Control Panel authentication hardening

Scope

This document defines the boundary between the local workstation experience and a production deployment. Local browser login to Codex/Claude is a developer convenience; it is not a production identity or secret distribution mechanism.

Trust boundaries

flowchart LR
    B["Browser"] -->|TLS + OIDC cookie| N["Nginx"]
    N -->|auth_request| O["oauth2-proxy"]
    N -->|overwritten identity headers| A["Control Panel API"]
    A -->|tenant-scoped encrypted store| S["CASAN state"]
    A -->|random bridge token, local only| H["Mac host bridge"]
    H -->|official CLI auth| P["Codex / Claude"]

The API must not be published directly. Nginx is the only ingress and overwrites X-CASAN-Actor, X-CASAN-Groups, and X-CASAN-Role. The API refuses a non-loopback strict bind unless CASAN_CP_TRUST_AUTH_PROXY=1 is explicit.

Implemented controls

TLS at Nginx; production accepts only TLS 1.2/1.3.
OIDC authentication through oauth2-proxy.
Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite=Lax session cookies with bounded expiry/refresh.
Browser-supplied identity headers are overwritten at Nginx.
CSP, frame denial, MIME sniffing protection, referrer and browser permission restrictions.
API request body capped at 1 MiB.
SSE buffering disabled for trace streams; no intermediate proxy cache.
Provider account bridge is disabled unless CASAN_PROVIDER_ACCOUNT_AUTH_ENABLED=1.
Production Compose pins account auth to disabled.
Bridge requests require a random 256-bit token, valid Host header, bounded JSON body and fixed provider/command allowlist.
Account model calls run in a temporary directory with tools disabled or a read-only sandbox and ephemeral sessions.
One concurrent account model call per provider and ten calls per ten minutes.
Bridge audit stores only timestamp, provider, status, prompt hash, prompt length and latency. It never stores prompt text or credentials.
Bridge token file is mode 0600 and rotates after a clean local stop/start.
Goal starts are limited to five per actor per ten minutes and two concurrent jobs per actor.
Goal state is tenant-scoped; IDs are validated before file access.
Goal audit is hash-linked and serialized under a file lock to prevent concurrent writers from forking the chain.
Trace evidence excludes raw prompts and secrets.

Local-only controls

The host bridge listens on a workstation port because Docker Desktop must reach the Mac host. Its token is the primary authorization barrier. Keep macOS firewall enabled and do not port-forward 20130.

The local TLS certificate is self-signed. Manual trust is acceptable only for localhost testing. Never reuse this certificate or the mock IdP in production.

Production requirements

Before production deployment:

Keep CASAN_PROVIDER_ACCOUNT_AUTH_ENABLED=0.
Do not deploy provider-auth-bridge.py.
Use managed OpenAI/Anthropic credentials from Vault/KMS or workload identity.
Use an enterprise IdP and explicit group-to-role mapping.
Use a CA-issued certificate and a fixed production hostname.
Set a digest-pinned CASAN_CP_API_IMAGE, CASAN_CP_UI_IMAGE, and CASAN_CP_OAUTH2_PROXY_IMAGE.
Keep the API on a private container/network segment with Nginx as its only caller.
Restrict egress from the API to allowlisted model providers, Vault/KMS, object storage and required observability endpoints.
Store state on encrypted storage; send audit heads to KMS/WORM/Object Lock.
Export rate-limit, auth failure, bridge-disabled and audit-chain metrics to alerting.
Back up and restore-test tenant state before enabling write actions.
Run the production preflight and security suites against the exact deployment images.

Known residual risks

Local bridge authorization is bearer-token based; a process with access to the token file can call it.
In-memory rate windows reset when the API or bridge restarts. Production should also rate-limit at ingress.
Goal output is stored in tenant-scoped local state but is not currently envelope-encrypted as a whole.
A compromised container on the private Control Panel network may attempt to forge proxy headers. Production network policy must keep unrelated workloads off that network.
Developer account subscriptions have provider-specific quotas and are not an availability SLA.
The local mock IdP and self-signed TLS do not prove enterprise SSO readiness.

Incident response

If account bridge token exposure is suspected:

packages/casan-harness/scripts/bash/local-full.sh stop
packages/casan-harness/scripts/bash/local-full.sh start

This terminates the bridge, deletes the old token and creates a new one. Then inspect tmp/control-panel-local/auth-bridge/model-audit.jsonl for unexpected provider/status/hash activity. The log contains no raw prompts.

If a goal audit chain is suspected of tampering, stop new goal submissions, preserve .specify/logs/audit/goal-orchestrator.jsonl and its head, and compare each prev_hash/record_hash before restoring service.

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