There's no need to perform an authentication check in the socket.io
middleware because `PadMessageHandler.handleMessage` calls
`SecurityMananger.checkAccess` and that now performs authentication
and authorization checks.
This change also improves the user experience: Before, access denials
caused socket.io error events in the client, which `pad.js` mostly
ignores (the user doesn't see anything). Now a deny message is sent
back to the client, which causes `pad.js` to display an obvious
permission denied message.
This also fixes a minor bug: `settings.loadTest` is supposed to bypass
authentication and authorization checks, but they weren't bypassed
because `SecurityManager.checkAccess` did not check
`settings.loadTest`.
The export request hook wasn't testing if the pad's id was from a read-only
pad before validating with the pad manager.
This includes an extra step that makes the read-only id verification and also
avoids setting the original pad's id as the file's name.
Where feasible I put the await at the end of the function to
minimize the impact on latency.
My motivation for this change: Eliminate a race condition in tests I
am writing.
* `src/node/server.js` can now be run as a script (for normal
operation) or imported as a module (for tests).
* Move shutdown actions to `src/node/server.js` to be close to the
startup actions.
* Put startup and shutdown in functions so that tests can call them.
* Use `await` instead of callbacks.
* Block until the HTTP server is listening to avoid races during
test startup.
* Add a new `shutdown` hook.
* Use the `shutdown` hook to:
* close the HTTP server
* call `end()` on the stats collection to cancel its timers
* call `terminate()` on the Threads.Pool to stop the workers
* Exit with exit code 0 (instead of 1) on SIGTERM.
* Export the HTTP server so that tests can get the HTTP server's
port via `server.address().port` when `settings.port` is 0.
Avoid dereferencing `DB.db` until it is used so that it is possible to
`require('SessionStore')` before calling `DB.init()`. (This is useful
when writing tests.)
New feature to copy a pad without copying entire history. This is useful to perform a low CPU intensive operation while still copying current pad state.
Before, a malicious user could bypass authorization restrictions
imposed by the authorize hook:
* Step 1: Fetch any resource that the malicious user is authorized to
access (e.g., static content).
* Step 2: Use the signed express_sid cookie generated in step 1 to
create a socket.io connection.
* Step 3: Perform the CLIENT_READY handshake for the desired pad.
* Step 4: Profit!
Now the authorization decision made by the authorize hook is
propagated to SecurityManager so that it can approve or reject
socket.io messages as appropriate.
This also sets up future support for per-user read-only and
modify-only (no create) authorization levels.
* Move session validity check and session author ID fetch to a
separate function. This separate function can be used by hooks,
making it easier for them to properly determine the author ID.
* Rewrite the remainder of checkAccess. Benefits:
- The function is more readable and maintainable now.
- Vulnerability fix: Before, the session IDs in sessionCookie
were not validated when checking settings.requireSession. Now,
sessionCookie must identify a valid session for the
settings.requireSession test to pass.
- Bug fix: Before, checkAccess would sometimes use the author ID
associated with the token even if sessionCookie identified a
valid session. Now it always uses the author ID associated
with the session if available.
There are two different ways an author ID becomes associated with a
user: either bound to a token or bound to a session ID. (The token and
session ID come from the `token` and `sessionID` cookies, or, in the
case of socket.io messages, from the `token` and `sessionID` message
properties.) When `settings.requireSession` is true or the user is
accessing a group pad, the session ID should be used. Otherwise the
token should be used.
Before this change, the `/p/:pad/import` handler was always using the
token, even when `settings.requireSession` was true. This caused the
following error because a different author ID was bound to the token
versus the session ID:
> Unable to import file into ${pad}. Author ${authorID} exists but he
> never contributed to this pad
This bug was reported in issue #4006. PR #4012 worked around the
problem by binding the same author ID to the token as well as the
session ID.
This change does the following:
* Modifies the import handler to use the session ID to obtain the
author ID (when appropriate).
* Expands the documentation for the SecurityManager checkAccess
function.
* Removes the workaround from PR #4012.
* Cleans up the `bin/createUserSession.js` test script.
"token" is a random token representing the author, of the form
t.randomstring_of_lenght_20. The random string is generated by the client. The
cookie is used for every pad in the web UI, and is not used for HTTP API.
This comes from the discussion at https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/issues/3563
Sometimes, RFC 6265-compliant [0] web servers may send back a cookie whose value
is enclosed in double quotes, such as:
Set-Cookie: sessionCookie="s.37cf5299fbf981e14121fba3a588c02b,s.2b21517bf50729d8130ab85736a11346"; Version=1; Path=/; Domain=localhost; Discard
Where the double quotes at the start and the end of the header value are just
delimiters. This is perfectly legal: Etherpad parsing logic should cope with
that, and remove the quotes early in the request phase.
Somehow, this does not happen, and in such cases the actual value that
sessionCookie ends up having is:
sessionCookie = '"s.37cf5299fbf981e14121fba3a588c02b,s.2b21517bf50729d8130ab85736a11346"'
As quick measure, let's strip the double quotes (when present).
Note that here we are being minimal, limiting ourselves to just removing quotes
at the start and the end of the string.
Fixes#3819.
Also, see #3820.
[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265
Steps to reproduce (via HTTP API):
1. create a group via createGroup()
2. create a group pad inside that group via createGroupPad()
3. make that pad public calling setPublicStatus(true)
4. access the pad via a clean web browser (with no sessions)
5. UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: apierror: sessionID does not exist
This was due to an overlook in 769933786c: "apierror: sessionID does not
exist" may be a legal condition if we are also visiting a public pad. The
function that could throw that error was sessionManager.getSessionInfo(), and
thus it needed to be inside the try...catch block.
Please note that calling getText() on the pad always return the pad contents,
*even for non-public pads*, because the API bypasses the security checks and
directly talks to the DB layer.
Fixes#3600.
Do not touch vendorized files (e.g. libraries that were imported from external
projects).
No functional changes.
Command:
find . -name '*.<EXTENSION>' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/[[:space:]]*$//'
ueberDB2 can return either undefined or null for a missing key, depending on
which DB driver is used. This patch changes the promise version of the API so
that it will always return null.
some code chunks previously used `async.parallel` but if you
use `await` that forces them to be run serially. Instead,
you can initiate the operation (getting a Promise) and then
_later_ `await` the result of that Promise.
If you use `await` inside a loop it makes the loop inherently serial.
If you omit the `await` however, the tasks will all start but the loop
will finish while the tasks are still being scheduled.
So, to make a set of tasks run in parallel but then have the
code block after the loop once all the tasks have been completed
you have to get an array of Promises (one for each iteration) and
then use `Promise.all()` to wait for those promises to be resolved.
Using `Array#map` is a convenient way to go from an array of inputs
to the require array of Promises.
