fix(redaction): strip C0/C1 bytes before shape matching - #978
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NUL or ESC inside a key body splits the shape so RedactString misses it. Normalize those control bytes out first, then match. Cover NUL and ESC splits. Fixes Gitlawb#969
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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change strips control bytes before secret-shape matching, but the current tests do not cover control bytes inserted inside the secret body. This is a bounded regression-coverage risk and is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@internal/redaction/redaction_test.go`:
- Around line 159-175: Extend the control-separator test cases near RedactString
to include a valid UTF-8 U+009B control character in addition to the existing
lone invalid byte case. Add a no-secret test using RedactString that asserts
tabs, LF, CR, and valid non-control UTF-8 such as “café” are preserved exactly.
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Add a valid UTF-8 U+009B control split case alongside the lone invalid 0x9b byte, and assert tab/LF/CR plus non-control UTF-8 stay unchanged.
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164-167: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAdd a control byte inside the secret body.
Line 166 places the control byte only between
prefixandbody. It does not cover the required case where NUL, ESC, or C1 splits the body itself. Add an internal-body input, such asprefix + body[:13] + tc.split + body[13:], while keeping the boundary case if both positions are supported.Proposed test addition
- input := prefix + tc.split + body - got := RedactString(input, Options{}) + inputs := []string{ + prefix + tc.split + body, + prefix + body[:13] + tc.split + body[13:], + } + for _, input := range inputs { + got := RedactString(input, Options{}) + if strings.Contains(got, body) { + t.Fatalf("secret split by %s leaked in %q", tc.name, got) + } + if strings.Contains(got, prefix) { + t.Fatalf("secret prefix split by %s leaked in %q", tc.name, got) + } + if !strings.Contains(got, RedactedSecret) { + t.Fatalf("expected %q after %s split, got %q", RedactedSecret, tc.name, got) + } + }As per coding guidelines, “Every behavior or security-boundary change needs a regression test, including the failure path.” The PR objective also requires control bytes to split the secret body.
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In `@internal/redaction/redaction_test.go`:
- Around line 164-167: Update the table-driven test around RedactString to
include a case where tc.split is inserted within body, such as between body[:13]
and body[13:], while preserving the existing prefix/body boundary coverage when
both positions are supported. Ensure the assertions verify redaction when NUL,
ESC, or C1 control bytes split the secret body.
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Requesting changes. The direction is right, but as written this leaks secrets that main redacts, so it moves redaction backwards in exactly the area it is meant to harden.
A secret that main catches is emitted in the clear
RedactString now matches on the control-stripped copy. Every shape in textSecretPatterns carries a leading \b, so deleting the control byte puts the preceding word character straight against the credential and destroys the boundary the pattern anchors on.
Same four inputs, same test, both trees:
PR head c0704d7a
wordchar before control leaked=true out="id42sk-ant-api03-ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"
space before control leaked=false out="id42 [REDACTED]"
nonword before control leaked=false out="id42:[REDACTED]"
nothing before control leaked=false out="[REDACTED]"
main eeea3308
wordchar before control leaked=false out="id42\x00[REDACTED]"
space before control leaked=false out="id42 \x00[REDACTED]"
nonword before control leaked=false out="id42:\x00[REDACTED]"
nothing before control leaked=false out="\x00[REDACTED]"
The leak tracks the word-character-before-control condition exactly, which is what identifies \b as the cause rather than anything about the stripping itself. It needs no crafted input: an xterm OSC title sequence supplies its own preceding word character, and so do NUL-delimited streams from find -print0, xargs -0 or env -0.
The fix is to keep matching on the original and use the stripped copy only to locate candidates, or to drop the \b anchors in favour of an explicit boundary class that treats a deleted control as a boundary. Whichever way, the match must not be able to see two tokens joined that were never adjacent.
Result.Redacted now fires on control bytes alone
scrubResultSecrets decides the flag by scrubbed != res.Output, and RedactString now returns a normalized string for any input carrying a C0 byte other than tab, LF or CR. So a result with no secret in it is reported to the user as redacted, and the model silently receives text that differs from the source:
IN="package main\n\ffunc main() {}\n" OUT="package main\nfunc main() {}\n" Redacted=true
IN="Don\x92t \x93quote\x94 me\n" OUT="Dont quote me\n" Redacted=true
A form feed in a Go or Lisp source file and a Windows-1252 text file both hit it, neither involving a terminal. Reverting only internal/redaction/redaction.go to base leaves all of these unchanged with Redacted=false, so this is introduced here rather than pre-existing.
Two consequences worth separating: the disclosure is wrong, and the content change is silent. If stripping is meant to be a matching-time normalization, it should not reach the returned value at all.
What I checked and could not fault
The C1 handling, the UTF-8 continuation-byte cases and the whitespace preservation in your new tests all hold up. The idea that a split secret should still match is right and worth keeping; it is the ordering that is wrong, not the goal.
I verified both findings myself against main rather than taking them on report, and both reproduce with -count=1 in a clean worktree.
Matching on a control-stripped copy made \b fail when a word character preceded the deleted control, so id42\x00sk-ant-… leaked. Allow C0/C1 gaps between shape characters on the original string instead, and do not return a stripped copy when no secret matched.
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Addressed in d1e06ee.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
Merge readiness
- [P1] Rebase onto current
mainbefore merge
internal/redaction/redaction.go:78
This branch still merges from27b319ca, while livemainis1b5db176(two commits ahead). The current three-dot diff does not touch those upstream files, but the repository requires a fresh base before review and GitHub currently reports the PR as blocked with changes requested. Please rebase onto currentmainand re-run the affected checks.
Findings
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[P2] Preserve the separator that follows a redacted credential
internal/redaction/redaction.go:92
secretBodybuilds(?:class + ctrlGap){n,}, soctrlGapis attached to every body character—including the final required character. BecausectrlGapis greedy and the entire regexp match is replaced, it consumes controls after an otherwise complete credential as well as controls that interrupt one. For example,sk-ant-api03-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\x00safebecomes[REDACTED]safe, silently removing the NUL field delimiter. The same construction is shared by the OpenAI and every text-secret pattern, so this can collapse NUL-delimited or structured output at anyRedactStringboundary. Address the root cause by representing a gap only between two required shape characters, or by capturing and re-emitting a terminal gap; retain matching for controls genuinely inside a credential and add a regression that asserts the suffix delimiter survives. -
[P2] Do not treat a valid replacement character as a C1 byte
internal/redaction/redaction.go:78
The root cause is using\x{FFFD}as the regexp representation of a malformed lone C1 byte. Go's regexp input sees malformed UTF-8 as RuneError, but the identical rune also occurs in valid UTF-8 text. Therefore valid text such assk-ant-api03-abcdefghijkl�mnopqrstuvwxyzis newly replaced even though U+FFFD is not a C0/C1 control; tool and agent output is silently altered and can be marked redacted. Do not try to distinguish these two byte-level cases with the same rune regexp: preserve valid U+FFFD by doing byte-aware normalization/mapping before matching, or obtain an explicit decision to accept and document this false positive. Add tests for both a raw invalid C1 byte and a valid UTF-8 U+FFFD input. -
[P2] Cover a control split inside the credential body
internal/redaction/redaction_test.go:167
The new table inserts every control only betweensk-ant-api03-andbody; it never exercises the repeatedsecretBodyportion that this PR adds to harden. That is the root cause of the coverage gap: a future edit that removes or misplaces the gap inside(?:class + ctrlGap){n,}still passes every added test while a NUL/ESC/C1 insidebody[:13] + split + body[13:]leaks. This is also the prior CodeRabbit request that is not present at the current head. Add internal-body cases for raw NUL, ESC, lone invalid C1, and UTF-8 C1, asserting the complete secret is removed and the test fails on the base implementation; retain the boundary cases as distinct coverage.
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Both of my blocking items are closed, and the new design is the right one. Dropping strip-first and compiling a control gap into the shapes means \b still sees the real preceding byte, so the leak table I posted last time is now leaked=false on all four rows and matches base. Restoring the old file fails TestRedactStringWordcharBeforeNULAnthropicKey, so that is genuinely pinned rather than pinned by name. Result.Redacted no longer fires on a control byte alone either.
The PR's actual win is real too: sk-a\x00nt-api03-... redacts on this head and leaks on base.
I am still requesting changes, because one line introduces two regressions.
func secretBody(class, quant string) string {
return `(?:` + class + ctrlGap + `)` + quant // gap INSIDE the repetition
}The last repetition's gap is greedy and runs past the final secret byte, so a match can end on a gap and keep consuming what follows.
It leaks a key that base redacts
Driven on both trees, same input, default Options:
in "key sk-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabcdefgh\x1bkebab-case tail"
HEAD "key sk-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabcdefgh\x1bkebab-case tail" leaked=true
BASE "key [REDACTED]\x1bkebab-case tail" leaked=false
in "key sk-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabcdefgh\x00some-thing"
HEAD unchanged, leaked=true
BASE "key [REDACTED]\x00some-thing"
The same key with nothing after it redacts on both trees, which isolates it exactly: it is the control byte plus a hyphen in the following word that disables redaction of the credential.
The mechanism is the widened match feeding stripControlBytes(match) into the kebab-case escape hatch at redaction.go:319-323. That filter is meant to look at the key; it now looks at a match that ran past the key and joined it to the next token, so text that arrives after a credential decides whether the credential is redacted. That is this PR's own threat model inverted: an injected control byte now switches off redaction that already shipped. It reaches the model through scrubResultSecrets with Redacted=false, so nothing signals it.
It deletes output that base preserves
in "key=<ANT_KEY>\x00path/one.go\x00path/two.go" (67 bytes)
HEAD "key=[REDACTED]/one.go\x00path/two.go" (33 bytes)
BASE "key=[REDACTED]\x00path/one.go\x00path/two.go" (38 bytes)
The replacement swallowed the NUL and the word run behind it. Reach is the whole whitespace-delimited run, so a long NUL-delimited stream collapses to almost nothing. git ls-files -z and find -print0 are ordinary tool output and this sits on the tool-result path. An ESC gets eaten the same way, which leaves a literal [0m on screen.
Neither is pinned: every new test puts the secret at the end of the input, so the suite is green with both live.
The fix
Keep the gaps strictly interior so a match can never end on one:
class + "(?:" + ctrlGap + class + "){n-1,}" instead of "(?:" + class + ctrlGap + "){n,}"
and compute the kebab and digit filters over the matched key rather than over a match that ran past it. I checked that shape keeps every committed split case passing.
One thing I looked at and am explicitly not asking for, because base does the same: Unicode format characters (U+200B, U+200D, U+FEFF, U+00AD, U+2060) are not handled, since ctrlGap covers only Cc/C1 and unicode.IsControl is false for category Cf. Byte-identical on both trees, so it is a pre-existing gap rather than anything you introduced. Worth its own issue, as a Cf rejoins in the reader's eye the same way a NUL does.
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Fixes #969.
Issue is not issue-approved; proceeding because Vasanth told euxaristia the intern can broaden scope.
Problem
RedactStringmatches secret shapes on the raw string and never strips C0/C1 control bytes first. Inserting NUL or ESC in a key body (e.g.sk-ant-api03-\x00…) splits the pattern so the secret survives; stripping the control byte later would rejoin it.Change
Normalize/strip C0/C1 control bytes (Cc other than tab/LF/CR, plus lone Latin-1 C1 bytes) before shape matching, then match. Tab/LF/CR are kept so log line structure is unchanged.
Tests
internal/redaction/redaction_test.go.Notes
internal/redaction/redaction.go,redaction_test.go) and may conflict. This PR does not duplicate that work.gofmtapplied.go testnot run locally (no checkout).Summary by CodeRabbit
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