fix: weigh the conditions an assertion attaches to itself

[shreemaan-abhishek]

Part of #37: items 1 to 3 of its suggested scope, plus the Destination bullet. Items 4 (InResponseTo) and 5 (assertion replay cache) follow in their own PRs, because both need the SP to keep state, which is a different kind of change from reading what the assertion already says.

What was wrong

login_callback checked the IdP's status code and compared RelayState, then read the identity and set authenticated = true. Nothing looked at what the assertion says about itself, so:

• an assertion never expired. Conditions/@NotOnOrAfter was parsed by the schema and dropped. One captured assertion stayed usable for good, and RelayState does not stand in for a validity window: the party replaying it starts their own login to get a matching saml_state on their own session.
• an assertion issued for another SP was accepted. With no AudienceRestriction check, any assertion the configured idp_cert signs was taken, whichever SP the IdP minted it for. In a federation that one IdP serves, an assertion obtained from a lower-value SP works here unchanged.

What it does now

A new saml.doc_assertions reports, per top-level assertion, the constraints that assertion attaches to itself: its validity window, its audience restrictions, and its subject confirmations. Per assertion rather than pooled across the document, because they belong to one assertion and the readers consume several. saml.doc_destination reads the root message's Destination.

login_callback then refuses a response where any of these does not hold:

what	rule
Conditions/@NotBefore, @NotOnOrAfter	now has to fall inside the window, clock_skew either side
Conditions/AudienceRestriction	each restriction has to name one of sp_audiences (sp_issuer by default); several restrictions each narrow separately, so all of them have to
unrecognised Conditions child	refused. SAML Core 2.5.1 makes the assertion Indeterminate, which is not a licence to use it. AudienceRestriction, OneTimeUse and ProxyRestriction are recognised
SubjectConfirmationData/@Recipient	has to be present and name this SP's assertion consumer service URL
SubjectConfirmationData/@NotBefore, @NotOnOrAfter	same window rule. One satisfiable confirmation among several is enough
Response/@Destination	has to be this SP's assertion consumer service URL

The confirmation policy, settled. Recipient has to be present and name this SP. NotOnOrAfter and NotBefore are checked when present and not demanded, since their absence opens no bypass and Conditions/@NotOnOrAfter already bounds the assertion. Method is not weighed at all and is tracked as #45. An assertion offering no confirmation is accepted, which TEST 15 records.

Recipient is the one place that line is not held, and deliberately. It is the only thing a confirmation says about where the assertion may be presented, so a confirmation lacking it states nothing, and since one satisfiable confirmation is enough, a stating-nothing confirmation answers in place of any sibling that does bind the assertion. An empty <saml:SubjectConfirmationData/> is schema-valid, so that is one element away. Profile 4.1.4.3 requires the value anyway and compliant IdPs send it, so requiring it costs nothing in practice. An assertion offering no confirmation at all is still accepted, which is what TEST 15 records.

The line held everywhere else is that a constraint the IdP did not send is not invented. An IdP that omits AudienceRestriction keeps working; an assertion that carries one has to name this SP. That is what closes the cross-SP case without breaking deployments whose IdP sends less than the profile asks for, and it needs no new required configuration.

Two new optional knobs, both documented in the README:

• sp_audiences, for deployments where the IdP was configured with an audience other than sp_issuer. Defaults to { sp_issuer }.
• clock_skew, seconds of tolerance against the IdP's clock. Defaults to 60.

A timestamp fix that came with it

parse_iso8601_utc_time ended in os.time{...}, which reads its table as local time, so every SAML timestamp came out shifted by the machine's UTC offset. It only fed the session expiry before, where the error was invisible; the window checks above are built on it, so it is converted with plain civil-date arithmetic now and no longer depends on the machine's zone. TEST 17 pins it, and CI would not have caught it: CI runs in UTC, where the bug is a no-op.

Two consequences of that worth stating outright, since neither is visible from the diff.

Session lifetime changes with it. The same parser decides when an existing session goes stale, and that number was wrong by the machine's UTC offset. A server at UTC-5 read a one-hour session as six hours; one at UTC+8 read it as expiring an hour before the IdP said. Both now last exactly the advertised window. East of UTC that means longer sessions than before, and west of UTC it means users are sent back to the IdP sooner than they are used to, which will be reported as a regression despite being the IdP's own grant honoured for the first time. At UTC, which covers CI and most containers, nothing changes. TEST 21 pins it.

A timestamp the parser cannot read now refuses the login. Previously it fed one optional field and a failure was a skipped hint. Every Conditions and SubjectConfirmationData timestamp goes through it now, so an unreadable one is a 401. Two shapes are legal xs:dateTime and pass schema validation while this parser rejects them:

• 24:00:00, midnight written as hour 24. No mainstream IdP emits it.
• a non-Z offset such as +05:00. Refusing is deliberate, since Core 1.3.3 requires SAML time values to be UTC with no timezone component.

Fractional seconds are read and truncated towards the past, which is the conservative direction.

Tests

New t/assertion-conditions.t, 21 TESTs, driving the real Lua login callback end to end with no IdP involved: a login redirect, the session cookie and RelayState it hands out, then a crafted response posted to the ACS endpoint. TEST 16 reads doc_assertions directly to hold the per-assertion shape, and TEST 21 carries the session on to a second request to weigh its lifetime.

Full run against this branch, t/assertion-conditions.t and t/signed-response.t, 115 subtests, all pass.

Rebuilt against main's src/ and lua/ with the new file kept, every test that should fail does and only those (TESTs 1, 6, 10, 12, 15 and 17 pass on both, which is what they are for):

Failed 23/51 subtests    # TESTs 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16

TESTs 17 and 21 are the exception to that run: they cover the timestamp fix rather than the missing checks, so they need their own A/B. With only the os.time line put back, they are the only failures:

Failed 3/64 subtests     # TESTs 17 and 21

Review rounds

Later commits on this branch, each with its own A/B:

• sp_acs_url, so the endpoint the assertion has to name comes from configuration rather than from request headers, and an Audience with no text no longer leaves a hole that shortens the list it belongs to.
• OneTimeUse refused rather than waved through. 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. Honour OneTimeUse when replay tracking is configured #46 is to accept it again once fix: let an assertion be presented only once #44's replay_dict supplies the record.
• A confirmation has to name this SP rather than merely avoid contradicting it. The first attempt distinguished a written SubjectConfirmationData from an absent one, which is a different question: an empty element is schema-valid and states the same nothing, so the disarm survived one spelling away. Requiring Recipient closes the family.
• RelayState, the status code and the name id reach the log unescaped alongside Destination. RelayState is the least constrained of them, being a URL-decoded form field with no schema facet at all.
• The timestamp pattern is anchored, so -9999-01-01T00:00:00Z, which the schema accepts as 9999 BCE, stops being read as a far-future 9999 CE out of an expired bound.
• Three classes closed rather than the sites named in review. Every value read out of a SAML message is escaped on its way to a log, logout_callback included. Every attribute the reader takes goes through read_attr, which separates an absent attribute from one whose value could not be copied, since xmlGetNoNsProp returns NULL for both and reading NULL as absent drops a bound rather than failing. And an unreadable SessionNotOnOrAfter no longer answers 200 with the parse error as the body, a pre-existing branch that a numeric offset already reached.
• An unchecked xmlStrdup was the one allocation in the new reader whose failure direction was open. It fails the read now, like every other allocation there.
• The expiry INFO line rendered a UTC value in local time and ran ahead of the parse-error guard beside it.

Checking the Method on a confirmation is deliberately left out and tracked as #45.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added configurable SAML ACS URLs, audience values, and clock-skew tolerance.
  • Added parsing of assertion metadata, validity periods, audience restrictions, and subject-confirmation details.
  • Added validation for response destinations, assertions, conditions, audiences, and subject confirmations during login.
  • Added support for satisfiable proxy restrictions and clearer handling of unsupported conditions.

• Bug Fixes

  • Corrected UTC timestamp handling regardless of server timezone.

• Documentation

  • Documented the new SAML configuration options and validation behavior.

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The PR adds C APIs to extract SAML assertion metadata. Lua login callbacks validate destinations, conditions, audiences, subject confirmations, and clock-skew-adjusted timestamps. Documentation and integration tests cover the new options and validation behavior.

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SAML assertion validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Assertion extraction API src/saml.h, src/xml.c, src/lua_saml.c	The C layer extracts assertion conditions, audiences, subject confirmations, and response destinations. Lua bindings expose this metadata and release allocated records.
Callback validation and options lua/resty/saml.lua, README.md	The login callback resolves and validates the ACS URL and assertion metadata. UTC timestamp parsing avoids local timezone conversion. The documentation describes sp_acs_url, sp_audiences, and clock_skew.
Assertion validation coverage t/assertion-conditions.t	Integration tests cover validity windows, clock skew, audiences, subject confirmations, unknown conditions, destinations, multiple assertions, unconstrained assertions, configured ACS URLs, empty audiences, and timezone handling.

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 83c58

The PR adds assertion-condition and destination enforcement, but the current parsing path can expose incomplete constraints as absent, allowing malformed assertions to bypass audience, recipient, or time checks. This is a security-sensitive correctness issue that should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant IdP
  participant LoginCallback
  participant doc_destination
  participant doc_assertions
  participant AssertionValidator
  participant IdentityProcessor
  IdP->>LoginCallback: send signed SAML response
  LoginCallback->>doc_destination: validate response Destination
  LoginCallback->>doc_assertions: extract assertions
  doc_assertions-->>AssertionValidator: return assertion metadata
  AssertionValidator->>AssertionValidator: check conditions, audiences, confirmations, and clock skew
  AssertionValidator-->>LoginCallback: accept or reject response
  LoginCallback->>IdentityProcessor: process identity data

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Possibly related issues

• api7/lua-resty-saml#37 — Covers validation of assertion conditions, audiences, subject confirmations, destinations, and clock-skew validity implemented by this PR.

Possibly related PRs

• api7/lua-resty-saml#32 — Introduces SAML assertion handling that this PR consumes after signature verification.

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Keep the declaration tied to the single translation unit

Makefile compiles only src/saml.c. That file includes src/xml.c before src/sig.c, so the declaration resolves in the current build. If src/xml.c becomes a separate object, the translation unit has no definition for the static function and fails to link. Move the predicate to a shared internal header or define it in src/xml.c.

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In `@lua/resty/saml.lua`:
- Around line 418-424: Add an absolute ACS URL option, documented alongside
sp_audiences and clock_skew, and update the ACS URL selection near
saml_get_redirect_uri to prefer it over header-derived values. Use this
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SubjectConfirmationData/@Recipient comparison in confirmation_ok, retaining
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Check the protocol namespace of the root element.

Line 407 compares the root local name against Response without a namespace test. is_saml_assertion in src/sig.c checks node->ns->href, so the root test is weaker than the child test. A root element named Response in an unrelated namespace is accepted as a SAML response. Apply the same namespace check that the assertion predicate uses.

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Pull request overview

Adds SAML assertion constraint validation to prevent expired or misaddressed assertions from authenticating users.

Changes:

• Parses assertion conditions, audiences, confirmations, and response destinations.
• Enforces time, audience, recipient, and destination constraints.
• Corrects UTC timestamp conversion and adds end-to-end tests.

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File	Description
lua/resty/saml.lua	Enforces assertion constraints during login.
src/xml.c	Extracts per-assertion constraint data.
src/saml.h	Defines assertion constraint structures and APIs.
src/lua_saml.c	Exposes assertion and destination readers to Lua.
README.md	Documents audience and clock-skew options.
t/assertion-conditions.t	Tests validation and UTC behavior.

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OneTimeUse being on this list suppresses the Indeterminate refusal, but nothing anywhere enforces it. There is no field for it on saml_assertion_t, so the Lua side cannot act on it even if it wanted to, and the only single-use machinery lands in #44 behind an opt-in replay_dict. TEST 13 pins the result: <saml:OneTimeUse/> returns 302 on the plain SP, which has no dict.

Core 2.5.1.5 says the opposite — a relying party that cannot maintain the single-use state has to treat the assertion as invalid, which is exactly the unknown_condition path this function feeds. So either drop OneTimeUse from the list and let it land there, or expose it and have assertions_acceptable refuse it when replay tracking is off.

ProxyRestriction is fine to whitelist — it constrains an IdP acting as a proxy, not the consuming SP.

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Removing it is right for this PR on its own, and TEST 13 reads well. Flagging the other edge it opens once the stack lands: #44 gives the SP exactly the record Core 2.5.1.5 asks for, but the refusal here is unconditional, so <saml:OneTimeUse/> is still 401 with replay_dict configured. Measured on #44's tip:

replay_dict configured: 401 nil
no dict:                401 nil

So an IdP that marks assertions single-use — the more careful configuration — cannot log anyone in against an SP that has replay protection switched on. Gating the refusal on whether single-use state is available would let #44 actually satisfy the condition.

Noticed while checking: #44's tip is not on this branch's current head. It carries the OneTimeUse removal but not 83c589b's xmlStrdup guard, so it needs another merge.

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Saw #46 — right place for it, thanks.

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Reject replayed OneTimeUse assertions.

This test accepts <saml:OneTimeUse/>, but it does not verify a second submission is rejected. The exposed assertion metadata has no OneTimeUse field, so the callback cannot enforce this condition. A captured signed assertion can be replayed during its validity period.

Expose the condition, persist consumed assertion IDs with an expiry, and add a test that posts the same assertion again and expects rejection. SAML Core states that a OneTimeUse assertion must not be retained and that relying parties should check for prior processing. (docs.oasis-open.org)

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Validate SubjectConfirmationData/@InResponseTo against the stored AuthnRequest ID.

Reject mismatches and missing values in SP-initiated flows. Allow a missing value only when unsolicited SSO is explicitly supported.

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Reject incomplete assertion constraints before Lua conversion.

xmlNodeListGetString() can return NULL for allocation failure or empty content. The Lua binding skips NULL audiences, so an AudienceRestriction can lose an audience and pass validation based on incomplete data. xmlGetNoNsProp() also uses NULL for both absent attributes and allocation failure. set_str_field() then omits the field, while Lua treats missing Recipient, NotBefore, or NotOnOrAfter as unconstrained. Distinguish absent attributes from allocation failures, reject empty audiences, and return -1 for allocation failures before exposing the assertion.

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fields such as Recipient, NotBefore, and NotOnOrAfter are not silently omitted
when their values fail to allocate, while preserving genuinely absent attributes
as unconstrained.

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lua/resty/saml.lua:281

• The arithmetic uses captures from the unanchored four-digit-year pattern above. XML Schema dateTime permits years with more than four digits, so a schema-valid NotBefore="12026-...Z" is matched starting at its second digit and interpreted as year 2026, allowing the assertion roughly 10,000 years early. Parse the complete lexical value with an anchored year field, or explicitly reject extended years before calculating the epoch.

    return days_from_civil(year, month, day) * 86400 + hour * 3600 + min * 60 + sec

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src/xml.c:379

• These getters allocate the attribute values, but NULL is treated exactly like an absent bound. If allocation fails while reading a present NotBefore or NotOnOrAfter, the signed validity constraint silently disappears and the assertion can pass. Distinguish absence with xmlHasNsProp and fail the assertion read when a present bound cannot be copied.

    a->not_before = xmlGetNoNsProp(conditions, (const xmlChar*)"NotBefore");
    a->not_on_or_after = xmlGetNoNsProp(conditions, (const xmlChar*)"NotOnOrAfter");

src/xml.c:365

• A present subject-confirmation time bound also becomes indistinguishable from an absent one if xmlGetNoNsProp cannot allocate its copy. Because the recipient may already have been read successfully, that confirmation can then be accepted without its signed time restriction. Fail the read whenever either present bound cannot be copied.

This issue also appears on line 378 of the same file.

    confirmation->not_before = xmlGetNoNsProp(data, (const xmlChar*)"NotBefore");
    confirmation->not_on_or_after = xmlGetNoNsProp(data, (const xmlChar*)"NotOnOrAfter");

lua/resty/saml.lua:281

• Dropping fractional seconds is not conservative for NotBefore: ...:00.900Z becomes ...:00Z and can be accepted before its stated start time when clock_skew = 0. Preserve the fraction in the epoch value (the same change remains conservative/correct for NotOnOrAfter).

    return days_from_civil(year, month, day) * 86400 + hour * 3600 + min * 60 + sec

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src/xml.c:379

• xmlGetNoNsProp returns NULL both when an attribute is absent and when copying its value fails. Here an allocation failure is therefore treated as if the signed validity bounds were omitted, allowing an expired or not-yet-valid assertion through. Please distinguish attribute absence from read failure (for example with a checked attribute-reading helper) and fail the assertion read when a present bound cannot be copied.

    a->not_before = xmlGetNoNsProp(conditions, (const xmlChar*)"NotBefore");
    a->not_on_or_after = xmlGetNoNsProp(conditions, (const xmlChar*)"NotOnOrAfter");

lua/resty/saml.lua:286

• Truncating fractional seconds toward the past is not conservative for NotBefore: ...00.999Z becomes ...00Z, so with zero skew the assertion can be accepted almost a second before its signed window opens. Preserve subsecond precision and compare with ngx.now(), or round lower bounds up while continuing to round upper bounds down.

    return days_from_civil(year, month, day) * 86400 + hour * 3600 + min * 60 + sec

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lua/resty/saml.lua:592

• The three saved_* values in this block also originated in a prior SAML message (they are stored during login_callback), but they are still written raw. A signed NameID, Issuer, or SessionIndex containing a character reference for a newline can therefore split these logout warning lines despite the new escaping policy. Pass both sides of each comparison through loggable.

            ngx.log(ngx.WARN, "issuer different: issuer=", loggable(issuer),
                ", data.issuer=", saved_issuer)

[jarvis9443]

This comparison escapes one side and not the other. saved_issuer here, and saved_name_id / saved_session_index on the two below, are the same kind of value off an earlier response: login_callback stores them from doc_issuer, doc_name_id and doc_session_index at lines 508-511, so they are values read out of a SAML message that reached the log by way of the session cookie rather than directly.

By the rule the loggable comment now states — the value's origin, not its type — they belong inside it as well. As it stands a NameID carrying a newline is escaped on the login line and raw on the logout one, which is the half of the inconsistency this commit set out to remove.

[shreemaan-abhishek]

we have been chasing the tails for this log line related issue and even in the worse case scenario it doesn't cause a big impact so we are going to hold off on to this for now.

[jarvis9443]

Fine by me — #47 is the right place for it, and the impact here is the smallest of the set. Nothing further from me on this thread.

[jarvis9443]

Approving on 8cacd72.

Every finding is closed and re-verified locally — requiring Recipient rather than the element's presence, the anchored timestamp pattern, the status the unreadable-expiry branch sends, escaping across both callbacks, and refusing a DTD on both bindings — with the rest filed as #45, #46 and #47. Also checked the inverted-window fix that came with the DTD commit. 133 subtests green.

When this meets #41: both append to the tails of saml_binding_status_t and ERRORS[]. Git conflicts on both files rather than pairing them silently, so it just needs the two lists kept in the same order.