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Follow-up to #1150

ManualReviewQueue.jobs checked that someone was logged in, but not that the caller could actually review the queue it was handed; pendingJobCount and oldestJobCreatedAt had no check at all. Queue objects can reach these resolvers from parents that don't establish membership themselves, so we could still leak jobs and queue metadata.

  • User.favoriteMRTQueues keeps a favorite after access is revoked, and Org.users is readable by any authenticated org member, so org { users { favoriteMRTQueues { jobs } } } needed no permissions at all.

  • RoutingRule.destinationQueue bypasses queue permissions for EDIT_MRT_QUEUES holders, while getReviewableQueuesForUser returns nothing without VIEW_MRT, so that permission combination could reach a queue it had no queues for.

Add assertQueueIsReviewable and apply it to all three fields.

The reviewable-queue lookup is memoized on the GraphQL context rather than called per field to avoid two full queue fetches per queue when loading the dashboard.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved access control for manual review queues and related data.
    • Restricted existing-job searches to queues the viewer can review.
    • Prevented unauthorized access to queue jobs, counts, timestamps, reviewers, hidden actions, and report-clearing actions.
    • Improved handling when no reviewable queues are available.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for queue authorization and queue-scoped job searches.

serendipty01 and others added 3 commits September 9, 2026 16:28
Any authenticated user, regardless of role or queue membership, could
enumerate every MRT queue in an org and read or dequeue/lock every job in
them -- including CSAM/NCMEC-designated queues -- because Org.mrtQueues,
Query.manualReviewQueue, Query.getTotalPendingJobsCount, and
Mutation.dequeueManualReviewJob all resolved queues via the
*Dangerously*BypassPermissioning helpers with no permission or membership
check.

Switch those four call sites to getReviewableQueuesForUser, the existing
membership-aware lookup already used correctly elsewhere (e.g.
RoutingRule.destinationQueue, user.ts's reviewableQueues resolver). Add the
missing auth check on ManualReviewQueue.jobs (defense-in-depth; not
independently reachable today).

The *Dangerously*BypassPermissioning primitives themselves are kept --
RoutingRule.destinationQueue uses the same bypass correctly, gated behind
EDIT_MRT_QUEUES.

Fixes #1150

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
ManualReviewQueue.jobs checked that someone was logged in but never that the
caller could review the queue it was handed, and pendingJobCount and
oldestJobCreatedAt had no check at all. Queue objects reach these resolvers
from parents that don't establish membership themselves, so two traversals
still leaked jobs and queue metadata after the previous commit:

- User.favoriteMRTQueues keeps a favorite after access is revoked, and
  Org.users is readable by any authenticated org member, so
  `org { users { favoriteMRTQueues { jobs } } }` needed no permissions at all.
- RoutingRule.destinationQueue bypasses queue permissions for EDIT_MRT_QUEUES
  holders, while getReviewableQueuesForUser returns nothing without VIEW_MRT,
  so that permission combination could reach a queue it had no queues for.

Add assertQueueIsReviewable and apply it to all three fields. It mirrors
getReviewableQueuesForUser exactly, requiring VIEW_MRT and letting
EDIT_MRT_QUEUES see the whole org, plus a cross-org guard.

The reviewable-queue lookup is memoized on the GraphQL context rather than
called per field. The MRT dashboard asks for pendingJobCount and
oldestJobCreatedAt on every reviewable queue at once, so calling the lookup
inline would turn one dashboard load into two full queue fetches per queue.
Apollo builds a fresh context per request and the cache is populated before
the first await, so concurrent resolvers share one in-flight query.
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The change restricts manual review queue fields and existing-job searches to queues the caller can review. It adds request-scoped authorization, service-level queue filtering, and tests for unauthorized and empty-queue cases.

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Manual review access control

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GraphQL queue authorization and lookup scoping
server/graphql/modules/manualReviewTool.ts, server/graphql/modules/manualReviewTool.resolver.test.ts, CHANGELOG.md
Queue fields validate authentication, organization, and reviewable queue access. Existing-job lookup passes the caller’s reviewable queue IDs. Tests cover authorization failures, memoization, and successful resolver paths.
Service-level queue filtering
server/services/manualReviewToolService/..., server/test/fixtureHelpers/createMrtQueue.ts
getExistingJobsForItem requires queue IDs, skips queries for an empty list, and filters recent job creations by queue. Service tests cover matching, non-matching, and empty queue sets. The fixture accepts custom names.

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  participant GraphQLResolver
  participant ManualReviewToolService
  participant userAPI
  GraphQLResolver->>ManualReviewToolService: getUsersWhoCanSeeQueue
  ManualReviewToolService-->>GraphQLResolver: Return reviewable queue IDs
  GraphQLResolver->>ManualReviewToolService: Resolve queue-scoped data
  ManualReviewToolService->>userAPI: getGraphQLUsersFromIds
  userAPI-->>ManualReviewToolService: Return GraphQL users
  ManualReviewToolService-->>GraphQLResolver: Return authorized data
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The resolver handed the service only an org id, so getExistingJobsForItem
scanned every queue in the org and returned full pending job payloads for
any item, regardless of the caller's access to those queues -- the same
bypass class as #1150. It now resolves the caller's reviewable queues up
front and passes their IDs down, and the service filters the job_creations
lookup to that set.
explicitlyAssignedReviewers, hiddenActionIds, and clearReportsTriggerActionIds
still gated on authentication alone, so a revoked member (whose queue stays in
favoriteMRTQueues) or an EDIT_MRT_QUEUES holder reaching the queue through
RoutingRule.destinationQueue could read queue membership and moderation config.
Extend assertQueueIsReviewable to all three, matching jobs/pendingJobCount/
oldestJobCreatedAt, and have the helper return the caller so the resolvers stop
re-fetching it.
@cassidyjames cassidyjames changed the title Fix more queue access controls Additional hardening for queue access controls Sep 10, 2026
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Queue names are unique per org and the fixture hardcoded `test-queue`, so the
new getExistingJobsForItem scoping test failed with
ManualReviewQueueNameExistsError as soon as it created a second queue in an org
the fixture had already set up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WcuVs559fcXVPycArcjJBS
Scoping getExistingJobsForItem to the caller's queues left an empty queue set
reaching the query builder, and Kysely compiles that filter to `in ()`, which
Postgres rejects outright. Any caller without VIEW_MRT -- or with it but no
queue memberships -- got a 500 where the correct answer is an empty list.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WcuVs559fcXVPycArcjJBS
The resolver called getReviewableQueuesForUser directly, so a query that also
asked for queue-scoped fields paid for two full queue fetches. It only needs the
IDs, so the memoized lookup fits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WcuVs559fcXVPycArcjJBS

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i think there may be a cache invalidation bug here. but there's also a broader question about whether we can avoid the complexity of caching by making our API more standard graphQL-like!

reviewableQueueIds: ['q-1'],
});
await expect(
ManualReviewQueue.oldestJobCreatedAt(

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our graphQL API is a bit weird here, which means it's a lot of extra work to do these permission checks!

a standard graphQL would look more like

query {
  queue(id: $ID!) {
    pendingJobCount
    oldestJobCreatedAt
    # and so on...
  }
}

then you'd only need to do the permission check once, in the queue resolver.

anyway, just a thought, i realize it's out of scope for this PR.

* The queue-scoped fields below each resolve one queue at a time, but the MRT
* dashboard asks for them on every reviewable queue at once. The GraphQL
* context is a fresh object per request, so memoizing on it keeps the
* reviewability lookup to one query per request instead of one per queue.

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this would be better resolved by refactoring the API (see my other comment).

IMO we could also exclude the memoization here, for simplicity, and then refactor the API in a follow-up.

context: Context,
user: GraphQLUserParent,
) {
const cached = reviewableQueueIdsByRequest.get(context);

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hmm, how does cache invalidation work here? what if the server runs for a long time, and permissions change -- we'd need to invalidate this cache in that scenario, right?

i'd suggest removing the caching for now and refactoring the API instead. (you can assign that to me if you agree!)

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@taobojlen thanks for the review! I think some of this got handled directly in #1151, and there's a bunch of conflicts here now, so I'm going to close this PR. Please feel free to open any additional improvements or refactors separately. :)

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