Identify an MVP set of revocable tokens
The goal of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/460777+ is to revoke all the tokens GitLab generates, but this isn't realistic for an MVP. This task is to identify:
- Which tokens are easily detected by prefix (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/security/token_overview.html#token-prefixes) AND
- Can be attributed to a group AND
- Have an existing `RevokeService` (e.g. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/app/services/personal_access_tokens/revoke_service.rb)
## By Revocation Services
The following have existing revoke services:
- Cluster Agent Tokens
- Resource Access Tokens (Project & Group Access Tokens)
- Group Deploy Tokens
- x509 Certificates
- Keys
<details><summary>Click to expand `find`</summary>
```
% find app lib ee/app ee/lib -name '*revoke*.rb' 2>/dev/null
app/graphql/mutations/achievements/revoke.rb
app/graphql/mutations/clusters/agent_tokens/revoke.rb
app/workers/x509_certificate_revoke_worker.rb
app/controllers/projects/google_cloud/revoke_oauth_controller.rb
app/services/achievements/revoke_service.rb
app/services/clusters/agent_tokens/revoke_service.rb
app/services/resource_access_tokens/revoke_service.rb
app/services/groups/deploy_tokens/revoke_service.rb
app/services/personal_access_tokens/revoke_service.rb
app/services/personal_access_tokens/revoke_token_family_service.rb
app/services/x509_certificate_revoke_service.rb
app/services/keys/revoke_service.rb
ee/app/graphql/mutations/dast_site_validations/revoke.rb
ee/app/services/ee/clusters/agent_tokens/revoke_service.rb
ee/app/services/ee/resource_access_tokens/revoke_service.rb
ee/app/services/ee/groups/deploy_tokens/revoke_service.rb
ee/app/services/ee/personal_access_tokens/revoke_service.rb
ee/app/services/personal_access_tokens/revoke_invalid_tokens.rb
ee/app/services/app_sec/dast/site_validations/revoke_service.rb
```
</details>
## By Prefix
Table copied from https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/security/token_overview.html#token-prefixes
| Token name | Detectable? | Attributable? | Revoke Service | Notes |
|-----------------------------------|--------------------|-------------------------|----------------|-------|
| Personal access token (User) | `glpat-` | :white_check_mark: Check user membership from the top level ancestor down to the given group | :white_check_mark: | There will always be a user, because structure states `user_id integer NOT NULL` |
| Personal access token (Project) | `glpat-` | :white_check_mark: `project_bot` belongs to a project, check if project is in namespace | :white_check_mark: See above | |
| Impersonation token | `glpat-` | :white_check_mark: Same as a Personal Access Token (User) | | |
| Project access token | `glpat-` | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: `We can use PersonalAccessTokens::RevokeService` | :warning: Will leave a hanging Bot user |
| Group access token | `glpat-` | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: As above | " |
| Deploy token (Group) | `gldt-` | :white_check_mark: `GroupDeployToken#has_access_to_group?` | :white_check_mark: `Groups::DeployTokens::RevokeService` | |
| Deploy token (Project) | `gldt-` | :white_check_mark: | :x: | Only a destroy service exists. It'd be trivial to add a Revoke service though / make the Group one generic |
| OAuth Application Secret (User) | `gloas-` | :white_check_mark: via `owner_id` when `owner_type == 'User'` | :x: <br /> See also: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/applications.html#renew-an-application-secret | _"provides secure delegated server resource access to client applications on behalf of a resource owner"_ <br /> • https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/oauth2.html <br /> • https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/oauth_provider.html |
| " (Group) | " | white_check_mark: via `owner_id` when `owner_type == 'Group'` | | |
| " (Instance) | " | :x: | N/A | |
| Runner authentication token | `glrt-` | | | |
| CI/CD Job token | `glcbt-` | | | |
| Trigger token | `glptt-` | | | |
| Feed token | `glft-` | | | |
| Incoming mail token | `glimt-` | | | |
| GitLab agent for Kubernetes token | `glagent-` | | | |
| GitLab session cookies | `_gitlab_session=` | | | |
| SCIM Tokens | `glsoat-` | | | |
| Feature Flags Client token | `glffct-` | | | |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| SSH Keys | :white_check_mark: Keys have predictable formats | :x: | :x: The revoke service calls the destroy service | Not all SSH Keys have users |
### Side notes
#### Revoke vs. Destroy vs. Rotate
Many of these have Destroy services, which aren't helpful here. If we destroy a record we can no longer look it up. Revocation would need to be added to each token type before we could add these to this API.
Similarly a rotation service isn't helpful; we want to allow any authenticated caller to neutralise the threat of a leaked token. Rotating it provides the caller with a new secret.
#### Permissions
The pattern used by PATs looks good:
```ruby
def revocation_permitted?
case @source
when :self
Ability.allowed?(current_user, :revoke_token, token)
when :secret_detection
true
else
false
end
end
```
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/3c135704a04185fcdbf489c149a8941f663df120/app/services/personal_access_tokens/revoke_service.rb
### API Errors
We can't return `422` when we don't support a certain type of token, because some token types re-use the same prefix and that could be indicitive.
E.g. you find `gldt-ABC`:
- If it's a Group Deploy Token, the error returned will be `404` or `200` depending on if the group is right.
- If it's a Project Deploy Token it'll return `422`.
- To determine if you've got a Group vs. Project deploy token, you'd fire this at a group you're sure it doesn't belong to. Then a `422` vs `404` tells you the type of token you've got.
- I don't think we want to allow this type of enumeration.
Recommendation: always return the same error for tokens we can't revoke.
#### What error code?
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9110
> _The 404 (Not Found) status code indicates that the origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists. A 404 status code does not indicate whether this lack of representation is temporary or permanent_
> _The 422 (Unprocessable Content) status code indicates that the server understands the content type of the request content (hence a 415 (Unsupported Media Type) status code is inappropriate), and the syntax of the request content is correct, but it was unable to process the contained instructions._
Either seem fine. I'll go with `404`. We are either "willing to revoke it and return a 200" or "not willing to disclose whether the resource exists".
## Result
For MVP we can support the revocation of:
- Personal Access Tokens (whether they belong to a User or Project)
- Group and Project Access Tokens, which are also just Personal Access Tokens
- Group deploy tokens
Other tokens will need to have `RevokeService`s built for them.
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