fix(iac): verify the GCP WIF provider before granting impersonation, and stop create-cred-config aborting after every mutation by cristim · Pull Request #1866 · LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-cli

cristim · 2026-08-19T17:13:44Z

The GCP onboarding script CUDly's federation API hands to customers swallowed every failure of a security-critical create, and reused whatever provider it found without looking at it. A second defect in the ARM setup script made its OIDC branch abort after every mutation had been made.

1. The served script granted impersonation against a provider it never inspected

internal/iacfiles/templates/gcp-wif-cli.sh.tmpl ran both creates as:

gcloud iam workload-identity-pools providers create-oidc "${PROVIDER_ID}" \
  ... --attribute-condition="assertion.sub == '${CUDLY_FEDERATED_SUBJECT}'" \
  || echo "  (provider may already exist)"

Under set -euo pipefail that || echo swallows everything. Rendered with the values templates_test.go itself uses and run against a stub gcloud where a provider of that name already exists with condition true and issuer https://evil.example.com/oidc:

exit code: 0
  (pool may already exist)
  (provider may already exist)
Granting workloadIdentityUser on cudly@... to cudly-controller...
=== Done ===
verdict: REACHED '=== Done ===' after a failed provider create
verdict: GRANTED the impersonation binding

The script never issued a single providers describe. The pre-existing provider's condition and issuer were never read, the impersonation grant was applied against it, and the run reported success.

Now: look up first, then create. describe decides the path, so no failed create is ever interpreted, and any create failure aborts. An existing provider is reused only when its issuer URI, attribute condition and attribute mapping all equal what this run would have written, compared against the same variables the create path uses so the two cannot drift. A merely non-empty condition is not a restriction (true and assertion.sub != '' both admit everything), so only exact equality passes.

Two further cases the reuse check covers:

The grant names the pool, not the provider. GCP principal identifiers are pool-scoped, so any other provider in the pool that maps a token to the same subject satisfies the binding. The pool's providers are enumerated and the run aborts on any this script did not configure.
A soft-deleted or disabled provider passes every field comparison. describe returns it with its configuration intact, so the run would report success over a provider that cannot exchange tokens. state and disabled are checked, each against the one value that means usable, so a boolean gcloud someday renders as true or 1 does not slip through.

2. `CUDLY_FEDERATED_SUBJECT` reached CEL unvalidated

It is environment-overridable and lands inside the CEL string literal of --attribute-condition. CUDLY_FEDERATED_SUBJECT="x' || true || '" reached gcloud as:

--attribute-condition=assertion.sub == 'x' || true || ''
--member=principal://.../subject/x' || true || '

An always-true condition admitting every subject the issuer signs, exit 0. It is now validated against ^[A-Za-z0-9][-A-Za-z0-9._:/@=+~|]*$ plus the 127-character google.subject cap, before the first gcloud call. Same charset validate_principal_value already applies to --oidc-subject in the ARM script. An empty value is not a hole: ${VAR:-default} substitutes cudly-controller, which a test pins.

3. ARM script called `create-cred-config` with no credential source

arm/CUDly-CrossSubscription/setup-gcp-wif.sh's OIDC branch passed none of the required sources. gcloud rejects that outright:

ERROR: (gcloud.iam.workload-identity-pools.create-cred-config) Exactly one of
(--aws | --azure | --credential-source-file | --credential-source-url |
--executable-command) must be specified.

Verified against real gcloud argparse locally (client-side validation, no API call) and end to end against a stub: the run created the pool, the provider and the impersonation grant, then exited 1 on the last command. A configured project, a non-zero exit, and nothing to register.

The credential source says where the CUDly deployment reads its subject token from, which an OIDC provider does not imply, so it is now an input: --oidc-credential-source takes an absolute path or an https:// URL and the gcloud flag is derived from the value's shape, so a type flag cannot contradict its own value. http:// is refused. --oidc-credential-source-field adds the JSON format and field name. Both are refused under --provider-type aws, whose source is AWS IMDS, rather than accepted and ignored. With no source the credential config is skipped rather than attempted, and the run prints the WIF audience to register as gcp_wif_audience, which is all CUDly needs when it signs its own subject token.

This follows the precedent already set for the same defect on the Terraform module's gcloud_command output (known_issues/15_iac_gcp_target.md), rather than inventing a shape.

The enumeration runs before anything is created

Review caught this and it is the reason the PR took four rounds. The pool enumeration originally sat after the provider create. 30da1b77c changed PROVIDER_ID from cudly-{{.Source}} to cudly-oidc while POOL_ID stayed cudly-{{.AccountSlug}}, so every customer onboarded before that date has cudly-aws or cudly-azure in their pool and hits this refusal on every run. In the original order each attempt created a fresh cudly-oidc provider and then aborted, leaving one behind, with the ID reserved for 30 days by soft delete. Hoisted above the create, the refusal now touches nothing, and the message says so.

Behaviour measured on the final template

Every scenario run against the rendered script under /bin/bash 3.2.57 with a recording gcloud stub, and each pinned by a test:

scenario	exit	create-oidc	grant
empty project	0	1	1
re-run over the previous run's state	0	0	1
condition `true` / no condition / different subject	1	0	0
foreign issuer	1	0	0
different attribute mapping	1	0	0
soft-deleted provider	1	0	0
disabled provider (`True` / `true` / `1`)	1	0	0
foreign provider in the pool	1	0	0
prefix-lookalike sibling `cudly-oidc-old`	1	0	0
legacy foreign provider, ours absent	1	0	0
`providers list` fails	1	0	0
hostile subject	1	0	0

Two rows carry most of the weight. The re-run row is the one that keeps this from being a refusal-only fix: a customer re-running the script still succeeds. The providers list row is the fail-closed case: a list the script could not read says nothing about what the pool holds, so it stops. That holds because the list is a plain assignment set -e aborts on, not a pipeline into a filter. Replacing it with the natural pipeline form (gcloud ... | grep -v ... || true) makes that case pass silently while every other case in the table still passes, which is why it needed its own test.

Every reject case fails against the pre-fix template; accept/empty project passes against it, since it is a positive control rather than a witness.

Verification

shellcheck clean on the rendered script, both with and without the auto-register block, not only on the template; and on the ARM script. bash -n clean. All script execution under macOS /bin/bash 3.2.57, since customers may run either under any shell version.
go test ./iac/... ./internal/iacfiles/... 79 pass; 2259 across those plus internal/api. golangci-lint at the CI pin v2.10.1.
gcloud was never run against a real project. Facts that would otherwise have been guesses were established offline against the bundled SDK: value(<map field>) joins entries with ; (so the single-entry mapping compares directly against the --attribute-mapping input), WorkloadIdentityPoolProvider carries state and disabled, providers list hides soft-deleted resources without --show-deleted, and providers undelete / --no-disabled exist.

Cross-layer checks

Reviewed against the rest of the system rather than the script alone, since a script can only promise what the backend keeps. Recorded so a reviewer does not have to re-derive them:

No pool collision between onboarding paths. iac/federation/gcp-target/terraform and the ARM script both default to cudly-pool/cudly-provider; the served CLI script uses cudly-<slug>/cudly-oidc. A customer who took the Terraform or ARM path and then runs the CLI script lands in a different, empty pool, so the new provider enumeration passes rather than refusing them. gcp-sa-impersonation-cli.sh.tmpl touches no WIF resource at all.
gcp_wif_audience is an opaque string end to end (internal/config/types.go:970 → handler_accounts.go:798); nothing derives or validates it from the pool name. That is what makes "set POOL_ID to a new pool" a real remediation rather than one that breaks registration.
The enumeration aborts before the registration POST, so a refused run never registers a stale audience. This is what makes the fail-closed path safe rather than merely loud.

Not fixed here

Both are pre-existing and outside this diff. Filed together as LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-platform#211.

normalize_mapping empty-array expansion (arm/CUDly-CrossSubscription/setup-gcp-wif.sh). printf '%s\n' "${pairs[@]}" on an empty array is an unbound variable error under set -u on bash 3.2, which is macOS's /bin/bash. Reproduced. It still fails closed, so the effect is a bash internal error in place of the intended diagnostic.
CUDLY_ISSUER_URL is environment-overridable and unvalidated (gcp-wif-cli.sh.tmpl:30), while the ARM script regex-validates --issuer-uri for the same destination. Whoever controls a typosquatted issuer can mint a cudly-controller token. An asymmetry between two implementations of one control is the shape behind sec(ci): destroy-fargate-dev.yml force-deletes the state lock and matches ECR repos by substring #1592 → sec(ci): cleanup-staging.yml still force-deletes ECR repos by prefix, the shape #1592 rejected #1820 → sec(ci): RDS deletion protection is stripped by identifier prefix at 3 sites, hardening none #1821, so it is worth closing deliberately rather than incidentally here.

Accepted trade

The provider enumeration does not pass --show-deleted, so a soft-deleted foreign provider is invisible to it while the grant is still applied. It stays restorable by whoever created it for 30 days, and the grant is already in place when they restore it. This is accepted because aborting on soft-deleted siblings would refuse every pool that has ever had a provider removed, which is the worse failure. It is deliberately asymmetric with ${PROVIDER_ID} itself, where DELETED is a hard abort: there the alternative is not a refused re-run but this script reporting success over a provider that cannot mint a token, which is a claim it controls. If the window should be closed, the shape is a second --show-deleted pass that prints what it finds without exiting.

…lindly The served onboarding script ran both creates with `|| echo "(may already exist)"`, so under `set -euo pipefail` every failure of a security-critical create was swallowed. A provider that already existed with a weaker attribute condition (or none) was reused without being looked at, the impersonation grant was made against it, and the script printed "=== Done ===" and exited 0. Each resource is now looked up before it is created, and an existing provider is compared field by field against what this script would have written (issuer URI, attribute condition, attribute mapping). A match is reused; any difference aborts before the grant with the found and expected values and a delete hint. A provider that is soft-deleted or disabled is refused too: describe returns it with its configuration intact, so every comparison would match while no token exchange can use it. Every other create failure now stops the run. The pool propagation wait moved ahead of the provider create, which needs the pool to be visible. Verifying this run's provider is not sufficient on its own, because the grant names the pool: any other provider in it that maps a token to the same subject satisfies the binding. The pool's providers are enumerated and the run aborts on any this script did not configure. That check runs before anything is created, so the refusal leaves the project untouched: customers onboarded before the provider default changed from cudly-<source> to cudly-oidc hit it on every run, and running it after the create would leave another provider behind each time. CUDLY_FEDERATED_SUBJECT is validated before the first gcloud call. It is environment-overridable and lands inside the CEL string literal of --attribute-condition, so a value carrying a quote closed the literal and the rest rewrote the condition: "x' || true || '" produced a condition whose second disjunct was a bare true, admitting every subject the issuer signs. It also lands in the principal:// identifier of the grant, where '*' widens the member. Tests run the rendered script under bash against a recording gcloud stub, and cover both directions: a weaker condition, a foreign issuer, a different mapping, an unusable provider, a foreign provider in the pool and a failed create each abort without granting, while an empty project and a re-run over the previous run's state both still complete. Refs #1661

setup-gcp-wif.sh's OIDC branch called gcloud iam workload-identity-pools create-cred-config <provider> \ --service-account=<sa> --output-file=/dev/stdout with none of the credential sources gcloud requires. It rejects the invocation ("Exactly one of (--aws | --azure | --credential-source-file | --credential-source-url | --executable-command) must be specified"), so under `set -e` the run aborted at its last step, after the pool, the provider and the impersonation grant had all been created: a configured project, a non-zero exit and nothing to register. The credential source says where the CUDly deployment reads its subject token from, which an OIDC provider does not imply, so it is now an input: --oidc-credential-source takes an absolute path (file-sourced) or an https URL (URL-sourced) and the gcloud flag is derived from the value, so the two cannot contradict each other. --oidc-credential-source-field adds the JSON format and field name for an endpoint that wraps the token in an object. Both are refused under --provider-type aws, whose source is AWS IMDS, rather than accepted and ignored. Without a source the credential config is skipped rather than attempted, and the run reports the WIF audience to register as gcp_wif_audience, which is all CUDly needs when it signs its own subject token. Tests execute the script against a gcloud stub that reproduces the argparse rule, since reading the script cannot distinguish a command gcloud accepts from one it refuses. Closes #1661

coderabbitai · 2026-08-19T17:14:54Z

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The ARM setup script adds OIDC credential-source support and audience output. The served GCP WIF script validates subjects and existing federation resources before reuse. Go tests cover credential-source handling, failure propagation, unsafe subjects, fresh setup, and idempotent reruns.

Changes

GCP WIF setup hardening

Layer / File(s)	Summary
ARM OIDC credential-source flow `arm/CUDly-CrossSubscription/setup-gcp-wif.sh`	The script accepts absolute file paths or HTTPS URLs, supports JSON field extraction, rejects invalid combinations, skips credential-config generation when CUDly supplies the token, and prints the OIDC audience.
GCP pool and provider validation `internal/iacfiles/templates/gcp-wif-cli.sh.tmpl`	The script validates federated subjects, reuses or creates pools, rejects unexpected providers, and verifies existing provider status and configuration before reuse.
ARM credential-source coverage `iac/gcp_setup_script_test.go`	Integration tests verify source flags, no-source OIDC execution, AWS incompatibility, and rejection before any gcloud invocation.
GCP template execution coverage `internal/iacfiles/templates_test.go`	Stateful execution tests cover unsafe subjects, provider mismatches, failed operations, fresh setup, and idempotent reruns.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b7a18

The PR hardens provider reuse and credential configuration, but an existing provider may still be accepted without confirming that its allowed audience matches the expected WIF audience, risking a misconfigured federation setup. The change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to add that validation.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant gcp-wif-cli.sh
  participant gcloud
  participant GCP WIF resources
  Operator->>gcp-wif-cli.sh: Run setup with federated subject
  gcp-wif-cli.sh->>gcp-wif-cli.sh: Validate subject and expected provider configuration
  gcp-wif-cli.sh->>gcloud: Inspect or create pool and provider
  gcloud->>GCP WIF resources: Read or apply federation state
  GCP WIF resources-->>gcloud: Return provider and pool state
  gcloud-->>gcp-wif-cli.sh: Return validation result
  gcp-wif-cli.sh->>gcloud: Apply impersonation grant when state is valid

Possibly related PRs

LeanerCloud/CUDly#1602: Related OIDC subject and audience validation for federation configuration.
LeanerCloud/CUDly#1691: Related validation of OIDC subject claims and federation trust configuration.

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iac/gcp_setup_script_test.go (1)
246-269: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a case for --oidc-credential-source-field without a source.

The script rejects that combination at its elif branch. No test covers it. The rejection is one of the new validation rules, so it can regress silently.
♻️ Proposed test addition
// A field without a source configures nothing: the script must refuse it
// rather than emit a credential config with no credential source.
func TestSetupScriptRejectsCredentialFieldWithoutSource(t *testing.T) {
	exitCode, _, stderr, calls := runSetupScript(t,
		setupScriptOIDCArgs("--oidc-credential-source-field", "value")...)

	if exitCode == 0 {
		t.Error("--oidc-credential-source-field was accepted without a source (exit 0)")
	}
	if len(calls) != 0 {
		t.Errorf("the rejection must happen before the first gcloud call, got %d: %v", len(calls), calls)
	}
	if !strings.Contains(stderr, "--oidc-credential-source-field") {
		t.Errorf("stderr must name the rejected flag, got:\n%s", stderr)
	}
}
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In `@iac/gcp_setup_script_test.go` around lines 246 - 269, Add a test near
TestSetupScriptRejectsInsecureCredentialSource covering setupScriptOIDCArgs with
--oidc-credential-source-field but no credential source; assert a nonzero exit,
no gcloud calls, and stderr identifying --oidc-credential-source-field.
internal/iacfiles/templates_test.go (1)
491-968: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Move the GCP WIF stub and tests into a separate file.

The coding guidelines require files under 500 lines. This file now exceeds 1000 lines. The added block is self-contained: gcloudStubScript, gcpStubState, seedGCPStubState, runGCPWIFScript, callsContaining, and the two GCP test functions.

Move them to internal/iacfiles/templates_gcp_wif_test.go in the same package. runRenderedScript stays here and remains accessible.

As per coding guidelines: "Follow Domain-Driven Design with bounded contexts, keep files under 500 lines, and use typed interfaces for public APIs."
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In `@internal/iacfiles/templates_test.go` around lines 491 - 968, Move the
self-contained GCP WIF test helpers and tests—gcloudStubScript, gcpStubState,
seedGCPStubState, runGCPWIFScript, callsContaining,
TestGCPWIFCLI_ProviderReuseIsVerified, and TestGCPWIFCLI_SubjectValidated—into a
new templates_gcp_wif_test.go file in the same package. Keep runRenderedScript
in its current file so the moved runGCPWIFScript continues using it, and
preserve all existing behavior and imports.
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internal/iacfiles/templates/gcp-wif-cli.sh.tmpl (1)
199-213: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Validate oidc.allowedAudiences during provider reuse.

An omitted audience list defaults to the provider’s canonical resource name. If WIF_AUDIENCE differs from that name, the create path already fails. For reused providers, require the expected audience in every non-empty list and parse semicolon-separated values instead of comparing raw output.
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In `@internal/iacfiles/templates/gcp-wif-cli.sh.tmpl` around lines 199 - 213,
Update the existing-provider reuse validation near provider_field calls to read
oidc.allowedAudiences and verify the expected audience derived from WIF_AUDIENCE
or the canonical provider resource name. Parse the semicolon-separated audience
values and require the expected audience to be present whenever the list is
non-empty, while preserving the default behavior for an omitted list; reject
mismatches through reject_existing_provider alongside the issuer, condition, and
mapping checks.

🔇 Additional comments (7)

arm/CUDly-CrossSubscription/setup-gcp-wif.sh (2)

196-205: 🩺 Stability & Availability

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Confirm CRED_SOURCE_FLAG is always defined on the path that reads it.

Line 460 reads CRED_SOURCE_FLAG when OIDC_CREDENTIAL_SOURCE is non-empty. The assignment at lines 196-205 appears to sit inside the OIDC validation branch. If any code path can set OIDC_CREDENTIAL_SOURCE without entering that branch, set -u aborts at line 460, after the pool, the provider and the grant were created. That is the same late-abort failure mode this PR fixes.

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internal/iacfiles/templates/gcp-wif-cli.sh.tmpl (1)

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iac/gcp_setup_script_test.go (2)

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internal/iacfiles/templates_test.go (2)

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Nitpick comments:
In `@iac/gcp_setup_script_test.go`:
- Around line 246-269: Add a test near
TestSetupScriptRejectsInsecureCredentialSource covering setupScriptOIDCArgs with
--oidc-credential-source-field but no credential source; assert a nonzero exit,
no gcloud calls, and stderr identifying --oidc-credential-source-field.

In `@internal/iacfiles/templates_test.go`:
- Around line 491-968: Move the self-contained GCP WIF test helpers and
tests—gcloudStubScript, gcpStubState, seedGCPStubState, runGCPWIFScript,
callsContaining, TestGCPWIFCLI_ProviderReuseIsVerified, and
TestGCPWIFCLI_SubjectValidated—into a new templates_gcp_wif_test.go file in the
same package. Keep runRenderedScript in its current file so the moved
runGCPWIFScript continues using it, and preserve all existing behavior and
imports.

In `@internal/iacfiles/templates/gcp-wif-cli.sh.tmpl`:
- Around line 199-213: Update the existing-provider reuse validation near
provider_field calls to read oidc.allowedAudiences and verify the expected
audience derived from WIF_AUDIENCE or the canonical provider resource name.
Parse the semicolon-separated audience values and require the expected audience
to be present whenever the list is non-empty, while preserving the default
behavior for an omitted list; reject mismatches through reject_existing_provider
alongside the issuer, condition, and mapping checks.

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…es ours An existing provider was compared on issuer, condition and mapping but not on oidc.allowedAudiences. That list restricts which `aud` the provider accepts, so one that omits this pool's audience rejects every token CUDly mints while the script reports success over it. Same class as the soft-deleted and disabled cases already handled here. Empty is accepted rather than treated as unrestricted: GCP defaults an unset list to the provider's own resource name, which is exactly what WIF_AUDIENCE is. A non-empty list must contain it. gcloud's value() printer joins a repeated field with ';', verified against the bundled SDK's printer rather than assumed. Also in this round: - Corrects the charset comment on CUDLY_FEDERATED_SUBJECT and the test case that read as an endorsement of it. The comment justified '|' with Auth0/Okta-style subjects, a caller that cannot exist here, and the accept case asserted that google-oauth2|1234567890 "configures the project end to end". gcpFederatedSubject in internal/credentials/gcp_federated.go is a compile-time constant, so CUDly always presents 'cudly-controller' and any override pins the provider to a subject it will never sign. The case now asserts what it actually demonstrates, that the value round-trips through the template unmangled, and the character is documented as being in the set for parity with validate_principal_value in the ARM script. - Adds the missing test for --oidc-credential-source-field without a source, which the ARM script rejects but nothing covered. - Moves the GCP WIF stub and tests to templates_gcp_wif_test.go. The project caps files at 500 lines and templates_test.go had reached 1122; it is now 577 and the new file 557. Kept in one commit with the changes above because the moved and original definitions collide in any intermediate state. Refs #1661

cristim · 2026-08-19T17:41:03Z

Addressed in dee5961bc. All three nitpicks taken, plus one finding from a parallel review.

Nitpick 1, --oidc-credential-source-field without a source — fixed. TestSetupScriptRejectsCredentialFieldWithoutSource in iac/gcp_setup_script_test.go asserts non-zero exit, zero gcloud calls, and that stderr names the flag. It was a real gap: that rejection is one of the rules this PR adds and nothing covered it.

Nitpick 2, file over the 500-line guideline — fixed. The GCP WIF stub, fixtures and tests moved to internal/iacfiles/templates_gcp_wif_test.go; runRenderedScript stays in templates_test.go and is shared with the AWS tests. 1122 lines → 577 + 557. It landed in the same commit as the other changes because the moved and original definitions collide in any intermediate state, so splitting it out would have left a commit that does not compile.

Nitpick 3, oidc.allowedAudiences on reuse — fixed, and it was the most valuable of the three. A reused provider whose audience list omits this pool's audience rejects every token CUDly mints, so the script would have reported success over a provider that cannot accept it. Same class as the soft-deleted and disabled cases already handled.

Two details worth stating, since both could have gone wrong quietly:

Empty is accepted, not treated as unrestricted. GCP defaults an unset list to the provider's own resource name, which is exactly WIF_AUDIENCE. Rejecting empty would have broken every normal re-run.
The ; join was verified, not assumed. I drove googlecloudsdk.core.resource.resource_printer from the bundled SDK offline: a repeated field renders a;b, an unset one renders empty. Guessing here would have produced either a false abort on every re-run or a check that never fires.

Three tests cover it: a reject case for a list excluding ours, and accept cases for an unset list and for a list containing ours among others. The reject case fails against the previous commit; without the two accept cases a check that rejected everything would still have passed.

Not from this review, but in the same commit: a test asserting that google-oauth2|1234567890 "configures the project end to end" was wrong, because gcpFederatedSubject in internal/credentials/gcp_federated.go is a compile-time constant, so CUDly only ever presents cudly-controller. The case now asserts what it actually demonstrates — the value round-trips through the template unmangled — and the charset comment no longer justifies | with a caller that cannot exist. The override knob itself predates this PR and is tracked in LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-platform#211 along with the same shape on the Azure path.

CI was green on the previous head and is re-running on dee5961bc.

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sec(iac): validate CUDLY_ISSUER_URL in the served GCP script (the ARM script already does), plus normalize_mapping's bash 3.2 empty-array abort LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-platform#211

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fix(iac): verify the GCP WIF provider before granting impersonation, and stop create-cred-config aborting after every mutation - #1866

fix(iac): verify the GCP WIF provider before granting impersonation, and stop create-cred-config aborting after every mutation#1866
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1. The served script granted impersonation against a provider it never inspected

2. CUDLY_FEDERATED_SUBJECT reached CEL unvalidated

3. ARM script called create-cred-config with no credential source

The enumeration runs before anything is created

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2. `CUDLY_FEDERATED_SUBJECT` reached CEL unvalidated

3. ARM script called `create-cred-config` with no credential source

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