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An identity provider told us who you were, and we believed it
Single sign-on has a quiet premise: when a user arrives from an identity provider, that provider has already vouched for them, so you can skip the password and just let them in. The whole point is to trust the IdP. The bug we're about to describe lived in the gap between "trust the IdP to authenticate its own users" and "trust whatever the IdP tells you about who its users are." Those are not the same sentence, and the difference was an account takeover.
Here's the setup. A tenant on our plat...
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