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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:55:49 -0700
From: Andrew Gaul <gaul@...che.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: TMP flaw in rackspace jclouds?

[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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