fix: let an assertion be presented only once - #44
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An assertion says when it is good, for whom it was issued and where it may be presented. None of that was read: a verified signature was the whole of the check, so an assertion never expired and one minted for another SP in the same federation was accepted here as-is. Conditions/@NotBefore and @NotOnOrAfter now bound the assertion, every AudienceRestriction has to name this SP, SubjectConfirmationData has to be addressed here and still open, and Response/@destination has to be this endpoint. A constraint the IdP did not send is not invented, so an IdP that omits AudienceRestriction keeps working. Timestamps are converted with plain civil-date arithmetic. os.time reads its table as local time, which shifted every SAML timestamp by the machine's UTC offset.
login generated an AuthnRequest ID and threw it away, so nothing tied the response back to a login this SP started. An assertion captured from one login stayed usable in any later one. The ID is kept on the session now. A SubjectConfirmationData naming a different request makes that confirmation unsatisfiable, and a Response answering a different request is refused outright. The confirmation is the binding that holds: it sits inside the signature, while the Response around it is usually unsigned.
Nothing stopped the same assertion being posted back a second time inside its validity window. Its ID is remembered now, in an lua_shared_dict the deployment names, and a second presentation is refused. The entry lives as long as the assertion's own Conditions leave it usable, so the cache holds exactly what could still be replayed. An assertion that names no expiry is remembered for replay_ttl, since nothing in the assertion says when to stop. Unset replay_dict leaves assertions untracked, which is what deployments with no shared dict to spare get today.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe SAML library adds configurable assertion replay protection. It stores issuer-scoped assertion IDs in an ChangesAssertion replay protection
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The change adds single-use assertion tracking, but it can currently consume assertions from rejected responses or partially record multi-assertion responses, causing legitimate subsequent logins to be refused; merge should wait until these replay-recording paths are corrected and the TTL input is validated. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant login_callback
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login_callback->>AssertionValidation: validate assertion and capture timestamp
AssertionValidation->>ngx_shared_saml_replay: record issuer-scoped assertion ID with TTL
ngx_shared_saml_replay-->>AssertionValidation: accept, duplicate, or storage error
AssertionValidation-->>login_callback: continue or reject login
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Pull request overview
Adds optional assertion replay protection to address item 5 of issue #37.
Changes:
- Tracks assertion IDs in a configured shared dictionary.
- Derives retention from assertion expiry or
replay_ttl. - Adds configuration documentation and replay tests.
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lua/resty/saml.lua |
Implements replay detection and storage. |
README.md |
Documents replay configuration. |
t/assertion-conditions.t |
Tests replay rejection and TTL behavior. |
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| local added, err, forcible = dict:add(key, true, ttl) | ||
| if not added then | ||
| if err == "exists" then | ||
| return false, "assertion " .. assertion.id .. " has been presented already" | ||
| end | ||
| return false, "could not track assertion " .. assertion.id .. ": " .. tostring(err) |
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Same problem one level up, worth folding into whatever fix you land here: the adds are also committed before the rest of login_callback can still reject. assertions_unused runs at line 506, but the name_id check 401s at 521 and the session_expires parse can ngx.exit(500) at 531 — both after the IDs are in the dict. So a browser re-POST of the same response, or a retry after a dropped reply, gets "has been presented already" instead of the original error and the user has to restart SSO.
Whatever transactional shape fixes the ordering should also move the commit past the last thing that can reject.
| ngx.log(ngx.WARN, "the assertion replay dict is full, older assertions are ", | ||
| "no longer tracked") |
| return false, "an assertion without an ID cannot be tracked" | ||
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| local ttl = opts.replay_ttl or DEFAULT_REPLAY_TTL |
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The TTL only ever comes from Conditions/@NotOnOrAfter, but that is not the only window assertions_acceptable honours — confirmation_ok also accepts on SubjectConfirmationData/@NotOnOrAfter, and that is the one the Web Browser SSO profile actually mandates on a bearer confirmation, while Conditions/@NotOnOrAfter is optional.
So for the ordinary shape of <Conditions> carrying only an AudienceRestriction plus <SubjectConfirmationData NotOnOrAfter="+1h"/>, the entry lives 600s while the assertion stays acceptable for an hour. From t+601 a captured response replays cleanly with replay_dict fully configured and nothing in the log to say so. Same for an assertion with no <Conditions> at all, which #42 accepts indefinitely (TEST 15) but this remembers for 600s — TEST 23's a2 case is exactly that, under the heading "remembered for as long as it is usable".
The comment above says "the cache holds exactly what is still usable"; to make that true the TTL wants to be the max over the Conditions expiry and every confirmation expiry the assertion offers. An assertion with no bound at all arguably should not be accepted rather than remembered for a default 600s.
Two smaller things on the same lines:
ttl is taken verbatim with no upper clamp. An assertion with NotOnOrAfter="9999-12-31T23:59:59Z" is stored with ttl = 251617708859 — I measured it. replay_ttl reads like it should cap this, not only be the fallback, and an unbounded entry accelerates the forcible-eviction path below.
tostring(opts.sp_issuer) yields the literal "nil" when sp_issuer is unset, so the key becomes "nil|<id>" and the per-SP namespace the comment promises collapses. Reachable because assertions_acceptable explicitly supports sp_audiences as an alternative to sp_issuer. Low severity since most deployments set sp_issuer anyway, but the key deserves a non-nil guarantee.
| obj.idp_cert_func = function(doc) return idp_cert end | ||
| obj.auth_protocol_binding_method = opts.auth_protocol_binding_method | ||
| if opts.replay_dict then | ||
| obj.replay_dict = assert(ngx.shared[opts.replay_dict], |
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assert here is not "fails loudly at new()" in the deployment that matters. The consumer is the gateway's saml-auth plugin, which builds the object per request in the rewrite phase via core.lrucache.plugin_ctx(lrucache, ctx, nil, resty_saml.new, conf). There is no pcall on that path — core/lrucache.lua calls create_obj_fun(...) directly and plugin.lua calls the phase function directly — so a replay_dict naming a zone that does not exist is an uncaught Lua error and a hard 500 on every request through the route, not the plugin's return 500, {message = ...}. The lrucache TTL is 300s, so it re-raises indefinitely rather than once.
Returning nil, err instead would land in the branch the plugin already has.
Separately, for this option to be reachable at all the gateway needs replay_dict/replay_ttl in the saml-auth schema and the zone declared in nginx_config.http.custom_lua_shared_dict (and the helm chart's customLuaSharedDicts). None of that exists today, and the plugin schema does not set additionalProperties: false, so the option validates and then takes the route down. Worth landing those alongside, or the feature cannot reach a user.
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| return false, "could not track assertion " .. assertion.id .. ": " .. tostring(err) | ||
| end | ||
| if forcible then |
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Beyond the message wording, the semantics here are fail-open. forcible means nginx made room by evicting other entries, and those are assertions still inside their validity window that just became replayable again. The login proceeds and the only trace is a WARN.
safe_add would return false, "no memory" and drop into the branch you already have at line 424, which fails closed. Worth making that choice deliberately, since nothing sizes the dict and the TTL is unbounded (see the thread above), so the eviction path is easy to reach rather than exotic.
| | `sp_audiences` | array of strings | `{ sp_issuer }` | Audiences this SP answers to. An assertion carrying an `AudienceRestriction` has to name one of them; an assertion carrying none is unrestricted. | | ||
| | `clock_skew` | number | `60` | Seconds of clock difference tolerated against the IdP when weighing `NotBefore` and `NotOnOrAfter`. | | ||
| | `replay_dict` | string | None | Name of an `lua_shared_dict` in which to remember the assertions already presented, so none is accepted twice. Unset leaves them untracked. | | ||
| | `replay_ttl` | number | `600` | Seconds to remember an assertion that names no `NotOnOrAfter` of its own. One that names it is remembered until it expires. | |
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Two things worth stating in these rows.
lua_shared_dict is scoped to one nginx instance's worker group, so a horizontally scaled SP — the normal shape behind a load balancer, and the shape this library ships into on Kubernetes — gets no cross-node protection. An assertion burned on one replica is still fresh on the next and the attacker just retries. Nothing currently says that.
And "One that names it is remembered until it expires" is not quite what the code does: the TTL follows only Conditions/@NotOnOrAfter, not the SubjectConfirmationData/@NotOnOrAfter window that also keeps the assertion acceptable. Details in the thread on assertions_unused.
| plain = {}, | ||
| skew = { clock_skew = 300 }, | ||
| audiences = { sp_audiences = { "https://sp.example.com/metadata" } }, | ||
| replay = { replay_dict = "saml_replay" }, |
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A few coverage gaps I found by mutating lua/resty/saml.lua and re-running the suite — each of these mutations leaves it fully green:
for i, assertion in ipairs(assertions) do if i > 1 then break endin bothassertions_acceptableandassertions_unused. No test drives a multi-assertion response throughlogin_callbackat all — TEST 16 is the only two-assertion block and it callssaml.doc_assertionsdirectly, bypassing the SP. So "every top-level assertion has to hold up" and "every assertion ID is tracked" are unpinned end to end, which is the shape closest to the wrapping attacks this is defending against.- dropping the SP scoping from the key (
local key = "sp|" .. assertion.id). All four SPs inOPTSusesp_issuer = "sp", and TEST 23 hardcodes the literal"sp|a1", so the scoping the comment promises cannot be tested. local ttl = DEFAULT_REPLAY_TTL, i.e. ignoringopts.replay_ttl.OPTS.replaysets onlyreplay_dict, so the one public knob this PR adds is never exercised.- removing the
if not assertion.idguard, and removing theforciblewarning. Thesaml_replay 1mdict is never filled, so the eviction path is never hit. - replacing
assert(ngx.shared[opts.replay_dict], ...)in_M.newwith a plain lookup — a typo'd dict name would silently degrade to no replay protection and no test would notice.
Also, on #42's side but same file: removing skew tolerance from NotBefore (if now < at then) is green, because TEST 3's NotBefore is at(3600), far outside any skew — a real IdP running a few seconds fast would break every login with no test catching it.
The endpoint checks compared against a URL assembled from the request's scheme and host. That value has only ever fed the AssertionConsumerService URL announced to the IdP, which many IdPs ignore in favour of the one registered against the SP, so a wrong value carried no symptom. Making it an acceptance criterion turns the same divergence into every login being refused, and a proxy terminating TLS outside the trusted addresses is enough to cause it. sp_acs_url states the endpoint outright. It is announced to the IdP and enforced on the way back, so the two cannot drift, and it settles what Destination and Recipient are measured against rather than leaving that to headers. Unset keeps the assembled value. An Audience with no text also left a hole in the list handed to Lua, where ipairs stops early and the error path then walked onto the nil. The index is dense now.
OneTimeUse sat on the list of conditions this SP claims to satisfy while nothing acted on it. Honouring it means remembering which assertions have been spent, and Core 2.5.1.5 tells a party that cannot keep that record to treat the assertion as invalid. Off the list, so it lands on the same path as a condition nobody here has heard of. The message says the SP cannot satisfy the condition rather than that it does not recognise it, which is the truth for both. ProxyRestriction stays, since it binds an IdP issuing on behalf of another IdP and asks nothing of the SP consuming the assertion.
#41, #42 and #43 all landed on main as squashes, so this branch's merge base did not move and the three-way merge saw their content as new on one side and half-present on the other. Conflicting files are taken from main and this branch's own change is re-applied on top. One adjustment to fit what merged since this branch forked: the replay refusal names the assertion ID through loggable, the line #42 drew around every value read out of a SAML message. Tests renumbered past #43's 31.
An shm zone of the same name and size is reused across a reload, so under TEST_NGINX_USE_HUP=1 the entries one block wrote outlived it and the next refused its own first login. The suite passed only because Test::Nginx restarts nginx per block by default. Reported on #43. Without the flush, TEST_NGINX_USE_HUP=1 fails 5 subtests across TESTs 33 and 34; with it both modes pass.
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- Around line 523-530: Update _M.new to validate replay_ttl when replay tracking
is enabled: accept only finite numeric values greater than zero, reject or fall
back for strings, zero, negative, and non-finite values before TTL arithmetic or
shared-dictionary storage. Preserve the existing default TTL behavior when
replay_ttl is absent.
- Around line 536-541: Update the assertion-tracking flow around dict:add in
assertions_unused to record each key successfully added during the current
invocation, delete those keys from replay_dict when a later add fails, then
return the original error. Preserve existing duplicate and tracking-error
messages, and add a regression test covering rollback after a multi-assertion
response fails partway through.
- Around line 643-649: Move the assertions_unused replay-check/recording block
in the callback validation flow until after issuer, identity, and
SessionNotOnOrAfter validation succeeds, while preserving rejection behavior for
already-used assertions. Update assertions_unused so recording multiple
assertion IDs is atomic: if any assertion fails, restore the replay dictionary
to its pre-call state. Add a regression test covering rejected responses not
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| local ttl = opts.replay_ttl or DEFAULT_REPLAY_TTL | ||
| if assertion.not_on_or_after then | ||
| local expires = parse_iso8601_utc_time(assertion.not_on_or_after) | ||
| if expires then | ||
| ttl = expires + skew - now | ||
| end | ||
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In OpenResty's ngx.shared.DICT:add method (and other dictionary methods like set, replace, and safe_set), the exptime argument represents an expiration time in seconds [1][2]. Internally, OpenResty treats exptime as a numeric value. If the provided exptime is 0, the item is treated as having no expiration time (permanent) [1]. Regarding invalid inputs such as NaN or infinity: 1. The ngx.shared.DICT methods expect exptime to be a number [1]. 2. If NaN or infinity (or other non-numeric types) are passed where a number is expected, Lua's interaction with the underlying C implementation typically results in a type conversion failure or an error from the Lua-to-C binding layer, causing the function to throw a Lua error. 3. Code that attempts to use these values will not result in a silently valid expiration time; rather, the operation will fail during the argument validation phase of the ngx.shared.DICT method call. For practical purposes: - Always ensure exptime is a non-negative number [1]. - Passing nil is commonly used when you intend for an entry to be permanent (or simply not to specify an expiration, falling back to permanent behavior) [3]. - Because exptime has a resolution of 0.001 seconds, very small positive values are valid, but using NaN or inf is not supported [1]. If you need to handle dynamic expiration times, validate that the input is a finite, non-negative number in your Lua code before passing it to the dictionary method to avoid runtime errors [1].
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Validate replay_ttl in _M.new.
When replay tracking is enabled, require a finite number greater than zero. A truthy string causes ttl < 1 to raise a type error. Zero and negative values are clamped to a one-second TTL. Non-finite values reach ngx.shared.DICT:add and can fail at runtime.
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greater than zero, reject or fall back for strings, zero, negative, and
non-finite values before TTL arithmetic or shared-dictionary storage. Preserve
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| local added, err, forcible = dict:add(key, true, ttl) | ||
| if not added then | ||
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Roll back replay records when a later assertion cannot be recorded.
assertions_unused adds assertion IDs in order and returns on the first failed dict:add. A rejected multi-assertion response can leave earlier IDs in replay_dict, which causes later valid presentations to be rejected as replays. Track keys added by this invocation and delete them before returning an error. Add a regression test.
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In `@lua/resty/saml.lua` around lines 536 - 541, Update the assertion-tracking
flow around dict:add in assertions_unused to record each key successfully added
during the current invocation, delete those keys from replay_dict when a later
add fails, then return the original error. Preserve existing duplicate and
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| if self.replay_dict then | ||
| local unused, used_reason = assertions_unused(self.replay_dict, opts, assertions, now) | ||
| if not unused then | ||
| ngx.log(ngx.ERR, "response from IdP rejected: ", loggable(used_reason)) | ||
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replay = source.index("if self.replay_dict then")
issuer = source.index("local allowed, unexpected = issuers_allowed", replay)
name_id = source.index("if not name_id then", issuer)
session_expiry = source.index("local session_expires = saml.doc_session_expires", name_id)
save = source.index("sess:save()", session_expiry)
assert replay < issuer < name_id < session_expiry < save
print("callback order: replay < issuer < name_id < session expiry < session save")
class Dict:
def __init__(self, fail_on=None):
self.values = []
self.fail_on = fail_on
def add(self, key):
if key in self.values:
return False, "exists"
if key == self.fail_on:
return False, "no memory"
self.values.append(key)
return True, None
def assertions_unused(assertions, fail_on=None):
d = Dict(fail_on)
for assertion in assertions:
added, err = d.add(assertion)
if not added:
return False, err, d.values
return True, None, d.values
accepted, reason, recorded = assertions_unused(["a1"])
print("later validation rejection leaves:", recorded)
assert recorded == ["a1"]
accepted, reason, recorded = assertions_unused(["a1", "a2"], fail_on="a2")
print("later assertion add failure leaves:", recorded)
assert recorded == ["a1"]
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Defer replay recording until callback validation is complete.
Replay tracking currently runs before issuer, identity, and SessionNotOnOrAfter validation. A rejected response can therefore consume its assertion ID. Move replay tracking after these checks and add a regression test.
assertions_unused also records IDs incrementally. If a later assertion fails, earlier IDs remain stored. Make multi-assertion recording atomic or roll back entries from a failed call.
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In `@lua/resty/saml.lua` around lines 643 - 649, Move the assertions_unused
replay-check/recording block in the callback validation flow until after issuer,
identity, and SessionNotOnOrAfter validation succeeds, while preserving
rejection behavior for already-used assertions. Update assertions_unused so
recording multiple assertion IDs is atomic: if any assertion fails, restore the
replay dictionary to its pre-call state. Add a regression test covering rejected
responses not consuming IDs and failed multi-assertion recording leaving no
partial entries.
Closes #37, item 5 of its suggested scope. #42 and #43 have merged, so this now targets
mainand is the last of the three.What was wrong
An assertion could be posted back as many times as its window allowed. #42 bounds that window and #43 ties the assertion to one
AuthnRequest, which together shrink the opening a great deal, but neither makes an assertion single-use, and single-use is what "bearer" means: whoever holds it is the subject.What it does now
login_callbackremembers the ID of every assertion it accepts and refuses a response carrying one it has seen. The store is anlua_shared_dictthe deployment names through the newreplay_dictoption, because a library cannot declare one and the entry has to be shared across workers. Unset leaves assertions untracked, which is today's behaviour; a name that nolua_shared_dictmatches fails loudly atnew()rather than quietly not tracking anything.How long an entry lives is taken from the assertion rather than from configuration:
Conditions/@NotOnOrAfterplus theclock_skewallowance is the last moment the checks in #42 would still accept it, so the cache holds exactly what is still replayable and no more. An assertion that names no expiry has nothing to derive from and is remembered forreplay_ttl, 600 seconds by default.Two smaller points:
sp_issuer, so several SP instances sharing one dict do not collide.lua_shared_dictevicts under pressure. An eviction weakens replay protection silently, so a forcible insert logs a warning naming the dict as full.Merging
mainin#41, #42 and #43 all landed as squashes, so this branch's merge base never moved and the three-way merge saw their content as new on one side and half-present on the other. Conflicting files are taken from
mainand this branch's own change is re-applied on top, which is why the diff is three files rather than everything the three of them touched. One adjustment to fit what merged since this branch forked: the replay refusal names the assertion ID throughloggable, the line #42 drew around every value read out of a SAML message.Also from review
Raised on #43 and belonging here: an shm zone of the same name and size is reused across a reload, so under
TEST_NGINX_USE_HUP=1the entries one block wrote outlived it and the next block was refused its own first login. The suite passed only because Test::Nginx restarts nginx per block by default. Each replay block flushes the dict first now. Without that,TEST_NGINX_USE_HUP=1fails 5 subtests across TESTs 33 and 34; with it, both modes pass.Worth noting that nothing on this PR had run in CI while it was stacked, since the workflow triggers on
pull_request: branches: [ main ], which filters on the base branch. Retargeting fixed that and the suite runs here now.Tests
TESTs 32 to 34 in
t/assertion-conditions.t. TEST 34 reads the entry's TTL back out of the dict, covering both the derived window and thereplay_ttlfallback.Full run on this branch,
t/assertion-conditions.t,t/signed-response.tandt/login-callback.t, 265 subtests, all pass, and the first of those passes underTEST_NGINX_USE_HUP=1as well.With the replay check taken back out and the new tests kept, the two that should fail do and only those:
TEST 33 passes on both, which is the point of it.
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