[prateek-0490]

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Description

The authorization rules for running a report against selected teams validate the selection by comparing the number of teams the caller has a qualifying role on to the number of teams selected. An empty selection satisfied that comparison with nothing to validate, so it passed regardless of the caller's roles.

This treats an empty team selection the same as an omitted one — clients send both, and they mean the same thing — so it is evaluated by the rules that require a qualifying role. The rules that compare counts now also require a selection, so an empty list can no longer satisfy them.

Note that the web UI always sends an empty list rather than omitting the field, so the two spellings had to be made equivalent rather than rejecting the empty one; that path is covered by the added tests.

Checklist for submitter

• Changes file added for user-visible changes in changes/.

Testing

• Added/updated automated tests — the policy tests now cover an explicitly empty team selection alongside the existing omitted-selection cases, for global and team-scoped reports, asserting that it behaves identically to omitting the field for every role.
• QA'd all new/changed functionality manually — verified on a local instance that running a saved global report with an empty team selection is authorized for a team maintainer (the UI path) and rejected for a team GitOps user, and that naming a team the caller has no role on is still rejected.

cc @lukeheath for review.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Corrected authorization for live queries when no teams are selected.
  • Empty team selections now follow the same access rules as omitted team targets.
  • Prevented empty team lists from being incorrectly treated as valid team matches.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for empty team selections across global, observer, and team-scoped access scenarios.

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Walkthrough

Authorization now treats omitted and explicitly empty team selections as no-target queries. Targeted-query rules require non-empty team lists before validating team matches or team roles. Tests cover global, team-scoped, and observer-enabled queries across roleless, observer, technician, maintainer, administrator, and GitOps roles.

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The change makes empty and omitted team selections follow the same authorization rules and adds coverage for that behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: 1 …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title is concise and directly related to the authorization change. It highlights the new requirement that prevents empty selections from passing team-target validation, although it does not state …
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is complete and on topic. It explains the authorization issue, the behavior change, the client compatibility requirement, the added tests, and the manual QA results. The required chang…
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The title is concise and directly related to the authorization change. It highlights the new requirement that prevents empty selections from passing team-target validation, although it does not state that omitted and empty selections are treated equivalently.

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server/authz/policy_test.go (1)

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Exercise the explicit empty fixture for the global observer role.

globalObserverQueryEmptyTeamTargets is not tested with test.UserObserver; that group only covers the omitted-target fixture. Add an allow case for the explicit empty list to verify null and []uint{} remain equivalent for global observer authorization.

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In `@server/authz/policy_test.go` around lines 1483 - 1486, Extend the relevant
authorization test cases for test.UserObserver to include
globalObserverQueryEmptyTeamTargets, adding an allow assertion for the explicit
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In `@changes/17210-run-query-empty-team-targets`:
- Line 1: Update the change note to state that an empty team selection uses the
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In `@server/authz/policy_test.go`:
- Around line 1483-1486: Extend the relevant authorization test cases for
test.UserObserver to include globalObserverQueryEmptyTeamTargets, adding an
allow assertion for the explicit empty TeamIDs fixture alongside the existing
omitted-target case. Verify both null and []uint{} target representations remain
authorized equivalently.

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[juan-fdz-hawa]

Don't you also need to validate the targets before creating the campaign as well (per the Aikido issue)?

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@juan-fdz-hawa Checked this properly rather than going from the Aikido text. Short version: campaign persistence is already gated, but you made me find a related wart that isn't.

In NewDistributedQueryCampaign (server/service/campaigns.go:42) the order is Authorize(ActionRun) on the TargetedQuery — targets included — and only then ds.NewDistributedQueryCampaign. So the target check does run before the campaign row is written, and the policy change is what makes it reject an empty selection. I confirmed with a test driving the reported actor: a team-scoped GitOps user with teams: [] gets forbidden, and neither a query row nor a campaign row is written. So I don't think a separate validate-before-persist step is needed for the reported vector — the "validate targets before campaign persistence" line in the Aikido remediation is already satisfied by where the authz call sits.

What I did find: in the ad-hoc path, where query_id is omitted and a raw query string is passed, ds.NewQuery persists a queries row before the target authorization runs. A caller who passes run_new but fails run leaves that row behind. Observer_plus targeting a team it has no role on reproduces it — forbidden, no campaign, but the query row is committed. GitOps can't reach it since it fails run_new first, so it isn't the reported issue, and it predates this change.

Happy to move the NewQuery call below the ActionRun check, but it's a shared path and unrelated to the empty-teams bug, so I'd rather do it separately than widen this PR unless you'd prefer it here.

Also fixed the changes note per your suggestion, and picked up CodeRabbit's point about the global observer empty-list case.