fix(controlplane): enforce keyless verification of pushed attestations

[migmartri]

Summary

When keyless signing is configured, the control plane now verifies every attestation that is pushed to it. It stores an attestation only when:

• The attestation is signed with a certificate that one of the configured certificate authorities issued.
• The certificate was issued to the organization that owns the workflow run.
• The signature is valid.

The control plane rejects all other attestations. This includes attestations signed with a cosign key, a KMS key, or SignServer, attestations with no verification material, and data that is not a Sigstore bundle. The same check runs before the upload to the CAS backend, so a rejected attestation does not leave a blob in CAS.

When you view a run with verification turned on, an attestation with no verification material now shows as not verified. Before this change, the response had no verification result.

Instances that do not configure keyless signing do not change.

Breaking change

On instances with keyless signing configured:

• Pushes of attestations signed with a cosign key, a KMS key, or SignServer fail.
• EJBCA certificate profiles must put the organization ID in the subject organization (O) field of the certificate. The organization ID is sent to EJBCA as the username.

Refs #914

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AI Session Checks — 🟢 89% · ⚠️ 1 failing

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🟢 89%	1	⚠️ 1	100% AI / 0% Human	5	+515 / -36	1h19m21s

🟢 89% — 100% AI — ⚠️ 1 policies failing

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Change Summary

• Enforces keyless-only attestation acceptance when certificate authorities are configured.
• Adds organization-bound verification and clearer "not verified" results for missing or unretrievable bundles.
• Adds verifier and workflow-run tests, reruns targeted suites, and fixes follow-up review comments.

AI Session Overall Score

🟢 89% — Strong session; verification lacked explicit user confirmation.

AI Session Analysis Breakdown

🟢 95% · context-and-planning

🟢 AI revised the plan after the user removed the config knob, before coding began. · High Impact

🟢 94% · solution-quality

No notes.

🟢 93% · scope-discipline

🟢 Changed files stayed focused on verifier and workflow-run enforcement plus tests. · High Impact

🟢 92% · alignment

No notes.

🟢 88% · user-trust-signal

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🟡 78% · verification

🟢 Failing tests, reruns, and mutation checks validated the keyless enforcement path. · High Impact

🟠 The session ended without explicit user confirmation that the new behavior worked, despite active user follow-up. · Medium Severity

💡 When the user stays engaged, close with one concrete runtime check or explicit confirmation before declaring the fix done.

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File Attribution

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Status	Attribution	File	Lines
modified	ai	app/controlplane/pkg/biz/workflowrun_verification_test.go	+283 / -3
modified	ai	app/controlplane/pkg/biz/workflowrun.go	+99 / -32
modified	ai	pkg/attestation/verifier/verifier_test.go	+84 / -0
modified	ai	pkg/attestation/verifier/verifier.go	+43 / -1
modified	ai	app/controlplane/pkg/biz/signing.go	+6 / -0

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Policies (4, 1 failing)

Status	Policy	Material	Messages
✅ Passed	ai-config-ai-agents-allowed	ai-coding-session-3ed0fe	-
✅ Passed	ai-config-no-dangerous-commands	ai-coding-session-3ed0fe	-
⚠️ Failed	ai-config-no-secrets	ai-coding-session-3ed0fe	Secret (generic-[REDACTED:generic-password) detected in session content [turn=801, source=tool_result, line=1]: {"author":"chainloop-platform","body":"\u003c!-- chainloop-pr-analysis:v1 --\u003e\n## AI Session Checks — 🟢 87% · ⚠️ 1 failing\n\n| Avg score | Sessions | Failing policies | Attribution | Files | Lin... Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=154, source=tool_result, line=71]: {{- $hmacpass := include "common.secrets.[REDACTED:generic-password]s.manage" (dict "secret" (include "chainloop.controlplane.fullname" .) "key" "generated_jws_hmac_secret" "providedValues" (list "con... Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=154, source=tool_result, line=73]: # We store it also as a different key so it can be reused during upgrades by the common.secrets.[REDACTED:generic-password]s.manage helper Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=47, source=tool_result, line=208]: 16 {{- $hmacpass := include "common.secrets.[REDACTED:generic-password]s.manage" (dict "secret" (include "chainloop.controlplane.fullname" .) "key" "generated_jws_hmac_secret" "providedValues" (list "... Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=47, source=tool_result, line=210]: 18 # We store it also as a different key so it can be reused during upgrades by the common.secrets.[REDACTED:generic-password]s.manage helper Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=801, source=tool_result, line=1]: {"author":"chainloop-platform","body":"\u003c!-- chainloop-pr-analysis:v1 --\u003e\n## AI Session Checks — 🟢 87% · ⚠️ 1 failing\n\n| Avg score | Sessions | Failing policies | Attribution | Files | Lin...
✅ Passed	ai-config-mcp-servers-allowed	ai-coding-session-3ed0fe	-

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Security Checks — ✅ 5 passing

✅ secret-scan

Status	Policy	Messages
✅ Passed	secrets-detection	-

✅ sast-scan

Status	Policy	Messages
✅ Passed	owasp-top10-2025	-
✅ Passed	sast	-
✅ Passed	cwe-top25	-
✅ Passed	cwe-top26-40-cusp	-

security-context — 1 file, 1 past fix

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File	Peak	Invariant to keep	Prior fix	Refs
app/controlplane/pkg/biz/workflowrun.go	🔴 high	Before a workflow run accepts, persists, or uploads an attestation bundle, the control plane must verify that the bundle satisfies the contract revision pinned on that run.	Ed92f11f fixes an exploitable improper-signature-verification flaw in attestation upload: before the change, AttestationService.Store cou…	ed92f11

Past fixes and invariants (1 file)

app/controlplane/pkg/biz/workflowrun.go — 1 past fix, peak high

• ed92f11 Ed92f11f fixes an exploitable improper-signature-verification flaw in attestation upload: before the change, AttestationService.Store could persist forged Sigstore/DSSE attestations and advance workflow state without verifying their signatures. (high, CWE-347)
  Uploaded workflow-run attestations must be cryptographically verified against the configured trusted root before they are stored or used to advance workflow-run state.

↳ Check: Before a workflow run accepts, persists, or uploads an attestation bundle, the control plane must verify that the bundle satisfies the contract revision pinned on that run. The same invariant holds at 2 other entry points. Confirm the guards past fixes added here are still on every path: ValidateAttestationContract, attestationapi.ValidateMaterialsPresence, validateAgainstContract.

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app/controlplane/pkg/biz/workflowrun.go - 1 past fix, peak severity high
  must hold: Before a workflow run accepts, persists, or uploads an attestation bundle, the
    control plane must verify that the bundle satisfies the contract revision pinned on that
    run.
  also enforced at: 2 other entry points
  grep for: ValidateAttestationContract, attestationapi.ValidateMaterialsPresence,
    validateAgainstContract
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[migmartri]

Reviewed this change against the security context (past fix ed92f11 and the contract invariant). No issues found.

• Every path that stores or uploads an attestation still checks the signature and then the contract before it writes. On the skip_db_storage path, ValidateAttestationContract runs both checks before the CAS upload, and SaveAttestation runs them again before the digest is persisted. On the default path, SaveAttestation runs both checks before the DB write. The async CAS upload starts only after SaveAttestation succeeds.
• validateAgainstContract and attestationapi.ValidateMaterialsPresence are unchanged, and they are still reached on both paths.
• The signature check that ed92f11 added at push time is still in place. This PR makes it stricter: with keyless signing configured, an attestation without verification material is now rejected, where before it was stored without a check.
• No new entry point stores or uploads attestations.

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