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Require auth on LiveKit token endpoint and scope rooms per tenant

Description

GET /api/livekit had no session check at all, and there is no middleware covering apps/web. It read roomName and username straight from the query string and returned a LiveKit token with roomAdmin, roomCreate, roomRecord, recorder, roomList and agent granted. Anyone who knew the URL could mint an admin token for any room, under any identity.

This PR puts the endpoint behind the same guard our other API routes use, takes the identity from the session instead of the query string, and cuts the grants down to what the meet UI actually needs — camera, mic, screen share and chat.

Room names stay client-provided on purpose: they're ad-hoc (TeamName-Members-nanoid) and shared by link, so there is no persisted room to authorize against. Instead the room is prefixed with the caller's tenant, so a leaked link can't pull someone from another organization into the call. Members of the same tenant still resolve the same link to the same room, and no client change was needed for this — the room lives in the token, not in the component props.

What Was Changed

Major Changes

  • authenticatedGuard on the GET handler — unauthenticated requests now get a real 401
  • Identity comes from the Gauzy session (user.email), no longer from a username query param
  • Removed the six grants the UI never used: roomAdmin, roomCreate, roomRecord, recorder, roomList, agent
  • Room name is scoped per tenant

Minor Changes

  • The token is no longer cached in localStorage. It lived under a single key shared by every room, so switching rooms briefly published your camera and mic into the room you had just left, and after an hour you'd hit "Invalid token" from a stale cache.
  • Dropped the now-unused username param from the client service, the hook and the page
  • The hook no longer fires a request on the first render while roomName is still empty — that call always came back 400
  • route.ts reformatted to match our prettier config (it was on spaces and double quotes)

How to Test This PR

  1. Run yarn dev:web, make sure NEXT_PUBLIC_MEET_TYPE=LiveKit and the LIVEKIT_* vars are set
  2. Logged out, hit curl -i "http://localhost:3030/api/livekit?roomName=test" → expect 401
  3. Log in, start a meeting from the team view, and check camera, mic, screen share and chat all work
  4. Paste the token into jwt.io: video should only carry roomJoin, canPublish, canSubscribe, canPublishData, canUpdateOwnMetadata, sub should be your email, and room should be prefixed with your tenant id
  5. Copy the invite link from the meet settings and open it with another account in the same tenant → both of you land in the same room
  6. Open that same link with an account from another organization → separate room, no cross-tenant participants
  7. Navigate from one meet link to another without leaving the page → you should never appear in the previous room, even briefly

Screenshots (if needed)

No visual change. The only difference is that the meet no longer renders instantly from a cached token — there's a short wait while the token is fetched, same as it already was on a user's first meeting.

Related Issues

  • AUDIT-021 — /api/livekit unauthenticated, issuing room-admin LiveKit tokens to anyone (P1, security)

Type of Change

  • Bug fix (fixes a problem)
  • New feature (adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (requires changes elsewhere)
  • Documentation update

✅ Checklist

  • My code follows the project coding style
  • I reviewed my own code and added comments where needed
  • I tested my changes locally
  • I updated or created related documentation if needed
  • No new warnings or errors are introduced

Notes for the Reviewer

  • Meet links created before this deploys will stop working. Rooms are ephemeral (a new nanoid per click), so this only affects a call in progress at deploy time.
  • The route.ts diff looks bigger than it is — most of it is the prettier reformat. Happy to split it into a style commit and a fix commit if that makes review easier.
  • I returned an actual 401 instead of the guard's $res('Unauthorized'). Worth knowing more broadly: $res builds NextResponse.json({ statusCode: 401 }) with no status argument, so all 81 routes using it answer HTTP 200 on auth failure. Out of scope here, but it overlaps with AUDIT-024.
  • Dropping roomCreate assumes the LiveKit server has auto_create on (the default). Worth a quick check against our deployment.
  • Not fixed here: core/components/integration/livekit/index.tsx has an unmount "cleanup" that reopens getUserMedia just to stop the tracks. It's a no-op at best, but since the component now unmounts on room switch it runs more often — brief camera LED blink. Good follow-up candidate.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security Improvements

    • Live video room access now requires authentication and tenant membership.
    • Room permissions are limited to essential participation and publishing actions.
    • User identity is securely derived from the authenticated account.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Removed client-provided usernames from LiveKit token requests.
    • Improved token handling when switching rooms or receiving incomplete responses.
    • Prevented stale tokens from being reused.

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  • apps/web/core/services/server/livekitroom.ts

Walkthrough

The LiveKit token endpoint now requires an authenticated user with a tenant ID. It derives token identity from the user, scopes room grants to the tenant, and removes the client-supplied username. The client hook manages tokens in memory and handles room changes and cancellation.

Changes

Authenticated LiveKit token flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tenant-scoped token endpoint
apps/web/app/api/livekit/route.ts
The endpoint validates authentication, tenant context, and roomName. It issues restricted tenant-scoped grants using the authenticated user identity.
Client token request lifecycle
apps/web/core/services/server/livekitroom.ts, apps/web/core/hooks/common/use-live-kit.ts, apps/web/core/components/pages/meet/livekit/page-component.tsx
The token request no longer sends username. The hook stores tokens in memory, clears stale tokens on room changes, skips empty rooms, and ignores cancelled responses.

Graphify output ignore

Layer / File(s) Summary
Graphify output rule
.gitignore
The repository ignores /graphify-out.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 88242

The endpoint now requires authentication and limits token permissions, but room scoping currently uses a tenant value that may not match the caller’s active session. This can break valid access or create a cross-tenant isolation risk, so the tenant-context fix should land before merge; room-name URL encoding is a smaller follow-up issue.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant LiveKitPage
  participant UseTokenLiveKit
  participant TokenLiveKitRoom
  participant LiveKitRoute
  participant LiveKitToken
  LiveKitPage->>UseTokenLiveKit: Provide roomName
  UseTokenLiveKit->>TokenLiveKitRoom: Request token
  TokenLiveKitRoom->>LiveKitRoute: Call API with roomName
  LiveKitRoute->>LiveKitRoute: Validate user and tenant ID
  LiveKitRoute->>LiveKitToken: Create restricted tenant-scoped grant
  LiveKitToken-->>LiveKitRoute: Return token
  LiveKitRoute-->>TokenLiveKitRoom: Return token response
  TokenLiveKitRoom-->>UseTokenLiveKit: Provide token
  UseTokenLiveKit-->>LiveKitPage: Update in-memory token
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A rabbit checks the room by name,
No username rides the stream.
Tenant gates the token door,
Stale old tokens hop no more.
Graphify leaves the burrow clean—
/graphify-out stays unseen.

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Pull request overview

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This PR tightens LiveKit token issuance by removing client-supplied identity, enforcing authenticated access, and scoping rooms by tenant to reduce cross-tenant link leakage.

Changes:

  • Remove username from client token requests and derive identity from the authenticated user on the server.
  • Add auth guard to the /api/livekit endpoint and scope room names with tenantId.
  • Update the token hook to avoid stale tokens when switching rooms.

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Copilot reviewed 4 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 6 comments.

File Description
apps/web/core/services/server/livekitroom.ts Simplifies token request to only include roomName
apps/web/core/hooks/common/use-live-kit.ts Removes username dependency; resets token on room change and guards against stale async updates
apps/web/core/components/pages/meet/livekit/page-component.tsx Updates hook usage to match new signature
apps/web/app/api/livekit/route.ts Adds authentication + tenant-scoped room grants; reduces permissions

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…tenant

GET /api/livekit had no session check, and no middleware covers apps/web.
It read roomName and username from the query string and returned a token
granting roomAdmin, roomCreate, roomRecord, recorder, roomList and agent,
so anyone could mint an admin token for any room under any identity.

Put the handler behind authenticatedGuard, derive the identity from the
Gauzy session instead of the query string, and drop the six grants the
meet UI never used. Room names stay client-provided since they are ad-hoc
and shared by link, but are now prefixed with the caller's tenant so a
leaked link cannot reach another organization.

Also stop caching the token in localStorage: it lived under a single key
shared by every room, so switching rooms briefly published local tracks
into the room the user had just left.
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@NdekoCode NdekoCode changed the title fix(web): require auth on LiveKit token endpoint and scope rooms per tenant Require auth on LiveKit token endpoint and scope rooms per tenant Aug 16, 2026

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Review feedback. roomName was interpolated raw into the query string, so a
generated base64 name containing "+" reached the route decoded as a space.
Build the query with URLSearchParams instead.

Trim the room name once when reading it and use that value in the grant, so
"abc" and " abc" can no longer resolve to two different rooms.

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In `@apps/web/app/api/livekit/route.ts`:
- Around line 7-10: Update the authenticatedGuard destructuring in the route
handler to retain its returned tenantId, then use that active tenant ID for the
authorization check and LiveKit room grant instead of user.tenantId. Preserve
the existing unauthorized response when the guard does not provide a tenant ID.

In `@apps/web/core/services/server/livekitroom.ts`:
- Line 5: Update the fetch URL construction to use URLSearchParams for the
roomName value, preserving the default name when absent and ensuring special
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…adata

Review feedback. Clearing the token from a passive effect left one render where
the new room was already selected but the previous token was still handed out.
Store the room the token was issued for and return it only when it matches the
current room, so the swap happens during render instead of one tick later. This
also removes the need for the cancellation flag.

Neither our code nor @livekit/components-react ever mutates participant
metadata, so canUpdateOwnMetadata is dropped from the grant.
The guard also exposes a tenantId read from the auth-tenant-id cookie, which is
not httpOnly and can be rewritten from the browser. Scoping the room grant with
it would let a caller pick another tenant's rooms, so the route uses the tenant
returned by /user/me instead. Two reviewers flagged the unused guard value, hence
the note.
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NdekoCode requested a review from evereq August 16, 2026 18:43
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Greptile Summary

This change requires an authenticated tenant user before issuing LiveKit tokens, derives participant identity from the signed-in user, scopes rooms by tenant, and removes client-side token reuse.

A refreshable session can still be rejected by the LiveKit endpoint when its access token has expired, which prevents a participant from joining a meeting. The route also retains LiveKit authorization policy that should live in the service layer and uses a mutable token builder under a const binding.

T-Rex validation blocked

  • Tool: the standalone authentication harness could not provide the intended expired access-token cookie through cookies-next. It reached the guard but sent no authorization value, so it could not execute the exact expired-access-token and valid-refresh-token path.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The authentication and tenant-scoping changes improve token issuance safety, but refreshable sessions can still lose access to meetings after their access token expires.

The LiveKit route, authentication guard, and proxy behavior establish the missing refresh path in the relevant code. A direct cookie-backed execution could not complete because the standalone harness did not expose the supplied cookie to the application helper.

Files Needing Attention: apps/web/app/api/livekit/route.ts needs refresh-aware authentication before it issues or rejects a meeting token. The LiveKit grant construction should also move to the core service layer.

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  • The authentication guard was exercised against a local mock authentication API with an intended expired-access token and a refresh cookie; the run returned a null user, no refresh request was issued, and cookies-next did not read the supplied cookie in the standalone request context.
  • T-Rex produced a proof for a posted P1 finding.
  • The latest guard run log shows user: null, refreshCalls: 0, and a cookie extraction limitation meCalls: [""], and notes that the authentication harness was preserved with no repository changes while a definitive run would require a Next request context or a narrowly mocked cookie helper.

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    P1 LiveKit token endpoint has no demonstrated refresh path when its guard rejects an access token

    • Bug
      • GET /api/livekit invokes authenticatedGuard; that guard calls currentAuthenticatedUserRequest with the access-token cookie and returns user: null on its 401/error. LiveKit then returns { error: 'Unauthorized' } with status 401. The guard imports neither the refresh cookie nor refreshTokenRequest.
    • Cause
      • Refresh behavior is implemented in apps/web/proxy.ts, whereas authenticatedGuard itself only validates /user/me. The protected-route list covers app paths such as /meet, not the /api/livekit endpoint.
    • Fix
      • Make the LiveKit/API authentication flow refresh-and-retry before returning unauthorized, or ensure the request is routed through a server-side refresh mechanism that updates the request-visible access token before authenticatedGuard runs. Add an integration test with an expired access token and valid refresh token.

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@NdekoCode I did not have time to verify it all, but I wonder, if it still be possible to create a rooms where NOT whole tenant have access, but only user who created it and some people he invited!? We want not only global per tenant rooms, but also user private rooms!

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@NdekoCode I did not have time to verify it all, but I wonder, if it still be possible to create a rooms where NOT whole tenant have access, but only user who created it and some people he invited!? We want not only global per tenant rooms, but also user private rooms!

sir @evereq Private rooms still work the way they did. The tenant prefix narrows access, it doesn't open anything up. Room names are still generated per meeting, so two people in the same tenant only meet if they hold the same link. Before this PR anyone with a link could join, signed in or not, and could mint a room-admin token for any name. Now a caller needs the
link, a valid session, and the same tenant.

We made real restriction because now a guest from another organisation can no longer join, even with the
link. If cross-org meetings matter to us, say so and I'll swap the tenant prefix for a signed link instead.

Also there's no invite list today, and there never was: whoever holds the link gets in. Adding
one needs persisted room state (creator + invitees). Happy to open a separate github ticket if needed sir @evereq

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