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fix: let ory auth finish when other programs load the login URLs - #466
ory auth now finishes the browser login even when other programs on the computer load the login URLs, and no longer panics when the callback is requested more than once.
The login starts at http://127.0.0.1:<port>/start?nonce=…, with a nonce generated for each login. Without the nonce, /start answers 404.
Each request to the start URL starts a login attempt with its own state and PKCE verifier, and sets a session cookie holding the state. The verifier stays in the CLI.
Only a callback whose state matches the cookie and belongs to an attempt completes the login. Other callbacks get an error page, and the CLI keeps waiting.
The code is redeemed once. A repeated callback gets the same answer.
Any browser on the computer can finish the login. Within one browser, only the attempt opened last can, as with the login CSRF cookie of Ory Network.
New flag ory auth --no-browser prints the sign-in link without opening a browser.
Related Issue or Design Document
Previously unknown bug: programs that load the pages the browser visits, such as macOS link previews, request the login URLs again without the browser's cookies. Ory Network redirects them to the CLI's callback with an error, and the CLI took the first callback as the result. ory auth failed with No CSRF value available in the session cookie or The consent verifier has already been used, or signed in and then panicked with close of closed channel while trying to redeem the code a second time.
cmd/cloudx/client/auth_browser_test.go reproduces these cases in Chromium.
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The auth command adds a --no-browser option. OAuth login now uses loopback /start and /callback endpoints with per-attempt state and PKCE verifiers. The flow validates callbacks, limits authorization attempts, and returns the first completion result.
The auth command registers --no-browser and passes its value to the command helper.
Loopback OAuth flow cmd/cloudx/client/auth.go
The loopback flow creates state and PKCE verifiers for each attempt, validates callbacks against a cookie and stored attempt, limits starts, and shares the first completion result. When browser launch is disabled, the flow prints sign-in instructions.
Browser integration tests use a fake authorization server to check cookie handling, denied authorization, link previews, missing nonces, older-tab callbacks, repeated callbacks, and code redemption. The consent hook checks the loopback callback response.
sequenceDiagram
participant CLI
participant Browser
participant LoopbackServer
participant AuthorizationServer
participant TokenEndpoint
CLI->>LoopbackServer: Start loopback listener
CLI->>Browser: Open start URL or print sign-in instructions
Browser->>LoopbackServer: GET /start with nonce
LoopbackServer->>Browser: Set state cookie and redirect to authorization URL
Browser->>AuthorizationServer: Request authorization
AuthorizationServer->>Browser: Redirect to /callback with code or error
Browser->>LoopbackServer: GET /callback with state cookie
LoopbackServer->>TokenEndpoint: Exchange code with matching PKCE verifier
TokenEndpoint->>LoopbackServer: Return token or exchange error
LoopbackServer->>Browser: Redirect to success or error page
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The CLI now opens the login start link directly, so the one-time link token can appear in the browser launcher's command line. On a shared Linux machine where users can see each other's processes, another user could in theory log in with their own account before the legitimate user finishes. The window is narrow and needs a specific setup. Owners should decide whether to accept it or follow up with a handoff that keeps the token out of process arguments.
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- Line 383: Replace the fixed delay in the repeated-callback test with a
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Programs on the machine that fetch the pages the browser visits, such as
the link previews of macOS, can request the URLs of the browser login
without the browser's cookies. Ory Network then redirects them to the
CLI's callback with an error, and the CLI took the first callback as the
result. `ory auth` failed with "No CSRF value available in the session
cookie" or "The consent verifier has already been used". A second
request to the callback made the CLI panic with "close of closed
channel" and redeem the code a second time.
The browser now opens http://127.0.0.1:<port>/start. Every request to
it begins a login attempt with its own state and PKCE verifier, and sets
a session cookie holding the state. The PKCE verifier stays in the CLI.
A callback completes the login only if its state matches the cookie and
belongs to an attempt. Other callbacks get an error page and the login
keeps waiting. The first accepted callback redeems the code, and
repeated callbacks get the same answer. In each browser, only the
attempt opened last can complete.
`ory auth --no-browser` prints the sign-in link without opening a
browser.
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- Line 218: Update the `startURL` flow and `/start` handler to include an
unguessable secret generated for each run, and validate it before creating an
authentication attempt. Keep the existing per-attempt cookie checks unchanged.
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The start URL carries a nonce generated for each login, and /start
answers 404 without it.
The CLI no longer passes the start URL to the program that opens the
browser. It writes a page that only the current user can read and that
forwards the browser to the start URL, opens that page, and removes it
when the login ends.
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- Line 221: Update the file URL path handling around the u.Path assignment so
Windows removes the leading slash before the drive prefix and converts URL
separators to native path separators before os.Stat; preserve the existing path
behavior on other platforms.
Review comments at @cmd/cloudx/client/auth.go:
- Line 262: Update the temporary directory selection at os.MkdirTemp so the
login page is created in a location accessible to confined browsers instead of
relying on /tmp when TMPDIR is empty. Preserve the directory’s private
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readLoginPage takes the page's path from its file URL as a Unix path and
checks Unix file modes. CI runs the tests on Linux only.
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The CLI keeps waiting after it rejects a callback, so a login that never
reached the CLI ran into the 10-minute test timeout without saying why.
The consent helper now waits for the CLI's answer to the callback and
fails with the page or the CLI's error. The trace now ends after the
callback, so a failure in CI shows it.
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Generally LGTM, my agent found two edge-casy issues though:
[P2] The automatic handoff can open an editor instead of the browser. auth.go:278 now passes a file://…/login.html URL to the browser hook. The default hook uses pkg/browser, which delegates to macOS open, Linux xdg-open, or Windows ShellExecute. These can select the application associated with HTML files. Users who associate .html with an editor will get the HTML source instead of a login page. Previously, the HTTPS URL selected their web browser. The printed link provides a workaround, but automatic login regresses. The handoff should explicitly target the browser.
[P3] Relative TMPDIR values produce an incorrect file URL. auth.go:285–291 assumes any path without a leading slash is a Windows drive path. With TMPDIR=., MkdirTemp returns a relative path, and fileURL turns it into file:///ory-cli-login-…/login.html, pointing at the filesystem root. I reproduced this with a focused test; the absolute-path control passed. Resolve the path with filepath.Abs before constructing the URL.
As it is mostly developers using the CLI, I'd say the editor concern is real. My suggestion is to just open the start URL directly instead, removing the file all together. WDYT?
Generally LGTM, my agent found two edge-casy issues though:
[P2] The automatic handoff can open an editor instead of the browser. auth.go:278 now passes a file://…/login.html URL to the browser hook. The default hook uses pkg/browser, which delegates to macOS open, Linux xdg-open, or Windows ShellExecute. These can select the application associated with HTML files. Users who associate .html with an editor will get the HTML source instead of a login page. Previously, the HTTPS URL selected their web browser. The printed link provides a workaround, but automatic login regresses. The handoff should explicitly target the browser.
[P3] Relative TMPDIR values produce an incorrect file URL. auth.go:285–291 assumes any path without a leading slash is a Windows drive path. With TMPDIR=., MkdirTemp returns a relative path, and fileURL turns it into file:///ory-cli-login-…/login.html, pointing at the filesystem root. I reproduced this with a focused test; the absolute-path control passed. Resolve the path with filepath.Abs before constructing the URL.
As it is mostly developers using the CLI, I'd say the editor concern is real. My suggestion is to just open the start URL directly instead, removing the file all together. WDYT?
Yeah, it might not be worth it, especially since it's also clumsy/doesn't work on Windows.
The theoretical danger is from an attacker sniffing the nonce from xdg-open chromium <url> via ps.
The theoretical danger is from an attacker sniffing the nonce from xdg-open chromium via ps.
I wasn't aware this is an issue on multi user systems but similar CLIs all seem to accept the risk. gcloud, az and aws directly open the browser with webbrowser.open(...) and potentially leak PKCE and state to other users on the same host.
The temp file approach could also be problematic on systems where the browser can access temp files (e.g. maybe snap installs, WSL, VS Code Remote, ...).
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Claude found this:
Because Hydra uses up the verifier before it checks the CSRF cookie, a cookie-less preview that gets there first does two things:
It uses up the consent verifier, then fails the CSRF check. Its own error callback to the CLI is now rejected (no cookie), which is good.
When the browser's request arrives, it gets "The consent verifier has already been used". Hydra redirects the browser to the CLI callback with that error. The browser has a valid cookie and state, so loopbackLogin.complete accepts the error as the result, and ory auth still fails.
Possible solution:
In Hydra (the root cause): in verifyConsent, check the CSRF cookie before calling CreateConsentSession. The flow is decoded statelessly in step 1, so f.ConsentCSRF is already available. A cookie-less request would then be rejected without using up the verifier, and it would fix the same problem for every Hydra client, not just the CLI. Check with the Hydra owners in case the current order is deliberate. [I checked, this seems not deliberate – Robert]
In the CLI (a workaround): treat an error callback from the browser as something it can recover from rather than the end of the login. Show a "try again" page that links back to the start URL and keep waiting. This helps the user recover but doesn't stop previews from breaking the flow.
The CLI passes the start URL to the program that opens the browser
again, instead of writing a temporary page that forwards to it. The
browser login test runs on Windows again.
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Keep the start nonce out of launcher arguments.
The default hook calls browser.OpenURL. On Linux, the pinned dependency passes the complete URL as a process argument to xdg-open or another launcher. This change therefore exposes the nonce through launcher arguments. (raw.githubusercontent.com) On shared Linux hosts with default hidepid=0, another user can read those arguments. (kernel.org)
If another user captures the nonce before login finishes, they can open /start with their own cookie jar and authorize their own account. Their callback satisfies both checks. If that callback finishes first, loginOAuth2 stores their account in the victim's configuration. PKCE does not prevent this because the CLI creates and redeems that attempt.
Use a browser handoff that does not place the nonce in process arguments.
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Update the browser handoff used by openBrowserHook so the nonce-bearing startURL is not exposed in launcher process arguments. Preserve the existing login and callback validation behavior while using a handoff that keeps the nonce out of those arguments.
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ory authnow finishes the browser login even when other programs on the computer load the login URLs, and no longer panics when the callback is requested more than once.http://127.0.0.1:<port>/start?nonce=…, with a nonce generated for each login. Without the nonce,/startanswers 404.ory auth --no-browserprints the sign-in link without opening a browser.Related Issue or Design Document
Previously unknown bug: programs that load the pages the browser visits, such as macOS link previews, request the login URLs again without the browser's cookies. Ory Network redirects them to the CLI's callback with an error, and the CLI took the first callback as the result.
ory authfailed withNo CSRF value available in the session cookieorThe consent verifier has already been used, or signed in and then panicked withclose of closed channelwhile trying to redeem the code a second time.cmd/cloudx/client/auth_browser_test.goreproduces these cases in Chromium.Checklist
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--no-browseroption for sign-in. When enabled, the CLI prints a sign-in link for you to open manually.