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verify tls certificate for foreign template downloads - #24504
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cc @iwahbe as the original implementer. Was there any reason you can remember for always passing |
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@SABITHSAHEB I believe you need to fix a lint error, but after that I'm ready to merge. |
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Fixed, switched to t.Context() per usetesting. While rerunning the whole package I noticed the test could also race other parallel tests through the shared newClient hook, so it's serial now with a nolint like the other tests that touch package globals. Package is clean under -race. |
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Summary
DownloadTemplate splits on whether the template URL points at the configured service or somewhere else. For a URL that isn't the service (a github, gitlab, or other registry-hosted template that
pulumi newfetches) it builds a fresh client for that host, and it was passinginsecure=truetoNewClient, which setsInsecureSkipVerifyon the transport. That disables certificate verification for the download regardless of what the user configured, so an on-path attacker can present any certificate and swap in template content that then gets written to disk and, for most templates, installed and run. The user never opted into that; every otherNewClientcall site threads the real insecure setting, and this is the only place that hardcodes it. I noticed it while reading the call sites for the insecure flag. Passingpc.insecuremakes the foreign download inherit the caller's TLS setting like the rest of the code, and behavior is unchanged for the normal case where the certificate is valid.Test plan
pkg/engine/lifecycletest- For all engine/protocol changespkg/testing/pulumi-test-language- For language protocol changespkg/backend/display- For changes to the output renderersTestDownloadTemplateForeignURLInheritsInsecurecaptures the flag the fresh client is built with for a non-service URL; it fails before this change (client built with verification off) and passes after.Validation
make lint— cleanmake test_fast— all passmake tidy_fix— cleanmake format— cleanmake check_proto— clean (if proto changes)Ran
go test ./backend/httpstate/client/(pass) andgofmt/go veton the touched files.make lintuses a custom plugin I couldn't build in isolation.Changelog
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impact/no-changelog-requiredlabel.Risk
Extraction/download only. Downloads over https with a valid certificate are unchanged. The only behavior change is for a user who did not opt into insecure transport but relied on the accidental skip for a self-signed foreign template host; they now pass the insecure flag like every other client path. No public API change.