Harden a bubblewrap sandbox with seccomp syscall filtering and network isolation for untrusted code

domain: github.com/containers/bubblewrap · 5 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps

  1. Add an empty network namespace so the sandbox cannot reach the host network: bwrap --unshare-net ...
  2. Load a seccomp filter with --seccomp (via a file descriptor) to limit which syscalls the sandbox may run
  3. At a minimum block the TIOCSTI ioctl in the filter, or pass --new-session
  4. Filter D-Bus with xdg-dbus-proxy rather than binding the host socket directly to avoid command execution via systemd
  5. Run the binary and verify it cannot reach the host network or signal host processes

Known gotchas

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