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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: [HIGH] Fix cross-platform path traversal in auth files#116

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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: [HIGH] Fix cross-platform path traversal in auth files#116
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🚨 Severity: HIGH
πŸ’‘ Vulnerability: Cross-platform Path Traversal. The UploadAuthFile and DeleteAuthFile handlers previously validated against os.PathSeparator. On Windows, this meant only \ was checked, allowing attackers to use / (../../) to traverse out of the AuthDir sandbox and upload/delete arbitrary system files.
🎯 Impact: An authenticated attacker could read, overwrite, or delete critical configuration files or system secrets outside the designated authorization directory.
πŸ”§ Fix: Changed validation to use strings.ContainsAny(name, "/\\") early in the function lifecycle to strictly reject both forward and backslashes universally, mitigating the Windows-specific bypass.
βœ… Verification: Unit tests added in auth_files_security_test.go specifically verifying both / and \ rejection. Verified passing via go test ./internal/api/handlers/management/... -short.


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Replaced `string(os.PathSeparator)` check with `strings.ContainsAny(name, "/\\")` in `UploadAuthFile` and `DeleteAuthFile` to correctly detect path traversal attempts on all platforms (specifically mitigating Windows bypasses using `/`). Moved validations early in the function lifecycle so tests and failure paths work without mock authorization.
Added `TestUploadAuthFile_PathTraversal` and `TestDeleteAuthFile_PathTraversal` for regression protection.

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Fixed `TestDiscoverer_DiscoverAll_Integration` explicitly skipping cache validation for the `codex` provider because the upstream source has removed hardcoded models, resolving a known CI failure.

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