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Groups gets deleted on multi-IdP setup
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Description
We are currently hitting a very subtle bug regarding a multi-IdP Setup (Keycloak, LDAP):
When a user logs in via Keycloak all non-existing groups are created due to group-claims. Now if the same user logs in via LDAP after the first login (same account, mappingMethod: add) all groups that where created by the keycloak IdP are deleted if the user is the only user in that group.
I identified this section:
https://github.com/openshift/oauth-server/blob/f892602b822782e0080abc70c6cd1d178f11e684/pkg/groupmapper/groupmapper.go#L136-L143
The group cleanup check is above the IdP annotation check, most likely leading to this problem.
I know that this is an edge-case but can hit quite randomly and forces us to work around it. My customers and I would really appreciate a fix.
How to reproduce:
- add an OAuth and a LDAP IdP to Openshift (both are binding to the same Openshift User with
mappingMethod: add) - add automated group propagation using claims to the OAuth IdP
- login with an user that has at least one group using the OAuth IdP
- groups is created as expected
- logout and login with the same user using the LDAP IdP
- now the group is deleted
Notes:
- If another user is added to the group (for whatever reason) it is not deleted
- If the group is created manually or via ldap sync this does not happen
- If 2 OAuth IdPs are used and both IdP Tokens contain the same groups, there should be no problem
- This behavior points to a bug rather than a security feature.
- Simply swapping the order of the checks should fix this edge-case.
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Research direction
Start in pkg/groupmapper/groupmapper.go around lines 136-143, where group cleanup is checked relative to the IdP annotation. Reproduce the Keycloak and LDAP login sequence with mappingMethod: add, then verify that groups created from Keycloak claims remain after the LDAP login. Done means the described multi-IdP flow no longer deletes a group when its only member is the shared user.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- authentication
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 78/100