hacktricks/linux-unix/privilege-escalation/seccomp.md
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# Basic Information
**Seccomp **or Secure Computing mode, in summary, is a feature of Linux kernel which can act as **syscall filter**.\
Seccomp has 2 modes.
**seccomp** (short for **secure computing mode**) is a computer security facility in the **Linux** **kernel**. seccomp allows a process to make a one-way transition into a "secure" state where **it cannot make any system calls except** `exit()`, `sigreturn()`, `read()` and `write()` to **already-open** file descriptors. Should it attempt any other system calls, the **kernel** will **terminate** the **process** with SIGKILL or SIGSYS. In this sense, it does not virtualize the system's resources but isolates the process from them entirely.
seccomp mode is **enabled via the `prctl(2)` system call** using the `PR_SET_SECCOMP` argument, or (since Linux kernel 3.17) via the `seccomp(2)` system call. seccomp mode used to be enabled by writing to a file, `/proc/self/seccomp`, but this method was removed in favor of `prctl()`. In some kernel versions, seccomp disables the `RDTSC` x86 instruction, which returns the number of elapsed processor cycles since power-on, used for high-precision timing.
**seccomp-bpf** is an extension to seccomp that allows **filtering of system calls using a configurable policy** implemented using Berkeley Packet Filter rules. It is used by OpenSSH and vsftpd as well as the Google Chrome/Chromium web browsers on Chrome OS and Linux. (In this regard seccomp-bpf achieves similar functionality, but with more flexibility and higher performance, to the older systrace—which seems to be no longer supported for Linux.)
## **Original/Strict Mode**
In this mode** **Seccomp **only allow the syscalls** `exit()`, `sigreturn()`, `read()` and `write()` to already-open file descriptors. If any other syscall is made, the process is killed using SIGKILL
{% code title="seccomp_strict.c" %}
```c
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <linux/seccomp.h>
#include <sys/prctl.h>
//From https://sysdig.com/blog/selinux-seccomp-falco-technical-discussion/
//gcc seccomp_strict.c -o seccomp_strict
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int output = open("output.txt", O_WRONLY);
const char *val = "test";
//enables strict seccomp mode
printf("Calling prctl() to set seccomp strict mode...\n");
prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP, SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT);
//This is allowed as the file was already opened
printf("Writing to an already open file...\n");
write(output, val, strlen(val)+1);
//This isn't allowed
printf("Trying to open file for reading...\n");
int input = open("output.txt", O_RDONLY);
printf("You will not see this message--the process will be killed first\n");
}
```
{% endcode %}
## Seccomp-bpf
This mode allows f**iltering of system calls using a configurable policy** implemented using Berkeley Packet Filter rules.
{% code title="seccomp_bpf.c" %}
```c
#include <seccomp.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
//https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/168452/how-is-sandboxing-implemented/175373
//gcc seccomp_bpf.c -o seccomp_bpf -lseccomp
void main(void) {
/* initialize the libseccomp context */
scmp_filter_ctx ctx = seccomp_init(SCMP_ACT_KILL);
/* allow exiting */
printf("Adding rule : Allow exit_group\n");
seccomp_rule_add(ctx, SCMP_ACT_ALLOW, SCMP_SYS(exit_group), 0);
/* allow getting the current pid */
//printf("Adding rule : Allow getpid\n");
//seccomp_rule_add(ctx, SCMP_ACT_ALLOW, SCMP_SYS(getpid), 0);
printf("Adding rule : Deny getpid\n");
seccomp_rule_add(ctx, SCMP_ACT_ERRNO(EBADF), SCMP_SYS(getpid), 0);
/* allow changing data segment size, as required by glibc */
printf("Adding rule : Allow brk\n");
seccomp_rule_add(ctx, SCMP_ACT_ALLOW, SCMP_SYS(brk), 0);
/* allow writing up to 512 bytes to fd 1 */
printf("Adding rule : Allow write upto 512 bytes to FD 1\n");
seccomp_rule_add(ctx, SCMP_ACT_ALLOW, SCMP_SYS(write), 2,
SCMP_A0(SCMP_CMP_EQ, 1),
SCMP_A2(SCMP_CMP_LE, 512));
/* if writing to any other fd, return -EBADF */
printf("Adding rule : Deny write to any FD except 1 \n");
seccomp_rule_add(ctx, SCMP_ACT_ERRNO(EBADF), SCMP_SYS(write), 1,
SCMP_A0(SCMP_CMP_NE, 1));
/* load and enforce the filters */
printf("Load rules and enforce \n");
seccomp_load(ctx);
seccomp_release(ctx);
//Get the getpid is denied, a weird number will be returned like
//this process is -9
printf("this process is %d\n", getpid());
}
```
{% endcode %}
# Seccomp in Docker
**Seccomp-bpf** is supported by **Docker **to restrict the **syscalls **from the containers effectively decreasing the surface area. You can find the **syscalls blocked **by **default **in [https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/seccomp/](https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/seccomp/) and the **default seccomp profile **can be found here [https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/profiles/seccomp/default.json](https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/profiles/seccomp/default.json).\
You can run a docker container with a **different seccomp** policy with:
```bash
docker run --rm \
-it \
--security-opt seccomp=/path/to/seccomp/profile.json \
hello-world
```
If you want for example to **forbid **a container of executing some **syscall **like` uname` you could download the default profile from [https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/profiles/seccomp/default.json](https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/profiles/seccomp/default.json) and just **remove the `uname` string from the list**.\
If you want to make sure that **some binary doesn't work inside a a docker container** you could use strace to list the syscalls the binary is using and then forbid them.\
In the following example the **syscalls **of `uname` are discovered:
```bash
docker run -it --security-opt seccomp=default.json modified-ubuntu strace uname
```
{% hint style="info" %}
If you are using **Docker just to launch an application**, you can **profile** it with **`strace`** and **just allow the syscalls** it needs
{% endhint %}
## Deactivate it in Docker
Launch a container with the flag: **`--security-opt seccomp=unconfined`**
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