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

To: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xend listening for TCP HTTP?
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:48:35 -0600
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Nivedita Singhvi wrote:

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?

Yup.

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)

Yup.  This was added in:

# HG changeset patch
# User emellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
# Node ID cefe36be8592090b4edb08060cca67a004c04617
# Parent  4d49f61a7feef3fca5fb3e991a5a1d741b6cd690
Tidy xend-config.sxp, removing entries that haven't been used since the
hotplugging stuff was introduced (block-*, console-port-base, console-address)
and introducing entries for options that have been present for ages
(xend-{http,unix,relocation}-server, xend-unix-path, xend-relocation-address,
enable-dump).  Remove vif-antispoof, as Vifctl no longer passes this option
down.

I imagine it was unintentional.  Ewan?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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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