[QPID-7380] [Java Broker] Managed Operations returning potentially confidential information should not be permitted by default on insecure connections

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: qpid-java-6.1
• Component/s: Broker-J
• Assignee: Keith Wall
• Reporter: Robert Godfrey
• Created: 05/Aug/16 10:24
• Updated: 02/Oct/19 19:22
• Resolved: 13/Sep/16 12:49

Description

Operations such as getting message content or extracting config or message data may contain confidential information. As such one would not normally wish these operations to be permitted on insecure (non-TLS) connections. We should enhance the meta data for managed operations to allow for declaring them "secure", we should then change the REST servlet to prevent the operation of "secure" operations on insecure connections. To allow those who are aware of the risks, but accept them, we should add an attribute to the (Http)Port to allow secure operations to be performed on that port even where the connection is insecure.