Add audit/ with 8 named CVE regression checks against doos

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# CVE-2016-5195: see README.md in this directory.
DOOS ?= $(abspath ../../build/doos)
export DOOS
.PHONY: test
test:
@./reproduce.sh "$(DOOS)"
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# CVE-2016-5195: "Dirty COW": race condition in copy-on-write handling of private read-only mappings
**Scope:** [audit](../README.md) · [README](../../README.md) · [COMPARISON](../../COMPARISON.md) · [docs/RESEARCH](../../docs/RESEARCH.md)
CVSS 7.0-7.2. Fixed in Linux 4.8.3 (and backported to every maintained branch since).
## Source
- [Ubuntu advisory](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5195)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5195)
## Relevance to doos
A race in the memory manager's copy-on-write handling let a local user write to memory
that should have been read-only, including on-disk binaries mapped read-only. Like
Dirty Pipe, this needs no container-specific trigger; any unprivileged process on a
vulnerable kernel is affected, with or without doos.
## What the check does
Kernel version only. Fixed in 4.8.3 and every branch since; on a host running anything
from the last several years this is expected to PASS trivially. It is kept in the list
to complete the "shared-kernel" risk category doos itself names in
COMPARISON.md section 6, not because it is expected to ever FAIL on a maintained host.
## Caveats
Same version-check limits as CVE-2022-0847: distribution kernels sometimes backport
fixes without a version bump this check recognizes; it reports the implication of the
reported version, not a scan of the kernel's actual code.
Run: `make test` in this directory, or `make -C audit test` from the repo root.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# CVE-2016-5195 (Dirty COW): kernel version against the fixed release. No exploit code.
set -u
skip() { echo "SKIP: $*"; exit 0; }
fail() { echo "FAIL: $*"; exit 1; }
pass() { echo "PASS: $*"; exit 0; }
ver=$(uname -r | grep -oE '^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?')
major=$(echo "$ver" | cut -d. -f1)
minor=$(echo "$ver" | cut -d. -f2)
patch=$(echo "$ver" | cut -d. -f3); patch=${patch:-0}
if [ "$major" -gt 4 ] 2>/dev/null; then
pass "kernel $ver, major version past 4.x, long past the Dirty COW fix (4.8.3)"
fi
if [ "$major" -eq 4 ] && [ "$minor" -gt 8 ]; then
pass "kernel $ver is past 4.8, past the Dirty COW fix"
fi
if [ "$major" -eq 4 ] && [ "$minor" -eq 8 ] && [ "$patch" -ge 3 ]; then
pass "kernel $ver is at or past the fixed 4.8.3"
fi
if [ "$major" -lt 2 ] 2>/dev/null; then
skip "could not parse kernel version from 'uname -r': $(uname -r)"
fi
fail "kernel $ver predates the Dirty COW fix (4.8.3); this bug has existed since 2.6.22"
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# CVE-2019-5736: see README.md in this directory.
DOOS ?= $(abspath ../../build/doos)
export DOOS
.PHONY: test
test:
@./reproduce.sh "$(DOOS)"
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# CVE-2019-5736: runc container escape via /proc/self/exe overwrite
**Scope:** [audit](../README.md) · [README](../../README.md) · [COMPARISON](../../COMPARISON.md) · [docs/RESEARCH](../../docs/RESEARCH.md)
CVSS 7.2. Fixed in runc 1.0.0-rc7, Docker 18.09.2.
## Source
- [Ubuntu security notice](https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/runc/55877)
- [Trend Micro writeup](https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/be/security/news/vulnerabilities-and-exploits/cve-2019-5736-runc-container-escape-vulnerability-provides-root-access-to-the-target-machine)
## Relevance to doos
runc re-executes itself through `/proc/self/exe` as part of its container-start
sequence. A root process inside the container could replace its own `/bin/sh` with a
script whose interpreter line was `#!/proc/self/exe`, so the *host's* runc binary ran
in place of the container's shell, then race a write to that open file descriptor to
overwrite the host runc binary itself.
doos has no equivalent re-exec step: `doos attach` builds the namespace set and calls
the target command directly from the same process, there is no second doos invocation
from inside the container. The applicable half of this bug class for doos is the other
one: in host mode the container's `/usr` is the *same files* as the host's, through
overlayfs, so a write to a binary the container can see (such as doos's own binary, if
installed under `/usr/local/bin`) must never reach the host's real file.
## What the check does
Builds a host-mode container, overwrites a file under the overlaid `/usr` from inside
it (anything, not specifically doos's own binary, to keep the check independent of
where this `doos` happens to be installed), exits, then compares the real host file's
checksum before and after. A difference is FAIL.
## Caveats
This does not reproduce the runc bug's mechanism (there is no self re-exec to race);
it tests the property that would have mattered if it did: host binaries are read-only
from a container's point of view. Needs `sha256sum` and a host-mode attach to work.
Run: `make test` in this directory, or `make -C audit test` from the repo root.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# CVE-2019-5736: host binaries must stay unwritable from inside a host-mode container.
set -u
DOOS="${1:-}"
name() { echo "$0"; }
skip() { echo "SKIP: $*"; exit 0; }
fail() { echo "FAIL: $*"; exit 1; }
pass() { echo "PASS: $*"; exit 0; }
[ -x "$DOOS" ] || skip "no doos binary at '$DOOS'"
command -v sha256sum >/dev/null || skip "sha256sum not installed"
TARGET=/usr/bin/true
[ -r "$TARGET" ] || skip "$TARGET not present or not readable on this host"
TMP=$(mktemp -d)
trap 'rm -rf "$TMP"' EXIT
export DOOS_HOME="$TMP/home"
before=$(sha256sum "$TARGET" | cut -d' ' -f1)
out=$("$DOOS" attach --net none audit5736 -- sh -c "echo clobber > '$TARGET' 2>/dev/null; echo done" 2>&1)
rc=$?
"$DOOS" delete --yes audit5736 >/dev/null 2>&1
after=$(sha256sum "$TARGET" | cut -d' ' -f1)
if [ "$before" != "$after" ]; then
fail "host $TARGET changed after a container wrote to the overlaid path (before=$before after=$after)"
fi
pass "host $TARGET unchanged after an attempted overwrite from inside the container (doos exit=$rc)"
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# CVE-2020-15257: see README.md in this directory.
DOOS ?= $(abspath ../../build/doos)
export DOOS
.PHONY: test
test:
@./reproduce.sh "$(DOOS)"
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# CVE-2020-15257: containerd-shim API reachable from a container sharing the host network namespace
**Scope:** [audit](../README.md) · [README](../../README.md) · [COMPARISON](../../COMPARISON.md) · [docs/RESEARCH](../../docs/RESEARCH.md)
CVSS 5.2 (Medium). Fixed in containerd 1.3.9 / 1.4.3.
## Source
- [Ubuntu advisory](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-15257)
- [Tenable entry](https://www.tenable.com/cve/CVE-2020-15257)
## Relevance to doos
containerd-shim listened on an abstract Unix domain socket and only checked the caller's
effective UID (0), not which namespace it called from. A container sharing the host's
network namespace (abstract sockets are namespaced by the *network* namespace, not the
mount namespace) could reach that socket and ask the shim to start processes with the
shim's own privileges.
doos documents this exact mechanism as a known, explicit trade-off of `--net host`: it
shares the host's abstract socket namespace and prints a note recommending `pasta`
instead (README "Networking" table, COMPARISON.md section 6). This check turns that
documentation claim into a measurement: a container must get its own network namespace
in every mode except the explicit, opt-in `--net host`.
## What the check does
Abstract unix sockets are namespaced by the *network* namespace, not the mount namespace, so
the mechanism this CVE needs is simply: does the container get its own network namespace at
all. The check compares `readlink /proc/self/ns/net` from the host against the same read from
inside a `--net none`, a default-mode, and a `--net host` container. The first two must differ
from the host's (their own namespace, host abstract sockets out of view); `--net host` sharing
the host's is the documented, opt-in exposure, not a regression.
## Caveats
Does not open an actual abstract socket and attempt a cross-namespace connection; it checks the
namespace identity directly, which is what determines reachability for every process in that
namespace, not only the one this script happens to start. `pasta` is not checked here, since the
README already measures it as using a private socket namespace.
Run: `make test` in this directory, or `make -C audit test` from the repo root.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# CVE-2020-15257: a container must get its own network namespace (which removes the host's
# abstract unix sockets from view) in every net mode except the explicit, documented --net host.
set -u
DOOS="${1:-}"
skip() { echo "SKIP: $*"; exit 0; }
fail() { echo "FAIL: $*"; exit 1; }
pass() { echo "PASS: $*"; exit 0; }
[ -x "$DOOS" ] || skip "no doos binary at '$DOOS'"
TMP=$(mktemp -d)
trap 'rm -rf "$TMP"' EXIT
export DOOS_HOME="$TMP/home"
host_ns=$(readlink /proc/self/ns/net 2>/dev/null) || skip "cannot read /proc/self/ns/net on this host"
none_ns=$("$DOOS" attach --net none auditns_none -- readlink /proc/self/ns/net 2>/dev/null | tail -1)
"$DOOS" delete --yes auditns_none >/dev/null 2>&1
default_ns=$("$DOOS" attach auditns_default -- readlink /proc/self/ns/net 2>/dev/null | tail -1)
"$DOOS" delete --yes auditns_default >/dev/null 2>&1
host_mode_ns=$("$DOOS" attach --net host auditns_host -- readlink /proc/self/ns/net 2>/dev/null | tail -1)
"$DOOS" delete --yes auditns_host >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ -z "$none_ns" ] || [ -z "$default_ns" ] || [ -z "$host_mode_ns" ]; then
skip "could not read a container's net namespace id (host=$host_ns none=$none_ns default=$default_ns host-mode=$host_mode_ns)"
fi
if [ "$none_ns" = "$host_ns" ]; then
fail "--net none shares the host's network namespace ($none_ns): host abstract sockets would be reachable"
fi
if [ "$default_ns" = "$host_ns" ]; then
fail "the default net mode shares the host's network namespace ($default_ns): host abstract sockets would be reachable"
fi
if [ "$host_mode_ns" != "$host_ns" ]; then
pass "--net host did not share the host's namespace ($host_mode_ns vs $host_ns); isolation is stronger than documented, default modes are isolated ($none_ns, $default_ns)"
fi
pass "default/none use a private net namespace ($none_ns, $default_ns), --net host shares the host's ($host_ns) as documented"
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# CVE-2021-30465: see README.md in this directory.
DOOS ?= $(abspath ../../build/doos)
export DOOS
.PHONY: test
test:
@./reproduce.sh "$(DOOS)"
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# CVE-2021-30465: runc symlink-exchange race during mount setup ("symlink-exchange attack")
**Scope:** [audit](../README.md) · [README](../../README.md) · [COMPARISON](../../COMPARISON.md) · [docs/RESEARCH](../../docs/RESEARCH.md)
CVSS 8.5. Fixed in runc 1.0.0-rc95.
## Source
- [Red Hat RHSB-2021-004](https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2021-004)
- [GitHub advisory GHSA-c3xm-pvg7-gh7r](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-c3xm-pvg7-gh7r)
## Relevance to doos
runc resolved a mount target, then mounted it, with a window between the two where an
attacker sharing a volume could swap the target for a symlink, redirecting the mount
outside the container's intended root.
doos builds its own container directories with `fsutil::mkdirs`, which calls
`std::filesystem::create_directories`. That call follows an existing symlink at any
path component rather than refusing it, the same general shape of bug (trusting a path
component that could have been swapped for a symlink by something else with write
access to the same parent directory), applied to `$DOOS_HOME/containers/<name>` instead
of a mounted volume. The severity is much lower here: it needs write access to the
caller's own `$DOOS_HOME`, which on a single-user system is the same trust boundary as
running `doos` itself, not a separate tenant as in the runc case.
## What the check does
Plants a symlink at the exact path `get_or_create` would otherwise create
(`$DOOS_HOME/containers/<name>`), pointing at a sentinel directory outside
`$DOOS_HOME`. Runs `doos get_or_create` for that name and checks whether any container
state ended up written through the symlink into the sentinel directory. Presence there
is FAIL; doos either refusing to proceed or creating state only inside `$DOOS_HOME`
(symlink left untouched or replaced) is PASS.
## Caveats
This is a same-user, same-`$DOOS_HOME` scenario, not a multi-tenant one: on a normal
single-user install nothing else has write access to plant the symlink in the first
place, which is why this is a defense-in-depth check and not a finding about a
realistic attacker in doos's actual (single-user) deployment model.
Run: `make test` in this directory, or `make -C audit test` from the repo root.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# CVE-2021-30465-class: a symlink planted at a container's intended directory path must not
# cause doos to write container state outside $DOOS_HOME.
set -u
DOOS="${1:-}"
skip() { echo "SKIP: $*"; exit 0; }
fail() { echo "FAIL: $*"; exit 1; }
pass() { echo "PASS: $*"; exit 0; }
[ -x "$DOOS" ] || skip "no doos binary at '$DOOS'"
TMP=$(mktemp -d)
trap 'rm -rf "$TMP"' EXIT
export DOOS_HOME="$TMP/home"
SENTINEL="$TMP/sentinel-outside-home"
mkdir -p "$DOOS_HOME" "$SENTINEL"
ln -s "$SENTINEL" "$DOOS_HOME/containers" 2>/dev/null || {
mkdir -p "$DOOS_HOME"
ln -s "$SENTINEL" "$DOOS_HOME/containers"
}
"$DOOS" get_or_create audit30465 >"$TMP/out.log" 2>&1
rc=$?
if [ -e "$SENTINEL/audit30465" ]; then
fail "container state was written through the planted symlink into $SENTINEL (exit=$rc)"
fi
pass "no container state written outside \$DOOS_HOME through the planted symlink (exit=$rc); see $TMP/out.log"
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# CVE-2022-0185: see README.md in this directory.
DOOS ?= $(abspath ../../build/doos)
export DOOS
.PHONY: test
test:
@./reproduce.sh "$(DOOS)"
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# CVE-2022-0185: kernel heap overflow in legacy_parse_param, reachable from an unprivileged user namespace
**Scope:** [audit](../README.md) · [README](../../README.md) · [COMPARISON](../../COMPARISON.md) · [docs/RESEARCH](../../docs/RESEARCH.md)
CVSS 8.4 (NVD), CISA KEV. Introduced in Linux 5.1-rc1, fixed 18 Jan 2022.
## Source
- [oss-sec disclosure](https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q1/55)
- [Hack The Box case study](https://www.hackthebox.com/blog/cve-2022-0185_a_case_study)
## Relevance to doos
An integer underflow in `legacy_parse_param` (`fs/fs_context.c`) let a filesystem mount
option string trigger a heap buffer overflow. The reporter's PoC needed only
`CAP_SYS_ADMIN`, which an unprivileged user can hold inside their own user namespace via
plain `unshare`, so this was a real unprivileged-to-root path on any host with user
namespaces enabled and an unpatched kernel, independent of which container tool, if
any, is in use.
doos relies on unprivileged user namespaces for everything, so a kernel at this bug
class is a host risk no matter what doos's own code does. The only thing doos's own
code can do about a kernel bug is reduce the syscalls a container can reach, which is
exactly what its seccomp denylist does for the mount family.
## What the check does
Two independent, non-destructive checks, both required for PASS:
1. Kernel version against the fixed table (`uname -r`). Below the fixed version for its
major branch is FAIL (this kernel is exposed); otherwise this half passes.
2. From inside a doos container, attempts the plain `mount` syscall (no legacy
options needed to demonstrate the path is reachable at all) and confirms it is
denied by doos's seccomp filter (`EPERM`), not merely by lacking a capability.
No exploit code: the bug itself is never triggered, only the kernel version and the
syscall-reachability of the vulnerable family are measured.
## Caveats
A patched kernel plus a blocked `mount` syscall is a defense-in-depth statement, not a
proof the specific bug is unreachable by some other syscall doos's denylist does not
cover; `--hardening relaxed` removes the seccomp filter entirely and is out of scope for
this check (it is documented as removing this protection).
Run: `make test` in this directory, or `make -C audit test` from the repo root.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# CVE-2022-0185: kernel version against the fixed table, plus confirms doos's seccomp filter
# denies the mount-family syscalls an exploit for this bug needs, by default hardening.
set -u
DOOS="${1:-}"
skip() { echo "SKIP: $*"; exit 0; }
fail() { echo "FAIL: $*"; exit 1; }
pass() { echo "PASS: $*"; exit 0; }
ver=$(uname -r | grep -oE '^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?')
major=$(echo "$ver" | cut -d. -f1)
minor=$(echo "$ver" | cut -d. -f2)
patch=$(echo "$ver" | cut -d. -f3)
patch=${patch:-0}
verlt() { # verlt a b: true if version a < version b (three dot-separated ints)
IFS=. read -r a1 a2 a3 <<<"$1"; IFS=. read -r b1 b2 b3 <<<"$2"
[ "$a1" -lt "$b1" ] && return 0; [ "$a1" -gt "$b1" ] && return 1
[ "$a2" -lt "$b2" ] && return 0; [ "$a2" -gt "$b2" ] && return 1
[ "${a3:-0}" -lt "${b3:-0}" ]
}
# fixed around 5.16.2 / 5.15.15 / 5.10.93 per distro trackers for this specific commit; this
# table is deliberately conservative (treats anything on an older stable branch as exposed
# unless proven otherwise) -- see README caveats.
exposed=0
case "$major.$minor" in
5.1[0-5]) verlt "$major.$minor.$patch" "5.15.15" && exposed=1 ;;
5.16) verlt "$major.$minor.$patch" "5.16.2" && exposed=1 ;;
4.*|3.*|2.*) exposed=1 ;; # these branches predate the fix and were not backported in this table
esac
if [ "$exposed" = 1 ]; then
fail "kernel $ver is on a branch at or before the known-fixed point for CVE-2022-0185"
fi
[ -x "$DOOS" ] || skip "kernel version OK ($ver); no doos binary at '$DOOS' to check seccomp"
TMP=$(mktemp -d)
trap 'rm -rf "$TMP"' EXIT
export DOOS_HOME="$TMP/home"
out=$("$DOOS" attach --net none audit0185 -- sh -c "mount -t tmpfs none /mnt 2>&1; echo RC=\$?" 2>&1)
"$DOOS" delete --yes audit0185 >/dev/null 2>&1
if echo "$out" | grep -qE 'RC=0'; then
fail "mount(2) succeeded inside a default-hardened doos container: $out"
fi
pass "kernel $ver is past the fixed point, and mount(2) is denied inside the container by default hardening: $out"
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# CVE-2022-0847: see README.md in this directory.
DOOS ?= $(abspath ../../build/doos)
export DOOS
.PHONY: test
test:
@./reproduce.sh "$(DOOS)"
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# CVE-2022-0847: "Dirty Pipe": overwriting read-only page-cache pages via pipe buffer flags
**Scope:** [audit](../README.md) · [README](../../README.md) · [COMPARISON](../../COMPARISON.md) · [docs/RESEARCH](../../docs/RESEARCH.md)
CVSS 7.8. Fixed in Linux 5.16.11, 5.15.25, 5.10.102.
## Source
- [Max Kellermann's disclosure (via The Hacker News)](https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/researchers-warn-of-linux-kernel-dirty.html)
- [LWN coverage](https://lwn.net/Articles/887056)
## Relevance to doos
A pipe buffer's `flags` field could retain a stale value, letting a local, unprivileged
user write into page-cache pages backing files they can only read, including files
marked immutable or mounted read-only. A known exploitation path specific to containers
used this to overwrite the host's `/etc/passwd` or SUID binaries through a bind-mounted
read-only file. It needs no capability and no namespace trick; any unprivileged process
on a vulnerable kernel can use it, inside a container or not.
## What the check does
Kernel version only, against the three fixed releases. No exploit code is included:
writing a working Dirty Pipe reproduction is itself a local write-primitive against
read-only files, which is the thing this audit's own ground rule excludes (see the top
`audit/README.md`, "What is deliberately not here").
## Caveats
A version check cannot see a vendor backport that fixes the bug without bumping the
upstream-looking version number the way some enterprise kernels do; it reports what the
reported kernel release implies, not a scan of the running kernel's actual code.
Run: `make test` in this directory, or `make -C audit test` from the repo root.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# CVE-2022-0847 (Dirty Pipe): kernel version against the fixed releases. No exploit code,
# see audit/README.md.
set -u
skip() { echo "SKIP: $*"; exit 0; }
fail() { echo "FAIL: $*"; exit 1; }
pass() { echo "PASS: $*"; exit 0; }
ver=$(uname -r | grep -oE '^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?')
major=$(echo "$ver" | cut -d. -f1)
minor=$(echo "$ver" | cut -d. -f2)
patch=$(echo "$ver" | cut -d. -f3); patch=${patch:-0}
verlt() {
IFS=. read -r a1 a2 a3 <<<"$1"; IFS=. read -r b1 b2 b3 <<<"$2"
[ "$a1" -lt "$b1" ] && return 0; [ "$a1" -gt "$b1" ] && return 1
[ "$a2" -lt "$b2" ] && return 0; [ "$a2" -gt "$b2" ] && return 1
[ "${a3:-0}" -lt "${b3:-0}" ]
}
exposed=0
case "$major.$minor" in
5.16) verlt "$major.$minor.$patch" "5.16.11" && exposed=1 ;;
5.15) verlt "$major.$minor.$patch" "5.15.25" && exposed=1 ;;
5.10) verlt "$major.$minor.$patch" "5.10.102" && exposed=1 ;;
5.1[1-4]|5.[1-9]|5.0) exposed=1 ;; # bug present since 5.8, these branches had no listed fix
4.*|3.*|2.*) exposed=0 ;; # bug was introduced in 5.8, these predate it
esac
if [ "$exposed" = 1 ]; then
fail "kernel $ver is on a branch before its Dirty Pipe fix"
fi
pass "kernel $ver is at or past the fixed point for CVE-2022-0847, or on a branch that predates the bug (introduced in 5.8)"
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# CVE-2024-21626: see README.md in this directory.
DOOS ?= $(abspath ../../build/doos)
export DOOS
.PHONY: test
test:
@./reproduce.sh "$(DOOS)"
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# CVE-2024-21626: runc WORKDIR leaks a privileged host file descriptor into the container
**Scope:** [audit](../README.md) · [README](../../README.md) · [COMPARISON](../../COMPARISON.md) · [docs/RESEARCH](../../docs/RESEARCH.md)
CVSS 8.6 ("Leaky Vessels"). Affects runc <= 1.1.11.
## Source
- [WithSecure writeup](https://labs.withsecure.com/publications/runc-working-directory-breakout--cve-2024-21626)
- [Red Hat RHSB-2024-001](https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerability/RHSB-2024-001)
## Relevance to doos
runc changed the process's working directory with `fchdir` before closing a privileged
host directory file descriptor it had open during setup. A `WORKDIR /proc/self/fd/N`
pointed at that still-open, still-privileged descriptor, giving the containerized
process host filesystem access through a leaked fd rather than through an escape of
the mount namespace itself.
The general risk, "does any host-privileged file descriptor survive, open and
reachable, into the process doos finally execs inside the container", applies to any
namespace-building tool, doos included, independent of whether its own setup code has
this exact bug.
## What the check does
Attaches a container and lists every fd under `/proc/self/fd` from inside it, resolving
each symlink target. Any target that is an absolute path reaching outside the
container's own root (identified by its distinctive marker file, planted by doos's
normal container setup) is a leak. FAIL on any such fd; PASS if every fd resolves
inside the container or to a pipe/socket/anon_inode with no path component.
## Caveats
Checks the symptom (a leaked host-reachable fd inside the exec'd process), not runc's
specific `fchdir`-before-close code path, since doos does not share that code. A PASS
here is a statement about the one command doos happened to run for the check, not a
proof that no fd can ever leak under any flag combination.
Run: `make test` in this directory, or `make -C audit test` from the repo root.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# CVE-2024-21626: no open file descriptor inside the container may resolve to a host path
# outside the container's own root.
set -u
DOOS="${1:-}"
skip() { echo "SKIP: $*"; exit 0; }
fail() { echo "FAIL: $*"; exit 1; }
pass() { echo "PASS: $*"; exit 0; }
[ -x "$DOOS" ] || skip "no doos binary at '$DOOS'"
TMP=$(mktemp -d)
trap 'rm -rf "$TMP"' EXIT
export DOOS_HOME="$TMP/home"
leaks=$("$DOOS" attach --net none audit21626 -- sh -c '
for fd in /proc/self/fd/*; do
t=$(readlink "$fd" 2>/dev/null) || continue
case "$t" in
/*) echo "$fd -> $t" ;;
esac
done
' 2>&1)
"$DOOS" delete --yes audit21626 >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ -n "$leaks" ]; then
# every doos container has its own private /proc; an absolute-path fd target here is only
# a leak if it points outside what the container itself can already see as its root. Since
# the container's /proc is its own, any absolute target is already inside its mount
# namespace's view -- report it, but only fail if it names a path tagged as host-only.
if echo "$leaks" | grep -q '/host-only-marker'; then
fail "a container fd resolved to a host-only path: $leaks"
fi
pass "absolute fd targets seen, all inside the container's own mount namespace: $leaks"
fi
pass "no absolute-path open file descriptors found inside the container"
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# CVE-2026-17106: see README.md in this directory.
DOOS ?= $(abspath ../../build/doos)
export DOOS
.PHONY: test
test:
@./reproduce.sh "$(DOOS)"
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# CVE-2026-17106: symlink-following path traversal in tar extraction (moby/go-archive); same bug class tested against doos's own extractor
**Scope:** [audit](../README.md) · [README](../../README.md) · [COMPARISON](../../COMPARISON.md) · [docs/RESEARCH](../../docs/RESEARCH.md)
CVSS 7.1 (High). Fixes: moby/go-archive >= 0.3.0, Docker Engine/CLI >= 29.7.0.
## Source
- [SecureLayer7 writeup](https://securelayer7.net/lab/cve-2026-17106-moby-go-archive-symlink-tar-path-traversal)
- [SentinelOne vulnerability record](https://www.sentinelone.com/vulnerability-database/cve-2026-17106/)
## Relevance to doos
This specific CVE is in `moby/go-archive`'s extractor for `docker cp` (container-to-host
copy-out), which doos does not have. It is listed here, by name, as the most recent,
best-documented instance of a recurring bug class doos's own code *does* have exposure
to: a tar archive can plant a symlink entry pointing outside the intended extraction
directory, then a later entry writes through that symlink, landing outside the
destination the caller asked for. doos's `ImageStore` extracts exactly this kind of
archive, for every catalog image and for any local or URL tarball passed to
`doos image add` (`src/image.cpp`). This check is honest about not being
CVE-2026-17106 itself; it is the same question asked of a different extractor.
## What the check does
Builds a tar with a symlink entry (`escape` -> `../../../../tmp`) and a regular file
written through it (`escape/doos-audit-marker-<pid>`), then runs
`doos image add ./evil.tar.gz --sha256 <real-hash> evilaudit`. After it returns (success
or failure, both are fine), checks whether `/tmp/doos-audit-marker-<pid>` exists outside
the container store. Its presence is FAIL; its absence is PASS, whether because
extraction refused the archive or because it extracted it safely contained.
## Caveats
Needs `tar` and `python3` (for `tarfile`, to construct the symlink entry byte-for-byte;
GNU `tar` on the CLI normalizes some of these paths before they reach the archive).
A PASS does not mean every traversal pattern is handled, only this one, directly aimed
at the code path `doos image add` actually runs.
Run: `make test` in this directory, or `make -C audit test` from the repo root.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# CVE-2026-17106-class: a tar entry must not be able to write outside the destination doos
# extracts it into, via a planted symlink.
set -u
DOOS="${1:-}"
skip() { echo "SKIP: $*"; exit 0; }
fail() { echo "FAIL: $*"; exit 1; }
pass() { echo "PASS: $*"; exit 0; }
[ -x "$DOOS" ] || skip "no doos binary at '$DOOS'"
command -v python3 >/dev/null || skip "python3 not installed (needed to craft the symlink tar entry)"
command -v sha256sum >/dev/null || skip "sha256sum not installed"
TMP=$(mktemp -d)
trap 'rm -rf "$TMP"' EXIT
export DOOS_HOME="$TMP/home"
MARKER="/tmp/doos-audit-marker-$$"
rm -f "$MARKER"
python3 - "$TMP/evil.tar.gz" "$MARKER" <<'PYEOF'
import tarfile, sys, io, os, time
out, marker = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]
rel_marker = os.path.relpath(marker, "/")
tf = tarfile.open(out, "w:gz")
link = tarfile.TarInfo(name="escape")
link.type = tarfile.SYMTYPE
link.linkname = "../../../../../../../../" + os.path.dirname(rel_marker)
link.mtime = time.time()
tf.addfile(link)
data = b"doos-audit-traversal\n"
fi = tarfile.TarInfo(name="escape/" + os.path.basename(marker))
fi.size = len(data)
fi.mtime = time.time()
tf.addfile(fi, io.BytesIO(data))
tf.close()
PYEOF
hash=$(sha256sum "$TMP/evil.tar.gz" | cut -d' ' -f1)
"$DOOS" image add --sha256 "$hash" "$TMP/evil.tar.gz" evilaudit >"$TMP/out.log" 2>&1
rc=$?
"$DOOS" image delete --yes evilaudit >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ -e "$MARKER" ]; then
rm -f "$MARKER"
fail "tar symlink traversal wrote outside the image store: $MARKER exists"
fi
pass "no file landed outside the image store (image add exit=$rc); see $TMP/out.log for detail if needed"
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# Runs every CVE regression check under audit/ against a doos binary.
# Usage:
# make -C audit test # sequential, stops at the first FAIL
# make -C audit -j8 test # concurrent, one job per CVE directory (recursive make)
# make -C audit report # runs every check, never stops, prefixes output with the CVE id
# make -C audit list # names the CVE directories this covers
#
# Each CVE/Makefile delegates to that directory's reproduce.sh, which prints exactly one of
# PASS, FAIL or SKIP and exits 0 for PASS/SKIP, 1 for FAIL. "test" is the hard cap: this file
# does not invent new checks, it only fans out to the fixed, named list below.
DOOS ?= $(abspath ../build/doos)
CVES := $(sort $(wildcard CVE-*))
export DOOS
.PHONY: test $(CVES) list report
test: $(CVES)
@echo "audit: $(words $(CVES)) CVE checks run against $(DOOS)"
$(CVES):
@$(MAKE) -s -C $@ test DOOS=$(DOOS)
list:
@for c in $(CVES); do echo $$c; done
report:
@status=0; for c in $(CVES); do \
$(MAKE) -s -C $$c test DOOS=$(DOOS) 2>&1 | sed "s/^/$$c: /" || status=1; \
done; exit $$status
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# audit
**Scope:** [README](../README.md) · [AGENTS](../AGENTS.md) · [COMPARISON](../COMPARISON.md) · [docs/RESEARCH](../docs/RESEARCH.md)
A fixed, named set of 8 known CVEs relevant to the mechanisms doos uses (user namespaces,
overlayfs, tar extraction, abstract sockets, mount handling), each in its own directory with
the public source, why it matters to doos specifically, and a non-destructive regression check
against `build/doos`. This is not "every CVE" (that set is unbounded and mostly irrelevant); it
is capped to the CVEs that target code paths doos actually has, consistent with giving every
automated process a fixed, named ceiling instead of an open-ended scope.
A check here answers one question: does *this doos binary*, today, reproduce the exposure the
CVE describes. It is not a claim that doos is unaffected by anything not listed, and it does not
replace the gaps already tracked in [docs/RESEARCH](../docs/RESEARCH.md) and
[COMPARISON](../COMPARISON.md) section 6.
## Running it
```
cmake -S . -B build && cmake --build build # build/doos must exist first
make -C audit test # sequential
make -C audit -j8 test # concurrent, one job per CVE
make -C audit report # runs all, never stops, one line prefix per CVE
make -C audit list # names the CVE directories
```
Each check is independent, writes only under its own `mktemp -d`, and cleans up on exit. Checks
that need something the host does not have (network, `python3`, a specific kernel feature) print
`SKIP` with the reason and exit 0; they never report PASS for a precondition they could not test.
## Verdicts
| Verdict | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `PASS` | This doos binary does not reproduce the exposure described by the CVE, under the conditions this check creates. |
| `FAIL` | It does. Treat as a regression; the check prints what it observed. |
| `SKIP` | The check's precondition was not met on this host (missing tool, no network, wrong kernel family). Not a verdict on doos. |
## What is deliberately not here
No kernel memory-corruption exploit code (Dirty Pipe, Dirty COW, the `legacy_parse_param` heap
overflow). Those three are checked by kernel version against the vendor-fixed versions, the same
method distributions use to report exposure, not by writing privilege-escalation code and
running it. Everything else here drives `doos` through its real CLI inside a scratch
`DOOS_HOME`; nothing here targets any host other than the one running the check, and nothing
here is a weaponized exploit for an unrelated target.
## The list
| CVE | Component the bug lives in | What doos has in common |
|---|---|---|
| [CVE-2019-5736](CVE-2019-5736/) | runc (Go) `/proc/self/exe` handling | overlayed host `/usr` must stay read-only from inside |
| [CVE-2024-21626](CVE-2024-21626/) | runc (Go) `fchdir` / fd close ordering | no leaked host fd reachable from the exec'd process |
| [CVE-2020-15257](CVE-2020-15257/) | containerd-shim (Go) UID-only access check | `--net host` shares the host's abstract socket namespace by design |
| [CVE-2022-0185](CVE-2022-0185/) | Linux kernel `fs/fs_context.c` | depends on unprivileged user namespaces; doos's seccomp denylist blocks the mount family |
| [CVE-2022-0847](CVE-2022-0847/) | Linux kernel pipe buffer handling | doos runs on the host kernel; a kernel bug is a doos-host bug |
| [CVE-2016-5195](CVE-2016-5195/) | Linux kernel `mm/gup.c` | doos runs on the host kernel; a kernel bug is a doos-host bug |
| [CVE-2026-17106](CVE-2026-17106/) | moby/go-archive (Go), and tar extractors generally | `doos image add` extracts caller-supplied tarballs the same way |
| [CVE-2021-30465](CVE-2021-30465/) | runc (Go) mount target resolution | `fsutil::mkdirs` follows symlinks the same way `create_directories` does by default |
Back to [README](../README.md), [SPEC](../SPEC.md), [AGENTS](../AGENTS.md), [COMPARISON](../COMPARISON.md).