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Summary

Fixes #30 — Python/npm verified different things under the same vocabulary.

Changes (both runtimes, mirror-synced)

  1. Unified dangerous-pattern superset (14 patterns, case-insensitive) — TS gains sudo/chmod/rmdir/del/format/subprocess/os.system (was 8, all /i); Python drops inline (?i) for a single re.I compile (was case-sensitive).
  2. TS harmful-content check ported — HARMFUL_PATTERNS (password/api_key/secret/private_key/PEM) now enforced in TS SafetyGuard.check(); Python already had it.
  3. TS injection patterns completed — new instructions:, system:, <|...|> tokens, [[...]] brackets (was 5, now 9 = Python).
  4. TS PII parity — ip_address pattern added (was 4 types, now 5 = Python).
  5. Parse strictness aligned — TS parseResponse rejects scalars/lists/null with a clear error instead of wrapping as {type:'unknown'} and verifying them (mirrors Python ValueError).

Verification (both directions, executed)

  • Cross-runtime parity probe: 7/7 historical divergence payloads now produce the SAME verdict on PY and TS
  • PY parity matrix: 12/12 blocked (sudo, SUDO CHMOD, subprocess, RM -RF, rm -rf, format, sk-key, IP, 4 injection)
  • TS: tsc --noEmit clean; compiled runtime probe all-blocked
  • pytest: 239 passed (24 new parity regression tests pinned in tests/test_guards.py — TS mirror note included)
  • black clean; taint 0 findings on all 3 changed files
  • Blocked-tool name lists were already identical (the one parity point) — untouched

Note

Pattern sets are mirrored by hand (documented in test comments). Single-source codegen (JSON shared file) considered but rejected for now — overkill for 14 static patterns; the pinned test + comment cross-reference keeps sync enforceable.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added detection for IP-address PII, harmful content, and additional prompt-injection patterns.
    • Expanded protection against dangerous Windows and system commands.
    • Added optional harmful-content checking, enabled by default.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved case-insensitive detection of dangerous commands.
    • Reduced false positives for benign system messages, placeholder credentials, and masked values.
    • Safety findings are now reported together instead of stopping at the first issue.
    • Response verification now rejects arrays, numbers, null values, and other invalid response types instead of accepting them as unknown responses.

CodeAnt-AI Description

Align Python and npm safety checks and reject invalid responses consistently

What Changed

  • Python and npm now block the same dangerous tool arguments, including case-insensitive shell, file, system, and SQL commands
  • npm safety checks now detect harmful credentials, private keys, IP addresses, and additional prompt-injection attempts
  • Benign placeholder values such as “password: required” and “system: healthy” are allowed, while credential-like values and PEM keys remain blocked
  • Safety failures now report all detected issues, including PII warnings alongside critical findings
  • npm rejects scalar, list, and null responses instead of attempting to verify them
  • Added regression coverage for cross-language parity, credential detection, placeholders, combined findings, injection patterns, and invalid responses

Impact

✅ Consistent safety verdicts across Python and npm
✅ Fewer false positives for ordinary status and configuration text
✅ Clearer safety findings when multiple issues are present

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QWED Security Verification Report

5 files scanned | 0 blocked | 0 warnings | 5 info | 2 suppressed | 4 verified

Informational Findings

File Line Context Issue
tests/test_guards.py L1224 LITERAL_STRING os.system() shell execution primitive detected.
tests/test_guards.py L1225 LITERAL_STRING Dynamic import() call should be reviewed.
tests/test_guards.py L1266 TEST_CODE Private key material detected — a committed PEM/DER key block is a credential, whatever the file's name or extension.
tests/test_guards.py L1267 TEST_CODE Private key material detected — a committed PEM/DER key block is a credential, whatever the file's name or extension.
tests/test_guards.py L1268 TEST_CODE Private key material detected — a committed PEM/DER key block is a credential, whatever the file's name or extension.

Suppressed Findings

File Line Reason Issue
tests/test_guards.py L1226 denylist string literal eval() executes untrusted code. In agentic pipelines, LLM- or caller-controlled expressions reach this sink.
tests/test_guards.py L1227 denylist string literal exec() executes untrusted code. In agentic pipelines, LLM- or caller-controlled expressions reach this sink.

Engines

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  • entropy_scan: ✅
  • js_patterns: ✅
  • pattern_scan: ⚠️ 7 finding(s)
  • python_ast: ✅
  • python_deep_ast: ✅
  • taint_analysis: ✅
  • verification_integrity: ✅

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  • npm/src/guards.ts
  • npm/src/verifier.ts
  • src/qwed_open_responses/guards/safety_guard.py
  • src/qwed_open_responses/guards/tool_guard.py

Verified by QWED — deterministic security verification. No LLM used.

Verification Context v1.0
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The pull request aligns Python and npm guard behavior. It expands dangerous-pattern detection, adds TypeScript PII, injection, and harmful-content checks, and makes TypeScript response parsing reject unsupported inputs.

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Guard and verifier parity

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Dangerous pattern matching
npm/src/guards.ts, src/qwed_open_responses/guards/tool_guard.py, tests/test_guards.py
The default dangerous-pattern sets include Windows and system-command patterns. Python compiles default patterns with case-insensitive matching. Tests pin the shared pattern count and blocking behavior.
Safety detection checks
npm/src/guards.ts, src/qwed_open_responses/guards/safety_guard.py, tests/test_guards.py
SafetyGuard detects IP addresses, additional injection patterns, and harmful secret or key markers. Harmful-content checking defaults to enabled. Injection and harmful findings are reported together as error-severity issues, with PII warnings included in the result details.
Strict response parsing
npm/src/verifier.ts, tests/test_guards.py
ResponseVerifier.parseResponse rejects arrays, primitives, and null instead of wrapping them as unknown responses.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to abf79

The updated safety controls can still accept crafted credential or private-key values that begin with exempt placeholder text, potentially allowing sensitive content to pass verification in both packages. The npm package also reports PII issues using a different schema than Python, which can cause consumers to miss warnings; these issues should be addressed before merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main changes: cross-language parity, case-insensitive security patterns, TypeScript harmful-content checks, and strict response parsing.
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/api[_-]?key\s*[=:]\s*\S+/i,
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Suggestion: This private-key pattern is case-sensitive, so lowercase or mixed-case PEM headers pass npm while Python blocks them. [api mismatch]

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1. Returning on the first harmful pattern discards PII and other harmful issue details, producing different diagnostics from Python for responses containing multiple issues.

Api mismatch · npm/src/guards.ts:692-695

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const typeName = response === null ? 'null' : Array.isArray(response) ? 'list' : typeof response;
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Bug: The verify() function doesn't handle exceptions from parseResponse(). Passing null or non-object responses will now cause an uncaught exception instead of returning a verified: false result.
Severity: HIGH

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Potential issue: The `verify()` function in `verifier.ts` calls
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The safety-pattern alignment preserves ordinary status and configuration text, but an exempt placeholder followed by whitespace and secret material is still treated as safe. Tighten credential placeholder handling in both implementations so additional value content cannot be forwarded as verified.

Confidence Score: 3/5

Not safe to merge until whitespace-separated credential values are rejected.

A reproduced security failure allows a password field containing an exempt placeholder followed by secret material to pass verification in both runtimes.

Files Needing Attention: npm/src/guards.ts; src/qwed_open_responses/guards/safety_guard.py

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Credential-like content can bypass the default safety guard when a recognized placeholder precedes secret material after whitespace. The reproduced input passed in both TypeScript and Python, allowing it to reach consumers as verified.

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    P1 Whitespace-separated secret bypasses SafetyGuard credential detection in both runtimes

    • Bug
      • password=required actual-secret is allowed by both the built npm package and Python SafetyGuard, despite containing a password field followed by an apparent secret value. The runtime probe recorded actualPassed: true and MISMATCH in both runtimes.
    • Cause
      • In npm/src/guards.ts:644, and the mirrored Python _CREDENTIAL_EXEMPTION at src/qwed_open_responses/guards/safety_guard.py:69-77, the negative lookahead exempts required when immediately followed by whitespace. Because the credential match ends with \S+, it cannot advance past the whitespace to inspect actual-secret, so the whole pattern produces no match.
    • Fix
      • Require a placeholder value to occupy the complete field value (for example, constrain the exemption to end of string or a recognized field/value delimiter), or separately scan the remainder after an exempt placeholder for a non-placeholder credential token. Add matching TypeScript and Python regression cases for password=required actual-secret and analogous API-key/private-key forms.

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// Parse strictness mirrors Python _parse_response (#30): Python
// raises ValueError for non-dict/scalar inputs — npm must reject
// them too, not wrap them as {type:'unknown'} and verify them.
if (response !== null && typeof response === 'object' && !Array.isArray(response)) {

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- npm/src/verifier.ts ---'
sed -n '1,155p' npm/src/verifier.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- npm/src/guards.ts relevant symbols ---'
rg -n -A45 -B10 'extractContent|class SafetyGuard|api_key|secret|harmful' npm/src/guards.ts npm/src
printf '%s\n' '--- TypeScript verifier tests and package scripts ---'
rg -n -A12 -B8 'ResponseVerifier|parseResponse|JSON.parse|strictMode' npm test* npm 2>/dev/null | head -240

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Sensitive Data Exposure (CWE-200): Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Reachability: External · Exploitability: Trivial

Validate the result of JSON.parse.

When response is "api_key=sk-12345", parseResponse returns a string. SafetyGuard separates its characters, so the harmful-content pattern does not match and verify returns verified: true. Accept decoded values only when they are non-null, non-array objects. Add a regression test that expects this input to throw.

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In `@npm/src/verifier.ts` at line 116, Update parseResponse and its validation
condition in SafetyGuard/verify so JSON.parse results are accepted only when
they are non-null, non-array objects; reject primitive strings such as
api_key=sk-12345 by throwing. Add a regression test covering that input and
asserting the expected throw.

…es (#30)

- system:/password:/api_key: labels matched legit config text; require

  instruction-override context / exclude benign placeholder values

  (Sentry/Greptile P1, mirrored PY+TS)

- TS PEM pattern case-insensitive to match Python re.I (CodeAnt)

- TS SafetyGuard collects all error-severity findings like Python

  instead of returning on first harmful pattern (CodeAnt nitpick)

- pytest.raises single invocation (Sonar)

- Verified: 18/18 PY+TS parity matrix, 239 pytest passed, black+tsc clean
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In `@npm/src/guards.ts`:
- Around line 644-648: The private-key detection patterns in both SafetyGuard
implementations are incomplete. Update npm/src/guards.ts lines 644-648 and
src/qwed_open_responses/guards/safety_guard.py lines 75-76 to block spaced
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… keeps PII in details (#30)

- private[_-]?key bare-match blocked benign labels; now value-aware with

  placeholder exemption + spaced-form coverage (Greptile P1, PY+TS)

- BEGIN [TYPE] PRIVATE KEY generic header covers OPENSSH/ENCRYPTED/generic

  variants that were missed (CodeRabbit, PY+TS)

- TS failResult details now include PII warnings alongside errors, matching

  Python details={'issues': all} (Sentry)

- Verified: 8/8 private-key matrix PY+TS parity, 242 pytest passed, black+tsc clean
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In `@npm/src/guards.ts`:
- Around line 733-735: Update the warning construction in the failed-result path
to collect detected PII kinds separately and append a single issue with type
“pii”, severity “warning”, and details set to piiFound, matching the Python
schema; preserve the existing injection/error issues and add an npm regression
test covering mixed PII and injection results.
- Line 648: Update the harmful assignment patterns in npm/src/guards.ts (lines
648-648) and src/qwed_open_responses/guards/safety_guard.py (lines 79-81) so
placeholder exemptions consume the complete assignment value rather than
stopping at a word boundary; values such as required-secret and
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- Placeholder exemptions now must occupy the full value: password=required-secret, api_key=optional-token-9f3a, private_key=redacted-live-key are BLOCKED again (word-boundary escape closed). Pure placeholders (password: required, api_key: not set) still pass. PY+TS parity, 9/9 probe matrix.

- Sonar: explicit string concatenation in HARMFUL_PATTERNS exempt-list (no implicit concat).

- CodeRabbit PII-schema comment already fixed in prior working-tree commit; skipped with reason.

- Tests: 244 passed incl. suffixed-placeholder parity regression tests.
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Bug: A JSON string representing an array can bypass verification checks in parseResponse, leading to a silent pass on uninspected content.
Severity: HIGH

Suggested Fix

After calling JSON.parse(response), add a check to ensure the parsed result is not an array. If it is, the function should throw an error or reject the input, consistent with how it handles direct array inputs.

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Location: npm/src/verifier.ts#L125

Potential issue: The `parseResponse` function checks for direct array inputs but fails
to handle cases where the input is a JSON string that parses into an array (e.g.,
`'[1,2,3]'`). When this occurs, `JSON.parse` returns an array that is passed to
`extractContent`. `extractContent` then iterates over the array's numeric values, which
do not meet the type checks for `string` or `object`, causing the loop to `continue` and
ultimately return an empty string. This empty string then passes all subsequent safety
checks, causing `verify()` to incorrectly return `verified: true` for content that was
never actually inspected, silently bypassing the verification process.

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/password\s*[=:]\s*(?!(?:required|optional|none|null|redacted|omitted|placeholder|invalid|expired|not[_\s]?(?:set|provided)|n\/?a)(?=\s|$)|\*{3,}(?=\s|$)|x{3,}(?=\s|$))\S+/i,
/api[_-]?key\s*[=:]\s*(?!(?:required|optional|none|null|redacted|omitted|placeholder|invalid|expired|not[_\s]?(?:set|provided)|n\/?a)(?=\s|$)|\*{3,}(?=\s|$)|x{3,}(?=\s|$))\S+/i,
/secret\s*[=:]\s*(?!(?:required|optional|none|null|redacted|omitted|placeholder|invalid|expired|not[_\s]?(?:set|provided)|n\/?a)(?=\s|$)|\*{3,}(?=\s|$)|x{3,}(?=\s|$))\S+/i,
// Value-aware label form (same placeholder exemption as above) —
// "private[_-]?key" bare-matching blocked benign labels such as
// "private_key: not set" (Greptile P1, PR #34). [\s_-]? also catches
// the spaced "private key: <value>" form. Mirrors safety_guard.py.
/private[\s_-]?key\s*[=:]\s*(?!(?:required|optional|none|null|redacted|omitted|placeholder|invalid|expired|not[_\s]?(?:set|provided)|n\/?a)(?=\s|$)|\*{3,}(?=\s|$)|x{3,}(?=\s|$))\S+/i,

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P1 security Whitespace-separated credentials bypass screening

The placeholder exemption accepts required as soon as it reaches whitespace, but the following \S+ matcher cannot advance to inspect content after that whitespace. Consequently, password=required actual-secret passes SafetyGuard in both TypeScript and Python, allowing credential-bearing response content to be verified and forwarded. Require placeholder values to occupy the complete field value, or inspect remaining content after an exempt placeholder.

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Dual-runtime SafetyGuard probe source

  • This executable probe builds and imports the TypeScript package, imports Python SafetyGuard, and evaluates the same credential and placeholder cases in both runtimes; takeaway: the test source directly exercises the affected guard paths.

Dual-runtime SafetyGuard output with whitespace credential bypass

  • The captured execution output shows all requested baseline cases match expectations but `password=required actual-secret` passes unexpectedly in both runtimes; takeaway: the P1 bypass is reproducible.

Focused Python SafetyGuard regression test output

  • The focused existing placeholder and placeholder-prefixed credential regression selection completed with 3 passing tests; takeaway: the prior intended behaviors still pass their current Python coverage.

Full Python guard-suite output with missing jsonschema dependency

  • The full Python guard suite ran 111 tests successfully and failed 3 SchemaGuard tests solely because jsonschema is not installed; takeaway: this environment dependency does not prevent the targeted SafetyGuard runtime proof.

npm test output showing no discovered test files

  • The npm Jest invocation found zero test files and exited 1 while the separate probe successfully built and imported dist; takeaway: TypeScript behavior was validated by direct built-package execution instead.

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