Secrets:SqlitePath is now validated at startup by SecretsOptionsValidator using two
rules in the new public SecretsStorePathRules. Both come from production incidents and
neither implies the other.
Must be absolute: a relative value resolves against the process working directory,
which for a Windows service is C:\Windows\System32, so the store lands outside the
installation; in a dev loop it lands in the source tree (a gateway was observed writing
its secrets database into src/, tripping that repo's own tree-hygiene test).
Must not be inside the content root: an absolute path can still point into the
directory every deployment procedure in this family renames on upgrade. On 2026-08-09 a
gateway's credential store sat inside its Server\ directory; the deploy renamed Server
to Server.bak.*, the database went with it, and the process created a fresh empty one
at the same path. Every consumer lost its credential, silently, for two days. The
existing "must be absolute" convention did not help — the path was absolute.
The rules reject rather than relocate. Silently moving a credential store presents later
as an authentication failure pointing nowhere near the configuration that caused it; a
boot error is seen immediately by whoever caused it. Validation is deliberately not
exempted in Development: a guard that never runs in a dev loop or in CI rots, and the
configuration behind the outage looked entirely reasonable.
BREAKING for configuration, not API. SecretsOptions.SqlitePath now defaults to an
absolute per-user path under LocalApplicationData; it was "secrets.db", which the new
rules reject. An application configuring a relative path will fail to boot — remove the
key or set an absolute one outside the content root. All five deployed instances of this
family were checked first and already set an absolute path outside their content root,
so the migration edge (a host relying on the OLD default now finding nothing and
creating an empty store — this bug, re-introduced by its own fix) does not apply to any
of them.
Per-user rather than machine-wide is deliberate: CommonApplicationData is /usr/share on
Linux and macOS, which a normal user cannot write, so a machine-wide library default
would fail every consuming application's boot on a developer machine. An application may
compute its own default; the configured value always wins.
Validator registration is idempotent. AddZbSecrets is legitimately called more than once
in real compositions, and TryAddEnumerable cannot de-duplicate a factory-built
descriptor — it de-duplicates on implementation type, which a factory does not carry, so
it throws on the second call rather than skipping. The existing suite caught this.
Tests cover both rules including the segment-boundary case (/srv/app-data must not read
as inside /srv/app — a false positive on a fail-closed startup rule is an application
that will not boot), that the shipped default satisfies the rules it ships with, that
the default is not machine-wide, idempotent registration, and — most importantly — that
a bad path actually throws when IOptions is resolved, since a correctly implemented
validator that is never invoked is the same "guard that does not fire" failure this
change exists to prevent.
Family bumps to 0.6.0. Adds a dependency on ZB.MOM.WW.Configuration 0.1.0 for the shared
OptionsValidatorBase/ValidationBuilder vocabulary, which every consumer already
references.
Adds the end-to-end layer the unit suites structurally cannot reach: a real
in-process ASP.NET Core host serving SecretsHubService through
AddZbSecretsGrpcHub/MapZbSecretsHub, a follower built by the shipped
AddZbSecretsGrpcHubClient, a real gRPC call between them, and real SQLite
stores on both sides. The class of defect this catches is pieces that are each
individually correct and are never connected to one another — for instance the
interceptor's warn-once, which only holds if the container really hands gRPC
the singleton it registered.
Covered: byte-identical convergence over the wire (every ciphertext/nonce/tag/
wrapped-DEK byte, kek_id, revision, both timestamps INCLUDING their offsets,
across a tombstone, a nulls-everywhere row and an empty-string-description row);
delete propagation; a hub unreachable at follower boot leaving the last-known-
good store intact and converging once it answers; the auth negatives fail-closed
across the wire with one uniform denial detail; the per-request name cap as
ResourceExhausted; and an RpcException from the call invoker escaping the hub
client unchanged, so a transport fault stays distinguishable from a parse fault.
The credential-hygiene assertions are made against logs captured at Trace on
BOTH hosts, so "no token material ever reaches a sink" is asserted at the most
verbose setting a deployment could switch on.
SecretsHubContractPinTests reads the generated descriptor — not the .proto text
— and pins the RPC set to exactly {GetManifest, GetSecrets}, plus unary-only and
the package-qualified service name. The hub is pull-only by construction:
updates originate at central only, and the absence of a write RPC is what
enforces that, not authorization a mis-wired follower may hold more of than
intended. A third RPC silently retires the guarantee, so the failure message
says so.
Microsoft.AspNetCore.TestHost pinned at 10.0.7 — the version ZB.MOM.WW.LocalDb,
OtOpcUa and ScadaBridge already pin, matching the Microsoft.Extensions.* line.
Full suite: 436 passed / 0 failed / 15 skipped, no new warnings.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014WNM4vjoVksyyBraTXSZE1
Adds the third replicator sibling next to Replicator.SqlServer and
Replicator.AkkaDotNet: the central-hosted gRPC secrets hub. This commit is
scaffold only -- project, wire contract, solution wiring -- no service or
client implementation.
The proto mirrors exactly the read half of ISecretReplicationHub
(GetManifestAsync, GetManyAsync). ApplyReplicatedAsync is deliberately NOT
mirrored: in this topology every update originates at central and a site node
is a strict follower, so the narrow contract IS the enforcement -- with no
write RPC on the wire, a mis-wired or compromised site node has no way to push
a row into the hub regardless of what its authorization allows.
Messages are hand-written mirrors of StoredSecret and SecretManifestEntry
rather than serializations of the domain types, following the Akka
replicator's SecretRowDto precedent: the trust boundary stays structural, and
a field added to StoredSecret later cannot start crossing the network merely
by existing. Timestamps are ISO-8601 "O" strings (not google.protobuf.
Timestamp, which cannot round-trip a DateTimeOffset's offset) so a relayed row
is byte-identical to the one central holds; nullable .NET fields use proto3
explicit presence so null and empty string stay distinguishable.
Grpc 2.76.0 / Google.Protobuf 3.34.1 match what ScadaBridge, OtOpcUa and the
sibling ZB.MOM.WW.LocalDb libraries already resolve, so a consumer taking both
gets one Grpc rather than a downgrade warning.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014WNM4vjoVksyyBraTXSZE1
Secrets were per-node SQLite, so a secret written on one node was invisible to
the rest of a cluster. G-7's design resolved the "shared SQL store vs Akka
replicator" fork to build only the former; both are built here so the choice is
a deployment decision (availability vs partition tolerance) rather than a
library limitation.
Two new packages — ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Replicator.SqlServer (shared store, plus a
local-store-with-hub mode) and .Replicator.AkkaDotNet (peer-to-peer over
distributed pub/sub). Core gains ISecretsStoreMigrator, one shared
SecretLastWriterWins predicate so no two stores can disagree on a tie, the
transport-agnostic reconciler, and ReplicatingSecretStore — which closes a real
gap: nothing had ever called ISecretReplicator.PublishAsync, so the seam was
inert and local writes would not have propagated at all.
Verified 182 pass / 1 skip / 0 warnings, including 15 live tests against a real
SQL Server 2022 (the SQLite suite ported case-for-case, so any behavioural
divergence between the stores fails) and a 9-test in-process 2-node Akka
cluster over real remoting. A post-build review caught six defects, all fixed
and now covered: both replication modes could not resolve from the container
(no test had built one), an unbounded fetch that broke past SQL Server's
2100-parameter cap, a poison row that aborted the rest of its batch forever,
Enum.Parse on peer input that could restart the actor in a loop, null crypto
blobs crossing the trust boundary, and a silently dropped pull-read failure.
Packed at 0.2.0 and vulnerability-scanned clean; not yet published to the feed.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BL2Vu1ESDQ9SCN4gVKkdts
Packing Secrets 0.1.3 surfaced NU1903: Microsoft.Data.Sqlite 10.0.7 pulls
SQLitePCLRaw.lib.e_sqlite3 2.1.11, which carries high-severity advisory
GHSA-2m69-gcr7-jv3q. Auth.ApiKeys had the same exposure and was already shipped
at 0.1.4 to three consumers, so both libs are fixed rather than only the one
being published.
Fixed the way ZB.MOM.WW.LocalDb already had it: CentralPackageTransitivePinningEnabled
plus a pin to the patched 2.1.12. Bumping Microsoft.Data.Sqlite does not help --
even 10.0.10 still resolves 2.1.11 -- so the pin is the actual fix. The pin reaches
consumers: both nuspecs now declare SQLitePCLRaw.lib.e_sqlite3 >= 2.1.12 as a direct
dependency, verified by restoring the published packages into a scratch project,
which resolves 2.1.12 and scans clean.
Auth goes 0.1.4 -> 0.1.5 with no API change (0.1.4 plus the pin). Suites re-run
after the native-lib swap with identical counts, so no behavioral regression:
Secrets 97 pass/1 skip, Auth 215 pass/1 skip (both skips are Windows-only DPAPI
and opt-in LDAP).
Consumers are NOT yet bumped and remain on vulnerable versions: mxaccessgw 0.1.4,
HistorianGateway 0.1.4, ScadaBridge 0.1.3. Secrets consumers all sit at 0.1.2 and
also lack KEK rotation.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BL2Vu1ESDQ9SCN4gVKkdts
Joseph Doherty