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fix(security): confine configured copies to worktree paths (12106) - #210
Configured copies could overwrite worktree Git pointers or escape either root through glob-expanded traversal, newline-split discovery records, source links, and existing destination links. Validate relative path components at the copy boundary, keep find discovery NUL-delimited, and skip newline names at the existing line-based directory-list API.
Destination files are staged in private directories and renamed to avoid following existing links or overwriting hard-linked external files. Replacements retain the destination mode; new files retain source-mode behavior subject to umask. Git metadata guards also cover case variants on case-insensitive filesystems. Directory copies preserve source symlinks without traversing them, check destination components before writes, and exclude nested Git metadata. New directory clones use private staging; clone fallback only removes this invocation's output, preserving existing destination-only data.
Validation: the full local BATS suite, targeted copy and creation regression suites, ShellCheck, completion generation checks, and Linux CI pass. Regression tests cover Git metadata, expanded traversal, newline records, source/destination symlinks, hard links, and destination-only files. Bash component checks protect against checkout-provided paths; they do not provide descriptor-relative protection against concurrent hostile filesystem replacement.
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Configured copies now validate paths, filter newline-containing discovery records, and stage file and directory writes. Directory copies preserve destination-only files and skip nested Git metadata. Tests cover traversal, links, hard links, permissions, and clone fallback.
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Configured copy safety
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Validate paths and discovery records lib/copy.sh, tests/copy_safety.bats
Path checks reject unsafe components and links. Discovery uses NUL-delimited records and filters newline-containing paths. Tests cover traversal and newline-containing paths.
Stage file and directory writes lib/copy.sh, tests/copy_safety.bats
File replacements and new directory copies use staging. Directory merges replace matching files and preserve destination-only data. Tests cover links, hard links, permissions, and clone fallback.
Validate and copy directory patterns lib/copy.sh, tests/copy_safety.bats
Directory pattern copies validate paths and children, skip case-insensitive nested Git metadata, and use selective copying when exclusions apply. Tests cover destination links and Git metadata.
Configured copies now reject traversal paths, symlinked path components, and nested Git metadata, and they stage writes so they do not follow links or overwrite hard-linked external files. The earlier mode-loss and unverified Git metadata removal concerns are addressed, with test coverage. No outstanding merge-blocking issue was found.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 2e333
Path confinement and protection against linked-file overwrites are substantially stronger. However, replacements preserve numeric permission bits without preserving the destination’s group ownership or ACLs. In shared worktrees, this can make copied sensitive data accessible to previously excluded local users.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: Staged replacement preserves destination mode bits but discards the existing inode’s ownership and ACL state. On a shared worktree, group-readable bits can apply to a different group, or named-user ACL restrictions can disappear, allowing previously excluded local users to read copied content. Base direct copying retained the existing inode. The new mode-preservation test does not cover this authorization-state change.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The identified regression concerns filesystem data in selected destination worktrees, potentially across all targets of one copy invocation. It requires replacement authority in the destination directory and an existing access restriction not reproduced on the staged inode; no remote or cross-tenant reachability is established.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — For example, an existing mode-0644 file can deny a named local user through an ACL. Replacing it with a staged mode-0644 inode lacking that ACL allows that user to read the copied content, assuming directory traversal is permitted. Numeric-mode restoration does not reconstruct the denial. Source or default ACLs may incidentally preserve equivalent restrictions, but the implementation does not guarantee this.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Caller-owned roots remain trusted, while checkout-provided descendant paths receive component checks. These are pathname checks followed by pathname operations, not descriptor-relative confinement against concurrent hostile replacement. That stronger race-resistance guarantee was also absent from the base and is explicitly outside the stated change scope.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — The copy helpers clean up returned failures but do not install interruption handlers or reclaim abandoned staging on retry. Interruption can therefore leave private staging containing partial data or unpruned Git metadata. This is a lifecycle limitation, not evidence of a new externally readable exposure; the supplied failure tests exercise ordinary returned failures.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Define and preserve the destination’s effective authorization metadata before publishing a replacement, or fail safely when it cannot be preserved. Cover restrictive named-user ACLs and differing destination groups alongside existing numeric-mode tests.
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Bats does not fail a test when a ! command line returns non-zero, except on the last line. Lines 527 and 528 therefore never check the return value of _copy_pattern_file.
The final check is also weak. For ../victim, a wrongly accepted copy writes victim onto itself, so its content stays secret. A regression in the traversal guard would not fail this test.
Also assert that $_test_tmpdir/dst stays empty after the calls.
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Review comment at @tests/copy_safety.bats around lines 527 - 528:
Update the traversal checks for _copy_pattern_file to capture each result with
Bats run and explicitly assert a nonzero status; afterward, assert that
$_test_tmpdir/dst remains empty so an incorrectly accepted copy fails the test.
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Review comments at @lib/copy.sh:
- Around line 66-71: In the staged-copy logic used by _copy_pattern_file and
_copy_tree_entry, stage into a private temporary directory and copy the source
to a new leaf path inside it before renaming that leaf to the destination, so
the source mode is preserved. Clean up the temporary directory on success and
failure, and add a bats assertion that a copied executable retains its execute
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Review comments at @tests/copy_safety.bats:
- Around line 527-528: Update the traversal checks for _copy_pattern_file to
capture each result with Bats run and explicitly assert a nonzero status;
afterward, assert that $_test_tmpdir/dst remains empty so an incorrectly
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- Line 67: Update the staged copy-and-replace flow around `cp` and `mv` to
preserve the existing destination’s permissions when replacing a file by
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Major · Preserve destination ACLs during staged replacements. · copy_safety.bats:67
tests/copy_safety.bats:67 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Detected with Advanced Tier | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Sensitive Data Exposure
Exploitability: Difficult CWE:CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Preserve destination ACLs during staged replacements.
_copy_tree_entry replaces existing files with a new inode and restores only the numeric mode. This loses the destination access ACL. On POSIX ACL filesystems, the numeric group bits represent the ACL mask, not necessarily group::. A destination with group::--- and a readable mask can therefore become readable by the owning group after replacement.
Preserve the destination ACL after chmod and before mv, while keeping the staged-file approach. Support the ACL mechanism for each supported platform and provide an explicit fallback when ACL support is unavailable. Add an ACL-specific test. The existing numeric-mode test does not cover this case.
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Review comment at @tests/copy_safety.bats at line 67:
Update _copy_tree_entry to preserve the existing destination’s access ACL on the
staged file after restoring its numeric mode and before moving it into place;
use the supported ACL mechanism for each platform and provide an explicit
fallback when ACL support is unavailable. Add an ACL-specific test covering a
destination where group:: permissions differ from the ACL mask, while keeping
the existing numeric-mode test.
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- Line 67: Update _copy_tree_entry to preserve the existing destination’s access
ACL on the staged file after restoring its numeric mode and before moving it
into place; use the supported ACL mechanism for each platform and provide an
explicit fallback when ACL support is unavailable. Add an ACL-specific test
covering a destination where group:: permissions differ from the ACL mask, while
keeping the existing numeric-mode test.
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- Line 185: Verify that Git metadata removal succeeded before the `mv` in the
directory-copy flow: after the `find` command removes `.git` paths, check
whether any remain in staging. If the check fails or finds a remaining path,
remove the staging directory and return failure; otherwise preserve the existing
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Configured copies could overwrite worktree Git pointers or escape either root through glob-expanded traversal, newline-split discovery records, source links, and existing destination links. Validate relative path components at the copy boundary, keep
finddiscovery NUL-delimited, and skip newline names at the existing line-based directory-list API.Destination files are staged in private directories and renamed to avoid following existing links or overwriting hard-linked external files. Replacements retain the destination mode; new files retain source-mode behavior subject to umask. Git metadata guards also cover case variants on case-insensitive filesystems. Directory copies preserve source symlinks without traversing them, check destination components before writes, and exclude nested Git metadata. New directory clones use private staging; clone fallback only removes this invocation's output, preserving existing destination-only data.
Validation: the full local BATS suite, targeted copy and creation regression suites, ShellCheck, completion generation checks, and Linux CI pass. Regression tests cover Git metadata, expanded traversal, newline records, source/destination symlinks, hard links, and destination-only files. Bash component checks protect against checkout-provided paths; they do not provide descriptor-relative protection against concurrent hostile filesystem replacement.
Refs issue 12106. Addresses 181c48e9, cd562cf8, 34832043, cc0c3fb1, e59a7a80, 788f4df0, and 2f94e1ca.
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