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Open a step-up window only when a factor is verified - #120
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A session's step-up window lets it take MFAStepUp actions (integrations, roles, API tokens and the rest) without a factor for the next 10 minutes. Several paths opened one without verifying a factor: - A web login that skipped the MFA prompt with a trusted-device cookie. - A login whose user needs no MFA challenge, on the web or the CLI. - Trusting a device, which restarted the window, so a session could keep extending it. - Enrolling another MFA method, which needed no MFA: a session that never verified a factor could add its own and step up with it. Now: - Only a verified factor opens a step-up window (db.UpdateSessionMFAVerified). A login that needs no challenge, or skips it with a trusted device, is marked verified with ExemptSessionFromMFAChallenge, which opens none. - A CLI login records whether it was exempt (cli_login_states.mfa_exempt), and the CLI session it creates gets a step-up window only if it wasn't. - Trusting a device attaches it to the session and leaves the window as it is. - Adding an MFA method has a new MFA level, MFAStepUpOnceEnrolled: free for a user enrolling their first factor, step-up once they have one. The web prompts for it before the request, like step_up. Fixes #116 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughThe changes distinguish MFA factor verification from challenge exemptions during sign-in, add enrollment-aware step-up requirements for creating MFA methods, and prevent trusting a device from changing an existing step-up window. ChangesMFA step-up behavior
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to If attaching a trusted device to the session fails, the user sees an error but the browser may still hold a trusted-device cookie. This is a narrow failure case that can be fixed with a small change. The core step-up window changes look sound. Pre-merge checks ·
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: step-up windows open only after factor verification. Linked Issues check Issue #116requires a step-up window only after factor verification. The reviewed changes route trusted-device and no-challenge logins throughExemptSessionFromMFAChallenge, which does not set `rece…Out of Scope Changes check The changes remain connected to issue #116's MFA step-up security boundary. The CLI state field distinguishes exempt and factor-verified sessions. Device attachment and expiry reporting support the re…
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- Around line 281-284: Update the trusted-device flow around MintTrustedDevice,
setTrustedDeviceCookie, and AttachTrustedDeviceToSession so the cookie is set
only after session attachment succeeds. If attachment fails, revoke the newly
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Do not return failure after issuing a usable trusted-device cookie.
If session attachment fails, this branch returns HTTP 500 after MintTrustedDevice created the device and setTrustedDeviceCookie sent its token. The browser can then have a trusted device despite the failed response. Set the cookie only after attachment succeeds. Revoke the minted device if attachment fails.
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Update the trusted-device flow around MintTrustedDevice, setTrustedDeviceCookie,
and AttachTrustedDeviceToSession so the cookie is set only after session
attachment succeeds. If attachment fails, revoke the newly minted device before
returning the existing error response.
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Fixes #116.
A session's step-up window lets it take
MFAStepUpactions (integrations, roles, API tokens and the rest of thestep-up permissions) without a factor for the next 10 minutes. These paths opened one without verifying a factor:
step up with it.
Changes
db.UpdateSessionMFAVerified). A login that needs no challenge, orskips it with a trusted device, is marked verified with
ExemptSessionFromMFAChallenge, which opens none.cli_login_states.mfa_exempt), and the CLI session itcreates gets a step-up window only if it wasn't. A backup code leaves
mfa_method_idempty, so that column couldn'ttell the cases apart.
real step-up expiry.
MFAStepUpOnceEnrolledforauth:mfa_method:create: free for a user enrolling their first factor,step-up once they have one. The web prompts for it before the request, like
step_up.User-visible change
After signing in on a trusted device, the first step-up action asks for a factor. Adding a second MFA method asks
you to verify an existing one first.
Testing
CLI login's session has no window and a verified one does; the new level for first and additional factors.
task go:test:unit(1320 tests),task go:lint,task web:lint:fixand typecheck pass.Summary by CodeRabbit