#622 reported "I cant even paste that hash pw and granted So auth_en
=false & localbypass= true But then the host still is showing login
page?" — the operator turned auth off in .env and still gets bounced
to /login on every page load. The flow:
The auth middleware in app.py is correctly gated on AUTH_ENABLED, so
the middleware itself does not install when AUTH_ENABLED=false. The
SPA front-end at static/app.js wraps window.fetch and redirects to
/login on ANY 401 response from any API call. So all it takes for the
operator to see a login page is one route-level 401.
src/auth_helpers.require_user — the shared FastAPI dependency mounted
on ~50 routes (email, contacts, personal, …) — was the source. It is
documented as defense-in-depth in case the middleware was bypassed
unexpectedly (SSRF from a sibling service), but the implementation
treated AUTH_ENABLED=false as one of those unexpected bypasses and
401'd anyway. The loopback fall-through that would have admitted the
operator does not fire under docker compose / a reverse proxy because
the container sees the request arriving from the bridge gateway
(172.x.x.x), not 127.0.0.1.
require_user now short-circuits to "" when AUTH_ENABLED=false so the
explicit operator opt-out reaches the route layer too. While in the
file, also mirror LOCALHOST_BYPASS=true the same way for loopback
callers — the middleware already lets them through, and routes 401'ing
the same caller would produce the same /login bounce. Non-loopback
callers under LOCALHOST_BYPASS are still rejected, matching the
middleware's _is_trusted_loopback check.
Add three focused regression tests in tests/test_security_regressions.py:
docker-bridge caller is admitted under AUTH_ENABLED=false, loopback
caller is admitted under LOCALHOST_BYPASS=true, LAN caller under
LOCALHOST_BYPASS=true is still rejected. The existing
test_require_user_rejects_unauthenticated and
test_require_user_accepts_loopback_when_unconfigured tests continue to
pass because neither sets AUTH_ENABLED, so the AUTH_ENABLED=true
default path is unchanged.
Closes#622.
POSTing to the per-task webhook URL shown in the Tasks UI returned 401
Unauthorized even though the URL is labelled "no auth needed". The
trigger handler at routes/task_routes.py:873 (`POST
/api/tasks/{task_id}/webhook/{token}`) was written as an
unauthenticated endpoint — the 32-byte path-embedded `webhook_token`
generated by `secrets.token_urlsafe(32)` is the credential, and the
handler validates it against the row before doing anything. But
AuthMiddleware in app.py runs first and only knows about
AUTH_EXEMPT_EXACT (static path set) and AUTH_EXEMPT_PREFIXES (only
`/static`), so every external POST (curl, Zapier, n8n, Make,
Activepieces) got rejected before the route ever saw the request.
External callers can't supply a session cookie, which is precisely
why the per-task token exists.
Fix: add an AUTH_EXEMPT_PATTERNS list of compiled regexes for dynamic
public paths and route `^/api/tasks/[^/]+/webhook/[^/]+/?$` through
it. The route handler still enforces `ScheduledTask.webhook_token ==
token` and 404s on mismatch, so an attacker without the token gets a
404 (indistinguishable from a non-existent task), and a holder of the
token gets the documented "POST and a task fires" behaviour. The
sibling endpoint `/{task_id}/webhook-regenerate` is admin-gated and
deliberately does NOT match the pattern — it requires `_owner(request)`
and a session.
Tests: tests/test_webhook_trigger_auth_exempt.py extracts the regex
list out of app.py, applies it to a representative trigger path
(positive) and the four neighbouring task paths that must stay
authenticated (negative — `/api/tasks`, `/api/tasks/{id}`,
`/api/tasks/{id}/webhook-regenerate`, `/api/tasks/{id}/run`), and
pins the handler-side token check so a refactor of the route doesn't
quietly turn the endpoint into a truly anonymous one.
Closes#621.
The 600s wall-clock cap in research_handler.start_research was too short
for local / edge LLMs to finish a deep-research synthesis — long
extraction passes plus a slow final report routinely blew past 10
minutes and the run was killed with partial results.
Introduce research_run_timeout_seconds (default 1800s = 30 min) in
DEFAULT_SETTINGS and resolve it at start_research entry when the caller
hasn't pinned hard_timeout. Bound the resolved value at [60, 86400] so a
misconfigured settings.json can't either disable the safety net or
explode into a multi-day hang. Existing call sites in research_routes.py
and chat_routes.py keep working unchanged — they don't pass hard_timeout
and now pick up the new default.
Closes#595.
The /api/chat/stream_status handler did a membership test against
_active_streams followed by an indexed read of the same key. Between
those two ops, a sibling stream's finally block (or a stop / cleanup
path) can pop the entry, turning the indexed read into a KeyError that
bubbles up as a 500. The race is the exact one _stream_set was already
written to avoid; the comment on the helper at the top of the module
spells out why a single .get() is the right pattern here too.
Collapse the two-step into a single .get() call so the lookup either
returns the live record or None, and report 'detached' / 404 based on
that single read. No behavior change on the happy path; the failure
mode under concurrent stream cleanup is now handled deterministically.
Closes#658.
A fresh `docker compose up -d` shows the searxng container failing its
healthcheck with permission errors at setup (reported in #721 — the
service comes up under names like `odysseus_searxng_1` and never goes
ready, which then blocks the main odysseus container because of the
`depends_on: searxng: condition: service_healthy` gate).
Root cause: the official `searxng/searxng:latest` image runs as the
non-root `searxng` user but its entrypoint still needs to
1. chown /etc/searxng on first boot so the persisted named volume is
owned by the searxng user inside the container,
2. su-exec to drop / re-assert privileges before launching uwsgi, and
3. let our wrapper entrypoint (which seeds settings.yml into the named
volume on first boot) write the file through the volume mount.
Without explicit `cap_add`, the container has neither CHOWN nor
DAC_OVERRIDE nor SETUID/SETGID, so the entrypoint aborts at the first
chown / su-exec / redirection with EACCES. The upstream searxng-docker
compose file solves this with the standard "drop everything, grant only
what's needed" capability pattern.
Fix: mirror the upstream cap_drop ALL / cap_add CHOWN, SETGID, SETUID,
DAC_OVERRIDE on the searxng service. This grants only the four caps the
entrypoint actually needs, matches what searxng-docker ships with, and
leaves ports, volumes, env, healthcheck, and the wrapper entrypoint
unchanged.
Closes#721.
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