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ChuckBuilds 500cfbc9f4 fix(install): drop the iptables wildcard, and pin each grant properly
Review follow-up. Two findings, both right, and the first is a hole I opened
myself.

`NOPASSWD: iptables *` is a root shell for the web user by another name.
`iptables --modprobe=/path/to/anything` runs that path as root, so a wildcard
grant on iptables escalates rather than restricts. I added that rule while
fixing a permissions gap, which is a worse outcome than the gap. It is gone,
and a test now fails on any trailing-wildcard grant to a tool that can execute
another program -- iptables, nft, tcpdump, find, awk, sed, perl, python, env.

The other finding: checking only the binary made the coverage test far weaker
than it looked. With `sysctl` present anywhere in the allow-list, deleting the
`net.ipv4.ip_forward=0` grant still passed -- and the portal would then be
unable to restore forwarding on teardown. Each required command is now matched
in full, and each is mutation-checked individually, including that exact
single-line case.

Scope pulled in deliberately. The first version of this test tried to assert
that *every* sudo call in the codebase is granted. Run honestly, it showed the
portal also runs iptables, nft, `ip addr`, `ip link` and `cp` with arguments
built at runtime -- an interface name, a port. Those cannot be granted safely
in a sudoers file: the rule needs a trailing wildcard, and that is the
escalation above. Closing that half needs a privileged helper that builds the
rules itself and takes only an interface and a port, granted the way
safe_plugin_rm.sh already is. That is a design decision, not a one-line grant,
so the test now pins the four commands this change actually grants and the
docstring says plainly what it does not cover.

Better a narrow test that is true than a broad one that is not.
2026-08-20 01:54:35 -04:00

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"""The captive portal's fixed-argument sudo calls must be granted.
The installers write two allow-lists, /etc/sudoers.d/ledmatrix_web and
ledmatrix_wifi. A sudo call absent from both needs a password, which a service
cannot supply, so it fails.
Four such calls were ungranted, all of them captive-portal teardown/setup:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=0|1 wifi_manager.py:788, 883
nft add|delete table ip ledmatrix wifi_manager.py:835, 895
rfkill unblock wifi wifi_manager.py:1811
mkdir -p .../dnsmasq-shared.d wifi_manager.py:922
It goes unnoticed because a stock Raspberry Pi image ships
/etc/sudoers.d/010_pi-nopasswd granting the default user
`ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL`, which satisfies every gap in both files. It only
bites once that blanket rule is removed or the service runs as another user.
Scope, deliberately narrow: this pins the four commands above, each of which
can be written out literally. The portal makes further sudo calls whose
arguments are built at runtime -- iptables and nft rules carrying an interface
name and a port, `ip addr`, `ip link` -- and those cannot be granted safely
here. A rule covering them needs a trailing wildcard, and
`iptables --modprobe=/path/to/anything` runs that path as root, so
`NOPASSWD: iptables *` is a root shell for the web user by another name.
Closing that half needs a privileged helper that builds the rules itself and
takes only an interface and a port, granted the way safe_plugin_rm.sh already
is. That is a design decision, not a one-line grant, and belongs in its own
change.
"""
import re
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
INSTALLERS = (
ROOT / "first_time_install.sh",
ROOT / "scripts" / "install" / "configure_wifi_permissions.sh",
)
#: Commands this change grants, each fully literal in the source.
REQUIRED = (
("sysctl", "-w", "net.ipv4.ip_forward=0"),
("sysctl", "-w", "net.ipv4.ip_forward=1"),
("nft", "add", "table", "ip", "ledmatrix"),
("nft", "delete", "table", "ip", "ledmatrix"),
("rfkill", "unblock", "wifi"),
("mkdir", "-p", "/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq-shared.d"),
)
#: Tools with an option that executes a program of the caller's choosing.
#: A trailing wildcard on any of these is a privilege escalation.
EXEC_CAPABLE = ("iptables", "ip6tables", "nft", "tcpdump", "find", "awk",
"sed", "perl", "python", "python3", "env")
def _grant_lines():
lines = []
for installer in INSTALLERS:
if not installer.is_file():
continue
for line in installer.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace").splitlines():
if "NOPASSWD:" in line:
lines.append(line.split("NOPASSWD:", 1)[1])
return lines
def _normalised_grants():
"""Grants with binary-path variables reduced to tool names.
Rules are written as `$SYSCTL_PATH -w ...`, so matching the literal
"sysctl" finds nothing and every rule looks absent -- which is exactly how
an earlier version of this test reported six gaps that did not exist.
Only NOPASSWD lines are considered, because taking the whole script let a
variable definition such as NFT_PATH=$(command -v nft) satisfy the check on
its own while the grant itself had been deleted.
"""
text = "\n".join(_grant_lines())
text = re.sub(r"\$\{?([A-Z][A-Z0-9_]*)_PATH\}?", lambda m: m.group(1).lower(), text)
return re.sub(r"/usr/(?:s?bin)/", "", text)
def test_the_installers_are_present():
missing = [str(p.relative_to(ROOT)) for p in INSTALLERS if not p.is_file()]
assert not missing, f"installer(s) missing: {missing}"
@pytest.mark.parametrize("command", REQUIRED, ids=lambda c: " ".join(c))
def test_the_command_is_granted(command):
"""Whole command, not just the binary.
Checking only the binary made this far weaker than it looked: with
`sysctl` present anywhere, deleting the ip_forward=0 grant still passed,
and the portal would then be unable to restore forwarding on teardown.
"""
pattern = r"\s+".join(re.escape(word) for word in command)
assert re.search(pattern, _normalised_grants()), (
f"no installer grants `{' '.join(command)}`")
def test_no_wildcard_on_a_tool_that_can_exec():
"""`NOPASSWD: iptables *` hands the web user root.
iptables --modprobe=/path runs that path as root. This caught a grant added
in this very change, which is why it is here.
"""
offenders = []
for rule in _grant_lines():
rule = rule.strip()
if not rule.endswith("*"):
continue
haystack = rule.replace("_PATH", "").lower()
for tool in EXEC_CAPABLE:
if re.search(rf"(^|/|\s|\$){tool}(\s|$)", haystack):
offenders.append(rule)
break
assert not offenders, (
"wildcard grant on a tool that can execute another program:\n "
+ "\n ".join(offenders))