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tailscale/ssh/tailssh/accept_env_test.go
Patrick O'Doherty 651049ec19 ssh/tailssh: reject dangerous LD_/DYLD_ env vars in acceptEnv filtering (#19914)
Block dynamic linker environment variables (LD_PRELOAD, LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES, and friends) from being forwarded regardless of
acceptEnv policy, preventing privilege escalation via wildcard patterns
like "*".

We are not aware of any legitimate use of these variables so they are
safe to exclude from being passed.

Thanks to Tim Sageser (dtrsecurity) for this report.

Updates tailscale/corp#42033

Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
2026-06-01 09:19:27 -07:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
package tailssh
import (
"fmt"
"testing"
"github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp"
)
func TestIsDangerousEnvVar(t *testing.T) {
tests := []struct {
name string
dangerous bool
}{
{"LD_PRELOAD", true},
{"LD_LIBRARY_PATH", true},
{"LD_AUDIT", true},
{"LD_DEBUG", true},
{"LD_PROFILE", true},
{"ld_preload", true},
{"DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES", true},
{"DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH", true},
{"DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH", true},
{"dyld_insert_libraries", true},
{"TERM", false},
{"LANG", false},
{"LC_ALL", false},
{"PATH", false},
{"HOME", false},
{"LDFLAGS", false},
{"MY_LD_PRELOAD", false},
}
for _, tt := range tests {
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
if got := isDangerousEnvVar(tt.name); got != tt.dangerous {
t.Errorf("isDangerousEnvVar(%q) = %v, want %v", tt.name, got, tt.dangerous)
}
})
}
}
func TestMatchAcceptEnvPattern(t *testing.T) {
testCases := []struct {
pattern string
target string
match bool
}{
{pattern: "*", target: "EXAMPLE_ENV", match: true},
{pattern: "***", target: "123456", match: true},
{pattern: "?", target: "A", match: true},
{pattern: "?", target: "123", match: false},
{pattern: "?*", target: "EXAMPLE_2", match: true},
{pattern: "?*", target: "", match: false},
{pattern: "*?", target: "A", match: true},
{pattern: "*?", target: "", match: false},
{pattern: "??", target: "CC", match: true},
{pattern: "??", target: "123", match: false},
{pattern: "*?*", target: "ABCDEFG", match: true},
{pattern: "*?*", target: "C", match: true},
{pattern: "*?*", target: "", match: false},
{pattern: "?*?", target: "ABCDEFG", match: true},
{pattern: "?*?", target: "A", match: false},
{pattern: "**?TEST", target: "_TEST", match: true},
{pattern: "**?TEST", target: "_TESTING", match: false},
{pattern: "TEST**?", target: "TEST_", match: true},
{pattern: "TEST**?", target: "A_TEST_", match: false},
{pattern: "TEST_*", target: "TEST_A", match: true},
{pattern: "TEST_*", target: "TEST_A_LONG_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_NAME", match: true},
{pattern: "TEST_*", target: "TEST", match: false},
{pattern: "EXAMPLE_?_ENV", target: "EXAMPLE_A_ENV", match: true},
{pattern: "EXAMPLE_?_ENV", target: "EXAMPLE_ENV", match: false},
{pattern: "EXAMPLE_*_ENV", target: "EXAMPLE_aBcd2231---_ENV", match: true},
{pattern: "EXAMPLE_*_ENV", target: "EXAMPLEENV", match: false},
{pattern: "COMPLICA?ED_PATTERN*", target: "COMPLICATED_PATTERN_REST", match: true},
{pattern: "COMPLICA?ED_PATTERN*", target: "COMPLICATED_PATT", match: false},
{pattern: "COMPLICAT???ED_PATT??ERN", target: "COMPLICAT123ED_PATTggERN", match: true},
{pattern: "COMPLICAT???ED_PATT??ERN", target: "COMPLICATED_PATTERN", match: false},
{pattern: "DIRECT_MATCH", target: "DIRECT_MATCH", match: true},
{pattern: "DIRECT_MATCH", target: "MISS", match: false},
// OpenSSH compatibility cases
// See https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/regress/unittests/match/tests.c
{pattern: "", target: "", match: true},
{pattern: "aaa", target: "", match: false},
{pattern: "", target: "aaa", match: false},
{pattern: "aaaa", target: "aaa", match: false},
{pattern: "aaa", target: "aaaa", match: false},
{pattern: "*", target: "", match: true},
{pattern: "?", target: "a", match: true},
{pattern: "a?", target: "aa", match: true},
{pattern: "*", target: "a", match: true},
{pattern: "a*", target: "aa", match: true},
{pattern: "?*", target: "aa", match: true},
{pattern: "**", target: "aa", match: true},
{pattern: "?a", target: "aa", match: true},
{pattern: "*a", target: "aa", match: true},
{pattern: "a?", target: "ba", match: false},
{pattern: "a*", target: "ba", match: false},
{pattern: "?a", target: "ab", match: false},
{pattern: "*a", target: "ab", match: false},
}
for _, tc := range testCases {
name := fmt.Sprintf("pattern_%s_target_%s", tc.pattern, tc.target)
if tc.match {
name += "_should_match"
} else {
name += "_should_not_match"
}
t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
match := matchAcceptEnvPattern(tc.pattern, tc.target)
if match != tc.match {
t.Errorf("got %v, want %v", match, tc.match)
}
})
}
}
func TestFilterEnv(t *testing.T) {
testCases := []struct {
name string
acceptEnv []string
environ []string
expectedFiltered []string
wantErrMessage string
}{
{
name: "simple-direct-matches",
acceptEnv: []string{"FOO", "FOO2", "FOO_3"},
environ: []string{"FOO=BAR", "FOO2=BAZ", "FOO_3=123", "FOOOO4-2=AbCdEfG"},
expectedFiltered: []string{"FOO=BAR", "FOO2=BAZ", "FOO_3=123"},
},
{
name: "bare-wildcard",
acceptEnv: []string{"*"},
environ: []string{"FOO=BAR", "FOO2=BAZ", "FOO_3=123", "FOOOO4-2=AbCdEfG"},
expectedFiltered: []string{"FOO=BAR", "FOO2=BAZ", "FOO_3=123", "FOOOO4-2=AbCdEfG"},
},
{
name: "complex-matches",
acceptEnv: []string{"FO?", "FOOO*", "FO*5?7"},
environ: []string{"FOO=BAR", "FOO2=BAZ", "FOO_3=123", "FOOOO4-2=AbCdEfG", "FO1-kmndGamc79567=ABC", "FO57=BAR2"},
expectedFiltered: []string{"FOO=BAR", "FOOOO4-2=AbCdEfG", "FO1-kmndGamc79567=ABC"},
},
{
name: "environ-format-invalid",
acceptEnv: []string{"FO?", "FOOO*", "FO*5?7"},
environ: []string{"FOOBAR"},
expectedFiltered: nil,
wantErrMessage: `invalid environment variable: "FOOBAR". Variables must be in "KEY=VALUE" format`,
},
{
name: "ld-preload-rejected-with-wildcard",
acceptEnv: []string{"*"},
environ: []string{"LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/evil.so", "TERM=xterm"},
expectedFiltered: []string{"TERM=xterm"},
},
{
name: "ld-vars-rejected-with-wildcard",
acceptEnv: []string{"*"},
environ: []string{"LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/evil.so", "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp", "LD_AUDIT=/tmp/audit.so", "SAFE_VAR=ok"},
expectedFiltered: []string{"SAFE_VAR=ok"},
},
{
name: "ld-vars-rejected-with-explicit-match",
acceptEnv: []string{"LD_PRELOAD", "LD_LIBRARY_PATH"},
environ: []string{"LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/evil.so", "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp"},
expectedFiltered: nil,
},
{
name: "ld-vars-rejected-with-prefix-pattern",
acceptEnv: []string{"LD_*"},
environ: []string{"LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/evil.so", "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp"},
expectedFiltered: nil,
},
{
name: "ld-vars-case-insensitive",
acceptEnv: []string{"*"},
environ: []string{"ld_preload=/tmp/evil.so", "Ld_Library_Path=/tmp", "SAFE=ok"},
expectedFiltered: []string{"SAFE=ok"},
},
{
name: "dyld-vars-rejected",
acceptEnv: []string{"*"},
environ: []string{"DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=/tmp/evil.dylib", "DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp", "TERM=xterm"},
expectedFiltered: []string{"TERM=xterm"},
},
}
for _, tc := range testCases {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
filtered, err := filterEnv(tc.acceptEnv, tc.environ)
if err == nil && tc.wantErrMessage != "" {
t.Errorf("wanted error with message %q but error was nil", tc.wantErrMessage)
}
if err != nil && err.Error() != tc.wantErrMessage {
t.Errorf("err = %v; want %v", err, tc.wantErrMessage)
}
if diff := cmp.Diff(tc.expectedFiltered, filtered); diff != "" {
t.Errorf("unexpected filter result (-got,+want): \n%s", diff)
}
})
}
}