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What changed

  • Stopped copying the stored API key into the client session cookie.
  • Expired previously issued legacy cookies during login, auto-login, and API-key updates.
  • Preserved the server-side encrypted database value and existing key compatibility.

Why

The server already reads the encrypted database value and no production consumer uses this cookie, so retaining client-side secret material creates unnecessary exposure.

Validation

  • Focused CLI, login, and API-key regression tests passed.
  • Ruff, secret scanning, and repository pre-commit checks passed.
  • Verified the patch remained unchanged after rebuilding the branch on the current release base.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved API key security by clearing sensitive and obsolete authentication cookies after key storage, login, and automatic login.
    • Ensured cleared cookies use the appropriate security, path, domain, and expiration settings.
    • Initialized agentic experience settings during automatic login when enabled.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage confirming obsolete authentication cookies are properly expired.

Stop copying the stored API key into a client session cookie because the server already reads the encrypted database value and no production consumer uses the cookie. Expire previously issued cookies during login, auto-login, and key updates to remove legacy client-side secret material without changing server-side key compatibility.
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Walkthrough

Authentication flows now expire the legacy apikey_tkn_lflw cookie instead of setting it from a stored API key. Login tests verify the cookie deletion, and the secrets baseline records updated test locations and generation metadata.

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Legacy API-key cookie cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Expire legacy cookie in authentication flows
src/backend/base/langflow/api/v1/api_key.py, src/backend/base/langflow/api/v1/login.py
API-key storage, login, and auto-login responses delete apikey_tkn_lflw with configured cookie attributes. Auto-login initializes agentic variables when applicable.
Validate cookie expiration
src/backend/tests/unit/api/v1/test_api_key.py, src/backend/tests/unit/test_login.py, .secrets.baseline
Tests verify Max-Age=0 for the cleared cookie. The secrets baseline updates test line references and its generation timestamp.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 37ca8

An API-key update can be saved successfully but reported as failed if legacy-cookie cleanup encounters an error, leaving clients with inconsistent state and potentially triggering retries. Merge should wait for the commit and error handling order to be corrected; the deletion tests should also verify the specific cookie record.

Suggested reviewers: erichare


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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Test Coverage For New Implementations ❌ Error The PR adds legacy-cookie expiry to /auto_login, but no test invokes that route; only /login and /api_key/store tests assert Max-Age=0. Add a backend test for /api/v1/auto_login with AUTO_LOGIN enabled that asserts apikey_tkn_lflw is expired, and cover agentic initialization if required.
Test Quality And Coverage ⚠️ Warning The PR adds only success-cookie assertions; /auto_login has no unit test, /api_key/store has no error test, and persistence/no-secret behavior is not asserted. Add async pytest coverage for auto-login expiry, store-key error responses, encrypted DB persistence, and absence of the plaintext key from all response cookies.
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Test File Naming And Structure ✅ Passed The only changed test files are backend test_*.py modules under tests/unit; they use async pytest tests, descriptive names, fixtures, and include successful and unsuccessful login coverage.
Excessive Mock Usage Warning ✅ Passed The diff adds no mocks. The changed tests use real HTTP/database fixtures; test_login retains one pre-existing AsyncMock/patch case for invalid-token handling.
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❌ Patch coverage is 22.22222% with 7 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 64.90%. Comparing base (e356df6) to head (37ca824).
⚠️ Report is 5 commits behind head on release-1.12.0.

Files with missing lines Patch % Lines
src/backend/base/langflow/api/v1/login.py 28.57% 5 Missing ⚠️
src/backend/base/langflow/api/v1/api_key.py 0.00% 2 Missing ⚠️
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In `@src/backend/base/langflow/api/v1/api_key.py`:
- Around line 124-131: In the API key update handler, resolve and validate
auth_settings before await db.commit(), then perform the database commit only
after settings are ready. Keep response.delete_cookie outside the database-write
try/error mapping so cookie failures cannot cause a committed update to return
HTTP 400.

In `@src/backend/tests/unit/test_login.py`:
- Around line 104-106: Update the cookie assertions in
src/backend/tests/unit/test_login.py lines 104-106 and
src/backend/tests/unit/api/v1/test_api_key.py lines 93-95 to parse individual
Set-Cookie records, select the apikey_tkn_lflw record, and assert that record
has Max-Age=0, Path=/, and the configured Domain when present.
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  • .secrets.baseline
  • src/backend/base/langflow/api/v1/api_key.py
  • src/backend/base/langflow/api/v1/login.py
  • src/backend/tests/unit/api/v1/test_api_key.py
  • src/backend/tests/unit/test_login.py

Comment on lines +124 to 131
auth_settings = get_settings_service().auth_settings
response.delete_cookie(
"apikey_tkn_lflw",
encrypted,
path="/",
domain=auth_settings.COOKIE_DOMAIN,
secure=auth_settings.ACCESS_SECURE,
httponly=auth_settings.ACCESS_HTTPONLY,
samesite=auth_settings.ACCESS_SAME_SITE,

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Resolve auth_settings before the database commit.

auth_settings is fetched inside the try block after await db.commit(). If the lookup or response.delete_cookie(...) raises, the encrypted key is already persisted, but the handler returns HTTP 400. The client can treat the successful write as a failed update and retry. Resolve and validate the settings before the commit, and keep post-commit cookie handling out of the database-write error mapping.

Suggested ordering
 async def save_store_api_key(...):
+    auth_settings = get_settings_service().auth_settings
     try:
...
         await db.commit()
-        auth_settings = get_settings_service().auth_settings
         response.delete_cookie(
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In `@src/backend/base/langflow/api/v1/api_key.py` around lines 124 - 131, In the
API key update handler, resolve and validate auth_settings before await
db.commit(), then perform the database commit only after settings are ready.
Keep response.delete_cookie outside the database-write try/error mapping so
cookie failures cannot cause a committed update to return HTTP 400.

Comment on lines +104 to +106
set_cookie = response.headers.get("set-cookie", "")
assert "apikey_tkn_lflw=" in set_cookie
assert "Max-Age=0" in set_cookie

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Bind cookie-expiration assertions to the apikey_tkn_lflw record.

Both tests use independent substring checks. Parse the individual Set-Cookie records and verify the target cookie has Max-Age=0, Path=/, and the configured Domain when present.

  • src/backend/tests/unit/test_login.py#L104-L106: Select the apikey_tkn_lflw record before checking its expiration attributes.
  • src/backend/tests/unit/api/v1/test_api_key.py#L93-L95: Select the apikey_tkn_lflw record and verify its deletion scope.
📍 Affects 2 files
  • src/backend/tests/unit/test_login.py#L104-L106 (this comment)
  • src/backend/tests/unit/api/v1/test_api_key.py#L93-L95
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In `@src/backend/tests/unit/test_login.py` around lines 104 - 106, Update the
cookie assertions in src/backend/tests/unit/test_login.py lines 104-106 and
src/backend/tests/unit/api/v1/test_api_key.py lines 93-95 to parse individual
Set-Cookie records, select the apikey_tkn_lflw record, and assert that record
has Max-Age=0, Path=/, and the configured Domain when present.

@Adam-Aghili Adam-Aghili changed the title fix: remove legacy API key cookie for LE-649 fix: remove legacy API key cookie Aug 14, 2026
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