kibana/x-pack/plugins/lists
Devin W. Hurley c77c7fbedb
[RAC] [RBAC] MVP RBAC for alerts as data (#100705)
An MVP of the RBAC work required for the "alerts as data" effort. An example of the existing implementation for alerts would be that of the security solution. The security solution stores its alerts generated from rules in a single data index - .siem-signals. In order to gain or restrict access to alerts, users do so by following the Elasticsearch privilege architecture. A user would need to go into the Kibana role access UI and give explicit read/write/manage permissions for the index itself.

Kibana as a whole is moving away from this model and instead having all user interactions run through the Kibana privilege model. When solutions use saved objects, this authentication layer is abstracted away for them. Because we have chosen to use data indices for alerts, we cannot rely on this abstracted out layer that saved objects provide - we need to provide our own RBAC! Instead of giving users explicit permission to an alerts index, users are instead given access to features. They don't need to know anything about indices, that work we do under the covers now.

Co-authored-by: Yara Tercero <yctercero@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Yara Tercero <yara.tercero@elastic.co>
2021-07-08 15:24:17 -04:00
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README.md for developers working on the backend lists on how to get started using the CURL scripts in the scripts folder.

The scripts rely on CURL and jq:

Install curl and jq (mac instructions)

brew update
brew install curl
brew install jq

Open $HOME/.zshrc or ${HOME}.bashrc depending on your SHELL output from echo $SHELL and add these environment variables:

export ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME=${user}
export ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD=${password}
export ELASTICSEARCH_URL=https://${ip}:9200
export KIBANA_URL=http://localhost:5601
export TASK_MANAGER_INDEX=.kibana-task-manager-${your user id}
export KIBANA_INDEX=.kibana-${your user id}

source $HOME/.zshrc or ${HOME}.bashrc to ensure variables are set:

source ~/.zshrc

Open your kibana.dev.yml file and add these lines with your name:

xpack.lists.listIndex: '.lists-your-name'
xpack.lists.listItemIndex: '.items-your-name'

Restart Kibana and ensure that you are using --no-base-path as changing the base path is a feature but will get in the way of the CURL scripts written as is.

Go to the scripts folder cd kibana/x-pack/plugins/lists/server/scripts and run:

./hard_reset.sh
./post_list.sh

which will:

  • Delete any existing lists you have
  • Delete any existing list items you have
  • Delete any existing exception lists you have
  • Delete any existing exception list items you have
  • Delete any existing mapping, policies, and templates, you might have previously had.
  • Add the latest list and list item index and its mappings using your settings from kibana.dev.yml environment variable of xpack.lists.listIndex and xpack.lists.listItemIndex.
  • Posts the sample list from ./lists/new/ip_list.json

Now you can run

./post_list.sh

You should see the new list created like so:

{
  "id": "ip_list",
  "created_at": "2020-05-28T19:15:22.344Z",
  "created_by": "yo",
  "description": "This list describes bad internet ip",
  "name": "Simple list with an ip",
  "tie_breaker_id": "c57efbc4-4977-4a32-995f-cfd296bed521",
  "type": "ip",
  "updated_at": "2020-05-28T19:15:22.344Z",
  "updated_by": "yo"
}

You can add a list item like so:

 ./post_list_item.sh

You should see the new list item created and attached to the above list like so:

{
  "id": "hand_inserted_item_id",
  "type": "ip",
  "value": "127.0.0.1",
  "created_at": "2020-05-28T19:15:49.790Z",
  "created_by": "yo",
  "list_id": "ip_list",
  "tie_breaker_id": "a881bf2e-1e17-4592-bba8-d567cb07d234",
  "updated_at": "2020-05-28T19:15:49.790Z",
  "updated_by": "yo"
}

If you want to post an exception list it would be like so:

./post_exception_list.sh

You should see the new exception list created like so:

{
  "created_at": "2020-05-28T19:16:31.052Z",
  "created_by": "yo",
  "description": "This is a sample endpoint type exception",
  "id": "bcb94680-a117-11ea-ad9d-c71f4820e65b",
  "list_id": "endpoint_list",
  "name": "Sample Endpoint Exception List",
  "namespace_type": "single",
  "tags": [
    "user added string for a tag",
    "malware"
  ],
  "tie_breaker_id": "86e08c8c-c970-4b08-a6e2-cdba7bb4e023",
  "type": "endpoint",
  "updated_at": "2020-05-28T19:16:31.080Z",
  "updated_by": "yo"
}

And you can attach exception list items like so:

{
  "comments": [],
  "created_at": "2020-05-28T19:17:21.099Z",
  "created_by": "yo",
  "description": "This is a sample endpoint type exception",
  "entries": [
    {
      "field": "actingProcess.file.signer",
      "operator": "included",
      "type": "match",
      "value": "Elastic, N.V."
    },
    {
      "field": "event.category",
      "operator": "included",
      "type": "match_any",
      "value": [
        "process",
        "malware"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "id": "da8d3b30-a117-11ea-ad9d-c71f4820e65b",
  "item_id": "endpoint_list_item",
  "list_id": "endpoint_list",
  "name": "Sample Endpoint Exception List",
  "namespace_type": "single",
  "os_types": ["linux"],
  "tags": [
    "user added string for a tag",
    "malware"
  ],
  "tie_breaker_id": "21f84703-9476-4af8-a212-aad31e18dcb9",
  "type": "simple",
  "updated_at": "2020-05-28T19:17:21.123Z",
  "updated_by": "yo"
}

You can then do find for each one like so:

./find_lists.sh
{
  "cursor": "WzIwLFsiYzU3ZWZiYzQtNDk3Ny00YTMyLTk5NWYtY2ZkMjk2YmVkNTIxIl1d",
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "ip_list",
      "created_at": "2020-05-28T19:15:22.344Z",
      "created_by": "yo",
      "description": "This list describes bad internet ip",
      "name": "Simple list with an ip",
      "tie_breaker_id": "c57efbc4-4977-4a32-995f-cfd296bed521",
      "type": "ip",
      "updated_at": "2020-05-28T19:15:22.344Z",
      "updated_by": "yo"
    }
  ],
  "page": 1,
  "per_page": 20,
  "total": 1
}

or for finding exception lists:

./find_exception_lists.sh
{
  "data": [
    {
      "created_at": "2020-05-28T19:16:31.052Z",
      "created_by": "yo",
      "description": "This is a sample endpoint type exception",
      "id": "bcb94680-a117-11ea-ad9d-c71f4820e65b",
      "list_id": "endpoint_list",
      "name": "Sample Endpoint Exception List",
      "namespace_type": "single",
      "os_types": ["linux"],
      "tags": [
        "user added string for a tag",
        "malware"
      ],
      "tie_breaker_id": "86e08c8c-c970-4b08-a6e2-cdba7bb4e023",
      "type": "endpoint",
      "updated_at": "2020-05-28T19:16:31.080Z",
      "updated_by": "yo"
    }
  ],
  "page": 1,
  "per_page": 20,
  "total": 1
}

See the full scripts folder for all the capabilities.