git/credential.h
Aaron Plattner 27db485c34 credential: clear expired c->credential, unify secret clearing
When a struct credential expires, credential_fill() clears c->password
so that clients don't try to use it later. However, a struct cred that
uses an alternate authtype won't have a password, but might have a
credential stored in c->credential.

This is a problem, for example, when an OAuth2 bearer token is used. In
the system I'm using, the OAuth2 configuration generates and caches a
bearer token that is valid for an hour. After the token expires, git
needs to call back into the credential helper to use a stored refresh
token to get a new bearer token. But if c->credential is still non-NULL,
git will instead try to use the expired token and fail with an error:

 fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://<oauth2-enabled-server>/repository'

And on the server:

 [auth_openidc:error] [client <ip>:34012] oidc_proto_validate_exp: "exp" validation failure (1717522989): JWT expired 224 seconds ago

Fix this by clearing both c->password and c->credential for an expired
struct credential. While we're at it, use credential_clear_secrets()
wherever both c->password and c->credential are being cleared.

Update comments in credential.h to mention the new struct fields.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Plattner <aplattner@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-06-06 11:42:40 -07:00

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#ifndef CREDENTIAL_H
#define CREDENTIAL_H
#include "string-list.h"
#include "strvec.h"
/**
* The credentials API provides an abstracted way of gathering
* authentication credentials from the user.
*
* Typical setup
* -------------
*
* ------------
* +-----------------------+
* | Git code (C) |--- to server requiring --->
* | | authentication
* |.......................|
* | C credential API |--- prompt ---> User
* +-----------------------+
* ^ |
* | pipe |
* | v
* +-----------------------+
* | Git credential helper |
* +-----------------------+
* ------------
*
* The Git code (typically a remote-helper) will call the C API to obtain
* credential data like a login/password pair (credential_fill). The
* API will itself call a remote helper (e.g. "git credential-cache" or
* "git credential-store") that may retrieve credential data from a
* store. If the credential helper cannot find the information, the C API
* will prompt the user. Then, the caller of the API takes care of
* contacting the server, and does the actual authentication.
*
* C API
* -----
*
* The credential C API is meant to be called by Git code which needs to
* acquire or store a credential. It is centered around an object
* representing a single credential and provides three basic operations:
* fill (acquire credentials by calling helpers and/or prompting the user),
* approve (mark a credential as successfully used so that it can be stored
* for later use), and reject (mark a credential as unsuccessful so that it
* can be erased from any persistent storage).
*
* Example
* ~~~~~~~
*
* The example below shows how the functions of the credential API could be
* used to login to a fictitious "foo" service on a remote host:
*
* -----------------------------------------------------------------------
* int foo_login(struct foo_connection *f)
* {
* int status;
* // Create a credential with some context; we don't yet know the
* // username or password.
*
* struct credential c = CREDENTIAL_INIT;
* c.protocol = xstrdup("foo");
* c.host = xstrdup(f->hostname);
*
* // Fill in the username and password fields by contacting
* // helpers and/or asking the user. The function will die if it
* // fails.
* credential_fill(&c);
*
* // Otherwise, we have a username and password. Try to use it.
*
* status = send_foo_login(f, c.username, c.password);
* switch (status) {
* case FOO_OK:
* // It worked. Store the credential for later use.
* credential_accept(&c);
* break;
* case FOO_BAD_LOGIN:
* // Erase the credential from storage so we don't try it again.
* credential_reject(&c);
* break;
* default:
* // Some other error occurred. We don't know if the
* // credential is good or bad, so report nothing to the
* // credential subsystem.
* }
*
* // Free any associated resources.
* credential_clear(&c);
*
* return status;
* }
* -----------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
/*
* These values define the kind of operation we're performing and the
* capabilities at each stage. The first is either an external request (via git
* credential fill) or an internal request (e.g., via the HTTP) code. The
* second is the call to the credential helper, and the third is the response
* we're providing.
*
* At each stage, we will emit the capability only if the previous stage
* supported it.
*/
enum credential_op_type {
CREDENTIAL_OP_INITIAL = 1,
CREDENTIAL_OP_HELPER = 2,
CREDENTIAL_OP_RESPONSE = 3,
};
struct credential_capability {
unsigned request_initial:1,
request_helper:1,
response:1;
};
/**
* This struct represents a single login credential (typically a
* username/password combination) along with any associated
* context. All string fields should be heap-allocated (or NULL if
* they are not known or not applicable). The meaning of the
* individual context fields is the same as their counterparts in
* the helper protocol.
*
* This struct should always be initialized with `CREDENTIAL_INIT` or
* `credential_init`.
*/
struct credential {
/**
* A `string_list` of helpers. Each string specifies an external
* helper which will be run, in order, to either acquire or store
* credentials. This list is filled-in by the API functions
* according to the corresponding configuration variables before
* consulting helpers, so there usually is no need for a caller to
* modify the helpers field at all.
*/
struct string_list helpers;
/**
* A `strvec` of WWW-Authenticate header values. Each string
* is the value of a WWW-Authenticate header in an HTTP response,
* in the order they were received in the response.
*/
struct strvec wwwauth_headers;
/**
* A `strvec` of state headers received from credential helpers.
*/
struct strvec state_headers;
/**
* A `strvec` of state headers to send to credential helpers.
*/
struct strvec state_headers_to_send;
/**
* Internal use only. Keeps track of if we previously matched against a
* WWW-Authenticate header line in order to re-fold future continuation
* lines into one value.
*/
unsigned header_is_last_match:1;
unsigned approved:1,
ephemeral:1,
configured:1,
multistage: 1,
quit:1,
use_http_path:1,
username_from_proto:1;
struct credential_capability capa_authtype;
struct credential_capability capa_state;
char *username;
char *password;
char *credential;
char *protocol;
char *host;
char *path;
char *oauth_refresh_token;
timestamp_t password_expiry_utc;
/**
* The authorization scheme to use. If this is NULL, libcurl is free to
* negotiate any scheme it likes.
*/
char *authtype;
};
#define CREDENTIAL_INIT { \
.helpers = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP, \
.password_expiry_utc = TIME_MAX, \
.wwwauth_headers = STRVEC_INIT, \
.state_headers = STRVEC_INIT, \
.state_headers_to_send = STRVEC_INIT, \
}
/* Initialize a credential structure, setting all fields to empty. */
void credential_init(struct credential *);
/**
* Free any resources associated with the credential structure, returning
* it to a pristine initialized state.
*/
void credential_clear(struct credential *);
/**
* Instruct the credential subsystem to fill the username and
* password (or authtype and credential) fields of the passed
* credential struct by first consulting helpers, then asking the
* user. After this function returns, either the username and
* password fields or the credential field of the credential are
* guaranteed to be non-NULL. If an error occurs, the function
* will die().
*
* If all_capabilities is set, this is an internal user that is prepared
* to deal with all known capabilities, and we should advertise that fact.
*/
void credential_fill(struct credential *, int all_capabilities);
/**
* Inform the credential subsystem that the provided credentials
* were successfully used for authentication. This will cause the
* credential subsystem to notify any helpers of the approval, so
* that they may store the result to be used again. Any errors
* from helpers are ignored.
*/
void credential_approve(struct credential *);
/**
* Inform the credential subsystem that the provided credentials
* have been rejected. This will cause the credential subsystem to
* notify any helpers of the rejection (which allows them, for
* example, to purge the invalid credentials from storage). It
* will also free() the username, password, and credential fields
* of the credential and set them to NULL (readying the credential
* for another call to `credential_fill`). Any errors from helpers
* are ignored.
*/
void credential_reject(struct credential *);
/**
* Enable all of the supported credential flags in this credential.
*/
void credential_set_all_capabilities(struct credential *c,
enum credential_op_type op_type);
/**
* Clear the secrets in this credential, but leave other data intact.
*
* This is useful for resetting credentials in preparation for a subsequent
* stage of filling.
*/
void credential_clear_secrets(struct credential *c);
/**
* Print a list of supported capabilities and version numbers to standard
* output.
*/
void credential_announce_capabilities(struct credential *c, FILE *fp);
/**
* Prepares the credential for the next iteration of the helper protocol by
* updating the state headers to send with the ones read by the last iteration
* of the protocol.
*
* Except for internal callers, this should be called exactly once between
* reading credentials with `credential_fill` and writing them.
*/
void credential_next_state(struct credential *c);
/**
* Return true if the capability is enabled for an operation of op_type.
*/
int credential_has_capability(const struct credential_capability *capa,
enum credential_op_type op_type);
int credential_read(struct credential *, FILE *,
enum credential_op_type);
void credential_write(const struct credential *, FILE *,
enum credential_op_type);
/*
* Parse a url into a credential struct, replacing any existing contents.
*
* If the url can't be parsed (e.g., a missing "proto://" component), the
* resulting credential will be empty and the function will return an
* error (even in the "gently" form).
*
* If we encounter a component which cannot be represented as a credential
* value (e.g., because it contains a newline), the "gently" form will return
* an error but leave the broken state in the credential object for further
* examination. The non-gentle form will issue a warning to stderr and return
* an empty credential.
*/
void credential_from_url(struct credential *, const char *url);
int credential_from_url_gently(struct credential *, const char *url, int quiet);
int credential_match(const struct credential *want,
const struct credential *have, int match_password);
#endif /* CREDENTIAL_H */