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The package documents TRACELOOP_TRACE_CONTENT as the switch that turns off content logging, but only the FastMCP server-side wrapper consulted it. The MCP client path recorded content regardless: tools/call arguments and results via _extract_clean_input/_extract_clean_output, whole request and response bodies via serialize() in _handle_mcp_method and _execute_and_handle_result, and the response value in InstrumentedStreamWriter.send. An operator who set the variable to false still got request and response payloads on their spans. Move should_send_prompts() into utils so one gate serves both wrappers, and apply it to every content-bearing attribute on the client path. Span names, entity names, span kind, request ids and error status are unaffected; only content is withheld. Tests drive the real client against a FastMCP server and assert a marker value is absent from every span attribute when the switch is off and still present when it is on, so neither the gate nor the capture can regress unnoticed.
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360-363: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winSensitive Data Exposure
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CWE: CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log FileGate error status descriptions with
TRACELOOP_TRACE_CONTENT. Both error paths always copy MCP response text into OpenTelemetry status descriptions, even whenTRACELOOP_TRACE_CONTENT=false. PreserveStatusCode.ERROR, but omit or replace the content-bearing description in both paths.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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69-92: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd an enabled test for the non-tool response body.
This test verifies only suppression for
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- Around line 360-363: Gate the error status descriptions in both MCP error
paths on TRACELOOP_TRACE_CONTENT: update the logic around the result.content
handling at lines 360-363 and 590-596 in
packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-mcp/opentelemetry/instrumentation/mcp/instrumentation.py
so StatusCode.ERROR is preserved while response text is omitted or replaced when
content tracing is disabled.
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- Around line 69-92: Add a paired enabled-content test alongside
test_non_tool_response_body_suppressed_when_content_capture_off, setting
TRACELOOP_TRACE_CONTENT to true and exercising client.list_tools with the
existing MARKER. Assert the marker appears in the exported span attributes,
covering the enabled response-serialization branch in
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remove all these unrelated docstrings
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| # Add output. The response body is content, so it is recorded only | ||
| # when content capture is enabled. | ||
| if not should_send_prompts(): |
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The gate stops here, but ~20 lines down we still do span.set_status(Status(StatusCode.ERROR, f"{result.content[0].text}")) for isError results, and that text is the tool's response body.
I tried it: with TRACELOOP_TRACE_CONTENT=false, a tool raising ToolError(f"failure involving {token}") gave a boom.tool span whose status description was failure involving <my marker> — the caller's own argument round-tripping back out. Status descriptions are exported like attributes, so every failed tool call still carries content with the switch off.
Either gate that one too, or set a fixed description ("tool error") when capture is off and keep the error code.
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Fixed. Took the "gate it" option over a fixed "tool error" string:
error.type already names the failure class, so a constant description gives a consumer nothing extra to key on while looking like real text. StatusCode.ERROR is preserved.
Also worth flagging since it came out of this: the sweep in the test helper only walked span.attributes, so none of these leaks could have been caught. It now folds in status descriptions and event attributes, which is what turned your three reports into failing tests
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| SpanAttributes.MCP_RESPONSE_VALUE, f"{serialize(request.result)}" | ||
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| # The response body is content; the error status below is not, |
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This assumption doesn't hold: the status code isn't content, but the description is. Right below we set Status(StatusCode.ERROR, f"{request.result['content'][0]['text']}") — the same payload text withheld two lines up.
This is the proxy used for stdio/SSE, and the new tests go through the in-memory FastMCP client, so nothing covers this path.
| """Every attribute value across every exported span, as one string.""" | ||
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| for span in span_exporter.get_finished_spans(): | ||
| for value in (span.attributes or {}).values(): |
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This only walks span.attributes — never span.status.description or span.events. The module docstring says the test fails "if either the gate or the capture itself regresses", but the leaks I flagged in instrumentation.py all pass it.
If you fold status descriptions and event attributes in here, these tests fail as they stand today, which is sort of the point.
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(File-level since the line is outside the diff.) One more place the gate doesn't reach: span.record_exception(e) in _execute_and_handle_result writes exception.message and the full exception.stacktrace as event attributes. On the client path the McpError message comes from the server, so it is content. fastmcp_instrumentation.py around line 114 does the same.
With the switch off I still got exception.message='failure involving <marker>' and the marker inside the stacktrace, on both boom.tool and mcp.server.
Fine by me if exception text is deliberately out of scope, but then let's note it in the PR description — as written the claim is that content is withheld.
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It ran deeper than the two explicit record_exception calls. start_as_current_span defaults to record_exception=True, set_status_on_exception=True, so as the exception left each with block OTel re-recorded the message and stacktrace ungated and overwrote the gated status, which is also why every failure was carrying two identical exception events.
Both flags are now off at the five spans whose code reports failures itself.
Your follow-up on this thread is in too: dropping the event entirely also cost exception.type and exception.stacktrace, so record_error now keeps both and withholds only the message. Your exact case is what test_error_text_suppressed_when_content_capture_off asserts against, and it fails without the fix.
The switch reached request and response bodies but not the three places a failure puts the same text on a span: record_exception, which writes the message and the whole stacktrace as event attributes; the status description, which on the client path is the server's own error text; and OTel's automatic exception recording, which re-added both on the way out of every start_as_current_span block -- the reason each failure carried two identical exception events. Route the descriptions through one error_status helper, gate record_exception beside it, and turn off the automatic recording where this code already reports the failure itself. The error type and StatusCode.ERROR are not content and are recorded either way, so a failure stays just as visible. Also revert the docstrings the previous commit added to untouched functions.
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- Line 596: Disable automatic exception recording and exception-status updates
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| span_context_manager = tracer.start_as_current_span("mcp.client.session") | ||
| span_context_manager = tracer.start_as_current_span( | ||
| "mcp.client.session", | ||
| record_exception=False, |
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The reasoning in the comment at 295-297 holds for the other spans, but not for this one: nothing reports a failure on mcp.client.session. The exit wrapper at 268-274 only forwards to context_manager.__exit__(type(e), e, e.__traceback__) and re-raises into @dont_throw, which swallows it and logs at DEBUG. With these two flags off that __exit__ is a no-op, so a teardown failure now leaves nothing behind.
Base vs. head, with a Client.__aexit__ that raises:
base: mcp.client.session status=ERROR desc='RuntimeError: teardown exploded' events=[exception]
head: mcp.client.session status=UNSET desc=None events=[]
This happens with TRACELOOP_TRACE_CONTENT at its default, so it isn't a content-gating tradeoff. Stdio/SSE transports raising on teardown (Attempted to exit cancel scope in a different task, BrokenResourceError, ClosedResourceError) is the case you'd most want visible on the session span.
Either keep the defaults on this span, or give the exit wrapper's except the same three lines the enter wrapper got at 243-246. Nothing in the suite covers this path either way.
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Confirmed, I took the second option rather than restoring the defaults, so this span follows the same rule as the other five instead of being the one exception.
The exit wrapper couldn't call record_error as-is: it only had the context manager, not the span. The enter wrapper now also stores the span on the instance (_tracing_session_span), and the exit wrapper's except records on it before __exit__ ends it.
You were right that nothing covered this path. test_session_teardown_failure_is_recorded drives the enter and exit wrappers directly - Client.__aexit__ is already wrapped, so monkeypatching it would replace the wrapper under test. Parameterized off/on: status is ERROR either way, the message only when content capture is on. It fails against the previous head.
Side effect worth noting: error.type now appears on this span and on ResponseStreamWriter, neither of which carried it on main.
| # event attributes, and on the client path that text comes from the | ||
| # server, so it is content. | ||
| if should_send_prompts(): | ||
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The message is content, agreed — but exception.type and exception.stacktrace aren't, and dropping the event takes them along. With the switch off there's now no stack frame recorded for any MCP failure. error.type keeps the class name, so it's not total, but the stacktrace is the part you actually debug from.
An else that adds the event with just the type and the formatted traceback would withhold exception.message and nothing more. Same at fastmcp_instrumentation.py:127-128.
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Agreed!
I've fixed via a shared record_error(span, exc) that every error path now calls, including fastmcp_instrumentation.py. Type and frames recorded either way, message withheld when the switch is off.
One correction to the suggestion:
Formatted traceback does not withhold the message and nothing more. It reappears in two places.
format_exc leaks message: True # last line is "Type: message", plus chained causes
format_exception leaks message: True
format_tb leaks message: True # not the last line — the source line of the raise frame
format_tb drops the final line but still renders each frame's source line, so a tool raising ToolError("...") prints its own message there. So the frames are rendered by hand (file, line, function, no source line). Runtime data was never at risk either way.
That second part took a specific test to catch: my first version raised ValueError, which fastmcp re-wraps, so the original frame never survives and the test passed under both implementations. test_source_literals_do_not_leak_through_the_stacktrace uses ToolError, which the tool manager doesn't re-wrap, and fails under format_tb.
Round 1 gated record_exception wholesale, which threw out exception.type and
exception.stacktrace along with the message -- the stacktrace being the part
you actually debug from. It also left two spans reporting nothing at all:
mcp.client.session, whose exit wrapper only forwarded to a context manager
whose own recording had just been turned off, and ResponseStreamWriter, which
still had OTel's defaults and recorded transport failures ungated.
One record_error helper now handles every error path. The exception type and
the frames are recorded either way; the message is withheld when content
capture is off. The frames are rendered by hand rather than by
traceback.format_tb, which reproduces the message twice over: once as the
final line, and once inside the source line of the raise site -- a tool
raising ToolError("...") would have printed its own message there.
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The package documents TRACELOOP_TRACE_CONTENT as the switch that turns off content logging, but only the FastMCP server-side wrapper consulted it. The MCP client path recorded content regardless: tools/call arguments and results via _extract_clean_input/_extract_clean_output, whole request and response bodies via serialize() in _handle_mcp_method and _execute_and_handle_result, and the response value in InstrumentedStreamWriter.send. An operator who set the variable to false still got request and response payloads on their spans.
Move should_send_prompts() into utils so one gate serves both wrappers, and apply it to every content-bearing attribute on the client path. Span names, entity names, span kind, request ids and error status are unaffected; only content is withheld.
Tests drive the real client against a FastMCP server and assert a marker value is absent from every span attribute when the switch is off and still present when it is on, so neither the gate nor the capture can regress unnoticed.
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