[pve-devel] [PATCH v2 access-control 12/12] api: acl: only allow granting SU privilege if user already has it

[Oguz Bektas]

Signed-off-by: Oguz Bektas <o.bektas at proxmox.com>
---
v1->v2:
* added new after discussion with fabian about security implications of
allowing SU privilege to be granted by users with Permissions.Modify

 src/PVE/API2/ACL.pm | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/PVE/API2/ACL.pm b/src/PVE/API2/ACL.pm
index 857c672..d415334 100644
--- a/src/PVE/API2/ACL.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/API2/ACL.pm
@@ -134,6 +134,10 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method ({
     code => sub {
 	my ($param) = @_;
 
+	my $rpcenv = PVE::RPCEnvironment::get();
+	my $authuser = $rpcenv->get_user();
+	my $is_superuser = $rpcenv->check($authuser, $param->{path}, ['SuperUser'], 1);
+
 	if (!($param->{users} || $param->{groups} || $param->{tokens})) {
 	    raise_param_exc({ map { $_ => "either 'users', 'groups' or 'tokens' is required." } qw(users groups tokens) });
 	}
@@ -160,6 +164,11 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method ({
 		    die "role '$role' does not exist\n"
 			if !$cfg->{roles}->{$role};
 
+		    my $role_privs = $cfg->{roles}->{$role};
+		    my $role_contains_superuser = grep { $_ eq 'SuperUser' } keys %$role_privs;
+		    die "only superusers can grant this role!\n"
+			if !$is_superuser && $role_contains_superuser;
+
 		    foreach my $group (split_list($param->{groups})) {
 
 			die "group '$group' does not exist\n"
-- 
2.30.2