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Mathieu Fenniak 48218c654b feat: authorized integrations DB models and authentication implementation (#12261)
Authorized Integrations is a new feature to allow users to define external systems which can generate JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) that Forgejo will trust in order to perform API access on behalf of that user.  This is an authentication mechanism that requires zero preconfiguration of shared secrets, and instead establishes trust through short-lived secrets (JWTs) that are signed by the issuer, signatures are validated by comparison with published public keys, and a public-keys retrieved through well-known HTTP endpoints secured with TLS verification.

The primary goal of Authorized Integrations is to support a mechanism for Forgejo Actions to receive elevated, but controlled, additional access to Forgejo.  More details as to what the end result will look like are available in the [design proposal](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/3571#issuecomment-13268004) on #3571.

This PR adds the core database storage and authentication verification for Authorized Integrations, with these capabilities:
- An Authorized Integration is resolved by a unique key of an "issuer" and an "audience".  The value of "issuer" is defined by the remote integration, and the value of "audience" will incorporate a unique identifier generated by Forgejo.
    - Example issuer: `https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com/` is the issuer for GitHub JWTs
    - Example audience: `https://forgejo.example.org/-/mfenniak/authorized-integration/6cc55ba0` is the expected format for a random audience field that Forgejo will generate.
- JWTs can contain any number of claims, which are represented as a JSON object; Forgejo can validate these with a flexible policy.
    - eg. a claim may be `{"sub": "repo:coolguy/forgejo-runner-testrepo:pull_request"}` indicating that an OIDC token was received from an Actions execution in a specific repo on a specific event.
    - Authorized Integrations support a `ClaimRules` system which allows claim equal, glob, and nested object inspection.
    - `{"claim":"sub","comparison":"eq","value":"repo:mfenniak/forgejo-runner-testrepo:pull_request"}` -- would validate that `sub` exactly equals the specific value
    - `{"claim":"sub","comparison":"glob","value":"repo:mfenniak/forgejo-runner-testrepo:*"}` -- would validate that `sub` matches the given string prefix but allow any event
- When a JWT is received on an incoming API call, Forgejo retrieves the Authorized Integration from the DB (if present), validates the token signature against a remote JWKS, validates the claims, and grants API access as the user with a permission scope defined on the Authorized Integration.

In addition to the unit testing provided here, this PR has been manually integration tested against three JWT issuing systems: Forgejo Actions, GitHub Actions, and AWS STS GetWebIdentityToken.

Careful consideration has been made of these security concerns:
- SSRF attacks against Forgejo are prevented by:
    - having a blocklist on remote HTTP validation requests which prevent access to internal network resources,
    - ensuring that authorized integrations are created by users with matching issuers, before attempting to validate tokens
- Resource utilization attacks against Forgejo are reduced by limiting the possible size of external metadata requests; when fetching `/.well-known/openid-configuration` and `jkws_uri`'s from remote, untrusted servers, a maximum response size of 16 kB is enforced
- Only well-known secure assymmetric JWT signing algorithms are supported -- in particular, the sketchy `none` JWT algorithm isn't supported.
- JWT validation is covered by extensive unit tests, covering validation of all JWT timestamps, validation of the issuers, validation of the issuer's documented supported signing algorithms.

This PR serves as a core, and many enhancements are required for this to be a usable system for users.

## Checklist

The [contributor guide](https://forgejo.org/docs/next/contributor/) contains information that will be helpful to first time contributors. All work and communication must conform to Forgejo's [AI Agreement](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/governance/src/branch/main/AIAgreement.md). There also are a few [conditions for merging Pull Requests in Forgejo repositories](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/governance/src/branch/main/PullRequestsAgreement.md). You are also welcome to join the [Forgejo development chatroom](https://matrix.to/#/#forgejo-development:matrix.org).

### Tests for Go changes

- I added test coverage for Go changes...
  - [x] in their respective `*_test.go` for unit tests.
  - [ ] in the `tests/integration` directory if it involves interactions with a live Forgejo server.
- I ran...
  - [ ] `make pr-go` before pushing

### Documentation

- [ ] I created a pull request [to the documentation](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/docs) to explain to Forgejo users how to use this change.
    - Documentation updates for new config entries will be authored.
- [ ] I did not document these changes and I do not expect someone else to do it.

### Release notes

- [ ] This change will be noticed by a Forgejo user or admin (feature, bug fix, performance, etc.). I suggest to include a release note for this change.
- [x] This change is not visible to a Forgejo user or admin (refactor, dependency upgrade, etc.). I think there is no need to add a release note for this change.
    - Marking not visible as there's no mechanism to interact with this backend yet.

Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/12261
Reviewed-by: Andreas Ahlenstorf <aahlenst@noreply.codeberg.org>
2026-04-26 20:52:42 +02:00
.devcontainer Update dependency go to v1.26 (forgejo) (#11320) 2026-03-12 01:26:23 +01:00
.forgejo Update https://data.forgejo.org/forgejo/forgejo-build-publish action to v5.6.0 (forgejo) (#12156) 2026-04-20 03:08:30 +02:00
.semgrep chore: flag suspicious OwnerID comparisons (#12184) 2026-04-19 04:24:09 +02:00
assets Update module code.forgejo.org/go-chi/session to v1.0.4 (forgejo) (#11976) 2026-04-04 03:54:32 +02:00
build i18n(mailer): Fix special usage of .Locale in admin_new_user (#12009) 2026-04-14 07:20:16 +02:00
cmd chore: unify signing key configuration across modules (#11194) 2026-04-21 19:39:33 +02:00
contrib chore: rename 'forgejo_migrations' to 'forgejo_migrations_legacy' 2025-10-14 14:40:49 -06:00
custom/conf feat: authorized integrations DB models and authentication implementation (#12261) 2026-04-26 20:52:42 +02:00
docker chore(Dockerfile.rootless): update shadowed env variables (#11720) 2026-04-16 09:58:57 +02:00
models feat: authorized integrations DB models and authentication implementation (#12261) 2026-04-26 20:52:42 +02:00
modules feat: authorized integrations DB models and authentication implementation (#12261) 2026-04-26 20:52:42 +02:00
options Improve repo file list table semantics for screen readers (second attempt) (#12232) 2026-04-25 20:47:11 +02:00
public feat: Follow remote users; feed tab (#10380) 2026-04-12 03:31:03 +02:00
release-notes chore: unify signing key configuration across modules (#11194) 2026-04-21 19:39:33 +02:00
release-notes-published chore(release-notes): Forgejo v15.0.0 [skip ci] (#12138) 2026-04-16 14:09:39 +02:00
releases/images [DOCS] RELEASE-NOTES.md 2024-02-05 14:44:32 +01:00
routers feat: authorized integrations DB models and authentication implementation (#12261) 2026-04-26 20:52:42 +02:00
services feat: authorized integrations DB models and authentication implementation (#12261) 2026-04-26 20:52:42 +02:00
templates Improve repo file list table semantics for screen readers (second attempt) (#12232) 2026-04-25 20:47:11 +02:00
tests Improve repo file list table semantics for screen readers (second attempt) (#12232) 2026-04-25 20:47:11 +02:00
tools chore: move backend-checks CI checks to Makefile: make pr-go (#11053) 2026-02-17 02:41:40 +01:00
web_src Improve repo file list table semantics for screen readers (second attempt) (#12232) 2026-04-25 20:47:11 +02:00
.air.toml chore: rename 'migrations' to 'gitea_migrations' 2025-10-14 14:40:49 -06:00
.deadcode-out chore(federation): re-enable nilnil lint (#11253) 2026-04-13 22:05:29 +02:00
.dockerignore fix: Dockerfile should re-use bindata files when possible 2025-06-13 14:00:57 +02:00
.editorconfig i18n(next): convert indention style to tabs: en, editorconfig (#10661) 2026-01-02 05:56:48 +01:00
.envrc.example Make direnv optional to let developers use their own direnv configuration 2024-11-06 20:34:49 +01:00
.gitattributes Add interface{} to any replacement to make fmt, exclude *.pb.go (#30461) 2024-04-15 20:01:36 +02:00
.gitignore chore: polish linter error vs. dead code reporting (#11217) 2026-03-20 07:06:09 +01:00
.gitmodules cleanup(tests): remove manual testing submodule 2024-04-21 10:13:51 +02:00
.gitpod.yml Remove sqlite-viewer and using database client (#31223) 2024-06-09 11:13:39 +02:00
.golangci.yml refactor: change authentication to return structured data (#12202) 2026-04-22 21:00:26 +02:00
.ignore Add /options/license and /options/gitignore to .ignore (#30219) 2024-04-07 15:40:31 +02:00
.mailmap Add .mailmap with aliases for Unknwon (github.com/Unknwon) 2024-08-14 08:26:16 -04:00
.markdownlint.yaml Update JS dependencies (#28537) 2023-12-30 05:29:03 +00:00
.node-version Update Node.js to v24.15.0 (forgejo) (#12157) 2026-04-17 06:59:26 +02:00
.npmrc Upgrade to npm lockfile v3 and explicitely set it (#23561) 2023-03-18 19:38:10 +01:00
.release-notes-assistant.yaml chore(release-notes): Forgejo v15.0.0 [skip ci] (#12138) 2026-04-16 14:09:39 +02:00
.spectral.yaml Add spectral linter for Swagger (#20321) 2022-07-11 18:07:16 -05:00
.yamllint.yaml fully replace drone with actions (#27556) 2023-10-11 06:39:32 +00:00
BSDmakefile feat: Makefile & BSDmakefile changes (#7455) 2025-04-27 10:04:32 +00:00
CODEOWNERS chore: add @0xllx0 to federation codeowners (#10716) 2026-01-09 23:53:06 +01:00
CONTRIBUTING.md docs: replace Developer Guide link with the new Contributor Guide one. 2024-08-26 13:22:39 +03:00
DCO Remove address from DCO (#22595) 2023-01-24 18:52:38 +00:00
Dockerfile Update data.forgejo.org/oci/golang Docker tag to v1.26 (forgejo) (#11662) 2026-03-13 08:17:21 +01:00
Dockerfile.rootless Update data.forgejo.org/oci/golang Docker tag to v1.26 (forgejo) (#11662) 2026-03-13 08:17:21 +01:00
eslint.config.mjs Update linters (forgejo) (#11627) 2026-03-12 18:27:43 +01:00
flake.lock chore: bump nixpkgs in flake.lock (#10128) 2025-11-16 01:18:26 +01:00
flake.nix refactor: Simplify flake.nix (#9805) 2025-10-22 19:09:11 +02:00
go.mod Update module connectrpc.com/connect to v1.19.2 (forgejo) (#12210) 2026-04-21 02:21:52 +02:00
go.sum Update module connectrpc.com/connect to v1.19.2 (forgejo) (#12210) 2026-04-21 02:21:52 +02:00
LICENSE Forgejo v9.0 is GPLv3+ 2024-08-22 09:09:29 +02:00
main.go fix: do not mix urfave v2 with urfave v3 (#8168) 2025-06-12 15:38:03 +02:00
Makefile Update renovate Docker tag to v43.132.0 (forgejo) (#12194) 2026-04-20 03:37:57 +02:00
manifest.scm Add a GNU Guix manifest (#8038) 2025-06-03 08:08:17 +02:00
package-lock.json Update dependency vue to v3.5.33 (forgejo) (#12264) 2026-04-26 14:11:23 +02:00
package.json Update dependency vue to v3.5.33 (forgejo) (#12264) 2026-04-26 14:11:23 +02:00
playwright.config.ts chore: remove webkit and mobile safari from playwright (#10103) 2025-11-13 17:23:08 +01:00
README.md chore: fix a few typos in the documentation (#9134) 2025-09-04 01:53:40 +02:00
release-notes-assistant.sh fix(rna): prioritize breaking changes without a feature or bug label over non-breaking changes (#12124) 2026-04-17 15:24:58 +02:00
RELEASE-NOTES.md chore(release-notes): fix release notes of chroma update in v8.0.0 2025-10-05 17:10:38 +05:00
shell.nix chore: use interactive sqlite via nix (#10439) 2025-12-17 13:20:33 +01:00
stylelint.config.js Merge pull request 'Port "Enable declaration-block-no-redundant-longhand-properties (#30950)' (#3769) from beowulf/gitea-port-pull-30950 into forgejo 2024-05-14 22:23:54 +00:00
tailwind.config.js chore(ui): change /devtest to /-/demo (#11019) 2026-01-26 13:12:25 +01:00
tsconfig.json feat(ui): replace Monaco with CodeMirror (#10559) 2026-01-04 23:52:33 +01:00
vitest.config.ts feat(ui): replace Monaco with CodeMirror (#10559) 2026-01-04 23:52:33 +01:00
webpack.config.js chore(ui): change /devtest to /-/demo (#11019) 2026-01-26 13:12:25 +01:00

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