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SSO Bootstrap Bypass (PXY-6219)

Drives tungsten's IdP bootstrap gates without a real identity provider. This page plays the auth server's role and must be opened on a passthrough'd hostname (sso.caesium.menlotest.com) so an unauthenticated browser can reach it. The idp. and cdn. siblings are on tungsten's [[idp_bootstrap]] allowlist and are where the gates fire.

Page origin: . Test with an unauthenticated client (tenant-unknown, or tenant-known without a user session) — the gates close once authenticated.

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Expected outcomes (unauthenticated client)

ActionExpectedGate
Start SSOFake IdP login page renders; probes PASS; credential POST completes auth request, then login resource
Foreign issuerRedirected to the auth server (or its error page) — no bypass auth request rejects issuer
Login page without SAMLRequestAuth redirect (no live grant) or renders (grant < 300s old) login resource
CDN fetch without grantBLOCKED (403); PASS while a grant is live login resource, fail-closed

Verify dispositions in tungsten's access log: action=idp_bootstrap with reason auth request or login resource, and the policy_request_actions_total{action="idp_bootstrap"} counter.