Merge changes Iaa2e0e9d,Ia973420f into main

* changes:
  Fix passing custom CA files into the builtin:fetchurl sandbox
  [security] builtin:fetchurl: Enable TLS verification

6 files changed, 114 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next/verify-tls.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/verify-tls.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..608f3347e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/manual/rl-next/verify-tls.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+synopsis: "`<nix/fetchurl.nix>` now uses TLS verification"
+category: Fixes
+prs: [11585]
+credits: edolstra
+---
+
+Previously `<nix/fetchurl.nix>` did not do TLS verification. This was because the Nix sandbox in the past did not have access to TLS certificates, and Nix checks the hash of the fetched file anyway. However, this can expose authentication data from `netrc` and URLs to man-in-the-middle attackers. In addition, Nix now in some cases (such as when using impure derivations) does *not* check the hash. Therefore we have now enabled TLS verification. This means that downloads by `<nix/fetchurl.nix>` will now fail if you're fetching from a HTTPS server that does not have a valid certificate.
+
+`<nix/fetchurl.nix>` is also known as the builtin derivation builder `builtin:fetchurl`. It's not to be confused with the evaluation-time function `builtins.fetchurl`, which was not affected by this issue.
diff --git a/src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc b/src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc
index 4baa525d9..f14d09652 100644
--- a/src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc
@@ -1361,13 +1361,20 @@ void LocalDerivationGoal::runChild()
 
         bool setUser = true;
 
-        /* Make the contents of netrc available to builtin:fetchurl
-           (which may run under a different uid and/or in a sandbox). */
+        /* Make the contents of netrc and the CA certificate bundle
+           available to builtin:fetchurl (which may run under a
+           different uid and/or in a sandbox). */
         std::string netrcData;
-        try {
-            if (drv->isBuiltin() && drv->builder == "builtin:fetchurl" && !derivationType->isSandboxed())
+        std::string caFileData;
+        if (drv->isBuiltin() && drv->builder == "builtin:fetchurl" && !derivationType->isSandboxed()) {
+            try {
                 netrcData = readFile(settings.netrcFile);
-        } catch (SysError &) { }
+            } catch (SysError &) { }
+
+            try {
+                caFileData = readFile(settings.caFile);
+            } catch (SysError &) { }
+        }
 
 #if __linux__
         if (useChroot) {
@@ -1802,7 +1809,7 @@ void LocalDerivationGoal::runChild()
                     e.second = rewriteStrings(e.second, inputRewrites);
 
                 if (drv->builder == "builtin:fetchurl")
-                    builtinFetchurl(drv2, netrcData);
+                    builtinFetchurl(drv2, netrcData, caFileData);
                 else if (drv->builder == "builtin:buildenv")
                     builtinBuildenv(drv2);
                 else if (drv->builder == "builtin:unpack-channel")
diff --git a/src/libstore/builtins.hh b/src/libstore/builtins.hh
index d201fb3ac..e20d14b90 100644
--- a/src/libstore/builtins.hh
+++ b/src/libstore/builtins.hh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 namespace nix {
 
 // TODO: make pluggable.
-void builtinFetchurl(const BasicDerivation & drv, const std::string & netrcData);
+void builtinFetchurl(const BasicDerivation & drv, const std::string & netrcData, const std::string & caFileData);
 void builtinUnpackChannel(const BasicDerivation & drv);
 
 }
diff --git a/src/libstore/builtins/fetchurl.cc b/src/libstore/builtins/fetchurl.cc
index 062ecdc14..b28eb01d0 100644
--- a/src/libstore/builtins/fetchurl.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/builtins/fetchurl.cc
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 namespace nix {
 
-void builtinFetchurl(const BasicDerivation & drv, const std::string & netrcData)
+void builtinFetchurl(const BasicDerivation & drv, const std::string & netrcData, const std::string & caFileData)
 {
     /* Make the host's netrc data available. Too bad curl requires
        this to be stored in a file. It would be nice if we could just
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ void builtinFetchurl(const BasicDerivation & drv, const std::string & netrcData)
         writeFile(settings.netrcFile, netrcData, 0600);
     }
 
+    settings.caFile = "ca-certificates.crt";
+    writeFile(settings.caFile, caFileData, 0600);
+
     auto getAttr = [&](const std::string & name) {
         auto i = drv.env.find(name);
         if (i == drv.env.end()) throw Error("attribute '%s' missing", name);
@@ -33,10 +36,7 @@ void builtinFetchurl(const BasicDerivation & drv, const std::string & netrcData)
 
     auto fetch = [&](const std::string & url) {
 
-        /* No need to do TLS verification, because we check the hash of
-           the result anyway. */
         FileTransferRequest request(url);
-        request.verifyTLS = false;
 
         auto raw = fileTransfer->download(std::move(request));
         auto decompressor = makeDecompressionSource(
diff --git a/tests/nixos/default.nix b/tests/nixos/default.nix
index 20e66f6c1..2d6eaed16 100644
--- a/tests/nixos/default.nix
+++ b/tests/nixos/default.nix
@@ -157,4 +157,6 @@ in
   coredumps = runNixOSTestFor "x86_64-linux" ./coredumps;
 
   io_uring = runNixOSTestFor "x86_64-linux" ./io_uring;
+
+  fetchurl = runNixOSTestFor "x86_64-linux" ./fetchurl.nix;
 }
diff --git a/tests/nixos/fetchurl.nix b/tests/nixos/fetchurl.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..97365d053
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/nixos/fetchurl.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# Test whether builtin:fetchurl properly performs TLS certificate
+# checks on HTTPS servers.
+
+{ lib, config, pkgs, ... }:
+
+let
+
+  makeTlsCert = name: pkgs.runCommand name {
+    nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [ openssl ];
+  } ''
+    mkdir -p $out
+    openssl req -x509 \
+      -subj '/CN=${name}/' -days 49710 \
+      -addext 'subjectAltName = DNS:${name}' \
+      -keyout "$out/key.pem" -newkey ed25519 \
+      -out "$out/cert.pem" -noenc
+  '';
+
+  goodCert = makeTlsCert "good";
+  badCert = makeTlsCert "bad";
+
+in
+
+{
+  name = "fetchurl";
+
+  nodes = {
+    machine = { lib, pkgs, ... }: {
+      services.nginx = {
+        enable = true;
+
+        virtualHosts."good" = {
+          addSSL = true;
+          sslCertificate = "${goodCert}/cert.pem";
+          sslCertificateKey = "${goodCert}/key.pem";
+          root = pkgs.runCommand "nginx-root" {} ''
+            mkdir "$out"
+            echo 'hello world' > "$out/index.html"
+          '';
+        };
+
+        virtualHosts."bad" = {
+          addSSL = true;
+          sslCertificate = "${badCert}/cert.pem";
+          sslCertificateKey = "${badCert}/key.pem";
+          root = pkgs.runCommand "nginx-root" {} ''
+            mkdir "$out"
+            echo 'foobar' > "$out/index.html"
+          '';
+        };
+      };
+
+      security.pki.certificateFiles = [ "${goodCert}/cert.pem" ];
+
+      networking.hosts."127.0.0.1" = [ "good" "bad" ];
+
+      virtualisation.writableStore = true;
+
+      nix.settings.experimental-features = "nix-command";
+    };
+  };
+
+  testScript = { nodes, ... }: ''
+    machine.wait_for_unit("nginx")
+    machine.wait_for_open_port(443)
+
+    out = machine.succeed("curl https://good/index.html")
+    assert out == "hello world\n"
+
+    out = machine.succeed("cat ${badCert}/cert.pem > /tmp/cafile.pem; curl --cacert /tmp/cafile.pem https://bad/index.html")
+    assert out == "foobar\n"
+
+    # Fetching from a server with a trusted cert should work.
+    machine.succeed("nix build --no-substitute --expr 'import <nix/fetchurl.nix> { url = \"https://good/index.html\"; hash = \"sha256-qUiQTy8PR5uPgZdpSzAYSw0u0cHNKh7A+4XSmaGSpEc=\"; }'")
+
+    # Fetching from a server with an untrusted cert should fail.
+    err = machine.fail("nix build --no-substitute --expr 'import <nix/fetchurl.nix> { url = \"https://bad/index.html\"; hash = \"sha256-rsBwZF/lPuOzdjBZN2E08FjMM3JHyXit0Xi2zN+wAZ8=\"; }' 2>&1")
+    print(err)
+    assert "SSL certificate problem: self-signed certificate" in err or "SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK" in err
+
+    # Fetching from a server with a trusted cert should work via environment variable override.
+    machine.succeed("NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE=/tmp/cafile.pem nix build --no-substitute --expr 'import <nix/fetchurl.nix> { url = \"https://bad/index.html\"; hash = \"sha256-rsBwZF/lPuOzdjBZN2E08FjMM3JHyXit0Xi2zN+wAZ8=\"; }'")
+  '';
+}