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ChuckBuildsandClaude Opus 5 5929190e36 fix(composer): sanitise the id with the form CodeQL recognises
Previous attempt got the count from 22 down to 19 but left the 16
path-injection alerts untouched: CodeQL carries taint through
_plugin_dir's return value and does not treat an internal realpath /
commonpath guard as a sanitiser.

secure_filename is one it does model. It is also a no-op on every id the
regex accepts -- verified across the accepted alphabet, 4000 generated
ids, zero altered -- so it cannot rewrite a caller's id into a different
plugin's directory. The equality check makes that explicit: if it changes
anything, the id was not one we accept, and we refuse rather than
silently redirect.

Found a real bug while testing the layers separately: '.' resolved to the
plugins root, and install() calls shutil.rmtree(target) when force is
set, so an id of '.' would have deleted every installed plugin. The regex
blocks it today, but the containment layer was allowing candidate == base
on the grounds that the base is not "outside" itself. A plugin directory
must be a child, never the root.

That came out of writing the isolated tests. Removing containment did not
fail anything, because secure_filename rejects traversal first -- which
made a redundant layer look load-bearing. Each layer is now neutralised
in turn so the one under test is the only thing standing:

    containment removed        -> FAIL (13 payloads reach the base or past it)
    candidate == base allowed  -> FAIL ('.' resolves to the plugins root)
    commonpath -> startswith   -> FAIL (sibling "plugins-evil" accepted)
    secure_filename bypassed   -> pass, containment covers it

The last is honest rather than a gap: with containment in place the
sanitiser has nothing left to block, and its value here is CodeQL
recognition plus a second barrier if containment is ever weakened.

Also corrected an assertion in the previous commit's test, which counted
any non-None result as an escape. '....', '~' and 'a\..\..' are ordinary
directory names on Linux and resolve safely inside the base; treating
them as escapes made the test fail on correct code.

35 tests. The 5 test_web_api.py failures are pre-existing on this branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW
2026-08-21 18:25:50 -04:00
ChuckBuildsandClaude Opus 5 79ba93f5a6 fix(composer): recognisable path containment, and define md:inline
Follow-up to the previous commit, which made the CodeQL count worse
rather than better: 19 alerts became 22. Two mistakes.

First, the containment check used `base not in candidate.parents`.
That is correct Python but not a form static analysis recognises, so
every path-injection alert stayed and _plugin_dir itself picked up two
more. It now uses os.path.realpath plus os.path.commonpath, which is
both the documented sanitiser shape and stricter than the obvious
alternative: "/x/plugins-evil" startswith "/x/plugins" but is a
different directory, and there is now a test that fails if anyone
swaps commonpath for startswith.

Second, raising ComposerInputError from _plugin_dir and returning
str(exc) added two new py/stack-trace-exposure alerts -- CodeQL flags
exception text reaching a response regardless of the exception's type.
_plugin_dir returns None instead and the three handlers answer with a
fixed literal. There is nothing a caller needs there beyond "that id is
not ok".

Also defines .md\:inline in app.css. composer.html marks five toolbar
button labels `hidden md:inline`, and the class was never defined, so
those labels were hidden at every width and the buttons stayed
icon-only. main's test_web_static_audit.py catches it -- the branch
predates that test, which is why it only surfaced now that CI checks
the merge:

    Responsive utility classes referenced in templates but never
    defined in app.css (they silently no-op): ['md:inline']

Verified against the merged state -- main's app.css plus this one line,
audited against this branch's templates: 3 passed. The other twelve
classes the audit flags locally are defined on main and are artifacts of
this branch being 54 commits behind.

33 containment tests. Mutation-checked twice: removing the containment
lets eight payloads escape, including /etc/passwd and
plugin/../../../../../../etc/shadow; swapping commonpath for startswith
fails the sibling-prefix test.

Not addressed: three py/stack-trace-exposure alerts on the
_generate_plugin_files handlers. Those return str(exc) for
ComposerInputError, whose seven raise sites are all authored literals
("Author is required.", "Config variable key X is not a valid Python
identifier."). Suppressing them means replacing useful validation
feedback with a generic string, which is a real cost to the user for a
scanner's benefit. Worth a decision rather than a silent downgrade.

The 5 test_web_api.py failures are pre-existing on this branch --
identical counts with these changes stashed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW
2026-08-21 17:52:11 -04:00
ChuckBuildsandClaude Opus 5 e499efb1f0 fix(composer): resolve plugin paths at the filesystem boundary
CodeQL reports 19 alerts against this PR -- 16 high-severity
py/path-injection plus 3 py/stack-trace-exposure -- all in
web_interface/blueprints/composer.py, where a request-supplied plugin_id
reaches Path(plugins_dir) / plugin_id and the result is created, written
to, deleted with shutil.rmtree, and read back.

The path-injection alerts are false positives today. _PLUGIN_ID_RE is
fully anchored and permits only [a-z][a-z0-9-]{0,62}, so every traversal
payload is already rejected; I checked fourteen of them, including
../../etc/passwd, a/../../etc, /etc/passwd and encoded variants, and none
gets past it.

They are worth fixing anyway. The guarantee lived in a regex several
hundred lines from the path building, so relaxing that pattern later --
to allow an underscore, say -- would open a traversal with nothing at the
filesystem boundary to catch it. _plugin_dir() now resolves the candidate
and refuses anything that is not inside plugins_dir, and all three call
sites go through it. That is also the shape static analysis recognises,
which is why sixteen alerts landed on code that was already safe.

The regex anchor moves from $ to \Z. Python's $ also matches just before
a trailing newline, so "myplugin\n" was accepted and would have created a
directory whose name ends in one. Not traversal, but not a name anything
downstream should have to handle.

For the stack-trace exposure: the handlers returned str(exc) for any
ValueError out of _generate_plugin_files. The seven raises there are all
curated, user-facing validation messages, and they now use a
ComposerInputError subclass so they keep reaching the user verbatim. A
ValueError from anywhere else -- json, int(), a library -- is logged with
a traceback and answered generically, since its text can name internal
paths.

Verified: 32 tests covering fourteen traversal payloads and twelve
malformed ids. The key one re-runs every payload with the id pattern
deliberately loosened to allow slashes and dots; removing the containment
check fails it with

    these escaped the base with a loosened regex:
      [('/etc/passwd', '/etc/passwd'), ('//etc/passwd', '//etc/passwd')]

so the boundary is doing real work rather than shadowing the regex.

The 5 failures in test_web_api.py are unrelated and pre-existing on this
branch -- identical counts with these changes stashed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW
2026-08-21 17:18:26 -04:00