Probing the handed-over Service DNS name from the workstation found that
every *.svc.cluster.local name resolves here to one unrelated public
address via the ad.binect.de search suffix -- including names of services
that do not exist, which proves it is suffix expansion and not a record.
Pointing SECRETS_ENGINE_PDP_URL at the Service name would send the
CheckRequest body (subject, tenant, lane ids, stage, field names, purpose)
and the static Bearer token to that host. Decision envelopes are
structurally validated but not signed, so a responder knowing the package
and version can return a well-formed allow; the fail-closed posture
assumes the PDP is the PDP.
Not mitigated here: choosing the transport control is the owners' call,
not this consumer's. Recommended to FLEX-WP-0021-T05 that the handover be
a trailing-dot FQDN or explicit address, with the response channel's
authentication stated. Our pin stays unset, so the hazard is theoretical.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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