escalation_check.go

/*
Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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*/

package rbac

import (
	"fmt"

	utilruntime "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/runtime"
	"k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/authentication/user"
	"k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/authorization/authorizer"
	genericapirequest "k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/endpoints/request"
	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apis/rbac"
)

func EscalationAllowed(ctx genericapirequest.Context) bool {
	u, ok := genericapirequest.UserFrom(ctx)
	if !ok {
		return false
	}

	// system:masters is special because the API server uses it for privileged loopback connections
	// therefore we know that a member of system:masters can always do anything
	for _, group := range u.GetGroups() {
		if group == user.SystemPrivilegedGroup {
			return true
		}
	}

	return false
}

// BindingAuthorized returns true if the user associated with the context is explicitly authorized to bind the specified roleRef
func BindingAuthorized(ctx genericapirequest.Context, roleRef rbac.RoleRef, bindingNamespace string, a authorizer.Authorizer) bool {
	if a == nil {
		return false
	}

	user, ok := genericapirequest.UserFrom(ctx)
	if !ok {
		return false
	}

	attrs := authorizer.AttributesRecord{
		User: user,
		Verb: "bind",
		// check against the namespace where the binding is being created (or the empty namespace for clusterrolebindings).
		// this allows delegation to bind particular clusterroles in rolebindings within particular namespaces,
		// and to authorize binding a clusterrole across all namespaces in a clusterrolebinding.
		Namespace:       bindingNamespace,
		ResourceRequest: true,
	}

	// This occurs after defaulting and conversion, so values pulled from the roleRef won't change
	// Invalid APIGroup or Name values will fail validation
	switch roleRef.Kind {
	case "ClusterRole":
		attrs.APIGroup = roleRef.APIGroup
		attrs.Resource = "clusterroles"
		attrs.Name = roleRef.Name
	case "Role":
		attrs.APIGroup = roleRef.APIGroup
		attrs.Resource = "roles"
		attrs.Name = roleRef.Name
	default:
		return false
	}

	ok, _, err := a.Authorize(attrs)
	if err != nil {
		utilruntime.HandleError(fmt.Errorf(
			"error authorizing user %#v to bind %#v in namespace %s: %v",
			user, roleRef, bindingNamespace, err,
		))
	}
	return ok
}