Security: App keys and decrypted env vars written with world-readable permissions

Inizia in dstack-util/src/system_setup.rs, nella scrittura di AppKeys intorno alle righe 1350-1351 e nelle scritture delle variabili d’ambiente decrittografate intorno alle righe 1409-1419. Leggi come vengono aperti e scritti questi file, quindi verifica che i file segreti appena scritti siano accessibili solo al proprietario invece di essere leggibili da chiunque. Il lavoro è completato quando entrambi i percorsi di scrittura usano permessi restrittivi e i controlli Rust esistenti hanno esito positivo.

Note: This issue documents a vulnerability that was originally reported privately as the repository security advisory GHSA-535m-2x67-prhm by @pbeza.

Root Cause

fs::write() is used with default permissions (0o644) to write AppKeys to the filesystem. The AppKeys structure contains disk_crypt_key, env_crypt_key, and k256_key — all highly sensitive cryptographic secrets. Similarly, decrypted environment variables are written to files with default world-readable permissions.

// Default fs::write() creates files with 0o644 permissions
fs::write(&app_keys_path, serde_json::to_string(&app_keys)?)?;

Attack Path

1. Any process inside the CVM can read /path/to/app-keys.json
2. Attacker compromises any container workload (web vulnerability, dependency exploit, etc.)
3. Compromised process reads app-keys.json with disk_crypt_key, env_crypt_key, k256_key
4. Attacker can decrypt the disk, decrypt environment variables, and use the k256 signing key

Impact

Any compromised process inside the CVM can read all application cryptographic keys and decrypted environment variables. This includes the disk encryption key (enables offline disk reading), the env encryption key (decrypts all environment secrets), and the k256 key (enables signing as the CVM).

Suggested Fix

Set restrictive permissions before writing:

use std::os::unix::fs::OpenOptionsExt;

let mut file = std::fs::OpenOptions::new()
    .write(true)
    .create(true)
    .truncate(true)
    .mode(0o600)
    .open(&app_keys_path)?;
file.write_all(serde_json::to_string(&app_keys)?.as_bytes())?;

Consider further restricting to 0o400 (read-only by owner) after the initial write.

Note: This finding was reported automatically as part of an AI/Claude-driven internal audit by the NEAR One MPC team. It has not been manually verified by a human to confirm whether it constitutes an actual security issue.