Fixed privilege escalation issue where manually set external users would be…

doc/integration/omniauth.md

@@ -127,9 +127,15 @@ The chosen OmniAuth provider is now active and can be used to sign in to GitLab
 This setting was introduced with version 8.7 of GitLab
 
 You can define which OmniAuth providers you want to be `external` so that all users
-creating accounts via these providers will not be able to have access to internal
-projects. You will need to use the full name of the provider, like `google_oauth2`
-for Google. Refer to the examples for the full names of the supported providers.
+**creating accounts, or logging in via these providers** will not be able to have
+access to internal projects. You will need to use the full name of the provider,
+like `google_oauth2` for Google. Refer to the examples for the full names of the
+supported providers.
+
+>**Note:**
+If you decide to remove an OmniAuth provider from the external providers list
+you will need to manually update the users that use this method to login, if you
+want their accounts to be upgraded to full internal accounts.
 
 **For Omnibus installations**
 

lib/gitlab/o_auth/user.rb

@@ -56,8 +56,6 @@ module Gitlab
 
         if external_provider? && @user
           @user.external = true
-        elsif @user
-          @user.external = false
         end
 
         @user

spec/lib/gitlab/o_auth/user_spec.rb

@@ -51,12 +51,25 @@ describe Gitlab::OAuth::User, lib: true do
         end
 
         context 'provider was external, now has been removed' do
-          it 'should mark existing user internal' do
+          it 'should not mark external user as internal' do
             create(:omniauth_user, extern_uid: 'my-uid', provider: 'twitter', external: true)
             stub_omniauth_config(allow_single_sign_on: ['twitter'], external_providers: ['facebook'])
             oauth_user.save
             expect(gl_user).to be_valid
-            expect(gl_user.external).to be_falsey
+            expect(gl_user.external).to be_truthy
+          end
+        end
+
+        context 'provider is not external' do
+          context 'when adding a new OAuth identity' do
+            it 'should not promote an external user to internal' do
+              user = create(:user, email: 'john@mail.com', external: true)
+              user.identities.create(provider: provider, extern_uid: uid)
+
+              oauth_user.save
+              expect(gl_user).to be_valid
+              expect(gl_user.external).to be_truthy
+            end
           end
         end