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fix: close validated CodeQL parser and quality-gate findings - #1750

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Summary

  • make lightweight TOML basic-string matchers linear by excluding backslash from the fallback alternative
  • treat unterminated HTML comments as non-rendered through EOF in issue and PR quality checks
  • treat multiline and unterminated generated release-note comments as non-meaningful
  • add focused regressions in the existing owner suites for the ReDoS input and hidden-comment bypasses
  • harden marketplace TOML parsing so malformed quoted values cannot fall through to bare-value parsing, and keep parser regressions independent of host filesystem discovery

CodeQL findings addressed

This closes the 10 validated findings from the exported scan:

  • CodeQL alerts 54-58: TOML regex denial of service
  • CodeQL alerts 39-42: hidden HTML-comment content bypasses PR and issue quality gates
  • CodeQL alert 44: release-note comment handling

The other 74 open alerts from that export were triaged separately as false positive, non-actionable, or test-only, so this PR does not churn unrelated code just to make CodeQL green.

Verification

  • pre-fix ReDoS reproduction: runtime grew exponentially; 36 backslashes took about 167 ms and 64 exceeded a 20 s timeout
  • pre-fix PR screenshot bypass reproduced with an image inside an unterminated HTML comment
  • bun test tests/project-config-warnings.test.ts tests/codex-inject.test.ts tests/codex-plugins-doctor.test.ts tests/release-notes.test.ts -> 121 pass, 0 fail
  • node --test .github/scripts/issue-quality.test.cjs .github/scripts/pr-quality.test.cjs -> 186 pass, 0 fail
  • bun run typecheck -> pass
  • git diff --check origin/dev...HEAD -> pass

No GUI files changed.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of unterminated HTML comments when validating issue and pull request content and release notes.
    • Improved parsing of escaped characters in quoted configuration values.
    • Prevented malformed input with long escape sequences or trailing whitespace from causing parsing delays or incorrect results.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for comment filtering, escaped values, malformed inputs, and parser timeouts.

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This change hardens HTML comment stripping for unterminated comments and updates TOML matchers to support escaped characters. Regression tests cover malformed inputs, preserved visible content, and timeout-bounded parsing.

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HTML comment normalization and validation
.github/scripts/issue-quality-core.cjs, .github/scripts/issue-quality.test.cjs, .github/scripts/pr-quality.cjs, .github/scripts/pr-quality.test.cjs, scripts/release-notes.ts, tests/release-notes.test.ts
Comment removal now handles multiline and unterminated HTML comments through end-of-input. Tests cover description validation, screenshot evidence, generated notes, and visible text after closed comments.
Escaped TOML string parsing
src/codex/inject.ts, src/codex/plugins-doctor.ts, src/codex/project-config-warnings.ts, tests/codex-inject.test.ts, tests/codex-plugins-doctor.test.ts, tests/project-config-warnings.test.ts
Double-quoted TOML matchers now accept escaped characters without prematurely ending values. Tests cover malformed values, escaped backslashes, parsed sources, and two-second completion limits.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d442c

The PR improves parsing performance and prevents hidden or unterminated comments from bypassing quality checks, but an unterminated quoted plugin source can still be misclassified and produce an incorrect repair suggestion. Merge readiness is moderate because the PR also retains workflow permission and concurrent-push risks that require explicit owner attention before merging.

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Suggested labels: chore

Suggested reviewers: ingwannu

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In `@src/codex/plugins-doctor.ts`:
- Line 62: Update the regex used by readMarketplaceTable to replace the
overlapping bare-value fallback [^#]+? with the linear [^\s#]+ form, preserving
quoted-value parsing and trailing comments. Add a regression test covering a
malformed quoted value followed by a long run of spaces and a non-space
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Wibias and others added 4 commits August 15, 2026 10:53
GFM treats fenced-code contents as literal text, so a `<!--` inside a code
sample never opens an HTML comment. Both quality gates stripped comments BEFORE
removing code regions, so an unclosed comment-like literal in an example ran
through EOF and swallowed everything after it.

Two real rejections follow from that:

- pr-quality: a GUI PR whose screenshot appeared after such an example lost its
  evidence and was blocked for a missing screenshot.
- issue-quality: an issue whose goal contained such an example had the section
  emptied and was rejected as "too vague to act on", which the triage workflow
  can escalate to an auto-close.

pr-quality now removes fenced code first, which is safe there because that
function only asks whether rendered image syntax exists.

issue-quality-core cannot simply delete fences: their contents are legitimate
reproduction evidence that emptiness and duplicate detection need to see. It
now masks fenced blocks and inline code spans, strips comments from what
remains, and restores them.

Regressions added on both sides, each paired with a negative case proving a
genuine HTML comment is still stripped. Without the fix 2 of 190 fail; with it
all 190 pass.
Re-review found the first fix both incomplete and dangerous.

DANGEROUS: the masker combined a variable-length delimiter capture, a lazy
whole-input scan and a backreference, which backtracks catastrophically. A
60,488-character template-shaped body took 10.5s - inside an issue-automation
trust boundary anyone can post to. Measured now: 60k unclosed fence 0ms, 20k
inline spans 4ms.

INCOMPLETE: it required the closing fence to match the opener's length exactly
and only masked single-line code spans. GFM allows a LONGER closing fence and
allows line endings inside a code span, so both cases still let a comment-like
literal run to EOF and swallow the visible section below it.

Replaced with a single-pass scanner that walks the string once: fenced blocks
(<=3 space indent, >=3 backticks or tildes, closing run of at least the opening
length), inline spans (a run of N backticks closed by the next run of exactly
N), and HTML comments outside both.

Also removed a duplicate definition of the function that the previous patch
left behind - the stale regex copy was the one actually being called, which is
why the longer-fence case still failed after the first attempt.

Regressions: longer closing fence, multiline code span, and a bounded-time
assertion on adversarial input. 193 pass; reverting the source fails 1.
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