fix(model-grounded-detection): the absence arbiter was silencing its own family

Two bugs, together making 4.1 report "no bug" on a textbook IDOR. Both found by
running it against a real corpus pair rather than a fixture.

1. constraint_params were treated as dischargers. A field named `user_id` is
   what an IDOR is MADE OF -- `filter_by(id=user_id)` with user_id off the
   request is the bug, not the fix. The deleted checker only counted an identity
   constraint whose value's PROVENANCE was the authenticated context, so the
   parameter name alone evidences nothing. This is the mirror of group 2's
   sanitizer bug: a thing that must never count as a discharge, counted.

2. Guard tokens matched as substrings. With `user` in the token list, the string
   "SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?" contains `user`, so the query reported
   every operation in the handler as guarded. Matching is word-boundary now.

On threatbyte-api-v1-delete the arbiter previously found three operations, all
"guarded" by evidence like '"SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?"' and '(user_id,)',
and returned no verdict at all. After the fix, on the real pairs:

  threatbyte-api-v1-delete     vuln=model_corroborated  fixed=none
  vampi-users-update-password  vuln=model_corroborated  fixed=none

Both distinguished, deterministically, with no model call. Corroborated rather
than entailed is right for these: they are single-handler excerpts with no
guarded sibling to be inconsistent with, which is the asymmetry the rung
distinction exists to express.

identity_sources still discharge; request_sources and permissive_values remain
excluded because they describe the vulnerable shape rather than the fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
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Marius Ciepluch
2026-09-08 15:10:51 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 4f8f590b93
commit eebca3f663
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@@ -128,19 +128,20 @@ def test_safe_shape_sinks_are_kept_for_the_shape_test() -> None:
assert c_memory is not None and "printf" in c_memory.safe_shape_sinks
def test_dischargers_carry_identity_and_constraint_tokens_but_not_the_negative_fields() -> None:
"""A discharger fact spreads across six fields and two of them mean the opposite.
def test_dischargers_carry_identity_tokens_but_not_the_negative_fields() -> None:
"""A discharger fact spreads across six fields and only three of them evidence a discharge.
`identity_sources` (current_user, request.user) and `constraint_params` (owner_id, user_id) are how an
identity constraint is actually written, and omitting them left the absence arbiter reporting "no guard"
on a handler that plainly had one. `request_sources` and `permissive_values` are excluded because they
describe the vulnerable shape, not the fix -- including them would let the arbiter read a bug as its fix.
`identity_sources` (current_user, request.user) is how an identity constraint is actually written, and
omitting it left the absence arbiter reporting "no guard" on handlers that plainly had one.
`request_sources` and `permissive_values` describe the vulnerable shape rather than the fix -- including
them would let the arbiter read a bug as its own fix. (`constraint_params` is excluded too, for a
different reason, covered by its own test.)
"""
from openultrasast.model.specs import dominance_specs
from openultrasast.semantic.obligations import load_obligation_facts
spec = dominance_specs(language="python")["access_control"]
assert "current_user" in spec.dischargers and "owner_id" in spec.dischargers
assert "current_user" in spec.dischargers
assert "login_required" in spec.dischargers # decorators still present
facts = load_obligation_facts().for_language("python")
@@ -148,3 +149,22 @@ def test_dischargers_carry_identity_and_constraint_tokens_but_not_the_negative_f
v for fact in facts.dischargers for v in fact.permissive_values
}
assert not (negative & set(spec.dischargers)), "the negative fields must never read as a discharge"
def test_constraint_params_are_not_dischargers_on_their_own() -> None:
"""A field named `user_id` is what an IDOR is MADE OF, not what fixes one.
`filter_by(id=user_id)` with `user_id` taken off the request is the bug. The original checker only
counted an identity constraint whose value's provenance was the authenticated context, so the parameter
name alone evidences nothing. Treating it as a guard silenced the entire access_control family: on
threatbyte-api-v1-delete every operation reported as guarded, and the arbiter found no bug at all.
"""
from openultrasast.model.specs import dominance_specs
from openultrasast.semantic.obligations import load_obligation_facts
spec = dominance_specs(language="python")["access_control"]
facts = load_obligation_facts().for_language("python")
params = {p for fact in facts.dischargers for p in fact.constraint_params}
assert params, "the fixture would be vacuous if the facts carried no constraint params"
assert not (params & set(spec.dischargers)), f"constraint params must not discharge alone: {sorted(params & set(spec.dischargers))}"
assert "current_user" in spec.dischargers, "identity sources still do discharge"