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BackendError.original_exception / __cause__ deliberately retains the raw provider exception for programmatic access, and that text can embed the cache key. The SDK never renders it (no logger.exception/exc_info= in src/cachekit/), but application code that logs a caught exception's traceback still can. SECURITY.md now states the boundary and the redact_error_for_log mitigation; no mirrored surface exists on docs.cachekit.io.
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WalkthroughThe cache-key redaction guidance now covers retained provider exceptions and chained causes. It identifies application logging, the shipped formatter, and APM or error-tracking handling as possible exposure paths. It recommends redacted exception logging or clearing all three exception references. ChangesCache-key redaction guidance
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…_cause__ The traceback-scope guidance told operators to scrub `__cause__` before handing a BackendError to an error tracker, but the same paragraph documents that `BackendError.original_exception` also retains the raw provider exception. An error/APM SDK that serialises exception attributes would capture the provider text (and any embedded key) from `original_exception` even with `__cause__` cleared. Widen the guidance to scrub both. CodeRabbit-Resolved: SECURITY.md:194:sanitize or remove BackendError.original_exception
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…onFormatter The guarantee that "no cachekit.* log line renders a traceback" scopes to cachekit's own logging calls. cachekit also ships JsonFormatter, which renders any supplied record.exc_info via traceback.format_exception — so an application that wires JsonFormatter and logs a BackendError with exc_info renders the chained cause and its raw key, exactly like the other application paths. Note that path explicitly so the guarantee is not read as covering the shipped formatter. CodeRabbit-Resolved: SECURITY.md:194:Qualify the traceback guarantee to internal cachekit logging paths
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…rence (LAB-3796) `raise classify_*(exc) from exc` inside the handling `except` sets `__context__` as well as `__cause__`, so the tracker-submission guidance that cleared only `__cause__` and `original_exception` still left the raw provider text reachable to attribute-walking SDKs. Name all three and lead with the robust option: submit a freshly constructed sanitised exception.
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| Cache keys can embed caller-supplied tenant/user identifiers, so **the SDK's own loggers** (`cachekit.*`) never emit them verbatim ([CWE-532][cwe-532]). Every cachekit log path — decorator error handling (structured and backwards-compat), cache-operation logs, and SWR/TTL-refresh debug logs — replaces the key with a fixed-length blake2b digest (`<redacted:…>`), keeping log lines correlatable without leaking the key. Error paths are covered centrally at the shared error sink (`FeatureOrchestrator.handle_cache_error` / `log_cache_operation`), so new call sites are redacted by construction. Both structured cache-operation sinks (`FeatureOrchestrator.log_cache_operation`, `UltraOptimizedStructuredLogger.cache_operation`) also sanitise an exception passed as `error=` themselves — pass the exception object, never `str(e)`, which is emitted as-is. `BackendError` redacts the key in its formatted text (`str(e)` carries `key=<redacted:…>`), while the `.key` attribute keeps the raw caller-supplied key for programmatic use — never log `e.key`. Its free-form `message` is caller-supplied and third-party exception text (a redis `ResponseError` naming the key, a pymemcache illegal-input error echoing it) has unknown provenance — so **no cachekit log line renders `str(e)`**. Every logging call that mentions an exception goes through `redact_error_for_log`, which emits only the exception type plus, for `BackendError`, its `BackendErrorType` classification; the full exception stays on the object (`original_exception`, `.message`) for programmatic access. Operators lose the provider's message text in the log line and keep it on the exception. An architecture test (`tests/unit/test_log_redaction_architecture.py`) walks every logging call in the package — `logger.*()`, `get_logger().*()`, `getattr(logger, level)()` — and fails CI if a key-shaped value reaches one unredacted in the message, `%s` arguments, or `extra=`; if an exception — any name bound by `except ... as`, a conventional name (`e`, `exc`, `err`, `error`, `*_err`), or an attribute of one — reaches one outside `redact_error_for_log`; or if a call emits a traceback (`logger.exception`, `exc_info=`). The guarantee does not depend on the next contributor remembering it. It is flow-insensitive: build log lines inline, not via a pre-formatted variable, and bind exceptions with `except ... as` or a conventional name (an `Exception`-typed parameter called `failure` is invisible to it), or the guard cannot see them. | ||
| Cache keys can embed caller-supplied tenant/user identifiers, so **the SDK's own loggers** (`cachekit.*`) never emit them verbatim ([CWE-532][cwe-532]). Every cachekit log path — decorator error handling (structured and backwards-compat), cache-operation logs, and SWR/TTL-refresh debug logs — replaces the key with a fixed-length blake2b digest (`<redacted:…>`), keeping log lines correlatable without leaking the key. Error paths are covered centrally at the shared error sink (`FeatureOrchestrator.handle_cache_error` / `log_cache_operation`), so new call sites are redacted by construction. Both structured cache-operation sinks (`FeatureOrchestrator.log_cache_operation`, `UltraOptimizedStructuredLogger.cache_operation`) also sanitise an exception passed as `error=` themselves — pass the exception object, never `str(e)`, which is emitted as-is. `BackendError` redacts the key in its formatted text (`str(e)` carries `key=<redacted:…>`), while the `.key` attribute keeps the raw caller-supplied key for programmatic use — never log `e.key` (see below for the same caution applied to `e`'s traceback). Its free-form `message` is caller-supplied and third-party exception text (a redis `ResponseError` naming the key, a pymemcache illegal-input error echoing it) has unknown provenance — so **no cachekit log line renders `str(e)`**. Every logging call that mentions an exception goes through `redact_error_for_log`, which emits only the exception type plus, for `BackendError`, its `BackendErrorType` classification; the full exception stays on the object (`original_exception`, `.message`) for programmatic access. Operators lose the provider's message text in the log line and keep it on the exception. An architecture test (`tests/unit/test_log_redaction_architecture.py`) walks every logging call in the package — `logger.*()`, `get_logger().*()`, `getattr(logger, level)()` — and fails CI if a key-shaped value reaches one unredacted in the message, `%s` arguments, or `extra=`; if an exception — any name bound by `except ... as`, a conventional name (`e`, `exc`, `err`, `error`, `*_err`), or an attribute of one — reaches one outside `redact_error_for_log`; or if a call emits a traceback (`logger.exception`, `exc_info=`). The guarantee does not depend on the next contributor remembering it. It is flow-insensitive: build log lines inline, not via a pre-formatted variable, and bind exceptions with `except ... as` or a conventional name (an `Exception`-typed parameter called `failure` is invisible to it), or the guard cannot see them. | ||
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| **Scope — application-rendered tracebacks are not covered.** `BackendError.original_exception` (and the `from exc` chain that sets `__cause__`) deliberately keeps the original provider exception for programmatic access, and that exception's own text can embed the raw key — a pymemcache `MemcacheIllegalInputError` echoing an oversized key, a redis `ResponseError` naming it, or an httpx error string carrying the CachekitIO request path. cachekit itself never renders that text: no `cachekit.*` log line calls `logger.exception()` or passes `exc_info=`, so the SDK never prints a traceback, which is the same architecture test enforcing the guarantee above. That guarantee scopes to cachekit's own logging *calls*, not to the `JsonFormatter` cachekit ships (`cachekit.logging.JsonFormatter`): that formatter renders whatever `record.exc_info` a caller supplies via `traceback.format_exception`, so wiring it into your application's logging and emitting a `BackendError` with `exc_info` set renders the chained cause and its raw key exactly like the application paths below. The remaining path is your own logging code: if application code catches a `BackendError` and calls `logger.exception(e)`, sets `exc_info=True`, calls `traceback.format_exc()`, or hands the exception to an APM/error-tracking SDK, the rendered traceback includes the chained cause and its raw key. Log `redact_error_for_log(e)` (`from cachekit.hash_utils import redact_error_for_log`) or `type(e).__name__` instead of the traceback for a cachekit exception. If you must hand the exception itself to an error/APM tracker, submit a freshly constructed exception carrying only `redact_error_for_log(e)`; failing that, clear **all three** references to the provider exception on `e` first — `__cause__`, `__context__`, and `BackendError.original_exception`. The backends raise the classified `BackendError` from inside the `except` block that caught the provider exception, so Python sets `__context__` as well as `__cause__`; clearing `__cause__` alone hides the provider text from `traceback` but leaves it reachable to an SDK that walks exception attributes, and `original_exception` is a third reference. |
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This PR adds documentation to
SECURITY.mdclarifying a gap in the cache key redaction guarantee: application-rendered tracebacks are not covered by cachekit's automatic redaction.What Changed
New scope section on traceback redaction explaining that while cachekit's own loggers never render exception tracebacks,
BackendError.original_exception(and the__cause__chain set viafrom exc) intentionally preserves the original provider exception for programmatic access — and that exception's text may embed the raw cache key (e.g., a pymemcacheMemcacheIllegalInputErrorechoing an oversized key, a redisResponseErrornaming it, or an httpx error carrying the request path).Warns about the uncovered path: if application code catches a
BackendErrorand callslogger.exception(e), setsexc_info=True, callstraceback.format_exc(), or hands the exception to an APM/error-tracking SDK, the rendered traceback will leak the raw key via the chained cause.Provides remediation guidance: log
redact_error_for_log(e)ortype(e).__name__instead of the traceback, or scrub__cause__before handing the exception to an error tracker.Adds a cross-reference in the existing "never log
e.key" caution pointing to this new traceback section.Why
This closes a documentation gap (LAB-3796). cachekit's architecture test enforces that the SDK never emits a traceback, but that guarantee ends at the boundary of application code. Operators need to know that catching cachekit exceptions and rendering them via their own logging or observability tooling can still leak caller-supplied identifiers embedded in cache keys.
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This is a documentation-only change — no code behavior is modified.
Summary
This PR updates
SECURITY.mdto close a documentation gap regarding traceback redaction guidance forBackendErrorexceptions.What Changed
The existing security guidance already warned that application-rendered tracebacks can leak raw cache keys through the chained cause (
__cause__) of aBackendError. This change extends that guidance to also coverBackendError.original_exception.Previously, the docs advised users to "scrub
__cause__before handing it to an error tracker." The updated text now instructs users to scrub both the chained cause (__cause__) andBackendError.original_exceptionbefore passing the exception to an error/APM tracker.Why
The prior guidance was incomplete. Even if
__cause__is cleared, an APM or error-tracking SDK that serializes exception attributes can still capture the raw provider text — and any embedded cache key — fromoriginal_exception. This closes a gap where following the documented scrubbing advice would not fully prevent key leakage.Impact
Summary
This PR updates
SECURITY.mdto document an additional traceback redaction gap involving theJsonFormatterthat cachekit ships (cachekit.logging.JsonFormatter).Details
The existing security documentation already described how application-rendered tracebacks fall outside cachekit's key-redaction guarantee. This change adds an important clarification: the architecture-test guarantee only covers cachekit's own logging calls, not the
JsonFormatterthe SDK ships.The new text explains that:
JsonFormatterrenders whateverrecord.exc_infoa caller supplies viatraceback.format_exception.BackendErrorwithexc_infoset, the formatter will render the chained cause (and any raw key it embeds) — behaving exactly like the other application-side leakage paths already documented.Purpose
This closes a documentation gap (LAB-3796) by warning operators that using cachekit's own
JsonFormatterdoes not automatically redact keys from tracebacks, helping prevent accidental leakage of caller-supplied identifiers ([CWE-532]) in application logs.This is a documentation-only change; no functional code was modified.
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This PR updates
SECURITY.mdto document a security gap inBackendErrortraceback redaction (LAB-3796), clarifying that provider exception text remains reachable through multiple exception references even after partial cleanup.Changes
Documented additional sanitization at structured logging sinks: Clarified that both
FeatureOrchestrator.log_cache_operationandUltraOptimizedStructuredLogger.cache_operationsanitise exceptions passed viaerror=, and warned callers to pass the exception object rather thanstr(e), which would be emitted as-is.Expanded guidance on scrubbing exceptions for APM/error trackers: The previous guidance instructed operators to scrub two references (
__cause__andBackendError.original_exception). The updated text explains that this is insufficient and now recommends either:redact_error_for_log(e), or__cause__,__context__, andoriginal_exception.Why
The documentation change corrects an incomplete redaction recommendation. Because backends raise the classified
BackendErrorfrom inside theexceptblock that caught the provider exception, Python sets__context__in addition to__cause__. Clearing only__cause__hides the provider text from traceback rendering but leaves the raw provider text (and any embedded raw cache key) reachable via__context__andoriginal_exceptionfor any SDK that walks exception attributes. The updated documentation ensures operators fully scrub sensitive key material before handing cachekit exceptions to third-party error-tracking systems (CWE-532).This is a documentation-only change; no functional code was modified.
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