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authorJohn Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>2025-11-07 08:36:04 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-03-13 17:20:48 +0100
commit0fc63dd9170643d15c25681fca792539e23f4640 (patch)
tree3b76c817ed0f0c54d831828d8ccb085ed76d4ae0
parent86feeccd6b93ed94bd6655f30de80f163f8d5a45 (diff)
apparmor: fix unprivileged local user can do privileged policy management
commit 6601e13e82841879406bf9f369032656f441a425 upstream. An unprivileged local user can load, replace, and remove profiles by opening the apparmorfs interfaces, via a confused deputy attack, by passing the opened fd to a privileged process, and getting the privileged process to write to the interface. This does require a privileged target that can be manipulated to do the write for the unprivileged process, but once such access is achieved full policy management is possible and all the possible implications that implies: removing confinement, DoS of system or target applications by denying all execution, by-passing the unprivileged user namespace restriction, to exploiting kernel bugs for a local privilege escalation. The policy management interface can not have its permissions simply changed from 0666 to 0600 because non-root processes need to be able to load policy to different policy namespaces. Instead ensure the task writing the interface has privileges that are a subset of the task that opened the interface. This is already done via policy for confined processes, but unconfined can delegate access to the opened fd, by-passing the usual policy check. Fixes: b7fd2c0340eac ("apparmor: add per policy ns .load, .replace, .remove interface files") Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com> Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c16
-rw-r--r--security/apparmor/include/policy.h2
-rw-r--r--security/apparmor/policy.c34
3 files changed, 43 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
index 584b40718ecb..ae5bb2ed0dc3 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
@@ -412,7 +412,8 @@ static struct aa_loaddata *aa_simple_write_to_buffer(const char __user *userbuf,
}
static ssize_t policy_update(u32 mask, const char __user *buf, size_t size,
- loff_t *pos, struct aa_ns *ns)
+ loff_t *pos, struct aa_ns *ns,
+ const struct cred *ocred)
{
struct aa_loaddata *data;
struct aa_label *label;
@@ -423,7 +424,7 @@ static ssize_t policy_update(u32 mask, const char __user *buf, size_t size,
/* high level check about policy management - fine grained in
* below after unpack
*/
- error = aa_may_manage_policy(current_cred(), label, ns, mask);
+ error = aa_may_manage_policy(current_cred(), label, ns, ocred, mask);
if (error)
goto end_section;
@@ -444,7 +445,8 @@ static ssize_t profile_load(struct file *f, const char __user *buf, size_t size,
loff_t *pos)
{
struct aa_ns *ns = aa_get_ns(f->f_inode->i_private);
- int error = policy_update(AA_MAY_LOAD_POLICY, buf, size, pos, ns);
+ int error = policy_update(AA_MAY_LOAD_POLICY, buf, size, pos, ns,
+ f->f_cred);
aa_put_ns(ns);
@@ -462,7 +464,7 @@ static ssize_t profile_replace(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
{
struct aa_ns *ns = aa_get_ns(f->f_inode->i_private);
int error = policy_update(AA_MAY_LOAD_POLICY | AA_MAY_REPLACE_POLICY,
- buf, size, pos, ns);
+ buf, size, pos, ns, f->f_cred);
aa_put_ns(ns);
return error;
@@ -487,7 +489,7 @@ static ssize_t profile_remove(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
* below after unpack
*/
error = aa_may_manage_policy(current_cred(), label, ns,
- AA_MAY_REMOVE_POLICY);
+ f->f_cred, AA_MAY_REMOVE_POLICY);
if (error)
goto out;
@@ -1813,7 +1815,7 @@ static int ns_mkdir_op(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
int error;
label = begin_current_label_crit_section();
- error = aa_may_manage_policy(current_cred(), label, NULL,
+ error = aa_may_manage_policy(current_cred(), label, NULL, NULL,
AA_MAY_LOAD_POLICY);
end_current_label_crit_section(label);
if (error)
@@ -1863,7 +1865,7 @@ static int ns_rmdir_op(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
int error;
label = begin_current_label_crit_section();
- error = aa_may_manage_policy(current_cred(), label, NULL,
+ error = aa_may_manage_policy(current_cred(), label, NULL, NULL,
AA_MAY_LOAD_POLICY);
end_current_label_crit_section(label);
if (error)
diff --git a/security/apparmor/include/policy.h b/security/apparmor/include/policy.h
index 75088cc310b6..b8c35972883c 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/include/policy.h
+++ b/security/apparmor/include/policy.h
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ bool aa_policy_admin_capable(const struct cred *subj_cred,
struct aa_label *label, struct aa_ns *ns);
int aa_may_manage_policy(const struct cred *subj_cred,
struct aa_label *label, struct aa_ns *ns,
- u32 mask);
+ const struct cred *ocred, u32 mask);
bool aa_current_policy_view_capable(struct aa_ns *ns);
bool aa_current_policy_admin_capable(struct aa_ns *ns);
diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy.c b/security/apparmor/policy.c
index 9a4e29cdd8c0..29f1cfd75090 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/policy.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/policy.c
@@ -894,17 +894,44 @@ bool aa_current_policy_admin_capable(struct aa_ns *ns)
return res;
}
+static bool is_subset_of_obj_privilege(const struct cred *cred,
+ struct aa_label *label,
+ const struct cred *ocred)
+{
+ if (cred == ocred)
+ return true;
+
+ if (!aa_label_is_subset(label, cred_label(ocred)))
+ return false;
+ /* don't allow crossing userns for now */
+ if (cred->user_ns != ocred->user_ns)
+ return false;
+ if (!cap_issubset(cred->cap_inheritable, ocred->cap_inheritable))
+ return false;
+ if (!cap_issubset(cred->cap_permitted, ocred->cap_permitted))
+ return false;
+ if (!cap_issubset(cred->cap_effective, ocred->cap_effective))
+ return false;
+ if (!cap_issubset(cred->cap_bset, ocred->cap_bset))
+ return false;
+ if (!cap_issubset(cred->cap_ambient, ocred->cap_ambient))
+ return false;
+ return true;
+}
+
+
/**
* aa_may_manage_policy - can the current task manage policy
* @subj_cred: subjects cred
* @label: label to check if it can manage policy
* @ns: namespace being managed by @label (may be NULL if @label's ns)
+ * @ocred: object cred if request is coming from an open object
* @mask: contains the policy manipulation operation being done
*
* Returns: 0 if the task is allowed to manipulate policy else error
*/
int aa_may_manage_policy(const struct cred *subj_cred, struct aa_label *label,
- struct aa_ns *ns, u32 mask)
+ struct aa_ns *ns, const struct cred *ocred, u32 mask)
{
const char *op;
@@ -920,6 +947,11 @@ int aa_may_manage_policy(const struct cred *subj_cred, struct aa_label *label,
return audit_policy(label, op, NULL, NULL, "policy_locked",
-EACCES);
+ if (ocred && !is_subset_of_obj_privilege(subj_cred, label, ocred))
+ return audit_policy(label, op, NULL, NULL,
+ "not privileged for target profile",
+ -EACCES);
+
if (!aa_policy_admin_capable(subj_cred, label, ns))
return audit_policy(label, op, NULL, NULL, "not policy admin",
-EACCES);