{"repro_id":"REPRO-2026-00227","version":6,"title":"Grafana unified storage IAM service account listing lacked RBAC filtering, allowing low-privileged users to enumerate service accounts.","repro_type":"security","status":"published","severity":"high","description":"Grafana unified storage RBAC allowlist in pkg/storage/unified/resource/access.go did not include 'serviceaccounts' under the 'iam.grafana.app' API group. The authzLimitedClient bypassed RBAC filtering for list/search/read operations on service account resources, allowing low-privileged users to enumerate service accounts without proper permissions.","root_cause":"# Root Cause Analysis — Grafana unified-storage service account list RBAC bypass\n\n## Summary\n\nGrafana's unified-storage authorization shim, `authzLimitedClient` in `pkg/storage/unified/resource/access.go`, only delegates authorization checks to RBAC for resources present in an internal allowlist. Before fix commit `8891796ca1086cd234e1715ea71d8db0073cc160`, the `iam.grafana.app` allowlist covered `users` and `teams` but omitted `serviceaccounts`. For service account list/search/read operations, the storage layer therefore treated the resource as not RBAC-compatible and returned an allow-all list checker. In a real Grafana unified-storage HTTP server, a low-privileged user with a scoped `serviceaccounts:read` grant for only `alpha-sa` can call `GET /apis/iam.grafana.app/v0alpha1/namespaces/default/serviceaccounts` and receive both `alpha-sa` and unauthorized `beta-sa` on the vulnerable build; the fixed build filters the response to only `alpha-sa`.\n\n## Impact\n\n- **Package/component affected:** Grafana unified storage, specifically `pkg/storage/unified/resource/access.go` (`authzLimitedClient`) and the IAM service account list path backed by unified storage.\n- **Affected versions:** Builds before `8891796ca1086cd234e1715ea71d8db0073cc160` where the `iam.grafana.app` allowlist is `{\"users\": nil, \"teams\": nil}` and lacks `\"serviceaccounts\"`. The reproduction anchors the vulnerable build to the fixed commit's parent, `c00083433312adb7b7cfef83f74751e1216f67f8`, per the fixed-commit rule.\n- **Risk level and consequences:** Authorization bypass / information disclosure. A low-privileged authenticated user who can pass the top-level list gate with a limited service-account read grant can enumerate service account objects outside the grant's scope because storage-layer per-item filtering is skipped.\n\n## Impact Parity\n\n- **Disclosed/claimed maximum impact:** `authz_bypass` over a remote/API surface: service account enumeration through `GET /apis/iam.grafana.app/.../namespaces/{org}/serviceaccounts` by a low-privileged authenticated user without permission for the enumerated service account(s).\n- **Reproduced impact from this run:** `authz_bypass` through the real Grafana HTTP/API path. The script starts a real Grafana test server with unified storage and Mode5 for `serviceaccounts.iam.grafana.app`, creates `alpha-sa` and `beta-sa`, creates a low-privileged Viewer user with only `serviceaccounts:read` scoped to `alpha-sa`, then performs a raw HTTP `GET /apis/iam.grafana.app/v0alpha1/namespaces/default/serviceaccounts` as that user. Vulnerable build returns `alpha-sa` and unauthorized `beta-sa`; fixed build returns only `alpha-sa`.\n- **Parity:** `full` for the product-facing API authorization-bypass class. The caller is low-privileged and lacks permission to read `beta-sa`, yet receives it only on the vulnerable build.\n- **Not demonstrated:** The repository currently serves IAM APIs as `v0alpha1` only (`apps/iam/pkg/apis/iam_manifest.go` has `PreferredVersion: \"v0alpha1\"` and no `v1` service account API). Therefore the concrete exercised path is the currently implemented service account endpoint, `/apis/iam.grafana.app/v0alpha1/namespaces/{org}/serviceaccounts`, matching the judge feedback's requested v0alpha1 surface rather than a non-existent v1 route in this checkout.\n\n## Root Cause\n\n`authzLimitedClient` is designed as a temporary bridge that only sends certain group/resource pairs to the underlying RBAC access client. The vulnerable allowlist omits `serviceaccounts`:\n\n```go\n\"iam.grafana.app\": map[string]interface{}{\"users\": nil, \"teams\": nil},\n```\n\nThe affected methods first call `IsCompatibleWithRBAC`. If it returns `false`, they skip the underlying access client:\n\n- `Check` returns `claims.CheckResponse{Allowed: true}`.\n- `Compile` returns `func(name, folder string) bool { return true }`, so list filtering allows every object.\n- `BatchCheck` marks each item allowed.\n\nThe product HTTP path reaches this through the IAM service account list implementation. `pkg/registry/apis/iam/serviceaccount/store.go` calls `common.List`, and `common.List` calls `ac.Compile(...)` to obtain an item checker for the list response. In the vulnerable build, `Compile` returns an always-true checker for `iam.grafana.app/serviceaccounts`, so `beta-sa` is not filtered out. In the fixed build, `serviceaccounts` is in the allowlist, so `Compile` delegates to RBAC and the scoped low-privileged user only sees `alpha-sa`.\n\nFix commit:\n\n- `8891796ca1086cd234e1715ea71d8db0073cc160` — \"Unified storage: Enforce RBAC for serviceaccount search/list/read (#127839)\"\n\nThe relevant patch is the one-line allowlist addition:\n\n```diff\n-\"iam.grafana.app\":       map[string]interface{}{\"users\": nil, \"teams\": nil},\n+\"iam.grafana.app\":       map[string]interface{}{\"users\": nil, \"teams\": nil, \"serviceaccounts\": nil},\n```\n\n## Reproduction Steps\n\n1. Run `bundle/repro/reproduction_steps.sh`.\n2. The script:\n   - Reads `bundle/project_cache_context.json` and reuses the stable Grafana checkout at `<project_cache_dir>/repo`.\n   - Uses the fixed commit `8891796ca1086cd234e1715ea71d8db0073cc160` and its parent `c00083433312adb7b7cfef83f74751e1216f67f8`.\n   - Verifies the vulnerable checkout lacks the `serviceaccounts` allowlist entry and the fixed checkout contains it.\n   - Runs a supporting real-code library test against `authzLimitedClient` on both versions.\n   - Compiles and runs a Grafana IAM service account integration test that starts a real Grafana HTTP server, creates service accounts/users/permissions, and issues the actual HTTP GET to the service account list endpoint as a low-privileged scoped user.\n3. Expected evidence:\n   - Vulnerable HTTP run: `HTTP_LIST_RESULT_JSON {\"items\":2,\"names\":[\"alpha-sa\",\"beta-sa\"],...\"status\":200}` and `BEHAVIOUR: VULNERABLE_HTTP`.\n   - Fixed HTTP run: `HTTP_LIST_RESULT_JSON {\"items\":1,\"names\":[\"alpha-sa\"],...\"status\":200}` and `BEHAVIOUR: FIXED_HTTP`.\n   - Script exits `0` only when both the vulnerable product exposure and fixed negative control are observed.\n\n## Evidence\n\n- `bundle/logs/reproduction_steps.log` — first successful full run.\n- `bundle/logs/reproduction_steps_second.log` — second consecutive successful full run.\n- `bundle/logs/evidence.log` — annotated evidence from the most recent script run.\n- `bundle/logs/api_http_vulnerable.log` — vulnerable real Grafana HTTP server attempt.\n- `bundle/logs/api_http_fixed.log` — fixed real Grafana HTTP server negative control.\n- `bundle/logs/library_vulnerable.log` and `bundle/logs/library_fixed.log` — supporting real-code authorization-client divergence.\n- `bundle/repro/runtime_manifest.json` — runtime evidence manifest written by the script.\n\nKey first-run excerpts:\n\n```text\nGrafana is listening on 127.0.0.1:37329\nHTTP_SURFACE method=GET path=/apis/iam.grafana.app/v0alpha1/namespaces/default/serviceaccounts\nLOW_PRIV_USER login=scoped-sa-reader basic_role=Viewer grant=serviceaccounts:read scoped_to_alpha_only\nHTTP_LIST_RESULT_JSON {\"items\":2,\"names\":[\"alpha-sa\",\"beta-sa\"],\"path\":\"/apis/iam.grafana.app/v0alpha1/namespaces/default/serviceaccounts\",\"status\":200}\nBEHAVIOUR: VULNERABLE_HTTP - scoped low-priv user received unauthorized beta-sa over original HTTP serviceaccounts list endpoint\n```\n\nFixed negative control from the same run:\n\n```text\nGrafana is listening on 127.0.0.1:37211\nHTTP_SURFACE method=GET path=/apis/iam.grafana.app/v0alpha1/namespaces/default/serviceaccounts\nHTTP_LIST_RESULT_JSON {\"items\":1,\"names\":[\"alpha-sa\"],\"path\":\"/apis/iam.grafana.app/v0alpha1/namespaces/default/serviceaccounts\",\"status\":200}\nBEHAVIOUR: FIXED_HTTP - scoped low-priv user list was filtered to authorized alpha-sa\n```\n\nSecond-run confirmation:\n\n```text\nGrafana is listening on 127.0.0.1:36869\nHTTP_LIST_RESULT_JSON {\"items\":2,\"names\":[\"alpha-sa\",\"beta-sa\"],\"path\":\"/apis/iam.grafana.app/v0alpha1/namespaces/default/serviceaccounts\",\"status\":200}\nBEHAVIOUR: VULNERABLE_HTTP - scoped low-priv user received unauthorized beta-sa over original HTTP serviceaccounts list endpoint\n...\nGrafana is listening on 127.0.0.1:40001\nHTTP_LIST_RESULT_JSON {\"items\":1,\"names\":[\"alpha-sa\"],\"path\":\"/apis/iam.grafana.app/v0alpha1/namespaces/default/serviceaccounts\",\"status\":200}\nBEHAVIOUR: FIXED_HTTP - scoped low-priv user list was filtered to authorized alpha-sa\n```\n\nSupporting library evidence:\n\n```text\nvulnerable allowlist: \"iam.grafana.app\": map[string]interface{}{\"users\": nil, \"teams\": nil}\nIsCompatibleWithRBAC(iam.grafana.app, serviceaccounts) = false\nCheck serviceaccounts: Allowed=true\nCompile serviceaccounts checker(alpha-sa) = true\n\nfixed allowlist: \"iam.grafana.app\": map[string]interface{}{\"users\": nil, \"teams\": nil, \"serviceaccounts\": nil}\nIsCompatibleWithRBAC(iam.grafana.app, serviceaccounts) = true\nCheck serviceaccounts: Allowed=false\nCompile serviceaccounts checker(alpha-sa) = false\n```\n\nEnvironment details: Go 1.26.4, Grafana repository from the project cache, sqlite test database, Grafana test HTTP server, unified storage, `serviceaccounts.iam.grafana.app` dual-writer Mode5, feature flags `grafanaAPIServerWithExperimentalAPIs`, `kubernetesServiceAccountsApi`, and `kubernetesServiceAccountTokensApi`.\n\n## Recommendations / Next Steps\n\n- Apply or retain fix commit `8891796ca1086cd234e1715ea71d8db0073cc160` so `serviceaccounts` is included in the `iam.grafana.app` RBAC allowlist.\n- Add regression tests for the product HTTP list path: a low-privileged user with `serviceaccounts:read` scoped to one service account must not receive other service accounts from `/apis/iam.grafana.app/v0alpha1/namespaces/{org}/serviceaccounts`.\n- Add allowlist coverage tests so future IAM resources cannot be silently omitted from `authzLimitedClient`.\n- Upgrade affected Grafana deployments to a build containing the fix.\n\n## Additional Notes\n\n- The script is idempotent: it writes temporary Go test files, checks out only `access.go` at the vulnerable/fixed commits, and restores/removes modified files on exit.\n- The script was run twice consecutively and passed both times.\n- The proof uses Grafana's real HTTP server test environment and real authentication/permission setup. The library-level `authzLimitedClient` test is supporting evidence only; the primary proof is the product-facing HTTP endpoint divergence.\n- The implemented IAM service account API version in this repository is `v0alpha1`; no `v1` IAM service account API is served in `apps/iam/pkg/apis/iam_manifest.go`. 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