I don't think relying on EJB container or other containers to do the
necessary checks is always going to work. You never know what gets bound
to the JNDI and if it doesn't use the JndiPermission check, then that
JNDI bound entry can get exposed to the client.
There appears to be a JIRA for this, although I don't know what's being
planned in there
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-3407
-Jaikiran
On Thursday 01 November 2012 10:07 PM, Lukas Krejci wrote:
Hi,
we're in the middle of porting RHQ/JBoss ON from JBoss AS 4.2.3 to JBoss AS
7.1.1.
Among many other things we offer the ability to run user scripts (using a
javax.script.ScriptEngine) inside the server. The scripts can access our APIs
to perform various functions. But since they're essentially 3rd party, we want
to execute them in a secured fashion. For that we run RHQ with a security
manager (allowing all permissions by default) and when executing a script we
do that in a separate access control context that limits what the code being
executed can do (like it cannot shutdown the server using System.exit(), etc).
Among other things, we don't want the scripts to access our local EJBs because
that would mean they would be able to access unsupported and possibly insecure
APIs.
When RHQ ran on AS4, we solved the above problem by having our own
IntialContextFactoryBuilder that essentially wrapped any javax.naming.Context
in a wrapper that would check for a certain java Permission on lookup. All the
"normal" code would have it, but the access control context the scripts run in
would NOT have it. This would stop any attempt to do a (local) JNDI lookup
with a SecurityException unless the JNDI lookup was performed using our
"gateway" (that "published" only secure remote APIs and called them
in a
privileged action).
Now with AS7 I don't think the above is possible anymore. There is a
org.jboss.as.naming.JndiPermission that would be ideal for our purposes but it
is not being enforced when doing JNDI lookups of EJBs (as far as I could debug
this is due to using ServiceBasedNamingStore for looking up EJBs, which
doesn't do the check for the JndiPermission).
How would you go about implementing something like above? Would it even be a
viable approach to take in AS7?
(One of the obvious solutions would be to implement the security check as an
interceptor on the EJB calls but we tried to avoid that because that would be
done on EVERY ejb call all the time, while the security check during the JNDI
lookup phase would be done only once).
Thanks,
Lukas
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