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Re-validate cwd after file:// decode to prevent command injection - #399
The cwd command-injection fix (a78541c) validated the raw cwd value at the API boundary, but ResolveCmd percent-decodes file:// paths via url.Parse afterwards. Since '%' is not in the metacharacter blocklist, an encoded payload such as "file:///dev/null%3Bid" passed validation, decoded to "/dev/null;id", and was interpolated unquoted into the "sh -c" command (TOCTOU).
Re-validate the decoded cwd in ResolveCmd, the chokepoint all exec entry points funnel through, so no shell metacharacter can reach the command regardless of encoding. Add regression tests for the known percent-encoded bypass payloads.
Working directories parsed from file:// URLs that contain shell metacharacters, including encoded characters, are now rejected. This prevents command resolution from proceeding with these paths and returns an error instead. Checks cover encoded separators, backticks, command substitution, and newlines.
The cwd command-injection fix (a78541c) validated the raw cwd value at
the API boundary, but ResolveCmd percent-decodes file:// paths via
url.Parse afterwards. Since '%' is not in the metacharacter blocklist,
an encoded payload such as "file:///dev/null%3Bid" passed validation,
decoded to "/dev/null;id", and was interpolated unquoted into the
"sh -c" command (TOCTOU).
Re-validate the decoded cwd in ResolveCmd, the chokepoint all exec
entry points funnel through, so no shell metacharacter can reach the
command regardless of encoding. Add regression tests for the known
percent-encoded bypass payloads.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Bouchet <sbouchet@redhat.com>
ResolveCmd now validates a parsed file:// working directory for shell metacharacters before it constructs a command. Regression tests cover five percent-encoded characters and expect an error with no resolved command.
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Validate parsed working directories exec/command_resolver.go, exec/command_resolver_test.go
After parsing a file:// working directory, ResolveCmd validates it for shell metacharacters. The regression test checks five encoded inputs and expects an error with no resolved command.
The change rejects encoded shell metacharacters before command construction. No merge-blocking regression is established; the existing handling of paths containing spaces remains a separate follow-up.
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Minor · Quote the cwd before it is interpolated into cd. · command_resolver.go:83
exec/command_resolver.go:83 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Quote the cwd before it is interpolated into cd.
ValidateNoShellMetacharacters does not reject spaces, and cd %s inserts the path unquoted. A cwd of /projects/my project becomes cd /projects/my project; <cmd>. The shell splits the path at the space, so cd targets /projects/my or fails. Because ; separates the commands, <cmd> still runs, in the wrong directory. Quote the path in the cd call. Single quotes are safe here because the validator already rejects '. Quoting also disables tilde expansion, so check that ~ paths still work.
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Review comment at @exec/command_resolver.go at line 83:
Update the `cd` command construction near `ValidateNoShellMetacharacters` to
quote `exec.Cwd` so paths containing spaces are treated as a single directory;
preserve the existing intended behavior for `~` paths when adding quoting.
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Review comments at @exec/command_resolver.go:
- Line 83: Update the `cd` command construction near
`ValidateNoShellMetacharacters` to quote `exec.Cwd` so paths containing spaces
are treated as a single directory; preserve the existing intended behavior for
`~` paths when adding quoting.
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The cwd command-injection fix (a78541c) validated the raw cwd value at the API boundary, but ResolveCmd percent-decodes file:// paths via url.Parse afterwards. Since '%' is not in the metacharacter blocklist, an encoded payload such as "file:///dev/null%3Bid" passed validation, decoded to "/dev/null;id", and was interpolated unquoted into the "sh -c" command (TOCTOU).
Re-validate the decoded cwd in ResolveCmd, the chokepoint all exec entry points funnel through, so no shell metacharacter can reach the command regardless of encoding. Add regression tests for the known percent-encoded bypass payloads.
fixes https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/CRW-14144
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file://URLs that contain shell metacharacters, including encoded characters, are now rejected. This prevents command resolution from proceeding with these paths and returns an error instead. Checks cover encoded separators, backticks, command substitution, and newlines.