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BREAKING: privilege separation deprecated #171

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privilege separation deprecated
micheelengronne May 22, 2020
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cleaning valid priv separation
micheelengronne May 22, 2020
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Merge branch 'master' into deprecate_privilege_separation
micheelengronne Aug 26, 2020
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions controls/sshd_spec.rb
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control 'sshd-16' do
impact 1.0
title 'Server: Use privilege separation'
desc 'UsePrivilegeSeparation is an option, when enabled will allow the OpenSSH server to run a small (necessary) amount of code as root and the of the code in a chroot jail environment. This enables ssh to deal incoming network traffic in an unprivileged child process to avoid privilege escalation by an attacker.'
desc 'UsePrivilegeSeparation is deprecated.'
describe sshd_config(sshd_custom_path + '/sshd_config') do
its('UsePrivilegeSeparation') { should eq(sshd_valid_privseparation) }
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I think we also need to remove

ssh-baseline/controls/sshd_spec.rb

Lines 35 to 39 in 0932d5f

sshd_valid_privseparation = if sshd_custom_user != 'root'
'no'
else
ssh_crypto.valid_privseparation
end
and

ssh-baseline/libraries/ssh_crypto.rb

Lines 172 to 210 in 3849c52

def valid_privseparation # rubocop:disable Metrics/CyclomaticComplexity
# define privilege separation set
ps53 = 'yes'
ps59 = 'sandbox'
ps75 = nil
ps = ps59
# debian 7.x and newer has ssh 5.9+
# ubuntu 12.04 and newer has ssh 5.9+
case inspec.os[:name]
when 'debian'
case inspec.os[:release]
when /^6\./
ps = ps53
when /^10\./
ps = ps75
end
when 'redhat', 'centos', 'oracle'
case inspec.os[:release]
# redhat/centos/oracle 6.x has ssh 5.3
when /^6\./
ps = ps53
when /^7\./
ps = ps59
when /^8\./
ps = ps75
end
when 'ubuntu'
case inspec.os[:release]
when /^18\./
ps = ps75
end
when 'fedora', 'alpine'
ps = ps75
end
ps
end

its('UsePrivilegeSeparation') { should eq nil }
end
end

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