A vulnerability was identified in Consul and Consul Enterprise (“Consul”) such that operators with `operator:read` ACL permissions are able to read the Consul Connect CA configuration when explicitly configured with the `/v1/connect/ca/configuration` endpoint, including the private key. This allows the user to effectively privilege escalate by enabling the ability to mint certificates for any Consul Connect services. This would potentially allow them to masquerade (receive/send traffic) as any service in the mesh.
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This PR increases the permissions required to read the Connect CA's private key when it was configured via the `/connect/ca/configuration` endpoint. They are now `operator:write`.
* Update AWS SDK to use PCA features.
* Add AWS PCA provider
* Add plumbing for config, config validation tests, add test for inheriting existing CA resources created by user
* Unparallel the tests so we don't exhaust PCA limits
* Merge updates
* More aggressive polling; rate limit pass through on sign; Timeout on Sign and CA create
* Add AWS PCA docs
* Fix Vault doc typo too
* Doc typo
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-Authored-By: R.B. Boyer <rb@hashicorp.com>
Co-Authored-By: kaitlincarter-hc <43049322+kaitlincarter-hc@users.noreply.github.com>
* Doc fixes; tests for erroring if State is modified via API
* More review cleanup
* Uncomment tests!
* Minor suggested clean ups
* Change CA Configure struct to pass Datacenter through
* Remove connect/ca/plugin as we don't have immediate plans to use it.
We still intend to one day but there are likely to be several changes to the CA provider interface before we do so it's better to rebuild from history when we do that work properly.
* Rename PrimaryDC; fix endpoint in secondary DCs
* Support Connect CAs that can't cross sign
* revert spurios mod changes from make tools
* Add log warning when forcing CA rotation
* Fixup SupportsCrossSigning to report errors and work with Plugin interface (fixes tests)
* Fix failing snake_case test
* Remove misleading comment
* Revert "Remove misleading comment"
This reverts commit bc4db9cabed8ad5d0e39b30e1fe79196d248349c.
* Remove misleading comment
* Regen proto files messed up by rebase
* pass logger through to provider
* test for proper operation of NeedsLogger
* remove public testServer function
* Ooops actually set the logger in all the places we need it - CA config set wasn't and causing segfault
* Fix all the other places in tests where we set the logger
* Allow CA Providers to persist some state
* Update CA provider plugin interface
* Fix plugin stubs to match provider changes
* Update agent/connect/ca/provider.go
Co-Authored-By: R.B. Boyer <rb@hashicorp.com>
* Cleanup review comments
* ACL Authorizer overhaul
To account for upcoming features every Authorization function can now take an extra *acl.EnterpriseAuthorizerContext. These are unused in OSS and will always be nil.
Additionally the acl package has received some thorough refactoring to enable all of the extra Consul Enterprise specific authorizations including moving sentinel enforcement into the stubbed structs. The Authorizer funcs now return an acl.EnforcementDecision instead of a boolean. This improves the overall interface as it makes multiple Authorizers easily chainable as they now indicate whether they had an authoritative decision or should use some other defaults. A ChainedAuthorizer was added to handle this Authorizer enforcement chain and will never itself return a non-authoritative decision.
* Include stub for extra enterprise rules in the global management policy
* Allow for an upgrade of the global-management policy
The fields in the certs are meant to hold the original binary
representation of this data, not some ascii-encoded version.
The only time we should be colon-hex-encoding fields is for display
purposes or marshaling through non-TLS mediums (like RPC).
The general problem was that a the CA config which contained the trust domain was happening outside of the blocking mechanism so if the client started the blocking query before the primary dcs roots had been set then a state trust domain was being pushed down.
This was fixed here but in the future we should probably fixup the CA initialization code to not initialize the CA config twice when it doesn’t need to.
* Support rate limiting and concurrency limiting CSR requests on servers; handle CA rotations gracefully with jitter and backoff-on-rate-limit in client
* Add CSR rate limiting docs
* Fix config naming and add tests for new CA configs
* Store leaf cert indexes in raft and use for the ModifyIndex on the returned certs
This ensures that future certificate signings will have a strictly greater ModifyIndex than any previous certs signed.
This PR is almost a complete rewrite of the ACL system within Consul. It brings the features more in line with other HashiCorp products. Obviously there is quite a bit left to do here but most of it is related docs, testing and finishing the last few commands in the CLI. I will update the PR description and check off the todos as I finish them over the next few days/week.
Description
At a high level this PR is mainly to split ACL tokens from Policies and to split the concepts of Authorization from Identities. A lot of this PR is mostly just to support CRUD operations on ACLTokens and ACLPolicies. These in and of themselves are not particularly interesting. The bigger conceptual changes are in how tokens get resolved, how backwards compatibility is handled and the separation of policy from identity which could lead the way to allowing for alternative identity providers.
On the surface and with a new cluster the ACL system will look very similar to that of Nomads. Both have tokens and policies. Both have local tokens. The ACL management APIs for both are very similar. I even ripped off Nomad's ACL bootstrap resetting procedure. There are a few key differences though.
Nomad requires token and policy replication where Consul only requires policy replication with token replication being opt-in. In Consul local tokens only work with token replication being enabled though.
All policies in Nomad are globally applicable. In Consul all policies are stored and replicated globally but can be scoped to a subset of the datacenters. This allows for more granular access management.
Unlike Nomad, Consul has legacy baggage in the form of the original ACL system. The ramifications of this are:
A server running the new system must still support other clients using the legacy system.
A client running the new system must be able to use the legacy RPCs when the servers in its datacenter are running the legacy system.
The primary ACL DC's servers running in legacy mode needs to be a gate that keeps everything else in the entire multi-DC cluster running in legacy mode.
So not only does this PR implement the new ACL system but has a legacy mode built in for when the cluster isn't ready for new ACLs. Also detecting that new ACLs can be used is automatic and requires no configuration on the part of administrators. This process is detailed more in the "Transitioning from Legacy to New ACL Mode" section below.
* Fix theoretical cache collision bug if/when we use more cache types with same result type
* Generalized fix for blocking query handling when state store methods return zero index
* Refactor test retry to only affect CI
* Undo make file merge
* Add hint to error message returned to end-user requests if Connect is not enabled when they try to request cert
* Explicit error for Roots endpoint if connect is disabled
* Fix tests that were asserting old behaviour
