🛡️ Sentinel: [CRITICAL] Fix command injection in docker logs API#105
🛡️ Sentinel: [CRITICAL] Fix command injection in docker logs API#105bobdivx wants to merge 1 commit into
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🚨 Severity: CRITICAL 💡 Vulnerability: Node.js API route docker-logs.ts used execSync with concatenated user input (containerId and tail) to execute shell commands like docker logs. This allowed arbitrary shell command execution if user input contained shell metacharacters (e.g., ; or |). 🎯 Impact: Complete system compromise via arbitrary command execution as the user running the Node.js process. 🔧 Fix: Replaced execSync with execFileAsync (promisified execFile) to bypass the shell interpreter. Passed arguments as a strict array, ensuring user input is treated as arguments. Added -- separator to signify the end of command options and prevent flag injection. Added regex validation for containerId and sanitized HTTP 500 error messages. ✅ Verification: Ran pnpm check and pnpm test (all tests passed) to ensure no regressions were introduced. Added learning entry to .jules/sentinel.md. Co-authored-by: bobdivx <6737167+bobdivx@users.noreply.github.com>
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This pull request addresses a critical command injection vulnerability in the Docker logs API route by switching from execSync to execFileAsync, validating the containerId and tail parameters, and sanitizing error responses. Additionally, a sentinel file was added to document the vulnerability and prevention steps. The review feedback points out that the current implementation of log capturing might discard stderr logs if stdout is not empty, and suggests combining both streams to ensure all logs are captured.
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| if (stdout.trim()) { | ||
| logs = stdout.trim().split('\n'); | ||
| } else if (stderr.trim()) { | ||
| logs = stderr.trim().split('\n'); | ||
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When docker logs executes successfully, it can output to both stdout and stderr (since containers often write to both streams). The current implementation uses an if-else block which completely discards stderr logs if stdout is not empty.
To ensure all logs are captured and returned, you should combine both streams.
const combined = [stdout, stderr].filter(s => s && s.trim()).join('\n').trim();
if (combined) {
logs = combined.split('\n');
}
🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
💡 Vulnerability: Node.js API route docker-logs.ts used execSync with concatenated user input (containerId and tail) to execute shell commands like docker logs. This allowed arbitrary shell command execution if user input contained shell metacharacters.
🎯 Impact: Complete system compromise via arbitrary command execution as the user running the Node.js process.
🔧 Fix: Replaced execSync with execFileAsync (promisified execFile) to bypass the shell interpreter. Passed arguments as a strict array, ensuring user input is treated as arguments. Added -- separator to signify the end of command options and prevent flag injection. Added regex validation for containerId and sanitized HTTP 500 error messages.
✅ Verification: Ran pnpm check and pnpm test (all tests passed) to ensure no regressions were introduced. Added learning entry to .jules/sentinel.md.
PR created automatically by Jules for task 12339320468183441182 started by @bobdivx