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acrogenesis d593847728 Fail the suite on privileged writes through unquoted heredocs
An installer that writes a root-owned file through a heredoc with an
unquoted delimiter (<<EOF rather than <<'EOF') has the installing user's
shell expand the body first, so a user-controlled value is baked in as a
literal. Send that into /etc and root later reads or executes a path the
unprivileged user picked: a udev rule carrying
$HOME/.local/share/omarchy/bin/... resolves through a symlink that user
owns, so replacing the symlink gets their code run as root.

Add the static check. A heredoc is flagged when its delimiter is
unquoted, its body contains an install-time expansion (escaped \$VAR does
not count, since that is left for a root daemon to expand at runtime),
and its output reaches /etc, /usr, /opt, /srv, /boot or /var/lib via sudo
tee, sudo dd, a redirect, or an install/cp/mv of the generated scratch
file. Destinations written as variables are resolved from the file's own
assignments.

Sites that genuinely need install-time expansion declare it inline:

  # omarchy:heredoc-expands paths=none -- $servers is a validated IP list

paths= is machine-checked against the expansions the scanner finds to be
path-shaped, so this cannot become a rubber stamp: adding a $HOME/... to
an already-annotated heredoc makes the declaration false and trips the
check again. Path expansions anchored under a root-owned prefix, as in
"/etc/systemd/system/$unit", are correctly not path-shaped.

Annotate the sites the scan reports, each of which expands a scalar: DNS
addresses in omarchy-dns, a literal PAM line in
omarchy-setup-security-fingerprint, kernel cmdline parameters and
usernames in omarchy-upgrade-to-quattro. omarchy-provision-owner expanded
a unit name that was already a constant, so its delimiter is now quoted
and the name hardcoded; the generated unit file is byte-identical.
omarchy-windows-vm declares paths=storage,shared, the only site that
interpolates a user-chosen path.

Fixtures prove non-vacuity in both directions: the write routes other
than a pipe into sudo tee, the shapes that must stay quiet, udev rules
and a shutdown unit taken verbatim from this repository's history, and
the rubber-stamp case where a paths=none annotation on a baked $HOME path
still fails.
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
source "$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/base-test.sh"
# Omarchy does not write a root-owned file through a heredoc whose delimiter is
# unquoted, and this check enforces that.
#
# With an unquoted delimiter (<<EOF rather than <<'EOF') the *installing user's*
# shell expands the body before root ever sees the text, so any value that user
# controls is baked into the result as a literal. Send such a body to /etc and
# the file root later reads or executes carries a value an unprivileged user
# chose.
#
# Worked example -- an installer emitting a udev rule:
#
# sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/99-power-profile.rules <<EOF
# ACTION=="change", SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", RUN+="$HOME/.local/share/omarchy/bin/omarchy-power-profile"
# EOF
#
# The delimiter is unquoted, so the rule that lands names
# /home/<user>/.local/share/omarchy/bin/..., and ~/.local/share/omarchy is a
# symlink that same user owns. Replacing the symlink and provoking a
# power_supply event gets their code run by udev as root. Quote the delimiter
# and the rule names a literal $HOME instead, which udev never expands, so
# there is nothing to aim at.
#
# The distinction that matters throughout: install-time expansion bakes a
# literal, user-controlled value into a file root later reads or executes --
# that is the bug. Runtime expansion (an escaped \$VAR left literal in the file
# for a root daemon that does not have the variable set) is a different
# mechanism and is not flagged. install/3-config.sh once used both in one
# heredoc on purpose: $USER expanded at install time because it is a username,
# while \$TERM stayed escaped for systemd to expand later.
# A file under one of these is owned by root, so its content is a root-level
# input no unprivileged user should be able to influence.
PRIVILEGED_PREFIXES=(/etc /usr /opt /srv /boot /var/lib)
# Path roots the installing user can replace outright -- by editing the
# directory, or by swapping a symlink like ~/.local/share/omarchy. An expansion
# anchored in one of these is the shape this check exists to catch.
USER_WRITABLE_VARS=(HOME PWD OLDPWD TMPDIR OMARCHY_PATH OMARCHY_INSTALL
XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_STATE_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR)
# Commands that carry a heredoc's output to its destination, and the ones that
# do it as root. `tee` counts unelevated too: several bin/ commands re-exec
# themselves as root and then tee straight into /etc.
WRITE_COMMANDS=(tee dd install cp mv)
ELEVATORS=(sudo as_root pkexec doas run0)
# A dollar the installing user's shell would act on: $name, ${name} or $(cmd).
# Kept in a variable because an unquoted `(` inside a bracket expression is a
# syntax error in [[ =~ ]].
EXPANSION_RE='\$[A-Za-z_{(]'
# One pattern for every expansion form, shared by masking and name extraction
# so the two stay in lockstep.
EXPANSION_SCAN_RE='^([^$]*)\$(\{[^}]*\}|\([^)]*\)|[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*(\[[^]]*\])?)(.*)$'
# Stand-in name for a command substitution, which has no variable to report.
COMMAND_SUBSTITUTION="command-substitution"
# Sites that legitimately need install-time expansion declare it in a comment
# immediately above the heredoc:
#
# # omarchy:heredoc-expands paths=none -- $servers is a validated IP list
# # omarchy:heredoc-expands paths=storage,shared -- checked by valid_path
#
# `paths=` is the machine-checked half, and is what keeps this from being a
# rubber stamp: it must name exactly the expansions that are path-shaped, so
# adding a "$HOME/..." to an already-annotated heredoc makes the declaration
# false and trips the check again instead of inheriting the old exemption. The
# reason after `--` is for the reviewer.
ANNOTATION_RE='^[[:space:]]*#[[:space:]]*omarchy:heredoc-expands[[:space:]]+paths=([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_-]*(,[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_-]*)*|none)[[:space:]]+--[[:space:]]+([^[:space:]].*)$'
FINDINGS=()
starts_with_privileged_prefix() {
local candidate="$1" prefix
for prefix in "${PRIVILEGED_PREFIXES[@]}"; do
[[ $candidate == "$prefix"/* ]] && return 0
done
return 1
}
in_list() {
local needle="$1" item
shift
for item in "$@"; do
[[ $needle == "$item" ]] && return 0
done
return 1
}
# Drop escaped dollars, backticks and backslashes so what is left is only what
# the installing user's shell would actually expand. Escaped backslashes go
# first, otherwise "\\$TERM" would read as an escaped dollar.
strip_escapes() {
local text="$1"
text=${text//\\\\/}
text=${text//\\$/}
text=${text//\\\`/}
printf '%s' "$text"
}
# Replace every expansion in TEXT with \001 and list the variable names in
# order: the masked text first, then one name per line.
#
# Masking whole lines rather than whitespace-split words is what makes
# "DNS=${dns_servers//,/ }" readable. Those slashes belong to the substitution
# operator, not to a path, and the space inside the braces would otherwise
# split the expansion across two words and leave a bare "//,/" looking like a
# path. Because both halves come from one pass over one pattern, the Nth \001
# is the Nth name, so a token can be judged against the right variable.
mask_and_names() {
local text="$1" masked="" body name guard=0
local -a names=()
# Normalize backtick substitution into $( ) so one pattern covers both.
while ((guard++ < 64)) && [[ $text =~ ^([^\`]*)\`([^\`]*)\`(.*)$ ]]; do
body=${BASH_REMATCH[2]//[()]/}
text="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}\$($body)${BASH_REMATCH[3]}"
done
guard=0
while ((guard++ < 128)) && [[ $text =~ $EXPANSION_SCAN_RE ]]; do
masked+="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"$'\001'
body=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
text=${BASH_REMATCH[4]}
if [[ $body == \(* ]]; then
name=$COMMAND_SUBSTITUTION
elif [[ $body == \{* ]]; then
body=${body:1:${#body}-2}
# ${name}, ${name:-default}, ${name//a/b}, ${#name}, ${!name} all start
# with the name once the decorations are stripped.
body=${body#[\#!]}
if [[ $body =~ ^([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*) ]]; then
name=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
else
name=$COMMAND_SUBSTITUTION
fi
else
name=${body%%\[*}
fi
names+=("$name")
done
printf '%s\n' "$masked$text"
if ((${#names[@]} > 0)); then
printf '%s\n' "${names[@]}"
fi
}
declare -A VARS=()
declare -A VARS_TAINTED=()
# Literal assignments in the file under scan, so a destination written as
# "$DROP_IN" or "$COMPOSE_FILE" can be judged as the path it actually is.
# First assignment wins: these scripts set a constant once, and an append like
# boot_params+=(...) is not an assignment this reads at all.
#
# VARS_TAINTED records, separately, any name that is assigned a value naming a
# root the user can replace -- at any point in the file, not just the assignment
# that won. That is what stops a name being introduced with a harmless packaged
# value and then reassigned under $HOME, which judging one assignment in
# isolation would miss in whichever direction it picked.
collect_vars() {
local -n source_lines="$1"
local line name value
VARS=()
VARS_TAINTED=()
for line in "${source_lines[@]}"; do
[[ $line =~ ^[[:space:]]*# ]] && continue
[[ $line =~ ^[[:space:]]*(local|declare|export|readonly|typeset)?[[:space:]]*([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)=(.*)$ ]] || continue
name=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
value=${BASH_REMATCH[3]}
value=${value%%[[:space:]]#*}
value=${value%[[:space:]]}
if [[ $value == \"*\" || $value == \'*\' ]]; then
value=${value:1:${#value}-2}
fi
mentions_user_writable_root "$value" && VARS_TAINTED["$name"]=1
[[ -v VARS[$name] ]] || VARS["$name"]=$value
done
}
# Expand what can be expanded from the file's own assignments. ${NAME:-default}
# falls back to the default, which is how RUNTIME_DIR reaches
# /var/lib/omarchy/windows; mktemp is unwrapped to the template it is handed, so
# a scratch file inside a privileged directory still reads as privileged.
resolve_value() {
local value="$1" outer=0 inner before name default replacement
while ((outer++ < 8)); do
before=$value
inner=0
while ((inner++ < 32)) && [[ $value =~ \$\{([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*):?-([^}]*)\} ]]; do
name=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
default=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
if [[ -v VARS[$name] && ${VARS[$name]} != *"\$$name"* ]]; then
replacement=${VARS[$name]}
else
replacement=$default
fi
value=${value/"${BASH_REMATCH[0]}"/$replacement}
done
inner=0
while ((inner++ < 32)) && [[ $value =~ \$\{([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)\}|\$([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*) ]]; do
name=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
[[ -n $name ]] || name=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
[[ -v VARS[$name] && ${VARS[$name]} != *"\$$name"* ]] || break
value=${value/"${BASH_REMATCH[0]}"/${VARS[$name]}}
done
if [[ $value =~ \$\(mktemp[^\)]*[[:space:]]\"?([^\"\)]+)\"?\) ]]; then
value=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
fi
[[ $value == "$before" ]] && break
done
printf '%s' "$value"
}
# Strip a leading KEY= and any opening quote so a token's literal head can be
# compared against the privileged prefixes.
literal_head() {
local text="$1"
[[ $text =~ ^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*\+?= ]] && text=${text#*=}
text=${text#[\"\']}
printf '%s' "$text"
}
# The literal value a name is assigned, when that value is knowable. A value
# read out of a command substitution is not: resolving it would treat the
# slashes in the command itself as a path, which made $autologin_user (an awk
# over /etc/sddm.conf.d) look like a path when it holds a username.
literal_value() {
local name="$1"
[[ -v VARS[$name] ]] || return 0
[[ ${VARS[$name]} != *'$('* && ${VARS[$name]} != *'`'* ]] || return 0
resolve_value "${VARS[$name]}"
}
# Does TEXT still reference a root the installing user can replace? Used on a
# value the scan could not fully resolve, where the remaining "$HOME" or
# "${XDG_DATA_HOME}" is the whole reason the value cannot be trusted as a
# root-owned path. A chain through a name this scan never saw assigned resolves
# to neither, and is judged on the rest of the evidence.
mentions_user_writable_root() {
local text="$1" name pattern
for name in "${USER_WRITABLE_VARS[@]}"; do
# Whole name only. A prefix match would read ${OMARCHY_INSTALL_USER:-}, which
# holds a username, as OMARCHY_INSTALL, which holds a path.
pattern='\$\{?'"$name"'([^A-Za-z0-9_]|$)'
[[ $text =~ $pattern ]] && return 0
done
return 1
}
# Is this expansion used as a path, and if so, is that path anchored somewhere
# root already owns? MASKED is the containing whitespace token with expansions
# replaced by \001.
#
# Path-shaped means the literal text left around the expansion contains a slash
# ("$HOME/.local/...", "$storage:/storage"), or the variable names a
# user-writable root, or it is assigned a literal value containing a slash.
# Anchored means the literal text *before* the expansion is itself a privileged
# path, as in "/etc/systemd/system/$unit" -- still a path, but one root owns end
# to end. Scoping the anchor test to the containing token is what keeps a udev
# RUN+= line honest: it can name /usr/bin/systemd-run earlier on the same line
# while the $HOME token stands alone.
classify_expansion() {
local masked="$1" name="$2" head literal piece
local path_shaped=1 token_has_slash=1
head=$(literal_head "$masked")
head=${head%%$'\001'*}
literal=$(literal_value "$name")
[[ $masked == */* ]] && token_has_slash=0
((token_has_slash == 0)) && path_shaped=0
in_list "$name" "${USER_WRITABLE_VARS[@]}" && path_shaped=0
[[ -v VARS_TAINTED[$name] ]] && path_shaped=0
[[ -n $literal && $literal == */* ]] && path_shaped=0
((path_shaped == 0)) || return 1
# A path expansion anchored under a root-owned prefix cannot introduce a
# user-writable location, so it does not need declaring.
starts_with_privileged_prefix "$head" && return 1
# When the token itself is not a path and the shape came only from the
# assigned value, a variable holding root-owned absolute paths is not baking
# anything user-writable in: that is how $fprintd_gate carries
# /usr/bin/omarchy-hw-laptop-closed. This rescue deliberately does not apply
# when the token is a path, so "$storage:/storage" stays flagged.
#
# It also does not apply to a value this scan could not finish resolving whose
# unresolved part reaches a root the user can replace. One hop is all it takes
# to hide the shape: helper="$HOME/.local/share/omarchy/bin/agent" followed by
# ExecStart=$helper puts no slash in the token and no literal path in the value,
# so rescuing it would exempt exactly the write this check exists to catch. A
# value that merely fails to resolve -- a kernel parameter list, an escaped
# password -- is left to the rescue, since nothing in it names a user root.
# A name assigned a user root anywhere in the file is never rescued: the
# assignment that won may be the packaged path it was later reassigned away
# from, and the rescue would then clear it on evidence it no longer holds.
if ((token_has_slash != 0)) && ! in_list "$name" "${USER_WRITABLE_VARS[@]}" &&
! [[ -v VARS_TAINTED[$name] ]] && [[ -n $literal ]]; then
for piece in $literal; do
piece=$(literal_head "$piece")
if mentions_user_writable_root "$piece"; then
return 0
fi
if [[ $piece == /* ]] && ! starts_with_privileged_prefix "$piece"; then
return 0
fi
done
return 1
fi
return 0
}
# Destination paths a command line hands a heredoc's output, as written. An
# "\002elevated" marker is emitted when the line runs through sudo and friends.
command_destinations() {
local line="$1" token target elevated=1 copy_like=1 last="" index scan
local -a tokens=()
# Quotes only get in the way of splitting; the paths inside them do not
# contain spaces anywhere this check runs.
line=${line//\"/ }
line=${line//\'/ }
# Detach redirects from their targets so "> /etc/x" and ">/etc/x" agree.
line=${line//>/ > }
read -r -a tokens <<<"$line"
index=0
while ((index < ${#tokens[@]})); do
token=${tokens[index]}
index=$((index + 1))
in_list "$token" "${ELEVATORS[@]}" && elevated=0
if [[ $token == ">" ]]; then
target=${tokens[index]:-}
index=$((index + 1))
[[ -n $target && $target != "&"* && $target != /dev/* ]] && printf '%s\n' "$target"
continue
fi
if [[ $token == of=* ]]; then
printf '%s\n' "${token#of=}"
continue
fi
if in_list "$token" "${WRITE_COMMANDS[@]}"; then
if [[ $token == "tee" || $token == "dd" ]]; then
# Every non-flag argument to tee is a destination.
scan=$index
while ((scan < ${#tokens[@]})); do
target=${tokens[scan]}
scan=$((scan + 1))
[[ $target == "|" || $target == "&&" || $target == ";" ]] && break
[[ $target == -* || $target == "<"* || $target == ">" || $target == of=* ]] && continue
[[ $target == /dev/* ]] && continue
printf '%s\n' "$target"
done
else
copy_like=0
fi
continue
fi
[[ $token != -* && $token != "|" && $token != "<"* && $token != ">" ]] && last=$token
done
# install/cp/mv put the destination last.
if ((copy_like == 0)) && [[ -n $last ]]; then
printf '%s\n' "$last"
fi
if ((elevated == 0)); then
printf '%s\n' $'\002elevated'
fi
}
# Does the heredoc on this line reach a root-owned file? Either directly, or in
# one hop: written to a scratch file that a later install/cp/mv carries into a
# privileged directory.
privileged_destination() {
local line="$1" start_index="$2"
local -n scan_lines="$3"
local dest resolved elevated=1 follow hop hop_dest
local -a unresolved=()
while IFS= read -r dest; do
if [[ $dest == $'\002elevated' ]]; then
elevated=0
continue
fi
resolved=$(resolve_value "$dest")
resolved=${resolved#\~}
if starts_with_privileged_prefix "$resolved"; then
printf '%s' "$resolved"
return 0
fi
if [[ $resolved == *'$'* ]]; then
unresolved+=("$dest")
fi
# One hop: a later copy of this same expression into a root-owned path.
if [[ $dest == *'$'* ]]; then
follow=$start_index
while ((follow < ${#scan_lines[@]})); do
hop=${scan_lines[follow]}
follow=$((follow + 1))
[[ $hop == *"$dest"* ]] || continue
[[ $hop =~ (^|[[:space:]])(install|cp|mv)([[:space:]]|$) ]] || continue
while IFS= read -r hop_dest; do
[[ $hop_dest == $'\002elevated' ]] && continue
[[ $hop_dest == "$dest" ]] && continue
hop_dest=$(resolve_value "$hop_dest")
if starts_with_privileged_prefix "$hop_dest"; then
printf '%s' "$hop_dest"
return 0
fi
done < <(command_destinations "$hop")
done
fi
done < <(command_destinations "$line")
# An elevated write whose destination cannot be resolved counts as
# privileged: sudo tee is not aimed at a user's own dotfile, and assuming
# otherwise is how this bug class survived six reviews.
if ((elevated == 0)) && ((${#unresolved[@]} > 0)); then
printf '%s' "${unresolved[0]} (unresolved destination of an elevated write)"
return 0
fi
return 1
}
# Count the \001 placeholders in a masked token.
count_placeholders() {
local text="$1" count=0
while [[ $text == *$'\001'* ]]; do
count=$((count + 1))
text=${text#*$'\001'}
done
printf '%s' "$count"
}
scan_file() {
local file="$1" display="${2:-$1}"
local -a lines=()
local index lineno line scan rest raw guard slot delim candidate
local body_text unescaped destination body_line masked_line token name
local declared_paths annotation look shown_paths shown_plain count next slots
local hd_re='<<-?[[:space:]]*("[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*"|'"'"'[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*'"'"'|[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)'
mapfile -t lines <"$file"
collect_vars lines
index=0
while ((index < ${#lines[@]})); do
line=${lines[index]}
lineno=$((index + 1))
index=$((index + 1))
[[ $line =~ ^[[:space:]]*# ]] && continue
# Herestrings are not heredocs. Blanking them keeps <<<"$x" from reading as
# a heredoc while preserving every other offset on the line.
scan=${line//<<</ }
[[ $scan == *"<<"* ]] || continue
# Collect this line's heredoc delimiters in order. Quoted ones are safe by
# construction but still have to be tracked, or their bodies would be
# parsed as code.
local -a delims=() quoted=()
rest=$scan
guard=0
while ((guard++ < 8)) && [[ $rest =~ $hd_re ]]; do
raw=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
rest=${rest#*"${BASH_REMATCH[0]}"}
if [[ $raw == \"*\" || $raw == \'*\' ]]; then
delims+=("${raw:1:${#raw}-2}")
quoted+=(0)
else
delims+=("$raw")
quoted+=(1)
fi
done
((${#delims[@]} > 0)) || continue
for slot in "${!delims[@]}"; do
delim=${delims[slot]}
local -a body=()
while ((index < ${#lines[@]})); do
candidate=${lines[index]}
index=$((index + 1))
[[ ${candidate#"${candidate%%[![:space:]]*}"} == "$delim" ]] && break
body+=("$candidate")
done
# A quoted delimiter cannot expand anything.
((quoted[slot] == 1)) || continue
printf -v body_text '%s\n' "${body[@]:-}"
unescaped=$(strip_escapes "$body_text")
[[ $unescaped =~ $EXPANSION_RE || $unescaped == *'`'* ]] || continue
destination=$(privileged_destination "$line" "$index" lines) || continue
# Sort the expansions into the ones that bake a path into the file and
# the ones that only interpolate a scalar.
local -a path_expansions=() plain_expansions=() scanned=() names=()
while IFS= read -r body_line; do
mapfile -t scanned < <(mask_and_names "$body_line")
masked_line=${scanned[0]}
names=("${scanned[@]:1}")
next=0
for token in $masked_line; do
count=$(count_placeholders "$token")
((count > 0)) || continue
for ((slots = 0; slots < count; slots++)); do
name=${names[next]:-}
next=$((next + 1))
[[ -n $name ]] || continue
if classify_expansion "$token" "$name"; then
in_list "$name" "${path_expansions[@]:-}" || path_expansions+=("$name")
else
in_list "$name" "${plain_expansions[@]:-}" || plain_expansions+=("$name")
fi
done
done
done <<<"$unescaped"
declared_paths=""
annotation=""
look=$((lineno - 2))
while ((look >= 0)) && [[ ${lines[look]} =~ ^[[:space:]]*# ]]; do
if [[ ${lines[look]} =~ $ANNOTATION_RE ]]; then
declared_paths=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
annotation=${BASH_REMATCH[3]}
fi
look=$((look - 1))
done
shown_paths="none"
if ((${#path_expansions[@]} > 0)); then
shown_paths=$(
IFS=,
printf '%s' "${path_expansions[*]}"
)
fi
shown_plain="none"
if ((${#plain_expansions[@]} > 0)); then
shown_plain=$(
IFS=,
printf '%s' "${plain_expansions[*]}"
)
fi
if [[ -z $annotation ]]; then
FINDINGS+=("$display:$lineno: unquoted heredoc <<$delim expands values at install time and its output reaches $destination
path-shaped expansions: $shown_paths
other expansions: $shown_plain
Whatever expands here is baked into a file root owns. If it is a path the
installing user can replace, root later reads or executes attacker-controlled
content -- that is a local privilege escalation.
Fix, in order of preference:
1. quote the delimiter (<<'$delim') so nothing expands at install time;
2. hardcode an absolute root-owned path instead of expanding one;
3. if the expansion is genuinely required, declare it above the heredoc:
# omarchy:heredoc-expands paths=$shown_paths -- <why this is safe>")
continue
fi
if [[ $declared_paths != "$shown_paths" ]]; then
FINDINGS+=("$display:$lineno: heredoc annotation declares paths=$declared_paths but the path-shaped expansions are $shown_paths
Writing to: $destination
Every expansion used as a path outside a root-owned prefix has to be named,
so adding one to an already-annotated heredoc trips this check again instead
of inheriting the old exemption.
Fix: drop the path expansion (hardcode an absolute root-owned path), or
correct the declaration:
# omarchy:heredoc-expands paths=$shown_paths -- <why root using this path is safe>")
fi
done
done
}
# bin/, install/ and migrations/ are where privileged writes live: bin/ holds
# the setup and upgrade commands, install/ runs during install, migrations/
# during update. default/ is scanned too even though the pattern is not
# reachable there today -- it ships bash functions and completions whose only
# "<<" uses are herestrings, with no privileged writes at all -- because the
# scan is cheap and default/ is sourced into every login shell, so a privileged
# write arriving there later should not arrive unchecked.
shell_sources() {
local file first
while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
grep -Iq . "$file" 2>/dev/null || continue
case $file in
*.sh | *.hook)
printf '%s\0' "$file"
continue
;;
esac
IFS= read -r first <"$file" || true
if [[ $first =~ ^#!.*[[:space:]/](bash|sh)$ ]]; then
printf '%s\0' "$file"
fi
done < <(find "$ROOT/bin" "$ROOT/install" "$ROOT/migrations" "$ROOT/default" \
-type f -print0 2>/dev/null | sort -z)
}
require_command find
require_command grep
sources=()
while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
sources+=("$file")
done < <(shell_sources)
((${#sources[@]} > 50)) || fail "the scan reaches the privileged-write scripts" \
"only ${#sources[@]} shell sources found under bin/, install/, migrations/ and default/"
pass "the scan reaches the privileged-write scripts (${#sources[@]} files)"
for file in "${sources[@]}"; do
scan_file "$file" "${file#"$ROOT"/}"
done
if ((${#FINDINGS[@]} > 0)); then
fail "no privileged write embeds an install-time expansion through an unquoted heredoc" \
"$(printf '%s\n\n' "${FINDINGS[@]}")"
fi
pass "no privileged write embeds an install-time expansion through an unquoted heredoc"
# --- Non-vacuity ------------------------------------------------------------
#
# A check that cannot catch the bug it was written for is worthless, so the same
# scanner runs against fixtures: installer shapes taken verbatim from this
# repository's history, the routes other than a pipe into sudo tee, and the
# shapes that must stay quiet.
FIXTURES="$SHELL_TEST_DIR/fixtures/privileged-heredoc"
fixture_flags() {
local fixture="$1" description="$2" expected="${3:-}"
FINDINGS=()
scan_file "$FIXTURES/$fixture" "$fixture"
((${#FINDINGS[@]} > 0)) || fail "$description" "$fixture produced no finding"
if [[ -n $expected ]]; then
printf '%s\n' "${FINDINGS[@]}" | grep -qF -- "$expected" ||
fail "$description" "expected \"$expected\" in:$(printf '\n%s' "${FINDINGS[@]}")"
fi
pass "$description"
}
fixture_passes() {
local fixture="$1" description="$2"
FINDINGS=()
scan_file "$FIXTURES/$fixture" "$fixture"
((${#FINDINGS[@]} == 0)) || fail "$description" "$(printf '%s\n' "${FINDINGS[@]}")"
pass "$description"
}
# Verbatim installer shapes: two udev rules whose RUN+= resolves through a
# user's home, and a systemd unit whose ExecStop did the same. Kept as written
# rather than tidied, so the fixtures stay faithful to the real shape instead of
# a cleaned-up sketch of it.
fixture_flags udev-rule-home-path.sh \
"flags a power-profile udev rule whose RUN+= resolves under \$HOME" \
"path-shaped expansions: HOME"
fixture_flags wifi-rule-home-path.sh \
"flags a wifi-powersave udev rule whose RUN+= resolves under \$HOME" \
"path-shaped expansions: HOME"
fixture_flags shutdown-unit-home-execstop.sh \
"flags a shutdown unit with ExecStop=\$HOME/..." \
"path-shaped expansions: HOME"
# The exemption must not be a rubber stamp: the same file carrying a
# plausible-looking annotation still fails, because $HOME is path-shaped and
# the declaration does not say so.
fixture_flags annotated-paths-none-still-fails.sh \
"an annotation claiming paths=none cannot silence a baked \$HOME path" \
"declares paths=none but the path-shaped expansions are HOME"
# A path can hide one or more hops away from the heredoc. In each of these the
# token in the body has no slash and the value never resolves to a literal path,
# so an annotation of paths=none looks plausible while the write still bakes the
# user's home into a root-owned file. The declaration has to name the expansion.
fixture_flags hop-variable-home-path.sh \
"an annotation cannot exempt a home path carried one variable hop away" \
"declares paths=none but the path-shaped expansions are helper"
fixture_flags hop-twice-home-path.sh \
"an annotation cannot exempt a home path carried two variable hops away" \
"declares paths=none but the path-shaped expansions are helper"
fixture_flags shadowed-assignment-home-path.sh \
"a later assignment under \$HOME is judged, not the packaged value it shadowed" \
"declares paths=none but the path-shaped expansions are target"
# Routes other than a direct pipe into sudo tee.
fixture_flags route-redirect.sh "flags a plain redirect into /etc"
fixture_flags route-sudo-dd.sh "flags sudo dd of= into a privileged path"
fixture_flags route-variable-path.sh \
"flags an elevated write whose destination is a variable resolving under /etc"
fixture_flags route-install-hop.sh \
"flags a scratch file that install(1) later copies into /usr"
fixture_flags route-dash-delimiter.sh "flags an indented <<- heredoc"
# Negatives.
fixture_passes safe-quoted-delimiter.sh "a quoted delimiter passes"
fixture_passes safe-user-destination.sh \
"an unquoted heredoc expanding into the user's own ~/.config passes"
fixture_passes safe-no-expansion.sh \
"a privileged write with no expansion in the body passes"
fixture_passes safe-runtime-expansion.sh \
"an escaped \\\$VAR left for a root daemon to expand passes"
fixture_passes safe-annotated.sh "a declared, reasoned exemption passes"
fixture_passes safe-root-anchored.sh \
"a path expansion anchored under /etc is truthfully declared paths=none"
fixture_passes safe-herestring.sh "a herestring is not mistaken for a heredoc"