Added some hardening measures to systemd unit files for managing the matrix-synapse service

3 files changed, 213 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/debian/matrix-synapse.service b/debian/matrix-synapse.service
index 553babf549..a23accfb33 100644
--- a/debian/matrix-synapse.service
+++ b/debian/matrix-synapse.service
@@ -13,5 +13,76 @@ Restart=always
 RestartSec=3
 SyslogIdentifier=matrix-synapse
 
+# The following directives give the synapse service R/W access to:
+# - /run/matrix-synapse
+# - /var/lib/matrix-synapse
+# - /var/log/matrix-synapse
+
+RuntimeDirectory=matrix-synapse
+StateDirectory=matrix-synapse
+LogsDirectory=matrix-synapse
+
+######################
+## Security Sandbox ##
+######################
+
+# Make sure that the service has its own unshared tmpfs at /tmp and that it
+# cannot see or change any real devices
+PrivateTmp=true
+PrivateDevices=true
+
+# We give no capabilities to a service by default
+CapabilityBoundingSet=
+AmbientCapabilities=
+
+# Protect the following from modification:
+# - The entire filesystem
+# - sysctl settings and loaded kernel modules
+# - No modifications allowed to Control Groups
+# - Hostname
+# - System Clock
+ProtectSystem=strict
+ProtectKernelTunables=true
+ProtectKernelModules=true
+ProtectControlGroups=true
+ProtectClock=true
+ProtectHostname=true
+
+# Prevent access to the following:
+# - /home directory
+# - Kernel logs
+ProtectHome=tmpfs
+ProtectKernelLogs=true
+
+# Make sure that the process can only see PIDs and process details of itself,
+# and the second option disables seeing details of things like system load and
+# I/O etc
+ProtectProc=invisible
+ProcSubset=pid
+
+# While not needed, we set these options explicitly
+# - This process has been given access to the host network
+# - It can also communicate with any IP Address
+PrivateNetwork=false
+RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_INET AF_INET6 AF_UNIX
+IPAddressAllow=any
+
+# Restrict system calls to a sane bunch
+SystemCallArchitectures=native
+SystemCallFilter=@system-service
+SystemCallFilter=~@privileged @resources @obsolete
+
+# Misc restrictions
+# - Since the process is a python process it needs to be able to write and
+#   execute memory regions, so we set MemoryDenyWriteExecute to false
+RestrictSUIDSGID=true
+RemoveIPC=true
+NoNewPrivileges=true
+RestrictRealtime=true
+RestrictNamespaces=true
+LockPersonality=true
+PrivateUsers=true
+MemoryDenyWriteExecute=false
+
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/docs/systemd-with-workers/system/matrix-synapse-worker@.service b/docs/systemd-with-workers/system/matrix-synapse-worker@.service
index d164e8ce1f..04189113c4 100644
--- a/docs/systemd-with-workers/system/matrix-synapse-worker@.service
+++ b/docs/systemd-with-workers/system/matrix-synapse-worker@.service
@@ -22,5 +22,76 @@ Restart=always
 RestartSec=3
 SyslogIdentifier=matrix-synapse-%i
 
+# The following directives give the synapse worker service R/W access to:
+# - /run/matrix-synapse
+# - /var/lib/matrix-synapse
+# - /var/log/matrix-synapse
+
+RuntimeDirectory=matrix-synapse
+StateDirectory=matrix-synapse
+LogsDirectory=matrix-synapse
+
+######################
+## Security Sandbox ##
+######################
+
+# Make sure that the service has its own unshared tmpfs at /tmp and that it
+# cannot see or change any real devices
+PrivateTmp=true
+PrivateDevices=true
+
+# We give no capabilities to a service by default
+CapabilityBoundingSet=
+AmbientCapabilities=
+
+# Protect the following from modification:
+# - The entire filesystem
+# - sysctl settings and loaded kernel modules
+# - No modifications allowed to Control Groups
+# - Hostname
+# - System Clock
+ProtectSystem=strict
+ProtectKernelTunables=true
+ProtectKernelModules=true
+ProtectControlGroups=true
+ProtectClock=true
+ProtectHostname=true
+
+# Prevent access to the following:
+# - /home directory
+# - Kernel logs
+ProtectHome=tmpfs
+ProtectKernelLogs=true
+
+# Make sure that the process can only see PIDs and process details of itself,
+# and the second option disables seeing details of things like system load and
+# I/O etc
+ProtectProc=invisible
+ProcSubset=pid
+
+# While not needed, we set these options explicitly
+# - This process has been given access to the host network
+# - It can also communicate with any IP Address
+PrivateNetwork=false
+RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_INET AF_INET6 AF_UNIX
+IPAddressAllow=any
+
+# Restrict system calls to a sane bunch
+SystemCallArchitectures=native
+SystemCallFilter=@system-service
+SystemCallFilter=~@privileged @resources @obsolete
+
+# Misc restrictions
+# - Since the process is a python process it needs to be able to write and
+#   execute memory regions
+RestrictSUIDSGID=true
+RemoveIPC=true
+NoNewPrivileges=true
+RestrictRealtime=true
+RestrictNamespaces=true
+LockPersonality=true
+PrivateUsers=true
+MemoryDenyWriteExecute=false
+
 [Install]
 WantedBy=matrix-synapse.target
diff --git a/docs/systemd-with-workers/system/matrix-synapse.service b/docs/systemd-with-workers/system/matrix-synapse.service
index f6b6dfd3ce..9ee086f9f9 100644
--- a/docs/systemd-with-workers/system/matrix-synapse.service
+++ b/docs/systemd-with-workers/system/matrix-synapse.service
@@ -18,5 +18,76 @@ Restart=always
 RestartSec=3
 SyslogIdentifier=matrix-synapse
 
+# The following directives give the synapse service R/W access to:
+# - /run/matrix-synapse
+# - /var/lib/matrix-synapse
+# - /var/log/matrix-synapse
+
+RuntimeDirectory=matrix-synapse
+StateDirectory=matrix-synapse
+LogsDirectory=matrix-synapse
+
+######################
+## Security Sandbox ##
+######################
+
+# Make sure that the service has its own unshared tmpfs at /tmp and that it
+# cannot see or change any real devices
+PrivateTmp=true
+PrivateDevices=true
+
+# We give no capabilities to a service by default
+CapabilityBoundingSet=
+AmbientCapabilities=
+
+# Protect the following from modification:
+# - The entire filesystem
+# - sysctl settings and loaded kernel modules
+# - No modifications allowed to Control Groups
+# - Hostname
+# - System Clock
+ProtectSystem=strict
+ProtectKernelTunables=true
+ProtectKernelModules=true
+ProtectControlGroups=true
+ProtectClock=true
+ProtectHostname=true
+
+# Prevent access to the following:
+# - /home directory
+# - Kernel logs
+ProtectHome=tmpfs
+ProtectKernelLogs=true
+
+# Make sure that the process can only see PIDs and process details of itself,
+# and the second option disables seeing details of things like system load and
+# I/O etc
+ProtectProc=invisible
+ProcSubset=pid
+
+# While not needed, we set these options explicitly
+# - This process has been given access to the host network
+# - It can also communicate with any IP Address
+PrivateNetwork=false
+RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_INET AF_INET6 AF_UNIX
+IPAddressAllow=any
+
+# Restrict system calls to a sane bunch
+SystemCallArchitectures=native
+SystemCallFilter=@system-service
+SystemCallFilter=~@privileged @resources @obsolete
+
+# Misc restrictions
+# - Since the process is a python process it needs to be able to write and
+#   execute memory regions
+RestrictSUIDSGID=true
+RemoveIPC=true
+NoNewPrivileges=true
+RestrictRealtime=true
+RestrictNamespaces=true
+LockPersonality=true
+PrivateUsers=true
+MemoryDenyWriteExecute=false
+
 [Install]
 WantedBy=matrix-synapse.target