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Message-Id: <20140908224505.8C2D66C0017@smtpvmsrv1.mitre.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 18:45:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: kseifried@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Python robotframework - tmp vuln
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>> 1, Is the "merge('../tmp/passing.xml', '../tmp/failing.xml')"
>> debugging code, or is this code realistically used because a
>> different piece of software has created passing.xml and failing.xml
>> files?
> It's part of __main__ so it gets executed.
This doesn't really answer the question. In
e8e423dc99094d761ea6944e71bb75eb5c418c8c, the upstream vendor says
it's debug code. Also, note that result_merger.py is distributed with
0644 permissions. As far as we can tell, the
"merge('../tmp/passing.xml', '../tmp/failing.xml')" is executed (in
the potentially unsafe way) only if a user explicitly runs a command
such as:
python full_pathname/result_merger.py
Otherwise, "__name__ == '__main__'" would be false.
There's apparently no motivation for an end user to enter this python
command in order to execute debug code that was meaningful only to the
developer.
To have a CVE for an issue involving a symlink attack, what we
typically look for is a case in which code is executed during normal
use of a product. In interpreting "normal use" situations, we think
it's reasonable to exclude a user's decision to locate random 0644
files and launch them in isolation with a script interpreter. The 0644
permissions are, at least in some cases, a signal that the file was
not intended to be executed in isolation. Products do not, in general,
come with security expectations that running a 0644 file directly is
safe (unless running the 0644 file is encouraged by the
documentation). There doesn't seem to be a good argument for a CVE
assignment regardless of the vendor's decision to delete the debug
code.
Possibly an example with sh would be simpler:
% ls -ld /var/productdir/tmp
drwxr-xr-x ...
% cat /usr/bin/script1.sh
#!/bin/sh
export MYDIR=/var/productdir
/bin/sh /usr/lib/product-1.0/files/script2.sh
% cat /usr/lib/product-1.0/files/script2.sh
echo test > $MYDIR/tmp/file.txt
% ls -l /usr/bin/script1.sh
-rwxr-xr-x ...
% ls -l /usr/lib/product-1.0/files/script2.sh
-rw-r--r-- ...
Here, there could be a symlink attack if script2.sh is used in
isolation. However, it seems best not to categorize script2.sh as
having an "unsafe use of /tmp" or "symlink attack" vulnerability. For
an arbitrary script2.sh file in an analogous situation, we'd typically
want to see the following before assigning a CVE ID:
- documentation telling a user to run
"sh /usr/lib/product-1.0/files/script2.sh"
or
- executable permissions (such as 0755) for script2.sh along with
(probably) a reason to expect that it would actually be run,
such as any of these:
- the location of script2.sh would realistically be added
to a user's path
- documentation of the purpose of script2.sh, when run in
isolation, exists
- by reading the script2.sh code, a user could notice that
it accomplishes something useful in isolation
- the actual filename suggests that the code accomplishes
something useful in isolation
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CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority
M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
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