[jira] [Commented] (ZOOKEEPER-2590) setACL doesn't affect exists() operation

["maoling (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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maoling commented on ZOOKEEPER-2590:
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[~eribeiro]

Up to now,Any client that is connecting to a ZooKeeper service has the permission to check
the existence of a znode. This exist operation is permission-free, which allows
to retrieve the stat structure of a znode.
This may be a design flaws.

> setACL doesn't affect exists() operation
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-2590
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2590
>             Project: ZooKeeper
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Edward Ribeiro
>            Assignee: Edward Ribeiro
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: acl, security
>
> As hinted  [here|https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/blob/master/src/java/main/org/apache/zookeeper/server/FinalRequestProcessor.java#L298], even if a parent znode path has restricted READ access it's possible to issue an exists() operation on any child znode of that given path.
>  For example, the snippet below doesn't throw {{NoAuthExceptio}}, even tough it removes ACL rights to "/":
> {code}
>         zk.create("/a", null, Ids.OPEN_ACL_UNSAFE, CreateMode.PERSISTENT);
>         ArrayList<ACL> acls = new ArrayList<>();
>         acls.add(new ACL(0, Ids.ANYONE_ID_UNSAFE));
>         zk.setACL("/", acls, -1);
>         Stat r = zk.exists("/a", false);
> {code}
> Also, in the above example, what if the removed READ access for "/a"? Should we allow a call to exists("/a") to succeed even if it returns the znode metadata info?



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