Rework capabilities to avoid assumptions about missing tokens

The logic about missing tokens implying logged in users (and that
all logged in users have access to any method protected by a token
capability) is correct. However, I believe it is both confusing and
brittle, and leaves a security-related door ajar for future foot-gun
incidents.

Instead, apply Abilities as normal, and keep the Capabilities
involvement only for situations where a token is provided. This
reduces the cognitive burden when considering Abilities in isolation.
This commit is contained in:
Andy Allan 2018-10-24 12:07:00 +02:00
parent a50ad1c895
commit 71b21ec473
4 changed files with 3 additions and 13 deletions

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@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ class Ability
can :welcome, :site can :welcome, :site
can [:create, :edit, :comment, :subscribe, :unsubscribe], DiaryEntry can [:create, :edit, :comment, :subscribe, :unsubscribe], DiaryEntry
can [:new, :create], Report can [:new, :create], Report
can [:read, :read_one, :update, :update_one, :delete_one], UserPreference
if user.moderator? if user.moderator?
can [:index, :show, :resolve, :ignore, :reopen], Issue can [:index, :show, :resolve, :ignore, :reopen], Issue

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@ -7,15 +7,12 @@ class Capability
if user if user
can [:read, :read_one], UserPreference if capability?(token, :allow_read_prefs) can [:read, :read_one], UserPreference if capability?(token, :allow_read_prefs)
can [:update, :update_one, :delete_one], UserPreference if capability?(token, :allow_write_prefs) can [:update, :update_one, :delete_one], UserPreference if capability?(token, :allow_write_prefs)
end end
end end
private private
# If a user provides no tokens, they've authenticated via a non-oauth method
# and permission to access to all capabilities is assumed.
def capability?(token, cap) def capability?(token, cap)
token.nil? || token.read_attribute(cap) token&.read_attribute(cap)
end end
end end

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@ -54,12 +54,4 @@ class AdministratorAbilityTest < AbilityTest
assert ability.can?(action, DiaryComment), "should be able to #{action} DiaryComment" assert ability.can?(action, DiaryComment), "should be able to #{action} DiaryComment"
end end
end end
test "administrator does not auto-grant user preferences" do
ability = Ability.new create(:administrator_user)
[:read, :read_one, :update, :update_one, :delete_one].each do |act|
assert ability.cannot? act, UserPreference
end
end
end end

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@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class UserCapabilityTest < CapabilityTest
# a user with no tokens # a user with no tokens
capability = Capability.new create(:user), nil capability = Capability.new create(:user), nil
[:read, :read_one, :update, :update_one, :delete_one].each do |act| [:read, :read_one, :update, :update_one, :delete_one].each do |act|
assert capability.can? act, UserPreference assert capability.cannot? act, UserPreference
end end
# A user with empty tokens # A user with empty tokens