fix(security): neutralize CR/LF in rendered log records (CWE-117) - #1265

Canonical issue

Progresses the router-wide CWE-117 hardening tracked by #810 / #913 / #898 by closing the residual sink those PRs could not reach from router.py alone. No single issue is claimed as Closes — this is the central-formatter half of that work.

Outcome

StructuredFormatter can no longer emit forged or corrupted log lines from attacker-controlled text. Inline call-site sanitizers (e.g. _safe_log in the v1 router) only scrub the interpolated message; the formatter itself appends exc_info tracebacks (str(exc) + frames) and structured extra fields after any per-argument sanitization runs. A ValueError("boom\r\nCRITICAL - ...") surfaced via logger.error(..., exc_info=True) therefore still forged a physical log line. This closes that vector at a single choke point, independent of whether any given call site sanitized its inputs.

Scope

• Included:
  • src/youtube_extension/backend/config/logging_config.py — neutralize line/escape separators in the fully rendered record inside StructuredFormatter.format().
  • tests/unit/test_logging_config_crlf.py — new regression tests asserting against rendered handler output.
• Explicitly excluded:
  • router.py _safe_log call sites (owned by fix(security): sanitize user-controlled values in API logs (CWE-117 log injection) #810; untouched here to avoid scope drift).
  • Reformatting the rest of logging_config.py (kept the diff to the security change only).

Risk

• Risk level: low
• Failure mode: separators (CR, LF, VT, FF, ESC, NEL, U+2028, U+2029) are escaped, not dropped, so multi-line tracebacks now render on a single physical line. No information is lost; only physical line count changes. Log content and application behavior are unchanged.
• Rollback: revert this commit; formatter returns to prior (vulnerable) behavior.

Verification

• Focused tests — tests/unit/test_logging_config_crlf.py: 11 passed (message CRLF, exc_info traceback, structured extra, Unicode separators, and a parametrized check that every declared unsafe char is neutralized).
• Empirical before/after: 2 log calls rendered 9 physical lines with 2 attacker-forged lines before the fix; exactly 1 line per call and 0 forged lines after.
• ruff check clean; new code is black-compliant.
• Required CI — pending on this PR.
• Review threads resolved — none open (new branch).

Production evidence

Not applicable to a Vercel preview: this is a Python-only backend logging change; the Next.js apps/web preview does not exercise it. Covered by the unit regression suite above.

Agent handoff

• Central-formatter fix that fix(security): sanitize user-controlled values in API logs (CWE-117 log injection) #810 flagged but could not land from router.py scope
• No competing PR implements the same change (no open PR touches logging_config.py)
• Acceptance criteria satisfied for the CWE-117 traceback/extra sink
• Required checks pass on the current head (pending CI)
• Human decision requested for merge (protected main) — this run does not auto-merge

Note on branch contents

This branch also carries one pre-existing, owner-authored commit — perf: invalidate Redis tags concurrently instead of serially — that predates this session and was not created here. Its canonical issue linkage lives solely on its dedicated PR #1262, which is the sole implementer of that cache-invalidation issue; this security PR claims no issue of its own. The commit is preserved rather than discarded, and git authorship is intact. Reviewers may drop it here once #1262 lands.

Governance note: the previous revision of this paragraph spelled out the carried commit's Closes reference verbatim, which tripped the canonical-conflict check on #1262 (the real implementer). Reworded to reference the linkage without restating the closing token. No code change.

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