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Summary

Address the three OAuth2 limitations described in #12512:

  1. Increase the maximum response buffer size from 4 KiB to 64 KiB. The limit includes HTTP headers and the response body. The buffer still grows on demand.
  2. Grow the JSON parser's token array on demand. Keep the initial capacity of 32 tokens and double it when needed, allowing responses with more fields or nested structures to be parsed.
  3. Add optional oauth2.authorization_details and oauth2.authorization_details_file settings. They are mutually exclusive, and the configured value is sent as a form-body parameter on token requests. Files are read once during context initialization and reused on refresh.

The PR also fixes a pre-existing form-encoding issue found while adding authorization details. The URI encoder used for OAuth2 form values leaves literal & characters unescaped, but & separates fields in a form body. A value containing R&D, for example, can therefore be split into separate fields instead of reaching the server intact. The OAuth2 request builder now escapes & as %26 in all form values, covering both authorization_details and existing parameters.

Changes are limited to shared OAuth2 code and internal tests. Existing configurations require no changes.

Fixes #12512.


Testing

  • Provide configuration examples for the new options (below and in oauth2-authorization-details.yaml).

  • Provide debug-level test logs (captured in oauth2-debug-logs.txt).

  • Provide Valgrind memory-check results (below).

  • [N/A] Test binary/container packaging: no packaging changes.

  • [N/A] Request the maintainer's ok-package-test label: no packaging changes.

Configuration

Set one of the following options within an existing OAuth2-enabled output. Replace the example JSON with the authorization details your provider accepts.

oauth2.authorization_details: |-
  [
    {
      "type": "example",
      "name": "R&D"
    }
  ]

Alternatively, store the JSON in a file and replace the inline setting with:

oauth2.authorization_details_file: /etc/fluent-bit/authorization-details.json

The options are mutually exclusive. Files are read once at context initialization.

Verification

Linux: 14 selected internal CTest suites and 8 HTTP/OpenTelemetry OAuth2 integration cases passed, including the integration cases under strict Valgrind.

100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 14
Total Test time (real) =   2.95 sec

Normal:   8 passed, 47 deselected in 52.97s
Valgrind: 8 passed, 47 deselected in 75.37s

Both flb-it-oauth2 and flb-it-oauth2_jwt also passed Valgrind and reported:

LEAK SUMMARY:
   definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
   indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
     possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
   still reachable: 112 bytes in 2 blocks
        suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)

The still-reachable allocations are from OpenSSL initialization.

Documentation

  • These options need documentation updates (not included in this PR).

Backporting

  • [N/A] Apply these changes to a stable release branch: this PR targets master.

Fluent Bit is licensed under Apache 2.0, by submitting this pull request I understand that this code will be released under the terms of that license.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • OAuth2 configuration now supports providing authorization details inline or from a file. The details are included in token requests, including forced-refresh requests.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of token responses, including larger JSON payloads and form values containing ampersands.
    • Invalid or oversized token responses are rejected without replacing existing token state.

Increase the maximum HTTP response buffer size to 64 KiB and grow the
JSON token array on demand.

Signed-off-by: Danilo Trninić <danilo.trninic@databricks.com>
Add boundary tests for the 64 KiB response limit and exercise JSON token
buffer growth, including malformed input after growth and invalid sizes.

Signed-off-by: Danilo Trninić <danilo.trninic@databricks.com>
Add optional inline and file-based authorization details to token requests.
Reject conflicting options and cache file contents for token refreshes.

Signed-off-by: Danilo Trninić <danilo.trninic@databricks.com>
Cover omitted, inline, and file-based values in initial and refreshed
token requests. Verify cached file contents and rejection of conflicting
options and missing files.

Signed-off-by: Danilo Trninić <danilo.trninic@databricks.com>
Prevent ampersands in values from being treated as form field separators.

Signed-off-by: Danilo Trninić <danilo.trninic@databricks.com>
Signed-off-by: Danilo Trninić <danilo.trninic@databricks.com>
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Walkthrough

OAuth2 configuration now accepts authorization details inline or from a file and adds them to token requests. The JSON response parser grows its token buffer with size checks, and token-request HTTP clients use a 64 KiB response buffer. Tests cover configuration, parsing, and response-size boundaries.

Changes

OAuth2 token handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure and send authorization details
include/fluent-bit/flb_oauth2.h, src/flb_oauth2.c, tests/internal/oauth2.c
OAuth2 configuration accepts mutually exclusive inline and file-based authorization details. The file is read during configuration cloning, and the effective value is added to token request form data. Tests cover initialization, initial and forced-refresh requests, and file-backed values.
Grow JSON parsing and response capacity
src/flb_oauth2.c, tests/internal/oauth2.c
The JSON parser grows its token array and checks input size and allocation limits. Token requests use a 64 KiB response buffer. Tests cover token-array growth, malformed and oversized input, and response-size boundaries.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OAuth2Config
  participant flb_oauth2_config_clone
  participant oauth2_append_kv
  participant OAuth2HTTPClient
  participant TokenEndpoint
  OAuth2Config->>flb_oauth2_config_clone: provide inline value or file path
  flb_oauth2_config_clone->>flb_oauth2_config_clone: read file into effective value when configured
  flb_oauth2_config_clone->>oauth2_append_kv: provide authorization_details form value
  oauth2_append_kv->>OAuth2HTTPClient: return encoded request body
  OAuth2HTTPClient->>TokenEndpoint: send token request
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 12dc9

A zero-byte authorization-details file may cause token requests to fail only after startup. Rejecting it during initialization would make the configuration error immediate; the remaining risk is bounded to that configuration.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 12dc9

Deeply nested token responses can now consume excessive CPU and delay authentication. Exploitation requires control of the configured token server or interception of an unprotected connection. Response sizes remain capped, and configuration validation and form encoding provide important controls.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The larger response allowance and dynamic token growth admit deeply nested JSON that drives quadratic parser work while the authentication refresh lock is held. The previous 32-token limit rejected such responses early. A compromised token endpoint, or an interceptor where HTTP is configured, can therefore consume substantial CPU and delay users of the affected OAuth2 context despite the response-byte cap.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The parser concern is reachable through token responses for shared OAuth2 consumers, not through the internal test functions classified as public entrypoints. Its directly supported scope is CPU consumption during refresh and delayed authentication for the affected context. Multiple contexts contacting a controlled issuer could inherit the condition, but deployment-wide or cross-tenant exposure is not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A responder controlling the configured token endpoint can return a small valid token object with an extra field containing tens of thousands of nested arrays. Dynamic growth allows parsing to reach their closing brackets, where repeated parent-chain walks produce quadratic work while refresh remains locked. The base parser exhausted its 32-token allocation before reaching this expensive phase. Exploitation and elapsed processing time were not measured.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Authorization details originate in output configuration and enter a cloned OAuth2 context. Conflicting sources and file-read failures reject initialization, and the inspected production consumers propagate constructor failure. The loader reads file contents as text without local JSON-schema or path-policy enforcement.
  • observed — The destination remains the configured token URL. Existing setup permits HTTP or HTTPS and initializes TLS verification for HTTPS; this PR does not add a separate destination or alter that transport selection. HTTPS limits interception but does not constrain responses from a compromised trusted issuer.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Initialization failures clean cloned configuration, destruction releases the authorization-details snapshot, and request-construction failures discard the incomplete body. These ownership controls contain partial initialization and allocation failures, but do not bound nested-response parsing work.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bound JSON nesting or parsing work independently of response bytes, or use a closing-container implementation that avoids repeated walks from the last token. Preserve support for larger legitimate responses while preventing adversarial nesting from monopolizing refresh processing.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 26 functions across 3 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed [ #12512 ] The shared OAuth2 token client now uses a 64 KiB response limit, including headers and body, while retaining on-demand growth. The JSON parser grows its JSMN token array on capacity errors …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The reported changes are connected to [ #12512 ]. The form-encoding fix ensures authorization-details values and existing OAuth2 form values containing & reach the server as single parameter values.…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main changes: authorization-details support and larger OAuth2 token responses.
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if (src->authorization_details) {
dst->authorization_details = flb_sds_create(src->authorization_details);
if (!dst->authorization_details) {
flb_errno();
flb_oauth2_config_destroy(dst);
return -1;
}
}
else if (src->authorization_details_file) {
dst->authorization_details = flb_file_read(src->authorization_details_file);
if (!dst->authorization_details) {
flb_error("[oauth2] cannot read authorization details file '%s'",
src->authorization_details_file);
flb_oauth2_config_destroy(dst);
return -1;
}
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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sed -n '1080,1140p' src/flb_oauth2.c
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printf '%s\n' '--- flb_file_read ---'
sed -n '1,125p' src/flb_file.c
printf '%s\n' '--- OAuth2 append and initialization bindings ---'
rg -n 'oauth2_append_kv|oauth2_build_body|oauth2_clone_config|flb_oauth2_context|authorization_details_file|authorization_details' src/flb_oauth2.c include/fluent-bit/flb_oauth2.h plugins
printf '%s\n' '--- OAuth2 source blocks ---'
sed -n '1,210p' src/flb_oauth2.c
sed -n '1120,1330p' src/flb_oauth2.c
printf '%s\n' '--- authorization details documentation ---'
rg -n -i -C 3 'authorization.details|authorization_details_file' docs include plugins tests || test "$?" -eq 1

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printf '%s\n' '--- SDS size allocation ---'
rg -n 'flb_sds_create_size\(' src include
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sed -n '670,730p' src/flb_oauth2.c
printf '%s\n' '--- create-from-config ---'
sed -n '1315,1395p' src/flb_oauth2.c
printf '%s\n' '--- authorization-details tests ---'
sed -n '700,745p' tests/internal/oauth2.c
sed -n '1238,1400p' tests/internal/oauth2.c
printf '%s\n' '--- source excerpt line numbers ---'
nl -ba src/flb_file.c | sed -n '25,72p'
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printf '%s\n' '--- configuration clone completion ---'
sed -n '318,390p' src/flb_oauth2.c
printf '%s\n' '--- URI encoder ---'
rg -n 'flb_uri_encode\(' src/flb_uri.c include/fluent-bit/flb_uri.h
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Reject zero-byte authorization-details files.

Configuration cloning accepts a readable zero-byte file as an empty SDS. The token-body builder then sends authorization_details=. The token endpoint may reject this empty, non-JSON value when the first token is requested. Reject zero-length content during cloning:

🐛 Suggested fix
-        if (!dst->authorization_details) {
+        if (!dst->authorization_details ||
+            flb_sds_len(dst->authorization_details) == 0) {
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Review comment at @src/flb_oauth2.c around lines 310 - 327:
In the authorization_details_file branch, reject content that is missing or has
zero length after flb_file_read; destroy dst and return -1 for either case,
preserving the existing failure handling.

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Configuration example and test evidence:

  • oauth2-authorization-details.yaml: examples of configuration using inline and file-based authorization details.
  • oauth2-debug-logs.txt: complete OAuth2 suite results, Valgrind results, and representative debug-level integration logs.
    oauth2-authorization-details.yaml
    oauth2-debug-logs.txt

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