Securely auto-enroll backends across proxy transports - #1625
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant BackendControlAutoEnrollment
participant VotingPluginProxy
participant HostedControlManager
participant VotingPluginMain
BackendControlAutoEnrollment->>VotingPluginProxy: send authenticated enrollment request
VotingPluginProxy->>HostedControlManager: prove route or validate transport identity
HostedControlManager-->>VotingPluginProxy: return route proof
VotingPluginProxy-->>BackendControlAutoEnrollment: send challenge or enrollment result
BackendControlAutoEnrollment->>VotingPluginMain: start connector for admitted enrollment
VotingPluginMain-->>BackendControlAutoEnrollment: store active connector
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Forged enrollment responses can disrupt automatic connector enrollment. Authenticate responses before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@docs/control-connector.md`:
- Around line 154-155: Update the agent contract documentation to define
challenge-based enrollment, transport-specific identity binding, and
manual-enrollment exceptions, matching the corresponding behavior documented in
the connector guide. Retain the existing already-enrolled credential references
and ensure both documents describe the same enrollment wire contract and
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VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/proxy/VotingPluginWire.java (1)
99-99: LGTM!Also applies to: 229-251, 576-593, 595-599, 601-616, 618-622
VotingPlugin/src/test/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/tests/VotingPluginWireTest.java (1)
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VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/proxy/VotingPluginProxy.java (2)
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3307-3346: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Detected with Advanced TierConfirm transport-level isolation before relying on challenge enrollment.
isPresenceServerValidtreats the configured backend set as the trust boundary. Redis and MQTT use per-backend channels and topics, andsendControlEnrollmentResulttargets the named backend. These logical routes do not prove that shared transport credentials cannot publish to or subscribe to another backend's route. The HTTP path has separate authenticated server binding; this concern applies to the non-HTTP transports. Establish transport ACLs or peer authentication before treating the challenge as an identity proof. Otherwise, cross-route transport access can allow verifier installation under another backend's identity.VotingPlugin/src/test/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/tests/VotingPluginProxyTest.java (1)
65-101: LGTM!Also applies to: 103-115, 117-133, 135-154
VotingPlugin/src/test/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/tests/VotingPluginProxyTestImpl.java (1)
21-21: LGTM!Also applies to: 60-64, 164-217
VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/control/BackendControlAutoEnrollment.java (1)
40-40: LGTM!Also applies to: 62-68, 134-136, 139-163, 174-174
VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/VotingPluginMain.java (1)
1124-1155: LGTM!VotingPlugin/src/main/resources/Config.yml (1)
1163-1163: LGTM!VotingPlugin/src/test/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/control/BackendControlAutoEnrollmentTest.java (1)
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| authenticator = ControlEnrollmentAuthenticator.load( | ||
| getDataFolderPlugin().toPath().resolve("secretkey.key")); | ||
| controlEnrollmentAuthenticator = authenticator; |
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When a compromised Redis, MQTT, or MySQL backend can read and publish the shared transport, it also has the deployment-wide secretkey.key, so it can self-assert another configured node in K_SERVER/nodeId, observe that node's routed challenge, sign the transcript, and install an attacker-controlled verifier for the victim's Control identity. The challenge fixes a broker-only attacker, but the fresh evidence beyond the earlier report is that every node is verified with this single cached key rather than a per-node identity. Use per-node enrollment keys or a transport-authenticated source identity so one backend cannot enroll as another.
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- Line 244: Add an authenticator to ControlEnrollmentResult in VotingPluginWire
covering a domain separator, nodeId, requestId, success, and challenge. In
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VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/control/ControlEnrollmentAuthenticator.java
[warning] 38-38: Triple DES (3DES or DESede) is considered deprecated. AES is the recommended cipher. Upgrade to use AES.
Context: Mac.getInstance(ALGORITHM)
Note: [CWE-326]: Inadequate Encryption Strength [OWASP A03:2017]: Sensitive Data Exposure [OWASP A02:2021]: Cryptographic Failures
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[warning] 38-38: Use of AES with ECB mode detected. ECB doesn't provide message confidentiality and is not semantically secure so should not be used. Instead, use a strong, secure cipher: Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS7PADDING"). See https://owasp.org/www-community/Using_the_Java_Cryptographic_Extensions for more information.
Context: Mac.getInstance(ALGORITHM)
Note: [CWE-327]: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm [OWASP A03:2017]: Sensitive Data Exposure [OWASP A02:2021]: Cryptographic Failures
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[warning] 54-54: Use a randomly-generated IV
Context: byte[] expected = sign(nodeId, requestId, endpoint, verifier, challenge).getBytes(StandardCharsets.US_ASCII);
Note: [CWE-329] Generation of Predictable IV with CBC Mode.
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VotingPlugin/src/test/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/control/BackendControlAutoEnrollmentTest.java
[warning] 133-133: SMTP server identity must be enforced
Context: enrollment.send()
Note: [CWE-297] Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch.
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| .put(K_VERIFIER, safe(verifier)) | ||
| .put(K_ENDPOINT, safe(endpoint)) | ||
| .put(K_CHALLENGE, safe(challenge)) | ||
| .put(K_AUTHENTICATOR, safe(authenticator)) |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Detected with Advanced Tier | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Broken Authentication
Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-345
Authenticate enrollment results on unbound transports.
An attacker with read and write access to Redis, MQTT, socket, or MySQL messaging can observe nodeId and requestId. The attacker can then forge ControlEnrollmentResult because the result contains no authenticator.
BackendControlAutoEnrollment.handle accepts the forged result before it changes routeChallenge, prepares a credential, or starts the connector. Continuous forged challenges can replace the legitimate challenge and prevent enrollment.
Add a result authenticator that covers a domain separator, nodeId, requestId, success, and challenge. Verify it before any state change on unbound transports.
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In
`@VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/proxy/VotingPluginWire.java`
at line 244, Add an authenticator to ControlEnrollmentResult in VotingPluginWire
covering a domain separator, nodeId, requestId, success, and challenge. In
BackendControlAutoEnrollment.handle, verify this authenticator before modifying
routeChallenge or performing any credential or connector state changes for
unbound transports, rejecting invalid results.
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Summary
Root cause
Backend enrollment requests were only sent through plugin messaging. Other configured proxy transports carried ordinary proxy envelopes but never provided a secure bootstrap route for a backend that did not yet have Control credentials, so proxy enrollment succeeded while backend nodes never enrolled.
Security and lifecycle contract
Plugin messaging continues to use its authenticated source-server binding. HTTP uses its authenticated backend identity. Redis, MQTT, sockets, and MySQL authenticate both enrollment directions with the shared
secretkey.keyand use distinct request/result domains. Result proofs bind the node ID, request ID, success flag, and challenge, and the backend verifies them before changing challenge, credential, or connector state.The proxy validates that the endpoint belongs to its hosted Control before issuing a challenge. Challenges are node-bound, request-bound, endpoint-bound, expiring, and single-use. The credential-triggered connector startup preserves the admitted enrollment object, request ID, route challenge, and verifier. Repeated valid challenge responses retry connector creation idempotently without replacing that state.
Related MCHT dependency
The shared-MariaDB startup failure seen in the same MCHT suites is separate and is addressed by BenCodez/AdvancedCore#343. A combined MCHT validation artifact must consume that AdvancedCore fix before Control enrollment results can be interpreted without the storage failure cascade.
Tests
Focused:
171 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skipped.
Full:
1,303 unit tests plus 2 packaged-artifact tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skipped.
Built JAR:
754b1324e9bcf62a2bae5371d218bf745a5d309976e813697d1776048adfef47git diff --checkpassed.Review
The final response-authentication follow-up received a focused read-only source review after tests and build; no findings remained. The branch also includes current
masterthrough053c5d4c9.MCHT validation
Focused suite
20260923T003719Z-web-036097could not execute product tests because the test lab containers could not read the uploaded VotingPlugin JAR (AccessDeniedException: /plugins/VotingPlugin.jar). It ended with 0 tests, so no live product-validation claim is made.