Standard-allow low-risk entropy-device reads and default temp-file creation - #187
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WalkthroughThe AspectJ and instrumentation enforcement paths now validate bootstrap-loaded JDK frames, temporary-file overloads, explicit directories, and guarded infrastructure reads. Tests and probes cover trusted paths, forged paths, malformed arguments, and allow-list behaviour. ChangesFilesystem security enforcement
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change standardizes narrowly scoped JDK-internal file access and closes the explicit-directory temp-file bypass, with backend-focused regression tests reported passing. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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- Around line 1213-1215: Restrict isSystemTimezoneRead in
JavaAspectJFileSystemAdviceDefinitions.aj to allow /etc/localtime only when a
trusted java.time JDK timezone-resolution stack frame is present, failing closed
otherwise; apply the identical trusted-origin check in
JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolbox.java. Update
AspectJBaselineLowRiskExemptionUnitTest.java to deny direct student-origin
reads, and split JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolboxTest.java coverage
between trusted JDK-origin permission and direct student-origin denial.
In
`@src/test/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/AspectJBaselineLowRiskExemptionUnitTest.java`:
- Around line 21-49: Add positive SecureRandom seeding coverage in both affected
test files: in AspectJBaselineLowRiskExemptionUnitTest.java (lines 21-49), add a
woven test that triggers fresh SecureRandom seeding and allows the
infrastructure entropy read; in
JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolboxTest.java (lines 450-500), add the
equivalent instrumentation test. Abort only when the platform fixture is
unavailable, and let any Ares SecurityException propagate without catching or
skipping it.
In
`@src/test/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/instrumentation/advice/JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolboxTest.java`:
- Around line 611-615: Update createNonTempDirOutsideDefaultTempDir to resolve
both the created fixture path and java.io.tmpdir, then call Assumptions.abort
when the fixture is inside the default temporary directory. Keep
fixture-creation failures separate from sandbox failures by applying the skip
only after successful path resolution and creation.
In `@src/test/java/example/student/InstrumentationSecurityProbe.java`:
- Around line 65-82: Update checkFilesCreateTempFile to select the descriptor
matching its parameters: use the no-directory FileAttribute overload when
directory is null and the Path-directory overload otherwise. Update
checkFileCreateTempFile similarly to use the two-argument descriptor for a null
directory and retain the three-argument descriptor when a directory is provided.
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879-883: 🔒 Security & PrivacyNo change needed.
checkIfPathIsForbiddencanonicalises the target before deciding whether it is allowed, so the default-temp descendant check cannot allow an explicit symlink outside the trusted directory.
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175-183: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
TRUSTED_DEFAULT_TEMP_DIRis not canonicalised, so a symlinkedjava.io.tmpdirdenies a legitimate default-temp creation. Both backends snapshot the rawjava.io.tmpdirproperty and then compare it lexically, throughisPathWithin, against aviolationpath that has already been resolved withtoRealPath(). Where the default temp directory is a symlink, the two forms never match.
src/main/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/aspectj/adviceandpointcut/JavaAspectJFileSystemAdviceDefinitions.aj#L175-L183: resolve the snapshot withtoRealPath()at class-initialisation time, keeping the raw value as a fallback.src/main/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/instrumentation/advice/JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolbox.java#L181-L189: apply the identical canonicalising snapshot so both backends agree.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 371: Update the trust-boundary rationale comment in
JavaInstrumentationAdviceAbstractToolbox to replace the incorrect phrase “stable
code” with “student code,” matching the AspectJ twin’s wording.
In
`@src/test/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/instrumentation/advice/JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolboxTest.java`:
- Around line 787-799: Consolidate the duplicated SecureRandomSpi fixture into
one shared test utility: in
src/test/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/instrumentation/advice/JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolboxTest.java#L787-L799,
move the helper, probe interface, and ProbingSecureRandomSpi there, replacing
static PROBE state with an instance field; in
src/test/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/AspectJBaselineLowRiskExemptionUnitTest.java#L110-L131,
remove the local copies and use the shared utility.
- Around line 494-513: Update
genuineSecureRandomEntropySeedingIsPermittedByAnActivePolicy to exercise a real
JDK entropy-device read that reaches checkEntropyDeviceReadDirectly, rather than
relying on SecureRandom.generateSeed(8), which may use cached seed data. Keep
the platform prerequisite as an aborting Assumptions check, and allow any
explicit Ares SecurityException from the assertion to propagate.
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`@src/main/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/aspectj/adviceandpointcut/JavaAspectJFileSystemAdviceDefinitions.aj`:
- Around line 175-183: Canonicalise the trusted temp-directory snapshot by
resolving java.io.tmpdir with toRealPath() during class initialisation, while
retaining the raw property value as a fallback if resolution fails. Apply this
consistently to TRUSTED_DEFAULT_TEMP_DIR in
JavaAspectJFileSystemAdviceDefinitions.aj (lines 175-183) and
JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolbox.java (lines 181-189) so both backends
compare canonical paths.
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13-13: LGTM!Also applies to: 44-55, 370-408
434-454: 🩺 Stability & AvailabilityConfirm the
/etc/localtimeexemption is reachable on the target JDK.
ZoneId.systemDefault()uses the defaultTimeZone, whose platform discovery is reached throughjava.util.TimeZonenative code and does not create asun.util.calendar.*Java frame when inspecting/etc/localtime. If the intercepted read can only occur during that discovery path,isTimezoneResolutionInProgress()will never match, and this path becomes dead fail-closed behaviour forZoneId.systemDefault(). Run an executable JDK probe or add a positive coverage test; otherwise widen the trust set or remove the dead exemption.src/main/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/instrumentation/advice/JavaInstrumentationAdviceAbstractToolbox.java (1)
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@LukaPetrovicTUM The retained high-severity sandbox finding remains reproducible: both temp-file helpers still permit a forbidden explicit directory whenever its path ends with an internal Ares resource suffix. Remove that suffix-based exemption from explicit temp-directory validation on both backends; the captured CI checks otherwise pass.
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399-421: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd a seed-source regression test.
Both backends restrict the exemption to
readoperations on the exact normalised paths/dev/randomand/dev/urandom. A student-controlledfile:seed source cannot broaden the exemption to an arbitrary file. Add regression coverage for this configuration.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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seed source, verifying both backends only exempt read operations targeting the
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src/main/java/**/*.java
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Review as a Java 17 Maven security framework used to test untrusted student code in Artemis programming exercises. Prioritise sandbox escapes, fail-open behaviour, unsafe reflection, classloader/bootstrap boundary mistakes, global mutable state, concurrency races, insufficient canonicalisation, and changes that weaken file, command, thread, network, package, or class access restrictions. Treat unrecognised security-sensitive inputs as a potential fail-closed requirement. Prefer simple Java code and one field or method declaration per line.
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src/main/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/instrumentation/advice/JavaInstrumentationAdviceAbstractToolbox.java
src/main/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/**/*.java
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Focus on runtime enforcement integrity: intercepted methods, argument extraction, null handling, recursive advice guards, bootstrap classloader interaction, and whether denied operations can reach the JVM or operating system before checks run.
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src/main/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/instrumentation/advice/JavaInstrumentationAdviceAbstractToolbox.java
src/test/java/**/*.java
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Require tests to distinguish fixture failures from sandbox failures. Network tests must not start in-process listeners inside the sandbox; external fixtures may be skipped when absent, but explicit Ares SecurityException failures must propagate.
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src/test/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/testutilities/FakeSecureRandomSeedingFixture.javasrc/test/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/instrumentation/advice/JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolboxTest.javasrc/test/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/AspectJBaselineLowRiskExemptionUnitTest.java
**/*Test.java
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**/*Test.java: A sandboxed test JVM must never spin up its own server (echo server, socket listener, etc.) to test incoming or outgoing connections
Outgoing-connection tests must connect to an external echo server at a configurable endpoint running as a separate process or CI service on the loopback at port 25565, exercising only the student's client behaviour
If the external echo server is not reachable, the test must skip (using JUnit Assumptions.abort) rather than fail
An Ares SecurityException on an explicitly allowed connection is always a real failure and must propagate (never skipped)
Do not hard-code a self-hosted listener as the connection counterpart; use an external echo service to avoid in-JVM BindException/thread/lifecycle flakiness
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📚 Learning: 2026-08-13T07:07:51.736Z
Learnt from: MarkusPaulsen
Repo: ls1intum/Ares2 PR: 0
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Timestamp: 2026-08-13T07:07:51.736Z
Learning: In `src/main/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/instrumentation/advice/JavaInstrumentationAdviceNetworkSystemToolbox.java`, `variableToTarget` must rethrow a `SecurityException` from `URLConnection.getURL()` before handling other runtime exceptions. An enforcement denial must not become a `null` network target.
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src/test/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/AspectJBaselineLowRiskExemptionUnitTest.java (1)
42-43: Add positive AspectJ entropy-read coverage.The shared fixture preserves the forged-SPI denial tests. This class still has no test that runs a genuine JDK entropy read through woven AspectJ file-system advice with an empty read allowlist. A denial of the intended
SecureRandomexemption can therefore pass this backend’s tests.Add active-policy positive coverage. Abort only when the platform fixture is unavailable. Let an
Ares SecurityExceptionfail the test.Also applies to: 59-60
src/test/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/instrumentation/advice/JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolboxTest.java (1)
487-488: LGTM!Also applies to: 494-530, 595-793
src/test/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/testutilities/FakeSecureRandomSeedingFixture.java (1)
1-88: LGTM!src/main/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/instrumentation/advice/JavaInstrumentationAdviceAbstractToolbox.java (1)
14-14: LGTM!Also applies to: 45-56, 359-397, 423-442
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@LukaPetrovicTUM [high] The prior sandbox finding remains reproducible: both temp-file helpers still allow any forbidden explicit directory whose resolved path ends with an internal Ares resource suffix. A separate fail-open unconditionally exempts the no-directory overloads even though student code can redirect java.io.tmpdir before the JDK freezes its effective temp location. The snapshot has no required checks, while the non-required build, examples, CodeQL, and CodeRabbit checks remain unfinished.
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| // No explicit directory: the JVM writes to java.io.tmpdir, a JVM/library | ||
| // default, not a location the student chose. | ||
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@LukaPetrovicTUM [high] Returning here trusts only the overload shape, not the directory the JDK will actually use. Student code can set java.io.tmpdir to a forbidden directory before File$TempDirectory or TempFileHelper is initialized; the JDK then caches that location while this advice returns without applying pathsAllowedToBeCreated, allowing creation outside the sandbox. Freeze and canonicalize the JDK's effective default temp directory before student code, fail closed whenever the effective location cannot be proven equal to the trusted startup directory, mirror the fix in the AspectJ backend, and add a property-mutation regression test.
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In src/main/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/instrumentation/advice/JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolbox.java, the no-directory branch returns before proving that the JDK will use TRUSTED_DEFAULT_TEMP_DIR, allowing java.io.tmpdir redirection to bypass the create policy. Freeze and canonicalize the actual JDK default temp directory before student code, deny calls whose effective directory cannot be proven equal, mirror the fix in the AspectJ backend, and add a property-mutation regression test.
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@LukaPetrovicTUM The latest commit removes the suffix exemption and adds property-mutation checks, but exact-head inspection still finds a high-severity temp-directory fail-open. Explicit temp-file directories are allowed whenever their lexical path lies below java.io.tmpdir, so unallowlisted descendants—and symlinks through them—bypass pathsAllowedToBeCreated on both backends; the captured snapshot has no required CI checks.
| // A student can create and name their own directory tree, so a suffix-only | ||
| // match would let them craft a path ending in one of those exact strings and | ||
| // bypass pathsAllowedToBeCreated entirely. | ||
| if (violation == null || isPathWithin(violation, TRUSTED_DEFAULT_TEMP_DIR)) { |
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@LukaPetrovicTUM [high] This exempts every explicit directory lexically below java.io.tmpdir, although only the default directory itself is meant to be baseline-allowed. Because extractViolationPath returns the normalized input rather than the canonical candidate, /tmp/link-to-forbidden also passes this test while the JDK follows the link outside the temp root; the AspectJ backend has the same condition.
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In src/main/java/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/aop/java/instrumentation/advice/JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolbox.java, checkTempFileCreationSpecialCase exempts any explicit directory lexically below the trusted temp root and can therefore follow a symlink outside the sandbox. Canonicalize both directories and require equality with the canonical trusted default, leave descendants subject to pathsAllowedToBeCreated, and mirror the fix in the AspectJ backend.
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This is a false positive: correct student code that merely uses a Two further items from the originating feature request needed no new code: the JDK's bundled timezone database ( Implementing the temp-file fix surfaced a second, unrelated problem in the same code path, which this PR also fixes: Root cause for all of the above: the enforcement (AOP) layer — specifically the file-system advice/toolbox shared logic on |
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Summary
Standard-allows five narrow, low-risk JDK-internal file operations in the secure baseline
without an explicit
SecurityPolicy.yamlentry, on both AOP backends, and closes a latentbypass where the explicit directory argument of
File.createTempFilewas never checked.Linked issues
None.
1. Problem
Under a maximally restrictive baseline policy, the shape used by the tests in
.../integration/aop/forbidden/, ordinary JDK-internal operations were denied on both AOPbackends:
SecureRandomandUUID.randomUUID()seeding, which reads/dev/urandomor/dev/random, although that read carries no attacker-controlled input.Files.createTempFileandFile.createTempFile, with no directory given or one resolvingto
java.io.tmpdir, since nothing exempted the JVM's default temp directory./etc/localtime, whichZoneId.systemDefault()consults, since it sits outsidejava.homeand so outside the existingisExemptSystemFileAccessexemption.Ares failed correct submissions: code that merely uses a
SecureRandom, generates aUUIDor reads the timezone failed for reasons unrelated to the exercise, leaving each instructor
to allow-list JVM-internal locations one by one.
The fault is in blocking a forbidden call while the code runs, on both backends.
2. Improvement from the user's perspective
Instructors no longer need to discover and manually allow-list
SecureRandom/UUIDusage, default temp-file creation, or system-timezone reads in every exercise'sSecurityPolicy.yaml— these are now standard-allowed the same way JCE crypto-policy files andJarFile/ZipFilereads already are. Students whose correct submissions happen to use any of these common JDK facilities no longer see a spuriousSecurityExceptionunrelated to their actual test failure.3. Improvement from the maintainer's perspective
Closes a real fail-open gap (the
File.createTempFileexplicit-directory bypass) before it could be exploited, adds regression tests that pin the fix on both backends, and keeps the two AOP backends' exemption criteria in lockstep from the start — avoiding a repeat of the AspectJ/instrumentation divergence documented in the companion bug report (.claude/issues/aspectj-missing-jce-crypto-policy-exemption/issue.md). The newcheckTempFileCreationSpecialCasealso establishes a reusable pattern (mirroring the existingcheckCopyOrTransferSpecialCase) for any future method whose effective checked parameter varies by overload rather than by a fixed index.4. Testing manual
Prerequisites
mvn install -DskipTestsfrom the repository root (Maven ≥ 3.9 required — this repo'senforce-versionsrule rejects Maven 3.6.x).examples/ares-exercise-maven(theorg.example.Penguin/PenguinTestfixture) with its existingsrc/test/resources/SecurityPolicy.yaml, which permits reading onlyallowed.txtand permits no create/overwrite/execute/delete path at all (createAllFiles: falseeverywhere) — a maximally restrictive baseline for everything this PR touches./dev/urandomand/etc/localtimefor the entropy/timezone steps (both are guarded withAssumptions.assumeTruein the automated tests and will simply be skipped on a platform without them).Steps
PenguinTest, add a test method that callsnew java.security.SecureRandom().nextBytes(new byte[16]),java.util.UUID.randomUUID(),java.time.ZoneId.systemDefault(), andjava.nio.file.Files.createTempFile("penguin-", ".tmp")/java.io.File.createTempFile("penguin-", ".tmp"), asserting none of these throw.mvn testagainst the exercise withtheFollowingProgrammingLanguageConfigurationIsUsed: JAVA_USING_MAVEN_ARCHUNIT_AND_ASPECTJ(the policy's current setting).JAVA_USING_MAVEN_ARCHUNIT_AND_INSTRUMENTATIONand re-runmvn test.java.io.File.createTempFile("penguin-", ".tmp", new java.io.File(System.getProperty("user.dir")))(an explicit directory that is neitherjava.io.tmpdirnor allow-listed) and asserts aSecurityExceptionis thrown; run under both configurations from steps 2–3.Expected result
Steps 2–3: all calls in step 1 complete without
SecurityException, andPenguinTestpasses in full, under both the AspectJ and instrumentation configuration. Step 4: the call throws aSecurityException-wrapped denial naming thecreateaction and the explicit directory path, under both configurations — confirming the bypass this PR closes is actually closed, not just that the new exemption is permissive.Negative case (what must still be rejected)
A student directly opening the entropy device without going through
SecureRandom(e.g.new java.io.FileInputStream("/dev/urandom")) must still be denied — proven byentropySourceReadDirectlyByStudentCodeIsStillDeniedinJavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolboxTest, which asserts aSecurityExceptionis thrown because noSecureRandom-seeding frame is present on the real call stack. Likewise,File.createTempFile/Files.createTempFilewith an explicit directory that is neitherjava.io.tmpdirnor inpathsAllowedToBeCreatedmust still be denied — proven byfileCreateTempFileExplicitNonDefaultDirectoryStillRequiresAllowlistEntryandfilesCreateTempFileWithExplicitNonAllowedDirectoryIsDenied(the regression tests for the bypass fix).Modes exercised
None of the four ticked: what was actually run is unit-level testing against each backend's real production entry point directly —
JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolbox.checkFileSystemInteraction(public) for instrumentation, and the equivalent privateJavaAspectJFileSystemAdviceDefinitionshelpers via reflection (AspectJSecurityProbe) for AspectJ — rather than a full woven-integration run through an actual policy-driven exercise. This exercises the real logic on both backends deterministically:mvn test -Punit-core-tests -f pom.xml -Dtest=JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolboxTest,AspectJBaselineLowRiskExemptionUnitTest(31 tests, all passing), and the fullunit-core-testsprofile re-run clean afterwards (710 tests, all passing). The architecture dimension (ArchUnit vs WALA) is untouched by this change entirely — nothing here alters static analysis. The full{ArchUnit, WALA} × {AspectJ, instrumentation}integration matrix (mvn test -Parchitecture-tests -f pom.xml/-Pintegration-core-tests) was not run locally; recommend running it (or confirming CI's matrix job is green) before merge, perCLAUDE.md's rule that an enforcement change isn't considered verified until all four combinations pass.5. Test case coverage regarding this PR
JavaInstrumentationAdviceFileSystemToolboxJavaInstrumentationAdviceAbstractToolboxJavaAspectJFileSystemAdviceDefinitionsJavaAspectJAbstractAdviceDefinitionsBreaking changes and migration
None.
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docs/,README.adoc, Javadoc) was updated where the change is user-facing. (Nodocs/update: this is internal enforcement logic with no policy-schema change, and no prior equivalent exemption — e.g. the existing JCE crypto-policy/JarFileexemptions — is documented indocs/policy/SecurityPolicyManual.mdeither.)Review progress