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Add dict instance check before accessing it #15944

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fix: add dict instance check before accessing it
Jul 16, 2023
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rajuniit Jul 16, 2023
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fix: fixing a typo of a method name isinstance my last commit
Jul 16, 2023
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fix: Added changelog file for this fix
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rajuniit Jul 17, 2023
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rajuniit Jul 24, 2023
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Throwing error if client data is not dict
Jul 24, 2023
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rajuniit Jul 25, 2023
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rajuniit Jul 28, 2023
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fix code format style
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Add dic instance check before accessing auth session.
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Expand Up @@ -481,6 +481,11 @@ async def check_ui_auth(

sid: Optional[str] = None
authdict = clientdict.pop("auth", {})
if not isinstance(authdict, dict):
raise SynapseError(
400,
"Interactive auth not yet complete. Client data is not dictionary.",
)
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I had a chance to look deeper at this; check_ui_auth has 3 callers:

  • validate_user_via_ui_auth, this has a handful of callers.
  • PasswordRestServlet.on_POST
  • RegisterRestServlet.on_POST

Some of these properly validate that auth is None or a dictionary. Others don't have validation (see #13147). I'm wondering if we should do validation up front instead of at this stage.

@DMRobertson It looks like you started adding the UI Auth validation of REST endpoints. Did you have a plan here?

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I didn't have a specific plan, I'm afraid. I vaguely remember UI auth being confusing when I looked it it, but that was about a year ago.

My general plan was to do as much validation as possible in the rest layer, and pass a parsed Pydantic model instance down to the handlers. The two can be done separately, which makes it easier to validate one endpoint at a time.

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There is an vaguely open question about how we should be using Pydantic going forward. It has just made a 2.x release with a strict mode built-in (no more check_pydantic_models.py) and performance improvements. There are some breaking changes though, plus some of our packagers are presumably going to be shipping Pydantic 1.x for some time. #15979 has some more detailed discussion.

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Hi @clokep @DMRobertson, was some decision made on Pydantic? What should we do here for now?

If this function is called from every rest endpoint at the beginning should we keep it here, or move it upfront to rest layers which are using this.

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@prajjawal05 I think adding the validation would be a good step forward. I don't agree there's an open question. Today we're using pydantic 1.x and should not block good work because we might one-day update to pydantic 2.x.

if "session" in authdict:
sid = authdict["session"]

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