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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: [CRITICAL] Fix Path Traversal in agent workdir commands - #268

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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: [CRITICAL] Fix Path Traversal in agent workdir commands

🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
πŸ’‘ Vulnerability: The validate_read_only function in crates/agent/src/tools/workdir_cmd.rs used a naive BLOCKED_TOKENS blocklist on the raw command string, failing to account for shell argument obfuscation via quotation (e.g., cat ".."/".."). This allowed directory traversal vulnerabilities for ostensibly read-only commands.
🎯 Impact: Attackers could execute read-only commands to traverse directories and read sensitive files outside of the intended scope.
πŸ”§ Fix: Updated the check inside validate_read_only to verify for .. inside the already split and tokenized command arguments, robustly blocking traversal attempts regardless of how they are quoted.
βœ… Verification: Ensure tests pass cargo test -p devforge-agent --lib tools::workdir_cmd::tests with the new regression test coverage added for cat ".."/".."/etc/passwd.


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🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
πŸ’‘ Vulnerability: The `validate_read_only` function in `crates/agent/src/tools/workdir_cmd.rs` used a naive `BLOCKED_TOKENS` blocklist on the raw command string, failing to account for shell argument obfuscation via quotation (e.g., `cat ".."/".."`). This allowed directory traversal vulnerabilities for ostensibly read-only commands.
🎯 Impact: Attackers could execute read-only commands to traverse directories and read sensitive files outside of the intended scope.
πŸ”§ Fix: Updated the check inside `validate_read_only` to verify for `..` inside the already split and tokenized command arguments, robustly blocking traversal attempts regardless of how they are quoted.
βœ… Verification: Ensure tests pass `cargo test -p devforge-agent --lib tools::workdir_cmd::tests` with the new regression test coverage added for `cat ".."/".."/etc/passwd`.

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