| """Handle preflight OPTIONS requests.""" | ||
| origin = request.headers.get("Origin") | ||
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| "Access-Control-Allow-Headers": ", ".join(self.allow_headers), | ||
| "Access-Control-Max-Age": str(self.max_age), | ||
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Tests validate a mock class, not the actual CORS implementation.
This test file defines its own CORSMiddleware class and tests that mock instead of importing and testing the actual CORS middleware configured in backend/main.py. Since the PR objective is to secure the real FastAPI CORSMiddleware configuration, these tests won't catch regressions or verify the production behavior.
Consider one of these approaches:
- Integration tests: Test the actual FastAPI app using
TestClientto verify CORS headers on real endpoints - Configuration tests: Import and validate the CORS configuration values from
main.py
🔎 Example: Integration test using TestClient
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
from main import app # Import actual app
class TestCORSIntegration:
"""Integration tests for actual CORS middleware configuration."""
def test_allowed_origin_receives_cors_headers(self):
"""Test that whitelisted origins receive proper CORS headers."""
client = TestClient(app)
response = client.options(
"/health", # or any endpoint
headers={
"Origin": "http://localhost:1420",
"Access-Control-Request-Method": "GET",
}
)
assert response.headers.get("Access-Control-Allow-Origin") == "http://localhost:1420"
def test_disallowed_origin_blocked(self):
"""Test that non-whitelisted origins are blocked."""
client = TestClient(app)
response = client.options(
"/health",
headers={
"Origin": "https://malicious-site.com",
"Access-Control-Request-Method": "GET",
}
)
# Verify origin is not reflected back
assert response.headers.get("Access-Control-Allow-Origin") != "https://malicious-site.com"🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
In backend/tests/test_cors_middleware.py around lines 14-108, the file defines
and tests a local mock CORSMiddleware instead of exercising the real FastAPI
CORS configuration; replace the mock-based tests with integration or
configuration tests that import the production app/config from backend.main: use
fastapi.testclient.TestClient(app) to send OPTIONS requests (e.g. to /health or
another small endpoint) with Origin and Access-Control-Request-Method headers
and assert the real response headers (Access-Control-Allow-Origin,
Allow-Methods, Allow-Credentials, etc.) for allowed and disallowed origins, or
alternatively import the CORS config object from backend.main and assert its
allow_origins/allow_methods/allow_credentials values directly.
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Restricted CORS middleware to only allow specific localhost and Tauri origins. This fixes the security vulnerability where any origin could access the local API. Closes #640
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