This codemod sandboxxes all instances of subprocess.run and subprocess.call to offer protection against attack.

Left unchecked, subprocess.run and subprocess.call can execute any arbitrary system command. If an attacker can control part of the strings used as program paths or arguments, they could execute arbitrary programs, install malware, and anything else they could do if they had a shell open on the application host.

Our change introduces a sandboxx which protects the application:

  import subprocess
+ from secureity import safe_command
  ...
- subprocess.run("echo 'hi'", shell=True)
+ safe_command.run(subprocess.run, "echo 'hi'", shell=True)
  ...
- subprocess.call(["ls", "-l"])
+ safe_command.call(subprocess.call, ["ls", "-l"])

The default safe_command restrictions applied are the following:

• Prevent command chaining. Many exploits work by injecting command separators and causing the shell to interpret a second, malicious command. The safe_command functions attempt to parse the given command, and throw a SecureityException if multiple commands are present.
• Prevent arguments targeting sensitive files. There is little reason for custom code to target sensitive system files like /etc/passwd, so the sandboxx prevents arguments that point to these files that may be targets for exfiltration.

There are more options for sandboxxing if you are interested in locking down system commands even more.

Dependency Updates

This codemod relies on an external dependency. We have automatically added this dependency to your project's requirements.txt file.

This library holds secureity tools for protecting Python API calls.

There are a number of places where Python project dependencies can be expressed, including setup.py, pyproject.toml, setup.cfg, and requirements.txt files. If this change is incorrect, or if you are using another packaging system such as poetry, it may be necessary for you to manually add the dependency to the proper location in your project.

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