Pavo
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Pavo wraps other programs with unveil & pledge.
Note: This is still a work in progress, just the progress is very slow. I still think this is a neat idea, will complete this someday.
Note: Someone made this & posted it on misc@
.
[ANNOUNCE] pledge(1): an unprivileged sandboxing tool for OpenBSD https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=160070752916257&w=2
Project Home | Pavo |
Source Code | Andinus / Pavo |
GitHub (Mirror) | Pavo - GitHub |
Tested on:
- OpenBSD 6.6 amd64
Note: This program has only been tested to work with echo, it fails with many other commands.
Working
- Pavo parses the config file
- Directories & commands are unveiled
- Execpromises are added
- Unveil calls are blocked
- Command is executed
How is it useful?
Let's take echo
as an example. echo
's job is to echo what you pass to
it. It should never touch your $HOME/.ssh
, let's say the next echo
update is malicious & it tries to send your $HOME/.ssh
to the attacker's
servers. It will be able to do that but not if you wrap it around pavo.
pavo echo
will parse the config & force unveil & pledge on the malicious
echo
, it won't be able to read your $HOME/.ssh
directory if it isn't
present in pavo's config. Also uploading the file to the internet will
kill the program immediately.
This assumes that pavo's config file is secure in the first place, if it
isn't then the attacker could simply change it. Also, echo
is a bad
example for this.
Let's take another example. Let's say you want to run a binary
downloaded from the internet, you kinda trust that person (you don't) &
they say that the binary is a simple ascii game & will just print to
terminal, do nothing else. You could wrap this binary around pavo before
running it & give it limited permissions, like don't unveil anything &
put only stdio
in execpromises.
If that binary tries to do anything apart from stdio
the program will be
killed.
- Pavo's config file should be unwriteable at rest
- The config file should only be writeable by the user
Installation
Pre-built binaries
Pre-built binaries are available for OpenBSD (386, amd64, arm, arm64).
Example config file can be downloaded here.
v0.1.0
Download the binaries from archive.org
Example URL: https://archive.org/download/pavo-v0.1.0/pavo-v0.1.0-openbsd-386
Arch | SHA256 |
---|---|
386 | 926d6009567fec6c270eea16d380b58f396be6f1d51d513ff0e43286760f4fa9 |
amd64 | b0fadad9e0328377b31eb70d369a0e2b91f851310e579abab4023496776798ca |
arm | 0033409f32569c2f59879bb256854b7c6f1043ebf3fe548c7ee4d9b7132839ea |
arm64 | b75648c5a3b76d51cad63172ec164eff4974a6a4cca453fe41441d556fa04a07 |