testland/cross-tenant-data-leak-tests
Workflow-driven skill that plans and implements the cross-tenant leak-test suite - from surface inventory to the runtime CI gate a multi-tenant codebase must pass on every PR. The planning section inventories tenant-bearing surfaces (tables, APIs, object storage, search, queues, caches), classifies each by isolation model (silo / pool / bridge, per references/isolation-models.md), and derives the OWASP WSTG-ATHZ-02 coverage matrix. The battery defines the canonical test patterns (read-other-tenant-by-id, list-leak, spoofed-tenant-id-in-body, JWT-replay, FK-cross-tenant, unique-collision side channel, object-storage IDOR, search-index-direct-query, async-job-context-reload, cache-key-collision), the 404-vs-403 disclosure trade-off, the Postgres-RLS-direct patterns, and the CI integration (non-superuser non-BYPASSRLS role, fail the build on any leak). Use when designing or implementing a tenant-isolation test suite, adding the CI gate to an existing project, or investigating a leak finding.
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Test surface by tenant-isolation model
Isolation tier mapping
A common pattern is independent isolation per architecture tier:
| Tier | Common choice |
|---|---|
| UI | Shared host name (fully multitenant) |
| API gateway | Shared, with tenant claim in JWT |
| Application services | Shared, tenant context in every request |
| Async queues / topics | Shared topic with tenant_id message attribute, or per-tenant queue |
| Data | Often partitioned: tables with tenant_id (pool); schemas per tenant (bridge); databases per tenant (silo) |
| Object storage | Per-tenant prefix in bucket (pool); bucket per tenant (silo) |
| Search index | Per-tenant routing key (pool); index per tenant (silo) |
The test surface depends on the lowest isolation level in the stack. A fully isolated UI but shared database still requires the full cross-tenant data-leak test battery against the database.
Required test categories per model
| Model | Required test categories |
|---|---|
| Silo / single-tenant | Tenant-to-deployment routing; per-deployment health; deployment automation |
| Pool / fully-shared | Cross-tenant data leak (highest priority); tenant_id propagation; noisy-neighbor mitigation; quota enforcement |
| Bridge / horizontal | Pool tests + database routing per tenant; cross-database query rejection |
| Vertical | Pool + silo tests + tier-migration tests |
The cross-tenant data leak suite is the universal floor: even silo deployments share some surface (account-management APIs, billing, identity providers) where pool-like leaks are possible.