fix(security): enforce client session authorization across policy, conflict, and sync operations (#1852)

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Security: Enforce Client Session Validation across Policy, Conflict, and Sync Operations

Fixes #1852

Summary

Resolves Broken Object-Level Authorization (BOLA) and IDOR risks across client interfaces by enforcing _get_validated_session_for_agent(agent_id) on administrative, conflict resolution, retention policy management, and project export synchronization methods.

Changes

1. Client Authorization Guards (memanto/cli/client/sdk_client.py, memanto/cli/client/direct_client.py):
   • Added mandatory session validation checks to get_policy, set_policy, apply_policy_preset, generate_daily_summary, generate_conflict_report, list_conflicts, resolve_conflict, sync_memory_to_project, and sync_okf_to_project.
2. Threadpool Session Propagation (memanto/app/routes/memory.py):
   • Added _direct_client_for_session to bind authenticated FastAPI session tokens into worker thread client instances.
3. CrewAI Client Isolation (integrations/crewai/crewai_memanto/tools.py):
   • Updated MemantoSetup with a per-agent client pool (_clients) to prevent multi-agent session token overwriting.
4. Regression Tests (tests/test_client_session_authorization.py):
   • Added 24 dedicated test cases covering unauthenticated access rejection and cross-agent session mismatch rejections. All 903 tests pass.

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• Security

  • Added session validation for policy management, memory operations, summaries, conflict handling, and project synchronization.
  • Restricted operations to authenticated, active sessions for the specified agent.
  • Prevented access when session credentials belong to a different agent.

• Bug Fixes

  • Ensured agent-specific clients and session credentials are consistently used during setup and memory operations.
  • Improved client cleanup when agent sessions are deactivated.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for unauthenticated and cross-agent access attempts.
  • Updated export and conflict-resolution tests for session-aware behavior.

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Walkthrough

Protected DirectClient and SdkClient operations now require active sessions for the specified agent. Memory routes pass authenticated session context to DirectClient. CrewAI setup tracks SDK clients per agent.

Changes

Session authorization and client isolation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Client session validation memanto/cli/client/direct_client.py, memanto/cli/client/sdk_client.py, tests/test_client_session_authorization.py	Protected policy, summary, conflict, memory export, and project synchronization operations validate the specified agent’s active session. Token and persisted session agent IDs must match. Tests cover missing sessions and cross-agent access.
Session-bound route clients memanto/app/routes/memory.py	Memory routes create session-bound DirectClient instances for daily summaries and conflict operations.
Agent-specific SDK client lifecycle integrations/crewai/crewai_memanto/tools.py	MemantoSetup creates and tracks SDK clients by agent ID, updates the shared client, and deactivates the matching client during teardown.
Session-validation test fixtures tests/test_backend.py, tests/test_cli.py, tests/test_unit.py	Tests disable session lookup where they exercise stale-cache or no-session behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 801f6

The PR strengthens client session authorization and per-agent session isolation across policy, conflict, and synchronization operations; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant MemoryRoutes
  participant DirectClient
  participant SessionService
  participant MemoryService
  Caller->>MemoryRoutes: request summary or conflict operation
  MemoryRoutes->>DirectClient: bind agent and authenticated session
  DirectClient->>SessionService: validate active agent session
  SessionService-->>DirectClient: return session status
  DirectClient->>MemoryService: execute operation when valid
  MemoryService-->>Caller: return operation result

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the primary security change: enforcing client session authorization across policy, conflict, and synchronization operations.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address the security objectives in [#1852] by enforcing session validation, binding tokens and persisted sessions to the requested agent, preventing cross-agent access, isolating CrewAI cl…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within the scope of [#1852]. Client authorization, agent isolation, session handling, and related regression tests directly address authentication, authorization, and data-isolation…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 88.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 50 functions across 8 files.

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Explanation

The changes address the security objectives in [#1852] by enforcing session validation, binding tokens and persisted sessions to the requested agent, preventing cross-agent access, isolating CrewAI clients, and adding regression tests.

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The changes remain within the scope of [#1852]. Client authorization, agent isolation, session handling, and related regression tests directly address authentication, authorization, and data-isolation risks.

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Inline comments:
In `@integrations/crewai/crewai_memanto/tools.py`:
- Around line 84-85: Update the client selection in the agent deactivation flow
to use the fallback self.client only when its agent_id matches the requested
agent_id. If _clients has no matching entry and self.client belongs to another
agent, report that no client is tracked for agent_id and do not call
deactivate_agent.

In `@memanto/cli/client/direct_client.py`:
- Line 1067: Bind validated sessions to the requested agent by requiring both
the JWT subject and loaded session to match agent_id in
_get_validated_session_for_agent: update memanto/cli/client/direct_client.py
lines 1067-1067 and memanto/cli/client/sdk_client.py lines 893-893. Add a
cold-validator test using agent A’s token with requested agent B in
tests/test_client_session_authorization.py lines 98-105; exercise the real
validator rather than mocking the expected failure.

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[tzh476]

Both review findings are addressed in 801f6b9 (replies inline on each thread), and CI is green.

🟠 Major — token/agent binding. Both validators now reject a token whose JWT subject doesn't match the requested agent, and also verify the loaded session record: direct_client.py L396/L409 and sdk_client.py L228/L241.

I mutation-tested this rather than only reading the diff, to confirm the guards actually carry weight:

state	result
as committed	tests/test_client_session_authorization.py 28 passed
remove only the token_payload.agent_id check	test fails, attack still blocked by the session.agent_id check
remove both checks	escalation reachable — requesting agent-b returns session.agent_id='agent-a'

So the vulnerability is genuinely reachable without the guards, and the two checks are defense in depth. The regression test exercises the real SessionService with a real JWT against the real cold validator (no mocked failure), as the review asked.

🟡 Minor — crewai fallback client. teardown() now only uses self.client when self.client.agent_id == agent_id, otherwise it logs "no tracked client" and returns instead of ending a different agent's session (tools.py L99-L106).

To reproduce: pip install -e . pytest pytest-asyncio pytest-timeout then pytest tests/test_client_session_authorization.py -q. (pytest-asyncio and pytest-timeout are needed because pyproject.toml sets asyncio_mode and timeout but doesn't list them as test deps — happy to add them in this PR if useful.)

This is for the #1852 security challenge. mergeStateStatus is currently BLOCKED on REVIEW_REQUIRED, so it needs a maintainer review to move — let me know if you'd like anything changed or split differently.