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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: Secure Electron IPC handlers against injection - #2

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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel Security Improvement: Secure IPC Handlers

  • 🚨 Severity: MEDIUM
  • πŸ’‘ Vulnerability: Shell Command/Process Injection & Git Argument Injection
  • 🎯 Impact: A compromised renderer process could execute arbitrary local commands on the system or abuse Git command parameters to execute code.
  • πŸ”§ Fix: Added strict shell validation against a safe whitelist of terminal shells, and prohibited dangerous options in Git subcommands on the Electron main process side.
  • βœ… Verification: Verified using read-only checks, and ran lint and build suites successfully.

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Add strict validation to the restart-shell and git-cmd IPC handlers to prevent process execution and git argument injection vulnerabilities.

Co-authored-by: beingniloy <235952944+beingniloy@users.noreply.github.com>
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Add strict validation to the restart-shell and git-cmd IPC handlers to prevent process execution and git argument injection vulnerabilities.

Co-authored-by: beingniloy <235952944+beingniloy@users.noreply.github.com>
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beingniloy merged commit 2b546ec into main Jul 17, 2026
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