WHP does not import cPanel mailbox data (mail-import is a panel-side
roadmap item, not a sandbox-mode step). Extracting + ClamAV-scanning
the mail tree wastes time and disk: on real customer accounts the mail
dir often dwarfs everything else (10+ GB of historical maildir/mbox),
and clamscan has to walk every message.
Appended to the existing tar --exclude-from list (where we already
strip DANGEROUS-classified symlinks) so the existing plumbing covers
both. tar's fnmatch globs handle nested mail subdirs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
cPanel cpmove tarballs contain symlinks with absolute targets pointing at
the SOURCE server's filesystem (e.g. addon docroots symlinked to
/home/<user>/<addondomain>.com/ on the cPanel host). After extract into
the container, those symlinks dangle — their targets don't exist in the
container's namespace AND are not under any open_basedir-allowed prefix.
PHP's SplFileInfo::isFile() (called from the RecursiveIteratorIterator
file-count loop) follows symlinks. The realpath check against
open_basedir then fires on the symlink TARGET, not the link path, and
throws RuntimeException mid-iteration — aborting the entire scan
without writing report.json. Surfaced on darkside import as:
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught RuntimeException: SplFileInfo::isFile():
open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/host/sanitized/.../
cybercoveconsulting.com/wp-content/db.php) is not within the allowed
path(s): (/host:/tmp:/opt/whp:/scripts:/var/lib/clamav:...)
Fix is two-layered:
1. RecursiveCallbackFilterIterator pre-filters symlinks via is_link()
before they reach hasChildren/isFile. is_link is open_basedir-safe
(it stats the link itself, doesn't resolve). Skipped count is
reported on STDERR so operators see what was skipped.
2. try/catch around the per-entry isFile() as a defense-in-depth
layer — if any other fs op throws mid-walk (race, planted device
node, etc.) we count it as a walk_error and continue, not abort.
Note that clamscan already walks the extract tree on its own pass and
its default symlink posture is "don't follow" — the same posture we
want here. Symlink-as-file would also be useless to quarantine (it's
a 0-byte fs entry whose target is the actual artifact). Skipping
symlinks therefore doesn't miss anything.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
rc=137 OOM kill triaged on whp02 darkside import. dmesg confirmed:
memory: usage 2097100kB, limit 2097152kB, failcnt 132
oom_kill_process ... task=bash uid=999
Root cause: extract.sh untars the cpmove into EXTRACT_DIR which was
/tmp/extract — a tmpfs mount (RAM-backed). The container's
--memory 2g cgroup ceiling counts tmpfs writes against RSS, so the
3 GB cpmove decompressing into tmpfs hit the limit at ~7s into tar
and the kernel killed the bash process running extract.sh.
Fix is structural, not a memory bump: the disk-backed bind mount
at /host/sanitized (mapped to /var/lib/whp/cpanel-importer-extract
on host) has effectively unlimited capacity and doesn't count against
the cgroup memory limit. Moving the working dirs there sidesteps the
OOM class entirely.
Layout change:
EXTRACT_DIR /tmp/extract -> $SANITIZED_DIR/extract-work
WORK_DIR /tmp/sanitized -> $SANITIZED_DIR/work
Two ripple changes:
- The old rsync_out stage cross-filesystem-copied ~10 GB from tmpfs
to /host/sanitized/<id>/extracted. That's now a same-filesystem
`mv` (constant-time rename) since extract-work IS already inside
/host/sanitized/<id>/. Stage renamed to finalize_layout for
clarity; pre-existing wipe of extracted/ + mysql/ guards against
partial-run residue.
- The stripped-symlinks actions sidecar moved to /tmp explicitly
(entrypoint.sh passes the 4th arg to extract.sh) so finalize's
rename doesn't (a) carry a dotfile into the cleaned tree the
panel imports and (b) move it out from under write_report's read.
Also fixes the unrelated-but-cosmetic freshclam warning by cd'ing to
/var/lib/clamav (the configured DatabaseDirectory, tmpfs writable)
before invoking freshclam in a subshell. The "Can't create
freshclam.dat in /opt/whp" errors were because /opt/whp is the
container WORKDIR which lives on the read-only rootfs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Shifts the sandbox's symlink handling from "refuse the whole tarball"
to "drop the dangerous entries from extraction and record them as
quarantine actions". This is what sandbox mode is supposed to do —
make malicious cpmoves safe to import rather than gate-keeping them.
Three coordinated changes:
1. scan-symlinks.php — exit 0 even when DANGEROUS findings exist. The
JSON report is the source of truth; the caller decides what to do
with it. Usage/IO errors still exit 2. STDERR still names each
finding (now "STRIP X -> Y" instead of "refusing tarball") so the
streamed [container] log on the panel side surfaces them.
2. extract.sh — reads the scan-symlinks report, builds a
newline-delimited exclude list of DANGEROUS archive_paths, and
passes it to `tar --exclude-from=`. The stripped entries never
reach the filesystem; tar skips them silently. Also writes a small
JSON sidecar at $EXTRACT_DIR/.cpanel-importer-stripped-symlinks.json
describing each strip-action so the merge step can surface them in
report.json without re-parsing scan-symlinks output.
3. entrypoint.sh write_report — reads the sidecar, prepends each
stripped_dangerous_symlink action to the actions[] list, bumps
files_quarantined by the strip-count, and rewrites
summary_for_panel.alert_message to call them out distinctly:
"N dangerous symlink(s) stripped during extract; M files
quarantined; K cleaned in place. Customer site may have been
compromised at the source — recommend review."
Result on darkside: instead of the import failing on the ALFA
alfasymlink/root entry, that entry is silently skipped during
extract, recorded as `stripped_dangerous_symlink path=... target=/
reason=absolute target is root /`, and the rest of the tarball
extracts normally. Subsequent ClamAV scan + DB sanitization run
to completion; panel sees a verdict-completed import with the
stripped symlinks visible in the Sanitization Sandbox panel on the
results page.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Previous version of scan-symlinks.php was a verbatim port of the panel's
scanTarballForDangerousSymlinks(), which flagged every symlink whose
target sits under /etc, /usr, /bin, /sbin, /lib, /lib64, /var/lib,
/var/log, /var/cache, or /var/spool. That's the right posture for the
panel's pre-extract scan in DIRECT mode — refuse before extract — but
it makes the container REFUSE every cpmove that comes from a real
cPanel source server, including totally clean ones. Standard cPanel
accounts ship with stock symlinks like:
homedir/access-logs -> /usr/local/apache/domlogs/<user>
homedir/var/cpanel/styled/current_style
-> /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/...
homedir/.cpanel/email -> /usr/local/cpanel/...
homedir/etc -> /var/cpanel/userhomes/<user>/etc
Every customer tarball has 5-20 of these. Treating them as DANGEROUS
made the container abort with verdict=refused before extract.sh ever
ran. Surfaced on darkside import to whp02: scan-symlinks found
homedir/access-logs (a textbook cPanel symlink) and the import bombed.
The real destruction class — what ALFA TEaM Shell uses, what we saw
brick whp02 in May — is symlinks whose target is the exact filesystem
root or under one of the genuinely catastrophic system trees that
either escape the customer account or clobber boot/config/proc state:
/ exact root (the classic alfasymlink/root)
/etc config tampering, /etc/shadow exfil
/root root home dir
/boot bootloader / kernel
/proc process info / kernel knobs
/sys sysfs
/dev device nodes
Everything else (notably /usr, /var) becomes UNCERTAIN: reported in
the JSON output but doesn't refuse the tarball. With --cap-drop=ALL
--read-only --network none --user 999, a /usr-targeting symlink in
the container's sandbox can at worst dangle on extract; it can't
touch the host.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two failed attempts before this:
- Run 3703 (orig): docker run -v "$PWD:/src" --entrypoint php ...
Failed because Gitea's act-based runner is itself containerized;
$PWD inside the runner is not a path the host docker daemon can
bind mount. "Could not open input file: /src/scripts/scan-dbs.php".
- Run 3704 (first attempt): php -l "$f" directly on the runner.
Failed because the runner image (catthehacker/ubuntu act) doesn't
ship php-cli by default. "php: command not found" exit 127.
The right fix: the Dockerfile already does
COPY --chown=whp-import:whp-import scripts/ /scripts/
so the scripts exist inside the just-built smoke image at /scripts/.
Linting via `docker run --entrypoint php cpanel-importer:smoke
-l /scripts/foo.php` reads from the image's own rootfs — no bind
mount, no runner-side php dependency.
The for-loop var $f is still scripts/foo.php (matches host glob),
and the path inside the container becomes /scripts/foo.php after
the `-l "/$f"` prefix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Gitea runner is itself containerized, so the previous
docker run -v "$PWD:/src" --entrypoint php cpanel-importer:smoke -l "/src/$f"
shape couldn't bind mount the checkout: the runner's $PWD is not a
path the host docker daemon can reach. CI run 3703 surfaced this as
"Could not open input file: /src/scripts/scan-dbs.php" — the file
existed on the checkout, but the new container saw an empty /src.
Running php / bash directly on the runner side-steps the entire DinD
issue. ubuntu-latest already ships php-cli and bash, the checkout
files live in $PWD where the runner can see them, no docker-socket
gymnastics needed.
Smoke test (echo ok in the built image) and the build-and-push step
keep their docker invocations — those run against the built image
artifact, not the source tree, so DinD bind mount isn't involved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Gitea repo's default branch is main; the local development branch
stayed trunk and pushes via `trunk:main` refspec. Workflow needs to
match what the remote sees.
run-name now interpolates ${{ gitea.ref_name }} so it accurately names
the branch on any future renames.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Skeleton for the cpanel-importer Docker container — a one-shot
sandbox the WHP panel invokes BEFORE extracting a customer cpmove
tarball. See cpanel-import-container-spec.md (in /workspace/) for the
full design.
What this ships in v1.0:
- Dockerfile: almalinux:10-minimal + PHP 8.4 (Remi) + ClamAV 1.4 +
SaneSecurity Foxhole.PHP rules + tar/mariadb-client/rsync. Runs as
UID 999 (whp-import) via the panel-side --user 999:999 flag.
- scripts/entrypoint.sh: validates env, runs (optional) freshclam,
drives extract -> scan-files -> scan-dbs -> rsync -> report.json.
- scripts/extract.sh + scripts/lib/scan-symlinks.php: pre-extract
symlink scan ported standalone from
web-files/libs/CpanelBackupImporter.php (the existing 2026-05-29
whp02 destruction-vector fix). Aborts with exit 3 before tar runs
if any DANGEROUS symlink is found.
- scripts/scan-files.php: ClamAV walk + classify-and-action. v1.0
ships with an empty cleaner registry — every hit is
QUARANTINE_ONLY. Cleaner hooks are stubbed for v1.1.
- scripts/scan-dbs.php: regex MyISAM -> InnoDB rewrite (always
applied), WordPress identification, and ONE WP content scan check
(siteurl_external_domain). v1.1 will grow the check set.
- scripts/lib/safety-net.php: container-narrow open_basedir
allow-list, much tighter than the panel-side one.
- .gitea/workflows/build-push.yaml: builds + smoke-tests +
PHP-syntax-checks + bash-syntax-checks before pushing to
repo.anhonesthost.net/cloud-hosting-platform/cpanel-importer.
- tests/build-fixtures.sh: builds cpmove-clean.tar.gz (benign WP
dump) and cpmove-alfa.tar.gz (the ALFA-shell symlink-to-/etc
vector) for local end-to-end testing.
- README.md / CONTRIBUTING.md: docker-run invocation, bind-mount
catalog, report.json schema, how to add a cleaner pattern or a WP
scan signature.
Local acceptance test results:
- clean fixture -> status=completed, 3 MyISAM->InnoDB, no flags, 0
- ALFA fixture -> exit 1, status=failed, failed_stage=extract,
"tarball contains dangerous symlinks; aborting" on stderr
- compromised-siteurl fixture -> imported_into_new_server=false,
.flagged file written, summary_for_panel.show_alert=true
Image size: 197 MB compressed (gzipped docker save), ~397 MB unique
layers extracted. Well under the spec's 600 MB compressed / 1.2 GB
extracted budget.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
