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fix(controlplane): reject streaming RPCs the server does not implement - #3703
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The control plane's gRPC server implements only unary RPCs. gRPC reflection, a local-development convenience that is disabled in production, is the single streaming service it serves. Add a stream interceptor that returns Unimplemented for any other streaming method instead of dispatching it to a handler. Clients use unary RPCs and the HTTP endpoints, so there is no functional change for them. Signed-off-by: Matías Insaurralde <matias@chainloop.dev>
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[1 file with past security fixes] Keep these rules in place. They come from 3 or more past fixes in this repository.
app/controlplane/internal/server/grpc.go ▶
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Any token confined to a project must only receive policies that are safe within that single project; org-wide capabilities and legacy robot-account management must not be exposed through scoped tokens.
Past fixes (3)
0745e30 · CWE-598 · PARTIAL FIX
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Fixes a real auth-flow flaw where browser login callbacks carried reusable session JWTs in `?t=` and recipients accepted them verbatim; it replaces that path with a verifier-bound handoff-code exchange for upgraded clients.
1 file · Only part of the flaw was repaired here — the rest was never fixed. Sink:crafCallbackURL(,q.Set("t", userToken),r.URL.Query().Get("t").
58ae751 · CWE-266 · MULTI FIX
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The commit fixes a real access-control bug where project-scoped API tokens were minted with org-wide registered-integration and robot-account-create privileges.
1 file · The repair spans several commits, so this one is not the whole fix. Sink:/controlplane.v1.IntegrationsService/DescribeRegistration,/controlplane.v1.IntegrationsService/ListRegistrations,/controlplane.v1.IntegrationsService/Register,/controlplane.v1.RobotAccountService/Create.
6a933de · CWE-863
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The commit fixes a real access-control flaw where any valid API token could reach user-oriented authenticated RPCs because token auth was wired into the main middleware chain without a per-operation authorization guard.
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must hold: Any token confined to a project must only receive policies that are safe within
that single project; org-wide capabilities and legacy robot-account management must not
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also enforced at: 8 other entry points
grep for: defaultAuthzPolicies, orgLevelTokenPolicies, slices.Concat
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…ethod Register a streaming service in the test and assert the server returns Unimplemented without invoking its handler, so the test verifies the interceptor itself rather than gRPC's handling of an unknown method. Keep the check that gRPC reflection remains served in development. Signed-off-by: Matías Insaurralde <matias@chainloop.dev>
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Summary
The control plane's gRPC server implements only unary RPCs. gRPC reflection (a local-development convenience that is disabled in production) is the only streaming service it serves, introduced in #3694.
This adds a stream interceptor that returns
Unimplementedfor any other streaming method instead of dispatching it to a handler, so the server does not expose streaming endpoints it does not implement. Clients use unary RPCs and the HTTP endpoints, so there is no functional change for them.