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WalkthroughThe RFC selects a model in which Views are resources and row access uses exact matches on declared selectable columns. It defines checks for table and panel rows, variable variants, and read-time grant changes. ChangesView authorization
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Require one shared view for teams with different row access. Explain why caller permissions cannot cover arbitrary external queries or mixed-source data.
Give options A and D their own rejection rationale. Explain the shared pods view requirement, arbitrary external queries, and node rows enriched with AWS costs.
Explain how independent row grants let one Prometheus-backed View serve multiple teams without requiring access to source resources. Clarify creator/admin responsibilities, stored membership and grant composition. Keep row identity and safe panel computation unresolved.
C can only decide a row that is about exactly one config. A row naming a pod, a node and a deployment has no principled reference, and a single-row total has none at all, so filtered readers lose counts, sums, cluster-wide panels and every non-catalog row. State the requirement that a View must show such rows to readers who see part of it, and list the fixes that don't rescue C.
Mark the RFC decided. Rule out E: B trusts the creator to publish a fact on each row, which Mission Control checks, while E trusts the creator's filtering logic, which it can't; E's mistake fails open and it mixes filtering with authorization. Add the decision: rows and panel rows are published data selected by declared columns, variables only choose a variant, nothing is stored or computed per reader, rows are checked at read by containment against the claim, and panels are granted row by row like the table. Answer the reviewer questions and list the spec changes.
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| - Publish identity or ownership columns on the rows, and declare them selectable. | ||
| - Carry the same columns on the rows of every panel a reader with a column grant should see, by grouping. | ||
| - Use variables for what readers choose, never for what readers may see. |
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Mark the creator requirements as normative.
These bullets specify required behavior, but they do not use the normative terms defined at Line 217. Use MUST for publishing selectable identity or ownership columns and carrying them on grantable panel rows. Use MUST NOT for relying on variables to restrict access.
As per coding guidelines, “Use MUST, MUST NOT and MAY for requirements.”
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-- Publish identity or ownership columns on the rows, and declare them selectable.
-- Carry the same columns on the rows of every panel a reader with a column grant should see, by grouping.
-- Use variables for what readers choose, never for what readers may see.
+- View creators MUST publish identity or ownership columns on rows and declare them selectable.
+- View creators MUST carry the same columns on panel rows that readers with column grants should see.
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| - Publish identity or ownership columns on the rows, and declare them selectable. | |
| - Carry the same columns on the rows of every panel a reader with a column grant should see, by grouping. | |
| - Use variables for what readers choose, never for what readers may see. | |
| - View creators MUST publish identity or ownership columns on rows and declare them selectable. | |
| - View creators MUST carry the same columns on panel rows that readers with column grants should see. | |
| - View creators MUST NOT rely on variables to restrict what readers may see. |
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Update the creator requirements in the section containing the identity and
ownership column bullets to use normative language: state that view creators
MUST publish selectable identity or ownership columns on rows, MUST carry those
columns on panel rows visible to readers with column grants, and MUST NOT rely
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Option B as decided in Section 6 looks sound to me: panel output as rows, the row check made on read rather than stored, and variables kept out of authorization. Two points to settle before Section 6 is copied into scopes.md / roles.md:
- §6.3: adding up visible panel rows gives the right total only for additive aggregates (sum, count). For averages, percentages, max/min and gauges it shows wrong numbers.
- §6.4: "Nothing checks the values" lets any reader inject into a view's queries, because values go into them as raw text today. It also lets them start unlimited variant runs.
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| - A panel row matches a target by the rule of Section 6.2: every entry in `columns` is on the panel row with the same value. Whatever a panel's query reads, its output rows carry the selectable columns they should be granted by, or readers with a column grant don't see them. | ||
| - So a panel grouped by the selectable columns, e.g. `SELECT namespace, sum(cpu) AS value FROM pods GROUP BY namespace`, shows each reader their groups and nobody else's. A panel that isn't grouped, e.g. `SELECT sum(cpu) AS value`, has no `namespace` on its row, so a reader with a column grant doesn't see it and a reader with a whole-view grant does. To show a total to readers who see part of the view, the creator groups it. | ||
| - A panel with no data rows, such as static text, is part of the view's definition and is shown to anyone who may open the view. | ||
| - A total over exactly the rows a reader may see, when their grant spans several groups, is the sum of the panel rows they see. The UI computes it for number and gauge panels. Nothing stored holds a per-reader total, because nothing stored knows the reader. |
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Adding up visible panel rows is only right for sum and count.
Adding up the panel rows a reader can see gives the right total only when the panel's aggregate is additive. For other panels it produces a wrong number, and nothing on screen says it's wrong:
- Averages and percentages.
SELECT namespace, avg(cpu_pct) AS value … GROUP BY namespacegives 70% formonitoringand 70% forpayments. A reader granted both sees 140%. max/min/ percentiles. The sum of per-namespace maximums is not the maximum.- Distinct counts when the groups overlap. Grouping by
(cluster, namespace)while a value is counted in more than one group, e.g. distinct images, counts it twice. - Gauges. A
gauge.maxcomputed over every row doesn't match the total of the reader's part.
This is worse than hiding the panel: the reader sees a confident, wrong figure. "Panels are right: Yes, as rows" in the Section 7 table only holds for additive panels.
Possible fix: a panel declares how its rows combine, e.g. combine: sum | max | min. A panel that doesn't declare it shows one value per group to readers who see part of the view, and the UI never adds them up. Averages and ratios can then be published as two additive columns (numerator and denominator), and the UI adds each one up before dividing.
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Computed panel metadata also needs authorization, independently of how the visible rows are combined.
For example, Team A may see only monitoring rows, but a gauge whose maximum is computed from all namespaces can still reveal the global pod count. Filtering the panel rows correctly does not prevent that leak.
The current view runner evaluates gauge.max and bargauge.max against the full query dataset, then returns those computed values in PanelMeta, outside PanelResult.Rows. Fixing the aggregation of visible rows would leave this path unprotected.
Section 6.3 should require every data-derived panel value to pass through authorization, including computed maxima, denominators and labels. Such values should be published in the authorized panel rows, not returned as unfiltered metadata. Only literal presentation settings should be shared merely because a reader may open the View. A value must not bypass the grant check just because it is displayed as a gauge scale rather than a row value.
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| - A variable chooses which variant of the view is computed. `namespace=monitoring` and `namespace=payments` are different computations with their own rows and panel rows, keyed by the variables' fingerprint, as today. | ||
| - Any reader who may open a view MAY request any variant. Nothing checks the values. The column grant is checked inside every variant the same way, so a reader asking for a variant whose rows their grants don't select gets an empty table and no panel rows. That is a result, not an error (`collection-access.md`, Section 3). |
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"Nothing checks the values" turns an existing code gap into a rule.
Keeping variables out of authorization is right. But with no check on their values at all, every reader who can open a view gets two capabilities:
- Injection into the view's queries. Variable values go into queries as raw text:
views/run.go:41-42runsStructTemplateroverview.Spec.Querieswithrequest.variables. Values are never escaped, and onlyselectVariableValue(views/table.go:186) looks at the options. That function only chooses the value the dropdown shows. The caller's original value still reaches the fingerprint and the templating (views/table.go:503-518). A guest who can open a view with an SQL or PromQL query can therefore change that query, which runs with the view's connection credentials, not the guest's. The column check on the output doesn't help, because the guest may also be able to read data through errors, timing, or by rewriting the query so its rows carry the guest's own selectable values. - Unlimited computation. Each new value is a new variant: a full run of every query, then stored rows and panel rows. "Variants nobody has read for a period are dropped" limits how much is stored, not how many runs a reader can start.
Suggested wording: values are still not authorization, but they MUST be one of the variable's options when it has options (values / valueFrom), and free-text values MUST be passed to queries as escaped parameters, never inserted as text. Also consider a cap on new variants per view for readers who see only part of it.
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specs/authorization/rfc/views.md, an RFC on bringing Views under Scopes, Roles and RoleBindings and removing their own authorization.This RFC doesn't choose a design. It lays out the problem and the options, and asks reviewers to weigh in.
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view:Scope target and stored membership;readaccepts View; views get an all/some/none answer; every way of reading a view makes the same check.Please comment on the questions in Section 7, especially:
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