canto-saas-api: OAuth credentials exposed in URL query string and exception messages

Summary

In affected versions, the OAuth2 token request sends app_id, app_secret, refresh_token and code as URL query parameters of the POST request to https://oauth.<domain>/oauth/api/oauth2/token. Request URLs are commonly recorded in access logs, proxy logs and APM traces, so the application secret and refresh token can be persisted in plain text outside the application's control.

In addition, when the token request fails, the Guzzle exception message — which contains the full request URI including the credentials — was passed unmodified into the AuthorizationFailedException thrown by OAuth2::obtainAccessToken(). Applications that log exceptions or forward them to error trackers (e.g. Sentry) may therefore have recorded the app secret in their logs.

Impact

An attacker with access to web server logs, proxy logs, APM tracing data or application error logs of a consumer of this library can obtain the Canto app_secret, refresh_token or authorization code and use them to obtain access tokens for the Canto tenant.

Patches

Fixed in 3.0.0:

• OAuth credentials are sent in the form-encoded POST body instead of the URL query string (RFC 6749 §2.3.1). OAuth2Request::getQueryParams() now returns null; the parameters are available via getFormParams().
• Exception messages are sanitized before being rethrown: the values of app_secret, refresh_token and code are masked (including url-encoded, differently cased and JSON-embedded variants).

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade:

• Treat web server, proxy and APM logs of systems performing Canto OAuth requests as secret material and restrict access to them.
• Catch AuthorizationFailedException in your application and strip the query string from the message before logging or forwarding it.

If your logs may have been exposed, rotate the affected Canto app secret.