The Nomad client renders templates in the same privileged process used for most
other client operations. During internal testing, we discovered that a malicious
task can create a symlink that can cause template rendering to read and write to
arbitrary files outside the allocation sandbox. Because the Nomad agent can be
restarted without restarting tasks, we can't simply check that the path is safe
at the time we write without encountering a time-of-check/time-of-use race.
To protect Nomad client hosts from this attack, we'll now read and write
templates in a subprocess:
* On Linux/Unix, this subprocess is sandboxed via chroot to the allocation
directory. This requires that Nomad is running as a privileged process. A
non-root Nomad agent will warn that it cannot sandbox the template renderer.
* On Windows, this process is sandboxed via a Windows AppContainer which has
been granted access to only to the allocation directory. This does not require
special privileges on Windows. (Creating symlinks in the first place can be
prevented by running workloads as non-Administrator or
non-ContainerAdministrator users.)
Both sandboxes cause encountered symlinks to be evaluated in the context of the
sandbox, which will result in a "file not found" or "access denied" error,
depending on the platform. This change will also require an update to
Consul-Template to allow callers to inject a custom `ReaderFunc` and
`RenderFunc`.
This design is intended as a workaround to allow us to fix this bug without
creating backwards compatibility issues for running tasks. A future version of
Nomad may introduce a read-only mount specifically for templates and artifacts
so that tasks cannot write into the same location that the Nomad agent is.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/19888
Fixes: CVE-2024-1329
* main: remove deprecated uses of rand.Seed
go1.20 deprecates rand.Seed, and seeds the rand package
automatically. Remove cases where we seed the random package,
and cleanup the one case where we intentionally create a
known random source.
* cl: update cl
* mod: update go mod
* client: sandbox go-getter subprocess with landlock
This PR re-implements the getter package for artifact downloads as a subprocess.
Key changes include
On all platforms, run getter as a child process of the Nomad agent.
On Linux platforms running as root, run the child process as the nobody user.
On supporting Linux kernels, uses landlock for filesystem isolation (via go-landlock).
On all platforms, restrict environment variables of the child process to a static set.
notably TMP/TEMP now points within the allocation's task directory
kernel.landlock attribute is fingerprinted (version number or unavailable)
These changes make Nomad client more resilient against a faulty go-getter implementation that may panic, and more secure against bad actors attempting to use artifact downloads as a privilege escalation vector.
Adds new e2e/artifact suite for ensuring artifact downloading works.
TODO: Windows git test (need to modify the image, etc... followup PR)
* landlock: fixup items from cr
* cr: fixup tests and go.mod file
Nomad runs one logmon process and also one docker_logger process for each
running allocation. A naive look at memory usage shows 10-30 MB of RSS, but a
closer look shows that most of this memory (ex. all but ~2MB for logmon) is
shared (`Shared_Clean` in Linux pmap).
But a heap dump of docker_logger shows that it currently has an extra ~2500 KiB
of heap (anonymously-mapped unshared memory) used for init blocks coming from
the agent code (ex. mostly regexes from go-version, structs, and the Consul
SDK). The packages for running logmon, docker_logger, and executor have an init
block that parses `os.Args` to drop into their own logic, which prevents them
from loading all the rest of the agent code and saves on memory, so this was
unexpected.
It looks like we accidentally reordered the imports in main to undo some of the
work originally done in 404d2d4c98. This changeset
restores the ordering. A follow-up heap dump shows this saves ~2MB of unshared
RSS per docker_logger process.
This PR adds support for the raw_exec driver on systems with only cgroups v2.
The raw exec driver is able to use cgroups to manage processes. This happens
only on Linux, when exec_driver is enabled, and the no_cgroups option is not
set. The driver uses the freezer controller to freeze processes of a task,
issue a sigkill, then unfreeze. Previously the implementation assumed cgroups
v1, and now it also supports cgroups v2.
There is a bit of refactoring in this PR, but the fundamental design remains
the same.
Closes#12351#12348
This commit uses the go-colorable library to enable support for coloured
UI output on Windows. This acts as a compatibility layer that takes
standard unix-y terminal codes and translates them into the requisite
windows calls as required.
* client/executor: refactor client to remove interpolation
* executor: POC libcontainer based executor
* vendor: use hashicorp libcontainer fork
* vendor: add libcontainer/nsenter dep
* executor: updated executor interface to simplify operations
* executor: implement logging pipe
* logmon: new logmon plugin to manage task logs
* driver/executor: use logmon for log management
* executor: fix tests and windows build
* executor: fix logging key names
* executor: fix test failures
* executor: add config field to toggle between using libcontainer and standard executors
* logmon: use discover utility to discover nomad executable
* executor: only call libcontainer-shim on main in linux
* logmon: use seperate path configs for stdout/stderr fifos
* executor: windows fixes
* executor: created reusable pid stats collection utility that can be used in an executor
* executor: update fifo.Open calls
* executor: fix build
* remove executor from docker driver
* executor: Shutdown func to kill and cleanup executor and its children
* executor: move linux specific universal executor funcs to seperate file
* move logmon initialization to a task runner hook
* client: doc fixes and renaming from code review
* taskrunner: use shared config struct for logmon fifo fields
* taskrunner: logmon only needs to be started once per task
