]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/openvpn.git/commitdiff
Harden interactive service pipe
authorSelva Nair <selva.nair@gmail.com>
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:53:06 +0000 (17:53 +0100)
committerGert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:34:51 +0000 (18:34 +0100)
- Append a version 4 uuid to ovpn_pipe_name to make it less
  predictable
- Do not allow remote access to the pipe

This greatly reduces the possibility of a rogue process racing to
open the pipe before CreateFile() is called in the worker thread.

Reported-by: Marc Heuse <marc@srlabs.de>
Change-Id: Ie66a142751354e421d48b273784fc79bcb9f7208
Signed-off-by: Selva Nair <selva.nair@gmail.com>
Gerrit URL: https://gerrit.openvpn.net/c/openvpn/+/1396
Message-Id: <20251124165311.14859-1-gert@greenie.muc.de>
URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg34638.html
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
src/openvpnserv/interactive.c

index 07ca7c942e3375ace4f26392b036d8ddbbf4310c..afa80474eca33d12ab7d69b5c138d046df91e181 100644 (file)
@@ -3397,12 +3397,29 @@ RunOpenvpn(LPVOID p)
         goto out;
     }
 
+    UUID pipe_uuid;
+    RPC_STATUS rpc_stat = UuidCreate(&pipe_uuid);
+    if (rpc_stat != RPC_S_OK)
+    {
+        ReturnError(pipe, rpc_stat, L"UuidCreate", 1, &exit_event);
+        goto out;
+    }
+
+    RPC_WSTR pipe_uuid_str = NULL;
+    rpc_stat = UuidToStringW(&pipe_uuid, &pipe_uuid_str);
+    if (rpc_stat != RPC_S_OK)
+    {
+        ReturnError(pipe, rpc_stat, L"UuidToString", 1, &exit_event);
+        goto out;
+    }
     swprintf(ovpn_pipe_name, _countof(ovpn_pipe_name),
-             L"\\\\.\\pipe\\" _L(PACKAGE) L"%ls\\service_%lu", service_instance,
-             GetCurrentThreadId());
+             L"\\\\.\\pipe\\" _L(PACKAGE) L"%ls\\service_%lu_%ls", service_instance,
+             GetCurrentThreadId(), pipe_uuid_str);
+    RpcStringFree(&pipe_uuid_str);
+
     ovpn_pipe = CreateNamedPipe(
         ovpn_pipe_name, PIPE_ACCESS_DUPLEX | FILE_FLAG_FIRST_PIPE_INSTANCE | FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED,
-        PIPE_TYPE_MESSAGE | PIPE_READMODE_MESSAGE | PIPE_WAIT, 1, 128, 128, 0, NULL);
+        PIPE_TYPE_MESSAGE | PIPE_READMODE_MESSAGE | PIPE_WAIT | PIPE_REJECT_REMOTE_CLIENTS, 1, 128, 128, 0, NULL);
     if (ovpn_pipe == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
     {
         ReturnLastError(pipe, L"CreateNamedPipe");