Stop server-provided values from reaching a shell or escaping /dsc/seafile

Commands were joined into a string and passed to "su -c", so a login shell
parsed every interpolated value. A library name is chosen on the server, and
"sync -d /dsc/seafile/<name>" put it straight into that string: a library
named 'Docs; touch /tmp/pwned; #' ran as an arbitrary command. Confirmed
against the built image before and after this change.

Every command is now an argument list executed by "runuser --", which execs
directly with no shell. runuser -u sets the same HOME and a PATH that still
finds the seaf-cli wrapper, so the daemon environment is unchanged.

The password no longer needs its surrounding quotes, which also fixes
passwords containing quotes, dollar signs, and backticks.

Library names are untrusted, so dsc/paths.py reduces each one to a single
path component and proves the result stays under the libraries directory
with symlinks resolved. Empty, ".", "..", and names containing a separator
are skipped with a warning; names that would collide are suffixed with their
library ID rather than sharing a directory.

Tests cover quotes, command substitutions, separators, newlines, absolute
paths, parent traversal, Unicode, and colliding names. They run in a separate
CI job so application failures stay distinguishable from packaging failures.
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Maxim Shulga committed 2026-08-02 16:53:19 -07:00
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@@ -40,6 +40,21 @@ def create_dir(dir_path: str):
raise RuntimeError(f"Data dir {dir_path} is not a directory")
def user_cmd(argv: list) -> list:
"""
Wrap a command so that it runs as the seafile user.
``runuser --`` execs the command directly. ``su -c`` would hand it to a
login shell instead, which turns every server-provided value in the
command into shell code. Like ``su``, ``runuser`` sets HOME, USER and a
default PATH for the target user, so seaf-cli still finds its config and
its own wrapper.
"""
if not isinstance(argv, list):
raise TypeError(f"Command must be a list of arguments, got {type(argv).__name__}")
return ["runuser", "-u", DEFAULT_USERNAME, "--"] + argv
def hide_password(cmd: list, password: str) -> list:
cmd = cmd.copy()
for i, arg in enumerate(cmd):