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🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
💡 Vulnerability: Command injection and potential flag injection due to unsanitized user inputs (id, tail) concatenated directly into an execSync bash string execution.
🎯 Impact: Anyone with access to the API could potentially execute arbitrary code or inject flags that affect docker configurations on the host, exposing sensitive environments or escalating privileges.
🔧 Fix: Replaced execSync with execFileSync running an exact ['logs', '--tail', tail, containerId] argument array, removing the shell-dependency. I also added explicit checks to block hyphens (-) to avoid flag injection. Error messages are now safely sanitized, masking original traces.
Verification: Tests continue to pass, pre-commit validation confirmed no type issues directly matching the change. Tested manually through local test runners.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 10124517214004022915 started by @bobdivx

Replaces `execSync` with `execFileSync` to properly handle array-based arguments and validate input parameters starting with hyphens. Also sanitizes the internal stack traces exposed to the frontend in case of a crash or failure.

Co-authored-by: bobdivx <6737167+bobdivx@users.noreply.github.com>
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This pull request addresses a command injection vulnerability in the docker-logs API by replacing execSync with execFileSync, implementing input validation to prevent flag injection, and sanitizing error responses to avoid leaking stack traces. Feedback suggests transitioning to the asynchronous execFile to avoid blocking the event loop and to better handle combined stdout and stderr streams, ensuring all logs are captured while preventing system information leaks in error messages.

Comment on lines +35 to 44
const output = execFileSync('docker', ['logs', '--tail', tail, containerId], { stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'], encoding: 'utf8' });
logs = output.trim().split('\n');
} catch (err: any) {
// Certains logs sortent sur stderr, checkons stderr si stdout est vide ou si erreur
if (err.stderr) {
logs = err.stderr.toString().trim().split('\n');
} else {
throw err;
throw new Error("Erreur d'exécution de la commande");
}
}
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high

The current implementation has two significant issues:

  1. Missing Logs: Using execFileSync with separate pipes for stdout and stderr means that any logs written to stderr by the containerized application are ignored on success.
  2. Information Leak: If the command fails, the catch block returns the raw stderr from the Docker CLI (lines 39-40), which can leak internal system details (e.g., "No such container") and contradicts the goal of sanitizing error messages.

Using execFile allows capturing both streams and provides a cleaner way to handle errors uniformly.

        const { stdout, stderr } = await execFileAsync('docker', ['logs', '--tail', tail, containerId], { encoding: 'utf8' });
        const output = stdout + stderr;
        logs = output.trim() ? output.trim().split('\n') : [];
    } catch (err: any) {
        throw new Error("Erreur d'exécution de la commande");
    }

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
import type { APIRoute } from 'astro';
import { execSync } from 'child_process';
import { execFileSync } from 'child_process';
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medium

Switching to the asynchronous execFile is recommended to avoid blocking the Node.js event loop in this API route. This requires importing promisify to handle the callback-based API with async/await.

import { execFile } from 'child_process';
import { promisify } from 'util';

const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);

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