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Addresses GHSA-wvpx-5qmp-46g3 (logging.config.fileConfig class=/args= eval). Also closes the corresponding hole in the FL client path (see GHSA-x6pr-233j-x5cw).

What

fileConfig passes each handler/formatter class= and args=/kwargs= through eval(), and a bundle's configs/logging.conf is applied in ConfigWorkflow.__init__ before any bundle config is parsed — an untrusted bundle gets code execution from the logging file alone.

_reject_executable_logging_config() now screens the INI before fileConfig is ever called:

  • class= restricted to the logging / logging.handlers namespaces
  • args=/kwargs= walked as AST: constants, tuples, lists, dicts, sets, and sys.stdout/sys.stderr pass; calls, subscripts, lambdas, comprehensions, and arbitrary attribute chains raise ValueError

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My first implementation used ast.literal_eval and it was wrong — it rejects args=(sys.stdout,), the standard StreamHandler form, which appears in MONAI's own tests/testing_data/logging.conf and nearly every real bundle. The AST walk with a two-name allowlist replaced it. The allowlist (_ALLOWED_LOGGING_ARG_NAMES) is the whole compatibility surface; please review it.

Test changes

  • tests/bundle/test_bundle_workflow.py: test_default_logging_conf_warns_and_executes (which built a real payload and asserted execution) → test_default_logging_conf_payload_is_rejected; new test_args_payload_is_rejected; new test_benign_logging_conf_still_applies
  • tests/fl/monai_algo/test_fl_monai_algo.py: test_logging_file_opt_in_applies_provisioned_conftest_logging_file_opt_in_still_rejects_executable_conf — the FL path (GHSA-x6pr) can no longer escalate into code execution even when it opts in to logging

Verification

  • 26-case adversarial script: __import__('os').system(...), ().__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__(), lambdas, f-strings with calls, sys.modules['os'] all blocked; benign StreamHandler and RotatingFileHandler forms still work
  • tests/bundle + tests/fl: 29/29 pass; remaining 18 failures in the wider bundle/fl suite are pre-existing network-dependent failures (bundle download, ckpt export, verify), identical with these changes stashed
  • black / ruff / DCO clean

This is the 1.6.1 "complete fix" for GHSA-wvpx, replacing the warning-only PRs #9078/#9085/#9086 that previously shipped for the FL and bundle paths.

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Logging configuration handling now validates INI class=, args=, and kwargs= values before application. Only approved logging classes, literals, and sys.stdout or sys.stderr are accepted. BundleWorkflow and ConfigWorkflow raise ValueError for executable configurations. Tests cover malicious payloads, valid configurations, and explicitly selected provisioned configurations.

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Severity of issue fixed: High

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a2693

The security behavior is covered, but accepted logging configurations are not verified as applied, leaving a small regression-detection gap before merge.

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In `@monai/bundle/workflows.py`:
- Around line 164-165: Update the logging configuration flow around
_reject_executable_logging_config and fileConfig to read logging_file once,
validate the captured content, and pass that same immutable text through
io.StringIO to fileConfig; do not reopen the path between validation and
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- Around line 77-78: Update the class-expression validation around qualified and
_ALLOWED_LOGGING_CLASS_MODULES to parse the original class= value with ast.parse
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module; reject calls, subscripts, operators, and all other AST nodes before
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logging.config.fileConfig resolves each handler/formatter class= field
through eval() in a namespace holding the logging module, and evaluates
args=/kwargs= the same way. A bundle ships configs/logging.conf and it is
applied before any bundle config is parsed, so an untrusted bundle can run
arbitrary code from the logging file alone (see
https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/security/advisories/GHSA-wvpx-5qmp-46g3).

Replace the warn-and-execute behaviour of Project-MONAI#9078 with a hard allowlist:

- class= must live in the logging or logging.handlers namespace;
- args=/kwargs= must be literal expressions, optionally naming sys.stdout /
  sys.stderr, enforced by an AST walk that rejects calls, attribute
  traversal, subscripts, comprehensions and any other executable form.

Benign bundle configs (including the repo's own StreamHandler fixture with
args=(sys.stdout,)) continue to apply; anything executable is refused with
a ValueError that names the offending section and field.

Signed-off-by: R. Garcia-Dias <rafaelagd@gmail.com>
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garciadias force-pushed the secfix/ghsa-wvpx-fileconfig branch from e446d97 to de6e1fe Compare September 11, 2026 16:40
- monai/bundle/workflows.py: parse class= with ast.parse and allow only a bare
  name or an attribute chain rooted in an allowlisted logging module; reject
  calls, subscripts, operators, and all other expression nodes so an expression
  without a period (e.g. __builtins__.eval) cannot slip past a string-prefix check
- monai/bundle/workflows.py: read the logging file once, validate the captured
  text, and pass that same text through io.StringIO to fileConfig, so a file
  swapped in between the two reads cannot bypass the validation
- tests/bundle/test_bundle_workflow.py: add regression tests for the executable
  class= expression shapes

Signed-off-by: R. Garcia-Dias <rafaelagd@gmail.com>

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- Around line 136-137: Update _reject_non_logging_class to reject bare ast.Name
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The previous check accepted any bare `class=` name, so `class=eval` passed
validation. `fileConfig` resolves a dotless class against the logging
namespace with `eval()`, so pairing it with a literal `args=` tuple -- which
the literal check permits, the tuple itself being inert -- passed an
attacker-controlled string to `eval` and executed code before handler setup
failed.

- monai/bundle/workflows.py: resolve `class=` against the allowlisted modules
  and require a logging.Handler/Formatter subclass; deriving this from the
  module keeps the allowlist in step with the standard library
- tests/bundle/test_bundle_workflow.py: regression tests for `class=eval`,
  for a non-handler logging attribute, and for RotatingFileHandler still
  being accepted

Signed-off-by: R. Garcia-Dias <rafaelagd@gmail.com>

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421-421: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that each accepted configuration is applied.

A no-op implementation can pass both tests. Assert that the root logger contains the expected RotatingFileHandler or StreamHandler. For StreamHandler, also assert handler.stream is sys.stdout.

  • tests/bundle/test_bundle_workflow.py#L421-L421: assert that the root logger contains a logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler for logfile.
  • tests/bundle/test_bundle_workflow.py#L481-L481: assert that the root logger contains a logging.StreamHandler that uses sys.stdout.
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In `@tests/bundle/test_bundle_workflow.py` at line 421, Strengthen the
configuration workflow tests around ConfigWorkflow at
tests/bundle/test_bundle_workflow.py lines 421-421 and 481-481: after applying
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logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler for logfile; at line 481, assert it
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In `@tests/bundle/test_bundle_workflow.py`:
- Line 421: Strengthen the configuration workflow tests around ConfigWorkflow at
tests/bundle/test_bundle_workflow.py lines 421-421 and 481-481: after applying
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