fix(plugins): bind macOS ACL root trust to verified UID instead of a record name - #6023
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe macOS ACL trust check no longer treats ChangesmacOS ACL principal trust
Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to On macOS systems with a non-root directory record named Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change tightens plugin-loading checks by rejecting a misleading macOS ACL name. No new permission to load plugins is evident. The checks still rely on displayed identity names whose security properties have not been fully established. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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In @src/plugins/loader.ts:
- Around line 86-88: Remove the unconditional "root" exception from the
principal allowlist in loadOcxPlugins; skip ACL entries only when the user
principal matches owner or currentUser, unless root is validated by UID or UUID.
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| // Resolved ACL names are directory record names: `user:0` is not proof of UID 0. | ||
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| && [owner, currentUser, "root", "0"].includes(principal.slice(5))) continue; | ||
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If you mean **“Does `ls -le /` showing `user:root` guarantee the ACL belongs to UID 0?”** — **no, not by itself.**
`ls -le` displays an ACL principal’s *resolved name*. macOS ACLs identify principals using UUIDs, separate from the numeric UID used by BSD file ownership; name resolution depends on directory services. So `root` is a label, not proof of the ACL principal’s UID. ([developer.apple.com](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/FileSystemDetails/FileSystemDetails.html?utm_source=openai))
To check the directory-service mapping, inspect the `root` record and its UID:
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dscl /Search -read /Users/root UniqueID GeneratedUID
```
For a local account specifically:
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dscl /Local/Default -read /Users/root UniqueID GeneratedUID
```
UID 0 is the root user in macOS, but the `ls -le` name alone doesn’t establish that mapping. ([developer.apple.com](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Security/Conceptual/AuthenticationAndAuthorizationGuide/Permissions/Permissions.html?utm_source=openai))
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- 1: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/FileSystemDetails/FileSystemDetails.html?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Security/Conceptual/AuthenticationAndAuthorizationGuide/Permissions/Permissions.html?utm_source=openai
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Do not trust user:root by name alone.
macOS ACL output resolves a principal to a directory-record name. It does not prove that the record has UID 0. A non-root record named root can pass this branch with write rights, so loadOcxPlugins can import a plugin from a path that another user can modify.
Remove the unconditional root exception, or validate the principal's UID or UUID before accepting it.
Suggested fix
- // The file owner, this process's user, and root already control the path without an ACE.
+ // The file owner and this process's user already control the path without an ACE.
// Require the `user:` prefix: a bare or group principal might include other users.
// Resolved ACL names are directory record names: `user:0` is not proof of UID 0.
if (principal.startsWith("user:")
- && [owner, currentUser, "root"].includes(principal.slice(5))) continue;
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In @src/plugins/loader.ts around lines 86 - 88, Remove the unconditional "root"
exception from the principal allowlist in loadOcxPlugins; skip ACL entries only
when the user principal matches owner or currentUser, unless root is validated
by UID or UUID.
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Thanks — I checked this against the issue the PR closes.
Issue #6017 names the required split explicitly: user:0 allow write must be refused, while user:root allow write must remain trusted, alongside owner/current-user grants and harmless read-only entries. Removing the root exception would go further than the issue asks in the one direction it rules out, and it would regress #6012 in the case that motivated it: a trusted system ancestor such as / carries user:root allow entries, and the recorded-ancestor test (systemParent, 1: user:root allow delete_child) expects that path to stay trusted.
The narrower point in the finding is right and is what this PR implements: a display name is not identity, so the numeric-looking record name 0 no longer confers UID-0 trust. Binding a principal to a verified UID/UUID through directory services would need a dscl lookup per ACE on the pre-bind plugin path, which is a larger change than this issue's scope and a separate design decision — I've kept the fix to the boundary the issue describes.
So I'm deliberately not applying the suggested diff. Happy to take it up as a follow-up if the maintainers want display names fully retired from the ACL parser.
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@codingbooo, I checked #6017 and tests/lib/plugin-loader.test.ts. You are right: #6017 explicitly requires user:root write grants to remain trusted. The systemParent test at Line 121 also depends on that behavior. I withdraw my suggested removal of root.
The identity concern is separate. #6017 also says effective write authority must belong to actual root, and the check in src/plugins/loader.ts accepts user:root without verifying that identity. I cannot establish from these sources whether a non-root principal can appear as user:root in macOS ACL output. I’ll leave that concern open, without asking for a change to this PR. Would you like a follow-up issue to investigate that mapping and define whether UID/UUID validation is needed?
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리뷰 · 우선순위 66 / 80이 PR은 맥에서 플러그인을 불러오기 전에 보는 권한 목록의 구멍을 조금 막습니다. 플러그인 파일은 서버가 요청을 받기 전에 읽히고, 그 프로그램을 켠 사람의 권한으로 실행됩니다. 파일 주인, 지금 이 프로세스를 돌리는 사용자, 진짜 root만 그 파일을 고칠 수 있어야 합니다. 맥 검사는 같은 이슈 #6017을 닫는 PR #6019도 라인 - 라인 - 메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점 #6019와 #6023 중 하나만 남겨야 합니다. 이름 너의 추천 이 PR은 닫고 #6019를 남기세요. 이름 이 댓글은 grok-bot이 작성했습니다 |
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Closes #6017
What
macAclListingTrustErrortreated the literal resolved ACL principal nameuser:0as root. macOS/bin/ls -lebdprintsuser:<directory-record-name>for resolved identities, so that text is a display name, not numeric UID evidence: a non-root directory record literally named0was accepted as UID 0 and granted root trust.Root trust now requires the resolved principal name
root(or the checked path owner / the current process user, exactly as before). A numeric-looking record name no longer confers identity.Why it matters
Local plugins are dynamically imported before the server binds and then run in the proxy process with the operator's credentials. The loader invariant is that only the checked path owner, the current process user, or actual root may hold effective write authority on a plugin file, directory, or ancestor.
Regression
New case
macOS ACL record names do not confer numeric UID identityasserts:user:0,user:runner,group:operator,group:root,group:0, and bareoperator/root/0effective write grants -> UNTRUSTEDuser:root,user:<owner>,user:<current user>effective write grants -> TRUSTEDuser:0, remain accepted, so fix(plugins): accept harmless macOS ACLs on trusted ancestors #6012's intent does not regressVerification
bun run typecheckcleanbun test tests/lib/plugin-loader.test.tspassesbun run structure:checkandbun run privacy:scanpassSummary by CodeRabbit
user:0are no longer treated as trusted based on the numeric name alone. Write access is accepted only when the resolved name matches the owner, current user, orroot; read-only entries remain accepted.Review readiness checklist
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