fix(entrypoint): root never follows customer symlinks under /home/$user

/home/$user is the customer's bind mount; they can plant symlinks in it. The
entrypoints ran as root and wrote/chowned through customer paths, so e.g.
logs/php-fpm/error.log -> /etc/shadow (or a dangling crontab -> /etc/...)
handed the customer that file, i.e. container root. New scripts/safe-paths.sh,
used by entrypoint.sh and entrypoint-fpm.sh:

- secure_home: refuse to start if /home/$user is not a real dir; logs/ must be
  a real dir and every symlink under logs/ is removed and logged (apache and
  php-fpm open those files as root at start).
- dirs, the pool error_log and the default crontab are created AS THE CUSTOMER
  (setpriv, runuser fallback); a pre-existing root-owned error_log is fixed
  with chown -h (never dereferences).
- the user crontab is read as the customer and piped to `crontab -u $user -`
  (root reading it could install any root-readable file where the customer
  can `crontab -l` it). DEV-mode crontab/mysql_creds are written via as_user tee.
- the o+x directory pass (find -type d, no -L) runs as the customer, so a dir
  swapped for a symlink before chmod can only reach what the customer owns.
- chown -R is unchanged: GNU default -P lchown()s symlinks, never follows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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shadowdaoandClaude Opus 5.5 committed 2026-10-20 15:49:18 -07:00
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@@ -14,16 +14,18 @@ export FPM_LISTEN=${FPM_LISTEN:-9000}
adduser -u $uid $user
mkdir -p /home/$user/public_html
mkdir -p /home/$user/logs/php-fpm
# Root never follows customer symlinks under /home/$user: see safe-paths.sh.
source /scripts/safe-paths.sh
secure_home
user_mkdir /home/$user/public_html /home/$user/logs/php-fpm
# Create the pool's error_log (php_admin_value[error_log] in
# create-php-config.sh) BEFORE the chown -R below, and chown it explicitly.
# It used to be `touch`ed as root at the very end, after the chown, so on a
# site's first start the pool (customer uid) could not open it and PHP errors
# fell back to FastCGI stderr -> shared-httpd's error log until the next
# restart's chown -R fixed the owner.
touch /home/$user/logs/php-fpm/error.log
chown $user:$user /home/$user/logs/php-fpm/error.log
# create-php-config.sh) AS THE CUSTOMER, before php-fpm starts. It used to be
# `touch`ed as root at the very end, after the chown -R, so on a site's first
# start the pool (customer uid) could not open it and PHP errors fell back to
# FastCGI stderr -> shared-httpd's error log until the next restart's chown -R
# fixed the owner. user_touch never writes or chowns through a symlink.
user_touch /home/$user/logs/php-fpm/error.log
ln -sf /home/$user/logs/php-fpm /var/log/php-fpm
@@ -34,6 +36,7 @@ echo "Container memory: ${CONTAINER_MEMORY_MB}MB | PHP-FPM pm=${PHP_FPM_PM} max_
mkdir -p /run/php-fpm/
/usr/sbin/php-fpm -y /etc/php-fpm.conf
# GNU chown -R defaults to -P: symlinks are lchown()ed, never followed.
chown -R $user:$user /home/$user
# Do NOT `chmod -R 755` the docroot here. /home/$user is the customer's
# bind-mounted site directory; a recursive 755 on every start made every file
@@ -43,13 +46,13 @@ chown -R $user:$user /home/$user
# traverse directories to serve static files. Normalise that and nothing else:
# open the docroot itself, and add o+x to directories that lack it. Regular
# files are never touched, so execute is never added and wp-config.php is
# never loosened.
chmod 755 /home/$user
find /home/$user -type d ! -perm -o=x -exec chmod o+x {} +
# never loosened. Runs as the customer (safe-paths.sh) so a symlink can only
# reach what the customer already owns.
open_dir_traversal
if [[ $environment == 'DEV' ]]; then
echo "Starting Dev Deployment (FPM-only mode)"
mkdir -p /home/$user/_db_backups
user_mkdir /home/$user/_db_backups
if ! command -v microdnf &> /dev/null; then
echo "microdnf not found, installing with dnf..."
dnf install -y microdnf && dnf clean all
@@ -67,13 +70,12 @@ if [[ $environment == 'DEV' ]]; then
mysql -e "CREATE USER '"$mysql_user"'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '"$mysql_password"';"
mysql -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO '"$mysql_user"'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;"
mysql -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"
echo "# User crontab for $user" > /home/$user/crontab
echo "*/15 * * * * /scripts/mysql-backup.sh $user devdb_$mysql_db" >> /home/$user/crontab
chown $user:$user /home/$user/crontab
echo "MySQL User: "$mysql_user > /home/$user/mysql_creds
echo "MySQL Password: "$mysql_password >> /home/$user/mysql_creds
echo "MySQL Database: devdb_"$mysql_db >> /home/$user/mysql_creds
cat /home/$user/mysql_creds
# Written AS THE CUSTOMER (as_user tee), never by root through a customer path.
drop_symlink /home/$user/crontab
printf '%s\n' "# User crontab for $user" "*/15 * * * * /scripts/mysql-backup.sh $user devdb_$mysql_db" \
| as_user tee /home/$user/crontab >/dev/null
printf '%s\n' "MySQL User: $mysql_user" "MySQL Password: $mysql_password" "MySQL Database: devdb_$mysql_db" \
| as_user tee /home/$user/mysql_creds
fi
/usr/bin/memcached -d -u $user
fi
@@ -84,16 +86,9 @@ if [[ $environment == 'PROD' ]]; then
fi
fi
# Set up user crontab
if [ ! -f /home/$user/crontab ]; then
echo "# User crontab for $user" > /home/$user/crontab
echo "# Add your cron jobs here" >> /home/$user/crontab
echo "# Example: */5 * * * * /home/$user/scripts/my-script.sh" >> /home/$user/crontab
chown $user:$user /home/$user/crontab
fi
# Load user crontab
crontab -u $user /home/$user/crontab
# Set up + load the user crontab, created and read as the customer
# (safe-paths.sh). Root reading/writing/chowning it followed symlinks.
load_user_crontab
/usr/sbin/crond
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@@ -10,8 +10,11 @@ fi
adduser -u $uid $user
mkdir -p /home/$user/public_html
mkdir -p /home/$user/logs/{apache,php-fpm}
# Root never follows customer symlinks under /home/$user: see safe-paths.sh.
source /scripts/safe-paths.sh
secure_home
user_mkdir /home/$user/public_html /home/$user/logs/apache /home/$user/logs/php-fpm
mv /var/log/httpd /var/log/httpd.bak
@@ -36,6 +39,7 @@ fi
/usr/sbin/httpd -k start
/usr/sbin/php-fpm -y /etc/php-fpm.conf
# GNU chown -R defaults to -P: symlinks are lchown()ed, never followed.
chown -R $user:$user /home/$user
# Do NOT `chmod -R 755` the docroot here. /home/$user is the customer's
# bind-mounted site directory; a recursive 755 on every start made every file
@@ -45,13 +49,13 @@ chown -R $user:$user /home/$user
# traverse directories to serve static files. Normalise that and nothing else:
# open the docroot itself, and add o+x to directories that lack it. Regular
# files are never touched, so execute is never added and wp-config.php is
# never loosened.
chmod 755 /home/$user
find /home/$user -type d ! -perm -o=x -exec chmod o+x {} +
# never loosened. Runs as the customer (safe-paths.sh) so a symlink can only
# reach what the customer already owns.
open_dir_traversal
if [[ $environment == 'DEV' ]]; then
echo "Starting Dev Deployment"
mkdir -p /home/$user/_db_backups
user_mkdir /home/$user/_db_backups
# Ensure microdnf is available for installing MariaDB and memcached in DEV mode
if ! command -v microdnf &> /dev/null; then
echo "microdnf not found, installing with dnf..."
@@ -70,14 +74,13 @@ if [[ $environment == 'DEV' ]]; then
mysql -e "CREATE USER '"$mysql_user"'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '"$mysql_password"';"
mysql -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO '"$mysql_user"'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;"
mysql -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"
# Create user crontab with MySQL backup job
echo "# User crontab for $user" > /home/$user/crontab
echo "*/15 * * * * /scripts/mysql-backup.sh $user devdb_$mysql_db" >> /home/$user/crontab
chown $user:$user /home/$user/crontab
echo "MySQL User: "$mysql_user > /home/$user/mysql_creds
echo "MySQL Password: "$mysql_password >> /home/$user/mysql_creds
echo "MySQL Database: devdb_"$mysql_db >> /home/$user/mysql_creds
cat /home/$user/mysql_creds
# Create user crontab with MySQL backup job. Written AS THE CUSTOMER
# (as_user tee), never by root through a customer path.
drop_symlink /home/$user/crontab
printf '%s\n' "# User crontab for $user" "*/15 * * * * /scripts/mysql-backup.sh $user devdb_$mysql_db" \
| as_user tee /home/$user/crontab >/dev/null
printf '%s\n' "MySQL User: $mysql_user" "MySQL Password: $mysql_password" "MySQL Database: devdb_$mysql_db" \
| as_user tee /home/$user/mysql_creds
fi
/usr/bin/memcached -d -u $user
@@ -88,16 +91,9 @@ if [[ $environment == 'PROD' ]]; then
sed -r -i 's/;session.save_path="localhost:11211/session.save_path="memcache:11211/' /etc/php.d/50-memcached.ini
fi
# Set up user crontab
if [ ! -f /home/$user/crontab ]; then
echo "# User crontab for $user" > /home/$user/crontab
echo "# Add your cron jobs here" >> /home/$user/crontab
echo "# Example: */5 * * * * /home/$user/scripts/my-script.sh" >> /home/$user/crontab
chown $user:$user /home/$user/crontab
fi
# Load user crontab
crontab -u $user /home/$user/crontab
# Set up + load the user crontab, created and read as the customer
# (safe-paths.sh). Root reading/writing/chowning it followed symlinks.
load_user_crontab
/usr/sbin/crond
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@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# shellcheck disable=SC2154 # $uid / $user come from the container environment
## safe-paths.sh — sourced by entrypoint.sh and entrypoint-fpm.sh. Not executed directly.
##
## /home/$user is the customer's bind-mounted site directory: the customer can
## create anything in it, including symlinks, from SFTP/FTP, cron, or PHP. The
## entrypoints run as root, and root following a customer symlink is a
## privilege escalation: `touch`/`chown`/`>` on logs/php-fpm/error.log ->
## /etc/shadow hands the customer /etc/shadow (container root).
##
## Rules the entrypoints follow:
## * /home/$user itself is the bind-mount point and must be a real directory.
## * logs/ is WHP-owned and apache / php-fpm open files in it as root, so it
## must be a real directory and every symlink under it is removed + logged.
## * Files and dirs are CREATED as the customer (as_user), so a symlink or a
## swapped path can only reach what the customer could reach anyway.
## * Ownership changes use `chown -h` / `chown -R` (GNU default -P: never
## follows symlinks, lchown()s them), never a dereferencing chown.
## * Customer files are READ as the customer (crontab), never as root.
# as_user CMD... : run CMD as the customer uid/gid (no root, no caps).
as_user() {
if command -v setpriv >/dev/null 2>&1; then
setpriv --reuid="$uid" --regid="$uid" --init-groups -- "$@"
else
runuser -u "$user" -- "$@"
fi
}
# drop_symlink PATH : if PATH is a symlink, unlink it (rm on a symlink never
# touches the target) and log it.
drop_symlink() {
if [ -L "$1" ]; then
echo "entrypoint: SECURITY: $1 was a symlink to '$(readlink "$1")' - removed" >&2
rm -f -- "$1"
fi
}
# secure_home : run once, right after adduser, before anything else touches
# /home/$user.
secure_home() {
local h="/home/$user" d
if [ -L "$h" ] || [ ! -d "$h" ]; then
echo "entrypoint: FATAL: $h is not a real directory (symlink or missing) - refusing to start" >&2
exit 1
fi
# The mount point itself: owned by the customer so as_user can create in it.
chown -h "$user:$user" "$h"
drop_symlink "$h/logs"
# public_html may legitimately be a symlink (release-dir deploys); it is left
# alone and every root-side operation on it runs as the customer instead.
if [ -d "$h/logs" ]; then
# find without -L never follows symlinks (start path verified real above).
find "$h/logs" -xdev -type l -print0 2>/dev/null | while IFS= read -r -d '' d; do
drop_symlink "$d"
done
fi
}
# user_mkdir DIR... : create directories as the customer.
user_mkdir() {
as_user mkdir -p -- "$@"
}
# user_touch FILE : create FILE as the customer. If it already exists owned by
# someone else (root-created by an older image), fix ownership with chown -h,
# which never follows a symlink; a symlink there is dropped first.
user_touch() {
drop_symlink "$1"
as_user touch -- "$1" 2>/dev/null || chown -h "$user:$user" -- "$1" 2>/dev/null || true
}
# load_user_crontab : install /home/$user/crontab, read AS THE CUSTOMER. Root
# reading it (`crontab -u $user /home/$user/crontab`) would follow a symlink to
# any root-readable file and install it where the customer can `crontab -l` it.
load_user_crontab() {
local f="/home/$user/crontab"
if [ ! -e "$f" ] && [ ! -L "$f" ]; then
as_user sh -c 'printf "%s\n" "# User crontab for $1" "# Add your cron jobs here" "# Example: */5 * * * * /home/$1/scripts/my-script.sh" > "$2"' sh "$user" "$f"
fi
# No temp file: root writing a predictable /tmp path is the same bug class.
local content
if content=$(as_user cat -- "$f" 2>/dev/null); then
printf '%s\n' "$content" | crontab -u "$user" -
else
echo "entrypoint: WARNING: $f not readable as $user - user crontab not loaded" >&2
fi
}
# open_dir_traversal : chmod 755 the home dir, then add o+x to every directory
# lacking it (apache/nginx run as their own user and must traverse). Run AS THE
# CUSTOMER: `find -type d` without -L skips symlinks, but chmod would follow a
# dir swapped for a symlink between find and chmod; as the customer that can
# only reach what the customer already owns.
open_dir_traversal() {
chmod 755 "/home/$user"
as_user find "/home/$user" -type d ! -perm -o=x -exec chmod o+x {} + 2>/dev/null || true
}