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Bug: pre-auth bootstrap-token verify allows mutex-stall DoS without rate limit #77978

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The gateway's pre-auth bootstrap-token verify path takes a process-wide mutex and runs verification work without a rate limit or lockout. An unauthenticated attacker can flood the bootstrap-token endpoint with bogus tokens to stall the mutex and starve legitimate auth traffic.

Documented as part of the bootstrap DoS audit in #76322.

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Fix in #77527.

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