This will protect us in case of some kinds of bugs that could allow
making requests such as password authentication attempts to tornado.
Without restricting the domains to which the in-memory backend can
be applied, such bugs would lead to attackers having multiple times
larger rate limits for these sensitive requests.
While this functionality to post slow queries to a Zulip stream was
very useful in the early days of Zulip, when there were only a few
hundred accounts, it's long since been useless since (1) the total
request volume on larger Zulip servers run by Zulip developers, and
(2) other server operators don't want real-time notifications of slow
backend queries. The right structure for this is just a log file.
We get rid of the queue and replace it with a "zulip.slow_queries"
logger, which will still log to /var/log/zulip/slow_queries.log for
ease of access to this information and propagate to the other logging
handlers. Reducing the amount of queues is good for lowering zulip's
memory footprint and restart performance, since we run at least one
dedicated queue worker process for each one in most configurations.
It appears that a recent pika release started logging spammy INFO
output on the pika.connection and pika.channel channels, in addition
to the existing pika.adapters channel.
It's probably best to just move to WARNING-level logging for all of these.
This significantly cleans up the output when run-dev.py restarts
services due to a code change in the development environment.
We recently changed our droplet setup such that their
host names no longer include zulipdev.org. This caused
a few things to break.
The particular symptom that this commit fixes is that
we were trying to server static assets from
showell:9991 instead of showell.zulipdev.org:9991,
which meant that you couldn't use the app locally.
(The server would start, but the site's pretty unusable
without static assets.)
Now we rely 100% on `dev_settings.py` to set
`EXTERNAL_HOST` for any droplet users who don't set
that var in their own environment. That allows us to
remove some essentially duplicate code in `run-dev.py`.
We also set `IS_DEV_DROPLET` explicitly, so that other
code doesn't have to make inferences or duplicate
logic to detemine whether we're a droplet or not.
And then in `settings.py` we use `IS_DEV_DROPLET` to
know that we can use a prod-like method of calculating
`STATIC_URL`, instead of hard coding `localhost`.
We may want to iterate on this further--this was
sort of a quick fix to get droplets functional again.
It's possible we can re-configure droplets to have
folks get reasonable `EXTERNAL_HOST` settings in their
bash profiles, or something like that, although that
may have its own tradeoffs.
This defends against cross-origin session fixation attacks. Renaming
the cookies means this one-time upgrade will have the unfortunate side
effect of logging everyone out, but they’ll get more secure sessions
in return.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulipchat.com>
Instead of sneakily injecting HttpOnly into the cookie via the path
setting, use the setting that was designed for this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulipchat.com>
Since commit 1d72629dc4, we have been
maintaining a patched copy of Django’s
SessionMiddleware.process_response in order to unconditionally ignore
our own optional cookie_domain setting that we don’t set.
Instead, let’s not do that.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulipchat.com>
We had a bunch of ugly hacks to monkey patch things due to upstream
being temporarily unmaintained and not merging PRs. Now the project is
active again and the fixes have been merged and included in the latest
version - so we clean up all that code.
We need to request access to read:org scope to be able to check org/team
membership. Without it SOCIAL_AUTH_GITHUB_ORG_NAME and
SOCIAL_AUTH_GITHUB_TEAM_ID settings don't work and simply lead to all
auth attempts failing.
Tested manually.
Profiling suggests this saves about 600us in the runtime of every GET
/events request attempting to resolve URLs to determine whether we
need to do the APPEND_SLASH behavior.
It's possible that we end up doing the same URL resolution work later
and we're just moving around some runtime, but I think even if we do,
Django probably doesn't do any fancy caching that would mean doing
this query twice doesn't just do twice the work.
In any case, we probably want to extend this behavior to our whole API
because the APPEND_SLASH redirect behavior is essentially a bug there.
That is a more involved refactor, however.
The comment explains this issue, but effectively, the upgrade to
Django 2.x means that Django's built-in django.request logger was
writing to our errors logs WARNING-level data for every 404 and 400
error. We don't consider user errors to be a problem worth
highlighting in that log file.
Django 2.2.x is the next LTS release after Django 1.11.x; I expect
we'll be on it for a while, as Django 3.x won't have an LTS release
series out for a while.
Because of upstream API changes in Django, this commit includes
several changes beyond requirements and:
* urls: django.urls.resolvers.RegexURLPattern has been replaced by
django.urls.resolvers.URLPattern; affects OpenAPI code and related
features which re-parse Django's internals.
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28593
* test_runner: Change number to suffix. Django changed the name in this
ticket: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28578
* Delete now-unnecessary SameSite cookie code (it's now the default).
* forms: urlsafe_base64_encode returns string in Django 2.2.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/utils/#django.utils.http.urlsafe_base64_encode
* upload: Django's File.size property replaces _get_size().
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/_modules/django/core/files/base/
* process_queue: Migrate to new autoreload API.
* test_messages: Add an extra query caused by .refresh_from_db() losing
the .select_related() on the Realm object.
* session: Sync SessionHostDomainMiddleware with Django 2.2.
There's a lot more we can do to take advantage of the new release;
this is tracked in #11341.
Many changes by Tim Abbott, Umair Waheed, and Mateusz Mandera squashed
are squashed into this commit.
Fixes#10835.
https://github.com/Bouke/django-two-factor-auth/issues/297
This setting was added in 1.9 version of the app and can be used
harmleslly in our current Django 1.11-based code and will prevent an
error on Django 2.1+ when we move there.
This applies rate limiting (through a decorator) of authenticate()
functions in the Email and LDAP backends - because those are the ones
where we check user's password.
The limiting is based on the username that the authentication is
attempted for - more than X attempts in Y minutes to a username is not
permitted.
If the limit is exceeded, RateLimited exception will be raised - this
can be either handled in a custom way by the code that calls
authenticate(), or it will be handled by RateLimitMiddleware and return
a json_error as the response.
Zulip has had a small use of WebSockets (specifically, for the code
path of sending messages, via the webapp only) since ~2013. We
originally added this use of WebSockets in the hope that the latency
benefits of doing so would allow us to avoid implementing a markdown
local echo; they were not. Further, HTTP/2 may have eliminated the
latency difference we hoped to exploit by using WebSockets in any
case.
While we’d originally imagined using WebSockets for other endpoints,
there was never a good justification for moving more components to the
WebSockets system.
This WebSockets code path had a lot of downsides/complexity,
including:
* The messy hack involving constructing an emulated request object to
hook into doing Django requests.
* The `message_senders` queue processor system, which increases RAM
needs and must be provisioned independently from the rest of the
server).
* A duplicate check_send_receive_time Nagios test specific to
WebSockets.
* The requirement for users to have their firewalls/NATs allow
WebSocket connections, and a setting to disable them for networks
where WebSockets don’t work.
* Dependencies on the SockJS family of libraries, which has at times
been poorly maintained, and periodically throws random JavaScript
exceptions in our production environments without a deep enough
traceback to effectively investigate.
* A total of about 1600 lines of our code related to the feature.
* Increased load on the Tornado system, especially around a Zulip
server restart, and especially for large installations like
zulipchat.com, resulting in extra delay before messages can be sent
again.
As detailed in
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/12862#issuecomment-536152397, it
appears that removing WebSockets moderately increases the time it
takes for the `send_message` API query to return from the server, but
does not significantly change the time between when a message is sent
and when it is received by clients. We don’t understand the reason
for that change (suggesting the possibility of a measurement error),
and even if it is a real change, we consider that potential small
latency regression to be acceptable.
If we later want WebSockets, we’ll likely want to just use Django
Channels.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulipchat.com>
Our ldap integration is quite sensitive to misconfigurations, so more
logging is better than less to help debug those issues.
Despite the following docstring on ZulipLDAPException:
"Since this inherits from _LDAPUser.AuthenticationFailed, these will
be caught and logged at debug level inside django-auth-ldap's
authenticate()"
We weren't actually logging anything, because debug level messages were
ignored due to our general logging settings. It is however desirable to
log these errors, as they can prove useful in debugging configuration
problems. The django_auth_ldap logger can get fairly spammy on debug
level, so we delegate ldap logging to a separate file
/var/log/zulip/ldap.log to avoid spamming server.log too much.
This simplifies the RDS installation process to avoid awkwardly
requiring running the installer twice, and also is significantly more
robust in handling issues around rerunning the installer.
Finally, the answer for whether dictionaries are missing is available
to Django for future use in warnings/etc. around full-text search not
being great with this configuration, should they be required.
Send the `csrftoken` and `sessionid` cookies with `SameSite=Lax`.
This adds a layer of defense against CSRF attacks and matches the new
default in Django 2.1:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/releases/2.1/#samesite-cookies
This can be reverted when we upgrade to Django ≥ 2.1.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulipchat.com>
This fixes a collection of bugs surrounding LDAP configurations A and
C (i.e. LDAP_APPEND_DOMAIN=None) with EmailAuthBackend also enabled.
The core problem was that our desired security model in that setting
of requiring LDAP authentication for accounts managed by LDAP was not
implementable without a way to
Now admins can configure an LDAPSearch query that will find if there
are users in LDAP that have the email address and
email_belongs_to_ldap() will take advantage of that - no longer
returning True in response to all requests and thus blocking email
backend authentication.
In the documentation, we describe this as mandatory configuration for
users (and likely will make it so soon in the code) because the
failure modes for this not being configured are confusing.
But making that change is pending work to improve the relevant error
messages.
Fixes#11715.
There are a few outstanding issues that we expect to resolve beforce
including this in a release, but this is good checkpoint to merge.
This PR is a collaboration with Tim Abbott.
Fixes#716.
Mateusz Mandera
Mateusz Mandera
Tim Abbott
Steve Howell
Anders Kaseorg
Vishnu KS
rht
Dinesh
Shikhar Varshney