[pve-devel] [PATCH manager 1/2] api: nodes: allow usage of query url metadata with Sys.AccessNetwork

[Thomas Lamprecht]

This was restricted to Sys.Modify + Sys.Audit on the whole cluster to
ensure that only trusted users get access to a method that can scan
the (local) network from the POV of the Proxmox VE node, even if only
through HTTP HEAD requests.

Nowadays there's enough user interest [0] to warrant a separate access
privilege to cover such an use case, and while most of the requests
are for the download-url storage API endpoint, this method here is not
only a bit less powerful than the storage one, it's rather tied to the
latter anyway (e.g. for querying the metadata of a URL in the web UI
for name and size before downloading it to a storage).

For backwards compatibility keep the old check and add the new
privilege as alternative to fulfill the permission requirements of
that API endpoint.

[0]: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5254

Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht at proxmox.com>
---
 PVE/API2/Nodes.pm | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/PVE/API2/Nodes.pm b/PVE/API2/Nodes.pm
index 3619190d..5d9bae39 100644
--- a/PVE/API2/Nodes.pm
+++ b/PVE/API2/Nodes.pm
@@ -1581,7 +1581,10 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({
     description => "Query metadata of an URL: file size, file name and mime type.",
     proxyto => 'node',
     permissions => {
-	check => ['perm', '/', [ 'Sys.Audit', 'Sys.Modify' ]],
+	check => ['or',
+	    ['perm', '/', [ 'Sys.Audit', 'Sys.Modify' ]],
+	    ['perm', '/nodes/{node}', [ 'Sys.AccessNetwork' ]],
+	],
     },
     parameters => {
 	additionalProperties => 0,
-- 
2.39.2