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fix(config): refuse to start without a valid API_KEY - #100
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When API_KEY was unset, not a UUID, or the all-zero UUID, Load only logged an error and kept ApiKey = uuid.Nil. Both transports compare the request's x-api-key against that value, so any client sending 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 was authenticated and could control the node. Load now returns an error in those cases, so the node exits at startup with "invalid API_KEY: ...". The config is still returned fully populated so NewTestConfig, which sets its own key, keeps working.
An unset or empty API_KEY used to surface as "invalid API_KEY: invalid UUID length: 0". It now fails with "invalid API_KEY: API_KEY is not set". The tests now really unset the variable for the missing case, and check that Load still returns the config on error, which NewTestConfig relies on.
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ChangesAPI Key Configuration Validation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change makes startup fail without a valid API_KEY, which is the intended behavior. Two small gaps remain: some malformed keys may still be accepted, and a malformed key's first characters can reach the log. Both are quick fixes and neither blocks merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Review comments at @config/config_test.go:
- Line 19: Isolate the missing-key test that calls unsetEnv for API_KEY from
dotenv loading so a developer’s .env cannot restore the key; run the test from a
temporary directory without .env or otherwise prevent Load from loading dotenv
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Review comments at @config/config.go:
- Line 80: Update the API key parsing in Load, where GetEnvAsUUID reads API_KEY,
to validate the raw UUID input with uuid.Validate before parsing it. Reject
malformed wrappers and preserve the existing behavior for valid UUIDs.
- Around line 85-86: Update the API_KEY validation error handling so it names
API_KEY without wrapping or exposing the underlying parser error or key bytes;
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Isolate the missing-key test from .env.
If a developer has a .env file with API_KEY, Load restores that key after unsetEnv removes it. The test then fails even though the missing-key behavior works. Run this test from a temporary directory without .env, or otherwise prevent dotenv loading for this case. (github.com)
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Review comment at @config/config_test.go at line 19:
Isolate the missing-key test that calls unsetEnv for API_KEY from dotenv loading
so a developer’s .env cannot restore the key; run the test from a temporary
directory without .env or otherwise prevent Load from loading dotenv for this
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| if GetEnv("API_KEY", "") == "" { | ||
| apiKeyErr = errors.New("API_KEY is not set") | ||
| } else { | ||
| cfg.ApiKey, apiKeyErr = GetEnvAsUUID("API_KEY") |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Reject malformed UUID wrappers.
If API_KEY is x3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6y, uuid.Parse ignores the outer characters and Load accepts the key. This conflicts with the requirement to reject malformed keys. Validate the input format before parsing it; uuid.Validate checks the wrapper. (github.com)
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Review comment at @config/config.go at line 80:
Update the API key parsing in Load, where GetEnvAsUUID reads API_KEY, to
validate the raw UUID input with uuid.Validate before parsing it. Reject
malformed wrappers and preserve the existing behavior for valid UUIDs.
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| if apiKeyErr != nil { | ||
| apiKeyErr = fmt.Errorf("invalid API_KEY: %w", apiKeyErr) |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Do not forward key bytes in validation errors.
If a 45-character API_KEY has an invalid URN prefix, uuid.Parse includes the first nine bytes in its error. This wrapper forwards those bytes to the startup log. Return an error that names API_KEY without forwarding value-bearing parser text. (github.com)
Based on learnings, errors for credential-bearing environment variables should name the variable rather than reveal its value.
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Review comment at @config/config.go around lines 85 - 86:
Update the API_KEY validation error handling so it names API_KEY without
wrapping or exposing the underlying parser error or key bytes; preserve the
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… NODE_HOST (upstream PasarGuard#112) Upstream PasarGuard/node 8ad52fe (PasarGuard#112, released in v0.5.5) ships these tests with its canonical-key and NODE_HOST fixes. They fail on the parent: - TestUpdateUsersKeepsPeerWithNonCanonicalKey: "unchanged user's peer ... was removed from the kernel". wgtypes.ParseKey accepts other base64 spellings of one key (the unused low bits of the last data character); collectDesiredPeers keys desired peers by the panel's spelling while the peer store keys by the canonical PublicKey.String(), so a partial sync sends an add and a remove for the same kernel peer. - TestSyncUsersNonCanonicalKeyNoEffectiveChangeSkipsReplaceApply: "got 1" ConfigureDevice call for a no-op full sync, a ReplacePeers that resets every peer. - TestSyncUsersRejectsOneKeySpelledTwoWaysAcrossUsers: two spellings of one key on two users are not refused. - TestLoadAcceptsNodeHostIPsAndLocalhost and TestLoadFallsBackToLoopbackOnInvalidNodeHost: NODE_HOST is checked with a dotted-quad regex, so "::" and any IPv6 address fall back to 127.0.0.1, and a bad value is logged without "[Error] NODE_HOST". The tests are upstream's apart from their comments, which are not carried (no explanatory comments in this fork); unsetEnv comes from upstream's config_test.go of PasarGuard#100, which the fork's tests did not have. Upstream: 8ad52fe
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Upstream's three tests of config/config_test.go from PasarGuard#100, carried as upstream wrote them: an unset, empty, malformed or all-zero API_KEY makes Load fail, Load still returns the config with the error (NewTestConfig relies on it), and a valid key is kept. unsetEnv was already in the fork's file, from its port of PasarGuard#112. On fork main 7b1e62b the two rejection tests fail and the valid-key test passes: the fork's Load returns no config on error and words the unset case "failed to load API Key: invalid UUID length: 0". The next commit takes upstream's form. (cherry picked from commit 3be63e1)
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Upstream PasarGuard#100: an unset, malformed or all-zero API_KEY left ApiKey as uuid.Nil, which both transports accepted, so config.Load now returns an error in those cases and the node refuses to start. The fork closed the same hole on its own on 2026-09-23 in 88162e2. Carried for the fork: upstream's API_KEY block and its return of the config together with the error replace the fork's own form of that fix, and Load is one function again, as upstream has it: the fork's fromEnv split existed only to return no config on error, and NewTestConfig calls Load again. cmd/node/main.go still exits with log.Fatal on the error before it reads the config, and both transports still reject uuid.Nil (controller/rest/middleware.go, controller/rpc/middleware.go). With upstream's comment lines left out under the fork's no-comments rule, config/config.go now differs from upstream v0.5.7 only by the fork's SingBox, OpenVPN and gRPC stream settings. The NODE_HOST line after the block is the fork's port of upstream PasarGuard#112 (74e9aaa), as in upstream v0.5.7. (cherry picked from commit 3be63e1)
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…s form, and correct three stale rows The drift check now reports upstream PasarGuard#100 (3be63e1) as ported by the cherry-pick line of 9f89151 and 4675fbc and said its superseded waiver was no longer needed, so that row is gone. The PasarGuard#114 row names the tests' new place, upstream's config_tobytes_test.go (c936200, f02a59a), and a dated section records the evidence for both. Corrected after re-checking each fact on 2026-11-11: - the 36dc7a4 waiver said the fork had not taken PasarGuard#64; c755202 ported it on 2026-11-10 without upstream's .gitlab-ci.yml, and git log origin/main -- .gitlab-ci.yml is empty; - PasarGuard#105 (25a8d74) was written as released in v0.5.6; git for-each-ref --contains lists upstream tags v0.5.5, v0.5.6 and v0.5.7; - the PasarGuard#121 and PasarGuard#122 rows still said dev-only; v0.5.7 contains both, and 62059d0 and bdd91ef ported them on 2026-11-03, after the release. DRIFT_COMPONENTS=node bash scripts/upstream_drift.sh exits 0 with 0 unported items, with DRIFT_TODAY unset and with 2026-11-21.
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Problem
The API key (
x-api-key) is the node's only authentication; TLS is server-only.When
API_KEYwas unset, not a UUID, or the all-zero UUID,config.Loadonly logged an error and keptApiKey = uuid.Nil. Both transports compare the request's key with that value (controller/rest/middleware.go,controller/rpc/middleware.go), so any client sending this key was authenticated:Such a client could start the core with its own config, manage users and read stats and logs. The real panel could not connect at the same time, since it sends a real UUID.
Change
config.Loadnow returns an error when the key is missing (invalid API_KEY: API_KEY is not set), malformed, or the all-zero UUID.cmd/node/main.goalready exits on aLoaderror, so the node refuses to start instead of running unprotected.The config is still returned fully populated alongside the error, because
NewTestConfigignores the error and sets its own key.Upgrade note
pg-node.share unaffected: it writes a generated UUID.docker-compose.ymlhasAPI_KEYcommented out. These need a UUID set.Tests
New
config/config_test.go:TestLoadRejectsMissingAPIKey: the variable is really unset. The test expects the "is not set" error and a non-nil config.TestLoadRejectsInvalidAPIKey: empty,not-a-uuidand the all-zero UUID are rejected, with a non-nil config in each case.TestLoadAcceptsValidAPIKey: a valid UUID loads.go test ./config/ ./controller/ ./backend/wireguard/ -p 1passes, andgo vet/gofmt -lare clean. Runninggo test ./... -p 1gives the same package results as currentdev.backend/xray,controller/restandcontroller/rpcneed an xray binary and./certs, and fail without them on both.Summary by CodeRabbit