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Posted to oak-issues@jackrabbit.apache.org by "angela (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2016/05/24 09:58:12 UTC
[jira] [Updated] (OAK-4301) Missing protection for
system-maintained rep:externalId
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-4301?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
angela updated OAK-4301:
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Component/s: (was: security)
> Missing protection for system-maintained rep:externalId
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: OAK-4301
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-4301
> Project: Jackrabbit Oak
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: auth-external
> Reporter: angela
> Assignee: angela
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: security
>
> while working on OAK-4101 i noticed that the current implementation doesn't provide any protection for the system maintained property {{rep:externalId}}, which is intended to be an identifier for a given synchronized user/group within an external IDP.
> in other words:
> - the system doesn't assert the uniqueness of a given external-id
> - the external-id properties can be changed using regular JCR API
> up to now i didn't manage to exploit the missing protection with the current default implementation but i found that minor (legitimate) changes have the potential to turn this into a critical vulnerability.
> therefore I would strongly recommend to change the default implementation such that the rep:externalId really becomes system-maintained and prevent any unintentional or malicious modification outside of the scope of the sync-operations. furthermore uniqueness of this property should be asserted.
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