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sso_proxy: fix session revalidation/refresh when group validation isn't being used #286
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Looking back through this, I have some new thoughts: Allowing the only defined validator to be used with a wildcard isn't new to SSO, and also actually remains possible using the other email domain/address validators. Historically, this has probably been classed as less of a 'loophole' and more of a 'workaround'. It probably makes sense to offer the functionality to say "as long as the request comes from a valid user in my {insert provider} domain, then allow them". But seeing as this does reduce the security footprint somewhat, we should offer this as an explicit configuration option that can be set, rather than allowing a workaround by defining a validator with a wildcard. My proposal then becomes:
Maybe we can combine the first and last point together. |
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Problem
When certain TTL's expire we revalidate or refresh the session (e.g. https://github.com/buzzfeed/sso/blob/master/internal/proxy/oauthproxy.go#L759-L764), which then ends up directly calling the
ValidateGroup
provider method (https://github.com/buzzfeed/sso/blob/master/internal/proxy/providers/sso.go#L381).Because here we're not using the validator abstractions, if group validation isn't being utilised, then this causes a
403
withuser is no longer in valid groups
to be returned, requiring the user to refresh the page to progress further.Solution
The logic within
ValidateGroup
to return a success when an empty slice of groups is passed in was removed during some refactoring as, when using 'validator' abstractions this was deemed bad behaviour**, but until we stop callingValidateGroup
directly and use those abstractions everywhere we need to maintain this behaviour.#275 fixes this in a more permanent, stable fashion by replacing any remaining direct calls to
ValidateGroup
with calls to the validator abstractions, however until that is merged this is one possible temporary fix.Notes
**This was deemed bad behaviour because if the group validator is the only validator in use (and not email domains or addresses), then allowing
ValidateGroup
to return successful if an empty list of groups is passed becomes a loophole to allow the defining of no validators, something which we explicitly prevent (https://github.com/buzzfeed/sso/blob/master/internal/proxy/options.go#L205-L213)