"""Startup security posture audit (warn-on-load, never blocks). Surfaces dangerous host / deployment posture at process start so operators get an at-a-glance "you're exposed" signal. These checks are advisory: they emit ``logger.warning`` records and return human-readable strings; they never raise or block startup. Checks (each is independent and fail-safe — any internal error is swallowed and simply yields no finding): """ from __future__ import annotations import logging import os import re from pathlib import Path from typing import Optional logger = logging.getLogger("hermes.security_audit") # Sentinel so the audit only runs once per process even if both the CLI and # gateway startup paths call it. _AUDIT_RAN = False def _is_root() -> bool: """True when the process runs as POSIX uid 0. Always False on Windows.""" getuid = getattr(os, "geteuid", None) or getattr(os, "getuid", None) try: return getuid is not None and getuid() == 0 except Exception: return False def _running_as_root() -> Optional[str]: if not _is_root(): return None return ( "Running as ROOT. The agent's terminal/file tools execute with full " "root privileges — a single prompt-injection or exposed endpoint is a " "full host compromise. Run Hermes as an unprivileged user (or in a " "sandboxed terminal backend / container with a non-root user)." ) def _iter_sshd_config_lines() -> list[str]: """Yield non-comment lines from sshd_config + its drop-in directory.""" lines: list[str] = [] paths: list[Path] = [Path("/etc/ssh/sshd_config")] try: d = Path("/etc/ssh/sshd_config.d") if d.is_dir(): paths.extend(sorted(d.glob("*.conf"))) except Exception: pass for p in paths: try: raw_lines = p.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace").splitlines() except Exception: continue lines.extend(s for s in map(str.strip, raw_lines) if s and not s.startswith("#")) return lines def _ssh_password_auth_enabled() -> Optional[str]: """Warn when an SSH daemon has password authentication enabled. Password auth on a public SSH daemon is the classic brute-force surface and pairs badly with a root-capable agent box. POSIX-only; returns None when there's no sshd config to read (e.g. Windows, or SSH not installed). """ lines = _iter_sshd_config_lines() if not lines: return None # Last directive wins in sshd_config. Default (no directive) is "yes". directives = [ m.group(1).lower() for m in (re.match(r"(?i)^PasswordAuthentication\s+(\w+)", line) for line in lines) if m ] if directives and directives[-1] == "no": return None qualifier = "" if directives else " (default — no explicit directive)" return ( f"SSH password authentication is ENABLED{qualifier}. Password auth is " "brute-forceable and dangerous on an internet-facing box. Set " "'PasswordAuthentication no' in sshd_config and use key-based auth." ) def _in_container() -> bool: """Best-effort container detection (Docker / Podman / generic OCI).""" if os.path.exists("/.dockerenv"): return True if os.environ.get("HERMES_DESKTOP_CHILD_PID"): return False # desktop child, not a server container try: cgroup = Path("/proc/1/cgroup").read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") except Exception: return False return any(tok in cgroup for tok in ("docker", "containerd", "kubepods", "libpod")) def _path_is_mounted(path: Path) -> bool: """True if *path* sits on (or under) a real mount point per /proc/mounts. Container overlay/root filesystems are ephemeral; a bind/volume mount over the data dir shows up as a distinct mount entry. The path counts as persisted when a mountpoint at or above it is NOT the container root overlay. """ try: target = path.resolve() except Exception: target = path try: mounts = Path("/proc/mounts").read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace").splitlines() except Exception: return True # can't tell — fail safe (no warning) # (mountpoint, fstype) entries at or above target; the longest (most specific) wins, # first one on ties. covering = [ (Path(parts[1]), parts[2]) for parts in (line.split() for line in mounts) if len(parts) >= 3 and (Path(parts[1]) == target or Path(parts[1]) in target.parents) ] if not covering: return True best_fstype = max(covering, key=lambda entry: len(str(entry[0])))[1] # overlay / tmpfs over the data dir = ephemeral container storage. return best_fstype not in ("overlay", "tmpfs", "aufs") def _container_no_volume_mount(hermes_home: Optional[Path]) -> Optional[str]: if not _in_container(): return None if hermes_home is None: from hermes_constants import get_hermes_home hermes_home = get_hermes_home() if _path_is_mounted(hermes_home): # any error propagates to run_security_audit (= no finding) return None return ( f"Running in a container but the data dir ({hermes_home}) is NOT on a " "persistent volume mount — sessions, memory, skills, and API keys are " "ephemeral and lost on container restart. Mount a host volume over the " "HERMES_HOME data directory." ) def _network_listener_without_auth(config: Optional[dict]) -> list[str]: """Warn about network-accessible gateway listeners with no auth. Covers the API server (no API_SERVER_KEY) and the dashboard (non-loopback bind with no auth provider). Read-only against config + env; overlaps the hard fail-closed guards but surfaces the posture proactively at startup. """ # Any error (incl. an unimportable gateway package) propagates to run_security_audit, # which treats it as "no finding". from gateway.platforms.base import is_network_accessible plats = (config or {}).get("platforms") or {} api = plats.get("api_server") if isinstance(plats, dict) else None if not (isinstance(api, dict) and api.get("enabled")): return [] extra = api.get("extra") or {} host = extra.get("host") or os.environ.get("API_SERVER_HOST", "127.0.0.1") key = extra.get("key") or os.environ.get("API_SERVER_KEY", "") if not is_network_accessible(str(host)) or str(key).strip(): return [] return [ f"OpenAI-compatible API server is network-accessible ({host}) " "with NO API_SERVER_KEY. It dispatches terminal-capable agent " "work — an unauthenticated network endpoint is remote code " "execution. Set a strong API_SERVER_KEY." ] def run_security_audit( *, hermes_home: Optional[Path] = None, config: Optional[dict] = None ) -> list[str]: """Run all checks and return a list of human-readable warning strings. Pure: no logging, no side effects. Each check is independently fail-safe. Used directly by tests; the logging wrapper is :func:`log_startup_security_warnings`. """ findings: list[str] = [] for check in ( _running_as_root, _ssh_password_auth_enabled, lambda: _container_no_volume_mount(hermes_home), lambda: _network_listener_without_auth(config), ): try: r = check() except Exception: continue if isinstance(r, list): findings.extend(r) elif r: findings.append(r) return findings def log_startup_security_warnings( *, hermes_home: Optional[Path] = None, config: Optional[dict] = None, force: bool = False, ) -> list[str]: """Run the audit once per process and emit each finding via logger.warning. Returns the findings (also for tests). Never raises. Idempotent unless ``force=True`` (used by tests). """ global _AUDIT_RAN if _AUDIT_RAN and not force: return [] _AUDIT_RAN = True findings = run_security_audit(hermes_home=hermes_home, config=config) if findings: logger.warning( "Security posture audit found %d issue(s) — review your deployment:", len(findings) ) for i, f in enumerate(findings, 1): logger.warning(" [security %d/%d] %s", i, len(findings), f) return findings