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authorAbhishek Kekane <akekane@redhat.com>2021-03-09 09:45:58 +0000
committerDan Smith <dansmith@redhat.com>2021-03-15 07:59:05 -0700
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Make some metadef operations admin-only
This restricts all metadef resource manipulation to admin-only, but still allow users to see everything. There are multiple low-grade security issues with the metadef API, detailed in the related bug. Restricting resource manipulation to admin-only solves most of these concerns. SecurityImpact Depends-On: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/tempest/+/780108 Change-Id: I333c58e73c202c1f523030e54e03f2868459b595 Related-Bug: #1916926
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diff --git a/api-ref/source/v2/metadefs-index.rst b/api-ref/source/v2/metadefs-index.rst
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@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ constraints, and the resource types to which it can be associated. See
<http://docs.openstack.org/developer/glance/metadefs-concepts.html>`_ in the
Glance Developer documentation for more information.
+.. note:: By default, only admins can manipulate the data exposed by
+ this API, but all users may list and show public
+ resources. This changed from a default of "open to all" in
+ the Wallaby release.
.. include:: metadefs-namespaces.inc
.. include:: metadefs-resourcetypes.inc