fixes #248: Do not expose encrypted or sensitive system properties - #258
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 1 included review per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe REST controller validates system-property keys, checks encrypted and sensitive properties, and rejects case-only conflicts. Deletion checks include dot-prefixed children and possible unintended database matches. Tests and endpoint documentation cover these rules. ChangesSystem property safeguards
Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant SystemController
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Client->>SystemController: Request property deletion
SystemController->>PropertyDatabase: Query properties matched by Openfire deletion condition
PropertyDatabase-->>SystemController: Return matched names and encrypted flags
SystemController-->>Client: Return deletion result or error
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- Around line 351-373: Update createSystemProperty to normalize the property key
before validation, then use that same normalized key in isForbiddenPropertyKey
and JiveGlobals.setProperty. Ensure normalization matches Openfire’s key
handling so whitespace or a trailing dot cannot bypass protection checks.
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| return propertyKey != null && (forbiddenPropertyKeys.contains(propertyKey) || propertyKey.startsWith(RESTRICTED_PROPERTY_KEY_PREFIX)); | ||
| return propertyKey != null && (forbiddenPropertyKeys.contains(propertyKey) | ||
| || propertyKey.startsWith(RESTRICTED_PROPERTY_KEY_PREFIX) | ||
| || JiveGlobals.isPropertyEncrypted(propertyKey) |
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It occurs to me that this goes further than the Admin Console. This doesn't just prevent reading, but setting too. That's intention, right?
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We're not super explicit about this (maybe we should), but yes, I think this is defensible.
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🟠 Major · Reject null values in updateSystemProperty. · SystemController.java:170-200
src/java/org/jivesoftware/openfire/plugin/rest/controller/SystemController.java:170-200
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winReject null values in
updateSystemProperty.When
valueis omitted,SystemPropertyleaves it null. A matching-key PUT can then callJiveGlobals.setProperty(propertyKey, null). Openfire 5.0.0 treats this as removal and removes all dot-prefixed children. The update path does not apply the child check used bydeleteSystemProperty, so a request can removeplugin.restapi.*properties through an allowed parent.Suggested fix
if(systemProperty.getKey().equals(propertyKey)) { + if (systemProperty.getValue() == null) { + throw new ServiceException("Could not update property", propertyKey, ExceptionType.ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_EXCEPTION, + Response.Status.BAD_REQUEST); + } JiveGlobals.setProperty(propertyKey, systemProperty.getValue());🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 166: Update the property deletion validation in SystemController to
reject keys containing SQL wildcard characters % or _ before calling
JiveProperties deletion. Preserve the existing forbidden-key and descendant
checks for other keys.
- Line 152: Validate systemProperty.getValue() before calling
JiveGlobals.setProperty and reject null values through the existing
property-creation error path, preventing null-valued writes from removing child
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- Around line 170-200: In updateSystemProperty, reject a null systemProperty
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JiveGlobals.setProperty; preserve the existing key-match and non-null update
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Thanks for this Dan! This adds significant guardrails, which is good. I do think the REST API being a bit more restricted than the Admin Console interface itself is defensible, as it provides an API that is a bit less private than the Admin Console itself. Still, I wonder if some of the hardening (for example around the case sensitivity) should (also) be applied in Openfire itself.
… properties The system property endpoints returned the plaintext value of any property, including those that are stored encrypted. The Openfire admin console deliberately hides such values (as well as those of properties that are considered sensitive by name, such as passwords), even from fully authenticated administrators. The REST API did not carry that protection through, allowing anyone with REST API credentials to retrieve secrets such as LDAP, database or SMTP credentials. Properties that are encrypted (as flagged by their SystemProperty registration, or by how their value is stored) or that are considered sensitive (using the same naming convention as the admin console) are now treated the same way as this plugin's own configuration: they are omitted from the list of all properties, and attempts to retrieve, create, update or delete them result in an HTTP 403 response.
…rbidden key checks
…d keys shouldn't be deleted Openfire's JiveGlobals will delete subkeys as well (always has), so if one of those were encrypted or otherwise forbidden, deleting the parent shouldn't be allowed.
…anitized things reaching Openfire Before this commit, deleting foo_bar would delete fooXbar too, because of how Openfire treats inputs. This commit prevents unusual characters, permits all of the known ones, and rejects instances where a valid characted that's also a wildcard character (looking at you, underscore!) would also delete something unintended.
…se from an existing key On databases that compare keys case-insensitively, creating or updating a property of which the key differs only in case from that of an existing property could change the value of that existing property.
We don't list all the error cases - that's in the API docs - but some hints here could help people in the future
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I don't disagree on applying some of this stuff to Openfire. To a certain extent, some of this should be the responsibility of a good plugin, to sanitize user inputs before passing them to Openfire internal functions. Conversely, it might be nice if Openfire did some of that lifting for you, either automatically or via some extra functions in the API. |
…a value The value of a system property in a create or update request is optional. When it is omitted, it reaches `JiveGlobals.setProperty(key, null)`, which Openfire treats as a deletion of the property together with all of its child properties. This allowed a caller to 'create' or 'update' an allowed parent property (such as `plugin`) to delete forbidden child properties (such as `plugin.restapi.*`), bypassing the check that prevents exactly that when a property is deleted. Such requests are now rejected with an HTTP 400 response. An empty value is still accepted, as that is stored as a value, rather than causing a deletion. Requests that do not contain a property definition at all are now also rejected with an HTTP 400 response, instead of causing an HTTP 500 response (due to a NullPointerException). The API documentation for both responses has been updated accordingly.
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- Around line 193-205: Update SystemController.deleteSystemProperty to inspect
persisted property rows and their raw encryption state before calling
JiveGlobals.deleteProperty. Reject deletion when any encrypted descendant
matches the parent key, including rows omitted from
JiveGlobals.getPropertyNames() after decryption fails; preserve the existing
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…lete would remove Openfire does not load encrypted properties that it cannot decrypt, but deletes them together with their parent all the same. The guards that prevent deleting encrypted or otherwise forbidden child properties inspected only the properties that Openfire loaded, and could therefore be bypassed for such properties. Deleting a property now checks the rows in the database that Openfire's delete statement matches, including their stored encryption state. This also replaces the regex that approximated the database's (wildcard and case-insensitive) matching.
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| // properties that it cannot decrypt, but deletes them all the same. | ||
| final Map<String, Boolean> persisted = getPersistedPropertiesMatchedByDeletion(propertyKey); | ||
| final Set<String> deletedKeys = persisted.keySet().stream() | ||
| .filter(key -> key.equals(propertyKey) || key.startsWith(propertyKey + ".")) |
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Is this redundant, given the database query?
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The system property endpoints returned the plaintext value of any property, including those that are stored encrypted. The Openfire admin console deliberately hides such values (as well as those of properties that are considered sensitive by name, such as passwords), even from fully authenticated administrators. The REST API did not carry that protection through, allowing anyone with REST API credentials to retrieve secrets such as LDAP, database or SMTP credentials.
Properties that are encrypted (as flagged by their SystemProperty registration, or by how their value is stored) or that are considered sensitive (using the same naming convention as the admin console) are now treated the same way as this plugin's own configuration: they are omitted from the list of all properties, and attempts to retrieve, create, update or delete them result in an HTTP 403 response.
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