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Closes the anchor-refresh half of #295. Stacked on #316; retarget as that merges.

just check is green (1135/1135).

The gap

The trust anchor is pinned from an Official Journal notice rather than chained to a certificate authority, because the LOTL's signing certificates chain to no commercial root — there is nothing to walk up to. The Commission republishes that notice.

So a pin nobody refreshes eventually meets a LOTL signed by a certificate it does not name, and fails closed as NotAnchored — on a date nobody has in a calendar, looking like an outage rather than a lapsed pin.

LotlAnchor::notice_uri already carried a doc comment saying to compare it against the LOTL's first SchemeInformationURI entry. Nothing did. The affordance existed; the check did not.

What it adds

AnchorFreshness on VerifiedLotlCurrent, Superseded { lotl_names }, or Unknown — reported and logged.

A signal, never a verdict. A superseded pin keeps verifying until the certificates actually rotate, and that window is the only chance to refresh without an outage. Folding this into LotlRejected would refuse documents that verify perfectly and turn the early warning into the thing it exists to prevent. a_superseded_pin_does_not_refuse_a_document_that_verifies pins exactly that.

Unknown is not Current. A document naming no notice cannot be checked, and reporting it as up to date is how a staleness signal goes quiet at the moment it matters — the same fail-closed direction the capacity and placing-date questions take elsewhere in this workspace.

Logged as well as returned, because the caller that most needs to act on it is an operator reading logs, not the code holding the VerifiedLotl.

The assumption, asserted rather than trusted

The check reads the first SchemeInformationURI entry. That is load-bearing, so it is pinned against the real document: the LOTL lists 31 entries, and the notice is first, ahead of five pivots, the 2019 notice, the pivot explanation, and twenty-three per-language legal notices.

If that ordering ever changed, the check would compare against a pivot URL and report Superseded forever — noisy rather than silent, which is the right way round, but still wrong. the_notice_is_the_first_entry_the_document_lists fails instead.

Confirmed to bite

With the comparison neutered to always return Current, three of the five tests fail — the three asserting non-Current outcomes. The two positive controls correctly still pass, which is what a positive control is for.

Also from #295, and not here

SealChecks::QualifiedValidation remains unreachable, deliberately. A verified list says who is qualified; it does not say a particular seal validates. That is separate work and this does not pretend to close it.

What this does not solve

The refresh itself is still manual. This says the pin is stale; it does not fetch the new notice, re-read six digests out of it, or update the constant — all of which involve reading an Official Journal page, which is a human step by design. What changes is that the warning arrives while there is still time, instead of as a failed verification on an unscheduled day.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for retrieving, parsing, and cryptographically verifying EU and national Trusted Lists.
    • Added clear verification outcomes for valid, unsigned, malformed, unauthorized, or tampered lists.
    • Added reporting for whether the EU trust anchor is current, superseded, or unknown.
    • Added access to listed providers and services by territory and service type.
  • Security

    • Added safeguards for secure downloads, redirects, oversized responses, certificate authorization, and signature validation.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified conformance-level validation and Trusted List verification behavior.

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CI was red on a flake, not on this change

Integration tests (testcontainers) failed with 380 passed, 1 timed out:

SLOW [>110.000s] dpp-vault::publish_serve_cycle
                 published_passport_is_served_as_the_payload_its_proof_signed
     (test timed out)

A hang past the 120 s cap, not an assertion. That test lives in dpp-vault and exercises publish → serve; this branch touches dpp-seal's trusted-list reader and nothing else, so there is no path from the change to the failure.

It is also the same shape as a hang already seen here once — a testcontainers test sitting at ~120 s and then timing out, which passed in 0.5 s on the next run.

Re-ran the failed job on the same commit: green. Nothing in the branch changed, so the difference is the run, not the code.

Worth not filing, and worth saying

I have not opened an issue for the flake, because one timeout with no reproduction is not enough to describe a defect usefully — it would be a ticket saying "this sometimes hangs". If it recurs, the thing to capture is which await is parked: a testcontainers hang at exactly the cap is usually a container that never became ready, or a connection pool waiting on one that will not be returned, and those look different in a stack dump.

Worth watching rather than worth guessing at.

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The change adds EU LOTL and national Trusted List parsing, guarded retrieval, compiled certificate anchoring, XML signature verification, typed rejection results, anchor freshness reporting, and end-to-end tests.

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Trusted List verification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Guarded outbound foundation
Cargo.toml, crates/dpp-common/src/outbound.rs, crates/dpp-seal/Cargo.toml, deny.toml
Shared HTTP helpers now enforce target pinning, redirect prevention, response limits, and UTF-8 decoding. The pinned xml-sec fork raises the XML node-set limit.
Trusted List models and parsing
crates/dpp-seal/src/lib.rs, crates/dpp-seal/src/trustlist/{mod,model,parse,tests}.rs
The public trustlist module adds parsed models, LOTL pointer parsing, national-list parsing, service histories, certificate normalization, and pointer filtering.
LOTL anchoring and signature verification
crates/dpp-seal/src/trustlist/{anchor,verify}*.rs, crates/dpp-seal/src/{eideasy/client.rs,local/sealer.rs}, CHANGELOG.md
A compiled six-certificate LOTL anchor supports certificate authorization. LOTL and national-list verification expose typed rejection results, verified wrappers, signer digests, and Current, Superseded, or Unknown anchor freshness.
Retrieval and trust-chain validation
crates/dpp-seal/src/trustlist/{fetch,chain_tests}.rs
Bounded fetch functions retrieve the EU LOTL and national XML lists. Tests validate pointer selection, certificate requirements, signature tampering, unauthorized signers, and Finnish-list verification.

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

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant fetch_lotl_pointers
  participant parse_lotl
  participant verify_lotl
  participant EU_LOTL_ANCHOR
  Client->>fetch_lotl_pointers: Fetch EU LOTL
  fetch_lotl_pointers->>parse_lotl: Parse LOTL pointers
  Client->>verify_lotl: Verify LOTL XML
  verify_lotl->>EU_LOTL_ANCHOR: Check certificate digest
  EU_LOTL_ANCHOR-->>verify_lotl: Return authorization result
  verify_lotl-->>Client: Return VerifiedLotl or LotlRejected
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Attacker-controlled trusted lists may be returned as verified, so the certificate-binding and verified-provenance boundaries must be fixed before merge.

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New Dependency Is Justified ⚠️ Warning The diff adds three new direct dependencies to crates/dpp-seal/Cargo.toml: dpp-common, roxmltree, and xml-sec. The new code uses dpp-common to fetch external trusted-list URLs and uses `roxm… Update the PR description to document each new direct dependency. State its specific purpose, supported compilation targets, maintenance status, and data-flow classification. Explicitly state that dpp-common is used on the guarded network…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: warning when the pinned trust anchor has been superseded.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the motivation, scope, behavior, tests, related issue, and explicit non-goals. It does not use the template headings or provide an item-by-item checklist confirmation, but the…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 89.53% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 86 functions across 14 files. (4 skipped: 4…
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Publication Boundary ✅ Passed The reviewed diff and pull-request description introduce no ADR reference, commercial terms, pricing data, or private arrangement. The only repository references are public GitHub repositories (`odal-…
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The diff adds three new direct dependencies to crates/dpp-seal/Cargo.toml: dpp-common, roxmltree, and xml-sec. The new code uses dpp-common to fetch external trusted-list URLs and uses roxmltree and xml-sec to parse and verify the fetched XML. The PR description discusses anchor freshness, but it does not state the dependencies' purposes, target compilation, maintenance status, or that this code touches network responses and unverified XML. Therefore, it does not address the required untrusted-input question.

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In `@Cargo.toml`:
- Around line 203-204: Add a risk-acceptance note beside the pinned xml-sec
patch declaration, documenting its pre-release status and incomplete coverage
for trusted-list XMLDSig verification, along with the condition for removing the
pin. State that CI must build and test dpp-seal whenever the pinned revision
changes to catch breaking API changes.

In `@crates/dpp-seal/Cargo.toml`:
- Line 19: Update the PR description to document the dependency review for
dpp-common, roxmltree, and xml-sec: state each dependency’s need, supported
build targets, maintenance status, whether it processes untrusted Trusted List
XML, and that dpp-common reaches the network.

In `@crates/dpp-seal/src/trustlist/model.rs`:
- Line 118: Bind national-list verification to an authenticated VerifiedLotl
rather than accepting arbitrary TrustedListPointer values: update
verify_trusted_list or make it a VerifiedLotl method so authorization can only
use trust data produced by successful LOTL verification. Prevent callers from
manually constructing authorization state through public fields or an opaque
token minted only by VerifiedLotl, while preserving valid parsed-LOTL
verification. Add regression coverage for both parsed and manually constructed
pointers, confirming attacker-controlled certificates cannot authorize a trusted
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In `@crates/dpp-seal/src/trustlist/verify.rs`:
- Around line 434-436: Update the certificate decoding in the offered path to
propagate a base64 decode failure as the same Malformed result used by
verify_lotl_with, instead of defaulting to empty bytes and hashing them; decode
the certificate once and reuse the resulting der value at the existing later
use.
- Around line 257-261: Bind XMLDSig key resolution to the certificate authorized
by signing_certificate in both verify_lotl_with and verify_trusted_list,
ensuring the certificate used for signature verification is the same one
validated against the anchor or LOTL pointer; alternatively reject KeyInfo
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xml-sec = { git = "https://github.com/odal-node/xml-sec.git", rev = "7daf6028e08bc17f60ac36833d90c9307ca25449" }

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# rather than its own client: the list of lists names 43 URLs, we do not verify
# its signature, so those URLs are attacker-influenceable in principle. That is
# precisely what the resolving SSRF guard is for.
dpp-common = { path = "../dpp-common" }

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Document the dependency review in the PR description.

The supplied PR summary does not state the supported build targets or maintenance status for dpp-common, roxmltree, and xml-sec. It also does not explicitly state that dpp-common reaches the network and that roxmltree and xml-sec process untrusted Trusted List XML.

Update the PR description with these facts before merge.

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In `@crates/dpp-seal/Cargo.toml` at line 19, Update the PR description to document
the dependency review for dpp-common, roxmltree, and xml-sec: state each
dependency’s need, supported build targets, maintenance status, whether it
processes untrusted Trusted List XML, and that dpp-common reaches the network.

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Source: Coding guidelines


/// A pointer from the list of trusted lists to one national list.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct TrustedListPointer {

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Authorization Bypass

CWE: CWE-345

Bind national-list verification to a VerifiedLotl.

TrustedListPointer has public fields, parse_lotl returns pointers from arbitrary XML, and verify_trusted_list accepts any pointer. Its authorization check only compares the list signer with pointer.certificates; it does not prove that the pointer came from a VerifiedLotl. A caller can therefore authorize an attacker-signed list by supplying the attacker's certificate. Make national-list verification a VerifiedLotl method, or use an opaque authorization token that only VerifiedLotl can mint. Add a regression test for parsed and manually constructed pointers.

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In `@crates/dpp-seal/src/trustlist/model.rs` at line 118, Bind national-list
verification to an authenticated VerifiedLotl rather than accepting arbitrary
TrustedListPointer values: update verify_trusted_list or make it a VerifiedLotl
method so authorization can only use trust data produced by successful LOTL
verification. Prevent callers from manually constructing authorization state
through public fields or an opaque token minted only by VerifiedLotl, while
preserving valid parsed-LOTL verification. Add regression coverage for both
parsed and manually constructed pointers, confirming attacker-controlled
certificates cannot authorize a trusted list.

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Source: Path instructions

Comment on lines +257 to +261
let resolver = DefaultKeyResolver::default();
let outcome = VerifyContext::new()
.key_resolver(&resolver)
.verify(xml)
.map_err(|e| LotlRejected::SignatureInvalid(e.to_string()))?;

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Authorization Bypass

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-345

Bind XMLDSig verification to the authorized certificate. signing_certificate authorizes the first X509Certificate, but DefaultKeyResolver selects the verification key independently. With multiple certificates in KeyInfo, these selections can diverge and allow verification with a certificate that was not checked against the anchor or LOTL pointer. Apply one shared certificate-binding correction to both verify_lotl_with and verify_trusted_list, or reject KeyInfo containing more than one certificate.

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In `@crates/dpp-seal/src/trustlist/verify.rs` around lines 257 - 261, Bind XMLDSig
key resolution to the certificate authorized by signing_certificate in both
verify_lotl_with and verify_trusted_list, ensuring the certificate used for
signature verification is the same one validated against the anchor or LOTL
pointer; alternatively reject KeyInfo containing multiple X509Certificate
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Comment on lines +434 to +436
let der = base64::engine::general_purpose::STANDARD
.decode(&certificate)
.unwrap_or_default();

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Report a decode failure instead of the digest of empty input.

If certificate is not valid base64, unwrap_or_default() returns an empty vector. offered then reports the SHA-256 of empty input, which names a certificate that was never offered. verify_lotl_with maps the same failure to Malformed, so the two paths disagree.

🐛 Proposed fix
-    if !pointer.certificates.iter().any(|c| c == &certificate) {
-        let der = base64::engine::general_purpose::STANDARD
-            .decode(&certificate)
-            .unwrap_or_default();
-        return Err(TrustedListRejected::NotNamedByLotl {
+    let der = base64::engine::general_purpose::STANDARD
+        .decode(&certificate)
+        .map_err(|e| {
+            TrustedListRejected::Malformed(format!("certificate is not base64: {e}"))
+        })?;
+
+    if !pointer.certificates.iter().any(|c| c == &certificate) {
+        return Err(TrustedListRejected::NotNamedByLotl {

Reuse the decoded der at lines 460-462 so the certificate is decoded once.

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certificate decoding in the offered path to propagate a base64 decode failure as
the same Malformed result used by verify_lotl_with, instead of defaulting to
empty bytes and hashing them; decode the certificate once and reuse the
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Both findings looked at; one fixed, one declined with a reason

Fixed — the xml-sec risk acceptance (e5977bc, on #316)

The point is sound and the note was thinner than it should have been: it explained why the fork exists and the exit condition, and said nothing about the dependency's maturity. That matters here more than it usually would — this crate is what decides whether a Member State's trusted list signature is valid.

The manifest now records upstream's own characterisation (early-stage pre-release, unstable API, incomplete coverage, not for production), why it is accepted anyway — the alternative is a C library and its native build, packaging and CVE surface against a single-static-binary deployment, and the failure direction is closed, so a list that cannot be verified is not trusted rather than trusted wrongly — and the two consequences: bumping rev means building and testing dpp-seal, because the API is unstable by its author's account, and the acceptance is to be re-argued if this is still pinned when a trusted-list verdict starts carrying legal weight.

Committed on #316, not here. The stanza came in with f46b2fd, which is #316's; all four stacked branches inherit it, so fixing it at the source lands it once rather than four times.

Also found while checking — the comment was factually stale

Not flagged, and worth more than what was: it read "the Italian and French trusted lists carry 65540 and 65541". Re-measured across every list the LOTL points at, four exceed the ceiling — FR 65541, CZ 65543, IT 65540, ES 65543 — and the count grows, so it is now written as a dated measurement rather than a rule.

It also now says what the exit condition does not buy: Germany fails a different ceiling the fork never touched, so upstream #158 shipping would leave DE exactly as broken.

Declined — documenting these dependencies in this PR's description

dpp-common, roxmltree and xml-sec are not this branch's dependencies. They arrive in #316 and appear in this diff only because the stacked children were retargeted to main ahead of the base merging, which inflates every child's diff with the base's commits until #316 lands.

Describing them here would put a dependency review on the wrong pull request — and, worse, imply this branch introduced them. The right home is #316's description, and that is where the reviewer looking for it would go.

For the record, since the question is a fair one: dpp-common reaches the network through the guarded outbound path, and roxmltree and xml-sec both parse untrusted trusted-list XML fetched over that path. That is the reason the fetch is size-capped and the reason the verifier fails closed.

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