WASM OIDC Plugin

A plugin for Envoy written in Rust.

It is a HTTP Filter, that implements the OIDC Authorization Code Flow. Requests sent to the filter are checked for the presence of a valid session cookie. If the cookie is not present, the user is redirected to the Authorization endpoint to authenticate. After successful authentication, the user is redirected back to the original request.

Install

Install Toolchain for WASM in Rust

For developing the Rust Toolchain has to be installed and the WASM target has to be enabled.

E.g. for Ubuntu this can be achieved by:

# Install Build essentials
apt install build-essential
# Install Rustup
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
# Enable WASM compilation target
cargo build --target wasm32-wasi --release

Try it out

Shortcut:

make simulate

The long version

Building the plugin:

cargo build --target wasm32-wasi --release

Testing locally with Envoy:

To test docker and docker-compose are needed.

docker compose up

Requests to the locally running envoy with the plugin enabled:

curl localhost:10000

Documentation

To generate a detailed documentation, run:

cargo doc --document-private-items --open

Documentation is also hosted on GitHub Pages

Configuration

The plugin is configured via the envoy.yaml file. The following configuration options are required:

With these configuration options, the plugin starts and loads more information itself such as the OIDC providers public keys, issuer, etc.

For that a state is used, which determines, what to load next. The following states are possbile and depending on the outcome, the state is changed or not:

Handling a request

When a new request arrives, the root context creates a new http context with the information that has been loaded previously.

Then, one of the following cases is handled:

1. The filter is not configured yet and still loading the configuration. The request is paused and queued until the configuration is loaded. Then, then, the RootContext resumes the request and the Request is redirected in order to create a new context.
2. The request has the code parameter in the URL query. This means that the user has been redirected back from the authorization_endpoint after successful authentication. The plugin exchanges the code for a token using the token_endpoint and stores the token in the session. Then, the user is redirected back to the original request.
3. The request has a valid session cookie. The plugin decoded, decrypts and then validates the cookie and passes the request depending on the outcome of the validation of the token.
4. The request has no valid session cookie. The plugin redirects the user to the authorization_endpoint to authenticate. Once, the user returns, the second case is handled.

Tools

Gitleaks

We are using Gitleaks to protect from unwanted secret leaking and prevent security incidents by detecting passwords, secrets, API keys, tokens and more in git repos.

To run gitleaks, install it first and then run:

gitleaks protect

# To get the list of leaks
gitleaks protect --verbose

If you want to install a pre-commit hook - you should - install pre-commit and run (from the root of the project):

pre-commit install

Cargo-Deny

Cargo-deny checks all dependencies for security vulnerabilities and license issues.

Install cargo-deny:

cargo install --locked cargo-deny

And then run:

cargo-deny check licenses
cargo-deny check advisories

These commands are also run in the CI pipeline.