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Update security model to clarify Connection Editing user's capabiliti…
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…es (#37688)

While we already mentioned and explained in a number of places that
connection editing is dangeerous, we should explicitly menion that
misconfiguring of connections might lead to RCE situations and that
this is not preventable - and that connection editing users should
be highly trusted.

(cherry picked from commit 8658c22)
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potiuk authored and ephraimbuddy committed Mar 6, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -121,9 +121,12 @@ They configure connections and potentially execute code on workers during DAG ex
required to prevent misuse of these privileges. They have full access
to sensitive credentials stored in connections and can modify them.
Access to sensitive information through connection configuration
should be trusted not to be abused. They also have the ability to
create a Webserver Denial of Service situation and should be trusted
not to misuse this capability.
should be trusted not to be abused. They also have the ability to configure connections wrongly
that might create a Webserver Denial of Service situations and specify insecure connection options
which might create situations where executing DAGs will lead to arbitrary Remote Code Execution
for some providers - either community released or custom ones.

Those users should be highly trusted not to misuse this capability.

Audit log users
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