feat(api-token): add a resource scope and a project list to API tokens - #3493
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Adds scope and scope_id to API tokens. Every new token records its kind (organization, project, instance or product) and the resource it names. Product-scoped token names are unique within their product, and CHECK constraints keep a scope coherent with the organization and project on the row. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: 9f11d7f0-7bde-4cda-84d4-102c5ecf87d3
Adds the predicates that tell a token confined to a resource outside the control plane apart from an organization-wide one, and the classification of organization-level policies. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: 9f11d7f0-7bde-4cda-84d4-102c5ecf87d3
project_ids is set on product tokens only and is always a JSON array; an empty list reaches nothing. A partial index on scope_id serves the lookups of a product's tokens. project_id is marked deprecated. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: 9f11d7f0-7bde-4cda-84d4-102c5ecf87d3
The repository stores the list deduplicated and sorted, and only when every id is a live project of the token's organization. The use case refuses a list on any token that is not product-scoped. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: 9f11d7f0-7bde-4cda-84d4-102c5ecf87d3
e823afa removed biz.APITokenScope and its constants, breaking the Chainloop platform's main branch, which still builds tokens with chainloopbiz.WithAPITokenScope(chainloopbiz.APITokenScopeInstance). Restore them as deprecated aliases of authz.ResourceType so old callers keep compiling and listing the same tokens, and reword the stale "confined to its memberships" comment on the product case of validateTokenScope to say project list, which a later change enforces. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: 9f11d7f0-7bde-4cda-84d4-102c5ecf87d3
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app/controlplane/pkg/biz/apitoken.go — 3 past fixes, peak high
58ae751MULTI FIX The commit fixes a real access-control bug where project-scoped API tokens were minted with org-wide registered-integration and robot-account-create privileges. (high, CWE-266)
Any token confined to a project must only receive policies that are safe within that single project; org-wide capabilities and legacy robot-account management must not be exposed through scoped tokens.
The repair spans several commits, so this one is not the whole fix. Sink:/controlplane.v1.IntegrationsService/DescribeRegistration,/controlplane.v1.IntegrationsService/ListRegistrations,/controlplane.v1.IntegrationsService/Register,/controlplane.v1.RobotAccountService/Create.67a7c03Project-scoped API tokens were previously enforced only in storage/CRUD, not at runtime, so they could exercise org-wide API-token privileges across other projects until this commit added project-scope checks. (high, CWE-863)
If an API token is bound to a project, that project binding must survive authentication and every project-bound authorization or listing decision must restrict the token to that exact project.679de80679de80 fixes a real revoke-by-name scoping bug that could leave active API tokens unrevokable when names collided across tenant/history boundaries. (medium, CWE-284)
Revocation by name must resolve exactly one non-revoked API token in the caller's organization before policies are cleared and revoked_at is set.
↳ Check: Any token confined to a project must only receive policies that are safe within that single project; org-wide capabilities and legacy robot-account management must not be exposed through scoped tokens. The same invariant holds at 8 other entry points. Confirm the guards past fixes added here are still on every path: defaultAuthzPolicies, orgLevelTokenPolicies, slices.Concat.
app/controlplane/pkg/data/apitoken.go — 2 past fixes, peak medium
e9fc9a4Fixes a pre-existing scope-confusion flaw where a project-scoped API token could collide by name with an organization-scoped token and prevent revoke-by-name from resolving the intended org-scoped token. (medium, CWE-284)
When no project is supplied, token lookup by name must match only non-revoked organization-scoped tokens.679de80679de80 fixes a real revoke-by-name scoping bug that could leave active API tokens unrevokable when names collided across tenant/history boundaries. (medium, CWE-284)
Revocation by name must resolve exactly one non-revoked API token in the caller's organization before policies are cleared and revoked_at is set.
↳ Check: Revocation by name must resolve exactly one non-revoked API token in the caller's organization before policies are cleared and revoked_at is set. The same invariant holds at 1 other entry point. Confirm the guards past fixes added here are still on every path: FindByNameInOrg, apitoken.HasOrganizationWith, apitoken.RevokedAtIsNil.
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app/controlplane/pkg/biz/apitoken.go - 3 past fixes, peak severity high
must hold: Any token confined to a project must only receive policies that are safe within
that single project; org-wide capabilities and legacy robot-account management must not
be exposed through scoped tokens.
also enforced at: 8 other entry points
grep for: defaultAuthzPolicies, orgLevelTokenPolicies, slices.Concat
app/controlplane/pkg/data/apitoken.go - 2 past fixes, peak severity medium
must hold: Revocation by name must resolve exactly one non-revoked API token in the
caller's organization before policies are cleared and revoked_at is set.
also enforced at: 1 other entry point
grep for: FindByNameInOrg, apitoken.HasOrganizationWith, apitoken.RevokedAtIsNil
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…stings A project-scoped token created without an organization was written with no organization and signed as an instance-level token; Create now refuses it. Listing organization tokens across organizations also returned instance tokens; the organization kind now requires an organization. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>
…n CHECK constraints The scope and project-list rules for API tokens move from database CHECK constraints into ValidateTokenShape, which the repository runs before every write. The platform creates and updates these rows only through the control plane's own code, so the rules still hold for every writer. The unmerged migrations no longer add the constraints. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>
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main now carries #3493 as one squashed commit; this branch keeps its own version of the token files, which already hold that change. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>
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api_tokensto record what a token is scoped to, and the projects a product-scoped token reaches. It prepares for tokens confined to a product, a resource that does not live in the control plane database.Nothing authorizes differently yet. Every new token records its scope, but
Createstill refuses a product scope. The follow-up PR enables it together with the confinement, so every token this release can mint takes exactly the code path it takes today.Schema
scopeandscope_id.scopeis anauthz.ResourceType, andscope_idnames that resource.scope_idis a bare UUID with no foreign key when it names a product, because a product is not an entity here.organization_idandproject_id, which stay the fields the control plane reads. Existing tokens are not backfilled and keep both columns NULL, which readers treat exactly as before.project_ids. Ajsonblist of the projects a product-scoped token reaches. It is set on product tokens only, always as an array, and an empty list reaches nothing. Every id must be a live project of the token's organization, and the list is stored deduplicated and sorted.project_idsexists exactly when the scope is a product. The platform writes these rows only through this code, so the rules hold for every writer.scope_idserves lookups of a product's tokens.project_idis marked deprecated. Project tokens keep using it for now.API
CreatetakesAPITokenWithScope(kind, id)andAPITokenWithProjectIDs(ids).organizationstanding for what used to beglobal. The previous scope names remain as deprecated aliases.Part 1 of 2 for https://linear.app/chainloop/issue/PFM-7378. Supersedes #3462.
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