fix(isolation): refuse compat /secrets on a Podman upstream - #443
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Podman registers /secrets, /vX.Y.Z/secrets and /libpod/secrets/json all
onto compat.ListSecrets (pkg/api/server/register_secrets.go at v5.8.1).
That handler runs abi.SecretList, which filters through
utils.IfPassesSecretsFilter, whose switch accepts "name" and "id" and
returns fmt.Errorf("invalid filter %q", key) on anything else;
utils.InternalServerError turns that into a 500.
Both isolation layers inject a label filter into /secrets --
needsOwnerFilter and needsVisibilityLabelFilter each list it -- so on a
Podman upstream the injection did not narrow the list, it broke every
request with an upstream 500 and nothing in the access log naming
sockguard as the cause. v2.1.0 fixed the native /libpod/secrets/json
spelling by refusing it (P17); the compat spelling had no flavor gate at
all, since /events was the only path that did.
Refusal, not in-proxy filtering. P16's /events gate has a filterable
branch only because Podman's event grammar accepts `label` and evaluates
one value identically under OR and AND -- there is a narrowed upstream
request to send. The secret grammar accepts no label key at all, so the
only half of P16 that reaches this endpoint is its refusal. P17 is the
closer precedent and it is literally the same handler: the compat body is
entities.SecretInfoReportCompat, which embeds SecretInfoReport, so it
carries the same Spec.Labels the libpod body does and differs only by a
Version{Index:1} field. A response-side filter over Spec.Labels is
therefore viable, and it is what moves both entries out of the refusal
set at once. Building it for the compat spelling alone would leave one
Podman handler answering 403 through its native path and a filtered list
through its compat path off a single policy, which is the drift the
shared deny reasons in internal/filter exist to prevent -- and the same
"half a check is worse than none" call LibpodSecretListDenyReason
already makes.
So both layers now answer 403 before the daemon is contacted, gated on
the resolved upstream.flavor: owner_podman_secret_list_unscopeable and
visibility_podman_secret_list_unscopeable, independent of warn/audit
rollout mode because the request an operator would be measuring against
is the one Podman answers with a 500. ownership.Options gains
UpstreamFlavor for this; the /events divergence needed none, because
addOwnerLabelFilter leaves exactly one label value and only the
combination with a visibility selector is inexpressible, which arrives
as dockerfilters.RequiresSoleValue instead.
Unchanged: a patterns-only visibility policy injects nothing into
/secrets, so it is forwarded untouched, matching the no-selector branch
of handlePodmanCompatEventsRequest; a deployment with neither layer is
unaffected; GET /secrets/{id} names one secret and both layers still
resolve it; and a Docker upstream keeps the conjunctive injection,
because dockerd's swarm secret list honors it.
TestPodmanFlavorLeavesOtherListEndpointsAlone asserted /v1.53/secrets
kept the appended label filter on Podman. That was the bug, so the path
leaves that list; the 500 it produced is now held as a positive control
on the fake upstream in both new test files.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe serve chain passes the resolved upstream flavor to ownership middleware. Ownership and visibility middleware refuse Docker-compatible Suggested labels: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The Podman documentation can cause operators to expect a 403 for a patterns-only visibility policy when Docker-compatible secret-list requests are actually forwarded. Correct the endpoint behavior description before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2✅ Passed checks (2 passed)
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…with #nosec The Security: Gosec SAST job runs standalone gosec with -nosec-require-rules -nosec-require-justification, which does not read golangci-lint's //nolint:gosec directive, so the two reason-code constants whose names contain "Secret" failed G101 in CI even though go-lint passed locally. Both now carry the repo's existing "#nosec G101 -- <reason>" form, matching LibpodSecretListPath, and the redundant //nolint line above PodmanCompatSecretListPath is dropped.
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In `@docs/content/docs/podman.mdx`:
- Around line 742-747: Update the documentation around the statement that both
secret-list paths are refused, distinguishing the native /libpod/secrets/json
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| - **Neither spelling of the secret list has a scoped form under either | ||
| isolation layer.** `GET /libpod/secrets/json` and, on a Podman upstream, the | ||
| Docker-compat `GET /secrets` are one handler. Podman's secret filter grammar | ||
| accepts only `name` and `id` and answers `500` for any other key, so the | ||
| label filter that scopes every other list cannot be pushed upstream, and both | ||
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Qualify the compatibility-path refusal.
A patterns-only visibility policy forwards Podman Docker-compatible GET /secrets unchanged. The text says both layers refuse both spellings. This conflicts with lines 505-509 and the visibility condition that requires selectors. Document the native and compatibility paths separately.
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In `@docs/content/docs/podman.mdx` around lines 742 - 747, Update the
documentation around the statement that both secret-list paths are refused,
distinguishing the native /libpod/secrets/json behavior from the
Docker-compatible /secrets behavior. For patterns-only visibility policies,
document that the compatibility path is forwarded unchanged when no selectors
are required, while preserving the refusal qualification for scoped
selector-based visibility. Use the surrounding visibility-policy terminology and
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/libpod/secrets/jsonspelling by refusing it. The compat spelling had no flavor gate at all, since/eventswas the only path that did. It now gets the same refusal, gated on the resolvedupstream.flavor:403withowner_podman_secret_list_unscopeableorvisibility_podman_secret_list_unscopeable, decided before the daemon is contacted so the host's secret inventory is never read, and independent ofwarn/auditrollout mode because the request an operator would be measuring against is the one Podman answers with a 500.Refusal rather than in-proxy filtering because it's literally the same handler as the libpod spelling: the compat body carries the same
Spec.Labels, so a response-side filter could scope either, and building one for the compat path alone would leave one Podman handler answering 403 through its native path and a filtered list through its compat path off one policy. If that filter gets built later it lifts both entries at once.Unchanged: a patterns-only visibility policy injects nothing into
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