16683: Permit granting permissions to remote users

Arvados-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Peter Amstutz <peter.amstutz@curii.com>

diff --git a/services/api/app/models/arvados_model.rb b/services/api/app/models/arvados_model.rb
index 01a31adb91967c0cb3648e364b3af7c891fd28f0..eb2ea173170aa7be4dc188c9415da1910e1faeab 100644 (file)
--- a/services/api/app/models/arvados_model.rb
+++ b/services/api/app/models/arvados_model.rb
@@ -749,6 +749,20 @@ class ArvadosModel < ApplicationRecord
     %r/[a-z0-9]{5}-#{uuid_prefix}-[a-z0-9]{15}/
   end
 
+  def check_readable_uuid attr, attr_value
+    return if attr_value.nil?
+    if (r = ArvadosModel::resource_class_for_uuid attr_value)
+      unless skip_uuid_read_permission_check.include? attr
+        r = r.readable_by(current_user)
+      end
+      if r.where(uuid: attr_value).count == 0
+        errors.add(attr, "'#{attr_value}' not found")
+      end
+    else
+      errors.add(attr, "'#{attr_value}' invalid uuid")
+    end
+  end
+
   def ensure_valid_uuids
     specials = [system_user_uuid]
 
@@ -757,16 +771,7 @@ class ArvadosModel < ApplicationRecord
         next if skip_uuid_existence_check.include? attr
         attr_value = send attr
         next if specials.include? attr_value
-        if attr_value
-          if (r = ArvadosModel::resource_class_for_uuid attr_value)
-            unless skip_uuid_read_permission_check.include? attr
-              r = r.readable_by(current_user)
-            end
-            if r.where(uuid: attr_value).count == 0
-              errors.add(attr, "'#{attr_value}' not found")
-            end
-          end
-        end
+        check_readable_uuid attr, attr_value
       end
     end
   end

diff --git a/services/api/app/models/link.rb b/services/api/app/models/link.rb
index e4ba7f3de1ef8f20833355efb0dae1a153b05113..7f4433dd703861bf7f6e5a231d6021b95cd3f883 100644 (file)
--- a/services/api/app/models/link.rb
+++ b/services/api/app/models/link.rb
@@ -43,6 +43,27 @@ class Link < ArvadosModel
 
   protected
 
+  def check_readable_uuid attr, attr_value
+    if attr == 'tail_uuid' &&
+       !attr_value.nil? &&
+       self.link_class == 'permission' &&
+       attr_value[0..4] != Rails.configuration.ClusterID &&
+       ArvadosModel::resource_class_for_uuid(attr_value) == User
+      # Permission link tail is a remote user (the user permissions
+      # are being granted to), so bypass the standard check that a
+      # referenced object uuid is readable by current user.
+      #
+      # We could do a call to the remote cluster to check if the user
+      # in tail_uuid exists.  This would detect copy-and-paste errors,
+      # but add another way for the request to fail, and I don't think
+      # it would improve security.  It doesn't seem to be worth the
+      # complexity tradeoff.
+      true
+    else
+      super
+    end
+  end
+
   def permission_to_attach_to_objects
     # Anonymous users cannot write links
     return false if !current_user
@@ -76,6 +97,11 @@ class Link < ArvadosModel
 
     head_obj = ArvadosModel.find_by_uuid(head_uuid)
 
+    if head_obj.nil?
+      errors.add(:head_uuid, "does not exist")
+      return false
+    end
+
     # No permission links can be pointed to past collection versions
     if head_obj.is_a?(Collection) && head_obj.current_version_uuid != head_uuid
       errors.add(:head_uuid, "cannot point to a past version of a collection")