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Load when a PR touches `http_api.py` auth middleware (`check_authorization_serverless` / `check_authorization`), `get_serverless_usage_check_async`, api-key→workspace resolution (`get_roboflow_workspace`), assume-identity (`_add_assume_identity_headers`, `x-assume-identity-*`), the unauthenticated-route allowlist, api-key redaction (`api_key_safe_raise_for_status`, `deduct_api_key`), usage api-key hashing, or new `*_SECRET`/`*_TOKEN`/`API_KEY` env vars in `env.py`.

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Review topic: Auth, tenant-boundary & secret handling

When this applies

Trigger on CONTENT/behaviour, not just directory. Load when the diff:

  • Touches the auth/usage middleware in inference/core/interfaces/http/http_api.py (check_authorization_serverless, check_authorization) or the unauthenticated-route allowlist inside them.
  • Calls get_serverless_usage_check_async or branches on its status_code.
  • Resolves/compares api-keys, workspaces, or projects — get_roboflow_workspace(_async), the cached_api_keys map / AuthorizationCacheKey, WORKSPACES_WHITELISTED_FOR_LOCAL_DEPLOYMENT, DEDICATED_DEPLOYMENT_WORKSPACE_URL.
  • Adds/reads assume-identity plumbing — _add_assume_identity_headers, ASSUME_IDENTITY_ACCESS_TOKEN_HEADER (x-assume-identity-access-token), assume_identity_authorised_workspace_db_id, ROBOFLOW_ASSUME_IDENTITY_SERVICE_ACCESS_TOKEN.
  • Adds/forwards secrets or tokens — a new *_SECRET/*_TOKEN/API_KEY in inference/core/env.py, or a request/URL/header that may carry api_key= reaching a log, exception, response, metric label, or usage payload.

Review checklist

Severity-tag every finding. Reference the numbered Standards below.

  • BLOCK — Ambiguous/unexpected serverless usage-check outcome falls through to call_next (fail-open). The status_code branches cover 200/401/402; any other value (upstream 5xx, timeout, unmapped code) must deny and MUST NOT be cached. [S1]
  • BLOCK — Missing api_key (query params AND JSON body) does not return 401 via _authorization_error_response / _unauthorized_response. [S2]
  • BLOCK — An ambiguous/error auth result is written into cached_api_keys under a reusable key, so it can later be served as an allow. Only definitive outcomes are cached. [S3]
  • BLOCK — A raw secret/api-key/token reaches a log line, exception str(), HTTP response, Prometheus label, or persisted usage payload in clear form. [S6]
  • BLOCK — A revert re-opens a previously closed fail-open hole without a compensating control. [S1]
  • FLAG — Auth cache keyed too broadly (not on (api_key, enforce_credits_verification) in the serverless path / api_key in the local path), risking one tenant's grant served to another. [S3]
  • FLAG — A data/inference route added to the unauthenticated allowlist, or a prefix-match where an exact-match is required. [S4]
  • FLAG — Workspace boundary not enforced against DEDICATED_DEPLOYMENT_WORKSPACE_URL / WORKSPACES_WHITELISTED_FOR_LOCAL_DEPLOYMENT, or api-key resolvable to a workspace other than the caller's. [S5]
  • FLAG — Assume-identity headers injected without the ROBOFLOW_ASSUME_IDENTITY_SERVICE_ACCESS_TOKEN + authorised-workspace gate. [S5]
  • FLAG — Redaction seam (api_key_safe_raise_for_status(_aiohttp)) skipped on a Roboflow-API egress whose URL carries api_key=. [S6]
  • NIT — New secret env var without a None/unset default, or exposed via an /info-style introspection endpoint. [S7]

Not blocking

  • Do NOT demand redaction refactors on paths that never carry a credential (internal URLs, static assets).
  • Do NOT flag a correctly-keyed auth cache purely for its TTL choice — AUTH_CACHE_TTL_SECONDS (grants) vs SHORT_AUTH_CACHE_TTL_SECONDS (denials) is a deliberate split, not a bug.
  • Do NOT require assume-identity gating on codepaths that never set assume_identity_authorised_workspace_db_id.
  • The deduct_api_key convention deliberately reveals a 2-char prefix+postfix for keys ≥ 8 chars (*** only, below that) — that is the intended redaction, not a leak.
  • SSRF / user-supplied-URL validation is owned by review-topic-input-boundary-security — cross-ref it, do not review it here.

Standards

S1 — Fail-closed authorization. In check_authorization_serverless, an ambiguous outcome (unexpected get_serverless_usage_check_async.status_code, upstream 5xx, timeout, missing field) must deny the request, not admit it. The current branches handle 200 (authorize), 401 (unauthorized), 402 (credits) and return explicitly; any other status falls through to call_next — a fail-open bug that silently grants free inference and is invisible in normal traffic (PR #2528 restored the deny-and-no-cache contract; PR #2529 reverted it, so treat reverts here as High-risk needing explicit justification).

S2 — Missing credential ⇒ 401. api_key is read from both query params and JSON body; when None, return 401 immediately (_authorization_error_response(401, ...) / _unauthorized_response(...)), never a pass-through, and never store/act on usage for a missing key (PR #772).

S3 — Cache correctness. The serverless path keys cached_api_keys on AuthorizationCacheKey = (api_key, enforce_credits_verification); the local-deployment path keys on api_key. Never widen to a key that could serve tenant A's grant to tenant B. Denials are cached under SHORT_AUTH_CACHE_TTL_SECONDS; ambiguous/error results are NOT cached at all (PR #772).

S4 — Unauthenticated-route allowlist. The middlewares exclude a fixed list of paths (/, /docs, /info, /healthz, /readiness, /metrics, /openapi.json, /model/registry, and /workflows/blocks/describe only for GET / bodyless requests). Match is done against the raw ASGI request.scope["path"], NOT request.url.path, so a malicious Host header cannot poison the path and slip an authenticated route in (CVE-2026-48710). Any addition must be genuinely safe to expose unauthenticated; prefer exact-match over prefix-match; never add a data/inference route.

S5 — Tenant/workspace isolation. A caller's api-key must only resolve to and act on its own workspace. get_roboflow_workspace(_async) fails (WorkspaceLoadError) on an empty workspace. In check_authorization, the resolved workspace_id must be in allowed_workspaces built from DEDICATED_DEPLOYMENT_WORKSPACE_URL + WORKSPACES_WHITELISTED_FOR_LOCAL_DEPLOYMENT, else 401 (PR #988 simplified this to a pure workspace-ID match). _add_assume_identity_headers injects ASSUME_IDENTITY_ACCESS_TOKEN_HEADER / ASSUME_IDENTITY_AUTHORISED_WORKSPACE_HEADER only when BOTH ROBOFLOW_ASSUME_IDENTITY_SERVICE_ACCESS_TOKEN is set AND assume_identity_authorised_workspace_db_id is present.

S6 — No secret exposure. Secrets, api-keys, and tokens must never be logged, echoed in responses/exceptions, or persisted in clear form. Roboflow-API egress whose URL may carry api_key= must pass through api_key_safe_raise_for_status / api_key_safe_raise_for_status_aiohttp (they apply API_KEY_PATTERN → deduct_api_key) before raising/logging (PR #140, #255, #248, #188). Usage-tracking hashes keys via _calculate_api_key_hash and never stores them raw; do not mangle the hash used for usage identity (PR #772, #1831).

S7 — New secret env vars. A new *_SECRET/*_TOKEN/api-key in inference/core/env.py must default to None/unset (never a literal value), must not be printed at startup, and must not be returned by any /info-style introspection endpoint.

Key files & reference PRs

  • inference/core/interfaces/http/http_api.py — check_authorization_serverless (canonical fail-closed serverless path: 401 on missing/unauthorized key, explicit 401/402 branches, credential-scoped cached_api_keys on AuthorizationCacheKey) and check_authorization (workspace-boundary enforcement + minimal allowlist). TTLs: AUTH_CACHE_TTL_SECONDS, SHORT_AUTH_CACHE_TTL_SECONDS.
  • inference/core/roboflow_api.py — get_serverless_usage_check_async, get_roboflow_workspace(_async), _add_assume_identity_headers, assume_identity_authorised_workspace_db_id, ASSUME_IDENTITY_ACCESS_TOKEN_HEADER.
  • inference/core/utils/requests.py — api_key_safe_raise_for_status, api_key_safe_raise_for_status_aiohttp, deduct_api_key, API_KEY_PATTERN.
  • inference/core/env.py — secret/token declarations (ROBOFLOW_INTERNAL_SERVICE_SECRET, ROBOFLOW_ASSUME_IDENTITY_SERVICE_ACCESS_TOKEN, MODAL_TOKEN_SECRET, PRELOAD_API_KEY, WORKSPACES_WHITELISTED_FOR_LOCAL_DEPLOYMENT) — all default to None/unset; pattern-match new secrets against these.
  • inference/usage_tracking/collector.py — _calculate_api_key_hash, _hashed_api_keys.
  • Reference PRs: #2528 / #2529 (serverless fail-open fix + revert), #772 / #1831 (missing-key usage + hash identity), #140 / #255 / #248 / #188 (api-key redaction), #988 (workspace-ID match), #2417 (self-hosted allowlist).