refactor: allow for multiple auth modules if they match

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• Bug Fixes
  • Proxy requests with mismatched hosts or authentication contexts continue to be rejected; requests with matching values are accepted.
  • Requests involving multiple authentication methods are accepted when each included method resolves to the same context, and rejected when contexts conflict or do not match the included methods.
  • Envoy requests are accepted when they use the expected authentication path and provide a supported proxy context; requests without a matching context are rejected.

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getProxyContext now extracts contexts from all configured auth modules and checks the extracted contexts against the included modules. It rejects requests with no extracted context, different module counts, or contexts that differ in host, protocol, raw path, or method. Envoy path extraction uses a shared prefix.

Changes

Proxy context resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse auth-request contexts internal/controller/proxy_controller.go	Envoy path extraction checks and strips the shared envoyAuthPath prefix. The parsed-URL local in getAuthRequestContext is renamed; its behavior remains unchanged.
Reconcile proxy contexts internal/controller/proxy_controller.go, internal/controller/proxy_controller_test.go	getProxyContext identifies included modules, collects successful contexts, and rejects requests when no context is extracted, module counts differ, or contexts differ in host, protocol, raw path, or method. Tests cover matching and mismatched nginx and Envoy headers, and requests with no matching module.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 75551

Some valid Traefik requests can be rejected when they also carry an original-URL header. This is a bounded compatibility risk to fix or explicitly accept before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1e4a2

Matching authorization contexts preserve the selected resource, but disabling fallback now also skips checks that previously rejected contradictory inputs. No authorization bypass is established; effective exposure depends on how upstream proxies construct and filter requests.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · observed: Conflict detection is now coupled to fallback eligibility and parser success. With DisableAuthModuleFallback enabled, a valid primary context proceeds without examining a contradictory ForwardAuth context, whereas the base rejected multiple module identifiers regardless of that setting. This weakens the previous ambiguity-rejection control, although the selected primary context remains authoritative and a resource-authorization bypass is not demonstrated.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed ambiguity policy directly affects nginx and Envoy authorization integrations, which can use a primary module plus ForwardAuth fallback. A wrongly bound context could affect resource access decisions and configured response credentials, but no such binding failure or maximum tenant and service exposure is established by the available deployment evidence.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — The supplied security assessment contains no retained finding and one deferred candidate. Source inspection confirms the narrowed conflict-check scope, but does not establish an attack in which authorization is granted for a different resource than the upstream proxy serves. The candidate's missing verification receipt remains unresolved.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Resource identity is extracted from forwarded headers, x-original-url, or the HTTP request Host and URI. These parsers do not authenticate those sources. Different extraction locations therefore do not establish independent trust; upstream ownership and filtering of authorization metadata remain a pre-existing integration requirement.
• observed — Accepting matching contexts does not merge their authorities or change primary precedence. The comparison changes Type only in value copies, and the inspected authorization consumer uses the selected resource fields rather than Type. Contradictory successfully parsed contexts remain rejected when both modules are eligible.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The changed test cases assert HTTP 400 for conflicting contexts and HTTP 200 for matching contexts. They support the intended reconciliation behavior, but the inspected test file does not exercise DisableAuthModuleFallback. These are source assertions, not executed test results.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Separate fallback selection from ambiguity validation: define explicitly whether contradictory secondary metadata must be rejected even when it cannot be selected, and whether malformed module inputs may be ignored. Validate that policy against upstream metadata ownership and the resource actually served.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the main change: multiple auth modules are accepted when their extracted contexts match.
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❌ Patch coverage is 86.84211% with 5 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
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Review comments at @internal/controller/proxy_controller_test.go:
- Around line 907-930: Update the status assertions in the nginx and envoy
matching-header test cases in the proxy controller tests to expect HTTP 401
instead of HTTP 400, preserving the existing unauthenticated request setup.

Review comments at @internal/controller/proxy_controller.go:
- Around line 536-537: Update the duplicate normalization in the comparison path
so it sets ctx2.Type to AuthModuleUnknown instead of assigning ctx1.Type twice.
Preserve the reflect.DeepEqual comparison so equivalent contexts from different
auth modules can match.

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🟡 Minor · Validate all auth contexts before selecting the primary context. · proxy_controller.go:577-592

internal/controller/proxy_controller.go:577-592
🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate all auth contexts before selecting the primary context.

When DisableAuthModuleFallback is enabled, determineAuthModules returns only the primary module. The loop therefore never parses a valid secondary forward_auth context, so conflicting headers bypass the comparison and the request proceeds with the primary context. This regresses the previous conflict check, which ran independently of fallback selection.

Validate all modules, but select only the primary when fallback is disabled. Matching contexts remain accepted because compareProxyContext ignores the module type. This is an anti-spoofing regression; the evidence does not establish an authorization bypass.

Suggested fix

-	authModules := controller.determineAuthModules(proxy, !controller.config.Experimental.DisableAuthModuleFallback)
+	selectedAuthModules := controller.determineAuthModules(proxy, !controller.config.Experimental.DisableAuthModuleFallback)
+	validationAuthModules := controller.determineAuthModules(proxy, true)

-	if len(authModules) == 0 {
+	if len(selectedAuthModules) == 0 {
 		return ProxyContext{}, fmt.Errorf("no auth modules supported for proxy: %v", req.Proxy)
 	}

 	var ctxSlice []ProxyContext
+	var selectedCtxSlice []ProxyContext

-	for _, module := range authModules {
+	for index, module := range validationAuthModules {
 		controller.log.App.Debug().Msgf("Trying to get context from auth module %v", module)
 		authModuleCtx, err := controller.getContextFromAuthModule(c, module)
 		if err != nil {
 			controller.log.App.Debug().Msgf("Failed to get context from auth module %v: %v", module, err)
 			continue
 		}
 		controller.log.App.Debug().Msgf("Successfully got context from auth module %v", module)
 		ctxSlice = append(ctxSlice, authModuleCtx)
+		if index < len(selectedAuthModules) {
+			selectedCtxSlice = append(selectedCtxSlice, authModuleCtx)
+		}
 	}

-	if len(ctxSlice) == 0 {
+	if len(selectedCtxSlice) == 0 {
 		return ProxyContext{}, fmt.Errorf("failed to get context from any auth module")
 	}

-	ctx := ctxSlice[0]
+	ctx := selectedCtxSlice[0]

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Review comment at @internal/controller/proxy_controller.go around lines 577 -
592:
Update the auth-module context flow around determineAuthModules so
fallback-disabled requests still parse every supported module context for
conflict validation, while selecting the primary module’s context for the
result. Keep compareProxyContext validation across all successfully parsed
contexts, and return an error if no selected context is available.

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- Around line 577-592: Update the auth-module context flow around
determineAuthModules so fallback-disabled requests still parse every supported
module context for conflict validation, while selecting the primary module’s
context for the result. Keep compareProxyContext validation across all
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- Line 608: Update the module-count check in the proxy request flow to compare
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