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COM API: return an error, not success, when the caller is not a server admin
Fifteen COM methods rejected an unauthorized caller with `return false`. These
functions return HRESULT, where false is 0 - which is S_OK. Every one of them
reported success for a call it had just refused.
The consequences differ by method but none are benign:
- InterfaceCache's five getters return before writing *pVal, so a caller
without server-admin rights receives S_OK and reads whatever happened to be
in the out-parameter. Uninitialized memory handed to any COM client.
- InterfaceSettings::SetAdministratorPassword and five siblings skip the write
and report success, so a caller is told the administrator password changed
when it did not.
- InterfaceMessageIndexing's four methods behave the same way.
This is the file's own convention being broken rather than a design choice:
InterfaceSettings.cpp already returns authentication_->GetAccessDenied() in
twelve other places, and each of the fifteen sites calls GetAccessDenied() one
line above for the null-config check. They now do the same for the
authorization check.
Found by running CodeQL's C++ suite locally. The workflow analyses csharp only,
so 4.65 MB of network-facing code - the largest language in the repository and
the entire protocol surface - had never been scanned. The scan returned 16
high-severity findings, 15 of them these. Re-running it after the fix returns
1: cpp/incorrect-string-type-conversion in FileUtilities.cpp, which is a false
positive - the cast binds before the +1, so it skips a UTF-16 BOM rather than a
byte.
Builds clean under /WX. Note the regression suite could not be used to validate
this: ESET's mail proxying rewrites the IMAP literal continuation on this
machine and fails 536 of 1026 tests regardless of the change.1 parent 2dbf606 commit e20b878
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