core: drop ambient capabilities in user manager

Ambient capabilities should not be passed implicitly to user
services. Dropping them does not affect the permitted and effective sets
which are important for the manager itself to operate.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/main.c b/src/core/main.c
index 72d86d3efd..55f5481eb2 100644
--- a/src/core/main.c
+++ b/src/core/main.c
@@ -2825,6 +2825,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                 /* clear the kernel timestamp, because we are not PID 1 */
                 kernel_timestamp = DUAL_TIMESTAMP_NULL;
 
+                /* Clear ambient capabilities, so services do not inherit them implicitly. Dropping them does
+                 * not affect the permitted and effective sets which are important for the manager itself to
+                 * operate. */
+                capability_ambient_set_apply(0, /* also_inherit= */ false);
+
                 if (mac_selinux_init() < 0) {
                         error_message = "Failed to initialize SELinux support";
                         goto finish;