Merge pull request #8627 from mdisec/security/harden-cups-browsed

Harden CUPS printer discovery
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Ryan Hughes
2026-08-29 02:19:53 -04:00
committed by GitHub
11 changed files with 465 additions and 12 deletions
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@@ -64,6 +64,72 @@ verify_services() {
pass "user audio services are running"
}
verify_printing_security() {
local cups_browsed_pid lpinfo_output printer_name printer_process printer_tmp
! pacman -Q cups-pdf >/dev/null 2>&1 || fail "CUPS-PDF is absent"
pass "the root CUPS-PDF backend is not installed"
getent passwd cups-browsed >/dev/null || fail "the cups-browsed service account exists"
[[ $(systemctl show -P User cups-browsed.service) == "cups-browsed" ]] ||
fail "cups-browsed runs as its service account"
[[ $(systemctl show -P Group cups-browsed.service) == "cups-browsed" ]] ||
fail "cups-browsed runs as its service group"
systemctl is-active --quiet cups-browsed.service || fail "cups-browsed is running"
cups_browsed_pid=$(systemctl show -P MainPID cups-browsed.service)
[[ -r /proc/$cups_browsed_pid/status ]] || fail "cups-browsed has a readable process status"
[[ $(awk '/^Uid:/{print $2}' "/proc/$cups_browsed_pid/status") != 0 ]] ||
fail "cups-browsed does not run with root UID"
[[ $(awk '/^CapEff:/{print $2}' "/proc/$cups_browsed_pid/status") == "0000000000000000" ]] ||
fail "cups-browsed has no effective Linux capabilities"
[[ $(stat -c '%a %U:%G' /var/cache/cups-browsed) == "750 cups-browsed:cups-browsed" ]] ||
fail "cups-browsed has an isolated cache" "$(stat -c '%a %U:%G' /var/cache/cups-browsed)"
[[ " $(id -nG cups-browsed) " != *" cups "* ]] ||
fail "cups-browsed is separate from the print-filter group"
if lpinfo_output=$(LC_ALL=C timeout 10 lpinfo -v </dev/null 2>&1); then
fail "the desktop user cannot administer CUPS without authentication"
elif [[ $lpinfo_output != *"Forbidden"* ]]; then
fail "CUPS explicitly denies unauthenticated desktop administration" "$lpinfo_output"
fi
pass "CUPS discovery is isolated from root, filters, and passwordless desktop administration"
# A live driverless printer proves the non-root daemon can still discover and
# create queues without the CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE Ubuntu carries downstream.
printer_name="OmarchyAcceptancePrinter"
printer_tmp=$(mktemp -d)
printf '#!/bin/bash\nexit 0\n' >"$printer_tmp/command"
chmod 0700 "$printer_tmp/command"
mkdir -m 0700 "$printer_tmp/spool"
ippeveprinter -p 18631 -d "$printer_tmp/spool" -c "$printer_tmp/command" "$printer_name" \
>"$printer_tmp/ippeveprinter.log" 2>&1 &
printer_process=$!
printing_test_cleanup() {
kill "$printer_process" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
wait "$printer_process" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
rm -rf "$printer_tmp"
}
trap printing_test_cleanup EXIT
for _ in {1..30}; do
lpstat -v "$printer_name" 2>/dev/null | grep -q "implicitclass://$printer_name/" && break
sleep 1
done
lpstat -v "$printer_name" 2>/dev/null | grep -q "implicitclass://$printer_name/" ||
fail "non-root cups-browsed discovers a driverless IPP printer" "$(<"$printer_tmp/ippeveprinter.log")"
printing_test_cleanup
trap - EXIT
pass "non-root cups-browsed still creates driverless IPP queues without capabilities"
}
verify_runtime_tools() {
# Docker access is intentionally NOT granted to the desktop user: the docker
# group is root-equivalent, so a rogue process running as the user could
@@ -107,7 +173,7 @@ verify_user_setup() {
pass "Omarchy user state and shell configuration exist"
}
for check in verify_core_packages verify_defaults verify_services verify_runtime_tools verify_user_setup; do
for check in verify_core_packages verify_defaults verify_services verify_printing_security verify_runtime_tools verify_user_setup; do
if ! ("$check"); then
status=1
fi
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@@ -0,0 +1,221 @@
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
source "$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/base-test.sh"
packages="$ROOT/install/omarchy-base.packages"
cups_browsed_conf="$ROOT/etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf"
cups_files_conf="$ROOT/etc/cups/cups-files.conf"
sysusers_conf="$ROOT/etc/sysusers.d/omarchy-cups-browsed.conf"
service_dropin="$ROOT/etc/systemd/system/cups-browsed.service.d/10-omarchy.conf"
grep -qxF cups-browsed "$packages" || fail "cups-browsed remains in the base package set"
grep -qxF cups-pk-helper "$packages" || fail "Polkit printer administration is installed"
! grep -qxF cups-pdf "$packages" || fail "the root CUPS-PDF backend is removed"
pass "the base install keeps discovery and replaces CUPS-PDF with Polkit administration"
grep -qxF 'CacheDir /var/cache/cups-browsed' "$cups_browsed_conf" ||
fail "cups-browsed keeps state outside the print-filter cache"
grep -qxF 'CreateIPPPrinterQueues Driverless' "$cups_browsed_conf" ||
fail "automatic queues are limited to driverless IPP printers"
grep -qxF 'CreateRemoteCUPSPrinterQueues No' "$cups_browsed_conf" ||
fail "remote CUPS queues are not created automatically"
! grep -q 'CreateRemotePrinters' "$cups_browsed_conf" ||
fail "the unsupported CreateRemotePrinters directive is gone"
pass "cups-browsed uses explicit supported discovery policy and an isolated cache"
grep -qxF 'SystemGroup cups-browsed sys root' "$cups_files_conf" ||
fail "only the printer discovery account receives passwordless CUPS administration"
grep -qxF 'PeerCred on' "$cups_files_conf" ||
fail "the packaged CUPS policy enables peer credentials"
[[ $(grep -ciE '^[[:space:]]*SystemGroup[[:space:]]' "$cups_files_conf") == 1 ]] ||
fail "the packaged CUPS policy has one SystemGroup directive"
[[ $(grep -ciE '^[[:space:]]*PeerCred[[:space:]]' "$cups_files_conf") == 1 ]] ||
fail "the packaged CUPS policy has one PeerCred directive"
[[ ! -e $ROOT/install/config/printing.sh ]] ||
fail "printing policy is not rewritten by an install script"
! grep -q 'config/printing.sh' "$ROOT/install/config/all.sh" "$ROOT/migrations/1787815267.sh" ||
fail "neither install nor update invokes a printing rewrite script"
pass "CUPS authorization ships as a canonical package override"
grep -qxF 'u cups-browsed - "CUPS printer discovery" / -' "$sysusers_conf" ||
fail "a locked cups-browsed system account is declared"
for setting in \
'User=cups-browsed' \
'Group=cups-browsed' \
'CacheDirectory=cups-browsed' \
'CacheDirectoryMode=0750' \
'UMask=0027' \
'NoNewPrivileges=yes' \
'ProtectSystem=strict' \
'ProtectHome=yes' \
'PrivateTmp=yes' \
'RestrictSUIDSGID=yes'; do
grep -qxF "$setting" "$service_dropin" ||
fail "cups-browsed service hardening includes $setting"
done
! grep -q '^\(Ambient\|CapabilityBoundingSet\).*CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE' "$service_dropin" ||
fail "cups-browsed is not granted an unverified network capability"
pass "cups-browsed runs as its confined service account without added capabilities"
test_tmp=$(mktemp -d)
trap 'rm -rf "$test_tmp"' EXIT
mock_bin="$test_tmp/bin"
mkdir -p "$mock_bin" "$test_tmp/var/lib/omarchy/migrations"
passwd_db="$test_tmp/passwd"
group_db="$test_tmp/group"
touch "$passwd_db" "$group_db"
cat >"$mock_bin/getent" <<'SH'
#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
passwd) database="$OMARCHY_CUPS_TEST_PASSWD" ;;
group) database="$OMARCHY_CUPS_TEST_GROUP" ;;
*) exit 2 ;;
esac
if (($# == 1)); then
cat "$database"
else
awk -F: -v name="$2" '$1 == name { print; found = 1 } END { exit !found }' "$database"
fi
SH
cat >"$mock_bin/omarchy-pkg-present" <<'SH'
#!/bin/bash
[[ $1 == "cups" || $1 == "cups-browsed" ]]
SH
for command in omarchy-pkg-add omarchy-pkg-drop; do
cat >"$mock_bin/$command" <<'SH'
#!/bin/bash
printf '%s\t%s\n' "${0##*/}" "$*" >>"$OMARCHY_CUPS_TEST_LOG"
SH
done
cat >"$mock_bin/systemctl" <<'SH'
#!/bin/bash
printf 'systemctl\t%s\n' "$*" >>"$OMARCHY_CUPS_TEST_LOG"
exit 0
SH
cat >"$mock_bin/sudo" <<'SH'
#!/bin/bash
printf 'sudo\t%s\n' "$*" >>"$OMARCHY_CUPS_TEST_LOG"
exec "$@"
SH
chmod +x "$mock_bin"/*
log="$test_tmp/actions.log"
touch "$log"
export OMARCHY_CUPS_TEST_LOG="$log"
export OMARCHY_CUPS_TEST_PASSWD="$passwd_db"
export OMARCHY_CUPS_TEST_GROUP="$group_db"
printf 'cups-browsed:x:1000:1000:Desktop user:/home/cups-browsed:/usr/bin/bash\n' >"$passwd_db"
printf 'cups-browsed:x:1000:\n' >"$group_db"
if PATH="$mock_bin:$PATH" \
OMARCHY_PATH="$ROOT" \
OMARCHY_CUPS_MIGRATION_MARKER="$test_tmp/desktop-collision-marker" \
bash -euo pipefail "$ROOT/migrations/1787815267.sh" 2>/dev/null; then
fail "the migration accepts an existing desktop user named cups-browsed"
fi
[[ ! -s $log ]] || fail "an account collision stops the migration before changing the system"
printf 'alice:x:1000:947:Desktop user:/home/alice:/usr/bin/bash\n' >"$passwd_db"
printf 'cups-browsed:x:947:alice\n' >"$group_db"
if PATH="$mock_bin:$PATH" \
OMARCHY_PATH="$ROOT" \
OMARCHY_CUPS_MIGRATION_MARKER="$test_tmp/group-collision-marker" \
bash -euo pipefail "$ROOT/migrations/1787815267.sh" 2>/dev/null; then
fail "the migration accepts an existing cups-browsed group with members"
fi
[[ ! -s $log ]] || fail "a group collision stops the migration before changing the system"
printf 'cups-browsed:x:947:947:CUPS printer discovery:/:/usr/bin/nologin\n' >"$passwd_db"
printf 'cups-browsed:x:947:\n' >"$group_db"
pass "the migration rejects account and group collisions before changing printing"
marker="$test_tmp/var/lib/omarchy/migrations/1787815267"
PATH="$mock_bin:$PATH" \
OMARCHY_PATH="$ROOT" \
OMARCHY_CUPS_MIGRATION_MARKER="$marker" \
bash -euo pipefail "$ROOT/migrations/1787815267.sh"
grep -qxF $'omarchy-pkg-drop\tcups-pdf' "$log" ||
fail "the migration removes CUPS-PDF"
grep -qxF $'omarchy-pkg-add\tcups-pk-helper' "$log" ||
fail "the migration installs authenticated printer administration"
grep -qxF $'systemctl\tstop cups-browsed.service' "$log" ||
fail "the migration stops the root cups-browsed process before reconfiguration"
grep -qxF $'systemctl\tdaemon-reload' "$log" ||
fail "the migration reloads the hardened service"
grep -qxF $'systemctl\ttry-reload-or-restart cups.service' "$log" ||
fail "the migration reloads the packaged CUPS authorization"
grep -qxF $'systemctl\trestart cups-browsed.service' "$log" ||
fail "the migration resumes an active cups-browsed service"
[[ -f $marker ]] || fail "the migration records machine-wide completion"
actions_after_first_run=$(wc -l <"$log")
PATH="$mock_bin:$PATH" \
OMARCHY_PATH="$ROOT" \
OMARCHY_CUPS_MIGRATION_MARKER="$marker" \
bash -euo pipefail "$ROOT/migrations/1787815267.sh"
[[ $(wc -l <"$log") == "$actions_after_first_run" ]] ||
fail "the machine-wide migration repeats privileged work"
pass "the migration safely converts an active existing installation once"
# An interrupted earlier run leaves cups-browsed stopped. A retry still needs
# to resume an enabled service before recording completion.
cat >"$mock_bin/systemctl" <<'SH'
#!/bin/bash
printf 'systemctl\t%s\n' "$*" >>"$OMARCHY_CUPS_TEST_LOG"
[[ $1 == "is-active" ]] && exit 1
exit 0
SH
chmod +x "$mock_bin/systemctl"
retry_log="$test_tmp/retry.log"
retry_marker="$test_tmp/var/lib/omarchy/migrations/1787815267-retry"
OMARCHY_CUPS_TEST_LOG="$retry_log" \
PATH="$mock_bin:$PATH" \
OMARCHY_PATH="$ROOT" \
OMARCHY_CUPS_MIGRATION_MARKER="$retry_marker" \
bash -euo pipefail "$ROOT/migrations/1787815267.sh"
grep -qxF $'systemctl\trestart cups-browsed.service' "$retry_log" ||
fail "the retry resumes cups-browsed after an interrupted earlier run"
pass "a run following an interrupted one still resumes printer discovery"
# A masked or disabled unit is deliberately left alone.
cat >"$mock_bin/systemctl" <<'SH'
#!/bin/bash
printf 'systemctl\t%s\n' "$*" >>"$OMARCHY_CUPS_TEST_LOG"
[[ $1 == "is-active" || $1 == "is-enabled" ]] && exit 1
exit 0
SH
chmod +x "$mock_bin/systemctl"
masked_log="$test_tmp/masked.log"
masked_marker="$test_tmp/var/lib/omarchy/migrations/1787815267-masked"
OMARCHY_CUPS_TEST_LOG="$masked_log" \
PATH="$mock_bin:$PATH" \
OMARCHY_PATH="$ROOT" \
OMARCHY_CUPS_MIGRATION_MARKER="$masked_marker" \
bash -euo pipefail "$ROOT/migrations/1787815267.sh"
! grep -qxF $'systemctl\trestart cups-browsed.service' "$masked_log" ||
fail "the migration leaves a masked or disabled cups-browsed alone"
[[ -f $masked_marker ]] || fail "the migration completes with cups-browsed masked"
pass "a masked or disabled cups-browsed is left alone and does not fail the migration"
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@@ -144,11 +144,12 @@ pass "keyboard prompt propagates Esc and Ctrl+C without dying under set -e"
# Username
TAKEN_USERS=dhh run_prompt omarchy_prompt_username "0:Not A Username" "0:root" "0:dhh" "0:david"
TAKEN_USERS=dhh run_prompt omarchy_prompt_username "0:Not A Username" "0:root" "0:cups-browsed" "0:dhh" "0:david"
assert_status 0 "username prompt accepts a valid name"
[[ $(field username) == "david" ]] || fail "username prompt keeps re-asking until the name is valid"
assert_notices "username prompt explains each rejection" "Username must be alphanumeric with no spaces
Username is reserved for system
Username is reserved for system
That username already exists on this machine"
pass "username prompt rejects malformed, reserved, and taken names"