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Carry the user to the network-modification server when reading modifications - #1109

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The network-modification server now answers, on each shared modification, whether its reader may write into it (gridsuite/network-modification-server#904). Therefore we need to propagate the user.

A read of our own carries no user, and the voltage init modifications are read that way - they hold no shared modification for a permission to be resolved on.

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The network-modification server now answers, on each shared modification, the
permission its reader holds on it, which it resolves against the directory.
It needs to know who is reading: the three reads the study serves to the
front-end carry the user along.

A read of our own carries no user, and the voltage init modifications are
read that way: they hold no shared modification for a permission to be
resolved on.

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Modification endpoints now require a user ID header and pass its value through the service path. The network-modification service includes the header in GET requests when the ID is non-null. Tests cover header forwarding and rejection when a required header is absent.

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User identity forwarding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Accept and propagate request user ID
src/main/java/org/gridsuite/study/server/controller/NetworkModificationController.java, src/main/java/org/gridsuite/study/server/controller/StudyController.java, src/main/java/org/gridsuite/study/server/service/NetworkModificationTreeService.java, src/test/java/org/gridsuite/study/server/controller/NetworkModificationControllerTest.java, src/test/java/org/gridsuite/study/server/NetworkModificationTreeTest.java
Modification endpoints require the user ID header. The study tree path passes the ID to the network-modification service. Tests cover requests with the header and rejection when the required header is absent.
Forward user ID to the modification server
src/main/java/org/gridsuite/study/server/service/NetworkModificationService.java, src/main/java/org/gridsuite/study/server/service/StudyService.java, src/test/java/org/gridsuite/study/server/service/NetworkModificationServiceTest.java
The service sends GET requests with the user ID header when the ID is non-null. StudyService passes null to the updated method. Service tests verify header forwarding.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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The change requires the user ID header on modification reads and forwards it to the network-modification server. No concrete merge-blocking issue was established.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4795c

The change introduces a required identity input for modification reads while preserving existing write behavior for callers supplying an identity. No security violation is verified, but the authenticity of the forwarded identity and the downstream handling of missing identity remain unverified.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The supported new security-relevant scope is caller-specific permission context on single, composite, and group modification reads. Cross-tenant disclosure, additional write authority, and broader downstream exposure are not established; determining an exploitable maximum scope requires the unavailable ingress and downstream contracts.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — No Security finding is retained. The authorization-bypass candidate remains deferred: request-to-downstream-header propagation is established, but evidence does not resolve whether ingress validates or replaces the supplied identity. Header spoofing and its downstream consequences therefore remain unverified, not an observed attack path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The controller boundary requires identity presence, while the downstream client forwards its value without authenticating it locally. These are presence and propagation controls, not proof of principal binding. No binding control is visible in the inspected paths; an effective upstream binding control remains possible and is the strongest unresolved counterevidence.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The helper returns no request entity for a null identity, including when given a mutation body. Required headers protect the inspected HTTP mutation paths, and no explicit production null mutation caller was found. Consequently, this conditional behavior is not established as an introduced fail-open path; downstream handling of such requests remains unknown.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make the cross-service identity contract explicit: verify that ingress binds or replaces the user-ID header using the authenticated principal, document downstream missing-identity behavior, and retain the narrowly defined internal voltage-init exception.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: propagating the user identity when reading network modifications.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains why the user identity must propagate and clarifies the behavior for reads without a user.
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* @return what carries the user to the network-modification server, nothing when there is no user to carry
*/
private static HttpEntity<Void> userIdEntity(String userId) {

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To be used everywhere in the file or to remove ?
Maybe a bit overkilled

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You want me to generalise everywhere in the file ?

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Yes, to be homogeneous in the file

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…on-modification-reads

Main declares the user id constant of its own in NetworkModificationControllerTest : keep a single one.

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