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<p style="margin-top: 0;">On March 29th, 2014, 12:05 p.m. UTC, <b>Martin Gräßlin</b> wrote:</p>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">I also have problems imagining what a use case for this is and I consider this as a security issue. It basically means that the session can get unlocked without going through authentication.</pre>
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<p>On March 29th, 2014, 12:07 p.m. UTC, <b>Kirill Elagin</b> wrote:</p>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">You have to authenticate anyway to access the DBus session bus.</pre>
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<p>On March 29th, 2014, 12:15 p.m. UTC, <b>Martin Gräßlin</b> wrote:</p>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">and running applications? It would allow $evilsecretservice to unlock the screen when $agent needs to use the system after remote installing some software. Since Snowden this doesn't sound so far fetched any more (unfortunately).</pre>
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<p>On March 29th, 2014, 12:19 p.m. UTC, <b>Thomas Lübking</b> wrote:</p>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">you need access to a random shell of that user (what does not imply you actively logged into it), but can expose another session that pot. allows access to other logins (mail, webservices, even banking)
this should (by default) no way be possible. any way to circumvent authentication to this very session should be guarded by a special "knowwhatido" key or require active authentication (ie. passing the pass hash via dbus - what's insecure enough by itself)</pre>
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<p>On March 29th, 2014, 12:22 p.m. UTC, <b>Kirill Elagin</b> wrote:</p>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">If you've installed your evil software you already have a thousand of ways of accessing the system.
My point is: if you've got privileges to issue this DBus call, you already have privileges to bypass the lockscreen. This is just a _sane_ way of doing so, because if you're an $evilagent you don't care how many lines of shell code it will take you to bypass the lockscreen, but if you are the user, it starts to matter.</pre>
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<p>On March 29th, 2014, 12:25 p.m. UTC, <b>Martin Gräßlin</b> wrote:</p>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">no, the lockscreen is secure. If you are logged in at a tty there is no way to unlock the screen - the only way to bypass the lock is to kill ksmserver which results in the session being killed.</pre>
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<p>On March 29th, 2014, 12:44 p.m. UTC, <b>Kirill Elagin</b> wrote:</p>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">It seems to me that it's not secure actually. If you have a look at the bug I mentioned, you'll see a one-liner that unlocks the screen, right?
Unfortunately I'm not really familiar with KDE internals, but I don't see any way to avoid this. (I should point out that, still, I don't see this as a security issue;
once an $evilagent got your shell, you already lost, because now he can _modify memory_ of any of your processes, including ksmserver.)
But if you still don't agree… well, will it be acceptable to have an option in `kscreensaverrc` or `ksmserverrc` that triggers this behaviour?</pre>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">> It seems to me that it's not secure actually.
As pointed out in the very first comment, i consider this a serious bug and security issue - yes.
FTR:
There's a difference between the ability to poke memory on the one hand and have a nice GUI access to your money accounts, an open ssl session or root shell of a running system.
Accessing random shells/client conections of the current session is the pot. privilegue escalation here, open to an attacker how could eg. not manipulate the software stack.</pre>
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<p>On March 29th, 2014, 11:58 a.m. UTC, Kirill Elagin wrote:</p>
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<div>Review request for kde-workspace.</div>
<div>By Kirill Elagin.</div>
<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated March 29, 2014, 11:58 a.m.</i></p>
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<b style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Bugs: </b>
<a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314989">314989</a>
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<b style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt;">Repository: </b>
kde-workspace
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Unlock session via DBus
Make org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.SetActive(false) unlock session.</pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Testing </h1>
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">I've tested this with KDE 4.11.5 which I'm currently running.
Rebasing to master was completely trivial; I've looked through the code and I believe all the assumptions I made are still valid in master.</pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> </h1>
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<li>plasma-workspace/ksmserver/screenlocker/interface.cpp <span style="color: grey">(ecb30a37b1a207cf9dab8c53b1b879108a99a45b)</span></li>
<li>plasma-workspace/ksmserver/screenlocker/ksldapp.h <span style="color: grey">(b292b62f4df073fff31bcbfd0e39f4c4fe04c92d)</span></li>
<li>plasma-workspace/ksmserver/screenlocker/ksldapp.cpp <span style="color: grey">(f2e5262524447e8ae1df1fbf6543297c3be3e6b8)</span></li>
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