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Non-root user that (suddenly) has elevated privileges in a specific command (only). [Have I been hacked?] (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by GustavoM@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Title. Long,short story: creating or editing files with nano as my non-root user gives (the file) elevated privileges, like I have ran it w/ sudo or as root. And the (only) "security hole" that I can think of is a nextdns docker container running as root. That aside, its very "overkill" security-wise (cap_drop=ALL, non-root image, security_opt=no_new_privileges, etc.).

It's like someone tried to hack me but gave up halfway. Am I right or wrong to assume this? Just curious.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] bolapara@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you be more specific about what you mean by this: "gives (the file) elevated privileges"?

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

i.e file is created (as non-root), trying to remove the file (once again, as non-root) gives me a "rm: cannot remove 'dir/file.name': Permission denied" error message.

[–] bolapara@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

OK I see. Can you create a new file with nano and then do an "ls -l" so we can see the permissions it's given? Also provide the output of the command "umask" as the user you're working with.

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just did it, and it shows my sudoer username with ownership of the created file. umask returns me 0002.

[–] bolapara@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you paste the line from ls -l? Sanitize the username/date/time if you need to. Example:

-rw-r--r-- 1 bolapara users 0 Nov 21 17:19 asdf

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

-rw-rw-r-- 1 $sudoer $sudoer $date $createdfilename.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That is not an elevated permission, your user should be able to delete that file, do the same in another directory if it works it might be a permission, or more likely an attribute, problem on the directory itself or something on the path to it.

[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You cannot say if user able do delete the file or not. It depends on the directory permissions (deleting a file is modifying a directory).

[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

What are the permissions on the directory? What is command are you running to edit the file? What command are you running to delete it? (Have you got selinux turned on? What filesystem is this directory on?)

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 years ago

Do you have write permissions on the directory?