Deep link: ecency://auth-request signs the user in to another app - #3544
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Another app opens ecency://auth-request?callback=...&request_id=... and, after the user confirms, Ecency comes back on the callback with the username and a login proof: a code signed with the posting key for key-based accounts (what makeHsCode builds, for ecency.app), or the account's HiveSigner access token otherwise. No key leaves Ecency. Refusals come back as status=error with a code. The parser has tests.
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PR Summary by QodoAdd proof-based auth-request deep link
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| await _openCallback(callback, requestId, responsePayload); | ||
| return; | ||
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| successPayload.access_token = accessToken; |
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For every HiveSigner/HiveAuth or token-only account, this sends the existing HiveSigner access token to an arbitrary callback. This is a reusable posting-scoped bearer credential—the repository uses the same token for HiveSigner broadcasts—not merely an identity proof, so even an honest integrating app receives authority to post or vote as the user and can retain that authority beyond this sign-in. Return a one-time, audience-bound assertion or exchange code instead of Ecency's stored access token.
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| const requesterLabel = | ||
| request.app !== 'another app' ? request.app : _getRequesterLabel(callback); |
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A crafted deep link can set app to any trusted-looking name while directing callback to an attacker-controlled scheme, and the confirmation then hides the actual recipient entirely. For example, app=Honeyback&callback=evil://collect tells the user Honeyback is requesting access but delivers the credential to evil://collect; always display the callback-derived identity (or cryptographically bind and verify the supplied app identity).
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| await _openCallback(callback, requestId, responsePayload); | ||
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| const digitPinCode = pinCode ? getDigitPinCode(pinCode) : ''; |
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When PIN locking is enabled (isPinCodeOpen is true), pinCode is still populated with the encrypted unlock PIN, so this line decrypts it using the application key and the pin_required branch is never reached. Unlike the existing Hive-URI path, the new handler never navigates through the PIN screen, allowing an auth request to generate a signature or export a bearer token without the configured PIN challenge; gate this operation on isPinCodeOpen and resume it only from a successful PIN callback.
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| const accessToken = userData.accessToken | ||
| ? decryptKey(userData.accessToken, digitPinCode) | ||
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For token-only accounts that have remained signed in past the stored token's expiry, this decrypts and returns the stale token, so the receiving app cannot authenticate even though Ecency still has the refresh token needed to renew it. The repository's refreshSCToken helper already handles renewal and expiry fallback; use its returned encrypted token before decrypting the credential for this response.
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This adds user-approved authentication proofs for external deep links, but unverified custom callback destinations can receive those proofs and may misrepresent the destination to users. Unsupported callback handling may also expose proof-bearing URLs in logs, so callback identity and failure handling should be resolved before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CallerApp
participant useLinkProcessor
participant LocalStorage
participant CallbackURL
CallerApp->>useLinkProcessor: ecency://auth-request deeplink
useLinkProcessor->>CallerApp: localized confirmation request
useLinkProcessor->>LocalStorage: load and decrypt posting or active key
LocalStorage-->>useLinkProcessor: signing key or keyless account state
useLinkProcessor->>CallbackURL: login proof or use_hivesigner response
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300-300: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winSensitive Data Exposure (CWE-532): Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
Reachability: External · Exploitability: Difficult
Remove credential-bearing callback URLs from logs.
_openCallbacklogsparsedCallbackUrl, which can containaccess_token, when callback support checks fail or returnfalse. Log only the scheme or a redacted URL.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/utils/authRequest.ts`:
- Line 50: Update the authorization request handling around the app and callback
parameters so the callback URI is validated against a registered or
platform-verified URI bound to the requesting client identity, rather than
trusting the attacker-controlled app label. Reject requests whose callback is
missing, unregistered, or mismatched before sending any login code or access
token, while preserving the existing prompt labeling behavior.
- Around line 35-38: Update the callback validation in the auth request handler
around the callback URL selection to reject HTTP callbacks before appending or
sharing access_token; allow only HTTPS web URLs, and validate custom app schemes
through a separate verified allowlist or policy before opening them.
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In `@src/hooks/useLinkProcessor.tsx`:
- Line 300: Update _openCallback so its unsupported-device warning does not log
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| callback, | ||
| requestId: url.searchParams.get('request_id'), | ||
| username: username || null, | ||
| app: (url.searchParams.get('app') || '').trim() || 'another app', |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
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Reachability: External · Exploitability: Moderate
Bind the callback to a verified requester identity.
app is attacker-controlled and only labels the approval prompt, while callback independently controls where the login code or access token is sent. Require a registered or platform-verified callback URI bound to the client identity.
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In `@src/utils/authRequest.ts` at line 50, Update the authorization request
handling around the app and callback parameters so the callback URI is validated
against a registered or platform-verified URI bound to the requesting client
identity, rather than trusting the attacker-controlled app label. Reject
requests whose callback is missing, unregistered, or mismatched before sending
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The user confirms before any answer leaves; the requester shown is the callback itself, never a caller-supplied name; refusals name no account; accounts without a posting key here (HiveSigner, HiveAuth) are answered use_hivesigner instead of handing over the stored token; the PIN screen gates the credential when PIN lock is on; http and page-scheme callbacks are rejected; an unexpected throw answers internal_error; one confirm helper serves both shares.
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- Line 41: Update the callback protocol validation to allow only https: and
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Any app scheme or https may receive the answer, since the user sees the raw callback as the requester and must approve it; plain-text transports, page schemes, messaging handlers and Android intent URIs may not.
A code is what login exchanges for the account's HiveSigner tokens, so it is more than a proof of who the user is. The answer is now a message typed login for ecency.app that names the callback's origin as its audience: HiveSigner's /api/me answers it, its token and broadcast routes refuse it, and games-api already accepts the type. An account signed in with its active key alone signs with that key. A username must be a Hive account name, here and on ecency://login, so nothing a caller writes reaches the confirmation. Callbacks to ecency: and hive: are refused. The prompts are translated strings.
The normalisation of ecency://sign/ to hive://, detection against the auth-request and login links, and getFormattedTx on operations the hive-uri library encodes: signer fill, authority refusal, amount formatting, multiple and unknown operations.
Only the username and a sign-in proof are shared and no key leaves Ecency; what a receiver can do with the proof elsewhere is not the prompt's to promise.
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A deep link for other apps (first user: the Honeyback game) to sign a player in with their Ecency account without any key or token leaving Ecency.
status=success&username=<u>&code=<proof>&request_id=<id>. The proof is whatmakeHsLoginProofbuilds: a HiveSigner-style message signed with the account's posting key (or its active key, for an account signed in with that alone), typedloginforecency.app, naming the callback's origin (honeyback://hive,https://games-api.ecency.com) as itsaudience. HiveSigner's/api/meanswers it with the account; its token route, its broadcast route and Ecency's code exchange refuse it, so unlike a HiveSigner code it cannot become a token or an operation. Receivers verify the signature against the account's keys on chain or through/api/me, and check the timestamp themselves. games-api already accepts thelogintype and ignoresaudience.status=error&error=<code>&request_id=<id>and never name an account:user_cancelled,not_logged_in,pin_required,use_hivesigner(the account signed in through HiveSigner or HiveAuth, so there is no key here to sign with and the stored token is a signing credential, not a proof),internal_error.callback(alsoredirect_uri/return_url) may be an app scheme or https; plain-text transports (http, ftp, ws), page schemes (javascript, data, file, blob, about), messaging handlers (mailto, tel, sms), Android intent URIs and our own schemes (ecency, hive) are rejected before anything happens.usernamepicks one of the signed-in accounts and must be a Hive account name; without it the current account is used, the normal case since the asking app doesn't know the name.ecency://login, which hands over the raw posting key and only works for key-based accounts, this route hands over a proof, and it tells token-based accounts to use HiveSigner directly.ecency://logingains the same account-name check on itsusername; the Waves app, its one caller, sends valid names.deep_link.Files:
src/utils/authRequest.ts(matcher, callback check, audience, parser; tests),src/utils/hive-signer-helper.ts(makeHsLoginProofnext tomakeHsCode, which is unchanged; tests),src/hooks/useLinkProcessor.tsx(the handler next to the login one, wired intohandleLink; the two consent prompts share one helper),src/utils/hive-uri.test.ts(tests for the untouched Hive URI parser, pinning that signing links and auth requests stay apart).Review response
appparameter is no longer read or shown; the prompt names the callback (scheme, host, path), so the user sees where the answer goes.not_foundfolded intonot_logged_infor the same reason.use_hivesigner. That also removes the token expiry and refresh concerns.makeHsCodecode, which is what login exchanges for the account's HiveSigner tokens. The answer is now thelogin-typed message with an audience described above;makeHsCodeis unchanged and a test pins its shape._handleHiveUridoes, before touching the stored key.internal_errorfrom their catch.usernamemust be a Hive account name, on this route and onecency://login; anything else invalidates the request, so nothing a caller writes is rendered.another appsentinel is gone (the parser no longer returns a label at all), one_confirmShare(message)serves both prompts, and both prompts come fromen-US.json.Verified
authRequest.test.ts(8),hive-signer-helper.test.ts(3, verifying signatures with the SDK's public key) andhive-uri.test.ts(10) pass; the full suite,eslintandnode scripts/typecheck.js(0 errors) are clean. Not yet exercised on a device. The counterparts in the game (ecency/games#34, #35) are merged; games-api's verifier requiresappto beecency.appand accepts thecodeandlogintypes, so nothing changes there.Summary by CodeRabbit
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ecency://auth-requestlinks, enabling sign-in to compatible apps with locally generated, audience-bound login proofs.Security