fix: close websocket authentication holes and authenticate OAuth2 tokens on the socket - #3900
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWebSocket authentication now supports OAuth, JWT, PAT, API-key, and disabled-authentication flows. Subscription authorization is centralized. Destination construction uses typed helpers. Tests, client handling, and documentation cover authentication state, denied frames, transports, and fallback behavior. ChangesWebSocket authentication and authorization
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant WebSocketClient
participant WebSocketConfig
participant WebsocketAuthenticationResolver
participant WebsocketSubscribeAuthorizer
WebSocketClient->>WebSocketConfig: CONNECT with credentials
WebSocketConfig->>WebsocketAuthenticationResolver: Resolve and store authentication
WebsocketAuthenticationResolver-->>WebSocketConfig: Authentication or fallback identity
WebSocketClient->>WebSocketConfig: SUBSCRIBE to destination
WebSocketConfig->>WebsocketSubscribeAuthorizer: Authorize subscription
WebsocketSubscribeAuthorizer-->>WebSocketConfig: Allow, deny, or unauthenticated
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In
`@backend/app/src/test/kotlin/io/tolgee/websocket/WebsocketAuthenticationTest.kt`:
- Line 432: Expose a wait mechanism in WebsocketTestHelper for completion of the
primary SUBSCRIBE sent by prepareSocket, then invoke it for forbiddenSocket
before createKey() and dispatch. Ensure the test waits for the forbidden
socket’s subscription to be processed so receivedMessages.assert.isEmpty()
validates the denied subscription rather than an unprocessed socket.
In `@docs/oauth/README.md`:
- Around line 224-225: Update the OAuth STOMP guidance to remove handshake-only
authentication and state that clients must send Authorization: Bearer tgoat_… on
the STOMP CONNECT frame, since subscription authorization uses the CONNECT
authentication.
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backend/security/src/test/kotlin/io/tolgee/security/authentication/AuthenticationDisabledFilterTest.kt (1)
54-65: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueUse named arguments for this 10-argument constructor.
Seven positions are bare
mock()calls. A future reorder of two parameters with different types is caught by the compiler, but the intent of each position is not readable here, and theDisabledAuthenticationIdentityposition must stay aligned withAuthenticationFilterTest. Named arguments make both explicit.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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18-18: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAlign this test with the webapp import and Stepdown rules.
Line 18 uses a relative import. Use the configured
tg.*alias forWebsocketClient, or add the module alias if none exists. TheconnectArgshelper at Line 23 appears before the test callbacks that call it. Move the helper below its callers.As per path instructions: “Use Tolgee custom TypeScript path aliases (tg.component, tg.service, tg.hooks, tg.views, tg.globalContext) instead of relative imports” and “Functions should be ordered so that a caller appears before the functions it calls.”
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In
`@backend/api/src/main/kotlin/io/tolgee/websocket/WebsocketSubscribeAuthorizer.kt`:
- Around line 79-91: Update the SUBSCRIBE authorization boundary in
WebsocketSubscribeAuthorizer, including requireCoversProject and its decide
flow, to catch non-authorization failures from permission and repository lookups
such as IllegalStateException and deny only the affected subscription by
returning false. Preserve existing handling for PermissionException and
NotFoundException, and ensure these lookup failures do not escape
WebSocketConfig.preSend or terminate the session.
In `@backend/app/src/test/kotlin/io/tolgee/websocket/WebsocketTestHelper.kt`:
- Line 160: Update assertSubscribeNotAcknowledged() to wait for a completion
marker from the same forbiddenSocket session after its denied SUBSCRIBE has been
processed, or add deterministic server-side instrumentation for that frame; only
then evaluate
WebsocketTestSubscribeSync.wasNotified(primary.subscribeCorrelationId),
preserving the existing assertion behavior.
In `@docs/websocket/README.md`:
- Around line 9-11: Update the WebSocket authentication statements to
distinguish disabled authentication fallback from credential rejection: when
tolgee.authentication.enabled is false, missing or invalid CONNECT credentials
use the fallback identity rather than producing Unauthenticated. In
docs/oauth/README.md, clarify that HTTP fallback applies only when no credential
is supplied, while invalid credentials still receive 401 through
AuthenticationFilter.
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In
`@backend/security/src/test/kotlin/io/tolgee/security/authentication/AuthenticationDisabledFilterTest.kt`:
- Around line 54-65: Update the AuthenticationFilter construction in
AuthenticationDisabledFilterTest to use named arguments for all constructor
parameters, including the mock dependencies and DisabledAuthenticationIdentity,
matching the parameter names and alignment used in AuthenticationFilterTest.
In `@webapp/src/websocket-client/WebsocketClient.test.ts`:
- Line 18: Update the WebsocketClient import to use the configured tg.*
TypeScript alias, adding the alias only if it is not already available. Reorder
the connectArgs helper so it appears after the test callbacks that call it,
preserving the existing test behavior.
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backend/app/src/test/kotlin/io/tolgee/websocket/WebsocketTestHelper.kt (1)
194-194: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winStop the STOMP client when
connectAsyncfails before assigningconnection.When
.get(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS)throws,connectionremains null.stop()then returns before cleaning theWebsocketTestSubscribeSynclatch or stoppingwebSocketStompClient. The latch remains in the static registry, and client resources may remain active for the rest of the test suite.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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98-98: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 TrivialRevalidate OAuth credentials during an open WebSocket session.
WebsocketAuthenticationResolvervalidates expiry and revocation only duringCONNECT.WebSocketConfigstores the resultingTolgeeAuthentication, and laterSUBSCRIBEframes reuse it without OAuth revalidation or session closure. An open session can therefore continue to pass authorization after the OAuth token expires or its grant is revoked. Revalidate a revocation-checkable token identity before each OAuth-backedSUBSCRIBE, or close the session when the grant expires or is revoked; checking only a stored expiry does not detect revocation.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@backend/api/src/main/kotlin/io/tolgee/websocket/WebSocketConfig.kt`:
- Line 98: Update the WebSocket SUBSCRIBE authorization flow around
WebsocketAuthenticationResolver and RESOLVED_AUTHENTICATION_ATTRIBUTE to
revalidate revocation-checkable OAuth credentials before each OAuth-backed
subscription, or close the session when revalidation fails. Do not rely solely
on the stored TolgeeAuthentication expiry; ensure expired or revoked grants
cannot authorize further subscriptions.
In `@backend/app/src/test/kotlin/io/tolgee/websocket/WebsocketTestHelper.kt`:
- Line 194: Update the WebsocketTestHelper cleanup flow so connectAsync failures
before connection assignment still stop the WebsocketTestSubscribeSync latch and
webSocketStompClient. Do not return solely because connection is null; perform
the required cleanup using the available client and subscription state while
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13-16: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftCache the initial-user lookup with lifecycle invalidation.
Unauthenticated HTTP fallbacks and credentialless WebSocket fallbacks call
InitialUserProvider.get(), which performs an uncachedUserAccountRepository.findInitialUser()lookup each time. This repeated database I/O can materially increase load under traffic. A permanentby lazysnapshot is unsafe because the initial account or itsUserAccountDtocan change. Cache the lookup and evict it when the initial account is created, updated, disabled, deleted, or replaced.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 13-16: Update DisabledAuthenticationResolver.resolve and the
shared InitialUserProvider lookup to cache the initial-user result while
supporting invalidation. Evict the cached value whenever the initial account is
created, updated, disabled, deleted, or replaced, so subsequent unauthenticated
HTTP and credentialless WebSocket fallbacks observe current account state
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In `@backend/data/src/main/kotlin/io/tolgee/repository/UserAccountRepository.kt`:
- Line 133: Update the query used by findActiveOrDisabled to exclude
soft-deleted UserAccount records, while retaining matches for active and
disabled accounts. Ensure the singular result cannot include accounts marked
deleted by softDeleteUser.
In
`@backend/security/src/test/kotlin/io/tolgee/security/authentication/AuthenticationDisabledFilterTest.kt`:
- Around line 54-66: Update the fixtures in AuthenticationDisabledFilterTest.kt
lines 54-66, AuthenticationFilterTest.kt line 105, and CreateEnabledTest.kt
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mocks or shared runner state; add corresponding `@AfterEach` cleanup for each
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`findInitialUser()` matched on `isInitialUser = true` alone, and `softDeleteUser` left that flag set while blanking the username and stamping `deletedAt`. A deleted initial user therefore stayed the initial user: it is what the disabled-authentication identity runs as, and what the startup runner finds instead of creating a replacement. The query now excludes deleted accounts, and soft-deleting an account clears the flag, so a dead row cannot claim the role again even if it is restored. Both guards are covered: one test deletes through `softDeleteUser`, and one reproduces the state existing databases are already in — soft-deleted while still carrying the flag — which only the query clause catches.
… parameter `checkProjectPermission` took an optional `credential` that defaulted to the one in the security context, so an off-request-thread caller could seem to supply it directly. It could not: the check delegates to `checkProjectPermissionNoApiKey`, which reads the credential from the context regardless, and without one there it takes the admin and supporter bypasses — so a caller that passed the credential but no context got a *more* permissive answer than one that set the context up properly. Both callers already needed the context for that reason, so the parameter was redundant where it worked and misleading where it did not. It is gone, and `withSecurityContext` moves next to `TolgeeAuthentication` so both callers share one copy. `QaCheckPreviewWebSocketHandler` gains the wrapper it was missing. It accepts a JWT alone today, which is never a scoped credential, so nothing changes — but the day it accepts a project API key or an OAuth token, the check would have silently skipped scope narrowing.
The `TolgeeAuthentication` granted while `tolgee.authentication.enabled` is false — the initial user, with `isSuperToken = true` — was constructed inline in `AuthenticationFilter`. `DisabledAuthenticationResolver` now owns it, so a second caller cannot drift from what the HTTP filter chain grants, and it returns null while authentication is enabled, so the rule lives in one place rather than in every caller's guard. The initial user is looked up per call rather than cached for the life of the JVM as it was before. That is a database round trip on each credential-less request while authentication is disabled — a dev, demo and e2e mode — and it buys correctness: the old cache had no eviction, so it went on serving an account after that account stopped being the initial one, or was deleted. An instance with authentication off and no initial user still fails loudly, as it did before: nothing there is the client's to fix, so it is a server error and an operator has to look at it.
The `/projects/{id}/{type}` and `/users/{id}/{type}` formats were spelled out
as string literals at five publishing sites. `WebsocketEventType` now carries
`projectDestinationFor` and `userDestinationFor`, so the format has one
definition.
Typing the builder surfaced that `BatchJobDto.projectId` is nullable: a batch
job with no project was publishing to `/projects/null/batch-job-progress`, a
destination the subscribe path can never match. Those three listeners now
return early instead, which changes nothing observable.
Two ways a credential the STOMP resolver had refused could still reach a
topic:
- `isUserSubscribeAllowed` tested `is ApiKeyDto`, so only a project API key
was kept off `/users/{id}/…`. Any other scoped credential reached the
account's own notifications.
- The subscribe decision read the principal off the frame, and Spring falls
back to the HTTP handshake principal there. The handshake is an ordinary
servlet request that the filter chain authenticates, so a credential the
resolver refused rode in anyway — reliably over SockJS's HTTP transports,
which take their principal straight off the handshake request.
The resolver's CONNECT verdict is now stored in the session attributes and is
the only thing the subscribe decision reads. A session that authenticated as
nobody is latched under a per-session placeholder principal, so it cannot be
filed in `SimpUserRegistry` under the handshake user either.
Also refuses client `SEND` and `MESSAGE` frames. Both carry
`SimpMessageType.MESSAGE`, which is what the simple broker fans out to
subscribers, and nothing on Spring's inbound path rejects a client for
sending a command that is nominally server-to-client — so either could forge
an event to every subscriber of a destination.
`WebsocketSubscribeAuthorizer` now holds the policy; `WebSocketConfig` is
wiring.
`Authorization: Bearer tgoat_…` on the STOMP CONNECT frame now resolves the same way it does over HTTP, so a client holding an OAuth grant can subscribe to the project topics that grant covers. An OAuth grant is treated as a project API key that may hold several projects, not special-cased against one: the same `keys.view` requirement on a project topic, the same refusal on a user topic, and the same scope narrowing. The consequences of that parity are listed in docs/oauth. Tests cover each OAuth credential against its project-API-key equivalent — covering every project, bound to one project, insufficient scopes, bound elsewhere, a user topic, invalid, expired, and revoked.
`tolgee.authentication.enabled: false` is the default for a direct Java run, and nothing exercised the websocket in that mode. These pin what it does: a socket with no credential, or with one that fails to resolve, gets the initial user's identity, while a credential that *does* resolve keeps its own identity and its scope narrowing.
The client sent `Authorization: Bearer ${jwtToken}` unconditionally, so with
no token it presented the literal string "Bearer undefined" — a bad
credential rather than no credential, which the server refuses. It now sends
no credential at all when there is no token, which is what a run with
authentication disabled needs.
It also ignored the STOMP ERROR frame, so an unresolvable credential meant a
full SockJS handshake, CONNECT and SUBSCRIBE every three seconds for as long
as the tab stayed open, with no user-visible signal. `onError` now reports
whether the frame carried the server's `Unauthenticated` header, and
`useWsClientService` deactivates the client only for that one — a
server-side failure still reconnects, which is what the subscribe path's
narrow exception handling assumes.
The legacy `jwtToken` CONNECT header is no longer sent. The server still
accepts it.
docs/websocket covers the transport for every credential type: where a credential is read from, what a connection may subscribe to, why the session attribute is the authority, which refusals are silent and which close the socket, and the gaps this transport shares with the HTTP path. docs/oauth keeps only what is OAuth-specific and points at it.
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backend/api/src/main/kotlin/io/tolgee/websocket/WebsocketAuthenticationResolver.kt (1)
65-67: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winCatch only authentication failures in
attempt.The resolver calls repository and user-account services.
runCatchingconverts any failure tonull, andcatch (Exception)would still hide runtime failures such as database errors andNullPointerException.WebSocketConfigthen treats the connection as unauthenticated and closes it on a protected subscription. CatchAuthenticationException;AuthExpiredExceptionderives from it, while other exceptions andErrorvalues propagate.♻️ Proposed refactor
private fun attempt( credentialKind: String, resolve: () -> TolgeeAuthentication?, ): TolgeeAuthentication? = - runCatching(resolve) - .onFailure { logger.debug("{} authentication failed", credentialKind, it) } - .getOrNull() + try { + resolve() + } catch (e: AuthenticationException) { + logger.debug("{} authentication failed", credentialKind, e) + null + }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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`@backend/api/src/main/kotlin/io/tolgee/websocket/WebsocketAuthenticationResolver.kt`:
- Around line 65-67: Update the authentication attempt flow in
WebsocketAuthenticationResolver.attempt to catch only AuthenticationException
and return null for those failures, preserving the existing debug logging.
Remove the broad runCatching behavior so repository, account-service, runtime
exceptions, and Error values propagate; AuthExpiredException must continue to be
handled through its AuthenticationException inheritance.
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…m as a refused credential Only AuthenticationException now means "no credential". Any other failure while resolving the credential propagates as a regular STOMP ERROR frame, which the webapp redials, instead of ending in an Unauthenticated error that deactivates the client.
Self-deletion is refused for accounts that are not isDeletable (the flag the webapp already uses to hide the button), and administrators get CANNOT_DELETE_INITIAL_USER when deleting the initial user. Managed accounts stay deletable by administrators, captured by the new isAdminDeletable.
An unauthenticated SUBSCRIBE is rejected by throwing, and Spring answers with an ERROR frame followed immediately by close(PROTOCOL_ERROR). The session is a ConcurrentWebSocketSessionDecorator: if another thread still holds its flush lock (the outbound thread finishing the CONNECTED write), the ERROR is only buffered, and the close sets closeInProgress, which makes that thread discard it. The client gets a bare disconnect instead of the "Unauthenticated" ERROR, and the webapp treats a bare disconnect as a server failure and reconnects - the loop #3900 closed. ErrorFrameFlushingSessionDecorator waits, on a PROTOCOL_ERROR close only, until no send is in flight and the buffer is empty. The thread holding the lock re-checks the buffer before leaving sendMessage and discards frames only once closeInProgress is set, so holding back the close is enough for the ERROR to be written. The wait ends early once the active send has overrun the send time limit, since Spring treats the session as unreliable from then on. Other close statuses keep Spring's behaviour. Reaching decorateSession needs the subProtocolWebSocketHandler bean overridden, so WebSocketBrokerConfiguration extends DelegatingWebSocketMessageBrokerConfiguration in place of @EnableWebSocketMessageBroker, which only imports that class. This is what made WebsocketAuthenticationTest fail one of its "unauthenticated" tests per run (a different one each time) with transitions=[CONNECTION_LOST] under billing CI's sharded layout. WebsocketErrorFrameDeliveryTest reproduces it deterministically: after CONNECTED is written it holds the flush lock until the rejected SUBSCRIBE has arrived and the close is requested, so without the fix the ERROR is always dropped.
An unauthenticated SUBSCRIBE is rejected by throwing, and Spring answers with an ERROR frame followed immediately by close(PROTOCOL_ERROR). The session is a ConcurrentWebSocketSessionDecorator: if another thread still holds its flush lock (the outbound thread finishing the CONNECTED write), the ERROR is only buffered, and the close sets closeInProgress, which makes that thread discard it. The client gets a bare disconnect instead of the "Unauthenticated" ERROR, and the webapp treats a bare disconnect as a server failure and reconnects - the loop #3900 closed. Reported upstream as spring-projects/spring-framework#37328. ErrorFrameFlushingSessionDecorator holds back a PROTOCOL_ERROR close until no send is in progress. The thread holding the lock re-checks the buffer before leaving sendMessage, so a finished send leaves nothing behind unless its write failed, and then nobody is left to send the rest - waiting on the buffer itself would only stall. Once the close starts, new sends are dropped, as Spring does after closeInProgress, so nothing follows the ERROR and further rejected frames do not queue more ERRORs. The wait is signalled when the last send finishes and ends early once the active send has overrun the send time limit. Other close statuses keep Spring's behaviour. Reaching decorateSession needs the subProtocolWebSocketHandler bean overridden, so WebSocketBrokerConfiguration extends DelegatingWebSocketMessageBrokerConfiguration in place of @EnableWebSocketMessageBroker, which only imports that class. This is what made WebsocketAuthenticationTest fail one of its "unauthenticated" tests per run (a different one each time) with transitions=[CONNECTION_LOST] under billing CI's sharded layout. WebsocketErrorFrameDeliveryTest reproduces it deterministically: after CONNECTED is written it holds the flush lock until the rejected SUBSCRIBE has arrived and the close is requested, so without the fix the ERROR is always dropped.
An unauthenticated SUBSCRIBE is rejected by throwing, and Spring answers with an ERROR frame followed immediately by close(PROTOCOL_ERROR). The session is a ConcurrentWebSocketSessionDecorator: if another thread still holds its flush lock (the outbound thread finishing the CONNECTED write), the ERROR is only buffered, and the close sets closeInProgress, which makes that thread discard it. The client gets a bare disconnect instead of the "Unauthenticated" ERROR, and the webapp treats a bare disconnect as a server failure and reconnects - the loop #3900 closed. Reported upstream as spring-projects/spring-framework#37328. ErrorFrameFlushingSessionDecorator holds back a PROTOCOL_ERROR close until no send is in progress. The thread holding the lock re-checks the buffer before leaving sendMessage, so a finished send leaves nothing behind unless its write failed, and then nobody is left to send the rest - waiting on the buffer itself would only stall. Once the close starts, new sends are dropped, as Spring does after closeInProgress, so nothing follows the ERROR and further rejected frames do not queue more ERRORs. The wait is signalled when the last send finishes and ends early once the active send has overrun the send time limit. Other close statuses keep Spring's behaviour. Reaching decorateSession needs the subProtocolWebSocketHandler bean overridden, so WebSocketBrokerConfiguration extends DelegatingWebSocketMessageBrokerConfiguration in place of @EnableWebSocketMessageBroker, which only imports that class. This is what made WebsocketAuthenticationTest fail one of its "unauthenticated" tests per run (a different one each time) with transitions=[CONNECTION_LOST] under billing CI's sharded layout. WebsocketErrorFrameDeliveryTest reproduces it deterministically: after CONNECTED is written it holds the flush lock until the rejected SUBSCRIBE has arrived and the close is requested, so without the fix the ERROR is always dropped.
Fixes the flaky `WebsocketAuthenticationTest` "unauthenticated" tests — and the production behaviour behind them. ## Symptom On billing CI (tolgee/billing#321), `server-app:runWebsocketTests` failed 4 runs out of 4, each time on exactly one test out of 89 and a different one each run (`unauthenticated with expired PAT`, `unauthenticated on a user topic`, `an OAuth token presented only on the handshake…`, `unauthenticated with expired PAK`). All four go through `waitForUnauthenticated()`, and the diagnostic in `WebsocketTestHelper` logged the same thing each time: ``` Expected websocket authentication status UNAUTHENTICATED never observed; transitions=[CONNECTION_LOST] ``` That's the case the helper describes: the server's ERROR frame was lost in the flush-before-close window. ## Root cause Taken from the Spring 7.0.9 source and confirmed with a local repro: 1. An unauthenticated `SUBSCRIBE` is rejected by throwing (`WebSocketConfig`). With no error handler configured, `StompSubProtocolHandler.sendErrorMessage` sends an ERROR frame and **closes with `PROTOCOL_ERROR` in the `finally` straight after**. 2. The session is a `ConcurrentWebSocketSessionDecorator`. If another thread holds its flush lock — the outbound thread that has just written `CONNECTED` and is still doing SockJS heartbeat bookkeeping — `tryFlushMessageBuffer()` fails and the ERROR is only **buffered**. `sendMessage` returns normally. 3. `close()` sets `closeInProgress`. When the lock holder gets back to the buffer, `shouldNotSend()` is true and it **discards the ERROR**. The client sees a bare close. In the failing CI trace, the server handled `SUBSCRIBE` 3 ms after `CONNECT`; in a passing re-attempt of the same test the gap was 20 ms. The race only opens when `SUBSCRIBE` lands inside the `CONNECTED` write's tail, which is why it shows up under CPU contention. **Why this isn't only a test problem:** since #3900 the webapp deactivates only when the ERROR frame carries `Unauthenticated`, and treats a bare disconnect as a server failure and reconnects. When this race hits, it reopens the reconnect loop #3900 closed. ## Fix - **`ErrorFrameFlushingSessionDecorator`**: subclass of Spring's decorator. On a `PROTOCOL_ERROR` close it waits until no `sendMessage` is in progress, then closes. A finished send leaves nothing buffered, because the lock holder re-checks the buffer before it leaves. The exception is a failed write, and then nobody is left to send the rest, so waiting on the buffer itself would only stall. Once the close starts, new sends are dropped, as Spring does after `closeInProgress`: nothing follows the ERROR, and further rejected frames don't queue more ERRORs. The wait wakes on a `Condition` when the last send finishes. It ends early once the active send has overrun `sendTimeLimit`. Other close statuses keep Spring's behaviour, and in the normal case there's nothing to wait for. - **`WebSocketBrokerConfiguration`** (`proxyBeanMethods = false`, like its parent): `decorateSession` is Spring's documented hook, but the handler is built inline in a `@Bean` method. This class extends `DelegatingWebSocketMessageBrokerConfiguration`, which is all `@EnableWebSocketMessageBroker` imports, and overrides only `subProtocolWebSocketHandler`. The annotation is removed from `WebSocketConfig`. Rejected alternatives: - **Relaxing the test** — would hide the production reconnect loop, and the helper's own note asks not to. - **`preservePublishOrder`** — the ERROR is written directly on the inbound thread, so outbound ordering doesn't cover it, and it would change slow-client handling for every session. - **A custom `StompSubProtocolErrorHandler`** — `sendToClient` still closes straight after the send. ## Tests - **`WebsocketErrorFrameDeliveryTest`** (new) reproduces the race deterministically. A test-only session wrapper, after `CONNECTED` is written, holds the flush lock until the rejected `SUBSCRIBE` has arrived **and** the close is requested. Without the fix that close reaches the wrapper after `closeInProgress` is set, so the ERROR is always dropped: **3/3 runs failed with `transitions=[CONNECTION_LOST]`**, the CI signature. With the fix the close is held back instead, the hold ends on its timeout, the ERROR is written and the close follows: 3/3 passed. - **`ErrorFrameFlushingSessionDecoratorTest`** (new) covers the decorator on its own: - the buffered ERROR is written before the close, and a frame sent after the close starts is dropped; - a frame stranded by a failed write doesn't hold the close (1001 ms before the change); - the wait ends once the active send has overrun `sendTimeLimit`. - `io.tolgee.websocket.*`: 67 tests, 0 failed. `BatchJobsGeneralWithRedisTest` / `BatchJobsGeneralWithoutRedisTest`: 27 tests, 0 failed. - ktlint clean on `:api` and `:server-app`. The repro widens the window on purpose. It proves the mechanism and that the fix covers it. The fix was also run inside billing CI, where the flake occurred (tolgee/billing#321, full re-run against the first version of this commit, `cd2a17a25`, before the review follow-ups added the wait bound): `runWebsocketTests` passed with 0 failures and no retries. ## Follow-up Reported upstream as spring-projects/spring-framework#37328, with a Spring-only reproduction that fails on 7.0.9 and 7.1.0-M1. Once it's fixed, delete `ErrorFrameFlushingSessionDecorator` and `WebSocketBrokerConfiguration`, and put `@EnableWebSocketMessageBroker` back. Keep `WebsocketErrorFrameDeliveryTest`: it should keep passing on the fixed Spring. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Bug Fixes** * Improved delivery of WebSocket protocol error messages when another message is still being sent. * Reduced the chance of buffered error messages being discarded when a connection closes due to a protocol error, while limiting how long the close waits for pending sends. * **Tests** * Added coverage for unauthenticated error delivery during concurrent message sending and for closing after a send exceeds its time limit. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
## [3.224.7](v3.224.6...v3.224.7) (2026-09-24) ### Bug Fixes * deliver the STOMP ERROR frame before closing the websocket ([#3940](#3940)) ([0f6863c](0f6863c)), closes [tolgee/billing#321](tolgee/billing#321) [#3900](#3900) [#3900](#3900) [tolgee/billing#321](tolgee/billing#321) [spring-projects/spring-framework#37328](spring-projects/spring-framework#37328)
Security follow-up to #3893 (OAuth 2.1 authorization server), extended into a cleanup of the websocket authentication path. Nine commits, each reviewable on its own.
Two of them are not about websockets at all — they fix pre-existing problems this work exposed. They are first in the chain, so the websocket commits build on a correct base.
Two authentication holes
A credential the STOMP resolver had refused could still reach a topic, both reachable with an OAuth token:
isUserSubscribeAllowedtestedis ApiKeyDto, so only a project API key was kept off/users/{id}/…. Any other scoped credential — an OAuth grant — reached the account's own notifications.The resolver's CONNECT verdict is now stored in the session attributes and is the only thing the subscribe decision reads.
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SENDframes were relayed to the simple broker, which fanned them out to every subscriber of the destination. Reproduced against a running server.MESSAGEframes were the same hole under a different command name — both carrySimpMessageType.MESSAGE, and nothing on Spring's inbound path rejects a client for sending a command that is nominally server-to-client. Both are now dropped.tolgee.authentication.enabled: false— the default for a direct Java run.Bearer undefinedwhen it had no token — a bad credential rather than no credential.Two pre-existing fixes this work exposed
findInitialUser()matchedisInitialUser = truealone, andsoftDeleteUserleft that flag set while stampingdeletedAt. So a deleted initial user stayed the identity thattolgee.authentication.enabled: falseruns as, and the one the startup runner finds instead of creating a replacement. The query now excludes deleted accounts and soft delete clears the flag.checkProjectPermission'scredentialparameter was misleading. It looked like an off-request-thread caller could supply the credential directly. It could not: the check delegates tocheckProjectPermissionNoApiKey, which reads the credential from the security context regardless — and with no context there it takes the admin and supporter bypasses. So passing the credential without setting up a context gave a more permissive answer than doing it properly. The parameter is gone;withSecurityContextis what makes the check correct, and it now lives next toTolgeeAuthenticationso both callers share one copy.QaCheckPreviewWebSocketHandlergained the wrapper it was missing. It accepts a JWT alone today, which is never a scoped credential, so nothing changes — but the day it accepts a project API key or an OAuth token, the check would have silently skipped scope narrowing.OAuth parity
An OAuth grant is treated as a project API key that may hold several projects, not special-cased against one: same
keys.viewrequirement on a project topic, same refusal on a user topic, same scope narrowing. The consequences of that parity are listed indocs/oauth/README.mdrather than designed around.Webapp
An unresolvable credential meant a full SockJS handshake, CONNECT and SUBSCRIBE every three seconds for as long as the tab stayed open, with no user-visible signal, against a CONNECT that runs under no IP auth rate limit.
onErrornow reports whether the ERROR frame carried the server'sUnauthenticatedheader, and the client deactivates only for that one — a server-side failure still reconnects.Also
WebsocketSubscribeAuthorizerholds the subscribe policy;WebSocketConfigis wiring (~215 lines to ~105).DisabledAuthenticationResolvergives the disabled-authentication identity one owner instead of two. It is looked up per call rather than cached for the JVM's life: that costs a query per credential-less request while authentication is disabled — a dev, demo and e2e mode — and it buys correctness, since the old cache had no eviction.WebsocketEventTypebuilds the destination strings, replacing five hand-built literals. Typing that surfaced a nullableBatchJobDto.projectIdpublishing to/projects/null/batch-job-progress.docs/websocket/README.mddocuments the transport-level model for every credential type.Not fixed, deliberately
keys.viewwhatever the topic carries, so a grant consented to askeys.viewalone receivestranslation-data-modifiedpayloads whose HTTP readers requiretranslations.view. Narrowing it per topic would break existing project API keys; it is the PAK's rule applied unchanged.Follow-ups worth a separate PR
Both surfaced while fixing the deleted-initial-user bug, and neither is made worse by this PR:
isDeletable(accountType != MANAGED && !isInitialUser) is only surfaced to the UI, not enforced server-side, so nothing actually stops the initial user being deleted.Testing
45 websocket tests, including a raw STOMP client that writes frame bytes directly so a test can forge a
MESSAGEframe no client library will emit; 8 webapp unit tests; 3 repository tests covering the deleted-account guards. Each fix was falsified by reverting it and confirming the matching test — and only it — fails.Summary by CodeRabbit
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