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ResetPasswordSpaceEndpoint.post() looked the user up inside a try block that only caught DjangoUnicodeDecodeError, so a reset link whose uidb64 decodes to something unusable crashed with an unhandled 500 instead of redirecting to the invalid-link page:

uidb64 decodes to raised before after
a UUID with no matching user User.DoesNotExist 500 302, error_code=5125
a non-UUID string django.core.exceptions.ValidationError 500 302, error_code=5125
undecodable base64 ValueError (binascii) 500 302, error_code=5125
invalid utf-8 DjangoUnicodeDecodeError 302, error_code=5130 unchanged

DjangoUnicodeDecodeError subclasses ValueError, so the except DjangoUnicodeDecodeError clause has to be matched first for EXPIRED_PASSWORD_TOKEN to survive. In the app endpoint (ResetPasswordEndpoint) it sat on an outer try below an inner except (ValueError, ...), so it was already dead code: an undecodable uidb64 answered 5125 there but 5130 on the space endpoint. The app endpoint also still 500'd on a non-UUID id, since ValidationError is not a ValueError.

Both endpoints now use the same ordering, answer identical input identically, and no longer carry an unreachable handler. No other behaviour changed — the rest of each method is dedented out of the outer try verbatim (git diff -w shows only the except clauses moving), and the catch is narrower than before: it now wraps only the decode and the lookup, not set_password/save.

Note: /auth/reset-password/<uidb64>/<token>/ now returns 5130 EXPIRED_PASSWORD_TOKEN for an undecodable uidb64 where it previously returned 5125. That is what the existing (unreachable) handler was written to do; say the word if you'd rather keep 5125 and I'll drop that handler instead.

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  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)

Test Scenarios

New contract tests in apps/api/plane/tests/contract/app/test_password_reset.py — 13 cases covering every branch of both endpoints (unknown user, non-UUID id, malformed base64, undecodable utf-8, bad token, missing password, weak password, successful reset).

docker compose -f docker-compose-test.yml run --rm api-tests \
  pytest plane/tests/contract/app/test_password_reset.py
...
13 passed in 22.28s

Reverting only the two view files and rerunning gives 5 failed, 8 passed — the three space-endpoint crash paths, the app endpoint's non-UUID crash, and the app/space divergence — so the tests pin the actual defects.

ruff check and ruff format --check are clean on all three files.

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Fixes #9172

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved password-reset handling for malformed, expired, invalid, or unknown reset links.
    • Users now receive appropriate error responses when account details or reset tokens cannot be verified.
    • Preserved validation for missing, weak, and invalid passwords during resets.
    • Prevented rejected reset attempts from changing account settings or credentials.
    • Prevented previously used reset links from being replayed.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for app and space password-reset success, failure, redirect, and state-preservation scenarios.

ResetPasswordSpaceEndpoint looked the user up inside a try block that only
caught DjangoUnicodeDecodeError, so a reset link whose uidb64 decodes to an
unknown UUID raised User.DoesNotExist, one that decodes to a non-UUID string
raised ValidationError, and one that is not decodable base64 raised ValueError
- all three surfaced as unhandled 500s instead of the invalid-link page.

Handle those cases on both reset endpoints and redirect to the reset-password
page with INVALID_PASSWORD_TOKEN, keeping EXPIRED_PASSWORD_TOKEN for an
undecodable uidb64. Because DjangoUnicodeDecodeError subclasses ValueError,
that clause has to come first - in the app endpoint it sat on an outer try
below `except (ValueError, ...)`, so it was already unreachable and an
undecodable uidb64 answered 5125 there and 5130 on the space endpoint. Both
endpoints now answer identical input identically.

Adds contract tests covering every branch of both endpoints; the five that
target the crash paths fail against the unpatched views.

Fixes makeplane#9172
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Password reset endpoints isolate user lookup errors from token and password validation. Contract tests cover malformed, unknown, undecodable, and invalid inputs, plus successful resets and token replay protection for app and space endpoints.

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Password reset handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Endpoint lookup and reset flow
apps/api/plane/authentication/views/app/password_management.py, apps/api/plane/authentication/views/space/password_management.py
The endpoints return specific redirects for malformed IDs, undecodable IDs, missing users, and invalid tokens. Successful flows validate and save the new password.
Password reset contract coverage
apps/api/plane/tests/contract/app/test_password_reset.py
Contract tests verify exact redirects, rejected-request state preservation, password strength checks, successful updates, autoset state changes, and token replay rejection.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cd357

The change makes malformed password-reset links redirect instead of returning 500 responses. The PR is mergeable, but several rejection tests reportedly do not verify the required reset-page destination, so that redirect contract should receive explicit owner follow-up.

Suggested reviewers: dheeru0198, pablohashescobar

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary fix: invalid password reset links redirect instead of returning HTTP 500.
Description check ✅ Passed The description covers the problem, bug-fix type, implementation, test scenarios, results, and linked issue.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #9172 by redirecting valid but nonexistent user IDs instead of raising an unhandled 500 error.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The view changes, contract tests, and documentation updates directly support the password-reset error-handling objectives.
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apps/api/plane/tests/contract/app/test_password_reset.py (1)

157-211: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add app-route regression tests for invalid tokens, missing passwords, and weak passwords.

TestResetPasswordAppEndpoint currently covers UID handling and successful resets only. The app route has separate branches for these validation failures.

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In `@apps/api/plane/tests/contract/app/test_password_reset.py` around lines 157 -
211, Add regression tests to TestResetPasswordAppEndpoint covering invalid
password tokens, missing password submissions, and weak passwords; assert each
app-route response redirects with the appropriate error code and preserve the
existing UID-handling and successful-reset tests.
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In `@apps/api/plane/tests/contract/app/test_password_reset.py`:
- Around line 157-211: Add regression tests to TestResetPasswordAppEndpoint
covering invalid password tokens, missing password submissions, and weak
passwords; assert each app-route response redirects with the appropriate error
code and preserve the existing UID-handling and successful-reset tests.

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Review follow-up: TestResetPasswordAppEndpoint only exercised uid handling and
the success path, so the invalid-token, missing-password and weak-password
branches of ResetPasswordEndpoint were untested. Assert the redirect
destination and that a rejected reset leaves is_password_autoset alone, and
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Thanks @coderabbitai — both points addressed in d0c09b6.

Nitpick (app-route coverage): valid. TestResetPasswordAppEndpoint only exercised uid handling and the success path, so ResetPasswordEndpoint's invalid-token, missing-password and weak-password branches were untested. Added all three, plus an assertion that a rejected reset leaves is_password_autoset untouched and that the redirect lands on accounts/reset-password — the error code alone would not catch a branch redirecting to the wrong page. 16 passed.

Docstring coverage check: the five undocumented functions in the diff (post() on both endpoints, and the three test helpers) now have docstrings.

One correction worth recording: an earlier revision of the helper docstring claimed reverse() "resolves to the wrong view" for these routes. That is wrong — Django disambiguates duplicate url names by argument count, so reverse("forgot-password", args=[uidb64, token]) does resolve to the reset-password pattern. Verified against a reconstruction of plane/authentication/urls.py:122-138 on Django 5.2:

forgot-password        args=[]             -> /auth/change-password/
forgot-password        args=[UID, TOK]     -> /auth/reset-password/UID/TOK/
space-forgot-password  args=[]             -> /auth/spaces/forgot-password/
space-forgot-password  args=[UID, TOK]     -> /auth/spaces/reset-password/UID/TOK/

The tests still build the paths by hand — these are contract tests, so pinning the literal URL is the point — but the docstring now gives the accurate reason.

Separate from this PR, for maintainers: three patterns share name="forgot-password" and two share name="space-forgot-password" (plane/authentication/urls.py:122-138), so reverse() on those names is resolved purely by arity. Nothing in the repo reverses them today, so it is latent rather than broken. Happy to send a follow-up giving each pattern a unique name if that is wanted — left out here to keep this PR to the crash fix.

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74-75: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the exact redirect destination.

These tests often verify only error_code, or use substring checks on Location. They can pass when the endpoint redirects to the wrong page. Parse response["Location"] and assert the expected endpoint-specific path and query parameters for every failure and success branch. Use the paths implemented by apps/api/plane/authentication/views/space/password_management.py and apps/api/plane/authentication/views/app/password_management.py.

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In `@apps/api/plane/tests/contract/app/test_password_reset.py` around lines 74 -
75, Strengthen the redirect assertions in the password-reset tests by parsing
each response Location and validating the exact endpoint-specific path and query
parameters for every success and failure branch, rather than checking only an
error-code substring. Use the redirect destinations implemented by the relevant
password_management views and update all listed assertion cases consistently.
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In `@apps/api/plane/tests/contract/app/test_password_reset.py`:
- Around line 127-131: Update the rejected password-reset tests around the
response assertions to save reset_user.password before submitting the request,
then refresh the user and assert the password hash matches the saved value.
Apply this to all indicated rejected-reset cases while retaining the
is_password_autoset is True assertion.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@apps/api/plane/tests/contract/app/test_password_reset.py`:
- Around line 74-75: Strengthen the redirect assertions in the password-reset
tests by parsing each response Location and validating the exact
endpoint-specific path and query parameters for every success and failure
branch, rather than checking only an error-code substring. Use the redirect
destinations implemented by the relevant password_management views and update
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@TemoSulava Confirmed in d0c09b6.

The app endpoint now has coverage for invalid tokens, missing passwords, and weak passwords. The rejected-reset tests verify the error response and preserve is_password_autoset. The invalid-token test also verifies the reset-password redirect destination.

The five affected functions now have docstrings. The corrected reverse() explanation is accurate. Literal paths are appropriate for these URL contract tests.

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Review follow-up:
- Substring checks on Location passed even if a branch redirected to the wrong
  page. Parse the redirect and compare origin, path and query exactly. Only the
  doubled slash after the space base path is normalized - base_host() already
  ends in a slash, so that quirk predates this branch; the same defect anywhere
  else now fails.
- `not check_password(candidate)` only proved the submitted password was not
  stored, not that the existing one survived. Snapshot the hash before the
  request and assert it is unchanged.
- Pin SPACE_BASE_PATH alongside the host so the expected paths do not depend on
  the ambient environment.
- Cover token replay: a spent link must be rejected, since the token is hashed
  over the stored password.
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Both findings check out — fixed in 1a2ecbe. 18 tests pass.

Rejected resets preserving the original password — correct, and the gap was real. assert not user.check_password(candidate) only proves the submitted password was not stored; a bug that wrote some other value (an unusable hash, a stale password) passed it. Every rejected-reset test now snapshots user.password before the request and asserts the refreshed hash is byte-identical, keeping the is_password_autoset is True assertion.

Exact redirect destination — also correct: "error_code=5125" in Location passes no matter which page the endpoint redirected to, since the code lives in the query string. Redirects are now parsed and compared on origin, path and query:

assert (location.scheme, location.netloc) == EXPECTED_ORIGIN
assert location.path.replace("/spaces//", "/spaces/", 1).rstrip("/") == expected_path
assert parse_qs(location.query, keep_blank_values=True) == expected_query

One deliberate deviation from "compare the exact path": the space endpoint emits /spaces//accounts/reset-password/base_host() already returns a trailing slash and the f-strings at space/password_management.py:127,135,145,155,165 add another. That predates this branch, so the helper normalizes that one boundary rather than freezing the quirk in an expected constant. Everything else is compared as emitted, so the same // defect appearing anywhere else — including the app endpoint — fails.

Also added while in here:

  • SPACE_BASE_PATH is pinned alongside the host. It is read from the environment at settings-import time, so without pinning the expected paths depended on the ambient env (SPACE_BASE_PATH="" would have collapsed the space path onto the app one and failed 8 tests for a config reason).
  • Token replay is now covered on both endpoints: a spent link must be rejected, since PasswordResetTokenGenerator hashes over the stored password. That is the security property this PR reshuffled control flow around, and nothing pinned it.

To confirm the new assertions actually bite rather than just passing: mutating SPACE_ERROR_PATH and APP_SUCCESS_PATH to wrong destinations fails 8 of the 18. Reverting the two view files fails the crash-path tests, as before.

For maintainers, unchanged from above and still out of scope here: the /spaces//accounts/reset-password/ double slash, and the duplicated name="forgot-password" / name="space-forgot-password" url names. Happy to send either as a follow-up.

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In `@apps/api/plane/tests/contract/app/test_password_reset.py`:
- Around line 23-24: Update the redirect assertions in the password-reset tests
to preserve exact trailing-slash comparisons: set SPACE_ERROR_PATH and
SPACE_SUCCESS_PATH to their required trailing-slash values, retain only the
targeted space double-slash normalization, and remove the blanket trailing-slash
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rstrip("/") erased the one difference between the two endpoints: the space
endpoint builds its redirects with f-strings and emits a trailing slash, the
app endpoint uses urljoin() and does not. Stripping let either one drift onto
the other's form unnoticed. Compare the path as emitted and carry the trailing
slash in the space constants; the targeted "/spaces//" normalization stays.
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Valid — applied as proposed in cd35735.

rstrip("/") erased the one real difference between the two endpoints: the space endpoint builds its redirects with f-strings and emits /spaces/accounts/reset-password/, while the app endpoint uses urljoin() and emits /accounts/reset-password with no trailing slash. Stripping meant either could drift onto the other's form without a test noticing. The path is now compared as emitted, with the trailing slash carried in the space constants; the targeted /spaces// normalization stays.

SPACE_ERROR_PATH = "/spaces/accounts/reset-password/"
SPACE_SUCCESS_PATH = "/spaces/"
APP_ERROR_PATH = "/accounts/reset-password"
APP_SUCCESS_PATH = "/sign-in"
...
assert location.path.replace("/spaces//", "/spaces/", 1) == expected_path

18 passed. Confirmed the assertion now discriminates on the trailing slash: adding one to APP_ERROR_PATH and removing one from SPACE_SUCCESS_PATH fails 9 of the 18.

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