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zitadel/internal/api/ui/login/integration_test/external_login_test.go
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be5b278069 test(login): avoid assert.Never race in forged registration check (#12548)
# Which Problems Are Solved

- `TestExternalNotFoundOption_ForgedRegistration_IsRejected` flakes
across unrelated PRs: the test reaches PASS, then panics with `Log in
goroutine after Test... has completed` and `rpc error: code = Canceled
desc = context canceled`.

# How the Problems Are Solved

- Replaces `assert.Never` with a synchronous poll helper
(`requireNeverUserByEmail`) so `ListUsers` and `require` run on the test
goroutine and finish before `TestMain` cancels `CTX`.
- Keeps the same “must stay absent for a window” polarity (not
`Eventually`), so a late-projected forged user still fails the test.

# Additional Changes

- None.

# Additional Context

- CI examples: [run
30980062306](https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/actions/runs/30980062306),
[run
30837302974](https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/actions/runs/30837302974)

Co-authored-by: Cursor <[email protected]>
2026-08-06 07:50:21 +02:00

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//go:build integration
// Package login_test contains an end-to-end reproduction of GHSA-738m-7888-jfv8, an
// external-IDP account pre-hijack / takeover in the server-rendered Login V1 UI.
//
// The vulnerability: POST /ui/login/externaluser/option (handleExternalNotFoundOptionCheck)
// is meant to be the *submit* of the "external account not found" page, which only ever appears
// after a genuine, protocol-verified IDP callback has populated the server-side
// authReq.LinkingUsers state. Before the fix, the handler ignored that state and built the new
// user's external identity (IDPConfigID + ExternalUserID) and its "verified" email straight from
// the raw POST body. An UNAUTHENTICATED attacker could therefore POST forged data directly to the
// endpoint - without ever going through the real IDP - and have Zitadel create a real account
// bound to an arbitrary (IDPConfigID, ExternalUserID). By setting ExternalUserID to a victim's
// public external identifier (e.g. a GitHub numeric user id) the attacker pre-creates an account
// that the victim's own, genuine future "Sign in with X" then silently logs into.
//
// This test drives the exact attack over raw HTTP against a running Zitadel instance:
//
// 1. authorize (create a V1 auth request) -> 2. load login page (grab CSRF)
// -> 3. select the IDP (sets SelectedIDPConfigID) -> 4. forge the not-found-option POST
//
// It then asserts, over gRPC, that NO user was created for the attacker's forged identity. Against
// the unpatched code this fails (the forged account is created); against the fixed code it passes
// (the request is rejected with Errors.ExternalIDP.NoExternalUserData). That is the red -> green
// signal for the fix.
//
// Note on setup: no real GitHub account or working OAuth app is needed. The exploit bypasses the
// real OAuth round-trip entirely, so the IDP template only has to EXIST with creation allowed and
// dummy credentials - its client id/secret and endpoints are never exercised on the attack path.
//
// Requires a running backend + database. Run with:
//
// go test -tags integration ./internal/api/ui/login/integration_test/...
package login_test
import (
"context"
"io"
"net/http"
"net/http/cookiejar"
"net/url"
"os"
"regexp"
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
"github.com/zitadel/oidc/v3/pkg/oidc"
"github.com/zitadel/zitadel/internal/api/ui/login"
"github.com/zitadel/zitadel/internal/integration"
"github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pkg/grpc/app"
feature "github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pkg/grpc/feature/v2"
idp_pb "github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pkg/grpc/idp"
user "github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pkg/grpc/user/v2"
)
var (
CTX context.Context
Instance *integration.Instance
)
func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
os.Exit(func() int {
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 15*time.Minute)
defer cancel()
Instance = integration.NewInstance(ctx)
CTX = Instance.WithAuthorization(ctx, integration.UserTypeIAMOwner)
return m.Run()
}())
}
// csrfTokenRegex extracts the gorilla/csrf hidden form field that the login templates embed via
// {{ .CSRF }} (rendered as <input type="hidden" name="gorilla.csrf.Token" value="...">). The token
// must be echoed back on every POST; the paired cookie travels automatically in the cookie jar.
var csrfTokenRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`name="gorilla\.csrf\.Token"[^>]*value="([^"]*)"`)
// TestExternalNotFoundOption_ForgedRegistration_IsRejected reproduces the core exploit and asserts
// the fix rejects it. It is the end-to-end, behavioral red -> green test for GHSA-738m-7888-jfv8.
func TestExternalNotFoundOption_ForgedRegistration_IsRejected(t *testing.T) {
// --- Server setup (all via gRPC as the IAM owner) -------------------------------------------
// Force Login V1. Three things select V1 at auth-request creation (internal/api/oidc/auth_request.go):
// (a) the instance feature LoginV2.Required must be false, (b) the OIDC app's login version must be
// unspecified/V1, and (c) the authorize request must NOT carry the x-zitadel-login-client header.
// We pin (a) here explicitly so the test does not depend on the instance default.
integration.EnsureInstanceFeature(t, CTX, Instance,
&feature.SetInstanceFeaturesRequest{LoginV2: &feature.LoginV2{Required: false}},
func(tt *assert.CollectT, got *feature.GetInstanceFeaturesResponse) {
assert.False(tt, got.GetLoginV2().GetRequired())
},
)
// A project + OIDC app. loginVersion is left nil (unspecified => V1). The redirect URI only has to
// be registered; the attack never actually redeems a code there.
redirectURI := "http://localhost:9999/callback"
project := Instance.CreateProject(CTX, t, Instance.DefaultOrg.GetId(), integration.RandString(10), false, false)
oidcApp, err := Instance.CreateOIDCClient(CTX, redirectURI, "", project.GetId(),
app.OIDCAppType_OIDC_APP_TYPE_WEB, app.OIDCAuthMethodType_OIDC_AUTH_METHOD_TYPE_NONE, true)
require.NoError(t, err)
clientID := oidcApp.GetClientId()
// An external OAuth IDP with creation ALLOWED but auto-creation DISABLED - the configuration under
// which the genuine flow renders the not-found-option page. Its clientID/secret + example.com
// endpoints are dummy and are never contacted on the attack path. auto-linking is left unspecified
// so it plays no role here.
idpResp := Instance.AddGenericOAuthProviderWithOptions(CTX, integration.RandString(10),
true /*isLinkingAllowed*/, true /*isCreationAllowed*/, false /*isAutoCreation*/, idp_pb.AutoLinkingOption_AUTO_LINKING_OPTION_UNSPECIFIED)
idpID := idpResp.GetId()
// The IDP must be enabled on the login policy to be selectable in the login UI.
Instance.AddProviderToDefaultLoginPolicy(CTX, idpID)
// --- Attacker HTTP client -------------------------------------------------------------------
// One shared cookie jar for the WHOLE flow. This is mandatory: the server issues a user-agent
// cookie (zitadel.useragent) on the authorize response and binds the created auth request to that
// user-agent id; getAuthRequest later looks it up by (authRequestID, userAgentID). A different jar
// (or no jar) would make the auth request unresolvable. The csrf cookie also lives here.
jar, err := cookiejar.New(nil)
require.NoError(t, err)
httpClient := &http.Client{
Jar: jar,
// Never auto-follow redirects: we want to inspect each hop (and must NOT chase the IDP redirect
// out to the dummy example.com authorize URL in step 3).
CheckRedirect: func(req *http.Request, via []*http.Request) error {
return http.ErrUseLastResponse
},
}
issuer := Instance.OIDCIssuer() // http://<instance-domain>:<port>
// Step 1: create a Login V1 auth request by hitting the OIDC authorize endpoint WITHOUT the
// login-client header. The response is a 302 to /ui/login/login?authRequestID=<id>; we extract id.
authURL := issuer + "/oauth/v2/authorize?" + url.Values{
"client_id": {clientID},
"redirect_uri": {redirectURI},
"response_type": {"code"},
"scope": {"openid"},
"state": {"attacker-state"},
"code_challenge": {oidc.NewSHACodeChallenge(integration.CodeVerifier)},
"code_challenge_method": {"S256"},
}.Encode()
loc := getLocation(t, httpClient, authURL)
authRequestID := loc.Query().Get(login.QueryAuthRequestID)
require.NotEmpty(t, authRequestID, "expected a V1 auth request id in the authorize redirect %q", loc.String())
// Step 2: load the login page. This renders the login form and lets us scrape the CSRF token
// (valid for any subsequent POST in this session, since it is bound to the csrf cookie in the jar).
loginPageURL := issuer + login.HandlerPrefix + login.EndpointLogin + "?" + login.QueryAuthRequestID + "=" + authRequestID
csrfToken := scrapeCSRF(t, httpClient, loginPageURL)
// Step 3: select the external IDP. handleExternalLogin -> handleIDP persists SelectedIDPConfigID on
// the auth request (SelectExternalIDP) and then 302-redirects toward the (dummy) IDP authorize URL,
// which we deliberately do not follow. This is the ONLY legitimate step the attacker performs; it
// requires no interaction with the real IDP.
selectIDPURL := issuer + login.HandlerPrefix + login.EndpointExternalLogin + "?" +
login.QueryAuthRequestID + "=" + authRequestID + "&idpConfigID=" + idpID
resp := doGet(t, httpClient, selectIDPURL)
resp.Body.Close()
// Step 4: the attack. POST forged "external account not found" data. Every external-* field below is
// attacker-controlled and, before the fix, was trusted verbatim to build the created user's identity.
// The fix must ignore them (authReq.LinkingUsers is empty here because no genuine callback happened)
// and reject the request.
forgedEmail := "attacker-" + integration.RandString(8) + "@evil.test"
forgedVictimID := "999999999" // e.g. a victim's public GitHub numeric user id
form := url.Values{
login.QueryAuthRequestID: {authRequestID},
"gorilla.csrf.Token": {csrfToken},
"external-idp-config-id": {idpID}, // attacker-controlled: which IDP the link is bound to
"external-idp-ext-user-id": {forgedVictimID}, // attacker-controlled: the identity being claimed
"external-email": {forgedEmail}, // attacker-controlled: echoed "IDP" email
"external-email-verified": {"true"}, // attacker-controlled: forged "verified" flag
"email": {forgedEmail}, // attacker-controlled
"username": {"attacker-" + integration.RandString(8)},
"firstname": {"At"},
"lastname": {"Tacker"},
"language": {"en"},
"terms-confirm": {"true"},
}
postURL := issuer + login.HandlerPrefix + login.EndpointExternalNotFoundOption + "?autoregisterbutton=true"
body := doPostForm(t, httpClient, postURL, form)
// The fixed handler rejects with the LinkingUsers guard (zerrors id LOGIN-Dju3f,
// Errors.ExternalIDP.NoExternalUserData). We match the error code, which the error page renders
// verbatim regardless of the negotiated UI locale (the translated message text is locale-dependent
// and may fall back to the raw i18n key). This is an immediate, projection-lag-free signal.
assert.Contains(t, body, "LOGIN-Dju3f",
"forged registration should be rejected by the LinkingUsers guard; got a page without that rejection (attack likely succeeded)")
// No account may exist for the forged identity. Poll on the test goroutine for a window so a
// late-projected user still fails the test (assert.Never is unsafe here: its condition runs in a
// background goroutine that can outlive the test and panic on CTX cancel from TestMain).
requireNeverUserByEmail(t, forgedEmail, 5*time.Second, 250*time.Millisecond)
}
// --- helpers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
func doGet(t *testing.T, c *http.Client, rawURL string) *http.Response {
t.Helper()
req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(CTX, http.MethodGet, rawURL, nil)
require.NoError(t, err)
resp, err := c.Do(req)
require.NoError(t, err)
return resp
}
// getLocation issues a GET and returns the parsed Location of the expected redirect response.
func getLocation(t *testing.T, c *http.Client, rawURL string) *url.URL {
t.Helper()
resp := doGet(t, c, rawURL)
defer resp.Body.Close()
require.GreaterOrEqual(t, resp.StatusCode, 300)
require.Less(t, resp.StatusCode, 400, "expected a redirect from %q", rawURL)
loc, err := resp.Location()
require.NoError(t, err)
return loc
}
// scrapeCSRF GETs a rendered login page and returns its gorilla/csrf token.
func scrapeCSRF(t *testing.T, c *http.Client, rawURL string) string {
t.Helper()
resp := doGet(t, c, rawURL)
defer resp.Body.Close()
b, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
require.NoError(t, err)
m := csrfTokenRegex.FindStringSubmatch(string(b))
require.Len(t, m, 2, "could not find gorilla.csrf.Token on %q", rawURL)
return m[1]
}
// doPostForm submits a urlencoded form and returns the response body as a string.
func doPostForm(t *testing.T, c *http.Client, rawURL string, form url.Values) string {
t.Helper()
req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(CTX, http.MethodPost, rawURL, strings.NewReader(form.Encode()))
require.NoError(t, err)
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
resp, err := c.Do(req)
require.NoError(t, err)
defer resp.Body.Close()
b, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
require.NoError(t, err)
return string(b)
}
// requireNeverUserByEmail fails if a user with the given email appears within waitFor.
func requireNeverUserByEmail(t *testing.T, email string, waitFor, tick time.Duration) {
t.Helper()
deadline := time.Now().Add(waitFor)
for {
resp, err := Instance.Client.UserV2.ListUsers(CTX, &user.ListUsersRequest{
Queries: []*user.SearchQuery{
{Query: &user.SearchQuery_EmailQuery{EmailQuery: &user.EmailQuery{EmailAddress: email}}},
},
})
require.NoError(t, err)
require.Empty(t, resp.GetResult(),
"a user was created for the attacker-forged external identity %q - account pre-hijack succeeded", email)
if !time.Now().Before(deadline) {
return
}
time.Sleep(tick)
}
}