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sec(config): harden security validations for sysctl keys, env vars, mounts, and devices - #685

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This change hardens configuration and path security validations in internal/config:

  1. ValidateSysctlKey in internal/config/path.go now explicitly rejects sysctl keys with leading, trailing, or consecutive dots.
  2. validateEnvSecurity in internal/config/resolver_validation.go validates environment variable values against non-printable ASCII control characters.
  3. sensitiveMountPaths includes /root to warn users when mounting sensitive host root directory locations into containers.
  4. isHighlySensitiveDevice detects raw physical and virtual disk devices (/dev/hd*, /dev/xvd*, /dev/mmcblk*, /dev/sg*).
  5. validateSecurity emits warnings when relaxed or disabled security option profiles (seccomp=unconfined, apparmor=unconfined, label=disable, systempaths=unconfined, no-new-privileges=false) are specified.
  6. Comprehensive unit test coverage is provided in internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go.

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  • Security Enhancements
    • Added validation warnings for sensitive /root mounts and disk devices.
    • Added warnings for relaxed security settings, including unconfined profiles and disabled protections.
    • Rejected environment values containing unsupported control characters.
    • Strengthened sysctl key format validation to reject malformed dot usage.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for the enhanced security and configuration validation rules.

…ounts, and devices

- Validate sysctl keys against leading, trailing, or consecutive dots in ValidateSysctlKey.
- Reject ASCII control characters in environment variable values within validateEnvSecurity.
- Add /root to sensitiveMountPaths to emit warnings when mounting host root directories.
- Expand isHighlySensitiveDevice to detect raw disk and SCSI generic devices (/dev/hd*, /dev/xvd*, /dev/mmcblk*, /dev/sg*).
- Emit security warnings when relaxed or unconfined security options (e.g., seccomp=unconfined, label=disable) are passed.
- Add comprehensive test coverage in internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go.

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The configuration validators now detect more sensitive host resources, relaxed security settings, invalid environment control characters, and malformed sysctl key separators. Tests cover warnings, validation errors, and accepted inputs.

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Security validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sensitive resource and security-option warnings
internal/config/resolver_validation.go, internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go
Validation warns for /root mounts, additional sensitive device prefixes, and relaxed security options. Tests verify warnings without validation failure.
Environment control-character validation
internal/config/resolver_validation.go, internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go
Environment values reject disallowed Unicode control characters. Tests verify the indexed validation error.
Sysctl key format validation
internal/config/path.go, internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go
Sysctl keys reject leading, trailing, or consecutive dots. Tests cover valid and invalid keys.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c10d5

The security validation changes are localized, but the current head still reports lint failures in the added test and has a bounded test-isolation risk from shared logger state, which can block CI or produce order-dependent results; merge should wait for these issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

Possibly related PRs

  • Tei1988/cderun#578: Both changes modify sensitive device detection and security-warning validation.
  • Tei1988/cderun#646: Both changes extend ValidateSysctlKey and security validation logic.
  • Tei1988/cderun#638: Both changes modify environment-value and sysctl-key validation in internal/config.
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internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go (1)

103-117: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

@jules Assert the reported environment value index.

The PR contract requires the error to report the affected value index. The current assertion only checks generic text. A regression that removes or hard-codes the index will pass.

Add a valid first value, make the invalid value env[1], and assert that the error contains env[1].

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In `@internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go` around lines
103 - 117, The env value control-character test should verify the reported
index, not just the generic error text. Update the ResolvedConfig.Env fixture in
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In `@internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go`:
- Around line 121-123: In the ValidateSysctlKey validation tests, replace the
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In `@internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go`:
- Around line 103-117: The env value control-character test should verify the
reported index, not just the generic error text. Update the ResolvedConfig.Env
fixture in the env value control character rejection test to include a valid
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- Update env value control-character rejection test fixture to include a valid initial value GOOD_VAR=ok and verify that the error reports index env[1].
- Update ValidateSysctlKey malformed input tests to use require.Error instead of assert.Error.

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internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go (1)

16-21: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

@jules Restore the global logger state in each subtest.

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- Snapshot global logger state (writer, level, format, timestamp) in setupTestLogger helper.
- Restore global logger state using t.Cleanup with require.NoError checks to prevent test state leakage across subtests.

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