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[PATCH v2 10/12] clone: drop the protections where hooks aren't run

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 24, 2024, 19:47 UTC
Message-ID
<20240524194715.695916-11-gitster@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To
<20240524194715.695916-1-gitster@pobox.com>
From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

As part of the security bug-fix releases v2.39.4, ..., v2.45.1, I introduced logic to safeguard `git clone` from running hooks that were installed _during_ the clone operation.

The rationale was that Git's CVE-2024-32002, CVE-2021-21300, CVE-2019-1354, CVE-2019-1353, CVE-2019-1352, and CVE-2019-1349 should have been low-severity vulnerabilities but were elevated to critical/high severity by the attack vector that allows a weakness where files inside `.git/` can be inadvertently written during a `git clone` to escalate to a Remote Code Execution attack by virtue of installing a malicious `post-checkout` hook that Git will then run at the end of the operation without giving the user a chance to see what code is executed.

Unfortunately, Git LFS uses a similar strategy to install its own `post-checkout` hook during a `git clone`; In fact, Git LFS is installing four separate hooks while running the `smudge` filter.

While this pattern is probably in want of being improved by introducing better support in Git for Git LFS and other tools wishing to register hooks to be run at various stages of Git's commands, let's undo the clone protections to unbreak Git LFS-enabled clones.

This reverts commit 8db1e8743c0 (clone: prevent hooks from running during a clone, 2024-03-28).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 builtin/clone.c  | 12 +-----------
 hook.c           | 34 --------------------------------
 t/t5601-clone.sh | 51 ------------------------------------------------
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 96 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
index e7721f5c22..9ec500d427 100644
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -937,8 +937,6 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	int err = 0, complete_refs_before_fetch = 1;
 	int submodule_progress;
 	int filter_submodules = 0;
-	const char *template_dir;
-	char *template_dir_dup = NULL;
 
 	struct transport_ls_refs_options transport_ls_refs_options =
 		TRANSPORT_LS_REFS_OPTIONS_INIT;
@@ -958,13 +956,6 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		usage_msg_opt(_("You must specify a repository to clone."),
 			builtin_clone_usage, builtin_clone_options);
 
-	xsetenv("GIT_CLONE_PROTECTION_ACTIVE", "true", 0 /* allow user override */);
-	template_dir = get_template_dir(option_template);
-	if (*template_dir && !is_absolute_path(template_dir))
-		template_dir = template_dir_dup =
-			absolute_pathdup(template_dir);
-	xsetenv("GIT_CLONE_TEMPLATE_DIR", template_dir, 1);
-
 	if (option_depth || option_since || option_not.nr)
 		deepen = 1;
 	if (option_single_branch == -1)
@@ -1112,7 +1103,7 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		}
 	}
 
-	init_db(git_dir, real_git_dir, template_dir, GIT_HASH_UNKNOWN, NULL,
+	init_db(git_dir, real_git_dir, option_template, GIT_HASH_UNKNOWN, NULL,
 		INIT_DB_QUIET);
 
 	if (real_git_dir) {
@@ -1430,7 +1421,6 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	free(unborn_head);
 	free(dir);
 	free(path);
-	free(template_dir_dup);
 	UNLEAK(repo);
 	junk_mode = JUNK_LEAVE_ALL;
 
diff --git a/hook.c b/hook.c
index fc974cee1d..22b274b60b 100644
--- a/hook.c
+++ b/hook.c
@@ -3,32 +3,6 @@
 #include "run-command.h"
 #include "config.h"
 
-static int identical_to_template_hook(const char *name, const char *path)
-{
-	const char *env = getenv("GIT_CLONE_TEMPLATE_DIR");
-	const char *template_dir = get_template_dir(env && *env ? env : NULL);
-	struct strbuf template_path = STRBUF_INIT;
-	int found_template_hook, ret;
-
-	strbuf_addf(&template_path, "%s/hooks/%s", template_dir, name);
-	found_template_hook = access(template_path.buf, X_OK) >= 0;
-#ifdef STRIP_EXTENSION
-	if (!found_template_hook) {
-		strbuf_addstr(&template_path, STRIP_EXTENSION);
-		found_template_hook = access(template_path.buf, X_OK) >= 0;
-	}
-#endif
-	if (!found_template_hook) {
-		strbuf_release(&template_path);
-		return 0;
-	}
-
-	ret = do_files_match(template_path.buf, path);
-
-	strbuf_release(&template_path);
-	return ret;
-}
-
 const char *find_hook(const char *name)
 {
 	static struct strbuf path = STRBUF_INIT;
@@ -64,14 +38,6 @@ const char *find_hook(const char *name)
 		}
 		return NULL;
 	}
-	if (!git_hooks_path && git_env_bool("GIT_CLONE_PROTECTION_ACTIVE", 0) &&
-	    !identical_to_template_hook(name, path.buf))
-		die(_("active `%s` hook found during `git clone`:\n\t%s\n"
-		      "For security reasons, this is disallowed by default.\n"
-		      "If this is intentional and the hook should actually "
-		      "be run, please\nrun the command again with "
-		      "`GIT_CLONE_PROTECTION_ACTIVE=false`"),
-		    name, path.buf);
 	return path.buf;
 }
 
diff --git a/t/t5601-clone.sh b/t/t5601-clone.sh
index 20deca0231..fd02984330 100755
--- a/t/t5601-clone.sh
+++ b/t/t5601-clone.sh
@@ -771,57 +771,6 @@ test_expect_success 'batch missing blob request does not inadvertently try to fe
 	git clone --filter=blob:limit=0 "file://$(pwd)/server" client
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'clone with init.templatedir runs hooks' '
-	git init tmpl/hooks &&
-	write_script tmpl/hooks/post-checkout <<-EOF &&
-	echo HOOK-RUN >&2
-	echo I was here >hook.run
-	EOF
-	git -C tmpl/hooks add . &&
-	test_tick &&
-	git -C tmpl/hooks commit -m post-checkout &&
-
-	test_when_finished "git config --global --unset init.templateDir || :" &&
-	test_when_finished "git config --unset init.templateDir || :" &&
-	(
-		sane_unset GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR &&
-		NO_SET_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=t &&
-		export NO_SET_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR &&
-
-		git -c core.hooksPath="$(pwd)/tmpl/hooks" \
-			clone tmpl/hooks hook-run-hookspath 2>err &&
-		! grep "active .* hook found" err &&
-		test_path_is_file hook-run-hookspath/hook.run &&
-
-		git -c init.templateDir="$(pwd)/tmpl" \
-			clone tmpl/hooks hook-run-config 2>err &&
-		! grep "active .* hook found" err &&
-		test_path_is_file hook-run-config/hook.run &&
-
-		git clone --template=tmpl tmpl/hooks hook-run-option 2>err &&
-		! grep "active .* hook found" err &&
-		test_path_is_file hook-run-option/hook.run &&
-
-		git config --global init.templateDir "$(pwd)/tmpl" &&
-		git clone tmpl/hooks hook-run-global-config 2>err &&
-		git config --global --unset init.templateDir &&
-		! grep "active .* hook found" err &&
-		test_path_is_file hook-run-global-config/hook.run &&
-
-		# clone ignores local `init.templateDir`; need to create
-		# a new repository because we deleted `.git/` in the
-		# `setup` test case above
-		git init local-clone &&
-		cd local-clone &&
-
-		git config init.templateDir "$(pwd)/../tmpl" &&
-		git clone ../tmpl/hooks hook-run-local-config 2>err &&
-		git config --unset init.templateDir &&
-		! grep "active .* hook found" err &&
-		test_path_is_missing hook-run-local-config/hook.run
-	)
-'
-
 . "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-httpd.sh
 start_httpd
 
-- 
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  9. 08/12 Revert "core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning"Junio C Hamano, May 24, 2024
  10. 09/12 tests: verify that `clone -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null` works againJunio C Hamano, May 24, 2024
  11. 10/12 clone: drop the protections where hooks aren't runJunio C Hamano, May 24, 2024
  12. 11/12 Revert "Add a helper function to compare file contents"Junio C Hamano, May 24, 2024
  13. 12/12 Revert "fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir"Junio C Hamano, May 24, 2024

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