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Token generation and sources Cargo.toml, crates/automation/Cargo.toml, crates/automation/src/control_auth.rs, crates/automation/src/lib.rs |
The automation crate adds token generation and validation, token-file reading and writing, and token-source selection. It exports TokenSource and adds getrandom. |
Server token publication and request gate apps/effectcraft/Cargo.toml, apps/effectcraft/src/control_server.rs, apps/effectcraft/src/main.rs, README.md, docs/control-protocol.md |
The server writes a token after binding and requires a valid auth request within 10 seconds. Tests cover rejection, successful authentication, repeated authentication, and deadline behavior. The documentation describes the token requirement. |
Bridge authentication and integration apps/effectcraft-cli/src/main.rs, crates/automation/src/backend.rs, crates/automation/src/bridge.rs, crates/automation/src/tests.rs, docs/agents.md |
The CLI passes a token source to the bridge. The bridge authenticates before sending requests. Tests cover successful and refused authentication, and bridge setup documentation describes token sources and the same-user requirement. |
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes
Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High
Sequence Diagram(s)
sequenceDiagram
participant EffectCraftCLI
participant BridgeClient
participant TokenSource
participant TokenFile
participant ControlServer
EffectCraftCLI->>BridgeClient: Create bridge with TokenSource
BridgeClient->>TokenSource: Read token when connecting
TokenSource->>TokenFile: Read token file
TokenFile-->>TokenSource: Return token
TokenSource-->>BridgeClient: Return token
BridgeClient->>ControlServer: Send auth request
ControlServer-->>BridgeClient: Return authentication reply
Suggested reviewers: echelon
Merge Risk: 
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When a custom token-file override is used, raw control clients may not know where to read the token and fail to connect; authentication itself remains enforced.
Security architecture risk: 
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Authentication substantially improves control-channel isolation. However, supported localhost and IPv6 client addresses can disclose the current token to another local listener, undermining protection against other local users for those configurations. Port-only connections avoid this particular address mismatch.
Retained concerns
- Medium · security · inferred: The new handshake discloses the bearer token before establishing that the listener is the intended app. The app binds 127.0.0.1, but the bridge also accepts localhost and [::1] and connects to the first resolved address. If localhost resolves first to ::1 and another local user listens there on the same unprivileged port, that listener can receive the current token and replay it against the simultaneously running IPv4 app. Explicit IPv6 addressing has the same endpoint mismatch. This condition requires a victim connection using an affected address form; ordinary port-only addressing selects IPv4. Although the base already allowed unauthenticated control, the new credential-disclosure path undermines the intended authentication boundary.
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Security Blast Radius
- inferred — A stolen current token grants the affected app launch's control-channel authority, including engine commands, script execution, UI interaction, and project operations within the app's effective permissions. The identified attack requires a victim bridge connection to an attacker-controlled listener using an affected address form. It does not establish compromise of unrelated launches, other machines, or administrative privileges.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
- inferred — The remaining authentication attack path is a second local listener receiving the newly transmitted credential, then authenticating separately to the real IPv4 app. The server's correct request gate does not prevent credential theft at the client transport boundary. Port reuse after shutdown alone is weaker evidence: a stale token does not authenticate to a later launch with a fresh token.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
- observed — Possession of the per-launch bearer replaces loopback reachability as the server's access decision; it does not identify an OS user or grant different callers different method capabilities. Invalid first requests close before dispatch, pipelined requests after refusal are not processed, and repeated auth is answered locally.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
- observed — Binding before publication prevents a second same-port launch from replacing the active token. Publication failure prevents the accept loop from starting. File replacement itself removes and recreates the final path rather than publishing atomically. Default names isolate ports; sharing one override file across live instances can strand file-backed clients and is expressly prohibited by the protocol documentation, rather than supported as a safe configuration.
Hardening Proposals
- proposed — Align accepted client destinations with the server's literal IPv4 bind to remove the demonstrated cross-address-family mismatch. If broader endpoint support is required, authenticate the server before disclosing a reusable bearer. Merely checking that a resolved address is loopback does not distinguish another local listener from the intended app.
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: requiring a per-launch token for the control channel. Linked Issues check Directly linked issue #2122requires access control on the control channel. Its fix option (a) requires a random token, stored in a user-only file in the config dir, sent as the first request. The PR …Out of Scope Changes check Each changed area maps to issue #2122or its direct implementation. The newcontrol_auth.rsmodule holds the shared token, file, and client-source code. Theeffectcraftapp now depends on `effectc…Full details: Linked Issues check
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#2122requires access control on the control channel. Its fix option (a) requires a random token, stored in a user-only file in the config dir, sent as the first request. The PR implements option (a). Evidence from the PR summary and description: (1)control_auth.rsgenerates a 32-byte OS RNG token, stored as 64 hex characters incontrol-<port>.tokeninconfig_dir(). (2) The control server writes the token after binding and before the accept thread starts. (3) The first request must beauth. Any other first request getsauthentication requiredand the connection closes. Lines pipelined after a refused request are not dispatched. (4) The token comparison runs in constant time. (5) Token files are created0600on Unix, and clients refuse group- or other-readable files. (6) Creation or write failure stops the server (fail-closed). (7) The existing guard against non-JSON and HTTP first lines still runs first, which preserves the browser cross-origin protection named in the issue. (8) A 10-second pre-auth deadline closes idle or dripping connections. This addresses the slot-exhaustion concern in F-24 that the issue's diff also mentions. Repository clients (BridgeClient,effectcraft-cli --bridge,mcp --bridge) authenticate on each connection. The description lists tests for refused, missing, and valid tokens, pipelined requests, stale token files, and deadline behavior. The Windows path relies on the default user-only ACL of the settings folder, not an explicit ACL. The issue allows 'or a Windows ACL', and the PR documents this choice. No unmet coding requirement is shown. Test results are taken from the PR description; they were not re-run.
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#2122or its direct implementation. The newcontrol_auth.rsmodule holds the shared token, file, and client-source code. Theeffectcraftapp now depends oneffectcraft-automationso the server and clients share one implementation. Thegetrandomworkspace dependency supplies the OS RNG.Backend::bridgeandBridgeClient::newtake aTokenSourceso clients authenticate. The CLI and MCP help text, README,docs/agents.md,docs/control-protocol.md, andmain.rsusage text document the new handshake and token file.tests.rsupdates existing bridge fake servers to sendauth. The PR description states the breaking change for raw-protocol clients. That change follows directly from the required authentication. No unrelated behavior change is shown in the PR summary. TheCargo.lockchange is excluded from review under the!**/*.lockrule, so its contents are not assessed. The outside-diffAUTH_REQUIREDmessage change in commitcf9bb5c9is not a separate out-of-scope item; it concerns the same token-file behavior.
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🟡 Minor · Use an error message that matches the configured token path. · control_server.rs:216-217
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse an error message that matches the configured token path.
publish_tokenacceptsEFFECTCRAFT_CONTROL_TOKEN_FILE, but this message always directs clients tocontrol-<port>.tokenin the default settings folder. When the override is set, a client that follows this response reads the wrong file and cannot authenticate. Return a generic message or include the resolved path.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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…#2122) Any local process could connect to the --control port and run engine.execute, including prefs.set scripting.* followed by script.run: code execution as the user. Each time it starts listening, the app now writes a random 256-bit token to control-<port>.token in the settings folder (user-only), and every connection must first send {"method":"auth","params":{"token":"..."}}, as in PhotoCraft; anything else is refused and the connection closed. The CLI/MCP bridge reads the token file on every connect.
…2122) Unauthenticated connections could hold all 16 slots forever. The deadline is fixed at accept and checked before every read, with the socket read timeout set to what is left, so a slow drip can't extend it; it is cleared once the connection authenticates. TokenSource's Debug no longer prints the token.
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Hi @Barzabel, thanks for this PR! When you rebase, please also make sure it fits the other recent changes:
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Summary
Fixes #2122.
With
--controlorEFFECTCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT, the app listens on127.0.0.1:<port>and runs whatever any local process sends. That includesprefs.setonscripting.*followed byscript.runwith File and Socket access, so any local client could run code as the user: other users on a shared machine, containers or WSL sharing the network namespace, sandboxed processes. The channel now requires a per-launch token, mirroring PhotoCraft's handshake.getrandom), stored as 64 hex characters incontrol-<port>.tokenin the settings folder (effectcraft_host::config_dir();EFFECTCRAFT_CONTROL_TOKEN_FILEoverrides the path). The token is never printed or logged; only the file path is logged.create_new, which does not follow a planted symlink. On Unix the file is created0600, and clients refuse a file that group or others can read.{"id":"auth","method":"auth","params":{"token":"…"}}.authentication requiredand the connection is closed. Lines pipelined after a refused request are never dispatched.authis answered locally and never reaches the app.fetch) still runs first.BridgeClient/Backend::bridge,effectcraft-cli --bridgeandmcp --bridgeauthenticate on every connection. They take the token fromEFFECTCRAFT_CONTROL_TOKEN, thenEFFECTCRAFT_CONTROL_TOKEN_FILE, then the default file, read at connect time, so a client survives an app restart. Existing.mcp.jsonsetups need no change.crates/automation/src/control_auth.rs; the app now depends oneffectcraft-automation(L6 → L5).TokenSource'sDebugredacts the token.docs/control-protocol.mdhas an Authentication section;docs/agents.mdandREADME.mdare updated.Breaking change: tools outside this repo that speak the raw protocol (for example
ncscripts or custom harnesses) must now sendauthfirst, reading the token file or usingEFFECTCRAFT_CONTROL_TOKEN.Verification
cargo test -p effectcraft -p effectcraft-cli -p effectcraft-automation --lib --bins --tests(after rebase on main): app 37, args 3, automation 51, automation qa 8, cli unit 2, cliit34 passed.unauthenticated_execute_is_refusedcovers pipelined requests sent beforeauth. Onmainit fails: the request is dispatched.wrong_or_missing_token_is_refused.the_right_token_opens_the_connectionalso covers a repeatedauthand an uppercase token.bridge_client_authenticates_with_the_token_fileuses a realBridgeClient; a stale token is refused.unauthenticated_connections_are_closed_at_the_deadline: 16 silent or dripping connections are all closed and a new client still gets in.authenticated_connections_outlive_the_deadline.bridge_reports_a_refused_token_without_sending_the_request.control_authunit tests, including file mode on Unix and Debug redaction.cargo clippy -p effectcraft -p effectcraft-automation -p effectcraft-cli --all-targets -- -D warningsandrustfmt --checkare clean.Summary by CodeRabbit