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Adds support for the authentication_openid_connect_client auth plugin (MySQL Enterprise 9.1+ OpenID Connect, StarRocks 3.5+ JWT). Adds 2 new options to dsn: defaultAuthPlugin and openidTokenFile. Driver sends [0x01][length-encoded ID token], the same as MySQL's C client plugin. The token is taken from openidTokenFile or the password. It is sent only over TLS or a unix socket, unless allowCleartextPasswords=true.

I also tested locally end-to-end against StarRocks, but haven't added those integration tests here.

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  • Code compiles correctly
  • Created tests which fail without the change (if possible)
  • All tests passing
  • Extended the README / documentation, if necessary
  • Added myself / the copyright holder to the AUTHORS file

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The change adds OpenID Connect client authentication. It introduces DSN options for plugin selection and token-file configuration, adds token handling and transport checks, and updates connector authentication selection.

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OpenID Connect authentication

Layer / File(s) Summary
DSN configuration
dsn.go, dsn_test.go, AUTHORS
Config adds DefaultAuthPlugin and OpenIDTokenFile. DSN parsing and formatting handle both parameters, and the DSN test covers parsing them. The authors list adds Tornike Gurgenidze.
OpenID Connect token authentication
auth.go, errors.go, auth_test.go, README.md
The plugin reads a token from the configured file or uses the password. It checks token size, empty tokens, and transport security, then encodes the token in its response. Tests cover token-file rereading and auth-switch responses. The README documents token-file and cleartext behavior.
Connector plugin selection
connector.go, connector_test.go, README.md
Connect uses DefaultAuthPlugin when set and returns authentication errors without fallback. Connector tests cover insecure transport cases. The README documents the plugin-selection parameter.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ConnectorConnect
  participant Server
  participant OpenIDConnectPlugin
  participant TokenFile
  Client->>ConnectorConnect: Connect with authentication configuration
  ConnectorConnect->>Server: Request handshake
  Server-->>ConnectorConnect: Return greeting
  ConnectorConnect->>OpenIDConnectPlugin: Invoke selected plugin
  OpenIDConnectPlugin->>TokenFile: Read configured token file
  TokenFile-->>OpenIDConnectPlugin: Return token
  OpenIDConnectPlugin->>Server: Send capability byte and length-encoded token
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Suggested reviewers: methane

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7c042

OpenID tokens may be exposed when these TLS modes are used. Require peer verification or an explicit cleartext opt-in before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7c042

OpenID tokens can reach an unauthenticated server under insecure TLS modes. Concurrent connections using plaintext fallback can also invalidate the transport check before a token is sent. These risks are configuration-dependent and affect credentials used by the affected connector; verified TLS without plaintext fallback avoids these identified paths.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · observed: The new token-file credential can be sent to a peer whose identity is not verified. The OpenID gate accepts any non-nil TLS configuration, including skip-verify and preferred. A network-positioned attacker can terminate that TLS connection and receive the token. Those insecure modes already existed and are documented as unsafe; this PR extends their credential exposure to the new token-file source.
  • High · security · inferred: Concurrent Connect calls without BeforeConnect share transport configuration. One call can pass the OpenID gate while TLS is configured; another server handshake can then clear the shared TLS field through plaintext fallback, causing the first call's writer to omit TLS and transmit its token despite AllowCleartextPasswords=false. The shared mutation predates this PR, but the new token path inherits this check-to-use failure. The interleaving is supported statically, not demonstrated at runtime.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The supported exposure is the token sent by an affected connector and connection attempt. File-backed tokens may be distinct from the database password previously exposed by insecure authentication modes. Downstream access depends on token validity, audience, expiry, and accepting services; cross-tenant, administrative, or environment-wide authority is not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — The retained finding reports token disclosure through TLS modes that omit certificate verification. An attacker able to impersonate or intercept the configured endpoint can complete such a TLS handshake and receive the token. No authority to alter the victim's token or file is required for this path. Explicit insecure configuration and the existing documentation warning are important counterevidence, but do not authenticate the receiving peer.
  • inferred — A separate attack path requires concurrent calls sharing one connector, enabled plaintext fallback, and influence over a server handshake. Clearing shared TLS after another call's OpenID gate but before its writer selects transport can expose that call's token on the raw connection. Initial plugin failure handling does not prevent this interleaving because the gate already succeeded.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The caller owns credential paths, password values, dialer selection, and transport policy; this package does not establish that remote users control them. Server-announced or switched plugin names influence which credential operation runs. OpenID switches reapply the transport gate, and a second switch is rejected. Verified TLS authenticates the endpoint before the initial token write; the new gate itself does not enforce peer verification.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — TLS failure returns before the initial token-bearing packet is assembled and sent. Initial authentication, handshake-write, and authentication-result errors trigger connection cleanup. BeforeConnect uses a cloned configuration, including a cloned TLS configuration, which prevents the identified shared-field mutation between those calls. These controls do not isolate the default no-callback path.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Keep negotiated transport state connection-local and immutable across token construction and transmission. Separately require authenticated TLS for remote OpenID token transmission, with any insecure-token exception made explicit. Validate concurrent fallback, subsequent recovery, and verified-TLS authentication transitions rather than relying only on sequential rejection tests.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 16.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 7 files. (2 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: support for OpenID authentication.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the OpenID Connect plugin support, new DSN options, token handling, and transport security requirements.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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- Line 367: Update the TLS security check around mc.cfg.TLS so a non-nil config
is not treated as verified when InsecureSkipVerify is enabled without a
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tls=preferred unless AllowCleartextPasswords is enabled, while continuing to
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  • AUTHORS
  • README.md
  • auth.go
  • auth_test.go
  • connector.go
  • connector_test.go
  • dsn.go
  • dsn_test.go
  • errors.go

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Comment thread auth.go
// https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/openid-pluggable-authentication.html
// The ID token (JWT) is sent unencrypted, so a secure transport is
// required unless cleartext passwords are explicitly allowed.
if mc.cfg.TLS == nil && mc.cfg.Net != "unix" && !mc.cfg.AllowCleartextPasswords {

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#!/bin/bash
ast-grep outline dsn.go --match normalize --view expanded
rg -n -C 5 'case "skip-verify"|case "preferred"|InsecureSkipVerify|VerifyConnection|VerifyPeerCertificate' dsn.go

Repository: go-sql-driver/mysql

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#!/bin/bash
printf '%s\n' '--- changed auth.go hunk ---'
git diff --unified=8 789a82a35d04f8ab5a7b28707615ef8bf9d4f09b 7c042b32f298b46c1d38189195bbbe5d4f8cb1a3 -- auth.go
printf '%s\n' '--- auth.go relevant source ---'
sed -n '330,405p' auth.go
printf '%s\n' '--- dsn.go TLS normalization and registration ---'
sed -n '190,275p' dsn.go
rg -n -C 3 'OpenID|openID|openId|TLSConfig|RegisterTLSConfig|AllowCleartextPasswords|VerifyConnection|VerifyPeerCertificate' --glob '*.go' .

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Sensitive Data Exposure

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

Require peer verification before sending the OpenID token. tls=skip-verify and tls=preferred set InsecureSkipVerify without a verifier, but this guard treats any non-nil TLS config as secure. An on-path attacker can terminate TLS and read the bearer token. Reject these modes unless allowCleartextPasswords is explicitly set, while retaining custom TLS configs whose verification callback authenticates the server.

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Review comment at @auth.go at line 367:
Update the TLS security check around mc.cfg.TLS so a non-nil config is not
treated as verified when InsecureSkipVerify is enabled without a
server-authenticating verification callback. Reject tls=skip-verify and
tls=preferred unless AllowCleartextPasswords is enabled, while continuing to
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coverage: 84.861% (+0.2%) from 84.686% — tokoko:openid-connect-auth into go-sql-driver:master

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I didn't like this PR.

  • Only OIDC requires DefaultAuthPlugin. Other authentication plugins cannot authenticate using a plugin different from the one sent by the server.
  • I don’t want to read the token from a file.

See #1820

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tokoko commented Oct 6, 2026

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@methane I guess that's fair. PR is mostly mimicking mysql client / odbc / jdbc approach and how they handle it. I can close this one and let's continue on #1820. thanks.

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