fix: enforce owner-only permissions on credential files

Credentials stored at rest were left world-readable on multi-user hosts:

- TokenManager._get_secure_storage_path() documented its credential dir as
  mode 0o700 but created it via mkdir() with default perms (0o755), leaving
  the Fernet secret.key and encrypted tokens.enc in a traversable dir.
- Settings.dump() persisted tool_repository_password (plaintext) to
  settings.json via open("w"), producing a 0o644 file, and created the
  config dir at 0o755 — despite the sibling token_manager already writing
  secrets atomically at 0o600.

Fixes:
- TokenManager: chmod the credential dir to 0o700 after mkdir (robust against
  umask and pre-existing dirs).
- Settings: write settings.json atomically at 0o600 (mkstemp + chmod +
  os.replace) and chmod the dedicated config dir to 0o700. The /tmp and cwd
  fallback parents are deliberately not chmod'd; the 0o600 file mode protects
  the credential there.

Adds regression tests asserting 0o600 files and 0o700 dirs, and that shared
fallback dirs are not globally tightened.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: theCyberTech

lib/cli/tests/test_config.py

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 import json
+import os
 import shutil
+import stat
+import sys
 import tempfile
 import unittest
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
@@ -146,3 +149,55 @@ def test_empty_config_file(self):
 
         settings = Settings(config_path=self.config_path)
         self.assertIsNone(settings.tool_repository_username)
+
+
+class TestSettingsFilePermissions(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Regression tests: credentials in settings.json must not be world-readable."""
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.test_dir = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp())
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        shutil.rmtree(self.test_dir, ignore_errors=True)
+
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == "win32", "POSIX permission semantics")
+    def test_dump_writes_owner_only_file(self):
+        config_path = self.test_dir / "settings.json"
+        old_umask = os.umask(0o022)
+        try:
+            settings = Settings(
+                config_path=config_path, tool_repository_password="hunter2"
+            )
+            settings.dump()
+        finally:
+            os.umask(old_umask)
+
+        mode = stat.S_IMODE(config_path.stat().st_mode)
+        self.assertEqual(mode, 0o600, f"expected 0o600, got {oct(mode)}")
+
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == "win32", "POSIX permission semantics")
+    def test_dedicated_config_dir_is_owner_only(self):
+        config_path = self.test_dir / "crewai" / "settings.json"
+        old_umask = os.umask(0o022)
+        try:
+            Settings(config_path=config_path, tool_repository_username="u")
+        finally:
+            os.umask(old_umask)
+
+        mode = stat.S_IMODE(config_path.parent.stat().st_mode)
+        self.assertEqual(mode, 0o700, f"expected 0o700, got {oct(mode)}")
+
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == "win32", "POSIX permission semantics")
+    def test_shared_fallback_dir_is_not_chmodded(self):
+        """The system temp dir (a fallback parent) must never be globally chmod'd."""
+        from crewai_core.settings import _ensure_dir_mode
+
+        tmp_root = Path(tempfile.gettempdir())
+        before = stat.S_IMODE(tmp_root.stat().st_mode)
+        _ensure_dir_mode(tmp_root)
+        after = stat.S_IMODE(tmp_root.stat().st_mode)
+        self.assertEqual(before, after)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()

lib/cli/tests/test_token_manager.py

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 """Tests for TokenManager with atomic file operations."""
 
 import json
+import os
+import stat
+import sys
 import tempfile
 import unittest
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
@@ -285,5 +288,50 @@ def test_delete_secure_file_not_exists(
         tm._delete_secure_file("nonexistent.txt")
 
 
+class TestSecureStoragePathPermissions(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Test that the credential directory is created with restrictive permissions."""
+
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == "win32", "POSIX permission semantics")
+    def test_storage_path_is_owner_only(self) -> None:
+        """The credential directory must be mode 0o700 even under a permissive umask."""
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as base:
+            old_umask = os.umask(0o022)
+            try:
+                with (
+                    patch("crewai_core.token_manager.sys.platform", "linux"),
+                    patch(
+                        "crewai_core.token_manager.os.path.expanduser",
+                        return_value=base,
+                    ),
+                ):
+                    storage_path = TokenManager._get_secure_storage_path()
+            finally:
+                os.umask(old_umask)
+
+            self.assertTrue(storage_path.is_dir())
+            mode = stat.S_IMODE(storage_path.stat().st_mode)
+            self.assertEqual(mode, 0o700, f"expected 0o700, got {oct(mode)}")
+
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == "win32", "POSIX permission semantics")
+    def test_existing_loose_dir_is_tightened(self) -> None:
+        """A pre-existing world-traversable directory is corrected to 0o700."""
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as base:
+            loose = Path(base) / "crewai" / "credentials"
+            loose.mkdir(parents=True)
+            loose.chmod(0o755)
+
+            with (
+                patch("crewai_core.token_manager.sys.platform", "linux"),
+                patch(
+                    "crewai_core.token_manager.os.path.expanduser",
+                    return_value=base,
+                ),
+            ):
+                storage_path = TokenManager._get_secure_storage_path()
+
+            mode = stat.S_IMODE(storage_path.stat().st_mode)
+            self.assertEqual(mode, 0o700, f"expected 0o700, got {oct(mode)}")
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()

lib/crewai-core/src/crewai_core/settings.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 import json
 from logging import getLogger
+import os
 from pathlib import Path
 import tempfile
 from typing import Any
@@ -25,6 +26,37 @@
 DEFAULT_CONFIG_PATH = Path.home() / ".config" / "crewai" / "settings.json"
 
 
+def _ensure_dir_mode(directory: Path) -> None:
+    """Tighten a dedicated config directory to 0o700.
+
+    Skips directories shared with other users or content (the system temp dir
+    and the current working directory), which are used as best-effort fallbacks
+    by :func:`get_writable_config_path` and must not be globally chmod'd. Secret
+    files written there are still protected by their own 0o600 mode.
+    """
+    try:
+        shared = {Path(tempfile.gettempdir()).resolve(), Path.cwd().resolve()}
+        if directory.resolve() in shared:
+            return
+        directory.chmod(0o700)
+    except OSError:
+        pass
+
+
+def _write_secure_json(path: Path, data: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
+    """Atomically write ``data`` as JSON to ``path`` with owner-only (0o600) mode."""
+    fd, tmp = tempfile.mkstemp(dir=path.parent, prefix=f".{path.name}.")
+    try:
+        with os.fdopen(fd, "w") as f:
+            json.dump(data, f, indent=4)
+        os.chmod(tmp, 0o600)
+        os.replace(tmp, path)
+    except BaseException:
+        if os.path.exists(tmp):
+            os.unlink(tmp)
+        raise
+
+
 def get_writable_config_path() -> Path | None:
     """Find a writable location for the config file with fallback options.
 
@@ -43,6 +75,7 @@ def get_writable_config_path() -> Path | None:
     for config_path in fallback_paths:
         try:
             config_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+            _ensure_dir_mode(config_path.parent)
             test_file = config_path.parent / ".crewai_write_test"
             try:
                 test_file.write_text("test")
@@ -153,6 +186,7 @@ def __init__(self, config_path: Path | None = None, **data: dict[str, Any]) -> N
 
         try:
             config_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+            _ensure_dir_mode(config_path.parent)
         except Exception:
             merged_data = {**data}
             super().__init__(config_path=Path("/dev/null"), **merged_data)
@@ -194,8 +228,7 @@ def dump(self) -> None:
                 existing_data = {}
 
             updated_data = {**existing_data, **self.model_dump(exclude_unset=True)}
-            with self.config_path.open("w") as f:
-                json.dump(updated_data, f, indent=4)
+            _write_secure_json(self.config_path, updated_data)
 
         except Exception:  # noqa: S110
             pass

lib/crewai-core/src/crewai_core/token_manager.py

@@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ def _get_secure_storage_path() -> Path:
         storage_path = Path(base_path) / app_name
 
         storage_path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        # Enforce the documented 0o700 mode: mkdir is subject to umask and does
+        # not adjust the mode of a pre-existing directory, so chmod explicitly.
+        try:
+            storage_path.chmod(0o700)
+        except OSError:
+            pass
 
         return storage_path