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Reject party/role combinations the party does not hold for TimesheetRole and RequirementRole - #2006

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createTimesheetRole and createRequirementRole have the identical unvalidated-PartyRole gap already fixed for TaxAuthority (#1692), Invoice/BillingAccount/FinAccount roles (#1727), and BudgetRole (#1736): a free-choice RoleType dropdown (AddTimesheetRole in TimesheetForms.xml, AddRequirementRole in RequirementForms.xml) feeding straight into an unconditional ensurePartyRole invoke-eca, so any party/role combination is silently accepted and a spurious PartyRole gets fabricated even when the party doesn't already hold that role.

Both forms submit directly to their respective create service, and neither service has any other caller anywhere in the codebase (verified with a search across XML, Groovy, and Java — not just the immediate eca/form pair). That makes the fix a direct mirror of the already-merged/reviewed pattern: an in-validate eca calling the existing checkPartyRoleExists service before the invoke eca that runs ensurePartyRole.

No JIRA ticket filed for this one specifically — found via a source-reading sweep for the same bug shape after the sibling PRs, rather than a separate bug report. Happy to file one if that's preferred before review.

Scope note — two related findings deliberately NOT included here

While sweeping for this pattern, two more services turned up with the same free-choice "assign role" form: createContentRole and createQuoteRole. Neither is included in this PR, because both are also the actual mechanism their own components use internally to legitimately grant a brand-new role to a party that doesn't hold it yet:

  • createContentRole is called by ContentManagementServices.java's updateSiteRoles/addRoleToUser to bootstrap a user's first-time site access.
  • createQuoteRole is called by QuoteServicesScript.groovy to assign REQ_TAKER/INTERNAL_ORGANIZATIO when a quote is created, and to copy roles when a customer request converts to a quote.

A blanket in-validate eca on either service would reject those legitimate internal grants along with the real vulnerability in their respective "assign role" forms. Fixing those two properly needs validation scoped to the form-submission path rather than the service itself, which is a different (and more careful) change — flagging here in case it's worth a separate ticket, rather than silently dropping the finding or risking a regression by rushing a blanket fix into this PR.

Testing

  • applications/workeffort/servicedef/secas.xml, applications/order/servicedef/secas.xml, and applications/workeffort/testdef/workefforttests.xml all validate against their real XSD schemas (xmllint --schema).
  • Added TimesheetRoleTests (new file) and two tests to the existing OrderRequirementTests, both following the established pattern from the BillingAccount/FinAccount fixes: a negative case using DemoCustomer + CARRIER (a role its seeded PartyRole set — BILL_TO_CUSTOMER/CONTACT/CUSTOMER/END_USER_CUSTOMER/PLACING_CUSTOMER/SHIP_TO_CUSTOMER — provably does not include) and a positive case using a role it already holds.
  • ./gradlew compileTestGroovy checkstyleMain checkstyleTest codenarcMain codenarcTest — all BUILD SUCCESSFUL.
  • No running OFBiz + DB instance available in this environment to execute the Groovy tests end-to-end — disclosed honestly, same limitation as the prior PRs in this series.

karthikchundi-commits and others added 3 commits August 24, 2026 20:20
…OFBIZ-12372, OFBIZ-12373)

InvoiceRole, BillingAccountRole, and FinAccountRole all let a user submit
any partyId + roleTypeId combination with no validation that the party
actually holds that role. For InvoiceRole this hits the InvoiceRole/
PartyRole foreign key constraint and surfaces a raw SQL error. For
BillingAccountRole and FinAccountRole, an unconditional ensurePartyRole
eca instead silently fabricates a PartyRole record for the submitted
roleTypeId, regardless of whether it makes sense for that party.

Adds a small, reusable checkPartyRoleExists service (party component,
mirroring the existing ensureNaPartyRole helper) that looks up PartyRole
by (partyId, roleTypeId) and, if missing, fails with the same
PartyRoleAssociationRequired message already used for this exact class of
bug in createWorkEffortAndPartyAssign. Wires it as an in-validate eca on
createInvoiceRole, createBillingAccountRole, and createFinAccountRole, so
invalid combinations are rejected before the existing invoke-event
ensurePartyRole ecas ever run.

Adds regression tests: a negative case per ticket proving the
party/role combination is now rejected (and, for BillingAccountRole/
FinAccountRole, that no PartyRole is fabricated), plus a new
AutoAcctgBillingAccountTests suite since BillingAccountRole had no
existing test coverage.

Signed-off-by: Karth <karthik.chundi@gmail.com>
… (OFBIZ-12371)

Same bug shape already fixed for InvoiceRole/BillingAccountRole/
FinAccountRole: createBudgetRole's unconditional ensurePartyRole invoke
eca silently fabricates a PartyRole record for whatever roleTypeId is
submitted, with no validation that the party actually holds (or should
hold) that role.

Wires the existing checkPartyRoleExists service (added for the other
three role types) as an in-validate eca on createBudgetRole, so invalid
combinations are rejected before the invoke-event ensurePartyRole eca
ever runs. Adds a positive-case and negative-case regression test to
AutoAcctgBudgetTests, following the same pattern used for the other
three role types.

Depends on the checkPartyRoleExists service already added for
OFBIZ-12370/12372/12373 (open as apache#1727) - this
change is a no-op without it.

Signed-off-by: Karth <karthik.chundi@gmail.com>
…ole and RequirementRole

createTimesheetRole and createRequirementRole have the identical
unvalidated-PartyRole gap already fixed for TaxAuthority (apache#1692),
Invoice/BillingAccount/FinAccount roles (apache#1727), and BudgetRole
(apache#1736): a free-choice RoleType dropdown feeding straight into an
unconditional ensurePartyRole invoke-eca, so any party/role
combination is silently accepted and a spurious PartyRole is
fabricated even when the party doesn't legitimately hold that role.

Both AddTimesheetRole (TimesheetForms.xml) and AddRequirementRole
(RequirementForms.xml) submit directly to their respective create
service with no other caller anywhere in the codebase (verified via a
search across XML/Groovy/Java, not just the immediate eca/form pair),
so the fix mirrors the existing pattern exactly: an in-validate eca
calling the already-built checkPartyRoleExists service before the
invoke-eca that runs ensurePartyRole.

Two other services flagged during this pass - createContentRole and
createQuoteRole - have the same free-choice dropdown on their "assign
role" forms, but are NOT included here: both are also the mechanism
their own components use internally to legitimately grant a brand-new
role a party doesn't hold yet (createContentRole via
ContentManagementServices.java's updateSiteRoles/addRoleToUser
bootstrapping site access; createQuoteRole via
QuoteServicesScript.groovy assigning REQ_TAKER/INTERNAL_ORGANIZATIO
when a quote is created, and copying CustRequestParty roles onto a
converted quote). A blanket in-validate eca on either service would
reject those legitimate internal grants, not just the vulnerable
direct-form path. Fixing those two needs a different approach (validating
at the form-submission event level, not the service level) and is left
for separate follow-up rather than risking a regression here.

Verified: applications/workeffort/servicedef/secas.xml,
applications/order/servicedef/secas.xml, and
applications/workeffort/testdef/workefforttests.xml all validate
against their real XSD schemas (xmllint --schema). Added
TimesheetRoleTests (new) and two tests to the existing
OrderRequirementTests, both following the established pattern: a
negative case using DemoCustomer + CARRIER (a role its seeded
PartyRole set - BILL_TO_CUSTOMER/CONTACT/CUSTOMER/
END_USER_CUSTOMER/PLACING_CUSTOMER/SHIP_TO_CUSTOMER - provably does
not include) and a positive case using a role it already holds.
`./gradlew compileTestGroovy checkstyleMain checkstyleTest codenarcMain
codenarcTest` all BUILD SUCCESSFUL. No running OFBiz+DB instance
available in this environment to execute the Groovy tests end-to-end -
disclosed honestly, same limitation as prior PRs in this series.

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Karth <karthik.chundi@gmail.com>
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