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Closes CodeQL alert #23 (go/request-forgery, Critical) at the structural level — by telling CodeQL what the runtime code already does — rather than via per-line `// codeql[...]` suppressions. Background. internal/service/scep_probe.go:232 calls client.Do(req) where the request URL is built from operator-supplied input. The runtime defense is two-layer: 1. validation.ValidateSafeURL(rawURL) at scep_probe.go:86 rejects non-http(s) schemes, empty hosts, literal-IP hosts in reserved ranges (loopback, link-local incl. cloud metadata 169.254.169.254, multicast, broadcast, unspecified, IPv6 link-local), and DNS names whose A/AAAA resolution returns any reserved IP. RFC 1918 is intentionally NOT blocked — see internal/validation/ssrf.go:17-21 for the design rationale. 2. validation.SafeHTTPDialContext on the http.Transport (line 254) re-resolves at dial time, applies the same reserved-IP set, and pins the dial to a literal non-reserved IP — defeating DNS rebinding between validate and dial. CodeQL's go/request-forgery query is a syntactic taint-tracking rule with no built-in knowledge of either validator, so it reports the finding even though the runtime is correctly defended. The fix. Add a Models-as-Data (MaD) extension at .github/codeql/ declaring ValidateSafeURL as a request-forgery barrier. The barrier applies to Argument[0] (the URL parameter), which means the analyzer treats every URL flowing through ValidateSafeURL as sanitized for the request-forgery taint set. After this lands: - Alert #23 dismisses at scep_probe.go:232. - The same model applies to the second site of this exact shape — webhook notifier's outbound client.Do (internal/connector/ notifier/webhook/webhook.go) — without per-line annotations. - Future code that flows operator URLs through ValidateSafeURL inherits the barrier automatically. This is the structural fix, not a band-aid: - Band-aid (rejected): `// codeql[go/request-forgery]` suppression on line 232. Suppresses one alert; doesn't teach the analyzer. Webhook notifier would need the same comment when its sibling rule landing fires. - Structural (this change): teach CodeQL via models-as-data, in config checked into the repo, that lives next to the workflow that uses it. The validators ARE sanitizers in the runtime — this PR makes the analyzer's model match reality. Files: - .github/codeql/qlpack.yml — local model pack manifest, declares extensionTargets: codeql/go-all: '*' - .github/codeql/models/request-forgery-sanitizers.model.yml — barrierModel row for validation.ValidateSafeURL Argument[0] / request-forgery taint kind / manual provenance - .github/codeql/codeql-config.yml — references the local pack + keeps security-and-quality query suite scope - .github/workflows/codeql.yml — Initialize CodeQL step picks up config-file: ./.github/codeql/codeql-config.yml. The existing `queries: security-and-quality` line stays so even if the config file fails to load, the suite scope is preserved. - docs/architecture.md::Input Validation and SSRF Protection — extended to name the egress validators (ValidateSafeURL + SafeHTTPDialContext) and the call sites (SCEP probe + webhook notifier). Closes the docs gap surfaced during the audit; the egress threat-model previously lived only in source comments. Requires CodeQL CLI ≥ 2.25.2 for the barrierModel extensible predicate (Go MaD support added 2026-04-21). github/codeql-action@v3 ships a recent enough CLI by default; if a future analysis fails with "unknown extensible predicate barrierModel", the action's CLI has regressed below 2.25.2 — pin a newer action version rather than reverting this pack. Documented inline in qlpack.yml. References: - https://codeql.github.com/docs/codeql-language-guides/customizing-library-models-for-go/ - https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-21-codeql-now-supports-sanitizers-and-validators-in-models-as-data/