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Fixes #3238

When activating an eligible PIM role via the azure/pim-role identity, Atmos previously sent the configured duration directly without verifying the role's PIM activation policy maximum. If the configured duration exceeded the maximum allowed by policy, Azure Resource Manager rejected the request server-side.

This change adds pre-flight duration capping:

  • Adds PolicyMaxDuration to PIMClient and armPIMClient, querying roleManagementPolicyAssignments for the scope and parsing the activation RoleManagementPolicyExpirationRule maximumDuration.
  • Clamps the effective duration to min(configured, policyMax) in pimRoleIdentity before submitting the ActivationRequest.
  • Emits an advisory warning and debug log when the configured duration is capped.
  • Updates mock client and adds unit tests covering policy assignment lookup, ISO-8601 parsing, and clamping.

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    • Azure PIM activation requests now cap durations that exceed the role’s policy maximum, while leaving durations within the limit unchanged. If the maximum cannot be retrieved, the configured duration is used; an unset or invalid duration is not sent. This helps prevent requests from being rejected by Azure for exceeding the allowed activation period.
  • Documentation
    • Updated Azure PIM guidance to reflect the activation-duration cap.

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The Azure PIM client now retrieves and parses role activation-policy maximum durations. Before activation, the identity caps a configured duration when a lower positive maximum is found. The PRD now documents the cap as implemented.

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Azure PIM duration cap

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retrieve and parse policy maximums
pkg/auth/identities/azure/pim_client.go, pkg/auth/identities/azure/pim_client_test.go
The client retrieves role policy assignments and selects a matching EndUser expiration rule. It follows continuation links, validates request origins before adding credentials, and parses the rule’s ISO-8601 maximum duration. Tests cover rule selection, pagination, request validation, parsing, and errors.
Apply the policy maximum before activation
pkg/auth/identities/azure/pim_role.go, pkg/auth/identities/azure/pim_role_test.go, docs/prd/azure-pim-role-identity.md
Activation submission resolves the duration before creating the request. It caps a duration that exceeds a positive policy maximum. If lookup fails, it uses the configured duration; if the duration is empty or nonpositive, it skips lookup. Tests cover these outcomes, and the PRD marks the cap as implemented.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PIMRole
  participant PIMClient
  participant AzureARM
  PIMRole->>PIMClient: Look up role policy maximum
  PIMClient->>AzureARM: GET roleManagementPolicyAssignments
  AzureARM-->>PIMClient: Return policy assignments
  PIMClient-->>PIMRole: Return parsed maximum duration
  PIMRole->>PIMRole: Resolve effective duration
  PIMRole->>PIMClient: Submit activation request
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1dec6

The change caps Azure PIM activation duration at the role policy maximum. The earlier concern about selecting the wrong policy maximum appears to be addressed, and no merge-blocking risk is evident.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to c7646

The new check is advisory: it can shorten a requested activation, but does not grant eligibility or replace Azure’s authorization controls. No introduced privilege-escalation path was established. Policy-response edge cases and compatibility with external client implementations remain uncertain.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The added operation reads policy assignments within the configured ARM scope. Its downstream effect is duration selection for the existing principal’s eligible role activation. Authority remains dependent on the existing Azure credential and service-side authorization; the preflight itself introduces no additional principal or privilege grant.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The scope is interpolated into request URLs, but request construction checks scheme, host, and absence of user information before attaching the bearer token. The new policy GET uses this existing origin check.
  • inferred — A failed, stale, or inaccurate preflight does not itself authorize a longer activation: submission still uses SelfActivate, and ARM remains the stated expiration-policy enforcement point. This containment is supported by the request contract and supplied behavior account, rather than independent live-service validation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Policy lookup precedes request-name generation and activation creation, so interruption during that read creates no new activation state. Existing pending requests bypass the new lookup and resume status polling. Polling handles success, terminal failure, timeout, and cancellation; Azure remains the owner of persisted activation state.
  • inferred — The existing pending-check-then-create sequence is not atomic across concurrent invocations, and an accepted PUT followed by response-decoding failure can leave remote state while reporting an error. These recovery characteristics predate the policy-read addition; the change adds no separate reservation, rollback, or cleanup resource.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make explicit rule targets authoritative, restricting ID fallback to missing target metadata. This would reduce drift between the locally selected expiration rule and the intended activation policy.
  • proposed — Support policy-assignment continuation responses while preserving continuation queries and validating the destination origin before attaching credentials. This would improve lookup completeness without weakening the credential boundary.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly states the main change: capping Azure PIM activation duration at the role policy maximum.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue [#3238] requires policy lookup, duration capping before activation, a PIMClient method, and a log when capping occurs. The current changes add PolicyMaxDuration, parse the matching activatio…
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- Around line 438-441: In resolveEffectiveDuration, handle errors from
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Updated resolveEffectiveDuration to log policy lookup failures at debug level and fallback to the configured duration, allowing activation to proceed. Updated TestPIMRole_PolicyMaxQueryError accordingly.

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❌ Patch coverage is 75.48387% with 38 lines in your changes missing coverage.

adam magued (@AdamMagued) also please raise test coverage to 85%+ on the patch

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) (@osterman) Expanded unit test suites for ISO-8601 duration parsing across all date and time designator combinations and edge cases (years, months, weeks, days, sub-second fractions, and malformed inputs), verified role expiration rule matching criteria, and covered non-positive duration handling. Patch statement coverage on the PR changes is now raised to 98.57% (138/140 statements covered).

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🟡 Minor · Follow ARM continuation links when reading policy assignments. · pim_client.go:487-499

pkg/auth/identities/azure/pim_client.go:487-499
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Follow ARM continuation links when reading policy assignments.

When the matching policy assignment is on a later page, PolicyMaxDuration can report no maximum. Activation can then send the configured duration unchanged, even when it exceeds that maximum. Fetch and combine every page before deciding that no policy applies. Preserve the continuation URL’s query parameters and the existing same-origin check before sending the bearer token.

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Update armPIMClient.listPolicyAssignments to follow ARM continuation links and
combine assignment values from every page before returning, so policy evaluation
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- Line 639: Update the policy matching logic exercised by PolicyMaxDuration to
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject rules with an explicit non-activation target.

This case expects true even though Target.Caller is OtherCaller and Target.Level is OtherLevel. The case at Line 616 makes the same assumption. PolicyMaxDuration returns the first matching rule, so an earlier rule with a conflicting target can supply the wrong maximum. Require an EndUser/Assignment target when both fields are present. Use an ID fallback only when the target is absent. Azure’s documented activation rule uses that target. (learn.microsoft.com)

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) (@osterman) CodeRabbit (@coderabbitai) Addressed both review items and normalized formatting:

  1. ARM continuation links: armPIMClient.listPolicyAssignments now traverses ARM continuation links (nextLink) to combine assignment values across all pages. Preserves query parameters, resolves relative continuation URLs against the base URL, detects URL cycles, and validates the target origin before attaching credentials.
  2. Target filtering: isActivationExpirationRule now requires EndUser caller and Assignment level when explicit targets exist, preventing non-activation rules with matching IDs from overriding policy limits. ID fallback is restricted to rules without explicit targets.
  3. Formatting: Normalized trailing newlines with gofumpt across test files.

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- Line 638: In resolveEffectiveDuration, guard each ISO-8601 designator
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@AdamMagued, thanks for the update. I checked the code:

  • listPolicyAssignments combines pages and detects repeated continuation links.
  • Continuation requests preserve query parameters, resolve relative URLs, and validate the ARM origin before attaching credentials.
  • isActivationExpirationRule rejects conflicting target fields and uses ID fallback only when both target fields are absent. When only one target field exists, it validates that field.
  • Both test files end with exactly one newline.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) (@osterman) I added an overflow guard to the ISO-8601 duration parser and pushed the update.

The addUnit helper validates that each designator value and running total stay within math.MaxInt64. The parser routes all date and time designators (Y, M, W, D, H, M, S) through this helper. ARM durations exceeding the time.Duration limit, such as P300Y, return an error instead of wrapping to negative values that skip policy caps.

I added test coverage in pim_client_test.go for boundary cases, invalid inputs, and oversized durations (P300Y, P293Y, accumulation overflow). All unit tests pass in the container sandbox.

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