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jmaretteandGitHub f34cc45eac feat(oidc): add RFC 7591 dynamic client registration (#12313)
# Which Problems Are Solved

ZITADEL cannot currently be used as an OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server by
clients that need to register themselves at runtime:

- There is no [OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration (RFC
7591)](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7591) endpoint, and no
`registration_endpoint` is advertised in the discovery document.
- This blocks [Model Context Protocol
(MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) clients (Claude Desktop,
claude.ai, Cursor, the MCP SDKs), whose OAuth 2.1 authorization profile
expects an Authorization Server that supports dynamic client
registration. They self-register before any user context exists and only
then start the authorization code + PKCE flow.

# How the Problems Are Solved

## Control plane: instance security settings

No feature flag and no runtime config. A
`DynamicClientRegistrationSettings` message is nested under the instance
`SecuritySettings` in `settings/v2`, next to `embedded_iframe` and
`enable_impersonation`:

| `enabled` | `allow_unauthenticated` | Behaviour |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `false` (default) | — | `POST /oauth/v2/register` returns `404`,
`registration_endpoint` absent from discovery |
| `true` | `false` (default) | Token-gated registration, client homed in
the token's organization |
| `true` | `true` | Open registration for MCP hosts, client homed in the
instance default organization |

Both values are carried on `authz.Instance` and loaded with the
instance, exactly like `EnableImpersonation`, so the discovery document
and the endpoint read them per request without an extra query.
`allow_unauthenticated` implies `enabled` in both implementations, so a
single setting closes the endpoint.

Adding the two columns bumps the projection table to
`projections.security_policies3`, following what the impersonation
setting did for `security_policies2`.

## Authorization: a dedicated permission, not `project.app.write`

- New org-scoped permission **`project.app.register_dynamic`**, granted
by default to `ORG_OWNER`, `IAM_OWNER` and `IAM_ORG_MANAGER` — in both
`InternalAuthZ` and `SystemAuthZ`, mirroring where `project.app.write`
already lives.
- New built-in role **`ORG_DYNAMIC_CLIENT_REGISTRAR`** carrying only
that permission, so a service user can self-register clients without
gaining write access to the organization's existing applications.
- Open mode (`allow_unauthenticated = true`) requires no token and no
permission: that is the MCP self-register path.
- A valid token whose user lacks the permission is answered with **`403
insufficient_scope`** (RFC 6750 §3.1) rather than `401 invalid_token`,
so a caller can tell "your token is bad" from "your token may not do
this". `verifyAccessToken` also reports invalid tokens as permission
denied, so the authorization failure is marked explicitly to keep the
two apart.

The check runs once, at the endpoint, right after the token is verified
and before any state is created, so it also gates the auto-provisioning
of the organization's DCR project. The permission itself lives in the
command layer next to the others
(`Commands.CheckPermissionRegisterDynamicClient`). As the OIDC endpoints
are not behind the authorization interceptor, the caller identity is
derived from the verified token, the way token exchange does for the
impersonating actor.

## Registration itself

- **Registered clients are ordinary OIDC applications.** The endpoint
reuses the existing application-creation events
(`NewApplicationAddedEvent` and `NewOIDCConfigAddedEvent`), so the whole
token, authorization and introspection flow keeps working unchanged.
They are stored in a dedicated, auto-provisioned project named `ZITADEL
DCR` per organization (name lookup), so they do not pollute the
`IAMProject` or other projects.
- Input is validated with the existing `GetOIDCV1Compliance` rules;
`private_key_jwt` and `jwks`/`jwks_uri` are rejected with
`invalid_client_metadata`.
- **Endpoint wiring without forking the library.** `NewServer` calls
`op.RegisterServer` instead of `op.RegisterLegacyServer`, so the new
route can be added through the same `op.WithSetRouter` hook as the
authorize callback. `op.RegisterLegacyServer` appends a middleware after
the caller options, which chi forbids once a route has been registered;
`op.NewIssuerInterceptor` reproduces the issuer middleware it would
otherwise add. The `/oauth/v2` routing prefix is unchanged.

# Additional Changes

- **`application_type` inference for custom-scheme redirects** (last
commit, isolated). `application_type` is an OpenID Connect member; RFC
7591 does not define it, so clients that only implement RFC 7591 omit
it. Native MCP hosts doing so register custom-scheme redirect URIs,
which ZITADEL reserves for native applications, and the OIDC default of
`web` rejected them with `invalid_redirect_uri`. Inference is limited to
custom schemes and to an absent `application_type`, so every request
accepted today keeps its current application type and auth method — an
`http` loopback redirect still yields a web application. Happy to drop
this commit if you would rather keep it out of this PR.
- **Docs**: a Dynamic Client Registration integration guide, a
`registration_endpoint` section on the OpenID Connect endpoints page,
and the new role in the administrators table (plus its description in
the Console translations).

# Additional Context

- Part of #9810. This is **Phase 1 (DCR)**; #12315 adds RFC 7592 and
#12316 adds CIMD, both stacked on this branch and rebased once this
lands.
- Implements the control-plane and authorization model requested in the
review of this PR, itself a refinement of the direction in
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/9810#issuecomment-4891176997.
- **Out of scope (deliberately)**: RFC 7592, CIMD, persisting free-form
metadata (`logo_uri`, `contacts`, and similar), and `private_key_jwt` /
`jwks_uri` (rejected cleanly). No new event types.
- Follow-ups explicitly left out, per the review: DCR client lifecycle
and richer audit, consent and custom scopes, JWT / `aud` (RFC 8707), and
RFC 8414 AS metadata (currently absent from both ZITADEL and
`zitadel/oidc`).
2026-07-30 14:43:47 +00:00
Livio SpringandGitHub ce30a5a98e feat(oidc): move back-channel logout from beta to GA (#11493)
# Which Problems Are Solved

This PR marks the OIDC Back-Channel Logout as general available (GA).

# How the Problems Are Solved

- API:
- deprecated the feature toggle (to prevent breaking changes) in v2beta
and v2 API
  - removed all related event logic and updated the projection iteration
  - removed the toggle usage for back-channel logout
  - removed related translations
- Management Console:
  - removed the feature toggle and its translations
- Docs:
  - removed all beta labels and feature toggle notes

# Additional Changes

none

# Additional Context

- closes #11277 
- requires backport to v4.x
2026-02-05 10:51:09 +00:00
Tim MöhlmannandGitHub 016676e1dc chore(oidc): graduate webkey to stable (#10122)
# Which Problems Are Solved

Stabilize the usage of webkeys.

# How the Problems Are Solved

- Remove all legacy signing key code from the OIDC API
- Remove the webkey feature flag from proto
- Remove the webkey feature flag from console
- Cleanup documentation

# Additional Changes

- Resolved some canonical header linter errors in OIDC
- Use the constant for `projections.lock` in the saml package.

# Additional Context

- Closes #10029
- After #10105
- After #10061
2025-06-26 19:17:45 +03:00
d2e0ac07f1 chore(tests): use a coverage server binary (#8407)
# Which Problems Are Solved

Use a single server instance for API integration tests. This optimizes
the time taken for the integration test pipeline,
because it allows running tests on multiple packages in parallel. Also,
it saves time by not start and stopping a zitadel server for every
package.

# How the Problems Are Solved

- Build a binary with `go build -race -cover ....`
- Integration tests only construct clients. The server remains running
in the background.
- The integration package and tested packages now fully utilize the API.
No more direct database access trough `query` and `command` packages.
- Use Makefile recipes to setup, start and stop the server in the
background.
- The binary has the race detector enabled
- Init and setup jobs are configured to halt immediately on race
condition
- Because the server runs in the background, races are only logged. When
the server is stopped and race logs exist, the Makefile recipe will
throw an error and print the logs.
- Makefile recipes include logic to print logs and convert coverage
reports after the server is stopped.
- Some tests need a downstream HTTP server to make requests, like quota
and milestones. A new `integration/sink` package creates an HTTP server
and uses websockets to forward HTTP request back to the test packages.
The package API uses Go channels for abstraction and easy usage.

# Additional Changes

- Integration test files already used the `//go:build integration`
directive. In order to properly split integration from unit tests,
integration test files need to be in a `integration_test` subdirectory
of their package.
- `UseIsolatedInstance` used to overwrite the `Tester.Client` for each
instance. Now a `Instance` object is returned with a gRPC client that is
connected to the isolated instance's hostname.
- The `Tester` type is now `Instance`. The object is created for the
first instance, used by default in any test. Isolated instances are also
`Instance` objects and therefore benefit from the same methods and
values. The first instance and any other us capable of creating an
isolated instance over the system API.
- All test packages run in an Isolated instance by calling
`NewInstance()`
- Individual tests that use an isolated instance use `t.Parallel()`

# Additional Context

- Closes #6684
- https://go.dev/doc/articles/race_detector
- https://go.dev/doc/build-cover

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Co-authored-by: Stefan Benz <[email protected]>
2024-09-06 14:47:57 +02:00
Tim MöhlmannandGitHub fd0c15dd4f feat(oidc): use web keys for token signing and verification (#8449)
# Which Problems Are Solved

Use web keys, managed by the `resources/v3alpha/web_keys` API, for OIDC
token signing and verification,
as well as serving the public web keys on the jwks / keys endpoint.
Response header on the keys endpoint now allows caching of the response.
This is now "safe" to do since keys can be created ahead of time and
caches have sufficient time to pickup the change before keys get
enabled.

# How the Problems Are Solved

- The web key format is used in the `getSignerOnce` function in the
`api/oidc` package.
- The public key cache is changed to get and store web keys.
- The jwks / keys endpoint returns the combined set of valid "legacy"
public keys and all available web keys.
- Cache-Control max-age default to 5 minutes and is configured in
`defaults.yaml`.

When the web keys feature is enabled, fallback mechanisms are in place
to obtain and convert "legacy" `query.PublicKey` as web keys when
needed. This allows transitioning to the feature without invalidating
existing tokens. A small performance overhead may be noticed on the keys
endpoint, because 2 queries need to be run sequentially. This will
disappear once the feature is stable and the legacy code gets cleaned
up.

# Additional Changes

- Extend legacy key lifetimes so that tests can be run on an existing
database with more than 6 hours apart.
- Discovery endpoint returns all supported algorithms when the Web Key
feature is enabled.

# Additional Context

- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/8031
- Part of https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/7809
- After https://github.com/zitadel/oidc/pull/637
- After https://github.com/zitadel/oidc/pull/638
2024-08-23 14:43:46 +02:00
1aa8c49e41 fix(oidc): store requested response_mode (#8145)
# Which Problems Are Solved

Zitadel never stored or returned the requested `response_mode` in oidc
Auth Requests. This caused the oidc library to fallback to the default
based on the response_type.

# How the Problems Are Solved

- Store the `response_mode` in the Auth request repo
- Store the `response_mode` in the Auth request v2 events
- Return the `resonse_mode` from the Auth Request v1 and v2
`ResponseMode()` methods. (Was hard-coded to an empty string)

# Additional Changes

- Populate the `response_modes_supported` to the oidc Discovery
Configuration. When it was empty, the standard specifies the default of
`query` and `fragment`. However, our oidc library also supports
`form_post` and by this fix, zitadel now also supports this.

# Additional Context

- Closes #6586
- Reported
https://discord.com/channels/927474939156643850/1151508313717084220

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Co-authored-by: Livio Spring <[email protected]>
2024-06-17 09:50:12 +00:00
Elio BischofandGitHub dd33538c0a feat: restrict languages (#6931)
* feat: return 404 or 409 if org reg disallowed

* fix: system limit permissions

* feat: add iam limits api

* feat: disallow public org registrations on default instance

* add integration test

* test: integration

* fix test

* docs: describe public org registrations

* avoid updating docs deps

* fix system limits integration test

* silence integration tests

* fix linting

* ignore strange linter complaints

* review

* improve reset properties naming

* redefine the api

* use restrictions aggregate

* test query

* simplify and test projection

* test commands

* fix unit tests

* move integration test

* support restrictions on default instance

* also test GetRestrictions

* self review

* lint

* abstract away resource owner

* fix tests

* configure supported languages

* fix allowed languages

* fix tests

* default lang must not be restricted

* preferred language must be allowed

* change preferred languages

* check languages everywhere

* lint

* test command side

* lint

* add integration test

* add integration test

* restrict supported ui locales

* lint

* lint

* cleanup

* lint

* allow undefined preferred language

* fix integration tests

* update main

* fix env var

* ignore linter

* ignore linter

* improve integration test config

* reduce cognitive complexity

* compile

* check for duplicates

* remove useless restriction checks

* review

* revert restriction renaming

* fix language restrictions

* lint

* generate

* allow custom texts for supported langs for now

* fix tests

* cleanup

* cleanup

* cleanup

* lint

* unsupported preferred lang is allowed

* fix integration test

* finish reverting to old property name

* finish reverting to old property name

* load languages

* refactor(i18n): centralize translators and fs

* lint

* amplify no validations on preferred languages

* fix integration test

* lint

* fix resetting allowed languages

* test unchanged restrictions
2023-12-05 11:12:01 +00:00
Livio SpringandGitHub ce322323aa perf(oidc): remove db call for discovery configuration (#6857) 2023-11-03 15:18:57 +00:00