Guide to write XACML policies in WSO2 Identity Server - Part - 2

This blog post is a follow up to the Guide to write XACML policies in WSO2 Identity Server 2.0 - Part - I and also you may go through following as well..

- Using XACML Fine Grained Authorization with the WSO2 Product Platform
- Identity Server 2.0 as an XACML engine
- Anatomy of the XACML Request

Here I will present a XACML policy which addresses following requirement.

"A given resource can be accessed only by any user belong to a particular role and all the requests to any other resource other than this should fail"

<Policy PolicyId="urn:sample:xacml:2.0:samplepolicy"
 RuleCombiningAlgId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:rule-combining-algorithm:first-applicable"
 xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:2.0:policy:schema:os">
 <Description>Sample XACML Authorization Policy</Description>
 <Target>
  <Subjects>
   <AnySubject />
  </Subjects>
  <Actions>
   <AnyAction />
  </Actions>
  <Resources>
   <AnyResource />
  </Resources>
 </Target>
 <Rule Effect="Permit" RuleId="primary-group-rule">
  <Target>
   <Subjects>
    <AnySubject />
   </Subjects>
   <Resources>
   <Resource>
    <ResourceMatch
     MatchId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:string-regexp-match">
     <AttributeValue DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">http://localhost:8280/services/echo/
     </AttributeValue>
     <ResourceAttributeDesignator
      AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:resource:resource-id"
      DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string" />
    </ResourceMatch>
   </Resource>
   </Resources>
   <Actions>
    <Action>
     <ActionMatch MatchId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:string-equal">
      <AttributeValue DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">read</AttributeValue>
      <ActionAttributeDesignator
       AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:action:action-id"
       DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string" />
     </ActionMatch>
    </Action>
   </Actions>
  </Target>
  <Condition>
   <Apply FunctionId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:string-subset">
    <Apply FunctionId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:string-bag">
     <AttributeValue DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">admin</AttributeValue>
    </Apply>
    <SubjectAttributeDesignator AttributeId="group"
     DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string" />
   </Apply>
  </Condition>
 </Rule>
 <Rule Effect="Deny" RuleId="deny-rule" />
</Policy>

Following are few valid requests which will result in "Permit/Not Applicable/Deny" once evaluated against the above policy.

XACML request - 1
Resource : http://localhost:8280/services/echo/
User : "admin" belongs only to "admin" group
Result : Permit

<Request xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:2.0:context:schema:os"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 <Subject>
  <Attribute AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:subject:subject-id"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>admin</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
  <Attribute AttributeId="group"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>admin</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
 </Subject>
 <Resource>
  <Attribute AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:resource:resource-id"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>http://localhost:8280/services/echo/</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
 </Resource>
 <Action>
  <Attribute AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:action:action-id"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>read</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
 </Action>
 <Environment />
</Request>

XACML request - 2
Resource : http://localhost:8280/services/echo/
User : "admin" belongs to "admin" group and "business" group
Result : Permit

<Request xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:2.0:context:schema:os"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 <Subject>
  <Attribute AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:subject:subject-id"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>admin</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
  <Attribute AttributeId="group"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>admin</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
  <Attribute AttributeId="group"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>business</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
 </Subject>
 <Resource>
  <Attribute AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:resource:resource-id"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>http://localhost:8280/services/echo/</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
 </Resource>
 <Action>
  <Attribute AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:action:action-id"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>read</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
 </Action>
 <Environment />
</Request>

XACML request - 3
Resource : http://localhost:8280/services/test/
User : "admin" belongs to "admin" group
Result : Deny

<Request xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:2.0:context:schema:os"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 <Subject>
  <Attribute AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:subject:subject-id"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>admin</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
  <Attribute AttributeId="group"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>admin</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
 </Subject>
 <Resource>
  <Attribute AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:resource:resource-id"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>http://localhost:8280/services/test/</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
 </Resource>
 <Action>
  <Attribute AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:action:action-id"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>read</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
 </Action>
 <Environment />
</Request>

XACML request - 4
Resource : http://localhost:8280/services/echo/
User : "admin" belongs to "business" group
Result : Deny

<Request xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:2.0:context:schema:os"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 <Subject>
  <Attribute AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:subject:subject-id"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>admin</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
  <Attribute AttributeId="group"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>business</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
 </Subject>
 <Resource>
  <Attribute AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:resource:resource-id"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>http://localhost:8280/services/echo/</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
 </Resource>
 <Action>
  <Attribute AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:action:action-id"
   DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
   <AttributeValue>read</AttributeValue>
  </Attribute>
 </Action>
 <Environment />
</Request>

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