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Lumotia/src-tauri/src/commands/fs.rs
Jake d8fa4ff64e agent: lumotia — Phase B.5 close symlink-target bypass in write_text_file_cmd path scope
Phase B.5 audit of commits a2b47db/a48653c/b3da58c (Trust-1 — write
path allowlist), 9653e25 (Trust-5 — transcribe_file extension allowlist
+ size cap), and ed449cc (Trust-2 — resolve_recording_path output_folder
validation). The three Trust-1 commits were a corrective sequence that
swapped the staged file in a parallel-agent race; b3da58c is the
authoritative landing.

Existing coverage is strong:
  * commands/fs.rs (Trust-1): 6 tests — outside-allowlist, traversal,
    accepts inside, accepts nested, rejects missing parent, prefix check.
  * commands/transcription.rs (Trust-5): 7 tests — accepts wav,
    accepts MP3 case-insensitive, accepts each allowed extension,
    rejects unsupported, rejects no-extension, rejects oversize, accepts
    exactly-at-cap, rejects traversal-with-disallowed-ext.
  * commands/audio.rs (Trust-2): 7 tests including
    validate_output_folder_rejects_symlink_pointing_out — the symlink
    bypass for output folders is already covered.

One real residual found in commands/fs.rs:

Asymmetric symlink handling between Trust-1 (fs.rs) and Trust-2
(audio.rs). Trust-2 canonicalises the FULL requested path (it's a
directory that must already exist), so a symlink at the directory itself
that points outside the base is resolved before the containment check
and gets rejected. Trust-1 canonicalises only the PARENT of the
requested path, because the target file typically does not exist yet
(canonicalize() returns NotFound on missing paths). Concrete bypass:

  1. A symlink at, e.g., ~/Downloads/notes.md -> ~/.bashrc — innocently
     created by the user, or planted via another vulnerability.
  2. Compromised webview invokes
       write_text_file_cmd("/home/user/Downloads/notes.md", "<payload>").
  3. Path-scope check: parent canonicalises to /home/user/Downloads,
     file_name joins, canonical path string sits inside the Downloads
     allowlist. PASS.
  4. tokio::fs::write -> File::create -> open(2) follows the symlink and
     writes "<payload>" to ~/.bashrc, exfiltrating shell startup.

Fix: two-mode canonicalisation in resolve_export_path. If the target
exists, canonicalise the full path — this follows any symlink at the
target itself, and the subsequent containment check sees the resolved
location. Only on NotFound do we fall back to parent-canonicalise +
join-filename (the original save-dialog path). This mirrors the audio
crate's canonicalisation discipline.

Regression tests:
  * rejects_symlink_target_outside_allowlist — creates a symlink inside
    a base pointing OUT to a real outside file; resolve_export_path must
    return Err with "outside the allowed export directories".
  * accepts_symlink_target_inside_allowlist — symmetric, an in-base
    alias symlink must still resolve and pass, so legitimate uses of
    symlinks are not regressed.

Both gated #[cfg(unix)] because std::os::unix::fs::symlink is unix-only.
The Trust-1 surface ships symmetrically on Windows; the symlink class
attack does not generalise the same way on NTFS (junctions vs symlinks
have different ACL semantics), and a windows-specific test would be
duplicate-effort outside the audit scope.

Verification:
  * cargo test -p lumotia --lib commands::fs
      → 8/8 pass including the two new symlink tests.
  * cargo fmt --check → clean.
  * cargo clippy -p lumotia --all-targets -- -D warnings → clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-14 19:33:20 +01:00

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// Phase 9. Thin filesystem write command for the save-dialog path.
//
// Path safety (Trust-1, code-atomiser-fix 2026-05-12): an OS save dialog
// is the intended entry point, but the Tauri IPC surface does not enforce
// that — a compromised webview can invoke `write_text_file_cmd` directly
// with any path the running process can write to. We therefore:
//
// 1. require the call to originate from the main window;
// 2. canonicalise the supplied path (resolves symlinks, rejects bad
// parents);
// 3. assert the canonical path is inside a known-good base directory
// (app data, downloads, documents, or desktop). Anything outside is
// rejected with a clear error.
//
// The base-dir allowlist mirrors where the OS save dialog is expected to
// land; it is deliberately broader than `recordings_dir()` because users
// routinely save transcripts to Documents or Desktop. Adding new bases is
// a one-line change in `allowed_export_bases`.
use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
use tauri::Manager;
use crate::commands::security::ensure_main_window;
/// Write UTF-8 text to a user-chosen path. The path must (a) canonicalise
/// to a real, accessible path, and (b) live inside one of the allowlisted
/// base directories (app data dir, downloads, documents, desktop). Errors
/// propagate the OS message verbatim wrapped with the path so the toast
/// on the frontend is actionable.
#[tauri::command]
pub async fn write_text_file_cmd(
app: tauri::AppHandle,
window: tauri::WebviewWindow,
path: String,
contents: String,
) -> Result<(), String> {
ensure_main_window(&window)?;
let bases = allowed_export_bases(&app);
let resolved = resolve_export_path(Path::new(&path), &bases)?;
tokio::fs::write(&resolved, contents)
.await
.map_err(|e| format!("Failed to write {}: {e}", resolved.display()))
}
/// Collect the set of base directories under which `write_text_file_cmd`
/// is allowed to land. Returns the canonicalised form of each so the
/// later containment check can be a pure prefix comparison.
fn allowed_export_bases(app: &tauri::AppHandle) -> Vec<PathBuf> {
let path = app.path();
let mut bases: Vec<PathBuf> = Vec::new();
for candidate in [
path.app_data_dir().ok(),
path.app_local_data_dir().ok(),
path.download_dir().ok(),
path.document_dir().ok(),
path.desktop_dir().ok(),
]
.into_iter()
.flatten()
{
// Allow the base directory even if it does not yet exist on disk —
// canonicalise the parent walk-up when possible.
if let Ok(canon) = std::fs::canonicalize(&candidate) {
bases.push(canon);
} else {
bases.push(candidate);
}
}
bases
}
/// Resolve the requested write target. The canonicalised path must sit
/// inside one of `bases`.
///
/// Two-mode canonicalisation:
///
/// - **If the target already exists**, canonicalise the WHOLE path. This
/// follows any symlink at the target itself, so a symlink that sits
/// inside an allowlisted base but points outside it gets rejected
/// here. `tokio::fs::write` follows symlinks on open(2), so without
/// this branch a symlink at `~/Downloads/notes.md -> ~/.bashrc` would
/// pass the containment check (the path string is inside Downloads)
/// and the subsequent write would silently land in `~/.bashrc`.
/// Trust-1 audit residual closed in Phase B.5 (2026-05-14); parallels
/// `validate_output_folder`'s full-path-canonicalize in
/// `commands/audio.rs` (Trust-2).
///
/// - **If the target does not yet exist** (the typical save-dialog
/// case), canonicalise the parent and re-join the filename. The
/// parent must exist for `tokio::fs::write` to succeed anyway, so
/// checking it is no extra cost.
pub(crate) fn resolve_export_path(path: &Path, bases: &[PathBuf]) -> Result<PathBuf, String> {
let canon_path = match std::fs::canonicalize(path) {
Ok(canon) => canon,
Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => {
let parent = path.parent().ok_or_else(|| {
format!(
"Refusing to write {}: path has no parent directory.",
path.display()
)
})?;
let file_name = path.file_name().ok_or_else(|| {
format!(
"Refusing to write {}: path has no filename.",
path.display()
)
})?;
let canon_parent = std::fs::canonicalize(parent).map_err(|e| {
format!(
"Refusing to write {}: cannot resolve parent dir ({e}).",
path.display()
)
})?;
canon_parent.join(file_name)
}
Err(e) => {
return Err(format!(
"Refusing to write {}: cannot resolve path ({e}).",
path.display()
));
}
};
if !is_inside_any_base(&canon_path, bases) {
return Err(format!(
"Refusing to write {}: path is outside the allowed export directories \
(app data, Downloads, Documents, Desktop). \
Pick a destination inside one of those folders.",
canon_path.display()
));
}
Ok(canon_path)
}
/// Pure containment check: does `candidate` sit at or under any path in
/// `bases`? Pure on purpose so the unit tests below can exercise the
/// rule without a Tauri app handle.
pub(crate) fn is_inside_any_base(candidate: &Path, bases: &[PathBuf]) -> bool {
bases.iter().any(|base| candidate.starts_with(base))
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
use std::path::PathBuf;
fn tempdir_canon(name: &str) -> (tempfile::TempDir, PathBuf) {
let dir = tempfile::tempdir().expect("tempdir");
let canon = std::fs::canonicalize(dir.path()).expect("canonicalise tempdir");
let _ = name;
(dir, canon)
}
#[test]
fn rejects_path_outside_allowlist() {
let (_keep, base) = tempdir_canon("base");
let bases = vec![base];
// /etc/passwd is outside the temp base.
let result = resolve_export_path(Path::new("/etc/passwd"), &bases);
assert!(
result.is_err(),
"outside-base path must be rejected, got {result:?}"
);
}
#[test]
fn rejects_path_traversal_attempt() {
// A "../../etc/passwd" relative to a sub-dir of the base must
// resolve to /etc/passwd (or similar) which is OUTSIDE the
// base — and we must reject it. We use the canonicalised
// tempdir as the base, then construct a sibling escape path.
let (_keep, base) = tempdir_canon("base");
let sub = base.join("sub");
std::fs::create_dir(&sub).expect("mkdir sub");
let bases = vec![base.clone()];
let traversal = sub.join("../../etc/passwd");
let result = resolve_export_path(&traversal, &bases);
assert!(
result.is_err(),
"../../etc/passwd traversal must be rejected, got {result:?}"
);
}
#[test]
fn accepts_path_inside_allowlist() {
let (_keep, base) = tempdir_canon("base");
let bases = vec![base.clone()];
let target = base.join("out.md");
let resolved = resolve_export_path(&target, &bases).expect("inside-base must be allowed");
assert!(
resolved.starts_with(&base),
"resolved path {resolved:?} must sit under base {base:?}"
);
}
#[test]
fn accepts_nested_path_inside_allowlist() {
let (_keep, base) = tempdir_canon("base");
let nested = base.join("nested");
std::fs::create_dir(&nested).expect("mkdir nested");
let bases = vec![base.clone()];
let target = nested.join("out.md");
let resolved =
resolve_export_path(&target, &bases).expect("nested inside-base must be allowed");
assert!(resolved.starts_with(&base));
}
#[test]
fn rejects_when_parent_does_not_exist() {
let bases = vec![PathBuf::from("/")];
let result =
resolve_export_path(Path::new("/definitely-not-real-lumotia-fix/out.md"), &bases);
assert!(
result.is_err(),
"nonexistent parent must be rejected, got {result:?}"
);
}
#[test]
fn is_inside_any_base_is_a_prefix_check() {
let a = PathBuf::from("/tmp/a");
let b = PathBuf::from("/tmp/b");
let bases = vec![a.clone(), b];
assert!(is_inside_any_base(&a.join("x.md"), &bases));
assert!(is_inside_any_base(&a.join("nested/x.md"), &bases));
assert!(!is_inside_any_base(Path::new("/tmp/other/x.md"), &bases));
}
/// Phase B.5 audit regression (2026-05-14). The Trust-1 fix
/// canonicalised only the parent of the target path because the file
/// typically does not exist yet. But if a symlink ALREADY exists at
/// the target path pointing outside the allowlisted base,
/// `tokio::fs::write` follows it on `File::create -> open(2)` and
/// silently writes through to the outside target. The path-string
/// containment check passed because the SYMLINK lives inside the
/// base, even though the symlink's target does not.
///
/// The fix canonicalises the full path when it exists (so the
/// symlink resolves before the containment check) and only falls
/// back to parent-canonicalize on NotFound. This regression test
/// pins that contract.
#[cfg(unix)]
#[test]
fn rejects_symlink_target_outside_allowlist() {
let (_keep_base, base) = tempdir_canon("base");
let (_keep_out, outside) = tempdir_canon("outside");
// Real, writable file outside the base — the symlink target.
let outside_target = outside.join("victim.txt");
std::fs::write(&outside_target, b"original").expect("seed outside target");
// Inside-base symlink pointing to the outside file.
let symlink_path = base.join("notes.md");
std::os::unix::fs::symlink(&outside_target, &symlink_path)
.expect("create symlink inside base pointing outside");
let bases = vec![base.clone()];
let result = resolve_export_path(&symlink_path, &bases);
assert!(
result.is_err(),
"symlink target outside allowlist must be rejected, got {result:?}"
);
let err = result.err().unwrap();
assert!(
err.contains("outside the allowed export directories"),
"unexpected error shape: {err}"
);
}
/// Symmetric to the rejection above: a symlink whose target stays
/// inside the same base must still be accepted, so legitimate users
/// of in-base symlinks (e.g. a tilde-expansion alias inside the base)
/// are not regressed.
#[cfg(unix)]
#[test]
fn accepts_symlink_target_inside_allowlist() {
let (_keep, base) = tempdir_canon("base");
let real_path = base.join("real.md");
std::fs::write(&real_path, b"original").expect("seed real target");
let symlink_path = base.join("alias.md");
std::os::unix::fs::symlink(&real_path, &symlink_path)
.expect("create in-base alias symlink");
let bases = vec![base.clone()];
let resolved = resolve_export_path(&symlink_path, &bases)
.expect("in-base symlink must resolve and pass");
assert!(resolved.starts_with(&base));
}
}