Affected: Jo-Jo98 ciguard

ciguard is a static security auditor for CI/CD pipelines. From 0.1.0 to 0.8.1, the published ghcr.io/jo-jo98/ciguard container image inherits the default root user because the Dockerfile lacks a USER directive. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.2.

Affected: PyPI: ciguard

## Summary

The published `ghcr.io/jo-jo98/ciguard` container image inherits the default root user because the `Dockerfile` lacks a `USER` directive. ciguard is a static analyser with no need for root privileges; running as root inside a container makes any future container-runtime escape CVE more impactful than it needs to be.

## Threat scenario

Defence-in-depth gap. Without a known container-runtime CVE in the chain, this finding is not directly exploitable. Recent runc CVEs (e.g. CVE-2024-21626) provided escape primitives that depended on host UID = container UID = 0 for full impact; with this fix, any future such escape primitive lands as a non-root user on the host.

## Patch

- Dockerfile adds `RUN groupadd -r ciguard && useradd -r -g ciguard -d /home/ciguard -m -s /usr/sbin/nologin ciguard && chown -R ciguard:ciguard /reports /policies-mount /app`. - Followed by `USER ciguard` before the `CMD` directive. - Trivy DS-0002 misconfig clears (`Tests: 20 SUCCESSES: 20 FAILURES: 0`).

## Discovery

Found by Trivy filesystem scan during ciguard's first self-conducted pentest cycle, 2026-04-26.

## CVSS Scoring

- CVSS v3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N` — 2.0 (Low) - CVSS v4.0: `CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N` — 3.4 (Low) per Cycle 1 report; GitHub's calc 1.8 (Low). Both Low.

## Verification

``` $ docker run --rm ghcr.io/jo-jo98/ciguard:v0.8.2 id uid=999(ciguard) gid=999(ciguard) groups=999(ciguard) ```

## References

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