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With forward_auth on, redact_forwarded_headers replaces every occurrence of
every forwarded header value in the upstream error body, guarded only by
!value.is_empty(). A one-character value therefore rewrites the body
wherever that character appears, and the result is what the caller gets:
switchyard-server reads error.message out of the redacted body and returns
it, so a 429 from Anthropic arrives as
rate limit of 4[REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED] input tokens
per minute. Retry after 3[REDACTED] seconds.
The quota and the retry delay are gone. x-stainless-retry-count: 0, which
the OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs put on every request, is enough on its own,
and every number in every non-2xx body is affected.
Require a value to be at least 16 bytes before scrubbing it. No provider
credential is shorter, and the forward_auth test's client-google-key still
gets scrubbed.
A name-based list would be more explicit than a length bound: the headers
apply_forwarded_auth actually forwards are authorization, x-api-key,
chatgpt-account-id, x-openai-fedramp and anthropic-beta. Say so and I will
rework it that way.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Voropaev <dy.voropaev@gmail.com>
WalkthroughForwarded-header redaction now replaces values only when they are at least 16 characters long. A test checks that short SDK values leave rate-limit text unchanged and that a longer API-key value is redacted. ChangesForwarded-header redaction
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Low Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Short forwarded credentials may be exposed in upstream error details when echoed. Redact recognized credential headers regardless of length, or explicitly accept this bounded risk. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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- Line 1324: Update the header-redaction logic around the MIN_REDACTED_VALUE_LEN
check so recognized credential headers, including Authorization and API-key
headers, are redacted regardless of value length; apply the length threshold
only to other headers, including when building UpstreamHttp error bodies.
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Redact credential headers even when their values are short.
With forward_auth, this condition skips Authorization or API-key values below 16 bytes. If the upstream echoes one in an error, it remains in the UpstreamHttp error body. Redact recognized credential headers regardless of value length, and apply the threshold only to other headers. This conflicts with the PR objective to redact credential-shaped values.
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Review comment at @crates/libsy-llm-client/src/client.rs at line 1324:
Update the header-redaction logic around the MIN_REDACTED_VALUE_LEN check so
recognized credential headers, including Authorization and API-key headers, are
redacted regardless of value length; apply the length threshold only to other
headers, including when building UpstreamHttp error bodies.
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forward_authon,redact_forwarded_headers(crates/libsy-llm-client/src/client.rs:1299) replaces every occurrence of every forwarded header value in the upstream error body, and the only guard is!value.is_empty():So a one-character value rewrites the body wherever that character appears. Running the helper on Anthropic's own rate-limit body with the headers an SDK actually sends:
That string is what the caller gets, not just what is logged.
client.rs:515puts it intoLlmClientError::UpstreamHttp { body, .. },switchyard-server/src/lib.rs:1318hands it toupstream_error, and that readserror.messageout of the redacted body and returns it as the client-facing message (anderror.codethe same way, so a header value overlapping a code rewrites the code too).The damage is every number in every non-2xx upstream body through a
forward_authroute: quotas, retry delays, token counts, ids.x-stainless-retry-count: 0is enough on its own, and it is the one header I would expect on literally every request from an OpenAI- or Anthropic-SDK client.The intent of the blunt replace is clear from the comment, "Unknown application headers can carry credentials when auth forwarding is enabled", and that intent is worth keeping. What is not intended is the collateral: the test that pins this,
forward_auth_preserves_anthropic_headers_and_redacts_errors, only asserts that a credential-shaped value is scrubbed, andtests/server.rs:1118only pins a deliberately plantedx-private-token. Nothing pins the benign case.So: require at least 16 bytes before scrubbing. No provider credential is shorter than that, and
client-google-keyin the existing test is 17, so it keeps being scrubbed.I would rather you chose between that and the more explicit alternative, which is a name-based list. The headers
apply_forwarded_authactually forwards areauthorization,x-api-key,chatgpt-account-id,x-openai-fedrampandanthropic-beta(backend.rs:267), so that list already exists in the crate and a redactor keyed on it would need no length bound at all. It needs the backend in the function, which is a signature change, and #821 is already changing this function's signature for truncation handling, so there is a rebase either way. Say which you prefer and I will rework it.Tested:
redaction_leaves_the_upstream_error_intact, a unit test on the helper with those three headers, asserting the quota and the retry delay survive and the credential still does not. Onmainit fails with the mangled body above.cargo test --workspace925 passed, 0 failed.cargo fmt --all --checkclean,cargo clippy -p switchyard-llm-client --all-targets -- -D warningsclean, toolchain 1.99.One thing I did not change, in case you want it in the same pass: the redactor does not skip
is_provider_owned_header, whileforward_metadata_headersdoes. A caller'santhropic-versionis dropped rather than forwarded, so it cannot have reached the provider, yet its value is still scrubbed out of the response. Harmless next to the above, and arguably even desirable, so I left it alone.Not run: nothing against a live provider. The end-to-end path is covered by the existing wiremock tests in this module, and the one I added exercises the helper the same way they reach it.
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