From: <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'brian m. carlson'" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
"'Justin Steven'" <justin@justinsteven.com>
Cc: "'Glen Choo'" <chooglen@google.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"'Emily Shaffer'" <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
"'Taylor Blau'" <me@ttaylorr.com>
Subject: RE: Bare repositories in the working tree are a security risk
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 18:40:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <005d01d84ad0$782e8fc0$688baf40$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yk9hONuCIVIq6ieV@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>
On April 7, 2022 6:10 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:
>On 2022-04-07 at 21:53:26, Justin Steven wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm the author of one of the articles linked in Glen's mail. Thank you
>> Glen for summarising the problem beautifully and pushing this forward.
>>
>> Brian said:
>> > As mentioned elsewhere, git status doesn't work without a working tree.
>>
>> This is correct. However, it is possible to embed a bare repo that has
>> its own core.worktree which points to a directory within the
>> containing repo, satisfying the requirement of having a working tree.
>> This is covered in the article [1] and looks to be accounted for in
>> Taylor's reproducer script which admittedly I haven't run.
>>
>> > Instead, I'd rather see us avoid executing any program from the
>> > config or any hooks in a bare repository without a working tree
>> > (except for pushes). I think that would avoid breaking things while
>> > still improving security.
>>
>> Due to the fact that the embedded bare repo can be made to have a
>> working tree, this won't be an effective fix.
>
>Then we'd probably be better off just walking up the entire hierarchy and
>excluding worktrees from embedded bare repositories, or otherwise restricting
>the config we read. That will probably mean we'll need to walk the entire
>directory hierarchy to see if it's embedded (or at least to the root of the device) in
>such a case, but that should be relatively uncommon.
>
>I'd definitely like to see us make a security improvement here, but I also would like
>to avoid us breaking a lot of repositories, especially since we lack alternatives.
>
>If git fast-import could 100% correctly round-trip all commits and repositories, I
>would be much more open to blocking this in fsck after a deprecation period, but
>as it stands that's not possible. Perhaps improving that would be a suitable way
>forward.
One option relating to enable/disable this is to set up a config option that, by default is false, to allow embedded bare repositories. At least with enough warning that this option is required, it might be acceptable. I would prefer never to receive a bare repo through any means (including through a more worrying submodule). From an attack vector standpoint, I would be more concerned about this in an automation setting, say GitHub workflows or Jenkins GitSCM. At least with GitHub workflows, this is "somewhat" contained within VMs under GitHub's control - although not entirely. Jenkins is probably more vulnerable as the clones done through that path do not get the same scrutiny, although in my world, I use a dedicated non-root UID and sandbox the whole thing. This topic makes me nervous and wonder whether we should be self-reporting a CVE.
Shuddering,
Randall
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-07 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-06 22:43 Bare repositories in the working tree are a security risk Glen Choo
2022-04-06 23:22 ` [PATCH] fsck: detect bare repos in trees and warn Glen Choo
2022-04-07 12:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-04-07 13:21 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-04-07 14:14 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-04-14 20:02 ` Glen Choo
2022-04-15 12:46 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-04-07 15:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-13 22:24 ` Glen Choo
2022-04-07 13:12 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-04-07 15:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-07 18:38 ` Bare repositories in the working tree are a security risk John Cai
2022-04-07 21:24 ` brian m. carlson
2022-04-07 21:53 ` Justin Steven
2022-04-07 22:10 ` brian m. carlson
2022-04-07 22:40 ` rsbecker [this message]
2022-04-08 5:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-14 0:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-14 0:04 ` Glen Choo
2022-04-13 23:44 ` Glen Choo
2022-04-13 20:37 ` Glen Choo
2022-04-13 23:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-14 16:41 ` Glen Choo
2022-04-14 17:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-14 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-15 21:33 ` Glen Choo
2022-04-15 22:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-16 0:52 ` Taylor Blau
2022-04-15 22:43 ` Glen Choo
2022-04-15 20:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-15 23:45 ` Glen Choo
2022-04-15 23:59 ` Glen Choo
2022-04-16 1:00 ` Taylor Blau
2022-04-16 1:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-16 1:30 ` Taylor Blau
2022-04-16 0:34 ` Glen Choo
2022-04-16 0:41 ` Glen Choo
2022-04-16 1:28 ` Taylor Blau
2022-04-21 18:25 ` Emily Shaffer
2022-04-21 18:29 ` Emily Shaffer
2022-04-21 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-21 18:54 ` Taylor Blau
2022-04-21 19:09 ` Taylor Blau
2022-04-21 21:01 ` Emily Shaffer
2022-04-21 21:22 ` Taylor Blau
2022-04-29 23:57 ` Glen Choo
2022-04-30 1:14 ` Taylor Blau
2022-05-02 19:39 ` Glen Choo
2022-05-02 14:05 ` Philip Oakley
2022-05-02 18:50 ` Junio C Hamano
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