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Summary

The four id-keyed bounty mutations (submit, approve, cancel, dispute) loaded the bounty and ran lifecycle and participant checks without the repo read-visibility gate that get_bounty and claim_bounty already enforce, so any signed caller holding a private-repo bounty id could tell a real bounty (400/403) from a nonexistent one (404) and read its lifecycle state.

Motivation & context

Closes #341. Signing is free, so the gate cannot rely on the caller being a known participant. The fix applies the same authorize_repo_read block the other handlers use, immediately after the lookup: a denied caller gets the same 404 as a missing bounty, and nothing about status or participants is disclosed.

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  • Bug fix
  • Feature
  • Security fix
  • Docs
  • Tests / CI
  • Refactor (no behavior change)
  • Breaking or protocol change (issue required first)

What changed

  • gitlawb-node: submit_bounty, approve_bounty, cancel_bounty, and dispute_bounty resolve read visibility through authorize_repo_read at / right after get_bounty, before the status and participant checks, matching get_bounty/claim_bounty. Denial renders the same 404 bounty <id> not found as an absent id.
  • Tests drive all four routes through the production router with real RFC-9421 signatures (generated keypairs, require_signature middleware): a stranger holding a private-repo id gets the same not_found response shape as an absent id on every route, and a stranger on a public repo still reaches the participant checks at 403.

How a reviewer can verify

DATABASE_URL=... cargo test --locked --bin gitlawb-node -- bounty

Removing the gate block from any of the four handlers returns 403 instead of 404 on the held-id stranger case (observed on all four routes before the fix).

Also exercised end to end against a live node over HTTP: a signed stranger got the same 404 shape on all four private-repo bounty ids as on absent ids; public-repo strangers still hit participant 403s; an unsigned request got 401.

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  • Scope is one logical change; no unrelated churn
  • cargo test --locked --bin gitlawb-node passes locally against Postgres (21 bounty/gate tests)
  • New behavior is covered by tests (required for fixes)
  • cargo fmt --all and cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings are clean
  • Commit titles use Conventional Commits (feat(...), fix(...), docs(...))
  • Docs / .env.example updated if behavior or config changed (N/A)
  • Checked existing PRs so this isn't a duplicate (gl: add --icaptcha-proof flag to register command #193 touches bounties.rs only as a file-mode change; test_support.rs additions are disjoint appends)

Protocol & signing impact

None: authorization-gate change only; request/response shapes unchanged.

Notes for reviewers

The 404-on-deny deliberately matches the read-surface contract, so a denied caller learns nothing about existence. Per the issue, the class-guard blind spot (every_repo_scoped_handler_is_gated does not see Path<String> routes) is a separate follow-up. The same lookup-before-authorize pattern in tasks.rs is #268/#395 scope, not this PR.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Strengthened authorization for bounty submission, approval, cancellation, and dispute actions.
    • Bounties associated with repositories a requester cannot read now respond as not found, preventing access through opaque bounty IDs.
    • Requests for readable repositories continue through the appropriate participant and permission checks.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for private and public repository authorization scenarios.
    • Added exact response validation for unauthorized and missing bounty requests.

…checks

submit, approve, cancel, and dispute on /api/v1/bounties/{id}/* looked the
bounty up and ran status and participant checks without gating on the
bounty's repo read visibility. A signed stranger holding an id got a
distinguishable 400/403 on a private-repo bounty where an absent id gets
404, so the routes were an existence and lifecycle oracle.

Insert the same authorize_repo_read block get_bounty and claim_bounty
already carry, right after the lookup, so a denied caller sees the
not-found shape either way. Participant checks are unchanged; on a public
repo a stranger still reaches them.

Closes Gitlawb#341
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The four bounty mutation handlers now verify repository read access before existing status and participant checks. Authorization failures return not-found responses. Tests compare complete not-found JSON responses for private-repository and absent bounty IDs.

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Bounty mutation authorization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Repository read gates for bounty mutations
crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/bounties.rs
submit_bounty, approve_bounty, cancel_bounty, and dispute_bounty now require repository read access after loading the bounty. Failed authorization returns not-found before existing validation.
Authorization denial response tests
crates/gitlawb-node/src/test_support.rs
Bounty mutation tests compare complete not_found JSON responses for held private-repository IDs and absent IDs, including the error code and ID-specific message.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant BountyMutationHandler
  participant Database
  participant RepositoryAuthorization
  Caller->>BountyMutationHandler: Submit, approve, cancel, or dispute bounty
  BountyMutationHandler->>Database: Load bounty
  Database-->>BountyMutationHandler: Bounty or absent result
  BountyMutationHandler->>RepositoryAuthorization: Check repository read access
  RepositoryAuthorization-->>BountyMutationHandler: Allow or deny
  BountyMutationHandler-->>Caller: Not-found or existing validation response
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Private-repository bounty mutations now conceal bounty existence from unauthorized callers while preserving existing participant rules. No actionable merge risk remains.

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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: enforcing repository read authorization before bounty mutation status checks.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is complete and focused. It explains the vulnerability, motivation, affected handlers, authorization behavior, test coverage, verification commands, and review checklist status.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #341 requires a read gate after lookup in submit_bounty, approve_bounty, cancel_bounty, and dispute_bounty. The reviewed handlers call authorize_repo_read immediately after `get_bounty…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The handler changes implement the four read gates required by Issue #341. The test_support.rs changes provide production-router and signature-based coverage for the same denial behavior. No unrelate…
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This PR adds repository read-visibility checks to all four ID-keyed bounty mutation handlers and adds signed router-level tests for private- and public-repository behavior.

  • Gates submit, approve, cancel, and dispute before lifecycle and participant checks.
  • Conceals denied private-repository bounty IDs behind bounty-not-found responses.
  • Adds reusable signed-request and bounty-seeding test helpers.
  • Covers private-repository denial and public-repository participant checks.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The PR should not merge until authorization infrastructure failures are allowed to retain their 5xx semantics instead of being reported as missing bounties.

The visibility gate closes the intended existence oracle, but all four changed handlers also swallow database and internal authorization errors as 404 responses; the accompanying regression assertion is additionally too permissive to preserve the complete denial-body contract.

Files Needing Attention: crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/bounties.rs; crates/gitlawb-node/src/test_support.rs

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/bounties.rs Adds correctly ordered read-visibility gates, but indiscriminately converts authorization infrastructure failures into not-found responses.
crates/gitlawb-node/src/test_support.rs Adds production-router coverage for the four gates, though the private-denial helper does not fully compare the denial and absent response shapes.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
    participant C as Signed caller
    participant H as Bounty mutation handler
    participant DB as Database
    participant A as Repository read authorization
    C->>H: "POST /bounties/{id}/{action}"
    H->>DB: get_bounty(id)
    alt Bounty absent
        H-->>C: 404 bounty not found
    else Bounty exists
        H->>A: authorize_repo_read(owner, repo, caller, "/")
        alt Read denied
            H-->>C: 404 bounty not found
        else Authorization infrastructure failure
            Note over H,A: Current code also converts this to 404
            H-->>C: 404 bounty not found
        else Read allowed
            H->>H: Check lifecycle and participant
            H-->>C: Mutation result or validation error
        end
    end
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@beardthelion beardthelion added crate:node gitlawb-node — the serving node and REST API kind:bug Defect fix — wrong or unsafe behavior labels Sep 13, 2026

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In `@crates/gitlawb-node/src/test_support.rs`:
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- assert the exact not_found body shape for both held and absent bounty
  ids in the mutation-gate helper, so a denial carrying lifecycle or
  participant detail fails the test
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