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@fritzmg fritzmg commented Aug 8, 2024

Q A
Branch? 5.4
Bug fix? yes
New feature? no
Deprecations? no
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The current version of the ExecutableFinder only checks the paths in the open_basedir when set. However, this will cause the ExecutableFinder not find the executable in question if it is in a subfolder of one of the open_basedir paths.

For example the environment might be configured as follows:

  • PATH=/usr/bin
  • open_basedir=/usr

In this case the ExecutableFinder only checks the /usr folder and won't find the binaries in /usr/bin, even though the PHP process would be allowed to access /usr/bin, as the open_basedir restriction allows access to subfolders.

This PR fixes that by always adding the paths from PATH to the directories to be checked.

Note: this is not an issue in Symfony 6.4+. The open_basedir logic does not exist there and thus that problem does not exist there.

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Thanks for the nice explanations.
Checking the CI, the failure seems related, can you please have a look?

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fritzmg commented Aug 12, 2024

Checking the CI, the failure seems related, can you please have a look?

Unfortunately I am on Windows and execution of these tests are excluded on Windows 🙈. Thus I did not investigate how the tests would need to be adjusted 🤔

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xabbuh commented Aug 14, 2024

I think a proper fix would be to instead use the configured open basedir to ignore the directories defined in $PATH that are not usable by the PHP process: #58008

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fritzmg commented Aug 14, 2024

I think a proper fix would be to instead use the configured open basedir to ignore the directories defined in $PATH that are not usable by the PHP process

That's already the case with the current code.

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stof commented Aug 14, 2024

@fritzmg no. in your PR, you search in PATH even if it is outside the open_basedir restriction, because you don't filter the list

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fritzmg commented Aug 14, 2024

@stof yes, because it is not necessary to do that. See the comments in the other PR. @xabbuh 's PR now also does not filter the paths.

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Closing in favor of #58291

nicolas-grekas added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 17, 2024
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This PR was merged into the 5.4 branch.

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[Process] Fix finding executables independently of open_basedir

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Branch?       | 5.4
| Bug fix?      | yes
| New feature?  | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Issues        | -
| License       | MIT

This backports #47422 to 5.4, which is a bugfix really.

Instead of #58008 and #57954 /cc `@xabbuh` `@fritzmg`

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@fritzmg fritzmg deleted the openbasedir-executable-finder branch March 15, 2025 16:21
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