fix: don't log the access token on stream errors by pecheriere · Pull Request #58 · Teslemetry/python-teslemetry-stream

pecheriere · 2026-10-12T03:32:23Z

repr() of an aiohttp.ClientResponseError includes its RequestInfo, and that includes the request headers. So LOGGER.warning("Client error: %s", repr(error)) writes Authorization: Bearer <token> straight into the log.

In Home Assistant this fires on any non-auth HTTP error from the SSE endpoint. I get a 400 Bad Request a few times a day, so the token was sitting in my HA log and in everything that ships or backs up that log.

This logs <ExceptionType>: <str(error)> instead. For aiohttp errors, str() still gives the status, message and URL, just not the headers. It's changed in the four places that logged an exception's repr:

client error
auth failure
unexpected error
listen task ending before its first connect

Before:

Client error: ClientResponseError(RequestInfo(url=URL('https://na.teslemetry.com/sse?topic…'), method='GET', headers=<CIMultiDictProxy('Authorization': 'Bearer …', …)>, …), history=(), status=400, message='Bad Request')

After:

Client error: ClientResponseError: 400, message='Bad Request', url='https://na.teslemetry.com/sse?topic…'

Tests: tests/test_no_token_in_logs.py covers the retry path (an HTTP 5xx error) and the 401 path, and checks that no log record contains the token. It fails on the current code. ruff, mypy and the existing tests pass.

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repr(aiohttp.ClientResponseError) includes the request headers, so the "Client error" and "Authentication failed" log lines contained "Authorization: Bearer <token>". Log the exception type and str(error) instead, which keeps the status, message and URL.

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Stream exception logs now use type-and-message descriptions instead of repr. Regression checks inspect logs for token leakage on 502 and 401 paths and when the listener raises before the first connection.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Exception descriptions and regression checks `teslemetry_stream/stream.py`, `tests/test_no_token_in_logs.py`	Stream error logs and the pre-first-connect warning use `_describe`, which formats exceptions with their type and message. Regression checks verify that token-bearing errors retain status and message in logs without exposing the token.

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The stream now logs exception descriptions instead of representations, and the existing CI workflow runs the new regression checks. No actionable merge risk remains.

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The change reduces credential exposure in error logs without changing authentication, retry behavior, cleanup, or service permissions. No material security risk introduced or worsened by this PR was identified.

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Security Blast Radius

inferred — The confidentiality impact concerns the consuming application's logs and readers or exports of those logs. The sensitive datum is its configured bearer credential; the PR does not expand that credential's authority or introduce another network destination.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

inferred — The base behavior allowed a token-bearing HTTP exception representation to reach error logs during ordinary stream failures. The changed rendering removes that request-header disclosure mechanism at the four affected sites rather than introducing or worsening it.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — The control narrows exception serialization, not authorization. _describe delegates to the exception's string conversion without redaction, while authentication failures retain the original exception as their cause and listen re-raises escaping exceptions. Messages, URLs, and upstream exception handling therefore remain outside a blanket no-secret guarantee; these channels predate the PR.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 24.14% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 29 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check		The description clearly explains the security issue, the affected exception logging paths, the intended fix, and the regression tests. It is directly related to the changeset.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: preventing access tokens from being logged on stream errors.
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1-202: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the 401 log retains its status and message.

The 401 authentication branch and the 502 retry branch use separate log messages. The 401 check only requires the authentication-failure prefix, so it can pass if that log loses 401 and Unauthorized. Add an assertion for both values in the authentication-failure record.
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     results.append(
         check(
             "a 401 logs the authentication failure",
             any("Authentication failed" in r.getMessage() for r in records),
         )
     )
+    results.append(
+        check(
+            "the authentication log keeps the status and message",
+            any(
+                "Authentication failed" in r.getMessage()
+                and "401" in r.getMessage()
+                and "Unauthorized" in r.getMessage()
+                for r in records
+            ),
+        )
+    )
     results.append(check("no log record contains the token (401)", not leaked(records)))
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Review comment at @tests/test_no_token_in_logs.py around lines 1 - 202:
Update test_auth_failure_does_not_log_token to assert that an
authentication-failure log record includes both the 401 status and the
Unauthorized message, while preserving the existing prefix and token-leak
checks.
189-202: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test the pre-connect warning with a token-bearing callback error.

The 401 test reaches listen()’s warning with a TeslemetryStreamAuthenticationError, so changing that warning back to repr(error) would not reveal the token. The 502 test stays in __anext__()’s retry handler. But if a caller-supplied connection callback raises a token-bearing ClientResponseError during _connection_failed() before the first connection, that error escapes to the warning. Add this case to main() and assert the captured logs omit the token.
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Review comment at @tests/test_no_token_in_logs.py around lines 189 - 202:
Add a test invoked from main() that makes the caller-supplied connection
callback raise a token-bearing ClientResponseError during _connection_failed()
before the first connection, then assert the captured warning logs omit the
token.

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Review comments at @tests/test_no_token_in_logs.py:
- Around line 1-202: Update test_auth_failure_does_not_log_token to assert that
an authentication-failure log record includes both the 401 status and the
Unauthorized message, while preserving the existing prefix and token-leak
checks.
- Around line 189-202: Add a test invoked from main() that makes the
caller-supplied connection callback raise a token-bearing ClientResponseError
during _connection_failed() before the first connection, then assert the
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The 401 test now also checks the log keeps the status and message, and a new test reaches the "ended before its first connect" warning with a token-bearing error (it fails if that line goes back to repr).

Bre77 · 2026-10-13T00:15:05Z

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test: cover _describe and the listen-task warning, check 401 log content

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The 401 test now also checks the log keeps the status and message, and a new test reaches the "ended before its first connect" warning with a token-bearing error (it fails if that line goes back to repr).

Bre77 merged commit 1f69652 into Teslemetry:main Oct 13, 2026
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chore: bump version to 1.3.0 #60

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