[Openvpn-devel,v2] clean up environment variable handling in verify_user_pass_script

Message ID 20251112092743.23173-1-gert@greenie.muc.de
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Series [Openvpn-devel,v2] clean up environment variable handling in verify_user_pass_script | expand

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Gert Doering Nov. 12, 2025, 9:27 a.m. UTC
From: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>

The username environment variable is already set by the
set_verify_user_pass_env function before the verify_user_pass_script
function is called, so this call is not doing anything but might erroneously
made people think that this needs to be cleaned up.

Also ensure that the password is clean from the env even in an error case.

Reported-by: Joshua Rogers <contact@joshua.hu>
Found-by: ZeroPath (https://zeropath.com/)
Change-Id: I6c502508026c6b85bb092ada4d16d985b20dd41f
Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <arne-openvpn@rfc2549.org>
Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Gerrit URL: https://gerrit.openvpn.net/c/openvpn/+/1326
Message-Id: <20251030194402.1729-1-gert@greenie.muc.de>
URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg34069.html
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Gerrit URL: https://gerrit.openvpn.net/c/openvpn/+/1326
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This change was reviewed on Gerrit and approved by at least one
developer. I request to merge it to master.

Gerrit URL: https://gerrit.openvpn.net/c/openvpn/+/1326
This mail reflects revision 2 of this Change.

Acked-by according to Gerrit (reflected above):

Comments

Gert Doering Nov. 12, 2025, 9:39 a.m. UTC | #1
Hi,

On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 10:27:37AM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> From: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>
> 
> The username environment variable is already set by the
> set_verify_user_pass_env function before the verify_user_pass_script
> function is called, so this call is not doing anything but might erroneously
> made people think that this needs to be cleaned up.
> 
> Also ensure that the password is clean from the env even in an error case.

Resend by mistake, has long been merged.  Sorry for the noise.

gert

Patch

diff --git a/src/openvpn/ssl_verify.c b/src/openvpn/ssl_verify.c
index 04ef27e..993d22c 100644
--- a/src/openvpn/ssl_verify.c
+++ b/src/openvpn/ssl_verify.c
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ 
     }
     else
     {
-        setenv_str(session->opt->es, "username", up->username);
+        /* username env is already set by set_verify_user_pass_env */
         setenv_str(session->opt->es, "password", up->password);
     }
 
@@ -1377,10 +1377,6 @@ 
         /* purge auth control filename (and file itself) for non-deferred returns */
         key_state_rm_auth_control_files(&ks->script_auth);
     }
-    if (!session->opt->auth_user_pass_verify_script_via_file)
-    {
-        setenv_del(session->opt->es, "password");
-    }
 
 done:
     if (tmp_file && strlen(tmp_file) > 0)
@@ -1389,6 +1385,11 @@ 
     }
 
 error:
+    if (!session->opt->auth_user_pass_verify_script_via_file)
+    {
+        setenv_del(session->opt->es, "password");
+    }
+
     argv_free(&argv);
     gc_free(&gc);
     return retval;