refactor(sandbox): skip redundant capability drops - #11632
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe sandbox entrypoint now parses all five capability sets, performs guarded ChangesSandbox security initialization
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Refactor Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SandboxEntrypoint
participant ProcStatus as /proc/self/status
participant Capsh
participant Application
SandboxEntrypoint->>ProcStatus: Read five capability sets
ProcStatus-->>SandboxEntrypoint: Return capability state
SandboxEntrypoint->>Capsh: Drop dangerous capabilities when required
Capsh-->>SandboxEntrypoint: Return execution result
SandboxEntrypoint->>ProcStatus: Verify CapBnd
SandboxEntrypoint->>Application: Continue or fail according to strict mode
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Sandbox startup now validates all five kernel capability sets to avoid a redundant drop, but strict mode only refuses startup based on the bounding set, so a container that still holds dangerous permitted or effective capabilities can start successfully. That narrows the hardening guarantee for startup processes and should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge, alongside the open base-image pin and image digest verification items. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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test/runtime/sandbox/sandbox-init.test.ts (1)
378-378: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueRemove the unused
forged-statusfixture.
drop_capabilitiesreads/proc/self/statusdirectly. The testawkstub intercepts that read and returnsTEST_CAPBND. No production code consumesNEMOCLAW_PROC_STATUS, so the fixture has no effect.♻️ Proposed cleanup
const entrypoint = join(workDir, "entrypoint"); for (const name of ["reads", "calls", "args"]) writeFileSync(join(workDir, name), ""); - writeFileSync(join(workDir, "forged-status"), `CapBnd:\t${CLEAN_CAPBND}\n`); writeFileSync(TEST_CAPSH_ARGS: join(workDir, "args"), - NEMOCLAW_PROC_STATUS: join(workDir, "forged-status"), NEMOCLAW_CAPS_DROPPED: sentinel,🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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scripts/lib/sandbox-init.sh (1)
244-246: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winInjection
Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Theoretical
CWE: CWE-78 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')Pass the entrypoint as a positional argument.
drop_capabilitiesrequires an absolute path today, but the current command still embeds$entrypointin shell program text. Use$0to prevent shell metacharacters from changing the command. Update the exactcapshargument-vector assertion.🛡️ Proposed change
exec capsh \ --drop="$(dangerous_caps_drop_list)" \ - -- -c "exec $entrypoint \"\$@\"" -- "$@" + -- -c 'exec "$0" "$@"' "$entrypoint" "$@"🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@scripts/lib/sandbox-init.sh`:
- Around line 244-246: Update the capsh invocation in drop_capabilities to pass
the entrypoint as a positional argument rather than embedding $entrypoint in the
shell command text; have the inner shell execute $0 and preserve the remaining
arguments via "$@". Update the exact argument-vector assertion to match this
revised invocation.
In `@test/runtime/sandbox/sandbox-init.test.ts`:
- Line 378: Remove the unused forged-status fixture write from the test setup
around drop_capabilities; keep the awk stub’s TEST_CAPBND behavior unchanged,
since production code reads /proc/self/status directly and does not consume
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Independent review also narrowed the shortcut to five empty sets, using a built-in reader so an external reader's exec cannot hide held capabilities. Existing tests now cover a legacy process with a safe bounding set and retained effective/permitted capabilities. The curl pin correction addresses the separately verified image-build prerequisite failure. Fresh image qualification and Pi receipts are still pending. |
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In `@Dockerfile.base`:
- Line 67: Update all eight exact-version curl pins in Dockerfile.base lines
67-67 and 122-122, agents/hermes/Dockerfile.base lines 31-31 and 99-99,
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scripts/lib/sandbox-init.sh (1)
221-286: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winSecurity Misconfiguration
Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-250Check current permitted and effective capabilities, not only
CapBnd.capsh --dropchanges the bounding set but does not remove capabilities already held inCapPrmorCapEff. Whencapshis unavailable orNEMOCLAW_CAPS_DROPPED=1, the entrypoint can therefore retain a dangerous capability despite a cleanCapBnd. Preserve the intentional non-dangerous load-bearing capabilities, but reject or explicitly drop dangerous capabilities in the current sets.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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244-262: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winUse
DEBIAN_SNAPSHOT_URLfor the Python package download.build_python_fix_packageruns in every native security builder, andcurlhas no fallback. Ifdeb.debian.orgremoves the exactPYTHON_DEBIAN_VERSION, the build exits before creating the package. Use${DEBIAN_SNAPSHOT_URL}/p/python3.13/...to keep the checksum-pinned artifact available and reproducible.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@scripts/lib/sandbox-init.sh`:
- Around line 221-286: Update read_capability_state and drop_capabilities to
parse and validate dangerous capabilities in CapPrm and CapEff as well as
CapBnd. Preserve intentional non-dangerous capabilities, but reject startup or
explicitly remove any dangerous capabilities currently held when capsh is
unavailable or NEMOCLAW_CAPS_DROPPED is set; ensure a clean bounding set alone
does not allow execution.
In `@scripts/security/build-native-security-packages.sh`:
- Around line 244-262: Update the download URL in build_python_fix_package to
use DEBIAN_SNAPSHOT_URL as the base instead of deb.debian.org, preserving the
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The current image run has successfully published and qualified both Pi architectures. Its staging job still used the historical package-builder script despite overlaying the candidate Dockerfile; a one-line addition to that existing dependency overlay is prepared. The portable test needs a matching Hermes base digest, which the existing branch base-publication workflow is building. These corrections will be grouped before the next push. |
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73-73: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winSecurity Misconfiguration
CWE: CWE-693
Add focused digest allowlist coverage.
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In `@scripts/lib/sandbox-init.sh`:
- Around line 259-264: Update read_capability_state and drop_capabilities to
reject startup when dangerous capabilities remain in any of the five capability
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Available Advisor findings for Seven specialists report no required code change. The Migration specialist's supplied-command finding is a false positive: OpenClaw's non-root branch runs the supplied command at line 5789 and exits at line 5790. Its command runner executes the provided arguments directly at line 759. The cited step-down call at line 5951 is reached only after that non-root command path has exited. Hermes likewise executes supplied commands directly in its non-root branch. The refusal defaults remain appropriate for invalid root transitions. The Operability specialist failed the review protocol after submitting findings and produced no review artifact. Run 34727426516, job 103644039701, reports Core CI, the normal Pi receipt check, all three managed-startup jobs, both Pi image jobs, staging qualification, and both MCP discovery passes are green. The all-agent activation job still fails during host-gateway restart/recovery. The PR remains draft; it has not been approved or merged. |
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Outcome
OpenClaw and Hermes skip redundant capability handling when all five kernel capability sets are present and empty. Managed launches avoid an unnecessary capsh check and misleading warnings. Legacy root transitions retain their existing fallback.
Reason
OpenShell full enforcement clears the child bounding set before launch. NemoClaw previously attempted its own drop even when the managed process had no capabilities. A bounding-set-only shortcut could miss capabilities still held by a legacy process, so this shortcut observes all five sets using Bash built-ins.
Related issues
Refs #11259. Part of #11255.
Changes
The eight-file diff removes 61 production lines and 33 lines overall. Image prerequisites are supplied by current main, including merged #11634; this PR adds no separate image dependency or workflow changes.
Verification
67386fad97, including the normal Pi receipt check. Image validation passed all three AMD64 managed-startup jobs, both Pi candidate image jobs, staging qualification, and both OpenClaw MCP discovery passes. All-agent host-gateway recovery failed as described below.Review notes
The capability implementation is byte-identical to the previously reviewed
202ae862ba28f550894ddf21e1a2432faad8398csource. Full CodeRabbit review covers67386fad97; its legacy-enforcement finding was withdrawn after the base-policy comparison. Both review threads are resolved.Available Advisor findings are dispositioned: seven specialists are clear, and the Migration finding is disproved by the explicit non-root command branches. The Operability specialist failed its submission protocol and produced no review artifact. A maintainer decision on a full Advisor rerun is pending; the review is incomplete.
The final diff changes no Pi image inputs, so main's receipt pair and authority remain unchanged. The normal receipt check passes; the earlier publication-ordering deferral is no longer needed.
The current image run failed during host-gateway restart after successful OpenClaw onboarding and an agent turn. The recovery command returned nonzero, the gateway remained unreachable, and cleanup could not confirm sandbox deletion. The inspected host/lifecycle owners are unchanged from this commit's base. No exact-base runtime replay established the internal cause, so this remains an unresolved qualification blocker.
Docker/Podman security qualification and separate exec/connect/capability-regain observations remain outstanding acceptance evidence for #11259. This PR does not claim to close that issue.
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