3 test_description
='test local clone with ambiguous transport'
6 .
"$TEST_DIRECTORY/lib-httpd.sh"
8 if ! test_have_prereq SYMLINKS
10 skip_all
='skipping test, symlink support unavailable'
16 REPO
="$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/sub.git"
17 URI
="$HTTPD_URL/dumb/sub.git"
19 test_expect_success
'setup' '
21 echo "secret" >sensitive/secret &&
23 git init --bare "$REPO" &&
24 test_commit_bulk -C "$REPO" --ref=main 1 &&
26 git -C "$REPO" update-ref HEAD main &&
27 git -C "$REPO" update-server-info &&
33 git submodule add "$URI" &&
36 touch repo/refs/.gitkeep &&
37 printf "ref: refs/heads/a" >repo/HEAD &&
38 ln -s "$(cd .. && pwd)/sensitive" repo/objects &&
40 mkdir -p "$HTTPD_URL/dumb" &&
41 ln -s "../../../.git/modules/sub/../../../repo/" "$URI" &&
44 git commit -m "initial commit"
47 # Delete all of the references in our malicious submodule to
48 # avoid the client attempting to checkout any objects (which
49 # will be missing, and thus will cause the clone to fail before
50 # we can trigger the exploit).
51 git -C "$REPO" for-each-ref --format="delete %(refname)" >in &&
52 git -C "$REPO" update-ref --stdin <in &&
53 git -C "$REPO" update-server-info
56 test_expect_success
'ambiguous transport does not lead to arbitrary file-inclusion' '
57 git clone malicious clone &&
58 test_must_fail git -C clone submodule update --init 2>err &&
60 test_path_is_missing clone/.git/modules/sub/objects/secret &&
61 # We would actually expect "transport .file. not allowed" here,
62 # but due to quirks of the URL detection in Git, we mis-parse
63 # the absolute path as a bogus URL and die before that step.
65 # This works for now, and if we ever fix the URL detection, it
66 # is OK to change this to detect the transport error.
67 grep "protocol .* is not supported" err