Backport of the FIDO2 authfile fix (PR #7904 by @mdisec, merged to quattro as
23dab9ec) onto the v4-0-1 release branch.
pamu2fcfg wrote to /tmp/fido2 and the registration was then moved into place
with sudo mv. Any other local user can pre-create /tmp/fido2, and rename(2) does
not dereference the final component, so the privileged move installed the
attacker's symlink itself as pam_u2f's global authfile -- a file consulted by
sufficient lines in /etc/pam.d/sudo and /etc/pam.d/polkit-1.
The same move also carried the staged file's ownership into /etc, so on every
install to date /etc/fido2/fido2 is owned by the invoking user at mode 0644.
That needs no attacker, no race and no second account: anything running as that
uid can append its own credential and satisfy the machine's sudo prompt without
knowing the password.
The setup now creates a unique staging file as root beside the final authfile
and pipes pamu2fcfg into it, so root never reopens a caller-owned pathname,
rejects failed or empty enrollment output, publishes with an atomic mv -Tf,
cleans the exact staging file after every failure, refuses non-regular authfile
states, and installs root:root 0644. A migration repairs machines set up by
earlier versions by replacing the inode rather than chowning in place: a process
that already holds a writable descriptor on the legacy user-owned mapping keeps
it, so the repair has to leave that inode behind where PAM no longer reads it.
Clean cherry-pick: all six files are byte-identical to quattro, so merging
v4-0-1 into quattro resolves without a conflict. The migration's timestamp
(1787494718) is older than others already on this branch, which is harmless:
omarchy-migrate marks each migration by filename rather than tracking a
watermark, so this one runs on every machine that has not run this exact file.
test/shell passes: 195 files, including the three this adds -- the setup's
staging and failure paths, the migration's repair and unrepairable states, and
the removal's symlink handling. test/cli passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018DEMYa9UWtroz93DhMTtcV
