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Resuming an attestation with a different token than the one that ran attestation init (attestation add, status or push) fails to decrypt the stored state. decrypt returned a plain fmt.Errorf("incorrect passphrase"), which handleUseCaseErr did not recognise, so it fell through to the default branch: the client received a masked internal server error and the failure was reported to Sentry, even though this is a client-side condition, not a server failure.

Fixes #3571.

Changes

  • pkg/biz/errors.go: new typed ErrInvalidPassphrase (NewErrInvalidPassphrase, IsErrInvalidPassphrase) whose message tells the user what to do.
  • pkg/biz/attestationstate.go: decrypt returns NewErrInvalidPassphrase() on a magic-prefix mismatch instead of a plain error.
  • internal/service/service.go: handleUseCaseErr maps IsErrInvalidPassphrase to codes.FailedPrecondition (mirroring ErrReleasedVersionImmutable), so it is no longer masked or reported to Sentry.

Tests

  • pkg/biz/attestationstate_test.go (new): a wrong passphrase yields ErrInvalidPassphrase, and the typed error stays discoverable through %w wrapping.
  • internal/service/service_test.go: new TestHandleUseCaseErr case asserting the wrapped error maps to FailedPrecondition with the guidance message.
  • pkg/biz/attestationstate_integration_test.go: updated the two assertions that expected the old incorrect passphrase text.

Verified on go1.27.2: go build ./app/controlplane/..., go vet ./app/controlplane/pkg/biz/ ./app/controlplane/internal/service/, and the tests above all pass (exit 0).

Notes

The optional CLI-side detection mentioned in the issue is not included here; happy to add it as a follow-up. I mapped to FailedPrecondition; PermissionDenied would work equally well if you prefer it.

🤖 Opened by a human-directed agent run; happy to adjust to your conventions.

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[1 file with past security fixes] Keep these rules in place. They come from 3 past fixes in this repository.

P1 app/controlplane/internal/service/service.go ▶

When rbacEnabled applies, a CAS download is allowed only for artifacts mapped to projects where the caller has a project membership, or for public artifacts; only admins/owners may fall back to the org default backend without a project-scoped mapping.

Past fixes (3)

P1 9230cb2 · CWE-863 · MULTI FIX

Fixes an incorrect-authorization flaw where product-scoped API tokens were treated as organization-wide because token confinement was keyed on `ProjectID`/JWT claim data instead of the token row’s persisted scope and project list.
1 file · The repair spans several commits, so this one is not the whole fix. Sink: s.rbacScopesForOrg(ctx, orgID).

P1 58ae751 · CWE-266 · MULTI 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.
1 file · 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.

P1 67a7c03 · CWE-863

Project-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.
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Note for reviewers: the Chainloop AI Policies check fails with "No AI coding session found" because this PR was not produced through Chainloop Trace. I don't have permission to apply the skip-ai-session label; could a maintainer add it if the change looks good? Thanks!

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Gentle ping — this fix is still waiting on the two maintainer gates: the skip-ai-session label for AI Policies, and a first approval for pr-min-approvals. No rush at all — just flagging in case it slipped through. Happy to adjust anything on our side.

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Can you make sure to sign the commits? Thanks!

… client error

When a remote attestation is started with `attestation init` and later resumed
(`attestation add`, `status` or `push`) with a different token, the stored state
can no longer be decrypted: the encryption passphrase is derived from the
request token.

`decrypt` returned a plain `fmt.Errorf("incorrect passphrase")`, which
`handleUseCaseErr` did not recognise, so it fell through to the default branch.
The client received a masked internal server error and the failure was reported
to Sentry, even though this is a client-side condition, not a server failure.

Return a typed `biz.ErrInvalidPassphrase` from the biz layer and map it to
`codes.FailedPrecondition` in the service layer. The message now tells the user
to reuse the token that ran `attestation init`, or to reset the attestation and
run `attestation init` again.

Adds unit tests covering the typed decryption error and the service mapping,
and updates the integration test that asserted on the old message.

Refs chainloop-dev#3571

Signed-off-by: wzd8888 <wzd8888@users.noreply.github.com>
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Signed now — thanks for the nudge. I've amended the commit so it carries a verified SSH signature, while keeping the DCO Signed-off-by trailer. The branch has been force-updated (a4565bc).

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Return a known error when the attestation state cannot be decrypted with the current token

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