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ScreenTinker d4b8d7dad4 SSO: prove domain ownership by DNS, and fix what the second review found
A second review pass, run against the previous commit, found four blockers — two of
them introduced by the fixes in that commit. It also confirmed the original account
takeover is closed: a hostile IdP with real TLS, discovery, JWKS and RS256 driving the
real routers now stops at domain_not_allowed, and all 16 bypass variants are refused.

DOMAIN OWNERSHIP (the root cause, not the symptom)

A claimed domain used to mean "nobody else claimed it". It now means the organization
published a record in that domain's own DNS — TXT or CNAME, at a dedicated
_screentinker-verify name rather than the apex, where an edit would sit beside SPF.

  - an unverified domain routes NOBODY and cannot be asserted; it reserves the name
  - an unverified claim LAPSES after 8 hours, so a domain cannot be held against its
    real owner, and lapsing rotates the token so a record left over from an abandoned
    attempt cannot satisfy a later claim
  - a verified domain never expires — re-proving on a timer would log a customer out
    over a DNS edit made months later
  - routing and confinement read the VERIFIED set only, never the typed column
  - configuring SSO now requires a verified email address
  - platform admins are emailed when a domain is claimed; nothing is ever sent to the
    claimed domain, which would let any tenant make this product email third parties

Instance-wide providers are exempt from all of it: they are the operator's own
configuration and keep the trust they have always had.

BLOCKERS FROM THE REVIEW

  - two unauthenticated remote crashes, both one request, both "async handler throws
    before its try": `Cookie: st_oidc_tx=%` (unguarded decodeURIComponent) and the
    fail-closed secret added last commit, which turned a JWT_SECRET rotation into a
    permanent crash loop. Fixed the CLASS with asyncRoute() rather than the instances.
  - the SSRF guard was bypassable via IPv4-mapped IPv6 ([::ffff:127.0.0.1]) and also
    refused every host beginning "fc"/"fd" (fcm.googleapis.com). Addresses are now
    parsed and compared by RANGE. 42 cases verified.
  - the takeover fix had NO test — the test named after it asserted two struct fields
    and passed with the guard deleted. The decision is now a pure function and four
    mutations were confirmed to turn the suite red.
  - the PUT path never received the TOCTOU fix, so two orgs could end up holding one
    domain and forEmail handed routing to the attacker's older row.

ALSO

  - linking compared slugs, so an org could never rotate its own IdP, and fell open on
    an empty auth_provider. It now asks which ORGANIZATION owns the slug.
  - an account stranded by a deleted provider can be reclaimed by password reset —
    proof of the mailbox, which is stronger than the IdP assertion that created it.
  - /sso/claim accepted a pre-TOTP mfa_pending token and returned the full user row;
    it now takes a purpose-built 120s claim token with a pinned algorithm and typ.
  - the rate limiter keyed on a caller-controlled path, so a trailing slash bought a
    fresh bucket — a real login brute-force bypass.
  - domain_not_allowed and account_exists_other_provider rendered as "please try
    again", advice that can never work.
  - malformed asserted addresses are refused rather than trimmed into shape.
  - dead config (microsoftTenantId defaulted to 'common', which the provider code now
    refuses) and the orphaned google-auth-library dependency removed.

1591 tests pass. Domain lifecycle verified end to end against a running server.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Bvjey4FNam49MN7ybjcq6A
2026-08-10 19:23:46 -05:00