fix: auth module selection

[steveiliop56]

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an experimental option to disable authentication-module fallbacks.
• Security Improvements
  • Restricted redirect URLs to HTTP and HTTPS with stricter validation.
  • Rejected requests with conflicting authentication-module identifiers.
  • Required a valid path for external authorization requests.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved domain matching, normalization, and validation.
  • Standardized errors when no configured authentication module succeeds.
  • Improved handling of internationalized and underscore-containing hostnames.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds configurable authentication fallback control, rejects conflicting authentication identifiers, tightens ExtAuthz and OAuth redirect validation, and revises runtime-aware domain matching and hostname normalization.

Changes

Authentication and domain validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Proxy authentication selection and context resolution internal/model/config.go, .env.example, internal/controller/proxy_controller.go, internal/controller/proxy_controller_test.go	Adds DisableAuthModuleFallback, validates ExtAuthz paths, rejects conflicting module identifiers, applies configured fallback behavior, and standardizes failed context resolution errors.
Runtime-aware access-control matching internal/service/access_controls_service.go, internal/service/access_controls_service_test.go, internal/controller/proxy_controller_test.go	Passes runtime configuration into access-control matching, normalizes domains, enforces the cookie domain, skips invalid configured domains, and rejects ambiguous app-name matches.
Hostname parsing and validation rules internal/utils/app_utils.go, internal/utils/app_utils_test.go, pkg/validators/domain_validator.go, pkg/validators/domain_validator_test.go	Uses a custom IDNA profile for application URLs and removes IDNA conversion from domain validation. Tests update Unicode, underscore, malformed punycode, and trailing-dot cases.
OAuth redirect URI validation internal/controller/oauth_controller.go	Redirect URI validation allows ports and restricts schemes to http and https.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1f1ab

The PR changes auth-module detection, but currently treats x-forwarded-host alone as ForwardAuth, which can cause valid Envoy requests to return HTTP 400 instead of being handled by the intended authentication path. This request-availability risk should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge; minor validation and configuration-order follow-ups also remain.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProxyController
  participant EnvoyExtAuthz
  participant ForwardAuth
  ProxyController->>EnvoyExtAuthz: resolve authentication context
  alt fallback disabled
    EnvoyExtAuthz-->>ProxyController: success or failure
  else fallback enabled
    EnvoyExtAuthz-->>ProxyController: failure
    ProxyController->>ForwardAuth: try fallback authentication
    ForwardAuth-->>ProxyController: context or failure
  end

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❌ Patch coverage is 91.76471% with 7 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
internal/controller/proxy_controller.go	91.83%	3 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️
internal/service/access_controls_service.go	86.95%	2 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️

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Actionable comments posted: 3

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

internal/controller/oauth_controller.go (1)

297-299: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add regression tests for the new redirect policy.

Extend internal/controller/oauth_controller_test.go with cases for:

• A matching explicit port, which should return true.
• An http application URL and redirect, which should return true.
• An ftp redirect, which should return false.

These cases verify both the new port behavior and the AllowedSchemes security boundary.

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In `@internal/controller/oauth_controller.go` around lines 297 - 299, Extend the
OAuth redirect policy tests around the relevant validation function to cover a
matching explicit port returning true, an http application URL and redirect
returning true, and an ftp redirect returning false. Keep the cases focused on
the new port handling and AllowedSchemes boundary.

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Inline comments:
In @.env.example:
- Line 231: Move TINYAUTH_EXPERIMENTAL_DISABLEAUTHMODULEFALLBACK before
TINYAUTH_EXPERIMENTAL_OAUTHBRIDGEENABLED in the environment-variable list to
satisfy dotenv-linter ordering.

In `@internal/controller/proxy_controller.go`:
- Around line 532-537: Update authModuleIdentifiersPresent for ForwardAuth so
x-forwarded-host alone is insufficient; require x-forwarded-uri together with
the other required ForwardAuth fields before returning true, allowing Envoy
ExtAuthz requests to resolve correctly. Restore the non-browser Envoy test to
use a path query, req.Host, and no ForwardAuth headers.

In `@pkg/validators/domain_validator.go`:
- Around line 115-119: Update the hostname normalization flow in SafeHostname
and Validate to lowercase and remove the trailing dot before calling
net.ParseIP. Then reject the normalized value as an IP literal, preserving the
existing error behavior.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/controller/oauth_controller.go`:
- Around line 297-299: Extend the OAuth redirect policy tests around the
relevant validation function to cover a matching explicit port returning true,
an http application URL and redirect returning true, and an ftp redirect
returning false. Keep the cases focused on the new port handling and
AllowedSchemes boundary.

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• .env.example
• internal/controller/oauth_controller.go
• internal/controller/proxy_controller.go
• internal/controller/proxy_controller_test.go
• internal/model/config.go
• internal/service/access_controls_service.go
• internal/service/access_controls_service_test.go
• internal/utils/app_utils.go
• internal/utils/app_utils_test.go
• pkg/validators/domain_validator.go
• pkg/validators/domain_validator_test.go

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• pkg/validators/domain_validator_test.go

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[Zoey2936]

Hello!
From my understand this will now also block requests even if $X-Forwarded-Proto://$X-Forwarded-Host$X-Forwarded-URI matches the X-Original-URL header if all four are sent, right?
And this will also block requests if X-Forwarded-Proto, X-Forwarded-Host and X-Original-URL are sent, but not X-Forwarded-URI, right?
Also for the nginx endpoint X-Original-URL should be preffered?

I'm asking since in NPMplus, I'm currently always adding the X-Forwarded-Proto and X-Forwarded-Host headers and for auth request I'm adding X-Forwarded-URI/X-Original-URL as needed. But if I understand this change correctly the only way I keep this pattern is by only using the X-Forwarded-URI, since the X-Original-URL will be blocked combined with -Proto and -Host. But X-Original-URL seems to be the preferred method.

This is now to late, but I also noticed the possible spoofing if X-Original-URL is not set in nginx. For this I added all four headers (unreleased): ZoeyVid/NPMplus@5e28cce#diff-8ba1a47a993d4d3ab708ac208e11183f4e8ed7228eb45bd9e7f7c54a5ae66075R351 But with this change it seems like this is not needed anymore and will even break if both header combinations are set even if their value is the same.

Thanks!

[steveiliop56]

Hello @Zoey2936,

Yes ideally you should only use X-Original-URL since that's what Nginx usually uses (for example that's what was being used in the Kubernetes Ingress). However if for some reason you cannot omit the X-Forwarded-* headers, then you can fallback to just these and Tinyauth will block the request if someone tries to send the X-Original-URL as well.