fix(filter): gate libpod image writes - #384
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POST /libpod/images/load, /libpod/images/import, /libpod/local/build,
/libpod/local/images/load and /libpod/images/scp/{name} were in neither
compileRuntimePolicy's inspection table nor either acknowledgment catalog, so
an allow rule opened them with no inspection at runtime and no complaint at
startup. Same root cause as cb22667's image-pull gap, across the rest of
Podman's native image-write routes.
The two that carry the same input as a Docker-compat endpoint reuse that
endpoint's policy rather than getting a second config block. Verified against
Podman v5.8.1's register_images.go and handlers/libpod/images.go:
/libpod/images/load registers with no query parameters at all and ImagesLoad
copies the entire body to a temp file, so it is the same archive in the same
place as POST /images/load and one imageLoadPolicy reads both. ImagesImport is
gated by request_body.image_pull.allow_imports, the flag that already governs
Docker's fromSrc import. That inspector deliberately never reads the query to
reach its verdict: every request to the path is an import, whether the tarball
comes from the body or from a URL the caller chose, so no parameter rename or
gorilla/schema key-folding quirk can steer it. The URL value is read only to
name the source in the denial.
The other three take their input from somewhere the request never travels,
which makes an inspector actively worse than a refusal -- routed to one they
would present as inspected while reading nothing. /libpod/local/build's
localcontextdir and /libpod/local/images/load's path are required absolute
paths on the DAEMON HOST that internal/localapi.ValidatePathForLocalAPI checks
only for absolute-and-exists, with no sandbox root, so the caller picks a
directory on the daemon and the build context or image archive is read from
there. /libpod/images/scp/{name} has no request body at all: outbound it is an
image push with no registry to allowlist, inbound it materializes a local image
that allowed_registries never sees, and pkg/domain/utils/scp.go turns an
unrecognized connection name into a literal ssh://<name> rather than refusing
it, so the destination is arbitrary. All three are denied at the proxy and
named at config-validation time. The two local routes require
insecure_allow_body_blind_writes; scp requires that and
insecure_allow_read_exfiltration, one per direction it moves images.
allow_run_instructions does not substitute for the acknowledgment on
/libpod/local/build.
Routing teaches the existing predicates the libpod spellings rather than adding
another path list: matchesImageLoadInspection and matchesBuildInspection widen,
and isLibpodBuildPath covers /libpod/build and /libpod/local/build together
because both run through compat.buildImage and accept the same libpod build
query controls. POST /libpod/build is unaffected; it still ships its context as
a tar and is still inspected.
No shipped preset allows any of the five, on its default rules or any client
profile -- evaluated through filter.Evaluate over every config in app/configs,
not read off the YAML -- so the exposure was reachable only through an
operator-authored allow rule.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughNative Podman image load and import routes now use Docker-compatible inspection policies. OCI and Docker archives receive format-specific validation, digest checks, manifest traversal, and unsafe-entry rejection. Bodyless local build/load routes require the blind-write acknowledgment. Image SCP routes require blind-write and read-exfiltration acknowledgments, with encoded and decoded policy views evaluated together. Podman version prefixes and glob matching were expanded. Documentation and conflict-marker tests were updated. Suggested labels: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The implementation appears mergeable, but the configuration reference should clarify that registry policy also applies to OCI archives. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2✅ Passed checks (2 passed)
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- fix(filter): enforce every mixed archive reference set and fail closed on uninspectable controls - fix(config): intersect ordered wildcard rules with the full slash-bearing push route - docs(podman): document mixed-format fail-closed behavior
…te-inspection # Conflicts: # CHANGELOG.md # README.md # app/differential/path_evasion_extended_test.go # app/internal/cmd/rules.go # app/internal/config/validate.go # app/internal/config/validate_test.go # app/internal/filter/fuzz_test.go # app/internal/filter/libpod_normalize.go # app/internal/filter/libpod_normalize_test.go # app/internal/filter/rules.go # app/internal/filter/rules_test.go # docs/content/docs/configuration.mdx # docs/content/docs/podman.mdx
The incoming branch added TestExtractImageLoadRepoTagsFromGzip{DrainsAfterSuccess,SurfacesCloseErrorOnSuccess}
against ioDeps.extractImageLoadRepoTagsFromGzip. This branch's libpod
image-write work replaced that helper with
extractImageLoadArchiveFromGzip(file, preferOCI), so the merged tree kept
both sides and stopped compiling.
Point both tests at the surviving extractor. The drain-after-success and
close-error-on-success guards they pin are unchanged in the new function,
so the coverage they add is still real, and nothing else in the package
tested it.
MARKER_RE pinned each run to exactly seven characters, so it only ever saw the markers an ordinary two-way merge writes. Git lengthens the run when a conflict nests inside an already-conflicted region, which a criss-cross merge base produces, and a nine-character `<<<<<<<<<` walked straight past the guard the script exists to be. Widen all three runs to seven-or-more and keep the space-or-EOL tail, so a labelled marker still matches and `<<<<<<<x` still does not. `=======` stays excluded for the setext-heading reason in the file header.
An archive carrying both index.json and manifest.json was denied whenever the OCI half failed to parse, including when it failed the way every daemon fails it: an index that names no single image. `docker save a:1 b:2` on Docker 25+ with the containerd image store writes exactly that shape, so an ordinary multi-image save was refused on both POST /images/load and POST /libpod/images/load. containers/image returns ErrMoreThanOneImage from oci/layout before it reads a descriptor annotation, and libimage tries oci-archive then docker-archive (podman v5.8.1 pkg/domain/infra/abi/images.go, libimage load.go), so a missing, undecodable, or multi-manifest index.json cannot put an OCI name in the image store at all. Those three failures now fall back to the Docker reference set alone. Everything else keeps failing closed: an OCI half that parses and disagrees, a blob that fails its digest or size check, and any outer archive link entry.
On POST /libpod/images/load a Docker manifest RepoTag of "<none>:<none>" was rewritten to "localhost/<none>:<none>" and an empty tag to "localhost/" before the untagged check ran, so allow_untagged never applied to the entries it exists for and the deny named a registry rather than the untagged image. The libpod route now recognizes both spellings first and skips the localhost rewrite for them; every other reference still normalizes exactly as before.
The package doc still described "/**" as "(/.*)?" from before the compiler moved to "(/(?s:.*))?", so it read as though a decoded newline stopped a "**" match. A test now parses the package doc and asserts it quotes what ToRegexString emits for "**" and "/**", so the two cannot drift again.
POST /libpod/images/scp/* sits in both the body-sensitive write catalog and the read-exfiltration catalog in internal/cmd/rules.go, but the prose catalogs in configuration.mdx, security.mdx and the README named only the two local routes, so an operator reading either list would not know the route exists or that it takes two acknowledgments. The CHANGELOG entry now names POST /images/load as well, because the link entries, the per-entry untagged check and the mixed-archive handling all reach Docker-compat traffic, and it records the new multi-image fallback instead of the denial it replaced. A Changed (BREAKING) entry records that allow rules reaching the three refuse-do-not-inspect routes now fail validation without the flags, so a config that started before this release can refuse to.
The multi-image fallback judged the archive on manifest.json alone, which is right for Podman: its oci-archive transport gives up before reading any name and moves on to docker-archive. A containerd-store dockerd does not. It imports every descriptor in a multi-manifest index.json and records the name each one's annotations carry, so on POST /images/load a crafted two-manifest index could name a registry the allowlist never saw while allowlisted RepoTags carried the request. Those names are now unioned into the checked set beside the Docker repo tags, read through one shared reader so the io.containerd.image.name over org.opencontainers.image.ref.name precedence cannot diverge from the single-image path. A missing or undecodable index.json stays Docker-only: there are no names in it to read.
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603-606: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueRemove the test-only
validateImageLoadOCIManifestGraphwrapper. Production code callsvalidateImageLoadOCIManifestGraphReferencesdirectly. Update both tests to call the References variant.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/content/docs/configuration.mdx`:
- Line 398: Update the image_load documentation row to state that allow_official
and registry allowlist settings apply to both Docker and OCI archives, and
remove the Docker-archive-only wording. Keep the existing untagged-entry
behavior and native Podman localhost resolution accurately described.
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In `@app/internal/filter/image_load.go`:
- Around line 603-606: Remove the test-only validateImageLoadOCIManifestGraph
wrapper, and update both tests to call
validateImageLoadOCIManifestGraphReferences directly while preserving their
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Gates the libpod image-write surface Podman routes but sockguard never inspected, and rewrites the image-load inspector so it reads the archive formats both daemons actually accept instead of only Docker's
manifest.json.What changes:
POST /libpod/images/loadnow runs throughrequest_body.image_load, the same policy object and config block asPOST /images/load. Podman's route declares no query parameters and its whole body is the archive, so there was nothing to configure separately.manifest.jsonRepoTags, OCI archives from the effectiveindex.jsonname, withio.containerd.image.nametaking precedence overorg.opencontainers.image.ref.namebecause that is the order Podman names the loaded image in.urlsare refused, and an archive holding blobs nothing references is refused.index.jsonandmanifest.jsonhas to satisfy both reference sets, because Podman can abandon an OCI candidate while parsing its config or applying a layer and then fall back to docker-archive. Podman's permissive treatment of advisoryoci-layout, index schema-version and descriptor media-type metadata is mirrored, so none of those omissions disguises a loadable OCI image.index.jsonthat is missing, undecodable, or holds more than one manifest, which is exactly whatdocker save a:1 b:2writes on Docker 25+ with the containerd image store. A multi-manifest index loads with themanifest.jsonrepo tags and every index annotation name checked together, because a containerd-store dockerd imports each descriptor and records the name it carries, while a missing or undecodable index carries no names and is judged onmanifest.jsonalone.POST /images/loadtoo, since one policy reads both spellings: an outer-tar symlink or hardlink entry fails closed, an untagged manifest entry beside a tagged one is denied, and mixed-format archives are inspected rather than refused. Control paths are compared byte-exact before the daemon's own path cleaning, soindex.jsoncannot pose asindex.json.localhost/prefix before the registry allowlist runs, andallow_untaggedis applied before that rewrite, so<none>:<none>and empty tags are still read as untagged rather than as alocalhost/...reference.POST /libpod/images/importreusesrequest_body.image_pull.allow_imports, the flag that already gated the Docker-compatfromSrcimport, joiningPOST /libpod/images/pullon the image-pull policy. Body-form imports spool through a 512 MiB cap with a deterministic413, URL-form imports stay body-independent, and repeated or case-variedURLvalues are read the way gorilla/schema reads them.POST /libpod/local/buildandPOST /libpod/local/images/loadname an absolute path on the daemon host, andPOST /libpod/images/scp/{name}names an SSH destination that is not a registry, so nothing sockguard could read ever crosses the socket.insecure_allow_body_blind_writes, andscprequiresinsecure_allow_read_exfiltrationas well because it is an image ingest in one direction and an egress channel in the other. Startup validation refuses a config whose top-level or profile rules reach any of them without the matching flag, and the runtime inspectors deny the same requests.EscapedPath, so.../scp/name%2Fpushroutes to image SCP while the decoded path reads as the push route, and policy now requires both the decoded and the route view to allow, with the rejecting view owning the deny metadata.%inmatch.pathis accepted only for that route family: a single-method POST rule under/libpod/images/scp/, no glob, nopush/tag/untagaction suffix, and it has to unescape. Every other literal%in a rule path stays a validation error, since it could only ever match double-encoded traffic.**compiles to(?s:.*)instead of.*, so a decoded control byte such as a newline cannot slip past a**deny and get picked up by a later single-star allow. The package doc now quotes the group the compiler emits, and a test parses that doc so the two cannot drift again.scripts/check-conflict-markers.mjsmatches runs of seven or more marker characters. Git lengthens the run when a conflict happens inside an already-conflicted region, and the fixed seven-character match walked straight past those.Breaking: a config that started before this release can now fail validation, if any rule admits
POST /libpod/local/build,POST /libpod/local/images/load, orPOST /libpod/images/scp/*without the acknowledgment the error names. Set the flag or narrow the rule. No shipped preset allows any of the three.Tests: load inspection on both endpoints for Docker, OCI, gzipped and mixed archives, including the multi-image containerd-store save; OCI digest, size, graph-bound and unreferenced-blob failures; link aliasing and duplicate control files; untagged ordering with
allow_untaggedon and off; encoded and trailing-slash SCP routing through the production evaluator; catalog reachability and validation coverage for the five endpoints; and the conflict-marker script's own cases.Docs: CHANGELOG (the libpod image-write bullet plus a Changed (BREAKING) entry), README request-inspection and blind-write rows, configuration.mdx (image load prose and both acknowledgment catalogs), security.mdx (the same two catalogs), podman.mdx (route rows and the local/scp section).
Changelog
/libpod/images/import./libpod/images/loadand/libpod/images/import.**.insecure_allow_body_blind_writes.Concerns