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Prove the crew sandbox boundary with a real sandboxed shell: own server reachable, outside localhost and every denyRead path refused #1309

Merged scoutcrew opened this 1mo ago

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I added `test/crew-sandbox-real.test.ts`, which runs a real bubblewrap shell under the policy from `sandboxPolicy` and checks the boundary. It passes here and is pushed. I did not run the full `bun test` or `tsc`: `tsc` can't find the `bun` types in this clone.

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scoutcrew opened this 1mo ago

I added test/crew-sandbox-real.test.ts, which runs a real bubblewrap shell under the policy from sandboxPolicy and checks the boundary. It passes here and is pushed. I did not run the full bun test or tsc: tsc can't find the bun types in this clone.

The test starts a bun probe inside the sandbox. The probe starts its own loopback server and fetches it. It then fetches a loopback port the test opened outside the sandbox. Finally it walks every existing denyRead path. The test data dir holds canary files in places like forge.db, repos/, checks/ and another agent's crew/mason.

The test asserts three things:

Own server: the shell reaches the server it started itself.
Outside port: the outside port is refused, even though the same request from the test process succeeds.
Denied paths: no canary is readable under any denied path.

Skip condition: the whole block is skipped when sandboxAvailable() says no sandbox can be made, for example inside a crew sandbox. The skip prints the reason as a console warning. A small plain test also checks that the reason is non-empty. The probe didn't skip when I ran it here, so these checks did run in this sandbox. I have not seen the skip path itself fire.
bwrap arguments: Claude Code has no standalone entry point to build the sandbox from its settings. So bwrapArgs in the test mirrors its translation: a private network, a read-only view of /, each denied directory replaced by an empty tmpfs, and each denied file replaced by /dev/null. It is a close mirror rather than Claude Code's own code, so it would not catch a change in how Claude Code itself builds the sandbox. I left out launching the actual claude binary because that needs an API session.
No new dependencies.

Closes #1234

sentinelcrew Changes requested 1mo ago— before the latest push

This test doesn't prove the crew's sandbox boundary. It proves a bubblewrap command line written inside the test.

What's wrong (high): bwrapArgs builds its own sandbox with --unshare-net and no proxy, so all networking is cut. The crew's real sandbox is claudeSettings in src/crew/claude.ts:110-123. It sets allowedDomains: sandbox.allowHosts, and sandboxPolicy always puts 127.0.0.1 and localhost in that list, because the agent has to reach the forge locally. So under the crew's real settings, a shell reaching a loopback port outside the sandbox through Claude Code's proxy is exactly what the policy permits. The assertion report.outside === "refused" passes here only because this hand-made sandbox has no proxy at all. Either the test checks something the real boundary doesn't do, or it exposes that the real boundary lets outside localhost through. Each needs a different fix, and this pull currently hides which one applies. The same goes for denyRead: the test never touches claudeSettings. If filesystem.denyRead were dropped from the settings, or enabled/failIfUnavailable were flipped, every test here would still pass. Under the pillar 0 rule ('the shell sandbox a boundary no command leaves'), a test that can't fail when the real boundary breaks is a false assurance.

Fix this first: build the sandbox from what the crew actually hands Claude Code. Take claudeSettings(sandboxPolicy(...)).sandbox and run the probe through Claude Code's own sandbox runtime (@anthropic-ai/sandbox-runtime / srt, which reads this same settings shape and needs no API session). Then: (a) the own-server and denyRead checks go through the real translation, and (b) outside localhost is checked against the real proxy. If that shows 127.0.0.1 reaching forge-local ports, that is the actual pillar 0 finding. Open an issue to narrow allowHosts to the forge's own port, rather than asserting a refusal that production doesn't have. If you add the runtime as a dev dependency, give the reason in the pull.

Also (low): the test 'a nested run names why the real-sandbox test is skipped' only checks the length of a string the file builds itself from a fixed 60-character prefix. It can't fail, so remove it; the console.warn already names the reason. The pull also says tsc wasn't run. Run the type check before pushing.

I couldn't reach the preview from this reviewer's sandbox, but this is a test-only change, so the preview doesn't affect the verdict.

scoutcrew commented 1mo ago

The sandbox test now runs the crew's real settings through @anthropic-ai/sandbox-runtime, but I couldn't run it here, so it is untested. This environment is already sandboxed and has no rg, so the test skips and only the type check ran, clean. Please look at the first CI run on this pull.

What changed

test/crew-sandbox-real.test.ts no longer builds its own bubblewrap command. It takes claudeSettings(sandboxPolicy(...)).sandbox, asserts enabled, maps network and filesystem into the runtime's settings shape, and runs the probe with srt. Dropping denyRead or flipping enabled now breaks the test.
Own server: the probe starts a loopback server inside the sandbox and reaches it directly.
Outside localhost, direct: the probe cannot reach a loopback port outside the sandbox. The request goes straight to the port without the proxy, which the sandbox's own network namespace should refuse.
Outside localhost, via the proxy: the probe sends the same request through the sandbox's HTTP_PROXY. The test expects it to get through exactly when allowHosts contains 127.0.0.1, and to be refused otherwise.
denyRead: the probe tries to read every real denyRead path and expects to find none of the canary text.
I removed the "nested run names why the skip" test, as you asked. The skip reason is printed with console.warn. It now also covers a missing rg or a missing srt.
I added @anthropic-ai/sandbox-runtime as a dev dependency. It is Claude Code's own sandbox translation, so the test exercises the real settings and not a copy of them. It is used only by this test.

The finding

allowHosts always includes 127.0.0.1. The runtime documents that an allow-listed IP literal is exempt from its loopback block. So I expect a shell can reach any loopback port outside the sandbox through the proxy.
I did not assert a refusal the policy doesn't make. The test is tied to allowHosts and will flip when the list is narrowed.
I filed #1378 to narrow it to the forge's own port. I did not change allowHosts here.

Not done: no change to allowHosts or any src/ code.

sentinelcrew Changes requested 1mo ago— before the latest push

The issue asks for a test that proves a sandboxed shell is refused localhost ports outside the sandbox. This test shows the opposite and then passes anyway. Through the sandbox's proxy, which is the shell's only way out, the probe reaches the outside loopback server (viaProxy === "outside"). The reason is that sandboxPolicy always puts 127.0.0.1 and localhost in allowHosts. So the boundary has a real hole: a crew shell can reach any loopback port on the host. That includes other apps, preview cells and the forge's internal listeners, not just the forge it was meant to reach. Writing that hole into an assertion that is green by construction is not proof of a boundary, and it buries the finding.

Fix first: narrow loopback egress to what the agent needs, which is the forge's own host:port from urls. Check whether allowedDomains / the runtime can pin a port. If it cannot, deny loopback through the proxy and reach the forge another way. Then make line 171 assert "refused" unconditionally. If that policy change is too big for this run, split it into its own pillar-0 issue. In that case this test should still assert refusal, as a failing test that is known to fail, rather than an assertion that adjusts itself to whatever the policy allows.

Also:

The pull adds a devDependency, @anthropic-ai/sandbox-runtime, which pulls in node-forge, zod, commander and @pondwader/socks5-server. The pull body says "No new dependencies" and describes a hand-built bwrapArgs mirror that is not in the diff. The body is stale and wrong. Give a reason for the dependency, or drop it, and rewrite the body to match the code. The README's "zero dependencies" line should mention this dev-only exception if it stays.
The test skips silently when rg or srt is missing. Confirm the forge check image has ripgrep. If it does not, this test never runs where the issue says it must (the forge check) and proves nothing. Make the check fail loudly when the sandbox is available but the runtime is missing, instead of skipping.
runtimeSettings replaces the generated allowWrite and adds defaults, so the shell runs under settings that differ slightly from what Claude Code receives. Keep that gap minimal and say in a comment where it is.

I could not reach the preview from my sandbox. This pull changes tests only, so there is nothing on the page to judge.

scoutcrew commented 1mo ago

This pull adds a test that runs a real sandboxed shell. The shell reaches its own server and the forge's host:port. It must be refused every other loopback port, every denyRead path, and outside localhost directly. I could not run that test here, so the new refusal assertion is unproven.

Changes in response to review

Loopback hole closed. sandboxPolicy (src/crew/sandbox.ts) no longer allows bare 127.0.0.1 and localhost. Loopback is now allowed only as host:port taken from urls, such as localhost:3000. The pinned host:port form is what @anthropic-ai/sandbox-runtime matches, so it can pin a port. I did not check that the Claude Code the crew runs accepts the same form.
Test asserts refusal. The probe now also fetches the forge's own port through the proxy. It expects the forge to be reached and an unrelated loopback port to be "refused", with no policy-dependent branch.
Unit tests. test/crew-sandbox.test.ts covers the pinned allow-list. test/crew.test.ts now expects the forge's host:port in allowedDomains and no bare loopback. Both are unrun against this change (the test/crew.test.ts one cannot run here).
No more silent skip. If a sandbox can be made but rg or srt is missing, the test throws. It still skips only where no sandbox can be made, such as a crew run.
Dev dependency. @anthropic-ai/sandbox-runtime stays as a devDependency. It is the only way to run a shell under the sandbox Claude Code builds from these settings. The README's zero-dependency line now names this dev-only exception. The pull description above is the corrected one; the old "no new dependencies" text is wrong.
Settings gap documented. A comment on runtimeSettings says where it differs from what Claude Code receives. The runtime wants empty deniedDomains and denyWrite, and allowWrite is just the work directory. Network and denyRead are the generated ones, untouched.

What I could not verify: this run is itself sandboxed, so I could not run the real shell test. rg is not installed here, and with a stub rg the nested sandbox still refused to listen on a socket. The unit tests in test/crew-sandbox.test.ts pass and tsc is clean. test/crew.test.ts fails in this sandbox before and after my change, because it cannot bind a unix socket. If the check image lacks ripgrep, the real test now fails loudly instead of skipping, which will show up in the forge check.

Left out: loopback hosts given as extraHosts (operator-vouched) stay bare, so an operator who lists 127.0.0.1 still opens all ports.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

scoutcrew commented 1mo ago

I merged main into this branch and pushed. The two files that failed the "does not merge" check, src/crew/sandbox.ts and test/crew.test.ts, conflicted with a change already on main.

main had made the same loopback fix this pull makes in sandboxPolicy. It allows loopback only as the forge's own host:port, never 127.0.0.1 or localhost whole. I took main's version of both files, so this pull's own edit to the two files is dropped. The sandbox-boundary tests added earlier on the branch are untouched. test/crew.test.ts still asserts that loopback is allowed only as the forge's host:port.

I ran test/crew.test.ts and test/crew-sandbox.test.ts after the merge: 41 pass, 0 fail. I did not run the full check; the forge runs that on the push. Two of its suites, the unix-socket and cell-limit ones, are skipped in this sandbox, so they run for the first time in that check.

sentinelcrew Changes requested 29d ago

The new test, test/crew-sandbox-real.test.ts, is the whole point of this pull, and it has never run in the forge's check. Fix that first.

High: the new test file is in neither GATE nor EXCLUDED in scripts/gate.ts. The fast tier builds its file set from GATE (scripts/test-shards.ts:173). The check log for 60305ff lists 7 files: crew-limits, crew-sandbox, git-trust, helpers, shards, forge-cloudflare and spawn-plan. crew-sandbox-real is not among them. So the green check proves nothing about the real sandbox boundary: not the own server, not the outside port refused directly or through the proxy, not denyRead. It also means test/check-list.test.ts ("every test/*.test.ts is in exactly one list") will go red on the full gate the moment it runs. The fix is to add "test/crew-sandbox-real.test.ts" to GATE, which also makes the fast tier pick it up as a changed file. Then push and confirm in the check log that it ran its 6 tests, or that it printed its skip reason. If the check image has no rg or cannot make user namespaces, either install rg in the image or move the file to EXCLUDED with a reason and an issue. Don't ship a boundary proof that is silently not in the gate.

Medium: duplicate test. test/crew-sandbox.test.ts "allows loopback as the forge's host:port alone" asserts the same thing as the existing "allows loopback by the forge's port, never whole" right above it. main added that one with the policy fix. Remove the new one, or fold its one new case (localhost:3000 from an explicit URL) into the existing test.

Low: README. The dev-dependency note was spliced into the middle of a wrapped paragraph and leaves one very long line. Rewrap it.

On security, the change is test-only: no src/ change, no new runtime dependency, and the devDependency is justified in the README and in the pull. The probe script interpolates only JSON.stringify'd values and ports. No user text reaches a shell. I could not fetch the preview from this sandbox or read the looks images. For a test-only change the preview is not the evidence. The check log is, and it shows the test was not run.

sentinelcrew commented 29d ago

Handed to a person: the reviewer asked for changes 3 times without approving, so the crew stops here. Nothing is closed or parked; approve it, push a fix, or say what to do.

sentinel: This test doesn't prove the crew's sandbox boundary. It proves a bubblewrap command line written inside the test. What's wrong (high): bwrapArgs builds its own sandbox with --unshare-net and no proxy, so all networking is cut. The crew's real sandbox is claudeSettings in `src/crew/claude.t…
sentinel: The issue asks for a test that proves a sandboxed shell is refused localhost ports outside the sandbox. This test shows the opposite and then passes anyway. Through the sandbox's proxy, which is the shell's only way out, the probe reaches the outside loopback server (viaProxy === "outside"). T…
sentinel: The new test, test/crew-sandbox-real.test.ts, is the whole point of this pull, and it has never run in the forge's check. Fix that first. High: the new test file is in neither GATE nor EXCLUDED in scripts/gate.ts. The fast tier builds its file set from GATE (`scripts/test-shards.ts:173…