Re: Making pglister work with exim 4.96+

OK I understand better now how environment variable is a better working solution. I completely removed argparse, since
nomore parameters are used.
 

Patch to modify inject.py accordingly attached.

On the exim side, final solution involves:
- modifying pglister transport to add
environment = HEADER_MESSAGE_ID=$header_message-id:
- modifying pgarchives transport to use $local_part_data instead of $local_part

On 19/06/2024 11:29, Célestin Matte wrote:
>> Yeah, and I don't see why they would? The reason they do the taint marking in variables used in commands and
filenamesis that it would be a potential venue for attackers to inject things. No such vulnerability exists with
environmentvariables. Obviously the receiving code, whether a shellscript or a python program or a c program or
whatever,can have injection vulnerabilities of it's own, but the passing values layer (which is what Exim is
responsiblefor there) does not.
 
> 
> Yet this is what we want to do here: bypass security protection by passing dangerous data through environment
variables.It would make sense for them to prevent that usage
 
> 
>> Yeah, this seems extremely fragile. Concurrent delivery is a common thing, and not the only potential problem I bet.
Theproper fix surely is to make invoke.py work properly.
 
> 
> What's invoke.py? Do you mean inject.py?
> 
> I'm aware of the potential concurrency issues. One fix could be to only process emails in mailqueuehandler.py if
theirsender address is not empty (or we could add a boolean field for that purpose).
 
> 
>> And the above doesn't actually solve the problem does it? It still requires passing the message-id which is a
taintedvariable?
 
> 
> $message_id is not the header, it's exim's internal message ID and is untainted.
> Here's my current version, handling the header as well:
> event_action = ${if eq {msg:delivery}{$event_name} {${lookup pgsql{update incoming_mail set
sender='${quote_pgsql:$sender_address}',messageid='${quote_pgsql:$header_message-id:}' where
messageid='${quote_pgsql:$message_id}';notify incoming; update bounce_mail set sender='${quote_pgsql:$sender_address}',
messageid='${quote_pgsql:$header_message-id:}'where messageid='${quote_pgsql:$message_id}'; notify bounce}} {}}}
 
> 
> 
> Another overall solution may be to fetch header_message-id and sender_address from exim in inject.py using a
subprocess(provided it's still queued at that point?)
 
> 

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Célestin Matte