tailscale/ipn
Harry Harpham fa542426e5 ipn,ipn/localapi: require local admin to serve Unix domain sockets
This resolves a local privilege escalation (LPE). Prior to this change,
a non-admin user could utilize serve to access local Unix sockets they
otherwise should not be able to access. For example,

  tailscale serve --http 80 unix:/var/run/docker.sock

would give the user access to the Docker socket (usually root only).
This works because tailscaled has root access and implements the proxy
to the socket (see also: 'the confused deputy problem').

We resolve the problem by refusing to serve Unix targets altogether
unless instructed to by a root user.

Thanks to Tim Sageser (dtrsecurity) for this report.

Fixes tailscale/corp#41998

Signed-off-by: Harry Harpham <harry@tailscale.com>
2026-06-03 09:45:02 -06:00
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auditlog all: use Go 1.26 things, run most gofix modernizers 2026-03-06 13:32:03 -08:00
conffile all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
desktop ipn/desktop: use runtime.Pinner to force heap-allocation of msg 2026-04-07 12:55:11 -05:00
ipnauth all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
ipnext net/routecheck: introduce new package for checking peer reachability (#19639) 2026-06-01 10:33:08 -07:00
ipnlocal ipn/ipnlocal: add back a watchdog after earlier removal from engine 2026-06-02 11:57:12 -07:00
ipnserver ipn/ipnserver: use peercreds for actor.Username on freebsd (for Taildrive) 2026-03-24 20:35:56 -07:00
ipnstate all: update a few more references to network/tailnet lock 2026-05-28 16:44:16 +01:00
lapitest types/ptr: deprecate ptr.To, use Go 1.26 new 2026-03-05 20:13:18 -08:00
localapi ipn,ipn/localapi: require local admin to serve Unix domain sockets 2026-06-03 09:45:02 -06:00
policy all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
store ipn/store: make WriteState(id, nil) delete key instead of adding nil entry (#19920) 2026-05-29 11:22:14 -07:00
backend_test.go all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
backend.go cmd/containerboot: track peers from IPN bus updates, stop using netmap.NetworkMap 2026-05-27 14:12:48 -07:00
conf_test.go ipn: reject advertised routes with non-address bits set (#18649) 2026-03-20 10:10:43 -07:00
conf.go ipn: fix the typo causing NoSNAT always set to true (#19110) 2026-03-24 16:41:58 -04:00
doc.go all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
ipn_clone.go tailcfg: reintroduce UserProfile.Groups 2026-03-09 11:08:45 +00:00
ipn_test.go all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
ipn_view.go tailcfg: reintroduce UserProfile.Groups 2026-03-09 11:08:45 +00:00
prefs_test.go ipn: improve --exit-node hostname error during startup 2026-05-28 16:43:45 +01:00
prefs.go ipn: improve --exit-node hostname error during startup 2026-05-28 16:43:45 +01:00
serve_expand_test.go all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
serve_test.go ipn,ipn/localapi: require local admin to serve Unix domain sockets 2026-06-03 09:45:02 -06:00
serve.go ipn,ipn/localapi: require local admin to serve Unix domain sockets 2026-06-03 09:45:02 -06:00
store_test.go all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
store.go ipn/store: make WriteState(id, nil) delete key instead of adding nil entry (#19920) 2026-05-29 11:22:14 -07:00