fix: keep the gitea token out of chezmoi init's argv and .git/config

The endpoint hands back a clone URL with the read-only token inline, and that
URL went straight onto `chezmoi init`'s command line. Two durable exposures
followed, neither of which the existing redaction touched -- it only kept the
token out of the trace line:

  - /proc/<pid>/cmdline is world-readable, so any account on the box could read
    the live token for as long as the clone ran
  - the resulting .git/config recorded the credential-bearing remote and kept
    it until the tree was deleted

Split the credential out of the URL before anything executes. The token goes to
$STATE/private-credentials at 600 in git-credential-store format; the URL that
reaches argv and .git/config is clean. The helper is passed via GIT_CONFIG_*
for the clone and then written into the clone's own config, so a later
`chezmoi update` still authenticates without the token being stored.

Verified: clone succeeds with the clean URL, .git/config contains no token, and
a subsequent fetch authenticates from the credential file alone. Suite 101/101.
This commit is contained in:
bcherb2
2026-08-17 20:21:39 -04:00
parent 68e16ad1ff
commit 63bed1d32d
2 changed files with 90 additions and 14 deletions
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@@ -130,9 +130,38 @@ is "private init does not use run()" "0" \
# Two, not one: the dry-run branch traces it too, and a dry run that printed a
# live token would be the worse leak of the pair.
is "both traced URLs are redacted" "2" \
"$(grep -c 'redact_url "\$p_repo"' $D)"
"$(grep -c 'redact_url "\$p_clean"' $D)"
# Not printing the token was never enough. p_repo is the URL as the endpoint
# hands it over, credential inline; putting THAT on chezmoi's command line
# publishes it to /proc/<pid>/cmdline, which every account on the box can read
# for as long as the clone runs, and then into the clone's .git/config, which
# keeps it. Only the split-out p_clean may reach an argv.
is "the credential-bearing URL never reaches an argv" "0" \
"$(grep -c 'chezmoi init.*\$p_repo' $D)"
is "the token goes to a credential file instead" "1" \
"$(grep -c "umask 077; printf '%s\\\\n' \"\\\$p_cred\" > \"\\\$PRIV_CRED\"" $D)"
is "…at mode 600" "1" \
"$(grep -c 'chmod 600 "\$PRIV_CRED"' $D)"
# Exercise the real implementation lifted straight out of dotup. A copy of the
# sed expression here would keep passing after someone edited the original.
split() { p_repo=$1; eval "$(sed -n '/p_cred=\$(printf/p;/p_clean=\$(printf/p' $D)"
printf '%s %s\n' "${p_cred:-<none>}" "$p_clean"; }
is "split lifts the credential out of the URL" \
"https://ben:deadbeefcafe@git.example.com https://git.example.com/x.git" \
"$(split 'https://ben:deadbeefcafe@git.example.com/x.git')"
# A port must survive into the credential line: git matches the store entry on
# host AND port, so dropping :3000 would silently stop authenticating.
is "…keeping the port" \
"http://u:p@example.com:3000 http://example.com:3000/a/b.git" \
"$(split 'http://u:p@example.com:3000/a/b.git')"
# No userinfo means nothing to store and nothing to strip — ssh remotes and
# unauthenticated https must pass through byte-identical.
is "…and leaves a credential-free remote untouched" \
"<none> https://git.example.com/x.git" \
"$(split 'https://git.example.com/x.git')"
is "…including scp-style ssh" \
"<none> git@git.example.com:ben/x.git" \
"$(split 'git@git.example.com:ben/x.git')"
rd() { eval "$(sed -n '/^redact_url()/p' $D)"; redact_url "$1"; }
is "redact_url strips userinfo" "https://<redacted>@git.example.com/x.git" \
"$(rd 'https://ben:deadbeefcafe@git.example.com/x.git')"
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@@ -744,6 +744,19 @@ BWS_TOKEN=${DOTUP_BWS_TOKEN:-${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/bitwarden/bws-tok
# are, days later, with nothing connecting it to the install you ran.
PRIV_CFG=${DOTUP_PRIVATE_CFG:-${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/chezmoi/private.toml}
# git's credential store for the private remote.
#
# The clone URL the endpoint hands back carries the token inline, and handing
# that to `chezmoi init` puts a live credential in two durable places: the
# init process's argv, which ANY account on the box can read out of
# /proc/<pid>/cmdline for as long as the clone runs, and the resulting
# .git/config, which keeps it until the tree is deleted. Neither is fixed by
# not printing it -- the earlier redaction work only covered the trace line.
#
# Splitting the credential out of the URL fixes both: git reads the secret from
# this file at 600, and the remote it records is clean.
PRIV_CRED=${DOTUP_PRIVATE_CRED:-$STATE/private-credentials}
cmd_private() {
rows=$(selected_private)
[ -n "$rows" ] || return 0
@@ -775,7 +788,7 @@ cmd_private() {
printf ' Password: ' >&2
stty -echo 2>/dev/null || :; IFS= read -r P_PW || :; stty echo 2>/dev/null || :; printf '\n' >&2
# shellcheck disable=SC2064
trap 'unset P_URL P_USER P_PW P_BLOB 2>/dev/null || :' EXIT INT TERM
trap 'unset P_URL P_USER P_PW P_BLOB p_repo p_tok p_cred 2>/dev/null || :' EXIT INT TERM
# curl -K - reads its config, credentials included, from stdin rather than
# the command line. --fail matters too: without it a 401 body is parsed as
@@ -807,31 +820,65 @@ cmd_private() {
if [ "$want_repo" -eq 1 ]; then
if [ -n "$p_repo" ]; then
# NOT `run`. It echoes its whole argv to stderr, and this argv ends
# in https://user:TOKEN@host/... -- which would put a live git
# credential into terminal scrollback, any `dotup 2>log`, and any
# agent or CI transcript capturing the run. Trace a redacted form
# and execute quietly.
# Split the credential out of the URL before anything executes.
# p_cred is the bare scheme://user:token@host that
# git-credential-store wants -- host only, no path. p_clean is the
# same URL with the userinfo removed. A remote with no userinfo
# (ssh, or an unauthenticated https URL) leaves p_cred empty and
# p_clean identical to what arrived, so it is used unchanged.
p_cred=$(printf '%s\n' "$p_repo" | sed -n 's|^\(https\{0,1\}://[^@/]*@[^/]*\).*|\1|p')
p_clean=$(printf '%s\n' "$p_repo" | sed -e 's|^\(https\{0,1\}://\)[^@/]*@|\1|')
if [ -n "$p_cred" ]; then
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$PRIV_CRED")"
( umask 077; printf '%s\n' "$p_cred" > "$PRIV_CRED" )
chmod 600 "$PRIV_CRED"
# GIT_CONFIG_* rather than `git -c`: the helper string names
# the credential file, and while that path is not itself a
# secret, argv is the wrong channel for anything about it.
# The value is single-quoted because git runs a helper
# containing spaces through a shell -- an unquoted $HOME with
# a space in it would split into two arguments.
GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=1
GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0=credential.helper
GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0="store --file='$PRIV_CRED'"
export GIT_CONFIG_COUNT GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0 GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0
fi
# NOT `run`. It echoes its whole argv to stderr, and even a clean
# URL is worth tracing deliberately rather than by accident.
# redact_url stays on the trace as a second line of defence: if
# the split above ever fails to match, the credential still does
# not reach terminal scrollback, `dotup 2>log`, or an agent
# transcript capturing the run.
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$PRIV_CFG")"
if [ "$DRYRUN" -eq 1 ]; then
printf ' + chezmoi init --apply --source %s -c %s %s\n' \
"$PRIV_SRC" "$PRIV_CFG" "$(redact_url "$p_repo")"
"$PRIV_SRC" "$PRIV_CFG" "$(redact_url "$p_clean")"
else
printf '%s + chezmoi init --apply --source %s -c %s %s%s\n' \
"$DIM" "$PRIV_SRC" "$PRIV_CFG" "$(redact_url "$p_repo")" "$R" >&2
chezmoi init --apply --source "$PRIV_SRC" -c "$PRIV_CFG" "$p_repo" \
"$DIM" "$PRIV_SRC" "$PRIV_CFG" "$(redact_url "$p_clean")" "$R" >&2
chezmoi init --apply --source "$PRIV_SRC" -c "$PRIV_CFG" "$p_clean" \
|| err "private repo init failed"
fi
# The exported vars above only cover this process. Record the same
# helper in the clone's own config so a later `chezmoi update`
# still authenticates -- the token stays in PRIV_CRED, and
# .git/config learns only where to look for it.
if [ -n "$p_cred" ] && [ -d "$PRIV_SRC/.git" ]; then
git -C "$PRIV_SRC" config credential.helper \
"store --file='$PRIV_CRED'" 2>/dev/null || :
fi
unset GIT_CONFIG_COUNT GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0 GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0
# The clone lands with the caller's umask, which on a stock Ubuntu
# is 022 -- world-readable. This tree holds ssh config, accepted
# keys and machine identity, and its .git/config stores the
# credential-bearing remote URL in plain text. On a shared or
# multi-user box that is readable by anyone with an account.
# keys and machine identity. On a shared or multi-user box that is
# readable by anyone with an account.
[ ! -d "$PRIV_SRC" ] || chmod -R go-rwx "$PRIV_SRC" 2>/dev/null || :
else err "the blob carried no PRIVATE_REPO_URL"; fi
fi
unset p_repo
unset p_repo p_cred p_clean
trap - EXIT INT TERM
}