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Marius CiepluchandClaude Opus 5 f31ef862a7 fix(output-encoding): ask about the server half, and say what the family cannot decide
The census recorded this family completing 44 questions on a Node application and finding
nothing, which is what a client-only vocabulary must do there: all six declared sinks were DOM
sinks. NodeGoat's cross-site scripting is server-side.

Decision: the family asks about a value reaching a rendering call, and states in its own
declaration that it cannot decide template-mediated escaping. Whether res.render is safe depends
on the engine's autoescape setting and on the template's markup, neither of which is at the
call, so res.render is not a sink and the family's limits field says so. A new CWE-79 sink
covers res.write, res.end, res.send and the response.* spellings; res.json stays out because an
application/json body is not a document.

Template auto-escaping is claimed where its evidence is, as a configuration defect:
swig.setDefaults, nunjucks.configure and marked.setOptions are security settings now.

It establishes a finding: app/routes/research.js:25, model_entailed,
`req.query.url + req.query.symbol -> res.write(body)`. The handler fetches a URL the caller
chooses and writes the response body into a text/html response, so the document served from
this origin is the attacker's. The record states how coarse the step is: the path from url to
body runs through the client's callback parameter, which the graph treats as reachable from the
call's arguments, so the conclusion rests on the call's semantics rather than on what the graph
established. Five of seven families now establish findings.

Four defects were found on the way, three of them false positives this change would otherwise
have shipped.

- The permissive-value set was shared across every setting, while a boolean's polarity belongs
  to the setting: true leaves the door open in cors({origin: true}) and closes it in
  swig.setDefaults({autoescape: true}). Adding the template engines would have reported the fix
  as the defect on the line that offers it. ConfigSpec now carries per-setting values, and
  Jinja2's Environment moved out of Python's shared list for the same latent reason.
- config.sc matched a dotted setting on its trailing segment alone, so marked.setOptions would
  have claimed an editor's setOptions. dominance.sc already required the qualifier.
- taint.sc asked its flow query of every argument including the receiver at index 0. On a
  response sink the receiver is the response object, so res.end() -- which takes no data -- was
  reported exactly like the res.write(body) two lines above it. Flows now use the real
  arguments, as arity already did.
- The arbiter sorted a file's settings by line number as TEXT, so line 126 preceded line 78 and
  which setting a file reported depended on the spelling of its line numbers.

Template escaping disabled at server.js:135 is detected, measured model_entailed against the
real query and the real arbiter, and still not reported: the arbiter returns one verdict per
question and that file has an earlier permissive setting. Task 14.6 carries it rather than
hiding it.

1,415 tests pass, thirteen skipped; nine Joern-gated query tests pass in the image.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EmM1j46qgKMh3zqD1QMwEo
2026-09-19 20:38:39 +02:00
Marius CiepluchandClaude Opus 5 57f5a3f0dc fix(semantic-facts): give untrusted destination the clients a Node server calls
The family census recorded this family completing 44 questions on NodeGoat, finding the open
redirect, and having no way to ask about the repository's documented SSRF: needle.get on a
query-string URL at app/routes/research.js:16. A thin vocabulary is a silent false negative.

One data change, no query change. The declared set now covers axios, got, needle, request,
superagent, unirest, undici and fetch as bare module tokens, plus http.get, http.request,
https.get and https.request dotted. Bare is the documented call form of each module and covers
its verb methods too, since a token matches word-bounded against the callee and axios is
bounded inside axios.get; axios.get and axios.post are dropped as subsumed rather than
unwanted. http and https stay dotted because their namespace also holds createServer, and a
bare token would have claimed every server a repository starts.

The request is now reported at app/routes/research.js:16, model_entailed, witness
`req.query.url + req.query.symbol -> needle.get(url, ...)`. This family goes from one finding
to two on NodeGoat, every other family is unchanged, and 299 of 299 questions still complete.
Measured on that graph, needle matches exactly one call and the eleven other clients match
none in first-party or vendored code, so NodeGoat shows the gap closing and cannot show those
clients' noise.

A control asserts both halves. A handler calling axios.get with a literal and needle.get with
req.query.url reports the tainted client alone, and it reads the shipped vocabulary rather than
a copy, so removing the client fails it. The CWE-601 redirect entry is untouched: a
Location-header redirect is value-shaped and stays outside what this family asks.

1,411 tests pass, eleven skipped; seven Joern-gated query tests pass in the image.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EmM1j46qgKMh3zqD1QMwEo
2026-09-19 17:55:31 +02:00
Marius CiepluchandClaude Opus 5 4e2619e248 feat(pre-push-safety-net): census the declared families and fix a sink matched in a comment
Seven vulnerability families are declared and two had been proven. The census asks each of
them, on whole checkouts of NodeGoat and VAmPI, whether it establishes anything at all, and
reports a family that answered and found nothing separately from one that was never asked.

Four establish findings: injection, access_control, config_secrets and untrusted_destination.
Output encoding, path, prototype and deserialization establish nothing on either subject. All
299 NodeGoat and 35 VAmPI questions completed, so the silences are answers.

Three of those silences are diagnosed gaps, not clean code. NodeGoat's documented SSRF calls
needle.get, which the sink vocabulary does not hold. Its XSS is server-rendered, and output
encoding declares only DOM sinks, so no question it can ask could have found it. Its two
access-control defects raise no obligation at all: measured with the real dominance query,
every modelled data operation lives in app/data/*-dao.js and none in a route handler file,
while the family scopes operations to the region's own file. Tasks 14.2 to 14.5 carry each
gap; none is fixed here.

The census also found a false positive and it is fixed. NodeGoat's only prototype report was
the word `set` inside `// set these up in case we have an error case`: the matched node is the
<operator>.assignment holding the entire 1,000-character signup handler, and sinkMatches
searched a node's whole text. It now confines the text clause to the callee and excludes
operator nodes. Fourth instance of this bug class after fgets/gets, resolve/resolveUrl and
user/users. Measured on NodeGoat's non-vendor calls, injection sinks fall 28 to 3, prototype
13 to 2 and untrusted destination 26 to 7, with no true positive lost; req.query had been an
injection sink because `query` is word-bounded inside it. Witnesses now name the sink call
rather than the assignment that contained it.

1,411 tests pass, ten skipped; the six Joern-gated query tests pass in the image, including a
new one that fails on the shape this fixed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EmM1j46qgKMh3zqD1QMwEo
2026-09-19 17:39:29 +02:00
Marius CiepluchandClaude Fable 5.1 c955721f92 fix(cpg): the census overlay list is layer names, not characters
One flatten too many turned "base,controlflow,typerel,callgraph,dataflowOss" into "b,a,s,e,...", and
every real build then warned that its graph lacked the dataflow layer while carrying it. The compile test
now asserts the shape on a real graph.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
2026-09-11 10:49:10 +02:00
Marius CiepluchandClaude Fable 5.1 60963f565c fix(cpg): the real-request cost, attributed and removed -- overlays once, seeds scoped, data tables out
Task 5.13, measured on ten real pmpro pairs at callDepth 1 with each join half switched separately and
the 54 s JVM fixed cost subtracted: both halves off 11.1 s/request, field half 10.9 s, hook half past
49 s (timeout). Stage timers put it in `hookSeedsIn("")`: every field access in all 7,061 methods put
through the field join before the first callback was answered. Seeds are now the callback's own body
and file, which is where WP Statistics's `set_current_page` and `$this->rest_hits = ...` both live.
Both halves on: 9.7 s/request. `sourceNodes` is also materialised once per request instead of once
per sink.

The WP Statistics re-verification then exposed the larger term. A `joern --script` run is two JVMs and
`-J-Xmx` sizes only the launcher, so the heap knob governed nothing; the backend now sets
JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS too. And since PHP builds went through php2cpg directly (1ce7e9d, an hour after the
hook half was verified from a joern-parse build), every query batch has recomputed the dataflow overlay
at load -- 54 s on pmpro, and on WP Statistics an OutOfMemoryError inside OssDataFlow after 21 minutes
at 2 GB, no completion in 25 minutes at 4 GB, and no help from --max-num-def at 1000 or 200. Two
vendored browser-profile tables, one array literal each, were 60% of that graph.

Three changes, all named in the log: `queries/overlay.sc` applies the overlays once at build time and
the saved graph replaces the raw one (joern-parse --overlaysonly NPEs in 4.0.623); a source file over
1 MB is excluded as a data table and reported in `unparsed`; and the seed scoping above. After: the WP
Statistics graph reloads in 8 s, the `record` request that timed out at 520 s answers in 39 s including
the JVM, and CVE-2022-25148 is entailed again with `sourceKind = hook`. A raw-vs-saved payload diff on
pmpro shows identical evidence keys and fewer duplicate flow rows.

Also: the backend's own unit tests left fifteen ousast-cpg-* directories in /tmp per run; conftest now
keeps tempfile under the test's directory. The compile test covers overlay.sc.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
2026-09-11 01:16:00 +02:00
Marius CiepluchandClaude Opus 5 07df314e12 fix(cpg): prove the frontend can read the source before building, and check the graph always
Two permanent guards, and a correction that motivates both.

THE CORRECTION. There is no php2cpg defect. Every PHP build on this machine
ran through a local `php` shim proxying stdio through `docker run`, and
php2cpg depends on the INTERLEAVING of its parser's stderr banners with its
stdout JSON to attribute each document to a file. The proxy scrambles it:

    streaming shim   drops 72-88   767KB / 969KB / 1.2MB   different every run
    buffered shim    drops 0       5,703 bytes             empty, and silent
    NATIVE php       drops 0       2,872,996 bytes         identical x3

The 637-file tree with native php: 0 drops, a 4,329,471-byte CPG, 20.0s,
1.9GB peak -- which is exactly what task 5.10 said before I started
"correcting" it. No intermittent failures, no malformed graph, no dataflow
assertion, no scale limit.

GUARD 1: the interpreter must prove it can read the tree, before anything is
built. Every instrument failure this project has had takes one shape -- the
input was unreadable and the tool reported a plausible ZERO -- and it has cost
four wrong diagnoses in a day:

    a php that could not see ~/.cache   -> "cannot handle 637 files"
    a php whose stdio was proxied       -> "drops half its batches"
    a container missing a bind mount    -> "0 dropped", 5,703-byte graph

None announce themselves: file_exists() is false, the parser writes nothing,
the frontend exits 0, and "no errors" reads exactly like success. Checking the
output cannot separate that from an empty repository. Checking that the input
arrived can, and costs one exec.

GUARD 2: the graph census is taken on EVERY build, not only one the frontend
warned about. A graph holding nothing arrives with no warnings at all --
silence is the symptom that has no symptom -- and the shortfall is now
reported as "the frontend reported no failures but the graph holds N of M
source files".

`cpg_build_failed` carries that detail through to the report instead of being
a bare reason.

Also adds tests/test_cpg_queries_compile.py: the queries are 900 lines of
Scala that nothing compiled. A rowsFor signature change shipped with 850 tests
passing and broke every query at runtime, found by a measurement failing hours
later. Each query is now compiled AND run against a real graph wherever joern
exists, and must return a parseable payload.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
2026-09-10 11:35:35 +02:00