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Proposed Changes

  • Create decrypted CLI output through the atomic output helper with mode 0600.
  • Require output-helper callers to choose the destination mode explicitly.
  • Preserve an existing destination when a write fails and add regression coverage for new and existing files.

Fixes DSPX-4696.

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  • I have added or updated unit tests
  • I have added or updated integration tests (not needed for this file-mode change)
  • I have added or updated documentation (no user-facing command behavior changed)

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Passed:

cd otdfctl
go test ./... -race
golangci-lint run --max-same-issues 0 --max-issues-per-linter 0 --timeout 10m

cd ../sdk
go test -run 'TestREADMECodeBlocks|TestDecryptBytes_InvalidCiphertext'

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  • make lint stops at buf lint service because the configured Buf API token is invalid.
  • make test reaches unrelated integration suites, then fails because Colima/Docker, Keycloak, and the local platform service are unavailable.

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  • Security

    • Decrypted output files are now restricted to the creating user by default, reducing the risk of unauthorized access.
  • Reliability

    • Decryption output is written more safely, helping prevent incomplete files from replacing existing results.
    • Existing destination files remain intact when cleanup or writing fails.
    • Successful output replacement now applies the requested file permissions consistently.

Signed-off-by: strantalis <strantalis@virtru.com>
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The change makes streamio.OutputFile accept per-file modes and applies them during commit. Decryption now writes through OutputFile, uses mode 0600, cleans up failed output, and commits successful output.

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Secure output handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Parameterized output file modes
otdfctl/pkg/streamio/output.go, otdfctl/pkg/streamio/output_test.go
OutputFile stores a requested mode and applies it during commit. Tests cover requested permissions, replacement, cleanup, and updated constructor calls.
Decrypted output commit flow
otdfctl/cmd/tdf/decrypt.go
Decryption creates output with mode 0600, cleans up after write or commit errors, and commits successful output.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: alkalescent

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 79937

Decrypted output permissions are security-sensitive. Add a command-level regression test to ensure decrypt output remains private.

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Benchmark results, click to expand

Benchmark authorization.GetDecisions Results:

Metric Value
Approved Decision Requests 1000
Denied Decision Requests 0
Total Time 245.140562ms

Benchmark authorization.v2.GetMultiResourceDecision Results:

Metric Value
Approved Decision Requests 1000
Denied Decision Requests 0
Total Time 144.074726ms

Benchmark Statistics

Name № Requests Avg Duration Min Duration Max Duration

Bulk Benchmark Results

Metric Value
Total Decrypts 100
Successful Decrypts 100
Failed Decrypts 0
Total Time 438.12647ms
Throughput 228.24 requests/second

TDF3 Benchmark Results:

Metric Value
Total Requests 5000
Successful Requests 5000
Failed Requests 0
Concurrent Requests 50
Total Time 59.569860176s
Average Latency 594.315465ms
Throughput 83.94 requests/second

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⚠️ Govulncheck found vulnerabilities ⚠️

The following modules have known vulnerabilities:

  • otdfctl
  • service
  • tests-bdd

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- Line 89: Add a reachable command-level regression test for decrypting with the
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`otdfctl decrypt` read the whole TDF into memory, handed the slice to
DecryptBytes, which accumulated the whole plaintext in a bytes.Buffer, and then
-- for stdout -- called Buffer.String(), allocating a third full copy. Peak RSS
was roughly 3.6x the payload; a 1 GiB file cost ~3.7 GiB of RAM and a large
enough file simply OOMed on a machine with plenty of disk for it.

The plaintext now streams from the SDK reader to the destination. Handler.Decrypt
takes an io.ReadSeeker and an io.Writer, with DecryptOptions replacing the
positional parameter list, and inspect reaches the manifest through the same
seekable reader rather than buffering the archive to get at its tail.

Measured on a 1 GiB round-trip: encrypt peaks at 74 MiB and decrypt at 67 MiB,
against ~3754 MiB and ~3808 MiB before. The round-trip is byte-identical.

io.Copy is what does the streaming, and it does so only because sdk.Reader
implements WriteTo, which decrypts one segment at a time. Its Read delegates to
ReadAt, which grows an internal bytes.Buffer holding every segment decrypted so
far -- so dropping WriteTo would silently restore the old memory profile with no
test failure to show for it. A compile-time assertion pins the interface.

Removes MaxFileSize. The 10 GB cap existed to bound RAM; the real limit is the
SDK maxFileSizeSupported at 64 GiB, which enforces itself.

Output to a file is atomic, as on the encrypt side: the plaintext goes to a
temporary sibling and is renamed into place only on success. Since
cli.ExitWithError calls os.Exit and skips deferred functions, the spooled input
and the partial output are discarded explicitly on every exit path -- including
inspect's success path, which exits through ExitWithJSON.

A destination a rename cannot stand in for -- /dev/null, a fifo, a symlink the
caller means to write through -- is opened and written directly instead.
decrypt's -o was a plain os.Create before this change, and `-o /dev/null` is a
routine way to time a decrypt or check one succeeds without keeping the
plaintext; the atomic path alone would have regressed both.

The output file mode is deliberately left as it is. #4037 turns it into a
per-caller parameter and #4046 applies it through the umask, which is a better
answer for the hardcoded 0644 inherited here than anything this PR could do in
passing.

e2e coverage lands in a new otdfctl/e2e/streaming.bats rather than in
encrypt-decrypt.bats, keeping the streaming concerns -- spooling, temp output,
peak memory -- apart from that file's entitlement fixtures. Nothing in the new
file needs an entitlement, so it needs no policy fixtures: the round-trips use
no attributes, and the failure cases are forced with an unresolvable attribute
FQN and a KAS allowlist that excludes the platform.

Both that file and encrypt-decrypt.bats are tagged unattributed_encrypt, and
action.yaml gives the tag its own pass ahead of the parallel batch. That
ordering is load-bearing, not tidiness. An encrypt with no attributes falls back
to the platform base key, and key-base.bats sets one pointing at
https://test-kas-for-base-keys.com, which does not resolve. It cannot put things
back afterwards: a base key can be replaced but never cleared, so every
unattributed encrypt scheduled after that file yields a TDF nothing can decrypt.
Under --jobs 4 the file order is nondeterministic, so overlapping the two made
this suite flaky rather than merely broken -- which is how it presented, a
different subset of round-trips failing per run. Running alone also keeps the
1 GiB peak-RSS case from measuring itself against three neighbours competing for
the same memory.

encrypt-decrypt.bats is tagged for the same reason. #4042 lifted its file-level
skip, and its very first case is an unattributed round-trip, so it now races
key-base.bats for a slot in the parallel batch and fails whenever it loses.
That it passes today is an accident of bats scheduling files alphabetically.
The underlying leak is still worth closing in key-base.bats.

action.yaml also installs the 'time' package, and the peak-RSS case now fails
rather than skips when CI lacks GNU time. It is the only test that demonstrates
the fix, so a silent skip would let a return to whole-payload buffering through.

Signed-off-by: Dave Mihalcik <dmihalcik@virtru.com>
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`otdfctl decrypt` read the whole TDF into memory, handed the slice to
DecryptBytes, which accumulated the whole plaintext in a bytes.Buffer, and then
-- for stdout -- called Buffer.String(), allocating a third full copy. Peak RSS
was roughly 3.6x the payload; a 1 GiB file cost ~3.7 GiB of RAM and a large
enough file simply OOMed on a machine with plenty of disk for it.

The plaintext now streams from the SDK reader to the destination. Handler.Decrypt
takes an io.ReadSeeker and an io.Writer, with DecryptOptions replacing the
positional parameter list, and inspect reaches the manifest through the same
seekable reader rather than buffering the archive to get at its tail.

Measured on a 1 GiB round-trip: encrypt peaks at 74 MiB and decrypt at 67 MiB,
against ~3754 MiB and ~3808 MiB before. The round-trip is byte-identical.

io.Copy is what does the streaming, and it does so only because sdk.Reader
implements WriteTo, which decrypts one segment at a time. Its Read delegates to
ReadAt, which grows an internal bytes.Buffer holding every segment decrypted so
far -- so dropping WriteTo would silently restore the old memory profile with no
test failure to show for it. A compile-time assertion pins the interface.

Removes MaxFileSize. The 10 GB cap existed to bound RAM; the real limit is the
SDK maxFileSizeSupported at 64 GiB, which enforces itself.

Output to a file is atomic, as on the encrypt side: the plaintext goes to a
temporary sibling and is renamed into place only on success. Since
cli.ExitWithError calls os.Exit and skips deferred functions, the spooled input
and the partial output are discarded explicitly on every exit path -- including
inspect's success path, which exits through ExitWithJSON.

A destination a rename cannot stand in for -- /dev/null, a fifo, a symlink the
caller means to write through -- is opened and written directly instead.
decrypt's -o was a plain os.Create before this change, and `-o /dev/null` is a
routine way to time a decrypt or check one succeeds without keeping the
plaintext; the atomic path alone would have regressed both.

The output file mode is deliberately left as it is. #4037 turns it into a
per-caller parameter and #4046 applies it through the umask, which is a better
answer for the hardcoded 0644 inherited here than anything this PR could do in
passing.

e2e coverage lands in a new otdfctl/e2e/streaming.bats rather than in
encrypt-decrypt.bats, keeping the streaming concerns -- spooling, temp output,
peak memory -- apart from that file's entitlement fixtures. Nothing in the new
file needs an entitlement, so it needs no policy fixtures: the round-trips use
no attributes, and the failure cases are forced with an unresolvable attribute
FQN and a KAS allowlist that excludes the platform.

Both that file and encrypt-decrypt.bats are tagged unattributed_encrypt, and
action.yaml gives the tag its own pass ahead of the parallel batch. That
ordering is load-bearing, not tidiness. An encrypt with no attributes falls back
to the platform base key, and key-base.bats sets one pointing at
https://test-kas-for-base-keys.com, which does not resolve. It cannot put things
back afterwards: a base key can be replaced but never cleared, so every
unattributed encrypt scheduled after that file yields a TDF nothing can decrypt.
Under --jobs 4 the file order is nondeterministic, so overlapping the two made
this suite flaky rather than merely broken -- which is how it presented, a
different subset of round-trips failing per run. Running alone also keeps the
1 GiB peak-RSS case from measuring itself against three neighbours competing for
the same memory.

encrypt-decrypt.bats is tagged for the same reason. #4042 lifted its file-level
skip, and its very first case is an unattributed round-trip, so it now races
key-base.bats for a slot in the parallel batch and fails whenever it loses.
That it passes today is an accident of bats scheduling files alphabetically.
The underlying leak is still worth closing in key-base.bats.

action.yaml also installs the 'time' package, and the peak-RSS case now fails
rather than skips when CI lacks GNU time. It is the only test that demonstrates
the fix, so a silent skip would let a return to whole-payload buffering through.

Signed-off-by: Dave Mihalcik <dmihalcik@virtru.com>

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