fix(controlplane): keep download login tokens out of URLs

[migmartri]

Browser artifact login currently puts a user session token in the control-plane download URL. Replace it with a PKCE-bound, single-use handoff exchanged on the server, and enforce a ten-second user-token lifetime even when login requests long-lived credentials. 2

Each in-flight download has its own verifier cookie, so overlapping handoffs do not overwrite or clear one another. Cookies remain Secure in production and preserve the existing AuthService exception for local HTTP development.

Reject legacy user-token ?t= download callbacks. Existing frontend downloads, CLI artifact downloads, and the separate 30-second CAS download token retain their current behavior. Browser logins already in flight during the upgrade must restart.

This implements the follow-up to D-008 in the login code exchange spec, replacing its legacy-download exception while reusing the existing handoff mechanism (R-001/R-002).

Closes https://linear.app/chainloop/issue/PFM-7829

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Security context

[3 files with past security fixes] Keep these rules in place. They come from 4 past fixes in this repository.

 app/controlplane/internal/service/auth.go ▶

External login callbacks must not carry reusable bearer session tokens; any callback artifact must be short-lived, single-use, and bound to the initiating client and callback before a session JWT is minted.

 app/controlplane/cmd/wire_gen.go ▶

Only the opt-in profiler server may expose /debug/pprof/*, and every other kratos HTTP listener must return ordinary 404/405 responses for unmatched debug routes instead of delegating to http.DefaultServeMux.

 app/controlplane/internal/service/casredirect.go ▶

When API-token RBAC applies, CAS download lookups must include that org in the RBAC scopes map with only the caller's visible projects; an absent scope may only mean intentional whole-organization access.

Past fixes (4)

 0745e30 · CWE-598 · PARTIAL FIX

Fixes a real auth-flow flaw where browser login callbacks carried reusable session JWTs in `?t=` and recipients accepted them verbatim; it replaces that path with a verifier-bound handoff-code exchange for upgraded clients.
_{1 file · Only part of the flaw was repaired here — the rest was never fixed. Sink: crafCallbackURL(, q.Set("t", userToken), r.URL.Query().Get("t").}

 4f30ac6 · CWE-601

Fixes an exploitable open-redirect in Chainloop's OIDC login flow that leaked freshly minted user JWTs to attacker-chosen callback URLs.
_{1 file}

 8efb6e0 · CWE-489

Fixes unintended exposure of Go pprof/debug endpoints on Chainloop controlplane public HTTP listeners.
_{1 file}

 e2dde78 · CWE-863

E2dde78e fixes a real access-control bug where CAS redirect lookups treated project-scoped API tokens as org-wide and returned signed download URLs for artifacts outside the token's project.
_{1 file}

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app/controlplane/internal/service/auth.go - 2 past fixes, peak severity high
  must hold: External login callbacks must not carry reusable bearer session tokens; any
    callback artifact must be short-lived, single-use, and bound to the initiating client
    and callback before a session JWT is minted.
  also enforced at: 6 other entry points
  grep for: checkLegacyCallback, codeChallengeFromQuery, oauth.ValidS256Challenge,
    oauth.VerifyS256

app/controlplane/cmd/wire_gen.go - 1 past fix, peak severity medium
  must hold: Only the opt-in profiler server may expose /debug/pprof/*, and every other
    kratos HTTP listener must return ordinary 404/405 responses for unmatched debug routes
    instead of delegating to http.DefaultServeMux.
  also enforced at: 5 other entry points
  grep for: hardenedRouteOptions, http.MethodNotAllowedHandler, http.NotFoundHandler

app/controlplane/internal/service/casredirect.go - 1 past fix, peak severity medium
  must hold: When API-token RBAC applies, CAS download lookups must include that org in the
    RBAC scopes map with only the caller's visible projects; an absent scope may only mean
    intentional whole-organization access.
  also enforced at: 2 other entry points
  grep for: currentAPIToken.ProjectID, projectIDs, rbacScopesForOrg
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[migmartri]

Reviewed commit 755c1a4 against the security context in #3653 (comment). No additional security regressions identified in the changed paths.

• Handoffs expire after 60 seconds, are single-use, and require the matching verifier and exact callback before a session JWT is minted.
• Callback validation and rejection of download user-token ?t= requests remain enforced.
• Download authorization continues to apply the caller's project scopes.
• Public pprof route protections remain intact.

The relevant regression tests passed. The existing legacy external-login compatibility path remains outside this PR.