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The sandboxed fs.readFile compared only lexical paths, so a symlink placed inside an allowed root passed the prefix check and was then read through to its target anywhere on disk. Resolve the link chain and re-check against the roots' own real paths, and read the resolved path rather than the caller's string. Roots are resolved too, since a root is often itself a link.
Reviewer's GuideFixes CWE-22 in sandboxed fs.readFile by preserving the fast lexical check, resolving both requested paths and configured roots before containment validation, and reading only the validated real path; adds temporary-directory tests covering normal reads, symlink escapes, early rejection, and symlinked roots. Sequence diagram for symlink-safe sandboxed file readssequenceDiagram
participant Code as Sandboxed code
participant Forge as SandboxedToolForge
participant FS as fs/promises
Code->>Forge: fs.readFile(filePath)
Forge->>Forge: path.resolve(filePath)
alt Outside configured lexical roots
Forge-->>Code: throw blocked error
else Within lexical roots
Forge->>FS: realpath(resolvedPath)
FS-->>Forge: realPath
Forge->>Forge: resolveReadRoots()
Forge->>FS: realpath(configured roots)
FS-->>Forge: real roots
alt realPath outside real roots
Forge-->>Code: throw blocked error
else Within real roots
Forge->>FS: readFile(realPath)
FS-->>Forge: file data
Forge-->>Code: return data
end
end
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<location path="src/cognition/emergent/SandboxedToolForge.ts" line_range="507-508" />
<code_context>
- return resolvedPath === root || resolvedPath.startsWith(`${root}${path.sep}`);
- });
- if (!allowed) {
+ const withinRoots = (candidate: string, roots: readonly string[]): boolean =>
+ roots.some((root) => candidate === root || candidate.startsWith(`${root}${path.sep}`));
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+ // Lexical pass: rejects the obvious `../../etc/passwd` shape before
</code_context>
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**issue (bug_risk):** withinRoots rejects every descendant of a filesystem-root allowlist such as `/` because it checks for a prefix of `//`; consequently configuring `fsReadRoots: ['/']` blocks valid reads such as `/etc/hosts`. The same failure occurs for a Windows drive root such as `C:\`, where the constructed prefix is `C:\\`.
**Triggers:** When an allowed root is the filesystem root or a Windows drive root.
**Suggested fix:** Use `path.relative` to determine containment, or special-case filesystem roots before appending `path.sep`.
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const withinRoots = (candidate: string, roots: readonly string[]): boolean =>
roots.some((root) => {
const relative = path.relative(root, candidate);
return (
relative === '' ||
(relative !== '..' &&
!relative.startsWith(`..${path.sep}`) &&
!path.isAbsolute(relative))
);
});
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| private resolveReadRoots(): Promise<string[]> { | ||
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2. Retargeted roots stop serving files 🐞 Bug ☼ Reliability
resolveReadRoots caches each root's first canonical target for the entire forge lifetime while every requested file is resolved afresh. If a configured symlink is atomically retargeted, or an initially absent root is later created as a symlink, valid reads through its new target fail until the forge instance is replaced.
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Canonical root paths are cached permanently even though configured symlinks can be retargeted during the forge lifetime. Freshly resolved files are then checked against stale root targets and legitimate reads are blocked.
## Fix Focus Areas
- src/cognition/emergent/SandboxedToolForge.ts[161-170]
- src/cognition/emergent/SandboxedToolForge.ts[232-246]
- src/cognition/emergent/SandboxedToolForge.ts[528-533]
## Recommended Fix
Do not permanently cache canonical roots, or refresh the cached roots when the canonical containment check fails before rejecting the read. Preserve fail-closed behavior for unresolved roots and add tests that read successfully after a configured symlink root is retargeted and after an absent root is created as a symlink.
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When a configured root is a symlink or junction whose real path is the filesystem root (for example, /host -> /), the lexical pass accepts /host/etc/hosts, but the real-path pass compares /etc/hosts against // because root already ends in path.sep. This rejects every descendant of the configured root; such reads worked before this change and contradict the new support for roots that are themselves symlinks. Use a boundary check that handles root paths specially, such as path.relative.
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In `@src/cognition/emergent/SandboxedToolForge.ts`:
- Around line 507-508: Update the withinRoots containment check to use
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Four review engines converged on the same edge: a root that already ends in a separator (the filesystem root, a Windows drive root) was compared against a doubled separator, so every file beneath it was denied. path.relative has no such edge and applies the platform's own case rules. A root set containing an unresolvable entry is no longer cached, so a root that becomes readable later is not stranded; a fully resolved set stays pinned on purpose.
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Folded the review round ( Taken — four engines converged on it, and it is real. sourcery, qodo, Codex and CodeRabbit all landed on the same line: Worth noting the prefix form predates this PR; the realpath pass is what turned it into a visible denial, so it is fixed here rather than left behind. Half-taken — qodo's cached-roots finding. A root set containing an unresolvable entry is no longer cached, so a root that becomes readable later is not stranded. Deliberately not taken — per-read root re-resolution. A fully resolved root set stays pinned for the life of the forge. Re-resolving on every read would let anyone able to rewrite the root symlink relocate a running sandbox, which is precisely the move this check exists to stop; a caller that wants to follow a retargeted root constructs a new forge. That behavior is now pinned by a test (read A, repoint the link, second read refused, fresh forge sees B) and stated in the method docblock. The "initially absent root created later" half of that finding is not reachable in practice: the target's own Test count is now seven cases over a real temp-dir fixture. |
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When fsReadRoots contains both a symlink root and any missing or unreadable root, this clears the cache for the entire set after every read. If the symlink root is then repointed, a subsequent read resolves that root again and accepts the new target, defeating the intended lifetime pinning and potentially exposing files outside the root originally authorized. Preserve each successful real-path resolution while retrying only the roots that failed.
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The root cache was all-or-nothing: one unresolvable root dropped the whole set, so the next read re-resolved the roots that had succeeded. A root symlink repointed in between was then followed to its new target, losing the pinning the cache exists to provide. Cache per root instead — a success is pinned for the life of the forge, a failure is retried, and neither affects a sibling.
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Good catch, and it was mine to make — taken in full ( The root cache was all-or-nothing: Each root now caches on its own: a success is pinned for the life of the forge, a failure is dropped and retried, and neither touches a sibling. Regression test covers your exact shape — a symlink root plus a root that never exists, read, repoint, second read refused. @coderabbitai review — the containment predicate and the root cache have both changed since your last pass. |
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Supersedes #13, which has been unreviewable since 2026-06-02: its head blob still carries the two literal NUL bytes of the old
FORGE_RESULT_MARKER, so GitHub reports "Binary files differ" and every review bot skips it. Master no longer has those bytes (1e99218), so this branch diffs as text.The defect (CWE-22, live in master and in published 0.10.18)
SandboxedToolForge's sandboxedfs.readFilechecked containment withpath.resolve+startsWithand nothing else. A symlink that lives inside an allowed root resolves to an in-root string, passes the prefix check, and is then read through to its target anywhere on disk. The default root isprocess.cwd(), and a pnpmnode_modulesis a symlink farm, so no attacker-created link is required.Reachability: neither wilds-ai nor wunderland constructs the forge, so no first-party consumer is currently exposed.
The fix
../../etc/passwdbefore any filesystem call), thenrealpaththe target and re-check./tmp→/private/tmp); comparing a resolved file against an unresolved root would deny legitimate reads.Residual, documented in the code: a path component could be swapped for a link between
realpathandreadFile. Closing that needs anO_NOFOLLOWhandle, whichfs/promisesdoes not expose, and it requires local write access inside an allowed root.Tests
Four cases in
sandboxed-forge.test.ts, on a real temp-dir fixture: an ordinary in-root read still works; a link inside the root pointing outside is blocked and its content never reaches the output; a plainly out-of-root path is still blocked by the lexical pass; and a root that is itself a symlink still resolves.Merging this publishes a patch release.
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Harden sandboxed filesystem reads against symlink-based path traversal while retaining support for symlinked and filesystem roots.
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