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Summary

Fixes two issues in the OIDC id_token_hint SSO-handoff path
(InteractiveGrantType::processUserHint / AuthService::reloadSession):

  1. Auth bypass (security): an id_token_hint built with alg: none
    parses as an UnsecuredJWT — neither IJWE nor IJWS — and skipped
    signature verification entirely. Combined with the reload-session
    fallback that authenticates by the hint's sub when the original
    session can't be resumed, this let anyone forge an unsigned hint and
    get logged in as an arbitrary user, with no credentials. Any hint
    that isn't a verified IJWS is now rejected before sub/jti are
    read.

  2. Login loop: a failed id_token_hint was only marked "processed"
    after a successful reloadSession(). An invalid hint (stale,
    wrong audience, expired) never got marked, so every resume of the
    pending OAuth2 memento reprocessed the same hint, failed again, and
    logged the user back out — including right after a fresh, valid
    password login redirected back to /oauth2/auth. The param is now
    marked processed as soon as hint processing begins.

  3. AuthService::reloadSession() no longer leaves the caller's real
    session clobbered when the hint fails — it restores the original
    session id at every failure exit point before propagating.

  4. sub-based fallback, restricted to IDP-signed hints.
    reloadSession() gains an optional user_id: when the hint's jti
    is no longer cached (or the cached session can't be resumed), it logs
    in the user the hint names, honoring canLogin() and registering the
    IDP principal like every other login path. Because a signature that
    verifies with a client-controlled key (an HS* client secret, a
    public key the client registered, its jwks_uri) only proves the
    client made the token, processUserHint passes user_id only when
    the signature was verified with the IDP's own server signing key.
    Client-key-verified hints keep the previous jti-only semantics. The
    hint's exp is also enforced before any of this runs. The fallback
    registers the IDP principal with the authentication time the hint
    attests (its auth_time claim, else iat), not with "now", so
    max_age enforcement and the next id_token's auth_time stay
    truthful; a server-signed hint carrying neither degrades to jti-only.

Tests

  • InteractiveGrantTypeTest (unit): unsigned alg=none hint is rejected
    before sub/jti are read; a failed hint is still marked processed;
    a client-secret-signed hint reaches reloadSession() with a null
    user_id; a server-key-signed hint carries the resolved user_id and
    its iat as auth_time, or its explicit auth_time claim when present.
  • AuthServiceReloadSessionTest (unit): both fallback branches honor
    canLogin() and register the principal with the attested auth_time
    rather than time(); a non-ReloadSessionException
    failure restores the former session and rethrows; no-fallback failures
    rethrow.
  • OIDCColdSessionReloadTest (e2e): an expired, correctly-signed hint
    requires login; a hint signed with the seeded client's HS512 secret
    and an unknown jti lands on /auth/login with no authenticated user
    (before the fix it logged the user in and sent them to consent).
  • All new tests verified red against the commit they fix, green after.
  • Full suite: 256 tests, 1255 assertions, 0 failures.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved session recovery when cached sessions are unavailable or invalid, including account-based fallback for trusted sign-in hints.
    • Rejected unsigned, unverifiable, expired, or incomplete sign-in hints.
    • Prevented failed sign-in hints from being processed repeatedly, avoiding login loops.
    • Preserved the prior session when recovery fails and improved handling of invalid fallback accounts.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for session recovery, forged and expired sign-in hints, failed login attempts, authentication-time handling, and session restoration errors.

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An id_token_hint built as an UnsecuredJWT (alg=none) is neither IJWE
nor IJWS, so it skipped the whole signature-verification block and
fell straight through to trusting its sub/jti unconditionally.
Combined with the reload-session fallback that authenticates by
user_id when the session can't be resumed, this let anyone forge an
unsigned id_token_hint and get logged in as an arbitrary user_id with
no credentials. Now any hint that isn't a verified IJWS is rejected
before sub/jti are read.

Separately, the id_token_hint param was only marked as processed after
a successful reloadSession(). A hint that fails (stale, wrong
audience, expired) never got marked, so every subsequent resume of the
pending OAuth2 memento reprocessed the same hint, failed again, and
logged the user back out - including right after a successful
password login redirects back to /oauth2/auth. That turned any
invalid hint into a login loop with no way out short of clearing
site data. The param is now marked processed as soon as hint
processing begins, so a failed hint is retried at most once per
attempt.

Full test suite green (244 tests, 1173 assertions, 0 failures).

Signed-off-by: smarcet <smarcet@gmail.com>
Adds two unit tests for the fix in e913375:

- testProcessUserHintRejectsUnsignedAlgNoneIdTokenHint: builds a real,
  parseable alg=none id_token_hint (RFC 7519 unsecured JWT) and asserts
  its forged sub/jti never reach unwrapUserId/getUserById/reloadSession.
  Fails against the pre-fix code with a TypeError from getUserById
  receiving the forged sub unchecked, proving the hint used to be
  trusted before any signature check.

- testFailedIdTokenHintIsMarkedProcessedToPreventLoginLoop: asserts the
  id_token_hint param is marked processed on the request object even
  when hint processing fails. Fails against the pre-fix code (flag
  stays false), proving a failed hint used to be retried - and fail,
  and log the user out - on every resume of the pending OAuth2
  memento.

Both verified red against the parent commit and green against the fix.

Signed-off-by: smarcet <smarcet@gmail.com>
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The change introduces capability-limited session reload hints. Interactive login hints now require valid signatures and claims, reject expired tokens, prevent retry loops, and allow subject fallback only for server-signed hints with attested authentication time.

Changes

Session reload and login hint flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session reload fallback contract
app/libs/OAuth2/Models/SessionReloadHint.php, app/libs/Auth/AuthService.php, app/libs/Utils/Services/IAuthService.php, tests/AuthServiceReloadSessionTest.php
reloadSession now accepts SessionReloadHint. JTI-only hints use cached sessions only. Server-verified hints can use subject fallback and register principal state with the attested authentication time.
Interactive hint validation and capability selection
app/libs/OAuth2/GrantTypes/InteractiveGrantType.php, tests/unit/InteractiveGrantTypeTest.php
The grant type marks hints as processed before verification, rejects unsigned or invalid hints, validates sub, exp, and jti, and creates fallback-capable hints only after server-key verification.
Cold-session validation coverage
tests/OIDCColdSessionReloadTest.php, tests/StubServerConfigurationService.php
Integration tests reject expired hints and client-signed hints with uncached JTIs. Test configuration supports a temporary ID token lifetime override and clears it during teardown.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: romanetar

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sequenceDiagram
  participant InteractiveGrantType
  participant TokenVerifier
  participant SessionReloadHint
  participant AuthService
  participant Session
  InteractiveGrantType->>InteractiveGrantType: Mark id_token_hint as processed
  InteractiveGrantType->>TokenVerifier: Verify signature and claims
  TokenVerifier-->>InteractiveGrantType: Return validated claims
  InteractiveGrantType->>SessionReloadHint: Create reload capability
  InteractiveGrantType->>AuthService: reloadSession(SessionReloadHint)
  AuthService->>Session: Restore cached session or register fallback principal
  AuthService-->>InteractiveGrantType: Complete reload or throw
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In `@app/libs/Auth/AuthService.php`:
- Around line 717-723: Update the ReloadSessionException catch flow in
reloadSession so it returns immediately after a successful fallback
Auth::login($user), and rethrows $ex when $user_id is null; preserve the
existing missing-user exception behavior.
- Line 713: Add a \Throwable catch after the existing ReloadSessionException
handler in reloadSession() to restore the former session via former_session_id,
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Addresses 3 CodeRabbit findings on PR #158:

- Both fallback Auth::login() calls (empty-cache and post-catch) only
  checked is_null($user), not $user->canLogin(). getUserById() doesn't
  filter by account status, so a locked/deactivated/unverified user
  with a still-valid id_token_hint could bypass the lock via this path,
  unlike every other login entry point in this file which already
  gates on canLogin().

- The ReloadSessionException catch block returned normally (no throw)
  when $user_id was null, silently swallowing a real reload failure
  and violating the method's own \@throws contract. It now returns only
  after a successful fallback login, and rethrows otherwise.

- Added a \Throwable catch alongside the existing ReloadSessionException
  one: a DB error inside getUserById() (not a ReloadSessionException)
  previously escaped uncaught, leaving the caller's session pointed at
  the swapped-in (possibly stale) session id instead of being restored
  - the same collateral-damage bug this PR set out to fix, via a
  different exception type.

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The fallback does not validate standard token claims and does not register principal authentication state before login.

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What changed in this PR

Fixes OIDC id_token_hint authentication bypass and login-loop behavior.

Changes:

  • Rejects unsigned hints and marks failed hints as processed.
  • Adds session restoration and subject-based fallback authentication.
  • Expands regression test coverage.
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tests/​unit/​InteractiveGrantTypeTest.php Adds regression tests for unsigned and repeated hints.
app/​libs/​Utils/​Services/​IAuthService.php Extends the session reload contract.
app/​libs/​OAuth2/​GrantTypes/​InteractiveGrantType.php Validates signed hints and forwards the subject.
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Addresses the remaining findings on PR #158 (Copilot review):

- processUserHint() now rejects an id_token_hint whose exp has passed,
  right after signature verification. A verified signature only proves
  who issued the token, not that it's still inside its validity window
  - the jti cache TTL mirrors the token's lifetime but isn't a reliable
    substitute for checking exp directly (eviction timing, clock skew).
  Deliberately NOT validating aud: this hint is the SSO mechanism
  between different clients of this IDP (client A -> client B), so the
  token's original audience is expected to differ from the client
  presenting it.

- Both reloadSession() fallback Auth::login() calls now pair with
  principal_service->clear()+register(), matching every other login
  entry point in AuthService. Auth::login() alone left the IDP's own
  principal state (user_id/auth_time/op_browser_state) unset even
  though Auth::check() would report the user as logged in.

Tests:
- tests/AuthServiceReloadSessionTest.php (new): unit-tests reloadSession
  directly (facade-mocked, no DB) for canLogin() enforcement, principal
  registration on both fallback paths, the \Throwable session-restore
  path, and the no-fallback-user_id rethrow.
- OIDCColdSessionReloadTest::testColdSessionRejectsExpiredIdTokenHint:
  real end-to-end test with an actually-expired, correctly-signed
  token (via a configurable near-zero id_token lifetime + sleep, no
  hand-forged signature).
- Both new test groups verified red against the pre-fix code, green
  against the fix.

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In `@app/libs/OAuth2/GrantTypes/InteractiveGrantType.php`:
- Line 579: In the verified claim handling around getSubject(), validate that
the returned subject is non-null before calling getString(). Throw
InvalidLoginHint for a missing subject so it follows the existing
invalid-login-hint handling instead of dereferencing null.
- Line 574: Update the expiration check in the id_token_hint validation flow to
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reloadSession()'s sub-based fallback (login by user_id when the hint's jti
is no longer cached) was offered for any id_token_hint whose signature
verified, including one verified with a key the client controls: an HS*
client secret, a public key the client registered, or its jwks_uri. Such a
signature proves the client made the token, not the IDP, so a client
operator could mint a hint naming an arbitrary user id and obtain a session
for it once the jti lookup missed.

processUserHint now tracks whether the signature was verified with the
server's own signing key and passes user_id to reloadSession() only in that
case. Client-key-verified hints keep the jti-only semantics.

Tests:
- unit: a client-secret-signed hint reaches reloadSession() with a null
  user_id; a server-key-signed hint still carries the resolved user_id
- e2e: a hint signed with the seeded client's HS512 secret and an unknown
  jti lands on /auth/login with no authenticated user (was: logged in and
  sent to consent)
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Two claim-validation gaps on a verified id_token_hint:

- exp: NumericDate::isBefore() is a strict `<`, so a hint whose exp equals
  the current second passed the expiry check. RFC 7519 §4.1.4 requires the
  current time to be strictly before exp; the guard is now
  `!$expiration_time->isAfter(NumericDate::now())`.
- sub: a hint without a sub claim dereferenced null (`$sub->getString()`),
  raising an Error that the Exception-only catch in mustAuthenticateUser()
  does not handle, so the request 500'd instead of falling through to the
  login redirect. Added the same null guard jti and exp already have.

Tests (unit, InteractiveGrantTypeTest): a hint with exp = now and a hint
without sub are both rejected before reloadSession() and end at the login
page.
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Security-sensitive session recovery has an unresolved moderate restoration-path issue and warrants human review.

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The sub-based fallback in AuthService::reloadSession() registered the
IDP principal with time(), although the user did not authenticate on
that request: they authenticated when the IDP issued the hint. That
made shouldForceReLogin() treat a stale authentication as fresh and
stamped a false auth_time into the next id_token.

reloadSession() now takes an optional auth_time and registers it in
both fallback branches (time() stays only as a safety net).
InteractiveGrantType::processUserHint() resolves it from the hint's
auth_time claim, else its iat, and degrades a server-signed hint that
carries neither to jti-only semantics instead of inventing a value.

Tests: the two AuthServiceReloadSessionTest success cases assert the
exact registered auth_time; the server-key InteractiveGrantTypeTest
asserts iat is forwarded, and a new case asserts an explicit auth_time
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…dHint value object

reloadSession(string $jti, ?string $user_id, ?int $auth_time) admitted states
that mean nothing: a user_id without an attested auth_time, or the reverse.
The rule "sub-based fallback only for an IDP-signed hint that carries an
auth_time" lived as a ternary at the single call site, and the service kept a
time() safety net for an auth_time that could never actually be missing.

SessionReloadHint makes those states unrepresentable through two named
constructors: jtiOnly() for hints verified with a client-controlled key, and
withSubFallback() for hints verified with the IDP's own signing key, which
requires both user_id and auth_time. Both fallback branches in reloadSession()
now share loginFromReloadHint(), and the time() fallback is gone.

user_id is typed int end to end (unwrapUserId() returns a string that
getUserById(int) was coercing implicitly).

No behaviour change. IAuthService has a single implementer and a single
caller; tests updated to build the value object and to match on it.
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* fix(reload-session): reload session from user_id provided from id token

Signed-off-by: smarcet <smarcet@gmail.com>

* fix(oauth2): reject unsigned id_token_hint and stop login loop on hint failure

An id_token_hint built as an UnsecuredJWT (alg=none) is neither IJWE
nor IJWS, so it skipped the whole signature-verification block and
fell straight through to trusting its sub/jti unconditionally.
Combined with the reload-session fallback that authenticates by
user_id when the session can't be resumed, this let anyone forge an
unsigned id_token_hint and get logged in as an arbitrary user_id with
no credentials. Now any hint that isn't a verified IJWS is rejected
before sub/jti are read.

Separately, the id_token_hint param was only marked as processed after
a successful reloadSession(). A hint that fails (stale, wrong
audience, expired) never got marked, so every subsequent resume of the
pending OAuth2 memento reprocessed the same hint, failed again, and
logged the user back out - including right after a successful
password login redirects back to /oauth2/auth. That turned any
invalid hint into a login loop with no way out short of clearing
site data. The param is now marked processed as soon as hint
processing begins, so a failed hint is retried at most once per
attempt.

Full test suite green (244 tests, 1173 assertions, 0 failures).

Signed-off-by: smarcet <smarcet@gmail.com>

* test(oauth2): cover unsigned id_token_hint rejection and login-loop fix

Adds two unit tests for the fix in e913375:

- testProcessUserHintRejectsUnsignedAlgNoneIdTokenHint: builds a real,
  parseable alg=none id_token_hint (RFC 7519 unsecured JWT) and asserts
  its forged sub/jti never reach unwrapUserId/getUserById/reloadSession.
  Fails against the pre-fix code with a TypeError from getUserById
  receiving the forged sub unchecked, proving the hint used to be
  trusted before any signature check.

- testFailedIdTokenHintIsMarkedProcessedToPreventLoginLoop: asserts the
  id_token_hint param is marked processed on the request object even
  when hint processing fails. Fails against the pre-fix code (flag
  stays false), proving a failed hint used to be retried - and fail,
  and log the user out - on every resume of the pending OAuth2
  memento.

Both verified red against the parent commit and green against the fix.

Signed-off-by: smarcet <smarcet@gmail.com>

* fix(auth): honor canLogin() and fail closed in reloadSession fallback

Addresses 3 CodeRabbit findings on PR #158:

- Both fallback Auth::login() calls (empty-cache and post-catch) only
  checked is_null($user), not $user->canLogin(). getUserById() doesn't
  filter by account status, so a locked/deactivated/unverified user
  with a still-valid id_token_hint could bypass the lock via this path,
  unlike every other login entry point in this file which already
  gates on canLogin().

- The ReloadSessionException catch block returned normally (no throw)
  when $user_id was null, silently swallowing a real reload failure
  and violating the method's own \@throws contract. It now returns only
  after a successful fallback login, and rethrows otherwise.

- Added a \Throwable catch alongside the existing ReloadSessionException
  one: a DB error inside getUserById() (not a ReloadSessionException)
  previously escaped uncaught, leaving the caller's session pointed at
  the swapped-in (possibly stale) session id instead of being restored
  - the same collateral-damage bug this PR set out to fix, via a
  different exception type.

Full suite green (246 tests, 1176 assertions, 0 failures).

Signed-off-by: smarcet <smarcet@gmail.com>

* fix(oauth2): validate id_token_hint expiration and register IDP principal

Addresses the remaining findings on PR #158 (Copilot review):

- processUserHint() now rejects an id_token_hint whose exp has passed,
  right after signature verification. A verified signature only proves
  who issued the token, not that it's still inside its validity window
  - the jti cache TTL mirrors the token's lifetime but isn't a reliable
    substitute for checking exp directly (eviction timing, clock skew).
  Deliberately NOT validating aud: this hint is the SSO mechanism
  between different clients of this IDP (client A -> client B), so the
  token's original audience is expected to differ from the client
  presenting it.

- Both reloadSession() fallback Auth::login() calls now pair with
  principal_service->clear()+register(), matching every other login
  entry point in AuthService. Auth::login() alone left the IDP's own
  principal state (user_id/auth_time/op_browser_state) unset even
  though Auth::check() would report the user as logged in.

Tests:
- tests/AuthServiceReloadSessionTest.php (new): unit-tests reloadSession
  directly (facade-mocked, no DB) for canLogin() enforcement, principal
  registration on both fallback paths, the \Throwable session-restore
  path, and the no-fallback-user_id rethrow.
- OIDCColdSessionReloadTest::testColdSessionRejectsExpiredIdTokenHint:
  real end-to-end test with an actually-expired, correctly-signed
  token (via a configurable near-zero id_token lifetime + sleep, no
  hand-forged signature).
- Both new test groups verified red against the pre-fix code, green
  against the fix.

Full suite green (253 tests, 1250 assertions, 0 failures).

Signed-off-by: smarcet <smarcet@gmail.com>

* fix(oauth2): only unlock id_token_hint sub fallback for IDP-signed hints

reloadSession()'s sub-based fallback (login by user_id when the hint's jti
is no longer cached) was offered for any id_token_hint whose signature
verified, including one verified with a key the client controls: an HS*
client secret, a public key the client registered, or its jwks_uri. Such a
signature proves the client made the token, not the IDP, so a client
operator could mint a hint naming an arbitrary user id and obtain a session
for it once the jti lookup missed.

processUserHint now tracks whether the signature was verified with the
server's own signing key and passes user_id to reloadSession() only in that
case. Client-key-verified hints keep the jti-only semantics.

Tests:
- unit: a client-secret-signed hint reaches reloadSession() with a null
  user_id; a server-key-signed hint still carries the resolved user_id
- e2e: a hint signed with the seeded client's HS512 secret and an unknown
  jti lands on /auth/login with no authenticated user (was: logged in and
  sent to consent)

* fix(oauth2): reject id_token_hint with exp == now or without sub

Two claim-validation gaps on a verified id_token_hint:

- exp: NumericDate::isBefore() is a strict `<`, so a hint whose exp equals
  the current second passed the expiry check. RFC 7519 §4.1.4 requires the
  current time to be strictly before exp; the guard is now
  `!$expiration_time->isAfter(NumericDate::now())`.
- sub: a hint without a sub claim dereferenced null (`$sub->getString()`),
  raising an Error that the Exception-only catch in mustAuthenticateUser()
  does not handle, so the request 500'd instead of falling through to the
  login redirect. Added the same null guard jti and exp already have.

Tests (unit, InteractiveGrantTypeTest): a hint with exp = now and a hint
without sub are both rejected before reloadSession() and end at the login
page.

* fix(oauth2): register hint auth_time on id_token_hint sub fallback

The sub-based fallback in AuthService::reloadSession() registered the
IDP principal with time(), although the user did not authenticate on
that request: they authenticated when the IDP issued the hint. That
made shouldForceReLogin() treat a stale authentication as fresh and
stamped a false auth_time into the next id_token.

reloadSession() now takes an optional auth_time and registers it in
both fallback branches (time() stays only as a safety net).
InteractiveGrantType::processUserHint() resolves it from the hint's
auth_time claim, else its iat, and degrades a server-signed hint that
carries neither to jti-only semantics instead of inventing a value.

Tests: the two AuthServiceReloadSessionTest success cases assert the
exact registered auth_time; the server-key InteractiveGrantTypeTest
asserts iat is forwarded, and a new case asserts an explicit auth_time
claim wins over iat.

* refactor(auth): pass id_token_hint reload semantics as a SessionReloadHint value object

reloadSession(string $jti, ?string $user_id, ?int $auth_time) admitted states
that mean nothing: a user_id without an attested auth_time, or the reverse.
The rule "sub-based fallback only for an IDP-signed hint that carries an
auth_time" lived as a ternary at the single call site, and the service kept a
time() safety net for an auth_time that could never actually be missing.

SessionReloadHint makes those states unrepresentable through two named
constructors: jtiOnly() for hints verified with a client-controlled key, and
withSubFallback() for hints verified with the IDP's own signing key, which
requires both user_id and auth_time. Both fallback branches in reloadSession()
now share loginFromReloadHint(), and the time() fallback is gone.

user_id is typed int end to end (unwrapUserId() returns a string that
getUserById(int) was coercing implicitly).

No behaviour change. IAuthService has a single implementer and a single
caller; tests updated to build the value object and to match on it.

---------

Signed-off-by: smarcet <smarcet@gmail.com>

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🟡 Changes recommended

Unresolved revocation and session-restoration issues, plus a missing-key handling failure, remain before approval.

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Comment on lines +680 to +684
if (empty($session_id)) {
Log::warning("AuthService::reloadSession session_id is not present at cache");
if($hint->allowsSubFallback()) {
$this->loginFromReloadHint($hint);
return;
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