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Fail gracefully on invalid token strings #51014

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When we receive a request with an Authorization header that contains
a Bearer token that is not generated by us or that is malformed in
some way, attempting to decode it as one of our own might cause a
number of exceptions that are not IOExceptions. This commit ensures
that we catch and log these too and call onResponse with `null, so
that we can return 401 instead of 500.

When we receive a request with an Authorization header that contains
a Bearer token that is not generated by us or that is malformed in
some way, attempting to decode it as one of our own might cause a
number of exceptions that are not IOExceptions. This commit ensures
that we catch and log these too and call onResponse with `null, so
that we can return 401 instead of 500.

Resolves: elastic#50497
@jkakavas jkakavas added >bug :Security/Authentication Logging in, Usernames/passwords, Realms (Native/LDAP/AD/SAML/PKI/etc) v8.0.0 v7.6.0 labels Jan 14, 2020
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@polyfractal polyfractal added v7.7.0 and removed v7.6.0 labels Jan 15, 2020
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LGTM
The code guarded by the try-catch can throw non-IOException exceptions in cases that the token is misformatted but I wouldn't bet that there aren't cases where a server error is to blame.
However, due to the multitude of token formats I believe it's actually easier to catch the server exceptions, and we already do a good job at it.

@jkakavas jkakavas merged commit b02119c into elastic:master Jan 16, 2020
jkakavas added a commit to jkakavas/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Jan 16, 2020
When we receive a request with an Authorization header that contains
a Bearer token that is not generated by us or that is malformed in
some way, attempting to decode it as one of our own might cause a
number of exceptions that are not IOExceptions. This commit ensures
that we catch and log these too and call onResponse with `null, so
that we can return 401 instead of 500.

Resolves: elastic#50497
jkakavas added a commit to jkakavas/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Jan 16, 2020
When we receive a request with an Authorization header that contains
a Bearer token that is not generated by us or that is malformed in
some way, attempting to decode it as one of our own might cause a
number of exceptions that are not IOExceptions. This commit ensures
that we catch and log these too and call onResponse with `null, so
that we can return 401 instead of 500.

Resolves: elastic#50497
jkakavas added a commit to jkakavas/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Jan 16, 2020
When we receive a request with an Authorization header that contains
a Bearer token that is not generated by us or that is malformed in
some way, attempting to decode it as one of our own might cause a
number of exceptions that are not IOExceptions. This commit ensures
that we catch and log these too and call onResponse with `null, so
that we can return 401 instead of 500.

Resolves: elastic#50497
jkakavas added a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 16, 2020
When we receive a request with an Authorization header that contains
a Bearer token that is not generated by us or that is malformed in
some way, attempting to decode it as one of our own might cause a
number of exceptions that are not IOExceptions. This commit ensures
that we catch and log these too and call onResponse with `null, so
that we can return 401 instead of 500.

Resolves: #50497
jkakavas added a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 16, 2020
When we receive a request with an Authorization header that contains
a Bearer token that is not generated by us or that is malformed in
some way, attempting to decode it as one of our own might cause a
number of exceptions that are not IOExceptions. This commit ensures
that we catch and log these too and call onResponse with `null, so
that we can return 401 instead of 500.

Resolves: #50497
jkakavas added a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 16, 2020
When we receive a request with an Authorization header that contains
a Bearer token that is not generated by us or that is malformed in
some way, attempting to decode it as one of our own might cause a
number of exceptions that are not IOExceptions. This commit ensures
that we catch and log these too and call onResponse with `null, so
that we can return 401 instead of 500.

Resolves: #50497
SivagurunathanV pushed a commit to SivagurunathanV/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Jan 23, 2020
When we receive a request with an Authorization header that contains
a Bearer token that is not generated by us or that is malformed in
some way, attempting to decode it as one of our own might cause a
number of exceptions that are not IOExceptions. This commit ensures
that we catch and log these too and call onResponse with `null, so
that we can return 401 instead of 500.

Resolves: elastic#50497
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