feat(security): enforce the unit-file trust rule on Windows too

fileIsSafe() returned true unconditionally on win32 ('ACL check is a
follow-up'), leaving the best-effort directory DACL as the only guard on
what the runner imports and executes. The follow-up: before importing a
unit, read its SDDL (Get-Acl via the full-System32-path powershell) and
refuse loudly — exactly like the Unix mode-bits path — unless the owner
is SYSTEM/Administrators/TrustedInstaller (or the account the runner
itself runs as, mirroring Unix's 'your own file is fine') and no other
principal holds a write-capable allow ACE (write/append data, EA/attrs,
DELETE, WRITE_DAC, WRITE_OWNER, generic write/all).

The SDDL verdict is a pure exported function with platform-independent
tests; unknown ACE shapes and unreadable ACLs fail closed. Inherit-only
ACEs (templates for children) and deny ACEs don't trip it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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// background work is invisible to supervision; export a plugin to be supervised).
//
// Trust model (RFC §9.4): a unit is code the operator chose to run — no sandbox is pretended.
// The same sshd rule as hooks applies: a world-writable unit file is refused loudly.
// The same sshd rule as hooks applies on BOTH platforms: a unit file a non-privileged principal
// could have written is refused loudly (mode bits on Unix, owner + DACL on Windows).
import {
Cause,
Duration,
Effect,
Schedule,
} from "effect";
import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
import * as fs from "node:fs";
import * as path from "node:path";
import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
@@ -53,9 +55,217 @@ export interface Unit {
const defaultLog = (line: string) =>
console.log(`${new Date().toISOString()} ${line}`);
/** The sshd rule (RFC §9.1/§9.4): refuse group/world-writable unit files, loudly. */
// ---- unit-file trust (the sshd rule, both halves) ---------------------------------------------
// SDDL access-mask bits that let a principal change the file's content or its protection:
// write/append data + EAs, DELETE (delete + recreate), WRITE_DAC / WRITE_OWNER (rewrite the
// protection itself), and the generic write/all bits. FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES (0x100) is
// deliberately NOT here: it only toggles timestamps/readonly/hidden — never content — and the
// runner's own service principal legitimately holds it (bun's module loader opens unit files
// requesting RX+WA; `plugins enable` grants exactly that on the plugins/scripts dirs — counting
// WA as tampering would make the runner refuse every unit it is supposed to run).
const SDDL_WRITE_BITS =
0x2 | 0x4 | 0x10 | 0x10000 | 0x40000 | 0x80000 | 0x10000000 | 0x40000000;
// SDDL two-letter rights tokens → access-mask bits (generic, standard, file-specific, and the
// low object-rights aliases hex masks sometimes render as). Anything unrecognized is treated as
// write-capable — fail closed.
const SDDL_RIGHT_TOKENS: Record<string, number> = {
GA: 0x10000000,
GX: 0x20000000,
GW: 0x40000000,
GR: 0x80000000,
RC: 0x20000,
SD: 0x10000,
WD: 0x40000,
WO: 0x80000,
FA: 0x1f01ff,
FR: 0x120089,
FW: 0x120116,
FX: 0x1200a0,
CC: 0x1,
DC: 0x2,
LC: 0x4,
SW: 0x8,
RP: 0x10,
WP: 0x20,
DT: 0x40,
LO: 0x80,
CR: 0x100,
};
// SDDL two-letter account abbreviations we may meet on a unit file, → full SIDs.
const SDDL_SID_ABBREV: Record<string, string> = {
SY: "S-1-5-18", // NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
BA: "S-1-5-32-544", // BUILTIN\Administrators
OW: "S-1-3-4", // OWNER RIGHTS
CO: "S-1-3-0", // CREATOR OWNER
LS: "S-1-5-19", // NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE
NS: "S-1-5-20", // NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
BU: "S-1-5-32-545", // BUILTIN\Users
AU: "S-1-5-11", // Authenticated Users
IU: "S-1-5-4", // INTERACTIVE
WD: "S-1-1-0", // Everyone
};
const TRUSTED_OWNER_SIDS = new Set([
"S-1-5-18", // SYSTEM
"S-1-5-32-544", // Administrators
"S-1-5-80-956008885-3418522649-1831038044-1853292631-2271478464", // TrustedInstaller
]);
/** An SDDL rights field as an access mask; -1 when it can't be fully understood (fail closed). */
const sddlRightsMask = (rights: string): number => {
if (rights.startsWith("0x") || rights.startsWith("0X")) {
const n = Number.parseInt(rights, 16);
return Number.isNaN(n) ? -1 : n;
}
if (rights.length % 2 !== 0) return -1;
let mask = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < rights.length; i += 2) {
const bits = SDDL_RIGHT_TOKENS[rights.slice(i, i + 2)];
if (bits === undefined) return -1;
mask = (mask | bits) >>> 0;
}
return mask;
};
/**
* The Windows half of the sshd rule, as a pure function over the file's SDDL (exported for
* tests). Returns `null` when the descriptor is trustworthy — owner is
* SYSTEM/Administrators/TrustedInstaller (or `extraTrustedSid`, the account running the runner:
* the Unix rule's "your own file is fine") and no other principal holds a write-capable allow
* ACE — else a human-readable refusal reason. Unknown ACE shapes count as write-capable.
*/
export const windowsSddlUnsafeReason = (
sddl: string,
extraTrustedSid?: string,
): string | null => {
const trusted = new Set(TRUSTED_OWNER_SIDS);
trusted.add("S-1-3-4"); // OWNER RIGHTS — constrained by the owner check below
if (extraTrustedSid) trusted.add(extraTrustedSid);
const owner = /^O:(S-[0-9-]+|[A-Z]{2})/.exec(sddl)?.[1];
const ownerSid =
owner === undefined
? undefined
: owner.startsWith("S-")
? owner
: SDDL_SID_ABBREV[owner];
if (ownerSid === undefined || !trusted.has(ownerSid)) {
return `owner ${owner ?? "unknown"} is not SYSTEM/Administrators/TrustedInstaller`;
}
const daclAt = sddl.indexOf("D:");
if (daclAt < 0) return "no DACL in the security descriptor";
// ACE format: (type;flags;rights;objectGuid;inheritGuid;sid[;condition]). SACL ACEs after
// "S:" match the regex too but are audit types, filtered by the allow-type check.
for (const [, ace] of sddl.slice(daclAt + 2).matchAll(/\(([^)]*)\)/g)) {
const [type, flags = "", rights = "", , , sid = ""] = ace.split(";");
if (type !== "A" && type !== "XA") continue; // deny/audit ACEs only ever tighten
// Inherit-only ACEs are templates for children; they grant nothing on this file. Flags
// come in two-letter tokens — compare exactly, not by substring.
const flagTokens: string[] = flags.match(/.{2}/g) ?? [];
if (flagTokens.includes("IO")) continue;
const mask = sddlRightsMask(rights);
if (mask !== -1 && (mask & SDDL_WRITE_BITS) === 0) continue; // read-only ACE
const resolved = sid.startsWith("S-") ? sid : (SDDL_SID_ABBREV[sid] ?? sid);
if (!trusted.has(resolved)) {
return `${sid} can write it (only SYSTEM/Administrators may)`;
}
}
return null;
};
/** The SID this process runs as, fetched once (`undefined` when it can't be determined). */
let processSidCache: string | undefined | false;
const processSid = (): string | undefined => {
if (processSidCache === undefined) {
const res = spawnSync(
windowsPowershell(),
[
"-NoProfile",
"-NonInteractive",
"-Command",
"[System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent().User.Value",
],
{
encoding: "utf8",
windowsHide: true,
timeout: 15_000,
env: windowsPowershellEnv(),
},
);
const sid = res.status === 0 ? (res.stdout ?? "").trim() : "";
processSidCache = /^S-[0-9-]+$/.test(sid) ? sid : false;
}
return processSidCache === false ? undefined : processSidCache;
};
// Full System32 path, never PATH — a planted powershell.exe must not run with our privileges
// (mirrors the host CLI's powershell_path, security-review 2026-07-17).
const windowsPowershell = (): string =>
path.join(
process.env.SystemRoot ?? "C:\\Windows",
"System32",
"WindowsPowerShell",
"v1.0",
"powershell.exe",
);
// Spawn env for Windows PowerShell 5.1 with PSModulePath STRIPPED (5.1 rebuilds its default).
// An inherited PSModulePath that includes a PowerShell 7 module dir (pwsh adds a machine-scope
// entry) makes 5.1 fail to autoload Microsoft.PowerShell.Security — type-data conflict
// ("AuditToString is already present") — so Get-Acl dies and every unit is refused. Seen live
// on the .173 host box; intermittent per spawn, deterministic once stripped.
const windowsPowershellEnv = (): Record<string, string | undefined> => {
const env: Record<string, string | undefined> = { ...process.env };
delete env.PSModulePath;
return env;
};
/** Read a file's SDDL and apply [`windowsSddlUnsafeReason`]. Unreadable ACL ⇒ refuse. */
const windowsFileIsSafe = (file: string, log: (l: string) => void): boolean => {
const escaped = file.replace(/'/g, "''");
const res = spawnSync(
windowsPowershell(),
[
"-NoProfile",
"-NonInteractive",
"-Command",
`(Get-Acl -LiteralPath '${escaped}').Sddl`,
],
{
encoding: "utf8",
windowsHide: true,
timeout: 15_000,
env: windowsPowershellEnv(),
},
);
const sddl = res.status === 0 ? (res.stdout ?? "").trim() : "";
if (!sddl) {
log(`[runner] REFUSING ${file} — could not read its ACL`);
return false;
}
const reason = windowsSddlUnsafeReason(sddl, processSid());
if (reason !== null) {
log(
`[runner] REFUSING ${file}${reason}. Reinstall the plugin with ` +
`\`punktfunk-host plugins add\`, or re-own the file to Administrators and strip ` +
`non-admin write ACEs (icacls).`,
);
return false;
}
return true;
};
/**
* The sshd rule (RFC §9.1/§9.4): refuse a unit file anyone less privileged than the operator
* could have written — group/world-writable mode on Unix; on Windows, an owner outside
* SYSTEM/Administrators/TrustedInstaller or a write-capable ACE for a non-admin principal.
*/
const fileIsSafe = (file: string, log: (l: string) => void): boolean => {
if (process.platform === "win32") return true; // config dir is DACL'd; ACL check is a follow-up
if (process.platform === "win32") return windowsFileIsSafe(file, log);
try {
const mode = fs.statSync(file).mode & 0o022;
if (mode !== 0) {