Validate policy scope when ingesting distributed/write results - #51148
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A host authenticates to /api/osquery/distributed/write with its node key and fully controls the fleet_policy_query_<id> keys in the payload. Fleet accepted and persisted a result for any ID it was handed, without checking that the policy was actually assigned to that host, so an enrolled host could forge policy membership across fleet, platform and label scope -- for example a no-team host recording itself as failing another fleet's policy, which then surfaced in that fleet's host listings and compliance views. Filter incoming policy results against the host's real in-scope set (the same team/platform/label query used to build the distributed/read response) before recording them. Out-of-scope results are dropped rather than rejecting the whole write: the same condition fires benignly when a policy leaves the host's scope between read and write (team transfer, label change), and failing the check-in would also discard the host's legitimate detail and label results. Previously injected rows are removed by the existing stale-row cleanup on the host's next reporting cycle.
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Pull request overview
This PR hardens /api/osquery/distributed/write policy ingestion by ensuring hosts cannot persist policy results for policies that are not actually in scope for that host (team/platform/label), preventing forged policy membership from being stored and surfaced in compliance/host listings.
Changes:
- Add server-side filtering to discard out-of-scope
fleet_policy_query_<id>results before persistence and downstream policy automation processing. - Add/adjust unit and integration tests to cover forged/out-of-scope policy result ingestion behavior.
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| server/service/osquery.go | Discards out-of-scope policy results during distributed/write ingestion before persistence and downstream processing. |
| server/service/osquery_test.go | Adds unit coverage ensuring forged/out-of-scope policy IDs are dropped and don’t get recorded. |
| server/service/integration_enterprise_test.go | Adds an integration test asserting out-of-scope policy results are not persisted and don’t affect policy-filtered host listings. |
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| // A host authenticates with its node key and fully controls the fleet_policy_query_<id> keys it | ||
| // sends to distributed/write, so results for policies outside its scope must never be persisted. | ||
| func (s *integrationEnterpriseTestSuite) TestPolicyResultsForOutOfScopePoliciesAreRejected() { |
| hostPolicyQueries, err := svc.ds.PolicyQueriesForHost(ctx, host) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return ctxerr.Wrap(ctx, err, "retrieve policy queries") | ||
| } | ||
| for policyID := range policyResults { |
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Let's do this. We want to keep this hot-path as lightweight as possible.
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I did ask Claude if there was a way to prevent a new DB access but it involves a bit of a refactor so let's stick to this and we can iterate if need be.
WalkthroughFleet now filters policy results against the host’s currently assigned policies across fleet, platform, and label scopes. Out-of-scope results are discarded before processing or persistence, and datastore errors stop submission. Tests cover stale membership cleanup, failed results, changing policy scope, policy distribution, persistence, and failing-host queries. Mergeability Score: 🟠 High · up to Hosts in setup experience may submit results for policies that were not assigned or distributed to them, causing false compliance data and potentially triggering unrelated policy actions. This should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@server/service/osquery.go`:
- Line 930: Update the write-validation flow around PolicyQueriesForHost to
resolve allowed policy IDs from the same setup-experience subset used by
PolicyQueriesForHostFiltered and distributed/read behavior, rather than the full
assignment set; keep this lookup independent of the policy-update interval and
add a regression test covering an un-distributed normally assigned policy result
during setup experience.
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| if len(policyResults) == 0 { | ||
| return nil | ||
| } | ||
| hostPolicyQueries, err := svc.ds.PolicyQueriesForHost(ctx, host) |
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Use the setup-experience policy subset for write validation.
Line 930 checks the full PolicyQueriesForHost set. During setup experience, policyQueriesForHost distributes only PolicyQueriesForHostFiltered results for policy-gated setup items. A setup-experience host can submit a result for a normally assigned policy that Fleet did not distribute in that cycle. The later policy processors can persist that result and run unrelated policy automation.
Resolve allowed IDs with the same setup-experience subset used by distributed/read, while keeping write validation independent of the policy-update interval. Add a setup-experience regression test.
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In `@server/service/osquery.go` at line 930, Update the write-validation flow
around PolicyQueriesForHost to resolve allowed policy IDs from the same
setup-experience subset used by PolicyQueriesForHostFiltered and
distributed/read behavior, rather than the full assignment set; keep this lookup
independent of the policy-update interval and add a regression test covering an
un-distributed normally assigned policy result during setup experience.
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| if err := svc.discardOutOfScopePolicyResults(ctx, host, policyResults); err != nil { |
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For clarity let's move this to inside the if len(policyResults) > 0 { (I know there's a == 0 check in the method, but it would be easier to read in the future, I don't need to go to discardOutOfScopePolicyResults definition to know that it covers len policyResults being 0)
| hostPolicyQueries, err := svc.ds.PolicyQueriesForHost(ctx, host) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return ctxerr.Wrap(ctx, err, "retrieve policy queries") | ||
| } | ||
| for policyID := range policyResults { |
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Let's do this. We want to keep this hot-path as lightweight as possible.
| hostPolicyQueries, err := svc.ds.PolicyQueriesForHost(ctx, host) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return ctxerr.Wrap(ctx, err, "retrieve policy queries") | ||
| } | ||
| for policyID := range policyResults { |
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I did ask Claude if there was a way to prevent a new DB access but it involves a bit of a refactor so let's stick to this and we can iterate if need be.
| if len(policyResults) == 0 { | ||
| return nil | ||
| } | ||
| hostPolicyQueries, err := svc.ds.PolicyQueriesForHost(ctx, host) |
| // A host authenticates with its node key and fully controls the fleet_policy_query_<id> keys it | ||
| // sends to distributed/write, so results for policies outside its scope must never be persisted. | ||
| func (s *integrationEnterpriseTestSuite) TestPolicyResultsForOutOfScopePoliciesAreRejected() { |
A host authenticates to
/api/osquery/distributed/writewith its node key and fully controls thefleet_policy_query_<id>keys in the payload. Fleet persisted a result for any ID it was handed, without checking the policy was actually assigned to that host.An enrolled host could therefore forge policy membership across fleet, platform and label scope -- e.g. a no-team host recording itself as failing another fleet's policy, which then surfaced in that fleet's host listings and compliance views.
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