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Fixes #815

#816 already covered git credential stores (~/.git-credentials and ~/.config/git/credentials). Remaining scope is SSH private keys and the GPG secret keyring. Issue is issue-approved. This takes option 2: deny key material, not the whole of ~/.ssh.

What changed

Linux still allowed a sandboxed command to read ~/.ssh/id_* and ~/.gnupg. macOS allow-lists reads so these paths were already ungranted; Windows skips the deny list by design.

  • GPG: deny ~/.gnupg as a directory (same shape as ~/.aws), covering secring.gpg and private-keys-v1.d.
  • SSH in ~/.ssh: deny private key material (id_rsa / id_ecdsa / id_ed25519 / id_dsa and id_* variants, *.pem, and files that look like OpenSSH/PEM private keys). ~/.ssh/config, known_hosts, authorized_keys, and *.pub stay readable so git host resolution still works. The directory itself is not denied.
  • Relocated keys: parse ~/.ssh/config and Include (cycle detection, depth cap 16, tilde expansion). Path-valued directives collected: IdentityFile, CertificateFile, RevokedHostKeys, ControlPath, IdentityAgent, GlobalKnownHostsFile, UserKnownHostsFile. UserKnownHostsFile / any directive that resolves to known_hosts or *.pub is not denied (option 2 contract). Unreadable includes are skipped, not panicked.
  • Explicit allowRead still re-includes, matching the git credential tests.

Did not expand into .tsh / .brev / .pki / .terraform.d or wholesale ~/.config (the shape gnanam questioned on #801).

Did not invent a new unlink-deny pipeline. Linux deny-read is a bubblewrap mask (/dev/null bind or tmpfs --remount-ro); it does not pair a separate unlink rule. macOS seatbelt already emits deny file-write-unlink next to deny file-read* for every deny-read path, including these new ones. Building a Linux unlink path would be a new enforcement mechanism.

Tests

internal/sandbox/ssh_gpg_deny_test.go (internal package, t.Fatalf, no testify), modeled on git_credential_deny_test.go:

  • materialised ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 denied; .pub, config, known_hosts not denied; ~/.ssh not denied wholesale
  • foo.pem / id_rsa.pem denied
  • ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg and private-keys-v1.d denied
  • IdentityFile ~/keys/work_ed25519 denied even outside ~/.ssh; UserKnownHostsFile does not hide known_hosts; CertificateFile *.pub stays readable
  • Include followed; cyclic includes do not hang; missing include skipped
  • explicit allowRead re-includes a key
  • git credential files still denied (no fix(sandbox): deny reads of git's credential stores (#815) #816 regression)

go test was not run against a full checkout (git API + box files + gofmt only). CI should run go test ./internal/sandbox -count=1.

Linux-only. gofmt applied. Do not deny wholesale ~/.ssh.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security Enhancements

    • Strengthened sandbox protection for GPG stores, Git credential files, and SSH private keys, including nested and externally referenced keys.
    • Preserves access to public keys, SSH configuration, and known-hosts files.
    • Maintains credential restrictions across symlink changes and sandbox environments.
    • Avoids blocking on special files and respects explicit access grants.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for configuration includes, token expansion, symlinks, nested keys, PuTTY keys, and special files.

Gitlawb#816 closed the git credential half of Gitlawb#815. Linux still allowed a
sandboxed command to read ~/.ssh/id_* and ~/.gnupg. Deny that key
material (not the whole of ~/.ssh) and IdentityFile paths from ssh
config so git host resolution still works.

Fixes Gitlawb#815
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Walkthrough

The sandbox now discovers SSH private keys from filesystem and SSH configuration sources. It denies SSH, GPG, and Git credential paths while preserving readable support files. Bubblewrap and Seatbelt handle canonical, lexical, live, and dangling symlink paths.

Changes

Credential deny hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded SSH credential discovery
internal/sandbox/ssh_key_deny.go, internal/sandbox/ssh_gpg_deny_unix_test.go
The sandbox recursively discovers private keys, parses configuration references and includes, expands supported tokens, bounds file reads, and skips special files.
Credential deny path construction
internal/sandbox/profile.go, internal/sandbox/git_credential_deny_test.go
The deny list adds GPG directories, Git credential files, and SSH key candidates. It preserves eligible lexical symlink paths and applies canonical containment and nested allowRead handling.
Backend lexical path enforcement
internal/sandbox/linux_helper.go, internal/sandbox/runner.go
Bubblewrap classifies files, directories, and symlinks for masking. Seatbelt uses enforcement-specific path normalization. Dangling symlinks remain masked.
Credential deny behavior validation
internal/sandbox/ssh_gpg_deny_test.go
Tests cover credential denial, readable SSH support files, recursive configuration handling, symlink retargeting, bounded discovery, special files, path aliases, nested GPG grants, backend masking, and explicit allowRead overrides.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5395f

The sandbox now denies the documented SSH and GPG key locations, but custom-named symlinks to private keys may still remain readable. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up for that bounded protection gap.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SandboxedCommand
  participant credentialDenyReadPathsIn
  participant SSHKeyDiscovery
  participant BwrapOrSeatbelt
  SandboxedCommand->>credentialDenyReadPathsIn: request credential deny paths
  credentialDenyReadPathsIn->>SSHKeyDiscovery: discover bounded SSH key candidates
  SSHKeyDiscovery-->>credentialDenyReadPathsIn: return private-key paths
  credentialDenyReadPathsIn->>BwrapOrSeatbelt: apply canonical and lexical deny paths
  BwrapOrSeatbelt-->>SandboxedCommand: enforce credential access restrictions
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The changes satisfy issue #815's coding objectives for Linux: they deny SSH private-key material and ~/.gnupg while preserving readable SSH configuration, known-hosts files, authorized_keys, and public keys. The implementation supports relocated and nested keys, symlinks, special-file safety, allowRead carveouts, and bwrap/Seatbelt enforcement. Git credential coverage is identified as separate work in #816.

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The code and tests remain within the linked objectives. The added discovery, path normalization, enforcement logic, and regression tests directly support credential denial and safe exceptions. No unrelated functional changes are identified.

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/sandbox/profile.go`:
- Around line 510-513: Update credentialDenyReadPathsIn and
appendUnreadableLinuxPathArgs so denials are enforced against the candidate’s
lexical path at use time, not only its symlink-resolved target; use rooted or
handle-relative enforcement for ~/.gnupg, ~/.git-credentials, and SSH
private-key candidates. Add a Linux integration test covering atomic symlink
retargeting for all three candidate types, verifying the newly targeted
credentials remain unreadable.

In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_gpg_deny_test.go`:
- Around line 39-170: Add a regression test covering SSH/GPG credential path
normalization on a non-Linux path, or use a hermetic
filesystem/path-normalization fake exercising the same logic. Anchor it near the
existing credential denial tests such as sshGPGDenied and verify the new SSH and
GPG paths are denied correctly without relying on host-specific filesystem
behavior.

In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_key_deny.go`:
- Around line 263-264: Update expandSSHConfigPath to resolve the supported %d
token using the supplied home value before checking for unresolved percent
tokens, while continuing to reject unsupported tokens. Add a regression test
covering a %d/keys/work_ed25519 IdentityFile outside ~/.ssh and verifying it is
included in the deny list.
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OpenSSH IdentityFile supports %d as the local home; expand that (and %%)
before rejecting leftover percent tokens. Keep the lexical candidate path
on the deny list alongside any EvalSymlinks target for ~/.gnupg,
~/.git-credentials, and SSH private keys so a same-user symlink retarget
cannot drop the deny. Tests cover %d outside ~/.ssh, a Windows-style
token fake, and lexical symlink candidates.

Do not deny wholesale ~/.ssh.
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Changes requested. Reviewed head 14e64f13c69922a072d44a569d56a5a70cd1da2b against merge base 27b319ca88a3180bed5183f0c599e9307f3ece12.

No new third-party module, dependency, SDK, service, vendor tree, submodule, or remote runtime integration is introduced by this PR.

[High] The lexical symlink deny is normalized away before either backend enforces it

profile.go now keeps both resolved and lexical credential spellings, but appendUnreadableLinuxPathArgs calls normalizeProfilePath again, and Seatbelt reaches the same resolver through denySeatbeltPathRules. A generated regression with ~/.git-credentials -> target showed bubblewrap masking the resolved target twice and never emitting the lexical pathname. Retargeting the link after plan construction therefore exposes the new target, so the second commit does not close the reported race for .gnupg, .git-credentials, or SSH keys.

This also deterministically breaks existing path invariants on macOS: lexical /var/... candidates survive checks against canonical /private/var/... roots. On this head, TestPermissionProfileDropsAutomaticMasksCoveredByUserDeny and TestLinuxHelperPlanPreservesRealExtraRootCwd fail; both pass at the merge base. The latter turns a normal command-supplied HOME into a Linux launch refusal because the surviving lexical .gnupg entry is classified as a missing command credential directory.

Please carry lexical identity through the final enforcement boundary (or use rooted/handle-relative enforcement), while using canonical identity separately for overlap/allow checks. Add backend-level tests that inspect the final bwrap/Seatbelt rules and exercise retargeting; a profile-list assertion alone cannot catch this.

[High] Nested SSH private keys remain readable

sshPrivateKeyDenyCandidates only examines direct children of ~/.ssh and skips every directory. A generated regression placed an OpenSSH private-key header at ~/.ssh/keys/work; it was absent from the resulting deny list. That violates the approved option-2 contract to deny key material without denying all of ~/.ssh.

Use a bounded, traversal-safe recursive discovery strategy (or an equivalent directory policy with explicit safe carveouts) and cover nested arbitrary-name key files.

[Medium] Special files can hang every sandbox profile build

The new discovery path opens every non-directory top-level SSH entry with os.Open, and config/include parsing uses unbounded os.ReadFile before applying the 1 MiB cap. A FIFO named ~/.ssh/custom-key blocked sshPrivateKeyDenyCandidates beyond a 300 ms deterministic regression. A FIFO config/include has the same blocking path, and a large regular file is fully allocated before truncation.

Inspect with Lstat, reject symlinks/non-regular files where appropriate, and perform bounded no-follow reads. Add FIFO/device and oversized-config regressions.

Required validation currently fails

  • go test ./internal/sandbox -run '^$' -count=1 passes at the merge base but fails on the head because ssh_gpg_deny_test.go:225 and :233 use t.Fatal strings containing %d.
  • go test -vet=off ./internal/sandbox -count=1 reaches the suite but fails the two existing regressions named above; the identical targeted tests pass at the merge base.
  • make fmt-check and git diff HEAD --check pass.

The reproduction tests were created only in a disposable review worktree and removed afterward; the PR branch was not modified.

Carry symlink lexical identity into the final bwrap dest and Seatbelt
rules so a later retarget of ~/.git-credentials, ~/.gnupg, or an SSH key
cannot drop the mask. Overlap and user-deny coverage compare canonical
paths so lexical /var candidates do not survive a /private/var root or
turn a command HOME into a missing CommandDenyReadDirs refusal.

Walk ~/.ssh recursively for nested key material (depth-capped, no dir
symlink follow). Lstat and LimitReader so FIFOs, devices, and oversized
configs cannot hang profile construction. Escape t.Fatal %d for vet.

Do not deny wholesale ~/.ssh.
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Addressed in 77eacc6 (gnanam1990 review 5048126834).

1. High — lexical symlink deny survived the profile but was normalized away at enforcement

appendUnreadableLinuxPathArgs no longer EvalSymlinkss the dest. Symlink candidates keep their lexical pathname (--ro-bind /dev/null <lexical>); non-symlink paths still canonicalize so macOS /var/private/var continues to match. Seatbelt denySeatbeltPathRules uses the same split via unreadableEnforcementPaths. Overlap / user-deny coverage compares canonical identity (pathWithinRootCanonical), so a lexical /var/.../.gnupg is recognized as under a /private/var/... user deny or workspace root. That restores TestPermissionProfileDropsAutomaticMasksCoveredByUserDeny and TestLinuxHelperPlanPreservesRealExtraRootCwd. TestLinuxBwrapAndSeatbeltKeepLexicalCredentialSymlinkPaths inspects the final bwrap dests and Seatbelt rules for ~/.git-credentials, ~/.gnupg, and ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 symlink spellings, then retargets the git-credentials link and checks the lexical dest is still in the already-built args (no full bwrap run). Did not add a Landlock/openat pipeline.

2. High — nested SSH private keys

walkSSHPrivateKeyFiles recursively discovers key material under ~/.ssh (depth 8, 256-entry cap, directory symlinks not followed). Nested arbitrary-name files with an OpenSSH/PEM private-key header (~/.ssh/keys/work) and nested id_* (~/.ssh/work/id_rsa) are denied. config, known_hosts, *.pub, and authorized_keys stay readable, including nested copies. ~/.ssh itself is still not denied. Covered by TestCredentialDenyReadPathsDeniesNestedSSHPrivateKeys.

3. Medium — FIFO/device hang and unbounded config read

Discovery Lstats first and refuses FIFOs, devices, sockets, and other non-regular files. Reads go through LimitReader (readRegularFileBounded) so config/include never fully allocates a huge file before the 1 MiB cap. TestSSHKeyDiscoverySkipsFIFOAndDeviceWithoutBlocking (unix) creates ~/.ssh/custom-key and config FIFOs plus a char device and must finish within 300ms. TestSSHConfigDiscoveryBoundsOversizedConfig puts IdentityFile in the first bytes of a >1 MiB config and still denies the referenced key.

4. Test bug

t.Fatal strings with %d / %h in ssh_gpg_deny_test.go are now t.Fatalf with %%d / %%h. go test ./internal/sandbox -run '^$' -count=1 and go test ./internal/sandbox -count=1 both pass on Linux.

Do not deny wholesale ~/.ssh.

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In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_key_deny.go`:
- Around line 195-197: Update readRegularFileBounded and the
collectSSHConfigPaths flow to accept regular-file symlinks for the root SSH
config and Include targets, while preserving special-file rejection and
sshConfigMaxBytes limits; ensure resolved symlink targets are safely bounded
before parsing. Add coverage for a symlinked ~/.ssh/config and a symlinked
Include target that exposes a private key outside ~/.ssh.
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In `@internal/sandbox/runner.go`:
- Line 903: Update the path handling around unreadableEnforcementPaths and
denySeatbeltNormalizedPathRules to preserve lexical paths whenever
normalizeProfilePathLexically(path) differs from normalizeProfilePath(path),
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OpenSSH reads ~/.ssh/config and Include targets through regular-file
symlinks. Follow those to a regular file, then bound-read the resolved
path so a FIFO behind the link cannot hang profile construction.

Preserve lexical enforcement and Seatbelt paths whenever the lexical
spelling differs from EvalSymlinks, including a symlinked ~/.ssh with a
regular key inside, so retargeting the directory cannot expose the key.

Do not deny wholesale ~/.ssh.
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Requesting changes. First, context you could not have had: this PR's CI had never actually run. Its checks were sitting at action_required behind the fork gate, so the green you saw was CodeRabbit alone. I released it, and it is red.

CI: three of your own area's tests fail

--- FAIL: TestLinuxBwrapSkipsMissingCredentialBaselines
--- FAIL: TestLinuxBwrapCreatesOwnedCredentialDirsBeforeMasking
--- FAIL: TestLinuxBwrapKeepsCarveoutsReachableInsideMaskedDir

All three already exist on main, where they pass. The signature is the same in each: the produced args and the expected sequence differ only in the spelling of the temp path, C:\Users\RUNNER~1\... against C:\Users\runneradmin\.... In the third test the args carry BOTH spellings at once, some entries short and some long.

That points straight at the lexical-plus-resolved work: keeping the pre-EvalSymlinks spelling alongside the resolved target is right for the macOS /var to /private/var alias, but on Windows the resolved form is the 8.3 short name, so the two spellings diverge and only some paths get normalized. A macOS fix producing a Windows regression.

Being straight about my evidence: I could not reproduce this locally, because 8dot3 name generation is disabled on my volume and GetShortPathName returns the long name unchanged. The CI output is the evidence, and it is direct — both spellings appear in one arg list.

UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null becomes a deny-read entry

sshPathValuedDirectives deny-lists userknownhostsfile and globalknownhostsfile, and the only exemption is five exact basenames plus .pub. So every other spelling a user can write is denied:

known_hosts        exempt=true   deny=false
known_hosts2       exempt=false  deny=true
ssh_known_hosts    exempt=false  deny=true
null               exempt=false  deny=true

UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null is a very common idiom, and its basename is null. On macOS that lands in the Seatbelt profile as a literal deny file-read* on /dev/null in every sandboxed command, with writes still working because the deny covers file-read* but not file-write-data. Nobody would trace that back to their ssh_config. Linux is unaffected in practice (the mask is an identity bind) and Windows returns early from credentialDenyReadPaths entirely.

Availability regression rather than a disclosure hole, but worth fixing: the exemption wants to cover the known-hosts family and /dev/null, not five literals.

The new symlink test has no Windows guard

TestCredentialDenyReadPathsKeepsLexicalSymlinkCandidates calls mustSymlink unguarded, and mustSymlink does t.Fatal on error. Its four siblings in the same new file each skip when symlinks are unavailable. On an unelevated Windows checkout, which is the default, this hard-fails.

The 256-entry walk cap

walkSSHPrivateKeyFiles increments its counter for every directory entry before any classification, and returns outright at 256, unwinding every frame. A ~/.ssh with a large known_hosts.d or many host config files can therefore stop key discovery before it reaches a real private key, silently. A cap is right; stopping discovery rather than skipping the rest of one directory is the part to reconsider, and the const deserves a comment saying which it is.

Smaller

The content sniff anchors at byte 0, so a PuTTY .ppk matches none of the three discovery paths and stays readable. Worth either covering PuTTY-User-Key-File or saying in a comment that .ppk is out of scope.

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The ssh_config parser bounds are good: the 1 MiB cap, the include cycle and depth limits, and the FIFO and device refusal all held under probing. The lexical-vs-canonical idea is right, and the six-basename baseline emitted whether or not the file exists is the correct default. Leaving config, known_hosts and authorized_keys readable is the right call.

One note on your test coverage, since it affects what CI can tell you: removing only the first of the two sshKeys appends leaves every test green, because appendLexicalCredentialDenyPaths re-adds the same entry whenever lexical equals canonical. The resolved-target half is pinned only by symlink tests that skip on Windows.

Windows EvalSymlinks rewrites regular files to 8.3 short names, so treating
any lexical vs canonical spelling difference as a symlink dual-added both
RUNNER~1 and runneradmin and broke existing bwrap dest sequences. Keep the
lexical extra only when Lstat of the path or an ancestor is a symlink.

Exempt the known-hosts family and /dev/null from ssh_config denials, skip
the new symlink test on Windows, cap the SSH walk per directory instead of
unwinding the tree, sniff PuTTY PPK keys, and pin the resolved-target deny
half without requiring OS symlinks.
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1. CI Windows 8.3 vs long path (blocker). Dual-adding lexical + EvalSymlinks dests now happens only when Lstat of the path or an ancestor is a symlink (pathResolutionInvolvesSymlink), not merely when the two strings differ. That keeps macOS /var/private/var and a real ~/.ssh dir-symlink, and stops Windows 8.3 RUNNER~1 vs runneradmin dual-add on regular files. Applied in unreadableEnforcementPath, unreadableEnforcementPaths, and appendLexicalCredentialDenyPaths; bwrap dests go through unreadableEnforcementPath. Hermetic coverage: TestUnreadableEnforcementPathsSkipsNonSymlinkSpellingRewrite (alias reports a spelling rewrite with involvesSymlink=false; lexical extra must not appear).

2. UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null. Exemption is the known-hosts family (known_hosts, known_hosts2, known_hosts.old, ssh_known_hosts, ssh_known_hosts2, plus known_hosts.* / ssh_known_hosts.*) and /dev/null (cleaned path /dev/null or os.DevNull), not five literals. Basename null is no longer enough to deny /dev/null on macOS Seatbelt. Tests: TestSSHShouldDenyReferencedPathExemptsKnownHostsFamilyAndDevNull, TestCredentialDenyReadPathsKeepsKnownHostsFamilyFromConfig.

3. Windows symlink guard. TestCredentialDenyReadPathsKeepsLexicalSymlinkCandidates now skips on Windows the same way its siblings do (symlink creation is not reliably available on Windows CI).

4. 256-entry walk cap. sshPrivateKeyWalkMaxEntries is a per-directory cap. Overflowing one dir breaks remaining entries there; sibling and parent dirs still walk. Comment on the const states which it is. TestWalkSSHPrivateKeyFilesFindsKeyAfterCrowdedSiblingDir puts a private key in keys/ after aaa_known_hosts.d with cap+32 junk files.

5. PuTTY .ppk. Sniff matches PuTTY-User-Key-File at byte 0; .ppk suffix is also a private-key name. TestCredentialDenyReadPathsDeniesPuttyPPK covers both.

6. Resolved-target pin. TestCredentialDenyReadPathsPinsResolvedTargetWithoutOSSymlink uses a test alias so lexical ≠ canonical with involvesSymlink=true, without creating OS symlinks. It fails if the sshKeys candidates (canonical/EvalSymlinks) append is removed; appendLexicalCredentialDenyPaths can only re-add the lexical half.

go test ./internal/sandbox -count=1 passes on this Linux box. No wholesale ~/.ssh deny.

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internal/sandbox/ssh_key_deny.go (1)

107-113: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Inspect regular-file key symlinks before excluding them.

At Line 107, the symlink branch only denies recognized key filenames. A symlink such as ~/.ssh/work that targets a regular PEM or OpenSSH private key is not inspected. The sandbox can then read the key through that pathname.

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In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_key_deny.go` around lines 107 - 113, Update the symlink
handling in the sandbox profile construction to inspect leaf symlinks with
sshFileLooksLikePrivateKey(path), denying symlinks that target regular PEM or
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- Around line 153-162: Restrict sshKnownHostsFamilyName to the supported OpenSSH
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detection and denial. Add coverage for a private-key payload named with a
known_hosts.* suffix.
- Around line 86-94: Update the directory traversal around the
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entries via os.ReadDir. Treat io.EOF from the bounded read as normal, while
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In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_key_deny.go`:
- Around line 107-113: Update the symlink handling in the sandbox profile
construction to inspect leaf symlinks with sshFileLooksLikePrivateKey(path),
denying symlinks that target regular PEM or OpenSSH private keys even when their
names are unrecognized. Continue avoiding traversal of directory symlinks and
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- Around line 615-630: Update the credential deny-path construction around
credentialDenyPaths so nested allowRead entries under credential directories
remove or carve out the corresponding parent directory from DenyReadIfExists,
preserving access to the explicitly allowed key. Add regression coverage for
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filenames so known_hosts.private with a key payload is denied. Omit a
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- Around line 669-670: Update appendLexicalCredentialDenyPaths to compare
lexical credential denies against canonical allowRoots when calling
credentialDirDenyHidesNestedAllow, so nested canonical file allows are preserved
through symlinked ~/.gnupg paths. Add regression coverage verifying both
generated Seatbelt and Bubblewrap policies retain the nested allow.

In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_gpg_deny_test.go`:
- Around line 733-736: Update the assertion in the sshGPGDenied test to require
denyListedExact(denied, link) instead of the resolving denyCovered check,
ensuring the lexical symlink path itself appears in the deny list.

In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_key_deny.go`:
- Around line 115-118: Update sshFileLooksLikePrivateKey and its caller to
inspect .pub files for PEM, OpenSSH, and PuTTY private-key headers while
retaining basename-based denial exclusions. Preserve separate explicit-config
and known-hosts exemptions, apply the content check to .pub symlink targets as
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In `@internal/sandbox/linux_helper.go`:
- Around line 314-326: Update appendUnreadableLinuxPathArgs to mask symlink
paths lexically before applying the /dev/null read-only bind, preventing
Bubblewrap from following live symlinks or failing on dangling ones. Preserve
existing behavior for non-symlink paths and add integration coverage for both
live and dangling symlink cases.

In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_key_deny.go`:
- Around line 379-383: Update the SSH path expansion flow around
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internal/sandbox/profile.go (1)

631-683: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for nested directory grants through credential-directory symlinks.

TestLinuxBwrapAndSeatbeltHonorNestedGPGAllowReadThroughDirSymlink covers only a nested file grant. Add an existing directory grant, such as private-keys-v1.d, and assert that the canonical carveout reaches both Bubblewrap and Seatbelt.

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In `@internal/sandbox/profile.go` around lines 631 - 683, The test
TestLinuxBwrapAndSeatbeltHonorNestedGPGAllowReadThroughDirSymlink currently
covers only a nested file grant; extend it with a directory grant such as
private-keys-v1.d and assert that the canonical carveout is honored by both
Bubblewrap and Seatbelt.
internal/sandbox/ssh_gpg_deny_unix_test.go (1)

38-42: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Raise the blocking timeout to reduce CI flakes.

Both tests fail if discovery takes more than 300 ms of wall-clock time. A loaded shared CI runner can exceed that without any FIFO block, which produces a false failure. A blocked open never returns, so a larger budget still detects the real defect.

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-	case <-time.After(300 * time.Millisecond):
+	case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):

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In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_gpg_deny_unix_test.go` around lines 38 - 42, Increase
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milliseconds to a more CI-tolerant duration, while retaining the existing
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In `@internal/sandbox/linux_helper.go`:
- Around line 585-595: Update the sibling-entry loop to check
pathExists(sibling) after constructing each filepath.Join result and skip
entries that do not resolve before appending the --ro-bind arguments. Preserve
the existing "."/".." and omit filtering.
- Around line 413-436: Update appendUnreadableLinuxPaths so the final
classified.files bind loop skips files whose cleaned parent is already present
in seenParents, avoiding binds omitted by appendLinuxParentTmpfsOmitting.
Preserve binds for files under other parents, and add a planner test covering a
denied symlink and denied regular file sharing one safe credential directory.

In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_key_deny.go`:
- Around line 506-525: Update sshShouldDenyReferencedPath to inspect the
referenced file with sshFileLooksLikePrivateKey before applying the
sshPublicOrConfigName basename exemption; deny paths whose contents identify a
private key, while preserving readability for genuine public-key and known-hosts
files and the existing path exclusions.

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In `@internal/sandbox/profile.go`:
- Around line 631-683: The test
TestLinuxBwrapAndSeatbeltHonorNestedGPGAllowReadThroughDirSymlink currently
covers only a nested file grant; extend it with a directory grant such as
private-keys-v1.d and assert that the canonical carveout is honored by both
Bubblewrap and Seatbelt.

In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_gpg_deny_unix_test.go`:
- Around line 38-42: Increase the timeout used by the select blocks in both
SSH/GPG discovery tests from 300 milliseconds to a more CI-tolerant duration,
while retaining the existing failure behavior and diagnostic message for
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In `@internal/sandbox/linux_helper.go`:
- Around line 433-440: Update the parent tracking around
appendLinuxParentTmpfsOmitting so seenParents records parent only after the
tmpfs overlay succeeds. Ensure the guard near the /dev/null bind skips the file
bind only for parents with an applied overlay; when directory reading fails and
no overlay is added, retain the regular-file bind.

In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_key_deny.go`:
- Around line 175-182: Update sshFileLooksLikePrivateKey and the related
basename classification so config, authorized_keys, and authorized_keys2 are
exempt only at supported SSH support-file paths or when directive context
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internal/sandbox/linux_helper.go (1)

426-441: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Record seenParents only after the parent overlay is emitted.

Line 429 marks parent as seen before appendLinuxParentTmpfsOmitting runs. That helper returns without emitting any argument when os.ReadDir(parent) fails at Lines 586-589. The file loop at Line 434 then finds the parent in seenParents and skips --ro-bind /dev/null <file>. A denied regular key under that parent stays readable inside the sandbox, with no mask of any kind.

Make the helper report whether it applied the overlay, and record the parent only then.

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-		seenParents[parent] = struct{}{}
-		args = appendLinuxParentTmpfsOmitting(args, parent, omits[parent])
+		updated, applied := appendLinuxParentTmpfsOmitting(args, parent, omits[parent])
+		args = updated
+		if applied {
+			seenParents[parent] = struct{}{}
+		}
-func appendLinuxParentTmpfsOmitting(args []string, parent string, omit map[string]struct{}) []string {
+func appendLinuxParentTmpfsOmitting(args []string, parent string, omit map[string]struct{}) ([]string, bool) {
 	parent = filepath.Clean(parent)
 	entries, err := os.ReadDir(parent)
 	if err != nil {
-		return args
+		return args, false
 	}

Return true with the final --remount-ro append.

Add a planner case where the parent directory cannot be read, and assert the regular file keeps its /dev/null bind.

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In `@internal/sandbox/linux_helper.go` around lines 426 - 441, Update
appendLinuxParentTmpfsOmitting and its caller so the helper reports whether it
actually emitted the parent overlay, returning true only after appending the
final --remount-ro argument. Record parent in seenParents only when that result
is true; otherwise let the classified.files loop retain the --ro-bind /dev/null
masking. Add a planner test covering an unreadable parent directory and verify
the regular file keeps its /dev/null bind.
internal/sandbox/ssh_key_deny.go (1)

175-183: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

A relocated config or authorized_keys name still bypasses private-key detection.

Line 180 returns false for any path whose basename is config, authorized_keys, or authorized_keys2, before any content is read. sshShouldDenyReferencedPath then reaches Line 521, and sshPublicOrConfigName also treats those basenames as public. So IdentityFile ~/keys/config with a PEM, OpenSSH, or PuTTY private-key payload is never added to the deny list, and the key stays readable in the sandbox.

The .pub and known_hosts families were already narrowed to content sniffing. Apply the same rule here: exempt these basenames only at the supported support-file locations (~/.ssh/config, ~/.ssh/authorized_keys*, and the parsed config paths themselves), and sniff every other location.

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-func sshFileLooksLikePrivateKey(path string) bool {
+func sshFileLooksLikePrivateKey(path string, supportFileExempt bool) bool {
 	// Basename-based denial still treats *.pub and known-hosts names as public,
 	// but a PEM/OpenSSH/PuTTY private key at those names must not stay readable.
-	// Sniff those payloads. Keep config / authorized_keys exemptions:
-	// CertificateFile and authorized_keys are never content-denied here.
-	switch filepath.Base(path) {
-	case "config", "authorized_keys", "authorized_keys2":
-		return false
+	// Sniff those payloads. config / authorized_keys are exempt only at the
+	// supported ~/.ssh locations, which the caller establishes.
+	if supportFileExempt {
+		switch filepath.Base(path) {
+		case "config", "authorized_keys", "authorized_keys2":
+			return false
+		}
 	}

Pass true from walkSSHPrivateKeyFiles for entries under ~/.ssh, and false from sshShouldDenyReferencedPath for a directive-referenced path outside ~/.ssh.

Add regressions for private-key payloads at ~/keys/config and ~/keys/authorized_keys.

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In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_key_deny.go` around lines 175 - 183, Update
sshFileLooksLikePrivateKey, walkSSHPrivateKeyFiles, and
sshShouldDenyReferencedPath so config and authorized_keys basenames are exempt
only at supported ~/.ssh or parsed-config locations; sniff PEM, OpenSSH, and
PuTTY payloads at relocated paths, including directive references outside
~/.ssh. Add regressions covering private-key payloads at ~/keys/config and
~/keys/authorized_keys.
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internal/sandbox/ssh_gpg_deny_test.go (1)

286-288: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

This separator assertion cannot fail.

filepath.Join followed by filepath.Base returns the joined basename by construction, on every platform. So filepath.Base(gnupg) != ".gnupg" is always false, and the check cannot detect a lost host separator.

If the intent is to prove the GPG and git credential paths sit directly under the fake home, compare the full joined path against the expected spelling instead.

♻️ Proposed replacement
-	gnupg := filepath.Join(home, ".gnupg")
-	gitCredentials := filepath.Join(home, ".git-credentials")
-	if filepath.Base(gnupg) != ".gnupg" || filepath.Base(gitCredentials) != ".git-credentials" {
-		t.Fatalf("GPG/git credential join lost the host separator; gnupg=%q git=%q", gnupg, gitCredentials)
-	}
+	sep := string(filepath.Separator)
+	if got, want := filepath.Join(home, ".gnupg"), home+sep+".gnupg"; got != want {
+		t.Fatalf("GPG path join = %q, want %q", got, want)
+	}
+	if got, want := filepath.Join(home, ".git-credentials"), home+sep+".git-credentials"; got != want {
+		t.Fatalf("git credential path join = %q, want %q", got, want)
+	}
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
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In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_gpg_deny_test.go` around lines 286 - 288, Replace the
basename-only assertion in the SSH/GPG path test with comparisons of the full
gnupg and gitCredentials paths against their expected paths directly under the
fake home, preserving the existing failure context.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Duplicate comments:
In `@internal/sandbox/linux_helper.go`:
- Around line 426-441: Update appendLinuxParentTmpfsOmitting and its caller so
the helper reports whether it actually emitted the parent overlay, returning
true only after appending the final --remount-ro argument. Record parent in
seenParents only when that result is true; otherwise let the classified.files
loop retain the --ro-bind /dev/null masking. Add a planner test covering an
unreadable parent directory and verify the regular file keeps its /dev/null
bind.

In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_key_deny.go`:
- Around line 175-183: Update sshFileLooksLikePrivateKey,
walkSSHPrivateKeyFiles, and sshShouldDenyReferencedPath so config and
authorized_keys basenames are exempt only at supported ~/.ssh or parsed-config
locations; sniff PEM, OpenSSH, and PuTTY payloads at relocated paths, including
directive references outside ~/.ssh. Add regressions covering private-key
payloads at ~/keys/config and ~/keys/authorized_keys.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/sandbox/ssh_gpg_deny_test.go`:
- Around line 286-288: Replace the basename-only assertion in the SSH/GPG path
test with comparisons of the full gnupg and gitCredentials paths against their
expected paths directly under the fake home, preserving the existing failure
context.

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Record tmpfs-overlaid parents only after the overlay is applied so a
ReadDir failure still /dev/null-binds denied files. Sniff IdentityFile
targets named config or authorized_keys for private-key payloads.
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I found an issue that needs to be addressed before this is ready.

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  • [P1] Cover the GPG home selected by GNUPGHOME
    internal/sandbox/profile.go:374
    The new GPG protection is derived solely from HOME/USERPROFILE: credentialPathOptionsFromEnvironment builds a $HOME/.gnupg candidate, but never reads GNUPGHOME. GnuPG treats GNUPGHOME as its actual home directory, and sandboxed commands retain inherited and command-supplied environment entries. Consequently, a command run with GNUPGHOME=/path/to/keyring can read /path/to/keyring/private-keys-v1.d/* because that directory never reaches DenyReadIfExists; on Linux the read-all filesystem profile then exposes it directly.

    Please fix the root cause by making GPG-home discovery use the effective GnuPG home, not only the default derived from HOME. Thread the inherited and CommandSpec.Env values through the existing credential-path option flow, resolve GNUPGHOME using the same relative-path and canonical/lexical handling used for other credential overrides, and feed the resulting directory through the existing allow-read filtering, lexical enforcement, and backend-specific deny mechanisms. Add focused coverage for inherited and command-supplied GNUPGHOME values, asserting that the alternate directory and its secret-key subtree are denied while an explicit allowRead continues to re-include it. Keep the fix scoped to the standard environment-selected GPG home; it need not introduce a new policy for arbitrary gpg --homedir command arguments.

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Still requesting changes, but the Windows half is genuinely fixed and I want to say that first: internal/sandbox passes clean on ubuntu now, and the three bwrap tests I reported are green there. The 8.3 short-name divergence is gone.

The problem is that the same defect moved rather than closed. It is now on macOS, and it has picked up two more tests.

Both spellings still land in one arg list, just /var instead of RUNNER~1

TestLinuxBwrapSkipsFileBindsUnderOverlaidCredentialParent, macos-latest:

"--ro-bind", "/dev/null", "/private/var/folders/.../002/work",
"--perms", "555", "--tmpfs", "/var/folders/.../001"

The bind target is resolved (/private/var) and the tmpfs is lexical (/var), in the same argument vector, so the overlay and the file bind no longer refer to the same place. That is the exact signature from last round with the platforms swapped: keeping the pre-resolution spelling next to the resolved one is right in principle, but the two halves are being chosen independently rather than consistently per path.

Five tests fail on macos-latest, three of them the ones from last round and two new:

--- FAIL: TestLinuxBwrapSkipsMissingCredentialBaselines
--- FAIL: TestLinuxBwrapCreatesOwnedCredentialDirsBeforeMasking
--- FAIL: TestLinuxBwrapKeepsCarveoutsReachableInsideMaskedDir
--- FAIL: TestLinuxBwrapDoesNotBindSymlinkCarveout
--- FAIL: TestLinuxBwrapSkipsFileBindsUnderOverlaidCredentialParent

ubuntu-latest passes all of these, which is what makes me fairly confident it is the alias and not the logic.

The credential baseline golden was not updated

Fails on both ubuntu and macOS, internal/cli:

--- FAIL: TestRunSandboxPolicyJSONGoldenIncludesManagerBaselineFields
    sandbox_test.go:532: manager credential deny baseline = [... 18 entries ...],
                                                      want [... 11 entries ...]

You added .gnupg and the seven .ssh/id_* entries to the baseline, which is the point of the PR, but want at sandbox_test.go:532 still lists the old eleven. Mechanical, just needs the golden extended.

Context you could not see

This PR's CI was gated again. Every push re-arms the fork gate, so the green you were looking at was CodeRabbit on its own. I released it, which is how the above surfaced. Worth assuming CI has not run on any push here until someone releases it.

I have not re-reviewed the other items from last round, since I would rather you get one clear list than a moving target. Get macOS and the golden green and I will do a full pass on the rest.

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Still requesting changes, but the Windows half is genuinely fixed and I want to say that first: internal/sandbox passes clean on ubuntu now, and the three bwrap tests I reported are green there. The 8.3 short-name divergence is gone.

The problem is that the same defect moved rather than closed. It is now on macOS, and it has picked up two more tests.

Both spellings still land in one arg list, just /var instead of RUNNER~1

TestLinuxBwrapSkipsFileBindsUnderOverlaidCredentialParent, macos-latest:

"--ro-bind", "/dev/null", "/private/var/folders/.../002/work",
"--perms", "555", "--tmpfs", "/var/folders/.../001"

The bind target is resolved (/private/var) and the tmpfs is lexical (/var), in the same argument vector, so the overlay and the file bind no longer refer to the same place. That is the exact signature from last round with the platforms swapped: keeping the pre-resolution spelling next to the resolved one is right in principle, but the two halves are being chosen independently rather than consistently per path.

Five tests fail on macos-latest, three of them the ones from last round and two new:

--- FAIL: TestLinuxBwrapSkipsMissingCredentialBaselines
--- FAIL: TestLinuxBwrapCreatesOwnedCredentialDirsBeforeMasking
--- FAIL: TestLinuxBwrapKeepsCarveoutsReachableInsideMaskedDir
--- FAIL: TestLinuxBwrapDoesNotBindSymlinkCarveout
--- FAIL: TestLinuxBwrapSkipsFileBindsUnderOverlaidCredentialParent

ubuntu-latest passes all of these, which is what makes me fairly confident it is the alias and not the logic.

The credential baseline golden was not updated

Fails on both ubuntu and macOS, internal/cli:

--- FAIL: TestRunSandboxPolicyJSONGoldenIncludesManagerBaselineFields
    sandbox_test.go:532: manager credential deny baseline = [... 18 entries ...],
                                                      want [... 11 entries ...]

You added .gnupg and the seven .ssh/id_* entries to the baseline, which is the point of the PR, but want at sandbox_test.go:532 still lists the old eleven. Mechanical, just needs the golden extended.

Context you could not see

This PR's CI was gated again. Every push re-arms the fork gate, so the green you were looking at was CodeRabbit on its own. I released it, which is how the above surfaced. Worth assuming CI has not run on any push here until someone releases it.

I have not re-reviewed the other items from last round, since I would rather you get one clear list than a moving target. Get macOS and the golden green and I will do a full pass on the rest.

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Vasanthdev2004 dismissed their stale review August 29, 2026 11:49

Duplicate of the review posted 14 seconds earlier, same content. Dismissing the copy.

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Sandbox can read SSH private keys, the GPG keyring, and git credential stores

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