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Re: [Xen-devel] Xend listening for TCP HTTP?

To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xend listening for TCP HTTP?
From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:43:20 -0800
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
Ok, I confirmed this, out of the box, accessing http://localhost:8000/xen/domain as a lesser-privileged user allows one to do very bad things.

Anthony, were you using the default xend-config.sxp?

Currently, although the default is off for http support
in xend, the default config file turns it on:

#(xend-http-server no)
(xend-http-server yes)

Note that it is restricted to local users, though:

# Address xend should listen on for HTTP connections, if xend-http-server is
# set.
# Specifying 'localhost' prevents remote connections.
# Specifying the empty string '' (the default) allows all connections.
#(xend-address '')
(xend-address localhost)

I'm about to submit a patch to turn this off in the default
file that's installed, as it's generally the case that most
people won't change it...

thanks,
Nivedita

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Anthony Liguori wrote:

Hi,

On IRC, it came up that recent snapshots of Xend are now listening for TCP HTTP connections again by default. Since it's still listening on a Unix socket and xm will always prefer that, xm still only functions as root.

However, less privileged users can still connect to the TCP port and through Xend gain root access. This seems like a pretty bad default configuration. I poked around on the TCP interface but couldn't seem to confirm this (does it only accept s-expression Content-Type now?).

Thanks for any clarification on this.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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