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[ES-2493] Fix: added aud/auz validation in scope middleware - #2652

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  • Security

    • When issuer and JWKS validation are configured, client-management requests require a token with an exact match between a configured allowed audience and its aud claim. The azp claim is accepted as a compatibility fallback only when aud is absent. Tokens must also include the scope required by the endpoint; requests that fail these checks are rejected.
    • Configure allowed audiences in deployment settings or with the comma-separated MOSIP_ESIGNET_SECURITY_ALLOWED_AUDIENCES environment variable. If enforcement is enabled and no allowed audience is configured, startup fails.
  • Documentation

    • Updated configuration and API guidance to describe audience matching, the azp fallback, and endpoint scope requirements.

Signed-off-by: Harsh Kashiwal <harsh.kashiwal@infosys.com>
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Walkthrough

The service accepts allowed audiences from YAML or an environment variable. The scope middleware requires an exact aud match, or an exact azp match only when aud is absent, before checking the endpoint scope.

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Allowed Audience Enforcement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure allowed audiences
esignet-service/internal/config/app.go, esignet-service/data/deployment.yaml, esignet-service/internal/config/app_test.go, docs/configuration.md, esignet-service/.env.example, esignet-service/README.md
SecurityConfig accepts audiences from YAML or a comma-separated environment variable. Configuration trims entries and removes blanks and duplicates. Startup returns an error when enforcement is enabled and no allowed audience remains. Deployment settings, tests, and documentation describe the configuration.
Check audience before endpoint scopes
esignet-service/internal/security/scope_middleware.go, esignet-service/internal/security/scope_middleware_test.go
The middleware returns HTTP 401 when the token has no exact allowed aud match and no exact azp match when aud is absent. It checks the endpoint scope after an audience match. Tests cover accepted and rejected claims and existing scope failures.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ScopeMiddleware
  participant DownstreamHandler
  Client->>ScopeMiddleware: Send request with bearer token
  ScopeMiddleware->>ScopeMiddleware: Match aud, or azp only when aud is absent
  alt No allowed audience match
    ScopeMiddleware-->>Client: Return HTTP 401
  else Allowed audience match
    ScopeMiddleware->>ScopeMiddleware: Resolve and check endpoint scope
    alt Required scope is missing
      ScopeMiddleware-->>Client: Return HTTP 403
    else Required scope is present
      ScopeMiddleware->>DownstreamHandler: Forward request
      DownstreamHandler-->>Client: Return response
    end
  end
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 254a0

Enabled token enforcement requires a configured audience before endpoint scopes are checked. The available test cases and reported patch coverage support the change; a separate local JWKS-fetch failure has no established link to the PR. No material merge-blocking risk is evidenced.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 254a0

The change tightens token authorization and rejects empty policies at startup. No introduced authorization bypass was established. Remaining uncertainty concerns issuer compatibility and production rollout configuration.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The policy applies across routes receiving the shared security middleware, including client-management and key-management APIs. Its effective exposure is service-policy-wide rather than demonstrably tenant-specific. Exploiting claim acceptance would still require a token accepted under the configured signing keys, issuer, expiry and endpoint scope.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — Accepting azp without aud relies on the trusted issuer making that client identity suitable for this API's authorization policy. The repository does not establish issuer-side token-type or client-registration semantics. This is a compatibility trust assumption, not a verified introduced attack path: the described prior gate did not require either audience claim.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The inspected startup path does not serve an enabled policy with an empty normalized audience list. Token-validation and audience failures terminate the request rather than invoking protected handlers, providing fail-closed behavior for those failures.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Document the issuer contract that permits absent-aud azp fallback and validate deployed audience values against representative issuer-issued tokens before rollout. Preserve the audience requirement during rollback planning rather than disabling token enforcement to recover availability.
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A token arrives with claims in tow
The audience check decides where to go
aud must match, or absent, azp
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🟠 Major · Reject or document incomplete IAM-client configuration before… · scope_middleware.go:57-63

esignet-service/internal/security/scope_middleware.go:57-63
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject or document incomplete IAM-client configuration before deployment.

scopeEnforcementEnabled activates middleware when issuer_url and jwks_url are set, but LoadAppConfig accepts an empty allowed_iam_clients. The middleware then rejects every protected request with HTTP 401. The checked-in deployment adds the field, but existing or custom deployments do not receive that value automatically.

Reject this configuration at startup with an actionable error, or document this migration before deployment:

Suggested fix
- Enforcement only activates when both `issuer_url` and `jwks_url` are non-empty.
+ Enforcement only activates when both `issuer_url` and `jwks_url` are non-empty.
+ Existing deployments must configure at least one `allowed_iam_clients` value before
+ enabling enforcement. An empty allowlist causes all protected requests to return HTTP 401.
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In `@esignet-service/internal/security/scope_middleware.go` around lines 57 - 63,
Validate the IAM-client configuration in LoadAppConfig: when scope enforcement
is enabled through scopeEnforcementEnabled, reject an empty AllowedIAMClients
list with an actionable startup error so the middleware does not reject every
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In `@esignet-service/internal/security/scope_middleware.go`:
- Around line 57-63: Validate the IAM-client configuration in LoadAppConfig:
when scope enforcement is enabled through scopeEnforcementEnabled, reject an
empty AllowedIAMClients list with an actionable startup error so the middleware
does not reject every protected request.

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@rachik-hue rachik-hue linked an issue Sep 28, 2026 that may be closed by this pull request
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Signed-off-by: Harsh Kashiwal <harsh.kashiwal@infosys.com>
Signed-off-by: Harsh Kashiwal <harsh.kashiwal@infosys.com>
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func newAllowedAudienceSet(configured []string) map[string]struct{} {
allowed := make(map[string]struct{}, len(configured))
for _, audience := range configured {
if audience != "" {
allowed[audience] = struct{}{}
}
}
return allowed

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Why is this new lookup map required?

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[BUG] Middleware's Token validation issue.

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