fix(sandbox): take Everyone out of the restricted-SID list (does not work yet) - #1005
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Groundwork for closing the Windows half of #662 and #675, where credentialDenyReadPaths is a no-op today. Every Windows backend currently derives its token from the calling user via CreateRestrictedToken, so the sandbox can constrain writes but not reads: a deny ACE that would stop the sandboxed child reading a credential store names the same account Zero runs as, and would lock Zero out too. That is why deny-read is skipped on Windows rather than merely unimplemented. This adds a separate local account per workspace, held in one managed group, so the sandbox has an identity of its own: - provisioning: managed group, stable per-workspace account name inside the 20-character limit, crypto/rand password meeting complexity policy, SID resolution, idempotent so setup re-runs converge - logon rights: grants only SeBatchLogonRight and explicitly denies interactive, network, remote-interactive and service logon, then mints a token with LogonUser pinned to the local machine - ACLs keyed to the principal: denies emitted before allows so carve-outs survive, workspace granted read+write, read roots granted read, protected metadata denied write and materialized - removal: revocation by trustee, so retiring a principal drops every ACE naming it without needing a record of what was granted The inversion is the point. A separate account has no access to the caller's profile at all, so credential stores are unreachable by construction rather than by enumerating deny rules, and the same SID is what a write grant or a firewall rule can be keyed to. Nothing is wired into command execution yet: these paths are additive and no existing behavior changes. See the pull request for the open question about where the principal's password lives.
Wires the principal model into the runner and settles where the account's password lives. The secret is stored under the sandbox home with an explicit, inheritance-protected DACL naming only the invoking user and SYSTEM. The sandbox principal is deliberately absent from it: a principal that could read the file could mint its own token and the identity boundary would be decorative. The ACL is applied to an empty file before the password is written, so the bytes never exist under the config directory's inherited permissions, and PROTECTED drops any inherited ACE outright. At command time the runner asks for a principal token first and uses it in place of the restricted token, because a separate account has reads denied by the filesystem rather than left open the way a same-user restricted token must leave them. The lookup is fail-soft: opt-out, no provisioned account, or no stored secret all report "not available" and the existing restricted-token path runs unchanged. Only a provisioned-but-unusable identity surfaces an error, since that means setup ran and the sandbox is broken rather than absent. The backend stays behind ZERO_WINDOWS_SANDBOX_IDENTITY=1 while the privileged paths are unvalidated, so no existing install changes behaviour.
The skip fired on an unset environment variable but read as though elevation was missing. `set VAR=1` is cmd syntax and sets a shell variable rather than an environment variable in PowerShell, so the test skipped silently after the operator believed they had enabled it. Spell out all three shells.
Provisioning is now validated on real Windows, but LsaAddAccountRights and LogonUser had still never executed, so the principal was proven to exist without being proven usable. The batch logon doubles as the assertion that the rights grant worked: a LOGON32_LOGON_BATCH logon fails with ERROR_LOGON_TYPE_NOT_GRANTED unless SeBatchLogonRight is actually held, so a token coming back is evidence the grant landed rather than merely that the call returned success. Granting twice is exercised too, since setup re-runs must not fail on rights already held. The token's user SID is compared against the principal's. If a token came back belonging to the caller the identity boundary would be an illusion and reads would still run as the user, which is the whole thing this model exists to stop. Removes any leftover account first and cleans up after itself, because an interrupted earlier run would leave an account whose password no longer matches a freshly generated one.
Completes the chain. Until now the principal entry points had no non-test callers, so `zero sandbox setup` created no account and the runner seam always fell back: the feature was inert end to end. Setup now provisions this workspace's principal, grants it the batch logon right, stores its password locked to the invoking user, and applies the ACL plan that gives it read+write on the workspace and read on the declared read roots. A principal is a separate account with no inherent access to the caller's tree, so those grants are what make the sandbox able to run at all, and their absence elsewhere is what puts credential stores out of reach. Provisioning is folded into the existing rollback rather than each later failure path having to remember it, and the rollback revokes ACEs before deleting the account: removing the account first would leave ACEs naming a SID that no longer resolves, which is the orphaned residue this model exists to avoid. Gated on the same opt-in as the runner. Account creation is visible in `net user` and is exactly what endpoint protection and enterprise policy object to, so it happens only when asked for; without the opt-in the capability-SID backend remains the whole of setup, unchanged.
Network denial is enforced by WFP filters keyed to the offline-marker SID. The restricted token carries that SID; a token from LogonUser cannot, because it names the account rather than a synthetic capability SID. Routing a denied-network command through a sandbox principal therefore left the block filters matching nothing and dropped egress enforcement altogether, and deny is the default mode. The principal now stands down whenever the network is denied and the restricted-token backend runs instead, so read confinement is never traded for a silent loss of network denial. Keying the filters to the principal's own SID is the follow-up that lifts the restriction. The decision sits in its own predicate rather than inline: on a machine with nothing provisioned the lookup declines for its own reasons, so a test that called through it would have passed with the guard removed. Also names the opt-out variable when a provisioned principal cannot be used, since the backend is opt-in and the operator needs a way back.
…user The file ACL stays the primary control and is what keeps the sandbox principal from reading its own credential. It only binds while the filesystem is the one being asked, though, so a backup or a mounted image hands over the password in the clear. CryptProtectData ties the ciphertext to the invoking user's logon secret, which covers exactly that gap. The principal name is passed as entropy, so a blob copied onto another principal's path fails to decrypt rather than authenticating the wrong account. A secret written by an older build reads as unavailable and falls back to the restricted token; the next elevated setup rewrites it. The round-trip test needs no privilege, so it runs everywhere rather than joining the gated set, and it asserts the password does not appear verbatim in the stored bytes.
lookupWindowsSandboxIdentity collapsed every SID-resolution failure into the "no principal is provisioned" sentinel, which threw away the check resolveWindowsSandboxSID deliberately makes: a name that resolves to a group or alias rather than a user account. The command path treats that sentinel as permission to fall back quietly, so an account name squatted by something that is not a user reached the operator as silence and a downgrade to the restricted token. Caught by gnanam in review. Only ERROR_NONE_MAPPED now means setup has not run. Anything else is a principal that exists but cannot be used, and the runtime path propagates it rather than swallowing it, which is where the description already said the line should sit. The decision lives in its own function because the lookup derives its account name from a workspace key, so a test cannot hand it a name that resolves to a group. The test drives the classifier with a real error from a well-known local group, needs no privilege, and fails if the old collapse-everything behaviour is restored. Also corrects a comment pointing at sandboxRuntimeKey, which does not exist. The function is windowsSandboxWorkspaceKey.
NetUserAdd leaves a pre-existing account completely untouched, password included, and ensureWindowsSandboxUser treated that status as success. So a second setup run generated a fresh random password, stored it as the secret, and left the account still authenticating with the old one. Every later command then failed to log on with a principal that looked correctly provisioned. Two comments claimed the caller reset the password in that case; nothing did. Caught by CodeRabbit. ensureWindowsSandboxUser now reports whether the account already existed, and provisioning resets the password through NetUserSetInfo when it did, so the value it returns is always the account's real password. The comments now describe what the code does. The gated provisioning test provisions twice and then logs on with the password from the SECOND run, which is the only honest assertion here: a stale password is indistinguishable from a correct one until something tries to authenticate with it. Also makes the syscall keep-alives explicit. The LSA and LogonUser call sites borrow Go memory that was either not kept alive at all (the policy attributes, the rights descriptor, the three logon strings) or kept alive only after the error check, so the failure path returned with it already collectable. The two netapi32 sites that used a deferred no-op closure now use runtime.KeepAlive as well, so one idiom is used throughout.
Retiring a principal deleted the account but left its LSA account rights behind, keyed to a SID that no longer resolves. That is the orphaned residue this model is supposed to avoid, and the reason ACE revocation is keyed to the trustee rather than to a record of what was granted; the logon-rights half was simply missing. CodeRabbit spotted it as a test-cleanup gap, but the production teardown path had the same hole. revokeWindowsSandboxLogonRights drops every right held by the principal and removes its LSA entry, and setup teardown now calls it BEFORE deleting the account, while the SID still resolves. Removing all rights rather than naming them is deliberate: the principal is being retired, so rights granted by an older setup that this one no longer knows about should go too. An account that holds no rights is not an error, since that is the state teardown wants. That tolerance depends on STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND surviving LsaNtStatusToWinError as something errors.Is can still match, which is the sort of Windows errno assumption that is often wrong, so there is now an unprivileged test asserting it, including that the tolerance does not also swallow access-denied. Both gated tests now clean up rights and account, in that order. The provisioning round trip had no cleanup at all and, since it started granting a batch logon right, was leaving both behind on whatever machine ran it.
…visioning Two problems in the provisioning path, both raised in review. The account name is derived from a workspace hash rather than discovered, so it can be occupied by a local account that has nothing to do with Zero, whether by coincidence or because somebody put it there. Provisioning treated "NetUserAdd says it exists" as "this is ours", reset the account's password, added it to the managed group and adopted it. That is a stranger's account taken over during an elevated setup, on the strength of a name matching a pattern we generate ourselves. Ownership is now proven from the comment provisioning stamps before anything is touched, and a name held by an account Zero did not create fails with a typed collision error instead of being adopted. Second, a failure anywhere after the account existed left it behind. The rollback the setup path installs is only built once provisioning has returned successfully, so nothing could undo a failure between creating the account and storing its secret; the account, and possibly its granted logon rights, simply stayed. Provisioning now unwinds what the run actually did, in reverse, on every failure path. Scoped to what THIS run created, deliberately. An account that already existed and belongs to Zero is a working principal from an earlier setup, so deleting it because a later run failed would turn a partial failure into a total one. For that case the repair is dropping the stored secret instead: this run reset the password, so the secret no longer matches, and absent beats stale because the command path treats a missing secret as "not provisioned" and falls back rather than failing. The ownership gate is asserted against real accounts every Windows install carries, which needs no privilege because it only has to establish that they are not ours. Classifying everything as managed makes it fail.
The cleanup added for partial provisioning left the window it existed for uncovered. It only removed the on-disk secret when this run had written one, and it derived the secret path after the logon-rights grant, so a failure before that point had nothing to remove. That is exactly the case that matters. Provisioning ALWAYS sets the account's password, including resetting a pre-existing account's, so from the moment it returns the stored secret is already stale. A failure in the rights grant then left that stale secret on disk against a password that had just changed, and the next command failed the logon and reported a broken sandbox instead of falling back. The path is now resolved from the account name before anything can fail, and removal is unconditional rather than gated on having written one. Absent beats stale: the command path treats a missing secret as "not provisioned" and falls back to the restricted token, which is the outcome a failed setup should leave behind. Raised by CodeRabbit, twice from different angles, on the commit that added the cleanup.
GetAce returns a generic ACE_HEADER and the helper reinterprets it as an ACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE. That holds for the fixed-layout types, but an object ACE carries Flags and two GUIDs ahead of the trustee, so SidStart would land mid-structure and Copy would read whatever bytes follow. The caller asserts that no unexpected trustee appears in the DACL, and on such an ACE it would print a nonsense SID rather than name the entry that does not belong. Nothing under test builds anything but allowed ACEs today, so this changes no current outcome. It keeps the failure legible if that ever changes.
… find it Two findings from review, both consequences of the principal being a separate account rather than the calling user. WindowsACLAllowWrite granted FILE_GENERIC_WRITE, which covers creating and modifying but not removing or renaming, and a rename needs delete on the source. Under the old same-user token this was invisible because the caller already held inherited rights on its own tree. A principal inherits nothing, so it could write files it could never delete, which fails ordinary editing and most git operations rather than an edge case. DELETE and FILE_DELETE_CHILD are now part of the grant, matching WindowsACLDenyWrite, which already treats delete as part of write. WRITE_DAC and WRITE_OWNER stay out: they are denied so the principal cannot rewrite its own restrictions. provisionWindowsSandboxIdentity returned a zero identity alongside created=true when group attachment or SID resolution failed after NetUserAdd had already created the account. The caller's rollback deletes by identity.Username, so it was asked to delete the empty string and left the account behind. Group attachment is the case that matters, being both the enforcement boundary and something local policy can refuse. The name now comes back with the error. The four provisioning calls are indirected so the failure paths are reachable in a test. Seaming only the post-creation pair would not have been enough: every step needs an elevated caller, so the test would have stopped at the group check and passed without reaching what it names. Also seeds the empty-secret test with a genuinely empty file. The previous whitespace seed was several bytes, so it never reached the length check and failed later in DPAPI instead, which another test already covers.
Six findings from review, all on the elevated setup path. Teardown was not scoped to what the run created. provisionWindowsSandbox PrincipalForSetup was careful never to delete an account it had adopted, and then setupWindowsSandboxPrincipal called removePrincipal on any ACL failure with no such guard. Re-running elevated setup on a working machine and hitting one transient ACL error therefore deleted the local account, its secret and its logon rights. It now returns whether it created the principal and the outer teardown honours it; ACEs are still reverted, since this run applied them. Password rotation moved to immediately before the secret is committed. Resetting an adopted account's password at the top of provisioning meant every later step ran against an account whose password had been replaced with no copy stored. Any failure there left a live account authenticated by a password nothing on disk knew, and since the account pre-existed the rollback correctly declined to delete it, so the command path read the absent secret as "not provisioned" and fell back to the weaker backend for good. The two operations are now adjacent. The rollback also stops removing the secret when this run neither created the account nor rotated it, because that secret still works. Policy DenyWrite now reaches the principal ACL plan. The capability plan has always emitted these; the principal plan denied write only on protected metadata and read-only subpaths, so once the runner used a principal token a policy deny elsewhere was not enforced at all. Principal deny-read entries are materialized, matching the capability plan, so a path created after setup still gets a deny ACE. Logon-right revocation is keyed to the attempt rather than to success. Rights are added one at a time and the grant returns on first failure, so a partial grant left LSA entries behind pointing at a SID that deleting the account then made unresolvable. The ownership comment now carries the full workspace key. The account name holds only 11 characters of the digest, so two workspaces could derive one name and silently share an account, a secret and an ACL identity; a mismatch is now refused. Accounts provisioned before the key was recorded are still adopted. Also warns once on stderr when the opt-in is set and a provisioned principal cannot be used, rather than downgrading in silence.
Second round of review findings, both on the elevated setup path. The rollback revoked logon rights whenever they had been attempted, without regard to whether this run created the account. revokeWindowsSandboxLogonRights passes AllRights, which drops every right the account holds and deletes its LSA object outright. On an adopted principal that is not a rollback but destruction: a transient grant, secret-path or secret-write failure during a re-run stripped the SeBatchLogonRight and deny-logon rights an earlier setup had established, leaving exactly the broken-but-present principal this path exists to avoid. Revocation is now scoped to accounts this run created. The rights granted to an adopted account are the ones it is supposed to hold, so leaving them is the safe direction. A secret the current user cannot read now falls back instead of failing the command. The secret's DACL names whoever ran setup, so an operator who elevated with a separate administrative account, through runas or an over-the-shoulder UAC prompt, leaves a secret their ordinary account cannot open. That is the documented fail-soft case, and treating it as a hard error made every sandboxed command fail on a machine that was merely set up by a different admin. Permission errors from the removal path are deliberately still reported, since incomplete teardown is worth knowing about. Both are covered by injected-failure tests and fail if the guard is removed. The secret read is seamed to inject the permission error, because producing a real ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED needs DACL surgery and would test the platform rather than the mapping.
Four review findings on the elevated setup path. The principal had no access to the sandbox runtime root. permissionProfileWithRuntime appends that root to WriteRoots on every command and redirects HOME, GOCACHE, npm_config_cache and similar into it, but it lives under the user cache rather than the workspace, so the profile setup builds its ACL plan from never contains it. On the restricted-token path that costs nothing, since the child still runs as the caller. A principal is a separate local account with none of those rights, so every npm install, go build or pip install would have failed on a cache write with a bare ACCESS_DENIED and nothing naming the sandbox as the cause. Setup now resolves the same root and grants it. The derivation is extracted so both callers share it. If setup and prepareSandboxRuntime ever disagreed, the ACE would land on one directory while commands used another, which is the same failure with a harder diagnosis, so a test asserts the two agree. The git control-plane carveouts are materialized. .git/config and .git/hooks arrive as ReadOnlySubpaths, and applyWindowsACLPlan skips an absent target, so on a workspace where git had not run yet the deny ACEs were never written and the principal kept inherited write access once git created them. Command-time lookup verifies workspace ownership. The account name carries only 11 characters of the workspace digest; the comment carries all of it. Provisioning already refused a foreign account, but the command path resolved the name straight to a SID, so the workspace that lost a collision would have run as the other one's principal. SID resolution still runs first, so an absent account stays the unavailable sentinel rather than becoming a collision error. The gated round-trip test asserted a logon with the password from a second provisioning call. Rotation moved to the setup path, so that value is a fresh string the account never held. It now exercises the guarantee the setup path actually makes: the stored secret logs the principal on.
Adoption takes over an account whose name and ownership comment match, resets its password and hands it to the sandbox. An account that is also in Administrators, Power Users or Backup Operators would give the sandbox the rights it exists to withhold: rewriting the ACLs confining it, reading the secret locked to the invoking user, and stopping Zero. The name is derived rather than discovered, so an account can match without anyone intending it to. Membership is resolved by well-known SID rather than by group name, so a localised install where the group is Administratoren or Administrateurs is still recognised. Raised as a non-blocking follow-up in review; it is cheap enough to do now rather than track.
Materializing the git control-plane carveouts creates a missing target so
the deny-write ACE is in place before git first runs. It did that with
os.MkdirAll on the full path, which is right for .git/hooks and wrong for
.git/config: git wants a file there.
The consequence is worse than a mis-ACL'd path. On a fresh workspace
neither carveout exists — which is exactly the case materialization was
added for, so this is the common path rather than a corner — and elevated
setup would leave a directory where git's config file belongs:
warning: unable to access '<ws>/.git/config': Permission denied
fatal: unknown error occurred while reading the configuration files
git init then fails outright and the workspace is unusable.
Materialization now takes the shape from the carveout definition:
gitMetadataWriteCarveoutSpecs is the single source of truth and
gitMetadataWriteCarveouts derives its list from it, so a carveout cannot be
added in one place and have its shape forgotten in the other. A file target
gets its parent chain created and then an empty file; a directory target is
unchanged. A racing creator winning the O_EXCL is treated as success, since
the target existing is all materialization needed.
The regression test runs a real `git init` over the applied plan. It names
Guests as the principal rather than Everyone — with Everyone the deny ACE
also denies the test process and git fails for an unrelated reason, which
would have made the test pass for the wrong reason once the shape was fixed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Provisioning refuses an account that is already in Administrators, Power
Users or Backup Operators, but group membership is not frozen at setup. An
account provisioned clean can be added afterwards — by an operator, or by
an attacker who already has that access and would like the sandbox to hand
it back. Every command after that minted a token for a privileged account.
The re-check goes on the path that mints the token, not inside
lookupWindowsSandboxIdentity. Teardown resolves the same identity to revoke
its logon rights before deleting the account, so refusing there would leave
the very account this guards against permanently undeletable by Zero. The
command path already propagates anything that is not the not-provisioned
sentinel, so this surfaces to the operator instead of silently dropping
back to the restricted token.
Also make the gating test hermetic. Its "absent" case passed an empty map,
which falls through to os.Getenv, so a developer with the opt-in exported
saw a different result from CI:
ZERO_WINDOWS_SANDBOX_IDENTITY=1 go test ./internal/sandbox/
--- FAIL: TestWindowsSandboxIdentityGating/absent
enabled = true, want false for ""
Every case there supplies an explicit map entry, so the process variable is
now pinned to prove none of them consult it. The os.Getenv fallback is what
elevated setup actually runs on — it passes no Env — so it gets its own
table rather than riding on a case that also has a map entry.
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windowsPrincipalRevokePlan was implemented and tested but had no production caller, so nothing ever used it. applyWindowsACLPlan merges into the existing DACL, which means a re-run after narrowing a write root or shortening a deny list left the previous, wider ACEs sitting beside the new ones: the principal kept access the current policy no longer granted, and the sandbox silently widened as a result of being tightened. Setup does get the chance to notice — marker validation already refuses commands with "permission roots or deny lists changed" until setup runs again — so the re-apply is exactly where this belongs. The ACL step is extracted into applyWindowsPrincipalACLs: build the plan, revoke every ACE naming this trustee on the paths it touches, then apply. Revocation is by trustee rather than by remembered path, so it also clears grants written by an older version of Zero. Its rollback is discarded on purpose — the only failure path from here removes the principal outright, and restoring stale ACEs for an account about to be deleted is the residue this exists to prevent. Extracting it also makes the ordering testable without new provisioning seams, which #812 already adds with a different signature; adding them here would have collided on its rebase. Three tests: revocation actually drops a grant on a root that left the policy while keeping the one that stayed (asserted against the real DACL, counting deny ACEs as well as allow, since trustee revocation drops both); revoking a path that was never created is a no-op rather than an error; and the production path revokes BEFORE it applies. That last one is the one that matters — the first two pass just as happily with the call site deleted, and deleting it kills only the third. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…root
Two ways setup and the command path disagreed.
Teardown removed the secret, the LSA rights and the account, but never the
ACEs. Once the account is gone its SID stops resolving and every ACE naming
it becomes an orphaned raw-SID entry on the user's own tree — precisely the
residue the capability-SID model left behind and this one exists to avoid.
Revocation now runs while the SID still resolves, by trustee so it also
clears grants written by older versions. A revoke failure is deliberately
not fatal: a path the user has since deleted cannot be cleaned, and
refusing to remove the account over it would strand the principal and its
logon rights permanently, which is worse than a leftover ACE.
The runtime root was derived from filepath.Clean(WorkspaceRoots[0]) at
setup while Engine.resolveCommandDir cleans, absolutizes and then
EvalSymlinks it. That needs no symlink to diverge — Windows opens a path in
any casing and EvalSymlinks canonicalizes it:
setup sees c:\users\me\myworkspace
command sees C:\Users\me\MyWorkspace
so setup granted the principal one runtime tree and every command used
another. The grant that exists to make npm/go/pip caches writable landed
where nothing reads, surfacing as a bare ACCESS_DENIED on a cache write.
Both now go through canonicalWindowsSandboxWorkspaceRoot. An unresolvable
root falls back to the cleaned absolute path, matching the command path
rather than failing.
setupWindowsSandboxRuntimeRoot is split into derivation and creation so
teardown can name the tree without making directories on its way out.
The first version of the divergence test called the canonicalization helper
directly. It passed, and reverting setup to filepath.Clean — the actual bug
— left it passing. It now drives windowsSandboxRuntimeRootPath, and that
mutation fails it.
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… setup
Windows CI caught two faults in the previous commit. Both came from
canonicalizing one side of a pair.
setupWindowsSandboxRuntimeRoot resolved the workspace root while
prepareSandboxRuntime still only cleaned it, so the two disagreed exactly
where they had to agree. It passed locally because my temp paths were
already canonical; a Windows runner's TEMP is an 8.3 short path that
resolution expands:
setup granted ...\runtime\v1\5e2d212300ccdfba
commands use ...\runtime\v1\92c31f8cf536dfde
The canonicalization moves to canonicalSandboxWorkspaceRoot in
runtime_state.go and both sides call it, which is what the original fix
should have done.
The carveout shape was rebuilt from the RESOLVED write root and compared
against subpaths that cannot resolve, since .git/config does not exist at
setup and normalizeProfilePath falls back to Clean when EvalSymlinks fails.
Two spellings of the same path therefore missed the lookup and .git/config
went back to being created as a directory — the original bug, reintroduced
quietly by its own fix. gitMetadataCarveoutIsFile now matches on the
trailing segments, derived from the spec list so it cannot drift from it,
and no reconstructed absolute path is compared at all.
Both failures now have regression tests that reproduce the non-canonical
root by lowercasing, which needs no short name and no privilege. Reverting
either fix fails them.
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sandboxRuntimeRootFor compares the workspace root against the runtime root
it derives from the cache root, and falls back to a private temp tree when
the derived root would land inside the workspace. The previous commit
canonicalized only the workspace root, so that comparison ran on two
different spellings of the same path and the containment check missed:
macOS: /var/folders/... vs /private/var/folders/...
Windows: C:\Users\RUNNER~1\... vs C:\Users\runneradmin\...
The fallback never fired and the runtime tree was placed inside the
workspace it exists to stay out of. Both CI runners caught it; my box did
not, because its temp paths are already canonical and 8.3 alias creation is
disabled on the volume, so I could not reproduce either spelling locally.
Both inputs now go through canonicalSandboxWorkspaceRoot, on the
cross-platform path and the Windows setup path.
The regression test uses a symlink, which is the portable way to produce a
spelling only resolution reconciles — Clean cannot see through one. It
skips on Windows, where creating one needs privilege, and runs on the
platforms that caught the bug.
Two things about that test are deliberate. My first version used a
redundant-segment path, which Clean already normalizes, so reverting the
fix left it passing. My second resolved nothing before asserting, and
through the link the runtime root shares no textual prefix with the
workspace — it would have called a root sitting physically inside the
workspace "outside" and passed against the exact bug it exists for. It now
resolves before comparing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous fix normalized both the workspace root and the cache root, and
macOS CI still failed the same way. EvalSymlinks fails outright when the
LEAF does not exist, and a cache root has not been created at the point it
is first normalized — so the workspace resolved (/var to /private/var)
while the cache root did not, and the containment check that decides
whether the runtime tree must move out of the workspace compared the two
anyway.
canonicalSandboxWorkspaceRoot now resolves the longest existing ancestor
and re-appends the remainder, so a path normalizes the same way whether or
not its final segments exist:
/var/.../001/.cache leaf missing, walk up
/var/.../001 resolves
/private/var/.../001/.cache
Terminates at the filesystem root, where it falls back to the cleaned
absolute path, and a path with no symlink anywhere along it is unchanged.
The regression test needs a symlink to produce a spelling only resolution
reconciles, so it skips on Windows — where creating one needs privilege —
and runs on the platforms that caught this. I could not reproduce either CI
spelling locally: this box's temp paths are already canonical and 8.3 alias
creation is disabled on the volume.
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…ontract
TestCanonicalWorkspaceRootFallsBackWhenResolutionFails asserted that a path
with missing segments came back as the plain cleaned path. That was the
behaviour before the ancestor walk, and Windows CI failed it correctly:
canonical("C:\Users\RUNNER~1\...\001\never-created\deeper")
= "C:\Users\runneradmin\...\001\never-created\deeper", want the cleaned path
The existing ancestor resolved and the missing remainder was re-appended,
which is precisely what the walk exists to do. The assertion now says that:
the result equals the canonical parent joined with the segments that do not
exist, and those segments survive rather than collapsing to the ancestor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rollback gaps Three findings from jatmn's review, all reachable only under the opt-in principal backend but all real. FILE_DELETE_CHILD is no longer granted. On a parent it authorises deleting a child whatever the child's own DACL says, so granting it on a write root handed back the carve-outs underneath: delete .git/config, recreate it, and the replacement inherits the grant with no deny of its own — restoring the credential.helper and core.hooksPath control the carve-out exists to prevent. It was granted to keep the mask symmetric with the deny mask, which is the wrong instinct: denying a capability is not a reason to grant it. The comment two lines up already made that argument for WRITE_DAC and WRITE_OWNER. DELETE alone still covers removing and renaming files inside the roots, which is what the grant is actually for — verified before removing it. Note this does NOT close the second route jatmn described: .git itself carries no ACE, so renaming the whole directory aside needs only DELETE. That needs a guard on .git and is not in this commit. ACL targets are now rejected when a PARENT is a reparse point. CreateFile resolves ancestors even with FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT, so the final-component check passed while elevated setup rewrote the DACL of an object outside the workspace. Junctions need no privilege to create, unlike symlinks, so this was reachable by exactly the unprivileged user the sandbox contains. GetFinalPathNameByHandle answers where the handle really landed, covering every component in one call instead of walking the path and racing between checks. The comparison is against the path's own resolved form, so a differently-cased or 8.3 spelling is still accepted. The revocation's rollback is returned instead of discarded. Discarding it was justified on the grounds that the only failure path removes the principal outright — true for a principal this run CREATED, false for one it ADOPTED, which #812 keeps alive on failure rather than destroying someone else's working account. The account survived with its previous ACEs stripped and the new ones rolled back: logged on, and unable to reach its own workspace. Teardown still discards it deliberately, since putting ACEs back on an account about to be deleted is the opposite of the point. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
windowsPrincipalTeardownPaths said the runtime root was "resolved without creating it, since teardown has no business making directories on its way out". That was my comment and it was false: it went through sandboxRuntimeRootFor, whose fallback calls os.MkdirTemp when the cache-derived root would land inside the workspace. So cleanup created a fresh temp directory, and a useless one — the fallback root is random per process and could never match the tree the commands actually used. sandboxRuntimeRootFor is split: deterministicSandboxRuntimeRoot computes the cache-derived path and says whether it is usable, creating nothing, and the existing resolver keeps the fallback on top of it. Teardown takes the pure one and simply has no runtime tree to revoke when it reports unusable, which is correct — there is no way to name the random root from here anyway. The first version of the test called the pure resolver directly. It passed, and reverting the call site to the creating one left it passing. It now drives windowsPrincipalTeardownPaths and counts temp-directory entries across the call, and that mutation fails it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The provisioning rollback removes the stored secret when this run created the account or rotated an adopted one's password, because in both cases what is on disk cannot authenticate and absent beats stale: the command path treats a missing secret as "not provisioned" and falls back, while a stale one fails the logon and reports a broken sandbox. That removal ignored its own error. When it failed, the invariant it exists to keep was not restored — a credential for a password that no longer works stayed on disk — and setup said nothing. The operator met a provisioned-but-unusable principal on the next command instead of hearing it from the run that broke it. undo now returns that one error and the five failure paths join it onto the error they were already returning, so the original cause and the cleanup failure both surface. The message names the file and what to do about it. The other undo steps still swallow: they leave residue, while this one leaves a credential. Reported by jatmn on #808.
FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT only stops the FINAL path component being followed. materializeWindowsACLTarget built its target with os.MkdirAll and os.OpenFile on the pathname, and both resolve ancestors — so the ancestor reparse check on the subsequent no-follow re-open ran only after the objects already existed. An ordinary workspace owner needs no privilege to create a junction. Turning .git into one before elevated setup runs, with config absent, had setup create the target at a location of the attacker's choosing as Administrator. Rejecting it afterwards does not undo that, and the failure path removes only the final component, so every intermediate directory MkdirAll created outside the workspace survived permanently. Creation now goes through makeWindowsACLDirChainNoFollow, which walks up to the deepest existing ancestor and verifies it no-follow first. One check suffices for the whole chain above it because GetFinalPathNameByHandle answers for the entire resolved path. Missing components are then created one at a time, each re-verified immediately after creation, so a component swapped for a junction mid-walk is caught before anything lands underneath it. Taken over the relative-handle NtCreateFile route because x/sys/windows offers no ergonomic relative-create primitive, and this leaves a window of one component with an immediate post-create check rather than create-everything-then-verify. Reported by jatmn on #808.
…#812) * feat(sandbox): give each workspace an offline and an online principal The principal backend stood down whenever the network was denied, which is the default, so opting into it left the restricted-token path doing all the work in normal use. The reason was that network denial is enforced by block filters keyed to the offline-marker SID, and a principal token cannot carry it: LogonUser builds a token from an account's real group memberships, and the marker is a synthetic capability SID. A real local group closes that gap. ZeroSandboxOffline is created by setup, the block filters name its SID alongside the marker, and a principal is denied the network by being a member. Each workspace therefore gets two accounts that differ only in that membership, and the command's network mode selects between them. A group rather than each principal's own SID because principals are per workspace: one filter set covers every offline principal on the machine instead of needing a filter per workspace. Both principals are provisioned together even though a given setup run sees one profile, because setup needs elevation and commands do not. Provisioning lazily would mean an unelevated command discovering it needs an account it cannot create. They also get identical filesystem access, so an approved network command sees the same filesystem as an ordinary one. Two orderings are load bearing. The network plan is now built AFTER provisioning, because the group it keys to is created there; planning first installed filters naming only the marker and left every offline principal with an open network while looking correctly set up. And the role tag sits before the workspace hash in the account name, so truncation at the 20 character limit eats hash characters rather than the tag, which would otherwise collide the two roles onto one account on exactly the workspaces most likely to truncate. Anything that is not an explicit allow maps to the offline principal, so an unrecognised mode loses the network rather than keeping it. The filter identity set is resolved rather than assumed, and stays absent until the group exists, so a machine that never provisions principals computes the same plan as before. That matters because the plan is hashed into the setup marker and re-derived on every command; an identity set that differed between setup and the command path would fail every command as out of date. Cost worth stating: this doubles the sandbox accounts on a machine, to two per workspace. * fix(sandbox): prove ownership before deleting a sandbox account removeWindowsSandboxIdentity is called with a DERIVED name, so it could be pointed at a name that happens to belong to somebody else's local account. Deleting a user is not a recoverable mistake, and the only thing standing between the two cases was the name matching a pattern we generate ourselves. Raised by CodeRabbit against the test fixtures, but the production teardown path had the same hazard, so the guard belongs there rather than in the tests. The ownership check itself now lives on the base branch, which grew the same helper to stop provisioning ADOPTING a squatted account. This applies it to the other end: an account that is not ours is left alone rather than deleted. The gated tests get the protection for free, since their pre-clean goes through the same helper. Also appends the trimmed offline-group SID rather than the raw one. Worth noting the reported consequence does not hold: newWindowsWFPUserCondition canonicalises before converting, so a padded value would have been trimmed before reaching StringToSid. The resolver returns SID.String(), which never carries whitespace, so this is defensive tidying rather than a fix. * fix(sandbox): assert the filters cover principals, and report a retained account Two follow-ups from review, both on the same theme: a control that quietly does nothing looks identical to one that works. The network plan must be built AFTER provisioning, because provisioning creates the group the block filters name. Built first, the filters name only the offline marker and every offline principal has an open network while setup reports success. That ordering is invisible at the call site, so setup now checks the plan actually names the offline group before installing anything and refuses if it does not. A later refactor that moves the plan build back fails loudly instead of producing a security control that enforces nothing. The predicate is separate so it can be asserted directly: a plan carrying only the marker must read as uncovered, one carrying the group as covered, case differences must not read as missing, and a host with no group provisioned has no principal to miss and must not be refused. Making coverage always report true fails that test. Removal also reported plain success when it declined to delete an account Zero did not create. Leaving it alone is right, but telling an operator cleanup completed when a name they may care about was deliberately retained is not. That case is now a distinguishable sentinel, and teardown treats it as success, since "no principal of ours under this name" is the goal state either way. * fix(sandbox): spare adopted principals when dual-role setup rolls back Provisioning already declined to delete an account it had adopted, and the outer setup rollback then appended an unconditional removal for every role that got that far. With two roles that is the common case rather than an unlucky one: the offline role usually succeeds, so a failure in the online role or in ACL application destroyed a principal that was working before the run started. The removal closure is now only appended for a principal this run created. Threads the workspace key into the delete path as well. Ownership was proven from the account comment alone, which on a name collision belongs to a DIFFERENT workspace, so deleting it would have been the same unrecoverable mistake the check exists to prevent. Policy DenyWrite now reaches the principal ACL plan here too, matching the single-principal path. Fixes the mode-independence test, which required exactly one identity SID and so failed on any Windows host that already had ZeroSandboxOffline, where the plan legitimately carries two. CI never saw it because the Linux and macOS jobs leave the hook nil and a fresh Windows runner has no group. The hook is now pinned, and the test additionally asserts the property it is named for in the group-present case, including that the infra hash changes when the group appears, which is the cross-workspace coupling raised for a maintainer decision. * test(sandbox): stub the password reset and pin the resolved group SIDs Two review points on the tests added in the previous commit. The provisioning stub left resetWindowsSandboxUserPassword as a real call. Nothing under test reaches it any more, because rotation moved to the caller, but a test that resets a real managed account's password if the code ever moves back is not a risk worth carrying. It is now stubbed to fail the test instead, which also states the contract. The group-present assertion checked only that two identity SIDs were present. A duplicated offline marker or an unrelated SID would satisfy that while meaning something quite different, so it now pins both positions. Also drops a duplicated stub assignment left by the rebase. * fix(sandbox): refuse an offline group zero does not own ensureWindowsLocalGroup accepted NERR_GroupExists and ERROR_ALIAS_EXISTS as success without inspecting the group it was about to reuse. Setup then resolved that group's SID and installed it on the persistent WFP deny filters, and made the sandbox principal a member of it. If anything else on the machine already owns a group named ZeroSandboxOffline — another tool, a policy, a prior unrelated convention — that is not a no-op. Every existing member abruptly loses outbound access, because the filters now name their group. In the other direction the sandbox principal inherits whatever permissions that group carries, which is the opposite of what an offline principal is for. The add now reports its raw status and the already-exists branch verifies the group carries this setup's managed marker before adopting it, failing with an actionable message otherwise. A lookup error fails closed rather than adopting. NetLocalGroupAdd and the ownership lookup sit behind seams so the branch is reachable in tests without an elevated machine; the marker compared is the group's own, so the principals group and the offline group cannot be confused. Reported by jatmn on #812. * fix(sandbox): recheck offline group membership before minting a token Network denial does not follow from picking the offline account. The WFP block filters match the offline GROUP'S SID, and LogonUser builds a token from the account's real memberships — so membership is the whole enforcement, and the command path never revalidated it. An account that drifts out of ZeroSandboxOffline through local policy, an administrator, or a re-setup that could not re-add it still resolves, still has its stored secret, and still logs on. Its token no longer satisfies the filter condition, so a NetworkDeny command gets full egress under a profile that asked for none. The stale setup marker keeps the whole path looking healthy. The offline role now confirms the membership its mode depends on before the secret is read, and falls back to the restricted token when it is absent. That direction is deliberate: the restricted token carries the offline marker the same filters match, so egress stays blocked, and only read confinement is lost. A failed lookup surfaces rather than downgrading silently. The online role is not checked, since it is not in that group by design. Reported by jatmn on #812. * fix(sandbox): derive setup's runtime root deterministically or not at all windowsSandboxRuntimeRootPath resolved through sandboxRuntimeRootFor, which falls back to os.MkdirTemp when the user cache lives inside the workspace and memoizes that only in-process. Elevated setup is its own process. It granted the principals an ACE on temp root A; the next command, being a new process, derived temp root B, where the principal has no ACE, and failed ordinary cache writes with a bare ACCESS_DENIED and nothing pointing at the sandbox. Teardown, a third process, cleaned a third directory. The three callers that have to agree exactly could not agree at all. Setup now uses the same side-effect-free derivation teardown already used, and reports no runtime root when that derivation is unusable rather than inventing one. A root only the granting process can name is worse than no root: the principal loses the runtime tree, which is a degraded sandbox, instead of the sandbox appearing provisioned while every command fails. TestTeardownPathDerivationCreatesNothing asserted the opposite — that setup "should still fall back to a usable tree" — so it is inverted here, with the reasoning recorded in the test. That assertion encoded the assumption this finding overturns: a per-process temp tree is not usable. Restoring the fallback fails it with the invented path in the message, and a new TestSetupAndTeardownDeriveTheSameRuntimeRoot pins the ordinary case, so "report none" cannot quietly become the answer everywhere. Reported by jatmn on #812. * style(sandbox): separate the two doc paragraphs the rebase ran together Adapting the ACL-record test to dual roles left #808's fail-open rationale and #812's per-role rationale as one unbroken block. Both are worth keeping; they are two points, not one. * fix(sandbox): fail closed when offline-group coverage cannot be verified The post-provisioning assertion ran inside `if groupErr == nil`, so a failed lookup skipped it and setup carried on to install filters and write a success marker. The comment directly above it says what that costs: a machine reporting a successful setup while every offline principal has an open network. An empty SID was the same hole by a different route. Resolving to ("", nil) means the group does not exist, which is the ordinary state before provisioning and an impossible one after it, and WindowsNetworkPlanCoversPrincipals answers true for an empty SID (correctly, for the pre-provisioning callers that ask it). So the assertion passed vacuously in exactly the case where the group setup had just created was missing. Move the check into assertWindowsNetworkPlanCoversOfflineGroup, which takes the resolver as a parameter and fails closed on every answer that is not a definite yes: lookup error (wrapped, so the Win32 reason still reaches the operator), empty SID, plan omitting the group, and a nil resolver. Setup rolls back and exits 1 on each. Taking the resolver as a parameter is what makes the error paths testable, which is the regression the review asked for. Reported by @anandh8x on #812. * fix(sandbox): scope the offline-group assert to provisioned runs c404ebd made the coverage assert reject an empty group SID, closing the vacuous pass where a missing group counted as covered. It ran the assert unconditionally, and the offline group is only created inside provisionWindowsSandboxIdentity, which runs only under the ZERO_WINDOWS_SANDBOX_IDENTITY opt-in. So on a default machine with principals opted out, the resolver reports ("", nil) exactly as it should, and setup died with "the sandbox offline group does not exist after provisioning" on a path that worked before c404ebd. The empty-SID rejection is correct after provisioning and wrong before it. Pass provisioned to the assert and return early when it is false, gated at the call site on the same windowsSandboxIdentityEnabled check that decides whether principals are provisioned at all. The fail-closed behaviour anandh8x asked for is unchanged whenever provisioning ran. Reported by @jatmn on #812. * fix(sandbox): keep opted-out setup markers valid, and refuse a foreign offline group Two of jatmn's findings on this PR. Existing markers stay compatible (maintainer decision). The offline group is machine-global, and the plan included its SID whenever the group existed. So the first workspace to opt in changed the computed NetworkInfraHash for every OTHER sandbox home on the machine, and those homes rejected their own stored markers until each was re-run from an elevated terminal, having opted into nothing. The inclusion is now gated on THIS home's opt-in rather than on the group existing, so an opted-out home computes exactly the plan it computed before any of this existed. Setup and the command path read the flag from the same environment, so they agree. Opting in after setup does invalidate that home's marker, which is correct: it has no principals yet. Do not install filters for an unowned offline group (P1). The ownership check only ran through principal provisioning, so an opt-out setup reached the resolver and adopted any local alias carrying the name. applyWindowsNetworkPlan turns every SID in the plan into an allowed-to-match WFP descriptor, so a foreign group meant global deny filters against every one of ITS members: anyone with a local group by that name loses the network for those accounts because we ran setup. The resolver now requires the managed comment, and refuses rather than skipping, because a plan whose filters cover no principal while setup reports success is the failure this backend exists to prevent. Three existing tests exercised the group path without the opt-in and now set it. The new test asserts the other direction, that an opted-out home's hash is unchanged when another workspace creates the group, since that is the property the decision turns on. Verified both ways: disabling the gate fails the existing tests, making it unconditional fails the new one. * fix(doctor): report the principal that dual-role setup actually uses jatmn's P2. This branch made the offline principal work under NetworkDeny, but the doctor helper still described the old restricted-token standdown, so `zero doctor` reported active:false and told operators reads were unconfined for a correctly provisioned offline principal, recommending they enable network or drop the opt-in to fix something that was not broken. WindowsSandboxPrincipalInactiveReason is removed rather than reworded. Its only condition was the deny-mode standdown, so after this branch it could never return anything, and a check that cannot fire is worse than no check. What replaced it matters more than what it said. That helper existed to be the SINGLE rule doctor and the runtime both read, precisely so they could not drift, and drift is what happened anyway when dual-role changed the behaviour under one of them. WindowsSandboxPrincipalRoleForNetwork is now that shared rule: windowsSandboxRoleForNetwork delegates to it and doctor calls it, so the reported account and the used account cannot disagree. Doctor now names which principal a command runs as instead of asserting a standdown. One thing the existing tests caught. Routing the shared rule through NormalizeNetworkMode case-folds, so "ALLOW" selected the ONLINE principal where the runtime required an exact match and failed closed to offline. Sharing a rule is only an improvement if it shares the stricter one, so the comparison is exact and a test pins the casing. * fix(sandbox): converge the dual-role branch with the rebased identity work Rebasing #812 onto the new #808 needed real resolution rather than taking a side, and this records what each conflict actually decided. The account key. #808 made the principal key caller-scoped so elevated setup provisions the account the caller will later look for. #812 derived usernames from the workspace key alone. Every username derivation now uses the caller scoped key, including the two inline call sites a blanket substitution missed: the identity lookup in the unrecorded-retire path and the ledger read in windowsPrincipalRevocationPaths. That second one is why teardown could not find a recorded root the current policy no longer named. The setup LOCK stays keyed to the workspace on purpose, because two users setting up one shared workspace still write DACLs on the same paths and must serialize against each other. The network plan stays where #812 put it, after provisioning, because the block filters are keyed to the offline group that provisioning creates. Building it earlier, as #808 does, would install filters naming only the marker and leave every offline principal with an open network while looking correctly set up. Group ownership converged on #812's implementation, not mine. #808 grew a check hardcoded to the users group; #812 already had the general ensureWindowsLocalGroup plus windowsLocalGroupOwnedByZero, which covers both managed groups. The narrower version was removed and its test rewritten against the general seams, so the users group keeps the coverage anandh8x asked for while the offline group keeps its own. Two functions the resolution dropped and the compiler caught: windowsSandboxPrincipalKey and windowsCurrentUserSID. Worth naming because the previous attempt at this convergence lost the same first function silently. Also closes jatmn's remaining findings on this branch. The opt-out installed check now asks about BOTH role accounts rather than one, since retiring one while the other survives is exactly the half-done teardown an opted-out marker must not report as success. And the post-provisioning filter-coverage assert now resolves the offline group through the existing hook rather than the concrete function, so it is stubbable like everything else around it. The SensitiveEnvKeys omission jatmn reported on sandbox_exec.go arrives with the rebase; it was fixed on #808. * fix(sandbox): keep offline coverage and grant the fallback runtime root Two ways the dual-role split left a workspace worse off than it looked. The block filters are machine-global and every setup installs them by deleting and recreating one fixed set, but the plan a home builds names the offline group only when THAT home opted in. So an ordinary opted-out setup for a second workspace replaced the filters without the group SID, and the first workspace's offline principal, still in the group, still passing the runtime membership check and still holding a valid marker, was no longer matched by any filter. A NetworkDeny command there gained egress silently, because the second setup did exactly what it was asked. The gate itself is left alone, because it is load bearing for a different reason: the plan is hashed into each home's marker, and keying it on the group's existence made the first workspace to opt in invalidate every other home's marker on the machine. What a home RECORDS is about its own configuration; what setup INSTALLS is about the machine. Answering both from one plan is what forced a choice between stale markers and a silent hole, so WindowsNetworkPlanForApply answers the second question only, at the apply call site, leaving the fingerprinted plan untouched. Setup also granted the principals an ACE on the cache-derived runtime root alone, and none at all when the cache sat inside the workspace. That was correct when the other branch minted a random per-process directory through MkdirTemp, but fallbackSandboxRuntimeRoot now derives its path by hashing the workspace and creates nothing, so every process agrees on it. Commands in that layout therefore DO select it and redirect TMP, GOCACHE and the package caches into it, against a tree neither principal could write. Setup now grants the same candidate set the capability plan already covers, and creates each one, since applyWindowsACLPlan fails on a target that does not exist. Reverting either fix fails its regression: the opted-out plan installs filters naming only the marker SID, and setup grants nothing while commands write to Temp\zero\runtime\v1\<hash>. Two existing assertions had to be inverted rather than adapted, and both were asserting the old bug. One required setup to report NO runtime root in the cache-inside-workspace layout; the other compared setup's single root for equality against the command's choice. Setup covers the whole candidate set now precisely because that choice is made per process, so the contract is membership. * fix(sandbox): treat an unreadable offline group as a failure, and retire the pre-split principal Three findings from review. A resolution failure in WindowsNetworkPlanForApply returned a marker-only plan, and the machine's WFP filters are replaced wholesale from that plan. So an opted-out setup whose group lookup failed transiently removed the offline group SID another workspace's principals depend on, and that workspace's NetworkDeny commands silently regained egress while its marker and its direct membership check both still passed. The old reasoning was that refusing to install would trade a partial denial for no denial; that is wrong, because the alternative to installing is leaving the existing filters alone. It is fatal now, which is only reachable from an opted-out home since assertWindowsNetworkPlanCoversOfflineGroup is gated on provisioned. Splitting the single principal into offline and online roles changed both account names without changing the marker schema, so an installation made by the previous version kept a valid marker, setup was never re-run, and the runner found neither zero-sbx-d<key> nor zero-sbx-n<key> and fell back to the restricted-token backend with no read confinement. The schema version is bumped so that installation reports as out of date, and a legacy role derives the old untagged name so the ordered retirement can remove the account, its secret, its logon rights, its ACEs and its ledger. It is retired, never provisioned, and there is a test for that because the two lists are one line apart. Doctor reported that commands run as the selected principal whenever the marker validated, but marker validation compares serialized plans and hashes and names no account: deleting the account or its secret, or dropping the offline account out of its group, leaves the marker valid while the runtime falls back or fails. Verifying liveness needs Windows-only queries internal/doctor cannot make, so the claim is narrowed to what the marker actually proves. The role is still reported, since that part is derived rather than assumed.
jatmn's P1 asked for creation AND cleanup to be handle-bound rather than resolved from a pathname. Creation and the materialization unwind both are. The DACL restore was not, and its comment read as though it were. It re-opened the target with a no-follow open, which rules out a reparse point swapped in since apply and nothing else. The other substitution passes it untouched: rename the target aside and put an ordinary directory of the same name in its place. Nothing there is a link, so the open succeeds, the pre-apply DACL lands on the decoy, and the real object keeps the ACEs from the setup that just aborted. The snapshot now records the volume serial and file index of the object it read the DACL from, the restore proves it is writing back to that same object, and a mismatch is refused rather than forced through. Leaving the real object with the aborted setup's ACEs is the safe direction, since the caller is failing anyway. Three things nothing was pinning, all of which could be deleted with a green suite. This repository has already had a fix silently reverted by a later change, so these are worth more than their size. rollbackWindowsACLSnapshots documented its reverse iteration as pinned by TestRollbackUnwindsDescendantsBeforeAncestors. That test did not exist anywhere in the repo; the only match for the name was the sentence claiming it. The ordering is load-bearing twice over, because a materialized directory must be empty before its own removal and SetSecurityInfo propagates inheritable ACEs downward, so the ancestor has to go last. It exists now. The principal ACL rollback restores the ledger alongside the DACLs, and the neighbouring test asserted only the order of the two ACL reverts and never read the ledger. Deleting the restore left the suite green while the paths it put back were unnamed, so cleanup could not find them. windowsSandboxUserIsManaged promises an account carrying the legacy bare comment gets the workspace key stamped on. The probe for the legacy comment was seamed and the upgrade itself was not, so nothing could observe the call. It is seamed now, with the negative case covered too so the assertion cannot be satisfied by an unconditional rewrite.
…e plan Three follow-ups from going back over the review findings. None was raised directly; two are the same shape as things that were. windowsPrincipalPlanFingerprint was the one of three buildWindowsPrincipalACLPlan call sites that did not pass DenyWrite. Apply and teardown both did, so the hash the marker carries described a different plan than the one that actually gets applied, and a change to the policy's deny-write paths moved the applied plan while leaving the marker where it was. It is not a live hole, because the capability ACLPlanHash covers the same paths and moves the marker anyway. That is also exactly what would have kept it invisible until somebody changed the capability plan's shape. The role list was spelled out in three places and two of them are meant to differ, which is why writing them out by hand kept going wrong. windowsSandboxPrincipalIsInstalled asked only the offline and online roles while teardown retires the legacy account too, so a machine still holding the untagged pre-split account was reported clean and the opted-out marker claimed a teardown that had not happened. Provisioning has the opposite constraint: legacy must never appear there or setup would recreate that account on every run of an already-upgraded machine. Both are named now, windowsSandboxLiveRoles and windowsSandboxRetirableRoles, with a test pinning the legacy role into exactly one of them. And the opt-out error said "retire the principal" when a workspace has two plus the legacy one, all of which that re-run retires.
… launch Measured on an ordinary unelevated session: the token holds neither SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege nor SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege, so the principal launch path can never engage for the process the runner is designed to be called from. Elevated setup does not change that, because the command runs later from the caller rather than from setup. Until now setup succeeded completely in that situation. It created a local account, its password, its logon-right assignments, the workspace ACEs, the recovery ledger and the network filter state, and then every principal-mode command refused before opening its executable. The operator was left with durable machine state serving a backend that cannot run, and nothing said so at the point they could still act on it. The check runs in the caller's own process, which is the one whose privileges decide the answer, and before anything crosses the UAC boundary. It is wired to the same function the launch path uses, so a change to what a launch requires cannot leave setup provisioning for a capability that no longer exists. Three existing tests asserted argument plumbing with the opt-in on and passed only because nothing checked; they stub the preflight now, so they no longer depend on the privileges of whoever runs the suite. This does not give the principal backend a working launch path. That needs a different architecture and is not in this change.
TestTeardownPathDerivationCreatesNothing compared the number of entries in the SHARED temp directory before and after deriving the teardown paths. The assertion it wants is that deriving a path creates nothing, and a count cannot tell creation from removal: that root is also used by every other test binary running at the same time and by the OS, so a concurrent cleanup made the count fall and the failure read "temp directory gained -1 entries". It compares the entry names now and reports anything that APPEARED, which is the question actually being asked and is indifferent to whatever else disappears. The failure also names the entry rather than a delta, so the next person sees what was created instead of a number.
…exists The gate asked whether the CALLING process held SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege and SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege. That is the wrong lifetime, and it got the answer backwards where it mattered. The process that needs those privileges is the later, ordinary command process. Setup does not run it, and nothing carries launch authority across the UAC boundary. So the caller-token check refused unelevated setup, which was never the dangerous case, and PASSED elevated setup, which is precisely the case that lands a local account, its password, its logon-right assignments, workspace ACEs, the recovery ledger and network filter state for a backend no later command can use. The check existed to prevent durable machine state serving something that cannot run, and in the one configuration that creates that state it allowed it. Requiring every sandboxed command to run elevated would line the privileges up and is deliberately not done: it is a worse boundary than the restricted token it would replace, and it is not the lifecycle this is for. Until a reviewed bootstrap or broker exists, provisioning is closed rather than half-working. windowsPrincipalLaunchAvailable replaces the preflight var and takes no argument, because the answer is about which mechanisms exist rather than about the current process. It is the one place that learns to say yes when a broker lands, and everything below it -- the plans, the ledger, the ACL and filter work -- still builds and is still tested against it. The runner keeps its own privilege check at launch time, which is the correct lifetime for one; only the setup wiring is removed. The regression test asserts the property the old shape could not express: the refusal is stable regardless of what the calling process holds, and it does not tell the operator to re-run from an elevated terminal, which is the advice that produced the unusable state. Restoring the caller-passes behaviour fails both new tests. Refs #662, which this is foundation for and does not close.
…rage runtimeRootTestConfig put the workspace and sandbox home under t.TempDir, but windowsSandboxRuntimeCandidates still derived a candidate through the production sandboxUserCacheDir seam, and the test creates every candidate and registers os.RemoveAll cleanup for each. So the test reached into the real user cache: it fails outright on a read-only home, and on an ordinary developer or CI account it creates and then deletes a path outside its own storage. The workspace hash makes a collision unlikely; it does not make somebody else's directory test-owned. Redirected before any candidate is derived, and restored with t.Cleanup. Production derivation is unchanged, and the assertion that setup materializes every granted write root still stands. A before/after count of the real cache cannot observe this, since the test creates and removes in the same run. The mechanism is the evidence: prepareSandboxRuntime reads sandboxUserCacheDir, and the test RemoveAlls every candidate that derivation produces.
…oken TestPrincipalLaunchPreflightExplainsAMissingPrivilege ran the real preflight and then asserted SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege appeared in the message. Which privilege is missing is a property of the account running the test, not of the code: an unelevated user often holds neither, but this box holds SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege and not SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege, so only the other name appeared and the test failed for a reason that was never a defect. Its own comment said it asserted "the shape of the answer rather than a fixed verdict, because the verdict legitimately differs by machine", and then it hardcoded one of the two names. The comment was right and the assertion did not match it. principalLaunchPrivilegeError splits the rendering out from the token work, so each combination is driven directly: neither held, only assign-primary-token, only increase-quota, and nothing missing. Each asserts the message names what IS missing and does NOT name the one that is held, since sending an operator after a privilege they already have is its own failure. Making the message always name both fails the two single-privilege cases. The real preflight keeps a test, reduced to what does not vary: if it refuses, the refusal names at least one of the two rather than something the operator cannot act on. Stability across calls is unchanged.
…ate anchor The fallback runtime root moved from a fresh os.MkdirTemp parent to the predictable <temp>/zero/runtime/v1/<hash> so that elevated setup and the later command process agree on it. That agreement is required and stays. But a predictable path directly under the shared system temp is not a private allocation. On an ordinary shared /tmp another local user can create /tmp/zero with mode 0700 first, and every affected user then fails before the sandbox command starts; a pre-existing redirected component makes host-side preparation lease, create, chmod and clean somewhere other than the derived tree. Determinism was being used as if it were ownership. The tree now lives beneath <temp>/zero-runtime-<user>, and that anchor is created and validated by peermsg.EnsurePrivateDir before anything is built under it: handle-relative descent, no-follow, refused if any component is a link or the leaf is not owned by the current user, mode 0700. That primitive already existed with exactly the semantics jatmn described, so it is exported and reused rather than written a fourth time. On Unix the uid is in the name because /tmp is shared; on Windows os.TempDir is already per-user and the private descriptor plus owner check do the rest. Validation runs on both paths that can hand back a fallback root: sandboxRuntimeRootFor returns one itself when the cache lands inside the workspace, and prepareSandboxRuntime asks for one when the cache root cannot be leased. Both are covered, each with a junction planted at the anchor, and both refuse with the junction target untouched; a control shows a clean fallback still prepares beneath the anchor. Two things went wrong on the way and are worth recording. The first draft called pathWithinRoot with its arguments reversed, which asked whether the anchor was beneath the root, answered false every time, and skipped the validation entirely while every dependent test reported success through the junction. And the first lease-failure trigger planted its file at the derived leaf, so preparation failed on that mkdir before ever reaching the fallback branch. Both fixed; with validation disabled the two refusal tests now die on "reported success" while the control stays green.
…back anchor peermsg.EnsurePrivateDir walks every component from the root and refuses any link. That is the right rule for the directory Zero owns and the wrong rule for the operator's temp location above it: on macOS os.TempDir sits under /var, a symlink to /private/var, so 8af0599 refused every fallback on every Mac with "refusing non-directory or symlink runtime path component var". Anchor the fallback under the physical temp dir instead, so only the anchor itself is a new component. EvalSymlinks off Windows; GetFinalPathNameByHandle on Windows, where EvalSymlinks does not traverse a junction and a redirected TEMP would trip the same way. The fixture compares against the resolved temp dir rather than its spelling, since t.TempDir can come back as an 8.3 short name.
…e tier boundary The .git rename guard belonged to one planner rather than to the grant. The allow-write mask both backends share includes DELETE, and it inherits from each write root onto .git; the carveouts that actually protect git are attached to .git/config and .git/hooks as objects, so renaming .git aside and recreating it discards them and hands back credential.helper and core.hooksPath. The principal planner denied DELETE there and the capability planner did not, and the capability backend is the default. Both now derive that object from one place, so a change to the shared mask cannot update one consumer and miss the other. The regression reads the ACE back off the applied object rather than asserting plan shape, because the plan is what was wrong. The unelevated tier now states its boundary before it mutates anything. A profile carrying denyRead runs on a strict token, which applies the restricted-SID check to reads, so the read capability must be granted at the volume root that permissionProfileReadRoots seeds. Elevated setup can write that DACL; an ordinary user cannot, and the common opener asks for WRITE_DAC on every entry, so this tier failed on that one root on every command. Dropping the root ACE instead is not available, because the strict token would then fail its own read check for the executable. So it is refused up front, naming the root, the denyRead cause and elevated setup as the remedy. That last part matters: the previous after-the-fact diagnostic told the reader that running setup elevated would NOT fix it, which is the opposite of the truth for this case. Separately, `sandbox exec` no longer reports a signaled child as exit 255. On Unix ExitCode() answers -1 for signal termination and os.Exit truncates that, so a child killed by SIGTERM was indistinguishable from one that chose to exit 255. It now returns the conventional 128+signal, read from the ProcessState, with Windows keeping the exit code it already reports.
… not after ensureWindowsSandboxRuntimeCandidates ran as Administrator and used os.MkdirAll, which follows links. Both candidate ancestries are prepared by the invoking user, so a junction planted at a not-yet-created component below the cache directory, or at the fallback anchor, made elevated setup build the runtime tree beneath a redirected, Administrator-writable target. The ACL applier's no-follow check runs afterwards and does spot the redirection, but the privileged create has already happened by then and sits outside its rollback boundary. A leaf check after MkdirAll would leave the same gap. Candidates are now created by peermsg.EnsurePrivateDir, which descends handle-relative with no-follow, refuses any component that is a link, and refuses a leaf this user does not own. It is handed a physically resolved base first, because it walks from the volume root and a redirected cache or TEMP above the owned tail is the operator's business: the same pairing the fallback anchor already uses, and the same mistake that refused every fallback on macOS when the parent was left unresolved. physicalTempDir is generalised to physicalDir for that, keeping GetFinalPathNameByHandle on Windows because EvalSymlinks does not traverse a junction. The regression plants a junction at the first owned component and asserts the redirected target stays empty; letting the creator follow links again fails it on that assertion.
…t its pathname cleanupSandboxRuntimeRoots reclaims inactive sibling workspace roots on an age and count policy, treating them as disposable cache state. Setup and its marker treat their DACL as durable provisioned state. When the reclaimed workspace runs again, command-side preparation recreates the same deterministic pathname as the ordinary caller, and the new directory inherits from its parent without the capability SID ACE elevated setup applied to the object that used to be there. ValidateWindowsSandboxSetupMarker still passed, because it fingerprints pathnames and actions rather than the identity of the ACL-bearing object. So the restricted child launched and then failed its cache, temp and package-cache writes with a bare access-denied and nothing pointing at setup. The command now asks the object, not the pathname: before the token is minted it confirms the runtime root carries an allow ACE for its capability SID, and refuses with the setup remedy when it does not. That reconciles the two owners without making cleanup preserve trees it is meant to reclaim. The regression applies a real plan, reclaims the directory the way cleanup does, recreates the pathname the way an ordinary run does, and asserts the refusal names the root and the remedy; accepting a missing grant fails it on that. Not covered, and said plainly: a write performed by a real capability token, which needs a provisioned sandbox an unelevated box cannot create. The ACE presence is the fact the command consumes, and that is what is pinned.
A profile that sets denyRead drops WRITE_RESTRICTED, and the token that replaces it carried the World SID. Every principal carries Everyone, so the restricted-SID check passed for free on any path whose DACL grants Everyone write, and the workspace write jail fell back to the caller's own permissions, which is the boundary the token exists to be stricter than. No privilege, no symlink and no race: an Everyone-writable directory was enough, and share roots opened Everyone:F and loose installer trees supply them. #865 closed this for the WRITE_RESTRICTED token and left this half open. It could not simply be dropped. Without WRITE_RESTRICTED the restricted-SID check covers reads as well, and default Windows DACLs grant BUILTIN\Users rather than anything in the list, so a token without Everyone cannot open cmd.exe and dies at launch with a bare access denial. Confirmed by impersonating both token shapes against C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe. So the read capability takes its place. BuildWindowsACLPlan already grants that SID on every read root and denies it on every denyRead path under exactly the same condition, so the read allowance and the restriction become one decision, and it names only what setup granted rather than every principal on the machine. The principal path already worked this way. Regressions drive a real restricted token through a real impersonated write: an Everyone-only DACL is refused, a directory the capability grants is written, and the token's own restricted-SID list is read back from the token. A separate test pins the plan and the token to the same answer, because the two halves are decided in different files off the same field. Closes #869
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Greptile SummaryThis PR removes Everyone from Windows restricted-token SID lists and substitutes a sandbox-specific read capability for strict DenyRead profiles, closing an Everyone-writable-directory escape while preserving executable access.
Confidence Score: 4/5The PR appears safe to merge, with only a non-blocking duplicate read-capability entry on the provisioned-principal strict-token path. The security boundary is tightened as intended and setup/runtime SID coupling is guarded, but the shared SID preparation overlaps with existing principal-specific preparation and produces redundant token state. Files Needing Attention: internal/sandbox/windows_command_runner_windows.go
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| internal/sandbox/windows_command_runner_windows.go | Adds profile-aware read capability preparation, but the provisioned-principal strict path appends that capability a second time. |
| internal/sandbox/windows_runner.go | Introduces a focused helper that adds the persisted read capability only for tokens without WRITE_RESTRICTED. |
| internal/sandbox/windows_token_windows.go | Removes the universal Everyone SID from restricted tokens while retaining existing capability and logon SID handling. |
| internal/sandbox/windows_restricted_sid_read_test.go | Adds unit coverage tying strict-token read capabilities to ACL-plan behavior. |
| internal/sandbox/windows_world_sid_bypass_windows_test.go | Adds Windows kernel-level regression coverage proving both token modes reject writes authorized only through Everyone. |
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For a DenyRead profile using the provisioned sandbox principal, windowsRestrictedTokenSIDsForProfile adds the read capability before windowsPrincipalJailSIDs copies the list, and the principal branch then appends the same SID again. The resulting restricted token carries a redundant SID entry and leaves ownership of this capability split across two preparation paths.
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94-94: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRemove the redundant read-capability append.
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writeRestrictedis false,windowsRestrictedTokenSIDsForProfilealready appends the SID.windowsPrincipalJailSIDspreserves it, so the principal branch appends it a second time.CreateRestrictedTokentolerates duplicateSidsToRestrictentries, but the duplicate adds redundant token data and repeats capability resolution. Keep one owner for this decision.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@internal/sandbox/windows_world_sid_bypass_windows_test.go`:
- Around line 24-29: Update the sizing call in the restricted-SID test before
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- Line 94: Update the principal-token SID assembly around
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Guard the zero-size buffer before indexing it.
Line 25 accepts a nil error from the sizing call. If that happens, size stays 0, buffer is empty, and &buffer[0] at line 29 panics with an index-out-of-range instead of failing the test with a readable message. Treat a nil error as a setup failure.
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Draft. This does not work, and all eight checks are green, so I want the reason written down before anyone spends time reviewing it.
That is STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED at launch. It is gated behind Bisected within the branch: disabling the read-capability append while leaving the World SID out fails identically, so it is the World removal that breaks launch and the read capability does not compensate. Which makes sense in hindsight. The profile sets I also probed a narrower replacement. So the choice on this backend is narrower than I thought. Either a universal group stays in the restricted list and the write jail is void for I am not going to pick that on my own inside a bug-fix PR, because refusing the profile is user-visible and would mean changing the smoke test that currently asserts the opposite. Parking here until #808 settles, since the principal backend is the only other place a non-universal read grant could come from, and I have not verified it can serve a One thing worth separating out regardless of how #869 lands: the real-smoke suite is the only coverage for this and CI never runs it. That is how a launch-breaking change got eight green checks. |
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Status, now that #808 has settled the design question this was waiting on. #808 ( That makes this PR the wrong shape. Its premise was replacing the World SID with the read capability, and I measured that the replacement does not work: a strict token with the read capability granted nowhere cannot open I am not simply flipping it to "remove the World SID because the strict token is unreachable" either, because that is not provable. The refusal keys on the read grant landing outside the plan own write roots, and a profile whose read roots all sit inside its write roots would still select So this stays a draft until #808 lands, then it becomes a much smaller change: drop the World SID and let the strict token fail closed, since nothing that can reach it can complete setup anyway. Worth keeping from the current branch either way are the impersonated-write regression and the plan/token equivalence test, which pin properties that survive the redesign. |
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Closing. The approach here is disproven and leaving it open reads as work in progress. Taking Everyone out of the restricted-SID list does close the write-jail bypass, and it also stops the sandbox launching: #808 takes the other route and refuses a |
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Closes #869. Stacked on #808, which is where the read capability comes from; the base is
feat/windows-sandbox-identity, so review only the top commit.What was wrong
A profile that sets
denyReaddropsWRITE_RESTRICTED, and the token that replaces it carried the World SID. Every principal carries Everyone, so the restricted-SID check passed for free on any path whose DACL grants Everyone write, and the workspace write jail fell back to the caller's own permissions. That is the boundary the token exists to be stricter than. No privilege, no symlink and no race is needed: an Everyone-writable directory is enough, and share roots opened Everyone:F and loose installer trees supply them.#865 closed this for the
WRITE_RESTRICTEDtoken and left this half open, which is what #869 tracked.Why it could not just be deleted
Without
WRITE_RESTRICTEDthe restricted-SID check covers reads too, and default Windows DACLs grantBUILTIN\Usersrather than anything in the list. I impersonated both token shapes againstC:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe:So deleting the SID on its own turns every
denyReadprofile into a command that dies at launch with a bare access denial.The fix
The read capability takes its place.
BuildWindowsACLPlanalready grants that SID on every read root and denies it on everydenyReadpath, gated on the same field that picks the strict token, so the read allowance and the restriction become one decision and the SID names only what setup granted. The principal path already worked this way; this brings the capability path in line.Elevated setup is what puts that ACE on the volume root the production profile seeds, and #808 already makes the unelevated tier refuse a
denyReadprofile up front, so nothing reaches the token expecting a grant nobody applied.Tests
TestTheStrictTokenCannotWriteAnEveryoneWritableDirectorybuilds a real restricted token, protects a directory with an Everyone-only DACL, impersonates and attempts a write. It first writes a directory the capability does grant, so a token that can write nowhere would not satisfy it. With the World SID put back and the SID-list assertion silenced, the write succeeds:TestThePlanAndTheTokenAgreeOnTheReadCapabilitypins the two halves together. The plan asks aboutdenyReadin one file and the runner asks aboutwriteRestrictedin another, off the same field with nothing joining them; dropping the plan's gate fails it.Six sandbox tests fail on my box on
origin/mainas well (TestEvaluateAppliesWriteAllowand friends). Not from this branch.Summary by CodeRabbit
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