Guix services: ‘chmod’ leaves opportunity to leak secrets

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  • Maxime Devos
  • Xinglu Chen
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Xinglu Chen wrote on 6 Jun 2021 14:51
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
87y2bn5f6v.fsf@yoctocell.xyz
[ This was reported on the Nixpkgs bug tracker a few weeks ago

When doing something like

(call-with-output-file FILE
(lambda (port)
(display SECRET port)))
(chmod FILE #o400)

an unpriviliged user could open FILE before FILE had been chmod’ed, and
then read the contents of FILE.

One solution to this problem would be to use

(mkdir (dirname FILE) #o400)

before writing SECRET to FILE.

I have identified at least two services which are vulnerable to this:

* ‘wireguard-service-type’ in (gnu services vpn)
* ‘patchwork-service-type’ in (gnu servicse web)
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Maxime Devos wrote on 8 Jun 2021 10:55
74f0e45af9ab426a5105452f191cffad337ca7ce.camel@telenet.be
Xinglu Chen schreef op zo 06-06-2021 om 14:51 [+0200]:
Toggle quote (19 lines)
> [ This was reported on the Nixpkgs bug tracker a few weeks ago
> <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/121293> ]
>
> When doing something like
>
> (call-with-output-file FILE
> (lambda (port)
> (display SECRET port)))
> (chmod FILE #o400)
>
> an unpriviliged user could open FILE before FILE had been chmod’ed, and
> then read the contents of FILE.
>
> One solution to this problem would be to use
>
> (mkdir (dirname FILE) #o400)
>
> before writing SECRET to FILE.

Alternatively, a variant of call-with-output-file
could be defined that has a #:perms argument.

This new procedure, let's call it call-with-output-file*,
could create a file with the right permissions with
(open "/etc/...-secret" (bitwise-ior O_WRONLY O_CREAT) #o400)
or something like that.

Then the vulnerable code above would become ...

(call-with-output-file* FILE
(lambda (port)
(display SECRET port))
#:perms #o400)

This seems a bit easier in usage to me!
No need to worry if changing the permissions of the parent
directory would break anything this way.

Greetings,
Maxime.
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Xinglu Chen wrote on 8 Jun 2021 16:42
874ke8s9i4.fsf@yoctocell.xyz
On Tue, Jun 08 2021, Maxime Devos wrote:

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> Xinglu Chen schreef op zo 06-06-2021 om 14:51 [+0200]:
>> [ This was reported on the Nixpkgs bug tracker a few weeks ago
>> <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/121293> ]
>>
>> When doing something like
>>
>> (call-with-output-file FILE
>> (lambda (port)
>> (display SECRET port)))
>> (chmod FILE #o400)
>>
>> an unpriviliged user could open FILE before FILE had been chmod’ed, and
>> then read the contents of FILE.
>>
>> One solution to this problem would be to use
>>
>> (mkdir (dirname FILE) #o400)
>>
>> before writing SECRET to FILE.
>
> Alternatively, a variant of call-with-output-file
> could be defined that has a #:perms argument.
>
> This new procedure, let's call it call-with-output-file*,
> could create a file with the right permissions with
> (open "/etc/...-secret" (bitwise-ior O_WRONLY O_CREAT) #o400)
> or something like that.
>
> Then the vulnerable code above would become ...
>
> (call-with-output-file* FILE
> (lambda (port)
> (display SECRET port))
> #:perms #o400)
>
> This seems a bit easier in usage to me!
> No need to worry if changing the permissions of the parent
> directory would break anything this way.

Indeed, this sounds like a better approach!
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