# Which Problems Are Solved
ZITADEL uses the notification triggering requests Forwarded or
X-Forwarded-Proto header to build the button link sent in emails for
confirming a password reset with the emailed code. If this header is
overwritten and a user clicks the link to a malicious site in the email,
the secret code can be retrieved and used to reset the users password
and take over his account.
Accounts with MFA or Passwordless enabled can not be taken over by this
attack.
# How the Problems Are Solved
- The `X-Forwarded-Proto` and `proto` of the Forwarded headers are
validated (http / https).
- Additionally, when exposing ZITADEL through https. An overwrite to
http is no longer possible.
# Additional Changes
None
# Additional Context
None
(cherry picked from commit c097887bc5f680e12c998580fb56d98a15758f53)
# Which Problems Are Solved
ZITADEL currently selects the instance context based on a HTTP header
(see https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/8279#issue-2399959845 and
checks it against the list of instance domains. Let's call it instance
or API domain.
For any context based URL (e.g. OAuth, OIDC, SAML endpoints, links in
emails, ...) the requested domain (instance domain) will be used. Let's
call it the public domain.
In cases of proxied setups, all exposed domains (public domains) require
the domain to be managed as instance domain.
This can either be done using the "ExternalDomain" in the runtime config
or via system API, which requires a validation through CustomerPortal on
zitadel.cloud.
# How the Problems Are Solved
- Two new headers / header list are added:
- `InstanceHostHeaders`: an ordered list (first sent wins), which will
be used to match the instance.
(For backward compatibility: the `HTTP1HostHeader`, `HTTP2HostHeader`
and `forwarded`, `x-forwarded-for`, `x-forwarded-host` are checked
afterwards as well)
- `PublicHostHeaders`: an ordered list (first sent wins), which will be
used as public host / domain. This will be checked against a list of
trusted domains on the instance.
- The middleware intercepts all requests to the API and passes a
`DomainCtx` object with the hosts and protocol into the context
(previously only a computed `origin` was passed)
- HTTP / GRPC server do not longer try to match the headers to instances
themself, but use the passed `http.DomainContext` in their interceptors.
- The `RequestedHost` and `RequestedDomain` from authz.Instance are
removed in favor of the `http.DomainContext`
- When authenticating to or signing out from Console UI, the current
`http.DomainContext(ctx).Origin` (already checked by instance
interceptor for validity) is used to compute and dynamically add a
`redirect_uri` and `post_logout_redirect_uri`.
- Gateway passes all configured host headers (previously only did
`x-zitadel-*`)
- Admin API allows to manage trusted domain
# Additional Changes
None
# Additional Context
- part of #8279
- open topics:
- "single-instance" mode
- Console UI
