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Implement Spring Security-compatible pre-authentication architecture supporting reverse-proxy header extraction (primary) and direct mTLS client certificate fallback (secondary), with decoupled fluent DSL and lazy filter initialization.

Core & Domain:

• Add AuthenticationUserDetailsService interface in pkg/core/interface.go
• Add optional TLSConnectionHandler capability interface in pkg/core/security.go for framework connectors to expose TLS connection state without breaking changes
• Add PreAuthenticatedAuthenticationToken with gob serialization registration in pkg/auth/user_authtoken.go
• Add UserDetailsByNameServiceWrapper and PreAuthenticatedGrantedAuthoritiesUserDetailsService in pkg/auth/preauth_services.go
• Add PreAuthenticatedAuthenticationProvider with account status checks in pkg/auth/preauth_provider.go

Configuration & DSL:

• Add PreAuth config and PreAuthConfigurer fluent builder in pkg/config/preauth.go supporting PrincipalHeader, CredentialsHeader, RolesHeader, RolesDelimiter, AllowMtlsFallback, and ExceptionOnMissing
• Implement HttpSecurityBuilderOption on PreAuthConfigurer for .With(...) compatibility
• Add first-class PreAuth() *PreAuthConfigurer DSL on HttpSecurityBuilder and PreAuth() *PreAuth accessor on HttpSecurity in pkg/config/http_security.go
• Register preAuthFilter with priority ahead of authentication filters in HttpSecurity.PostConstruct()

Filter & Runtime Chain:

• Add PreAuthFilter in internal/chain/preauth.go supporting header extraction, mTLS client certificate subject/SAN extraction fallback, and 403 error reporting
• Enforce lazy loading via WithContext() guard to ensure PreAuthFilter is never injected when pre-authentication is not configured
• Add PreAuthenticatedAuthenticationProvider autoconfig beam in internal/autoconfig/default.go conditioned on Optional[AuthenticationUserDetailsService]

Testing & Quality:

• Implement TLSConnectionHandler on MockSecurityHandler in pkg/testing/mock.go
• Add unit and integration tests across pkg/auth, pkg/config, pkg/testing, and internal/chain
• Achieve 100% statement test coverage across all target packages
• Pass golangci-lint with 0 issues

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added pre-authentication using request headers or verified client certificates, with configurable identity and role headers, trusted proxies, and handling for missing identities.
  • Added user-detail lookup and account-status checks for pre-authenticated identities.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on pre-authentication setup and security behavior.
  • Added project, Go version, and coverage badges to the README.
• Chores
  • Added automated coverage reporting for pushes and pull requests.

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Walkthrough

This pull request adds configurable pre-authentication from request headers or verified mTLS certificates. It adds token handling, user-details services, provider authentication, HTTP security integration, tests, and documentation. It also adds a GitHub Actions coverage workflow and README badges.

Changes: Pre-authentication

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pre-authentication contracts and configuration pkg/core/interface.go, pkg/auth/user_authtoken.go, pkg/config/preauth.go, pkg/config/http_security.go, pkg/config/preauth_test.go, pkg/config/custom_filter_test.go, pkg/config/export_test.go	Adds the authentication user-details interface, pre-authentication token, configuration defaults and setters, and HTTP security builder integration. The injected pre-authentication filter is added before custom filters. Tests cover configuration, trusted proxies, and filter injection.
User-details services and authentication provider pkg/auth/preauth_services.go, pkg/auth/preauth_test.go, internal/manager/preauth_provider.go, internal/manager/preauth_test.go, internal/autoconfig/default.go, internal/autoconfig/default_test.go	Adds user-details services for loading by name or using token authorities. The provider validates tokens, service results, and account status, then returns an authenticated token. Default configuration supplies the services and provider when their dependencies are available.
Request authentication and TLS fallback internal/chain/preauth.go, internal/chain/preauth_test.go, pkg/core/security.go, pkg/testing/mock.go, pkg/testing/mock_test.go, docs/content/docs/4-security-chains/5-pre-auth.md	Adds a filter that reads configured headers or uses a verified client certificate, authenticates a token, and stores successful authentication in the security context. Tests and documentation cover header and certificate handling, trusted proxies, and error cases.

Coverage reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Coverage test and upload workflow .github/workflows/codecov.yml, README.md	Adds a workflow that runs Go tests with coverage on pushes and pull requests, then uploads the report to Codecov. The README adds project, Go version, and Codecov badges.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SecurityHandler
  participant PreAuthFilter
  participant PreAuthenticatedAuthenticationProvider
  participant AuthenticationUserDetailsService
  participant SecurityContext
  SecurityHandler->>PreAuthFilter: invoke filter and expose request TLS state
  PreAuthFilter->>PreAuthenticatedAuthenticationProvider: submit pre-authenticated token
  PreAuthenticatedAuthenticationProvider->>AuthenticationUserDetailsService: load user details
  AuthenticationUserDetailsService-->>PreAuthenticatedAuthenticationProvider: return user details
  PreAuthenticatedAuthenticationProvider-->>PreAuthFilter: return authenticated token
  PreAuthFilter->>SecurityContext: store authentication

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Merge Risk: Low · up to 55822

The pre-authentication changes now require explicit opt-in, verify client certificates, ignore spoofable headers when a verified certificate is present, and exclude empty trusted-proxy entries. The only open item is cosmetic: the README project image may not render. It does not affect runtime behavior.

Security architecture risk: High · up to 55822

Enabling pre-authentication can make caller-supplied headers sufficient to impersonate users unless the deployment independently protects those headers. Proxy and certificate controls reduce this exposure when configured, but are not required by default.

Retained concerns

• High · security · observed: The new default pre-authentication configuration accepts identity headers without an authenticated proxy when no verified client certificate is recognized. A client able to reach such an enabled chain can supply another identity; configured role headers can also become authorities through the default service. This crosses the unauthenticated-request-to-authenticated-context boundary without independently establishing the assertion's origin.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The independently attackable scope is the protected application surface reached through an enabled pre-authentication chain that accepts unprotected headers. Without custom user lookup, a caller can assert an arbitrary identity and, when a roles header is configured, supplied authorities. With lookup, impersonation is constrained to accepted users but header origin remains unauthenticated. Cross-tenant, cross-service, and infrastructure-level exposure is not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — The retained finding follows request headers through the no-proxy, no-verified-certificate branch into a token, the default claim-trusting user-details service, an authenticated token, and the security context. This path is newly introduced by the PR. Actual external exploitability depends on whether untrusted requests can reach that branch without upstream authentication and header replacement.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Pre-authentication is opt-in, and verified proxy restrictions and certificate fallback provide meaningful controls when used. These controls do not close the default header-origin gap: ExceptionOnMissing rejects absent identities, not forged ones, and user/account validation does not prove who supplied a valid username.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Successful provider processing removes credentials from the input token and returns an authenticated token without credentials. Filter failures do not publish a new authentication. Context isolation relies on thread-local storage and clearing at normal chain entry; the inspected lifecycle does not establish explicit post-request cleanup or deployment-specific cancellation behavior.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make unauthenticated-transport header acceptance an explicit deployment trust choice rather than an implicit consequence of an empty proxy list. Prefer authenticated proxy enforcement by default, while allowing an intentional externally isolated header mode with clearly stated authentication and header-replacement requirements.

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internal/chain/preauth_test.go: 1

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The mTLS tests set only PeerCertificates.

These tests assert successful authentication without VerifiedChains. They encode the unverified-certificate behavior flagged in internal/chain/preauth.go. Set VerifiedChains in the positive cases. Add a negative test that expects no authentication when VerifiedChains is empty.

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Review comment at @internal/chain/preauth_test.go around lines 120 - 191:
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Review comments at @internal/chain/preauth.go:
- Around line 107-110: In the certificate fallback path, clear the parsed header
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Review comments at @pkg/config/preauth.go:
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used by the filter, rather than only stored in preAuth.userDetailsService.
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- Around line 120-191: Update the positive mTLS cases in the `PreAuth` tests to
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