crowdsec Cannot start CrowdSec with (notification) plugins in a non-root container

What happened?

When using a non-root user (and (probably WLOG) in my case user namespace remapping) with the container, notification plugins don't work.

crowdsec  | time="2025-04-05T20:08:07Z" level=info msg="initiating plugin broker"
crowdsec  | time="2025-04-05T20:08:07Z" level=fatal msg="api server init: unable to run plugin broker: while loading plugin: while getting current user: user: Current requires cgo or $USER set in environment"

If USER=root is set:

crowdsec  | time="2025-04-05T20:05:12Z" level=info msg="initiating plugin broker"
crowdsec  | time="2025-04-05T20:05:12Z" level=fatal msg="api server init: unable to run plugin broker: while loading plugin: plugin at /usr/local/lib/crowdsec/plugins/notification-email is not owned by user 'root'"

But it is always owned by root:

$ sudo docker exec crowdsec ls -l /usr/local/lib/crowdsec/plugins
total 156284
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      26733528 Mar 25 15:58 notification-email
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      26674488 Mar 25 15:58 notification-file
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      26626296 Mar 25 15:58 notification-http
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      26618040 Mar 25 15:58 notification-sentinel
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      26753688 Mar 25 15:58 notification-slack
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      26618136 Mar 25 15:58 notification-splunk

According to the documentation, this should be sufficient:

CrowdSec rejects the plugins if one of the following is true:

plugin is not owned by the root user and root group.

plugin is world-writable.

This behavior is triggered when any notification is defined in profiles.yaml(.local).

What did you expect to happen?

Notifications should work when executing the container as a non-root user.

How can we reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)?

compose.yaml:

services:
  crowdsec:
    image: crowdsecurity/crowdsec:latest
    container_name: crowdsec
    restart: unless-stopped
    user: ${CROWDSEC_UID:-1004}:${CROWDSEC_GID:-1004}
    # read_only: true 
    #security_opt:
      #- apparmor=docker-crowdsec
      #- no-new-privileges
    #cap_drop:
      #- ALL
    expose:
      - 8080 # http api for bouncers
      - 6060 # metrics endpoint for prometheus
      - 7422 # appsec waf endpoint
    volumes:
      - ./crowdsec/data:/var/lib/crowdsec/data
      - ./crowdsec/etc:/etc/crowdsec
    environment:
      - "USER=root" # or any other user (like ${CROWDSEC_UID}) (or comment out for first error message)
    networks:
      - crowdsec-net

Consider the file permissions.

profiles.yaml.local:

name: custom_default_ip_remediation
debug: true
filters:
 - Alert.Remediation == true && Alert.GetScope() == "Ip"
decisions:
 - type: ban
   duration: 4h
duration_expr: Sprintf('%dh', (GetDecisionsCount(Alert.GetValue()) + 1) * 4) # linearly increased duration
notifications:
 - email_default # or any other notification service
# - ntfy
#   - slack_default  # Set the webhook in /etc/crowdsec/notifications/slack.yaml before enabling this.
#   - splunk_default # Set the splunk url and token in /etc/crowdsec/notifications/splunk.yaml before enabling this.
#   - http_default   # Set the required http parameters in /etc/crowdsec/notifications/http.yaml before enabling this.
#   - email_default  # Set the required email parameters in /etc/crowdsec/notifications/email.yaml before enabling this.
on_success: break

A correctly configured notification service.

Anything else we need to know?

The information below is not from the minimal example above but from a more fully configured (failing) instance. Notifications work if only remap is used (executed inside the container as root). If notifications are not enabled and a non-root UID/GID is used, it appears to work correctly.

Crowdsec version

version: v1.6.8-f209766e
Codename: alphaga
BuildDate: 2025-03-25_15:56:53
GoVersion: 1.24.1
Platform: docker
libre2: C++
User-Agent: crowdsec/v1.6.8-f209766e-docker
Constraint_parser: >= 1.0, <= 3.0
Constraint_scenario: >= 1.0, <= 3.0
Constraint_api: v1
Constraint_acquis: >= 1.0, < 2.0
Built-in optional components: cscli_setup, datasource_appsec, datasource_cloudwatch, datasource_docker, datasource_file, datasource_http, datasource_journalctl, datasource_k8s-audit, datasource_kafka, datasource_kinesis, datasource_loki, datasource_s3, datasource_syslog, datasource_victorialogs, datasource_wineventlog

OS version

# On Linux:
$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="12"
VERSION="12 (bookworm)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
$ uname -a
Linux REDACTED_NAME 6.12.12+bpo-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.12-1~bpo12+1 (2025-02-23) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Enabled collections and parsers

Loaded: 136 parsers, 10 postoverflows, 755 scenarios, 8 contexts, 4 appsec-configs, 102 appsec-rules, 134 collections
name,status,version,description,type
crowdsecurity/appsec-logs,enabled,0.5,Parse Appsec events,parsers
crowdsecurity/cri-logs,enabled,0.1,CRI logging format parser,parsers
crowdsecurity/dateparse-enrich,enabled,0.2,,parsers
crowdsecurity/docker-logs,enabled,0.1,docker json logs parser,parsers
crowdsecurity/geoip-enrich,enabled,0.5,"Populate event with geoloc info : as, country, coords, source range.",parsers
crowdsecurity/http-logs,enabled,1.3,"Parse more Specifically HTTP logs, such as HTTP Code, HTTP path, HTTP args and if its a static ressource",parsers
crowdsecurity/sshd-logs,enabled,2.9,Parse openSSH logs,parsers
crowdsecurity/syslog-logs,enabled,0.8,,parsers
crowdsecurity/traefik-logs,enabled,0.9,Parse Traefik access logs,parsers
crowdsecurity/apache_log4j2_cve-2021-44228,enabled,0.6,Detect cve-2021-44228 exploitation attemps,scenarios
crowdsecurity/appsec-native,enabled,0.1,Identify attacks flagged by CrowdSec AppSec via native rules,scenarios
crowdsecurity/appsec-vpatch,enabled,0.6,Identify attacks flagged by CrowdSec AppSec,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2017-9841,enabled,0.2,Detect CVE-2017-9841 exploits,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2019-18935,enabled,0.2,Detect Telerik CVE-2019-18935 exploitation attempts,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2022-26134,enabled,0.2,Detect CVE-2022-26134 exploits,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2022-35914,enabled,0.2,Detect CVE-2022-35914 exploits,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2022-37042,enabled,0.2,Detect CVE-2022-37042 exploits,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2022-40684,enabled,0.3,Detect cve-2022-40684 exploitation attempts,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2022-41082,enabled,0.4,Detect CVE-2022-41082 exploits,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2022-41697,enabled,0.2,Detect CVE-2022-41697 enumeration,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2022-42889,enabled,0.3,Detect CVE-2022-42889 exploits (Text4Shell),scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2022-44877,enabled,0.3,Detect CVE-2022-44877 exploits,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2022-46169,enabled,0.2,Detect CVE-2022-46169 brute forcing,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2023-22515,enabled,0.1,Detect CVE-2023-22515 exploitation,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2023-22518,enabled,0.2,Detect CVE-2023-22518 exploits,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2023-49103,enabled,0.3,Detect owncloud CVE-2023-49103 exploitation attempts,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2024-0012,enabled,0.1,Detect CVE-2024-0012 exploitation attempts,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2024-38475,enabled,0.1,Detect CVE-2024-38475 exploitation attempts,scenarios
crowdsecurity/CVE-2024-9474,enabled,0.1,Detect CVE-2024-9474 exploitation attempts,scenarios
crowdsecurity/f5-big-ip-cve-2020-5902,enabled,0.2,Detect cve-2020-5902 exploitation attemps,scenarios
crowdsecurity/fortinet-cve-2018-13379,enabled,0.3,Detect cve-2018-13379 exploitation attemps,scenarios
crowdsecurity/grafana-cve-2021-43798,enabled,0.2,Detect cve-2021-43798 exploitation attemps,scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-admin-interface-probing,enabled,0.4,Detect generic HTTP admin interface probing,scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-backdoors-attempts,enabled,0.6,Detect attempt to common backdoors,scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-bad-user-agent,enabled,1.2,Detect usage of bad User Agent,scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-crawl-non_statics,enabled,0.7,Detect aggressive crawl on non static resources,scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-cve-2021-41773,enabled,0.3,Apache - Path Traversal (CVE-2021-41773),scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-cve-2021-42013,enabled,0.3,Apache - Path Traversal (CVE-2021-42013),scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-cve-probing,enabled,0.6,Detect generic HTTP cve probing,scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-generic-bf,enabled,0.9,Detect generic http brute force,scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-open-proxy,enabled,0.5,Detect scan for open proxy,scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-path-traversal-probing,enabled,0.4,Detect path traversal attempt,scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-probing,enabled,0.4,Detect site scanning/probing from a single ip,scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-sensitive-files,enabled,0.4,"Detect attempt to access to sensitive files (.log, .db ..) or folders (.git)",scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-sqli-probing,enabled,0.4,A scenario that detects SQL injection probing with minimal false positives,scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-wordpress-scan,enabled,0.2,Detect WordPress scan: vuln hunting,scenarios
crowdsecurity/http-xss-probing,enabled,0.4,A scenario that detects XSS probing with minimal false positives,scenarios
crowdsecurity/jira_cve-2021-26086,enabled,0.3,Detect Atlassian Jira CVE-2021-26086 exploitation attemps,scenarios
crowdsecurity/netgear_rce,enabled,0.4,Detect Netgear RCE DGN1000/DGN220 exploitation attempts,scenarios
crowdsecurity/pulse-secure-sslvpn-cve-2019-11510,enabled,0.3,Detect cve-2019-11510 exploitation attemps,scenarios
crowdsecurity/spring4shell_cve-2022-22965,enabled,0.3,Detect cve-2022-22965 probing,scenarios
crowdsecurity/ssh-bf,enabled,0.3,Detect ssh bruteforce,scenarios
crowdsecurity/ssh-cve-2024-6387,enabled,0.2,Detect exploitation attempt of CVE-2024-6387,scenarios
crowdsecurity/ssh-slow-bf,enabled,0.4,Detect slow ssh bruteforce,scenarios
crowdsecurity/thinkphp-cve-2018-20062,enabled,0.6,Detect ThinkPHP CVE-2018-20062 exploitation attemps,scenarios
crowdsecurity/vmware-cve-2022-22954,enabled,0.3,Detect Vmware CVE-2022-22954 exploitation attempts,scenarios
crowdsecurity/vmware-vcenter-vmsa-2021-0027,enabled,0.2,Detect VMSA-2021-0027 exploitation attemps,scenarios
ltsich/http-w00tw00t,enabled,0.2,detect w00tw00t,scenarios
crowdsecurity/appsec_base,enabled,0.9,,contexts
crowdsecurity/bf_base,enabled,0.1,,contexts
crowdsecurity/http_base,enabled,0.3,,contexts
crowdsecurity/appsec-default,enabled,0.2,,appsec-configs
crowdsecurity/generic-rules,enabled,0.3,,appsec-configs
crowdsecurity/virtual-patching,enabled,0.4,,appsec-configs
crowdsecurity/base-config,enabled,0.1,,appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/generic-freemarker-ssti,enabled,0.3,Generic FreeMarker SSTI,appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/generic-wordpress-uploads-php,enabled,0.1,Detect php execution in wordpress uploads directory,appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-connectwise-auth-bypass,enabled,0.3,Detect exploitation of auth bypass in ConnectWise ScreenConnect,appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2017-9841,enabled,0.3,PHPUnit RCE (CVE-2017-9841),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2018-1000861,enabled,0.1,Jenkins - RCE (CVE-2018-1000861),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2018-10562,enabled,0.2,Dasan GPON RCE (CVE-2018-10562),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2018-13379,enabled,0.2,Fortinet FortiOS - Credentials Disclosure (CVE-2018-13379),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2018-20062,enabled,0.1,ThinkPHP - RCE (CVE-2018-20062),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2019-1003030,enabled,0.1,Jenkins - RCE (CVE-2019-1003030),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2019-12989,enabled,0.3,Citrix SQLi (CVE-2019-12989),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2019-18935,enabled,0.1,Telerik - RCE (CVE-2019-18935),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2020-11738,enabled,0.6,Wordpress Snap Creek Duplicator - Path Traversal (CVE-2020-11738),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2020-17496,enabled,0.1,vBulletin RCE (CVE-2020-17496),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2020-5902,enabled,0.1,F5 BIG-IP TMUI - RCE (CVE-2020-5902),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2020-9054,enabled,0.1,Detects pre-authentication command injection in Zyxel NAS devices via weblogin.cgi,appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2021-22941,enabled,0.3,Citrix RCE (CVE-2021-22941),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2021-26086,enabled,0.1,Atlassian Jira Server/Data Center 8.4.0 - Limited Remote File Read/Include (CVE-2021-26086),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2021-3129,enabled,0.4,Laravel with Ignition Debug Mode RCE (CVE-2021-3129),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2021-44529,enabled,0.2,Detects code injection in Ivanti EPM CSA via cookie manipulation (CVE-2021-44529),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2022-22954,enabled,0.2,VMWare Workspace ONE Access RCE (CVE-2022-22954),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2022-22965,enabled,0.2,Spring4Shell - RCE (CVE-2022-22965),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2022-25488,enabled,0.4,Atom CMS - SQLi (CVE-2022-25488),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2022-26134,enabled,0.2,Confluence - RCE (CVE-2022-26134),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2022-27926,enabled,0.4,Zimbra Collaboration XSS (CVE-2022-27926),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2022-35914,enabled,0.5,GLPI RCE (CVE-2022-35914),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2022-41082,enabled,0.1,Microsoft Exchange - RCE (CVE-2022-41082),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2022-44877,enabled,0.2,CentOS Web Panel 7 RCE (CVE-2022-44877),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2022-46169,enabled,0.5,Cacti RCE (CVE-2022-46169),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-1389,enabled,0.1,TP-Link Archer AX21 - RCE (CVE-2023-1389),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-20198,enabled,0.6,CISCO IOS XE Account Creation (CVE-2023-20198),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-22515,enabled,0.4,Atlassian Confluence Privesc (CVE-2023-22515),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-22527,enabled,0.2,RCE using SSTI in Confluence (CVE-2023-22527),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-23752,enabled,0.1,Joomla! Webservice - Password Disclosure (CVE-2023-23752),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-24489,enabled,0.2,Citrix ShareFile RCE (CVE-2023-24489),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-28121,enabled,0.1,WooCommerce auth bypass (CVE-2023-28121),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-33617,enabled,0.4,Atlassian Confluence Privesc (CVE-2023-33617),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-34362,enabled,0.6,MOVEit Transfer RCE (CVE-2023-34362),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-35078,enabled,0.1,MobileIron Core Remote Unauthenticated API Access (CVE-2023-35078),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-35082,enabled,0.2,MobileIron Core Remote Unauthenticated API Access (CVE-2023-35082),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-3519,enabled,0.3,Citrix RCE (CVE-2023-3519),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-38205,enabled,0.3,Adobe ColdFusion Access Control Bypass (CVE-2023-38205),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-40044,enabled,0.3,WS_FTP .NET deserialize RCE (CVE-2023-40044),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-42793,enabled,0.3,JetBrains Teamcity Auth Bypass (CVE-2023-42793),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-46805,enabled,0.4,Ivanti Connect Auth Bypass (CVE-2023-46805),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-47218,enabled,0.2,QNAP QTS - RCE (CVE-2023-47218),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-49070,enabled,0.1,Apache OFBiz - RCE (CVE-2023-49070),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-50164,enabled,0.6,Apache Struts2 Path Traversal (CVE-2023-50164),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-6553,enabled,0.1,Backup Migration plugin for WordPress RCE (CVE-2023-6553),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2023-7028,enabled,0.2,Gitlab Password Reset Account Takeover (CVE-2023-7028),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-0012,enabled,0.1,PanOS - Authentication Bypass (CVE-2024-0012),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-1212,enabled,0.3,Progress Kemp LoadMaster Unauthenticated Command Injection (CVE-2024-1212),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-22024,enabled,0.1,Ivanti Connect Secure - XXE (CVE-2024-22024),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-23897,enabled,0.4,Jenkins CLI RCE (CVE-2024-23897),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-27198,enabled,0.5,Teamcity - Authentication Bypass (CVE-2024-27198),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-27292,enabled,0.2,Local File Inclusion - Docassemble,appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-27348,enabled,0.1,Apache HugeGraph-Server - RCE (CVE-2024-27348),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-27564,enabled,0.3,Detects SSRF attack via pictureproxy.php in ChatGPT application,appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-27954,enabled,0.1,WP Automatic - Path Traversal (CVE-2024-27954),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-27956,enabled,0.1,WordPress Automatic Plugin - SQLi (CVE-2024-27956),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-28255,enabled,0.1,OpenMetadata - Authentication Bypass (CVE-2024-28255),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-28987,enabled,0.1,SolarWinds WHD Hardcoded Credentials (CVE-2024-28987),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-29824,enabled,0.1,Ivanti EPM - SQLi (CVE-2024-29824),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-29849,enabled,0.5,Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager - Authentication Bypass (CVE-2024-29849),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-29973,enabled,0.1,Zyxel - RCE (CVE-2024-29973),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-32113,enabled,0.1,Apache OFBiz - Path Traversal (CVE-2024-32113),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-3272,enabled,0.1,D-Link NAS - RCE (CVE-2024-3272),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-3273,enabled,0.1,D-LINK NAS Command Injection (CVE-2024-3273),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-34102,enabled,0.1,Adobe Commerce & Magento - XXE (CVE-2024-34102),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-38816,enabled,0.2,Spring - Path Traversal (CVE-2024-38816),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-38856,enabled,0.1,Apache OFBiz Incorrect Authorization (CVE-2024-38856),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-41713,enabled,0.2,Mitel MiCollab - Path Traversal (CVE-2024-41713),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-4577,enabled,0.1,PHP CGI Command Injection - CVE-2024-4577,appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-51378,enabled,0.1,Cyberpanel - RCE (CVE-2024-51378),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-51567,enabled,0.1,CyberPanel RCE (CVE-2024-51567),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-52301,enabled,0.1,Laravel - Parameter Injection (CVE-2024-52301),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-57727,enabled,0.4,Detects unauthenticated path traversal attempts targeting SimpleHelp <= 5.5.7,appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-6205,enabled,0.2,PayPlus Payment Gateway WordPress plugin - SQL Injection (CVE-2024-6205),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-7593,enabled,0.1,Ivanti vTM - Authentication Bypass (CVE-2024-7593),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-8190,enabled,0.1,Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance - RCE (CVE-2024-8190),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-8963,enabled,0.2,Ivanti CSA - Path Traversal (CVE-2024-8963),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-9465,enabled,0.2,Palo Alto Expedition - SQL Injection (CVE-2024-9465),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2024-9474,enabled,0.3,PanOS - Privilege Escalation (CVE-2024-9474),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2025-24893,enabled,0.2,Detects arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability in XWiki via SolrSearch.,appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-CVE-2025-29927,enabled,0.1,Next.js Middleware Bypass - (CVE-2025-29927),appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-env-access,enabled,0.1,Detect access to .env files,appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-git-config,enabled,0.2,Detect access to .git files,appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-laravel-debug-mode,enabled,0.3,Detect bots exploiting laravel debug mode,appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/vpatch-symfony-profiler,enabled,0.1,Detect abuse of symfony profiler,appsec-rules
crowdsecurity/appsec-generic-rules,enabled,0.7,A collection of generic attack vectors for additional protection.,collections
crowdsecurity/appsec-virtual-patching,enabled,5.9,"a generic virtual patching collection, suitable for most web servers.",collections
crowdsecurity/base-http-scenarios,enabled,1.0,http common : scanners detection,collections
crowdsecurity/http-cve,enabled,2.9,Detect CVE exploitation in http logs,collections
crowdsecurity/linux,enabled,0.2,core linux support : syslog+geoip+ssh,collections
crowdsecurity/sshd,enabled,0.5,sshd support : parser and brute-force detection,collections
crowdsecurity/traefik,enabled,0.1,traefik support: parser and generic http scenarios,collections

Acquisition config

# On Linux:
$ cat /etc/crowdsec/acquis.yaml /etc/crowdsec/acquis.d/*
listen_addr: 0.0.0.0:7422
appsec_config: crowdsecurity/appsec-default
source: appsec
labels:
  type: appsec
---
poll_without_inotify: false
filenames:
  - /var/log/traefik/*.log
labels:
  type: traefik

Config show

$ cscli config show
Global:
   - Configuration Folder   : /etc/crowdsec
   - Data Folder            : /var/lib/crowdsec/data
   - Hub Folder             : /etc/crowdsec/hub
   - Simulation File        : /etc/crowdsec/simulation.yaml
   - Log Folder             : /var/log
   - Log level              : info
   - Log Media              : stdout
Crowdsec:
  - Acquisition File        : /etc/crowdsec/acquis.yaml
  - Parsers routines        : 1
  - Acquisition Folder      : /etc/crowdsec/acquis.d
cscli:
  - Output                  : human
  - Hub Branch              :
API Client:
  - URL                     : http://0.0.0.0:8080/
  - Login                   : localhost
  - Credentials File        : /etc/crowdsec/local_api_credentials.yaml
Local API Server:
  - Listen URL              : 0.0.0.0:8080
  - Listen Socket           :
  - Profile File            : /etc/crowdsec/profiles.yaml

  - Trusted IPs:
      - 127.0.0.1
      - ::1
  - Database:
      - Type                : sqlite
      - Path                : /var/lib/crowdsec/data/crowdsec.db
      - Flush age           : 7d
      - Flush size          : 5000

Prometheus metrics

$ cscli metrics
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Acquisition Metrics                                                                                                        |
+----------------------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+------------------------+-------------------+
| Source                           | Lines read | Lines parsed | Lines unparsed | Lines poured to bucket | Lines whitelisted |
+----------------------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+------------------------+-------------------+
| file:/var/log/traefik/access.log | 20         | 20           | -              | 21                     | -                 |
+----------------------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+------------------------+-------------------+
+-----------------------------------------+
| Local API Alerts                        |
+---------------------------------+-------+
| Reason                          | Count |
+---------------------------------+-------+
| crowdsecurity/vpatch-env-access | 2     |
+---------------------------------+-------+
+-------------------------------------+
| Appsec Metrics                      |
+---------------+-----------+---------+
| Appsec Engine | Processed | Blocked |
+---------------+-----------+---------+
| 0.0.0.0:7422/ | 19        | -       |
+---------------+-----------+---------+
+-------------------------------------------+
| Local API Decisions                       |
+-----------------+--------+--------+-------+
| Reason          | Origin | Action | Count |
+-----------------+--------+--------+-------+
| http:exploit    | CAPI   | ban    | 5274  |
| http:scan       | CAPI   | ban    | 4501  |
| ssh:bruteforce  | CAPI   | ban    | 20972 |
| http:bruteforce | CAPI   | ban    | 30631 |
| http:crawl      | CAPI   | ban    | 50    |
+-----------------+--------+--------+-------+
+--------------------------------------+
| Local API Metrics                    |
+----------------------+--------+------+
| Route                | Method | Hits |
+----------------------+--------+------+
| /v1/allowlists       | GET    | 14   |
| /v1/decisions/stream | GET    | 13   |
| /v1/decisions/stream | HEAD   | 13   |
| /v1/heartbeat        | GET    | 13   |
| /v1/usage-metrics    | POST   | 1    |
| /v1/watchers/login   | POST   | 1    |
+----------------------+--------+------+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Local API Bouncers Metrics                                        |
+----------------------------+----------------------+--------+------+
| Bouncer                    | Route                | Method | Hits |
+----------------------------+----------------------+--------+------+
| traefik-bouncer            | /v1/decisions/stream | HEAD   | 13   |
| [email protected] | /v1/decisions/stream | GET    | 13   |
+----------------------------+----------------------+--------+------+
+--------------------------------------------+
| Local API Machines Metrics                 |
+-----------+----------------+--------+------+
| Machine   | Route          | Method | Hits |
+-----------+----------------+--------+------+
| localhost | /v1/heartbeat  | GET    | 13   |
| localhost | /v1/allowlists | GET    | 14   |
+-----------+----------------+--------+------+
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Parser Metrics                                              |
+----------------------------------+------+--------+----------+
| Parsers                          | Hits | Parsed | Unparsed |
+----------------------------------+------+--------+----------+
| child-crowdsecurity/http-logs    | 60   | 45     | 15       |
| child-crowdsecurity/traefik-logs | 40   | 20     | 20       |
| crowdsecurity/dateparse-enrich   | 20   | 20     | -        |
| crowdsecurity/http-logs          | 20   | 20     | -        |
| crowdsecurity/non-syslog         | 20   | 20     | -        |
| crowdsecurity/traefik-logs       | 20   | 20     | -        |
+----------------------------------+------+--------+----------+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Scenario Metrics                                                                                   |
+--------------------------------------+---------------+-----------+--------------+--------+---------+
| Scenario                             | Current Count | Overflows | Instantiated | Poured | Expired |
+--------------------------------------+---------------+-----------+--------------+--------+---------+
| crowdsecurity/http-crawl-non_statics | 1             | -         | 17           | 19     | 16      |
| crowdsecurity/http-probing           | -             | -         | 2            | 2      | 2       |
+--------------------------------------+---------------+-----------+--------------+--------+---------+

Related custom configs versions (if applicable) : notification plugins, custom scenarios, parsers etc.

Not necessary for reproduction but included for completeness.

type: http          # Don't change
name: ntfy          # Must match the registered plugin in the profile

# One of "trace", "debug", "info", "warn", "error", "off"
log_level: debug

group_wait: 30m        # Time to wait collecting alerts before relaying a message to this plugin, eg "30s"
group_threshold: 30   # Amount of alerts that triggers a message before <group_wait> has expired, eg "10"
max_retry: 100         # Number of attempts to relay messages to plugins in case of error
timeout: 5m           # Time to wait for response from the plugin before considering the attempt a failure, eg "10s"

#-------------------------
# plugin-specific options

# The following template receives a list of models.Alert objects
# The output goes in the http request body
format: |
    {{range . -}}{{$alert := . -}}{{range .Decisions -}}{{.Value}} will get {{.Type}} for next {{.Duration}} for triggering {{.Scenario}}
    https://www.shodan.io/host/{{.Value}}
    https://app.crowdsec.net/cti/{{.Value}}{{end -}}{{end -}}
url: https://${NTFY_DOMAINNAME}/${NTFY_TOPIC}

method: POST
headers:
  Authorization: ${NTFY_AUTH_METHOD} ${NTFY_TOKEN}
  # Content-Type: "text/plain"
  Title: "CrowdSec Trigger"
  Tags: "warning"

Apr 05 '25 21:04 tomgehrmann

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Apr 05 '25 21:04 github-actions[bot]

Any updates on this? Very similar issues here.

May 15 '25 16:05 TEfjLONjDON

crowdsec container logs level=fatal msg="api server init: unable to run plugin broker: while loading plugin: bianry for plugin http_gotify not found"

May 15 '25 16:05 TEfjLONjDON

Same here, container running as non-root user, with ownership of the plugins changed to user crowdsec:

crowdsec-1 | time="2025-06-29T09:06:50Z" level=fatal msg="api server init: plugin broker: loading plugin: fork/exec /usr/local/lib/crowdsec/plugins/notification-http: operation not permitted"

With ownership root:

rowdsec-1 | time="2025-06-29T09:07:01Z" level=fatal msg="api server init: plugin broker: loading plugin: plugin at /usr/local/lib/crowdsec/plugins/notification-* is not owned by user 'crowdsec'"

Jun 29 '25 09:06 h3ifri

Can confirm similar issue

Jun 30 '25 12:06 FlorentLM

I was getting the same error as @h3ifri Changing config.yaml to run plugins as crowdsec user and group fixed it for me.

plugin_config:
  user: crowdsec
  group: crowdsec

Jul 10 '25 20:07 ClarisseGilles

Thanks, it's working now!

Jul 13 '25 10:07 h3ifri

Any update on this? Same issue and @ClarisseGilles solution doesn't work for me.

Nov 07 '25 22:11 codersaur

Same here, edited config.yaml, still getting "not owned by..." error message

Nov 16 '25 16:11 TheToto318