Feat/string secret by fiftin · Pull Request #4369 · semaphoreui/semaphore

fiftin · 2026-10-26T18:46:25Z

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New Features
- Added string-type access keys with a masked, revealable secret field. Secret values are encrypted and omitted from responses and backups.
- String keys can serve as authentication secrets for supported token and HMAC integrations. The integration form offers compatible secrets based on the selected authentication method.
Bug Fixes
- Invalid access-key types are rejected when creating or updating keys.
- String keys are excluded from SSH and inventory credential selectors and rejected in unsupported credential fields, Git authentication, and host mappings.
- Integration secrets are checked for compatibility with the selected method.
Documentation
- Updated API documentation to describe string-type keys and their secret values.

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The change adds string as an access-key type, documents and validates it, and adds a web form for its secret value. Integration authentication can use compatible string secrets. Tests cover secret handling, credential restrictions, integration authentication, and backup and restore.

Changes: String Access-Key Support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Access-key type and API handling `db/AccessKey.go`, `db/AccessKey_test.go`, `api-docs.yml`, `api/projects/keys.go`, `api/projects/keys_test.go`	The validator accepts `ssh`, `none`, `login_password`, and `string`. API documentation describes string keys and their secret values. API tests check encrypted storage, response omission, secret updates, and invalid-type rejection.
Integration authentication secrets `db/Integration.go`, `db/Integration_auth_test.go`, `api/integration.go`, `api/integration_test.go`, `api/projects/integration.go`, `api/projects/integration_auth_test.go`, `web/src/components/IntegrationForm.vue`	Integration authentication methods define accepted key types and resolve shared verification secrets. API handlers validate secret ownership and compatibility. Request authentication uses the resolved secret, and the form filters choices by authentication method.
String-key form and credential selectors `web/src/components/KeyForm.vue`, `web/src/components/InventoryForm.vue`, `web/src/components/RepositoryForm.vue`, `web/src/components/TerraformInventoryForm.vue`, `web/src/lang/*`	The key form adds a masked string-value field, validation, and guidance. Inventory, repository, and Terraform selectors filter out string keys. Locale files add labels, validation text, and usage guidance.
Credential-use and backup behavior `db_lib/GoGitClient_test.go`, `pkg/ssh/agent_test.go`, `services/tasks/local_executor_test.go`, `services/project/backup_test.go`	Tests check string-key behavior in Git authentication, SSH installation, inventory credentials, and backup and restore. They verify expected errors and that unsupported credentials do not produce SSH-agent or password-prompt data. Backup tests check that secret values are omitted and that some host mappings reject string keys.
Ignore and docs reference updates `.gitignore`, `docs`	The root ignore file excludes entries matching `/AGENTS/tmp/*`. The docs subproject reference changes to a new commit.

Priority: Normal

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

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ReceiveIntegration
  participant Integration
  participant VerificationSecret
  ReceiveIntegration->>Integration: resolve configured auth secret
  Integration->>VerificationSecret: extract secret for auth method
  VerificationSecret-->>ReceiveIntegration: secret and availability
  ReceiveIntegration->>ReceiveIntegration: validate request using resolved secret

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review b97bd

Secrets may be exposed while entered, and integrations can be accepted successfully but fail when delivering authenticated requests.

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Unconditional type validation breaks previously supported metadata-only updates that omit the type.

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What changed in this PR

This PR strengthens support for string secrets in Semaphore’s access-key API through type validation, API documentation, and regression tests.

Changes:

Validate access-key types during creation and updates.
Test string-secret storage, response filtering, updates, and backup behavior.
Test rejection of string keys in unsupported credential roles and document the API fields.

File	Description
`services/tasks/local_executor_test.go`	Tests rejection of string keys as inventory credentials.
`services/project/backup_test.go`	Tests secret-free backups and credential-mapping validation.
`pkg/ssh/agent_test.go`	Tests string-key handling across installer roles.
`db/AccessKey.go`	Adds access-key type validation.
`db/AccessKey_test.go`	Tests valid and invalid key types.
`db_lib/GoGitClient_test.go`	Tests unsupported Git authentication types and Galaxy credential filtering.
`api/projects/keys.go`	Validates key types on create and update requests.
`api/projects/keys_test.go`	Adds string-secret API and validation tests.
`api-docs.yml`	Documents string keys, their value field, and filtering.

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+	assert.NotEqual(t, "s3cr3t", storedSecret(t, f, created.ID), "the value must not be stored as plaintext")
+	assert.Equal(t, "s3cr3t", decryptedString(t, f, created.ID))


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+	// The type is stored only together with the secret, but it is checked
+	// unconditionally: the audit event below reports it and a client has no
+	// reason to send a type the server cannot store.
+	if !key.Type.IsValid() {
+		helpers.WriteJSON(w, http.StatusBadRequest, map[string]string{
+			"error": "Invalid key type",
+		})
+		return
+	}
+


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Allow name-only key updates to omit type.

helpers.Bind only decodes JSON, so an omitted type leaves key.Type empty. The new check then returns 400 Invalid key type before UpdateAccessKey, even though non-override updates only change name and preserve the stored type.

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- if !key.Type.IsValid() { + if key.OverrideSecret && !key.Type.IsValid() {

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+      :append-icon="showString ? 'mdi-eye' : 'mdi-eye-off'"
+      :label="$t('keyFormStringValue')"
+      :rules="[(v) => !!v || !canEditSecrets || $t('value_required')]"
+      :class="{ 'masked-secret-input': !showString }"


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Use a password input for the string secret.

The new field defaults to a text input. The masked-secret-input class conceals the value only where its CSS masking works. If that masking is unavailable, the secret appears while showString is false. Set :type="showString ? 'text' : 'password'" so the closed state uses native password masking. (v2.vuetifyjs.com)

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Minor · Reject unusable integration credentials in authSecretFits. · integration.go:72-99

api/projects/integration.go:72-99
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Reject unusable integration credentials in authSecretFits.

authSecretFits accepts a missing credential for every non-none method. It also accepts empty string or login/password credentials for token, HMAC, GitHub, and Bitbucket methods. Both create and update then persist the integration.

Delivery decrypts the credential before VerificationSecret() rejects an empty shared secret. It also rejects a missing BasicAuth credential because its type is not AccessKeyLoginPassword.

Add the usable-value check in authSecretFits, using the same deserialization path as delivery. This helper is already the shared validation boundary for create and update. An empty BasicAuth pair is not included because BasicAuth compares login and password directly instead of using VerificationSecret().
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Update authSecretFits to validate the credential’s usable value through the same
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feat(secrets): validate key type

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assert.NotEqual(t, "s3cr3t", storedSecret(t, f, created.ID), "the value must not be stored as plaintext")

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