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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:03:34 +0200
From: Ignasi Barrera <nacx@...che.org>
To: private@...ouds.apache.org
Cc: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: TMP flaw in rackspace jclouds?

Thanks Andrew! I'll test your patch in a while and give feedback.
El 20/06/2014 00:56, "Andrew Gaul" <gaul@...che.org> escribió:

> [bcc: jclouds private list]
>
> I attached a patch which changes ScriptBuilder to use the "mktemp -d"
> approach that Ignasi suggested.  I verified this against the ec2 live
> tests, specifically testCreateAndRunAService, as well as the
> scriptbuilder unit tests.  I encourage someone more familiar with
> compute to test this since I have limited experience with those
> services.
>
> The code runs on the target node as Ignasi describes and thus it poses
> no risk to the master jclouds application.  However, users could run
> untrusted software on their target nodes and we should address this in
> the next minor release.  I estimate a low severity to this issue and
> prefer to continue discussion on the public bug tracker.  Does anyone
> have a different understanding of this flaw?
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 09:32:25AM +0200, Ignasi Barrera wrote:
> > Take into account that the "statement" list will be rendered to a String,
> > composed with other script fragments into a final bash script, uploaded
> to
> > a node, and executed there locally as a bash script.
> >
> > That code won't be executed in the machine running jclouds, but as a bash
> > script in the provisioned node, so the name of the temporal directory
> > should better be generated in the script itself. A good approach would be
> > to directly use the "mktemp"command.
> > El 19/06/2014 06:36, "Andrew Gaul" <gaul@...che.org> escribió:
> >
> > > Kurt, thank you for bringing this flaw to my attention and I will
> > > address it tomorrow.  I do not have a security background; can you
> > > estimate the severity and whether we can continue discussion on the
> > > public bug tracker?  For now I have bcc the Apache jclouds private
> > > mailing list.  Also note that jclouds is an Apache project not a
> > > Rackspace project and the canonical URLs are:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds
> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 08:52:59PM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > > Hash: SHA1
> > > >
> > > > https://github.com/rackspace/jclouds/
> > > >
> > > > So CC'ing Andrew, he's a consistent contributor, I can't file an
> issue
> > > > in Github (no link to it) so posting here and CC'ing him.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> https://github.com/rackspace/jclouds/blob/master/scriptbuilder/src/main/java/org/jclouds/scriptbuilder/domain/Statements.java
> > > >
> > > >   public static Statement extractTargzAndFlattenIntoDirectory(URI
> tgz,
> > > > String dest) {
> > > >       return new StatementList(ImmutableSet.<Statement> builder()
> > > >             .add(exec("mkdir /tmp/$$"))
> > > >             .add(extractTargzIntoDirectory(tgz, "/tmp/$$"))
> > > >             .add(exec("mkdir -p " + dest))
> > > >             .add(exec("mv /tmp/$$/*/* " + dest))
> > > >             .add(exec("rm -rf /tmp/$$")).build());
> > > >    }
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This is insecure, $$ == PID == predictable
> > > >
> > > >
> http://kurt.seifried.org/2012/03/14/creating-temporary-files-securely/
> > > >
> > > > use java.io.File.createTempFile() ? some interesting info at
> > > >
> > >
> http://www.veracode.com/blog/2009/01/how-boring-flaws-become-interesting/
> > > >
> > > > for directories there is a helpful posting at
> > > >
> > >
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/617414/create-a-temporary-directory-in-java
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > - --
> > > > Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud
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> > >
> > > --
> > > Andrew Gaul
> > > http://gaul.org/
> > >
>
> --
> Andrew Gaul
> http://gaul.org/
>

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