bug#41907: [security] Substitutes fetched from server with no authorized key

bug#41907: [security] Substitutes fetched from server with no authorized key

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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I could be doing something wrong, but...

1. Alice starts `guix publich -u ambrevar`.
2. Bob, who did _not_ authorize Alice's  signing key:
   - herd stop guix-daemon
   - guix-daemon --build-users-grouop=guixbuild --substitute-urls='http://10.0.0.4:8080 https://ci.guix.gnu.org'
   - guix build curl

Result:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
downloading from http://10.0.0.4:8080/nar/gzip/...
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Guix commit 8b00728144d0e4bbc740e1595c85f0ecee3f6fb0.

Am I missing something or there is something really wrong?

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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bug#41907: [security] Substitutes fetched from server with no authorized key

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 17 juin 2020 03:37:35 GMT-04:00, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> a écrit :
>I could be doing something wrong, but...
>
>1. Alice starts `guix publich -u ambrevar`.
>2. Bob, who did _not_ authorize Alice's  signing key:
>   - herd stop guix-daemon
>- guix-daemon --build-users-grouop=guixbuild
>--substitute-urls='http://10.0.0.4:8080 https://ci.guix.gnu.org'
>   - guix build curl
>
>Result:
>
>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>downloading from http://10.0.0.4:8080/nar/gzip/...
>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>Guix commit 8b00728144d0e4bbc740e1595c85f0ecee3f6fb0.
>
>Am I missing something or there is something really wrong?

There are two ways that you can get substitutes from unauthorized servers:

Substitutes for fixed-output derivations: guix lredy knows the result, so it doesn't need a signature, it checks the result (not sure this is a thing)

Substitutes that are reproducible. If you have a narinfo from an authorized build farm for a package in your local cache and alice's publish server proposes the same (name and checksum) substitute, you can download it. This is definitely a thing.

Other than that, guix should not use alice's substitutes.

bug#41907: [security] Substitutes fetched from server with no authorized key

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Oh, that makes sense!
This is very smart actually!

Thanks a lot for the explanation!

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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