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Use the email verification recovery scenario for admin initiated email verification - #1166

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Issue

A user created through SCIM2 with urn:scim:wso2:schema.verifyEmail: true is administratively created, but UserEmailVerificationHandler stores its confirmation code under SELF_SIGN_UP / CONFIRM_SIGN_UP. JDBCRecoveryDataStore.isCodeExpired resolves the expiry purely from the stored scenario, so the code expires on SelfRegistration.VerificationCode.ExpiryTime even when self registration is disabled for the organization. Two related gaps in the same path: EmailVerification.ExpiryTime ("Email verification code expiry time") was read by nothing, and EMAIL_VERIFICATION_OTP had no branch in isCodeExpired and silently fell through to Recovery.ExpiryTime, the password recovery dial.

Fix

The link path now issues the code as EMAIL_VERIFICATION / CONFIRM_PENDING_EMAIL_VERIFICATION, and isCodeExpired resolves both email verification scenarios to EmailVerification.ExpiryTime. The confirm, resend and login paths already handled that pair — only the issuing site was missing.

Which scenario gets issued is gated per organization by the userOnboarding.enableLegacyEmailVerificationScenario compatibility setting (wso2/carbon-identity-framework#8322), and every failure to resolve the setting falls back to the existing behaviour, so issuance is unchanged until an organization opts in.

The expiry lookup is deliberately not gated: it is a property of the stored scenario alone. EmailVerification.ExpiryTime and Recovery.ExpiryTime both default to 1440, so this is a no-op for any organization that has customized neither.

Testing

JDBCRecoveryDataStoreTest.testEmailVerificationCodeExpiry covers both scenarios against both values of the setting, asserting the expiry is independent of it. Also verified end to end on a 7.4.0 pack: with the setting off a day-old code redeems against a 7-day EmailVerification.ExpiryTime; with it on the previous 18002 is returned unchanged.

Depends on wso2/carbon-identity-framework#8322 and a carbon.identity.framework.version bump here.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Email verification notifications now use the tenant’s legacy email-verification setting to select the recovery scenario and step. Existing OTP configuration can still override these choices.
    • Email verification and email verification OTP codes now use the configured email-verification expiry time, regardless of whether legacy mode is enabled.
    • When the compatibility setting is unavailable or unset, the legacy email-verification scenario remains enabled.

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  • components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/internal/IdentityRecoveryServiceComponent.java
  • components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/internal/IdentityRecoveryServiceDataHolder.java
  • components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/store/JDBCRecoveryDataStore.java
  • components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/test/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/handler/UserEmailVerificationHandlerTest.java
  • components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/test/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/store/JDBCRecoveryDataStoreTest.java
  • components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/test/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/util/UtilsTest.java
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  • components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/internal/IdentityRecoveryServiceDataHolder.java
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The recovery component reads a tenant compatibility setting to select email-verification scenarios. It also applies the email-verification expiry setting to both email-verification scenarios and adds tests for setting lookup, scenario selection, and code expiry.

Changes

Email-verification compatibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Compatibility setting service wiring
pom.xml, components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/pom.xml, components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/IdentityRecoveryConstants.java, components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/internal/*
The POMs add the compatibility-settings dependency. The recovery component binds the service and stores it in the data holder. Constants identify the setting group and setting.
Setting lookup and notification scenario selection
components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/util/Utils.java, components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/handler/UserEmailVerificationHandler.java, components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/test/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/util/UtilsTest.java, components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/test/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/handler/UserEmailVerificationHandlerTest.java
The utility reads the tenant setting and defaults to legacy mode when the service or setting is unavailable or an exception occurs. The handler selects the recovery scenario and step based on the legacy-mode value. Tests cover setting lookup, legacy mode, and OTP combinations.
Email-verification code expiry
components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/store/JDBCRecoveryDataStore.java, components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/test/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/store/JDBCRecoveryDataStoreTest.java
The data store uses the email-verification expiry setting for EMAIL_VERIFICATION and EMAIL_VERIFICATION_OTP. Tests verify retrieval of codes within that expiry interval.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant UserEmailVerificationHandler
  participant Utils
  participant IdentityRecoveryServiceDataHolder
  participant CompatibilitySettingsService
  UserEmailVerificationHandler->>Utils: Check tenant legacy email-verification setting
  Utils->>IdentityRecoveryServiceDataHolder: Get compatibility settings service
  IdentityRecoveryServiceDataHolder-->>Utils: Return service instance
  Utils->>CompatibilitySettingsService: Read tenant setting
  CompatibilitySettingsService-->>Utils: Return setting value
  Utils-->>UserEmailVerificationHandler: Return legacy-mode status
  UserEmailVerificationHandler->>UserEmailVerificationHandler: Select recovery scenario and step
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1dc4f

The new email-verification flow is supported by the downstream paths inspected. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1dc4f

The change preserves existing code-validation and tenant checks. However, opting in changes confirmation hooks, and the expiry change also affects outstanding email-verification codes. Deployment-specific confirmation policies and rollback behavior need validation.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Opted-in link verification changes from CONFIRM_SIGN_UP to CONFIRM_PENDING_EMAIL_VERIFICATION. The shared confirmation implementation emits PRE_USER_ACCOUNT_CONFIRMATION only for the former, so the new route updates claims without that pre-confirmation hook. Deployments enforcing policy through this hook could lose that enforcement. The event omission is established; external listeners and an actual security bypass are not. Legacy links remain unchanged, and OTP already used the pending-email step before this PR.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The routing and hook change affects internally managed administrative link verification in tenants selecting nonlegacy behavior. The expiry change has broader scope: stored email-verification and email-verification OTP codes across tenants, regardless of that selector. The inspected confirmation path still binds the operation to the recovery record's user and tenant.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A conditional policy-bypass path exists only if a deployment relies on PRE_USER_ACCOUNT_CONFIRMATION for enforcement: an opted-in link code reaches claim processing without invoking that hook. No such local listener or verified exploit was established. Existing code, expiry, tenant and login checks are counterevidence against an unconditional bypass.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The compatibility lookup uses the event user's tenant rather than a confirmation-request scenario. Redemption reconstructs scenario and identity from storage and checks the request tenant. Changing routing does not let a submitted code choose its expiry policy or target user.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Compatibility-service interruption preserves legacy issuance but can switch newly issued opted-in link codes back to the self-registration expiry policy. Outstanding records retain their stored classification. This is a deliberate fallback with policy consequences when tenant expiry settings differ, not a demonstrated attacker-controlled downgrade.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before tenant opt-in, confirm whether deployed extensions require the omitted pre-confirmation event and preserve equivalent enforcement where necessary. For rollout and rollback, explicitly assess outstanding-code validity under the email-verification, self-registration and generic recovery expiry settings.
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Review comments at
@components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/store/JDBCRecoveryDataStore.java:
- Around line 990-991: Update the EMAIL_VERIFICATION_OTP expiry flow in
JDBCRecoveryDataStore so outstanding codes retain the expiry applicable when
issued, even if the legacy-setting value changes or the optional service becomes
unavailable. Persist and use the issuance-specific expiry, or implement a
transition that preserves it; do not let the
RecoveryScenarios.EMAIL_VERIFICATION_OTP condition and
Utils.isLegacyEmailVerificationScenarioEnabled select a different expiry for an
existing code.

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- Line 307: Update the carbon.identity.framework.version dependency property to
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isLegacyEmailVerificationScenarioEnabled reads the setting instead of defaulting
to the legacy scenario.

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  • components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/handler/UserEmailVerificationHandler.java
  • components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/internal/IdentityRecoveryServiceComponent.java
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  • components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/store/JDBCRecoveryDataStore.java
  • components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/util/Utils.java
  • components/org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/src/test/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/recovery/store/JDBCRecoveryDataStoreTest.java
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The description says a carbon.identity.framework.version bump is required here, but the version is unchanged while depending on new framework APIs, so the build will break unless that version is confirmed to ship them.

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What changed in this PR

This PR fixes an expiry-time bug for administratively created users (e.g. SCIM2 users with verifyEmail: true) who are pending email verification. Previously their confirmation code was stored under the SELF_SIGN_UP / CONFIRM_SIGN_UP recovery scenario, so JDBCRecoveryDataStore.isCodeExpired expired it against the self-registration dial even when self registration was disabled. The link path now issues the code under EMAIL_VERIFICATION / CONFIRM_PENDING_EMAIL_VERIFICATION, and isCodeExpired resolves both email-verification scenarios to EmailVerification.ExpiryTime. The switch is gated per organization by the new userOnboarding.enableLegacyEmailVerificationScenario compatibility setting, defaulting to the legacy behaviour whenever the setting cannot be resolved.

Changes:

  • Add Utils.isLegacyEmailVerificationScenarioEnabled, backed by a newly wired CompatibilitySettingsService OSGi reference, with legacy fallback on any resolution failure.
  • Switch the admin email-verification link path in UserEmailVerificationHandler to the email-verification scenario and resolve EMAIL_VERIFICATION / EMAIL_VERIFICATION_OTP expiry in JDBCRecoveryDataStore.isCodeExpired.
  • Add the compatibility.settings.core dependency and new constants, plus a data-driven expiry test.
File Description
pom.xml Adds compatibility.settings.core to dependencyManagement (framework version not bumped).
components/​org.wso2.carbon.identity.recovery/​pom.xml Adds the module dependency and OSGi Import-Package entry.
.../​recovery/​IdentityRecoveryConstants.java Adds the compatibility setting group/key constants.
.../​recovery/​util/​Utils.java Adds isLegacyEmailVerificationScenarioEnabled with legacy fallback semantics.
.../​recovery/​store/​JDBCRecoveryDataStore.java Resolves email-verification scenarios to EmailVerification.ExpiryTime.
.../​recovery/​handler/​UserEmailVerificationHandler.java Issues the link code under the email-verification scenario when not legacy.
.../​recovery/​internal/​IdentityRecoveryServiceDataHolder.java Holds the CompatibilitySettingsService (import misordered).
.../​recovery/​internal/​IdentityRecoveryServiceComponent.java Binds/unbinds the service via an optional OSGi reference (import misordered).
.../​recovery/​store/​JDBCRecoveryDataStoreTest.java Adds data-driven coverage for the expiry resolution.

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