Follow-up of #994. This PR revises the session ID generation logic to improve security in the absence of a secure session secret. It also adds a section in the admin panel "security" section to nag system admins when GRIST_SESSION_SECRET is not set.
Following is an excerpt from internal conversation.
TL;DR: Grist's current implementation generates semi-secure session IDs and uses a publicly known default signing key to sign them when the environment variable GRIST_SESSION_SECRET is not set. This PR generates cryptographically secure session IDs to dismiss security concerns around an insecure signing key, and encourages system admins to configure their own signing key anyway.
> The session secret is required by expressjs/session to sign its session IDs. It's designed as an extra protection against session hijacking by randomly guessing session IDs and hitting a valid one. While it is easy to encourage users to set a distinct session secret, this is unnecessary if session IDs are generated in a cryptographically secure way. As of now Grist uses version 4 UUIDs as session IDs (see app/server/lib/gristSessions.ts - it uses shortUUID.generate which invokes uuid.v4 under the hood). These contain 122 bits of entropy, technically insufficient to be considered cryptographically secure. In practice, this is never considered a real vulnerability. To compare, RSA2048 is still very commonly used in web servers, yet it only has 112 bits of security (>=128 bits = "secure", rule of thumb in cryptography). But for peace of mind I propose using crypto.getRandomValues to generate real 128-bit random values. This should render session ID signing unnecessary and hence dismiss security concerns around an insecure signing key.
Summary:
For non-owners, the timing section of Document Settings is now disabled.
For non-editors, the "Reload" section is disabled.
Test Plan: Added a test case for timing being disabled.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4275
Summary: The GRIST_DEFAULT_PRODUCT wasn't used for grist-ee, now it is respected.
Test Plan:
I've build grist-ee docker image from github and run it using our instruction (both for recreating the issue and confirming it is fixed)
```
docker run -p 8484:8484 \
-v $PWD:/persist \
-e GRIST_SESSION_SECRET=invent-a-secret-here \
-e GRIST_SINGLE_ORG=cool-beans
-it gristlabs/grist-ee
```
For grist-core I recreated/confirmed it is fixed it just by `GRIST_SINGLE_ORG=team npm start` in the core folder.
I also created some team sites using stubbed UI and confirmed that they were using the GRIST_DEFAULT_PRODUCT product.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Subscribers: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4271
Summary:
- Makes EE decide which ActivationPage to use
- Makes ProductUpgrades use core implementation if not activated
- Changes banners to proxy to core implementation if EE not activated
- [Fix] Enables new site creation in EE as in Core:
- Core enables people to freely create new team sites.
- Enterprise currently redirects to the pricing page.
- This enables enterprise to also create team sites, instead of
redirecting.
Test Plan: Manually test in EE, unit tests in Jenkins
Reviewers: paulfitz, jordigh
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4264
The example key shown on the admin panel to users who are not known to be
administrators is generated using a method that is only available in secure
environments. This adds a fallback for insecure environments. The key is less
solid but again, it is just an example, and for an insecure environment.
Tested manually running locally and using a hostname set in /etc/hosts.
Summary:
Dropdown conditions can now reference a `user` variable, similar to the
one available in Access Rules.
Test Plan: Browser test.
Reviewers: jarek, paulfitz
Reviewed By: jarek, paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4255
Summary:
Clearing virtual tables after user navigates away from the pages
that show them. Leaving them behind will reveal them on the Raw
Data page, with a buggy experience as user can't view the data
there.
Test Plan: Extended tests.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Subscribers: jarek, georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4258
Summary:
Relaxes selection restrictions on the add row, which was causing a
bug where the row above the add row was also being selected
whenever drag selection was started from the add row.
Test Plan: Browser test.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4253
Summary:
Adding new buttons to control the `timing` API and a way to view the results
using virtual table features.
Test Plan: Added new
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Subscribers: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4252
Summary:
- Reading plans from Stripe, and allowing Stripe to define custom plans.
- Storing product features (aka limits) in Stripe, that override those in db.
- Adding hierarchical data in Stripe. All features are defined at Product level but can be overwritten on Price levels.
- New options for Support user to
-- Override product for team site (if he is added as a billing manager)
-- Override subscription and customer id for a team site
-- Attach an "offer", an custom plan configured in stripe that a team site can use
-- Enabling wire transfer for subscription by allowing subscription to be created without a payment method (which is customizable)
Test Plan: Updated and new.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4201
* Adds authentication mechanism to admin panel
Adds field to the "Security settings" admin display, showing the
currently configured authentication mechanism.
* Adds 14px margin to admin panel names
Summary:
This affects the "Add Column" submenu under the sort-and-filter dropdown. The
explicit overflow setting (which *should* be the default) seems to fix it.
Test Plan: Tested manually on Safari 17.3 on Mac
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Subscribers: jarek, georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4249
Summary: Conditional style rules can now be reordered by dragging and dropping them.
Test Plan: Browser test.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4251
This adds support for $id in dropdown conditions, using the same
method used for supporting referencedColumn.id, and extends a test
to exercise the variable. Without this, the dropdown editor gives
an error if $id or rec.id is used, stating that the column is invalid.
Summary:
The default value of Choice columns is empty string, but ChoiceEditor was
saving nulls whenever a blank value was saved. This was causing unexpected
updates to trigger values due to the cell value changing internally, even
though null and empty string appear the same in the UI.
Test Plan: Browser test.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4242
Summary:
This adds a basic sandbox check to the admin panel. It also makes
the "probes" used in the boot page available from the admin panel,
though they are not yet displayed. The sandbox check is built as
a probe.
In the interests of time, a lot of steps had to be deferred:
* Reconcile fully the admin panel and boot page. Specifically, the
admin panel should be equally robust to common configuration problems.
* Add tests for the sandbox check.
* Generalize to multi-server setups. The read-out will not yet be useful
for setups where doc workers and home servers are configured
separately.
Test Plan: Added new test
Reviewers: jarek, georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4241
Summary:
Update for the admin page to show the latest available version information.
- Latest version is read from docs.getgrist.com by default
- It sends basic information (installationId, deployment type, and version)
- Checks are done only on the page itself
- The actual request is routed through the API (to avoid CORS)
Test Plan: Added new test
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Subscribers: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4238
Summary:
Adds a link to the support site documentation from the tooltip
about filtering reference choices with dropdown conditions.
Test Plan: N/A
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4240
Summary:
Dropdown conditions let you specify a predicate formula that's used to filter
choices and references in their respective autocomplete dropdown menus.
Test Plan: Python and browser tests (WIP).
Reviewers: jarek, paulfitz
Reviewed By: jarek
Subscribers: dsagal, paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4235
Summary:
- /timing/start endpoint to start collecting information
- /timing/stop endpoint to stop collecting
- /timing to retrive data gatherd so far
Timings are collected for all columns (including hidden/helpers/system)
Test Plan: Added new
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4230
Summary: The forms announcement popup should no longer be shown.
Test Plan: N/A
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Subscribers: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4229
Summary: Text could overflow its container in a few instances.
Test Plan: Manual.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4231
Summary:
- New styling for forms.
- New field options for various field types (spinner, checkbox, radio buttons, alignment, sort).
- Improved alignment of form fields in columns.
- Support for additional select input keyboard shortcuts (Enter and Backspace).
- Prevent submitting form on Enter if an input has focus.
- Fix for changing form field type causing the field to disappear.
Test Plan: Browser tests.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4223
Summary:
When one of 2 widget was collapsed, the resulting widget can become a root section. Then,
when a page was duplicated, the layout was duplicated incorrectly (with wrong collapsed
section). This resulted in a bug, when the root section was deleted, as it was the last
section in the saved layout, but not the last section on the visible layout.
Test Plan: Added 2 tests
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Subscribers: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4227
Summary:
Front-end code can now test if emails are enabled
and hide some parts of UI based on it.
Test Plan:
Only secondery text was hidden on add users dialog.
Tested manually.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Subscribers: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4221
Summary:
Some WS-related code was touched in a recent PR to grist-core. This extends
those changes to the rest of the codebase so that builds work again.
Test Plan: N/A
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Subscribers: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4224
Summary: Summary tables have restrictions on which columns can be renamed.
Test Plan: Browser tests.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Subscribers: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4222
The motivation for supporting an alternative to WebSockets is that while all browsers supported by Grist offer native WebSocket support, some networking environments do not allow WebSocket traffic.
Engine.IO is used as the underlying implementation of HTTP long polling. The Grist client will first attempt a regular WebSocket connection, using the same protocol and endpoints as before, but fall back to long polling using Engine.IO if the WebSocket connection fails.
Include these changes:
- CORS websocket requests are now rejected as a stronger security measure. This shouldn’t affect anything in practice; but previously it could be possible to make unauthenticated websocket requests from another origin.
- GRIST_HOST variable no longer affects CORS responses (also should not affect anything in practice, as it wasn't serving a useful purpose)
Summary:
When access rules are in effect on a document, non-owners currently
don't have access to snapshots. Previously when the document history
tab is opened in this situation, an error toast would appear, along
with a small message that was hard to see in dark mode. This change
removes the toast and improves the message somewhat.
Test Plan: updated test
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4218
Summary:
- Add InstallAdmin class to identify users who can manage Grist installation.
This is overridable by different Grist flavors (e.g. different in SaaS).
It generalizes previous logic used to decide who can control Activation
settings (e.g. enable telemetry).
- Implement a basic Admin Panel at /admin, and move items previously in the
"Support Grist" page into the "Support Grist" section of the Admin Panel.
- Replace "Support Grist" menu items with "Admin Panel" and show only to admins.
- Add "Support Grist" links to Github sponsorship to user-account menu.
- Add "Support Grist" button to top-bar, which
- for admins, replaces the previous "Contribute" button and reopens the "Support Grist / opt-in to telemetry" nudge (unchanged)
- for everyone else, links to Github sponsorship
- in either case, user can dismiss it.
Test Plan: Shuffled some test cases between Support Grist and the new Admin Panel, and added some new cases.
Reviewers: jarek, paulfitz
Reviewed By: jarek, paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4194
