sec(scripts): git-secrets allowlist matched whole lines and whitelisted most of the repo - #19
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…ed most of the repo This repo's scripts/setup-git-secrets.sh and .gitallowed were copied verbatim from the monorepo split and carried the same #1972 defect fixed in LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-cli#2083 (upstream, now cloud-commitments-platform#101): git-secrets allowed patterns are matched against the scanner's whole "path:line:content" output line, not file content alone, so the script's 20 keyword allowlist entries (var\., resource\s, _test\.go, placeholder, example\.com, ...) whitelisted any line containing one of those tokens, including a line carrying a real access key. The script also never ran to completion on any platform before this fix: the PEM detector's pattern starts with a dash, which git secrets --add rejects, aborting the script under set -e before the allowed block was ever reached; the GCP API-key pattern registered just before that abort was an invalid regex, which (once reached) makes every subsequent scan exit 128; and git-secrets --install's success path calls `say`, removed from git-sh-setup in Git 2.38, so on Linux a successful install reports failure and this script's error handling exited before registering anything. - Delete the allowed-pattern block from scripts/setup-git-secrets.sh. .gitallowed is now the single allowlist. - Fix the GCP API-key regex; broaden the PEM detector to PKCS#8. - Define a no-op say() so hook installation succeeds on Linux. - .gitallowed: rewrite the header to describe path-anchored matching against the whole scanner line, add three path-and-line-anchored entries for the setup script's self-matching detector-registration lines (Azure connection string, PostgreSQL, MySQL), and add the truncated-PEM entry scripts/test-git-secrets-allowlist.sh's negative controls need (kept generic since this repo has no cmd/configure_test.go to reference). - scripts/test-git-secrets-allowlist.sh: self-test exercising both the direct scan and the installed pre-commit hook, HOME-isolated. - Pin the git-secrets clone in .github/workflows/pre-commit.yml to the verified commit ad82d68ee924906a0401dfd48de5057731a9bc84 (the 1.3.0 tag) instead of the mutable tag, and run the new self-test as a step in the same job. Adapted from the platform port: this repo has no ci.yml job graph to extend, so the self-test runs as a pre-commit.yml step instead of a new ci.yml job. The pre-existing account-ID placeholder section in .gitallowed (entries referencing handler_*_test.go etc. that don't exist in this repo) is left untouched -- out of scope for this fix. Verified in a throwaway repo with the real git-secrets binary: scripts/test-git-secrets-allowlist.sh passes 30/30. Direct proof the hole is closed: a Terraform-shaped line with an AKIA-format key scans dirty with this .gitallowed; re-adding the old `resource\s` keyword allowlist makes the identical line scan clean, reproducing the pre-fix bug on demand. git ls-remote confirms the 1.3.0 tag resolves to the pinned SHA. pre-commit (SKIP=hadolint,actionlint; Docker daemon unavailable) passes on all other hooks; actionlint run natively at the pinned v1.7.12 is clean on the changed workflow file. Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR updates git-secrets detector patterns and full-output allowlist exceptions. It adds an isolated self-test for direct scans and installed hooks, and pins the git-secrets tag to a commit in pre-commit CI. Changesgit-secrets configuration and validation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to In repositories with an existing hook-specific .d directory but no executable dispatcher, installation can appear successful while commits skip secret scanning. Check the dispatcher before relying on the installed hook. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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- Line 84: Anchor the truncated-PEM exception in the .gitallowed pattern to the
complete known fixture-line shape so it cannot exempt other content on the same
line; add a test confirming a real API key alongside the truncated marker is
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- Around line 50-51: Update the setup flow around the exported no-op say
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CodeRabbit review on this port: defining say() as a no-op (so this script's own error handling, not git-secrets' `say` bug, decides success) also means "git secrets --install -f" returning success no longer proves anything about whether the hook files were actually written -- say() is a no-op that returns success regardless of whether install_hook's write or chmod actually succeeded, so a broken hook (e.g. a permissions error) would be reported as installed. Verify what install_hook was supposed to do instead: after install, check that each of the three hooks git-secrets writes (commit-msg, pre-commit, prepare-commit-msg) exists, is executable, and contains its "git secrets --<cmd> -- \"$@\"" invocation (checking the *.d/git-secrets path when a hooks.d directory is in use, matching install_hook's own destination logic). Fail loudly if any hook fails the check. Verified: a normal install passes; corrupting a hook's content after install (simulating a partial write) is detected and reported. scripts/test-git-secrets-allowlist.sh remains 30/30 (it already installs via this same script and would have failed loudly here if the new check had a false positive). Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
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CodeRabbit review on this port (cloud-commitments-platform#101): the
truncated-PEM .gitallowed entry was unanchored, so a real secret spliced
onto the same line -- appended after "..." or prepended before
"-----BEGIN" -- still scanned clean, because .gitallowed suppresses the
WHOLE "path:line:content" line if any allowed pattern matches anywhere in
it, regardless of which prohibited pattern actually fired. That is the
exact class of bug this branch exists to close, reintroduced in the one
entry that didn't get the anchoring treatment the three self-matching
script entries already had.
Fixed by requiring the full contiguous header ("-----BEGIN PRIVAT[E]
KEY-----", immediately after the opening quote) and pinning the tail with
$ to only the closing punctuation this repo's own test fixtures use.
Verified directly (real git-secrets binary, throwaway repo): a key
appended after the truncation marker, a key prepended before the header,
a key spliced between "BEGIN" and "PRIVATE KEY-----", and a key spliced
right after "KEY-----" are all now caught (exit 1); both of this repo's
legitimate truncated-PEM fixtures still scan clean (exit 0).
scripts/test-git-secrets-allowlist.sh: 30/30 passing after the fix (it
was already 30/30 before, since none of its existing fixtures exercised
this particular splice -- the new coverage above is a manual adversarial
check, not a change to the checked-in self-test).
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… git grep Independent adversarial review of this port found two further gaps past the previous two fix commits: 1. The truncated-PEM .gitallowed entry, even after being anchored to the quoted value's own start and end, was still only a SUBSTRING match within the scanner's whole "path:line:content" line. .gitallowed suppresses the entire line when ANY allowed pattern matches anywhere in it, regardless of which prohibited pattern fired, so a real secret in an earlier, unrelated statement on the same physical line as the allowed fixture -- `k := "AKIA..."; PrivateKey: "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\n...",` -- was still suppressed. Fixed by anchoring the whole entry to the start of git-secrets' own "path:line:content" format (^[^:]+:[0-9]+:) so the key assignment must be the first thing on the line, closing the gap in both directions (before AND after the fixture) at once. Also dropped an orphan half-line comment left over from an earlier edit, and fixed the explanatory comment (which illustrated the attack by literally spelling out the PEM trigger, tripping the PEM detector on .gitallowed itself). 2. scripts/setup-git-secrets.sh's password/api_key/secret_key detectors used `\s` for whitespace. BSD/glibc grep's -E accepts `\s` as a GNU extension in some builds, but `git grep -E` (what git-secrets actually invokes to join and run every pattern) does not: `password = "..."` with a real space scanned clean under `git grep -E 'password\s*...'` and only matched once `\s` was replaced with the POSIX class `[[:space:]]`. This is the exact class of "detector never actually ran" bug #1972 already found twice (the PEM `--add` abort, the GCP regex making every scan exit 128); fixed the same way here since it's the same file and the same failure mode. Added three fixtures to scripts/test-git-secrets-allowlist.sh exercising both: a real-spaced password/api_key/secret_key line (must be caught), and a real-shaped key spliced before AND after an otherwise-legitimate truncated-PEM fixture on the same physical line (both must be caught). Verified: 36/36 assertions pass (30 previous + 6 new: 3 fixtures x 2 scan paths) against the real git-secrets binary. Filed a follow-up issue for two lower-risk residual items an independent review also raised (the bare numeric/UUID placeholder block's own lack of anchoring, and a dedicated DSN-detector coverage audit), scoped separately since neither has a demonstrated exploit and both need a deliberate design pass. Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
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🟡 Minor · Validate the Git hook dispatcher for .d installations. · setup-git-secrets.sh:61-86
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winValidate the Git hook dispatcher for
.dinstallations.When
hooks/<hook>.d/exists,git-secrets1.3.0 installsgit-secretsonly in that directory. Git executeshooks/<hook>, not files under.d. This check validates the fragment instead of the Git hook path, so an installation with no executable dispatcher can pass while commits skipgit-secrets.Suggested fix
hook_cmd="${hook_spec##*:}" hook_path="${git_dir}/hooks/${hook_name}" if [ -d "${git_dir}/hooks/${hook_name}.d" ]; then + if [ ! -f "${hook_path}" ] || [ ! -x "${hook_path}" ]; then + echo -e "${RED}✗ ${hook_name} hook dispatcher is missing or not executable: ${hook_path}${NC}" + hooks_ok=0 + continue + fi hook_path="${git_dir}/hooks/${hook_name}.d/git-secrets" fi🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 61-86: Update the hook verification loop around `hook_spec` so
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Independent adversarial review (two rounds) + local verification: MERGE at 403b075. Now byte-identical to the platform/go ports: fully anchored truncated-PEM entry, [[:space:]] detectors; planted-secret probes all caught with real git-secrets 1.3.0; self-test 36/36; 13/13 checks. Deferred items tracked in #24. |
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This repo's
scripts/setup-git-secrets.shand.gitallowedwere copied verbatim from the monorepo during the split and carried the same defect fixed upstream in LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-cli#2083 (references reserved-instances-cli#1972; no equivalent issue exists yet in this repo), now ported to the platform repo as LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-platform#101.git-secrets allowed patterns are matched with
grep -Evagainst the scanner's wholepath:line:contentoutput line, not file content alone. The script's 20 keyword allowlist entries (var\.,resource\s,_test\.go,placeholder,example\.com, etc.) whitelisted any line containing one of those tokens, including a line carrying a real access key.The script also never ran to completion on any platform before this fix: the PEM detector's pattern starts with a dash, which
git secrets --addrejects, so the script aborted underset -ebefore its allowed block was ever reached; the GCP API-key pattern registered just before that abort is an invalid regex, which once reached makes every subsequent scan exit 128; andgit-secrets --install's success path callssay, removed fromgit-sh-setupin Git 2.38, so on Linux a successful install reports failure and this script's own error handling exited before registering anything.Changes
scripts/setup-git-secrets.sh..gitallowedbecomes the single allowlist, matched against the scanner's wholepath:line:contentline.say()so hook installation succeeds on Linux..gitallowed: rewrite the header to describe path-anchored whole-line matching; add three path-and-line-anchored entries for the setup script's self-matching detector-registration lines (Azure connection string, PostgreSQL, MySQL; MongoDB's does not self-match); add the truncated-PEM entry the self-test's negative controls need.scripts/test-git-secrets-allowlist.sh: self-test exercising both a direct scan and the installed pre-commit hook, in a HOME-isolated throwaway repo..github/workflows/pre-commit.ymlto the verified commitad82d68ee924906a0401dfd48de5057731a9bc84(the1.3.0tag) instead of the mutable tag, and run the new self-test as a step in the same job.Adapted from the platform port
This repo has no
ci.ymljob graph analogous to the platform repo's Terraform-guard suite, so the self-test runs as an added step insidepre-commit.ymlinstead of a newci.ymljob. The pre-existing account-ID placeholder section in.gitallowed(entries referencinghandler_*_test.goand similar files that don't exist in this repo) is left untouched: it predates this fix and touching it is a separate cleanup outside this PR's scope. Nocmd/configure_test.goexists here, so the truncated-PEM allowlist entry is kept generic rather than pointing at a specific file.Verification
Measured in a throwaway repo with an isolated
HOME, using the realgit-secretsbinary:bash scripts/test-git-secrets-allowlist.sh: 30 PASS, 0 FAIL.resource "aws_iam_access_key" "demo" { key = "AKIA0123456789ABCDEF" }) scans dirty (exit 1) with this.gitallowed; re-adding the oldgit secrets --add --allowed 'resource\s'keyword makes the identical line scan clean (exit 0), reproducing the pre-fix hole on demand.git ls-remote https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets.git 'refs/tags/1.3.0^{}'resolves toad82d68ee924906a0401dfd48de5057731a9bc84, matching the pinned SHA.pre-commitrun at commit time (SKIP=hadolint,actionlint; both aredocker_imagehooks and the local Docker daemon doesn't respond in this environment): all other hooks passed.actionlintrun natively at the pinned version (v1.7.12) against.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml: clean.Review findings
Carries forward the same fixes CodeRabbit drove on the original monorepo PR (#2083): the
.gitallowedself-matching entries are anchored on path, line, and the full line including trailing comment (not a command-prefix or open-ended anchor, both of which reintroduce the whole-line-whitelisting bug at file scale); the git-secrets clone is SHA-pinned with an explicit integrity check; and the test helpers exercise the installed pre-commit hook, not just a direct scan, so an install-time regression (like the Linuxsaybug) is actually caught.Summary by CodeRabbit
Update: independent review found two further gaps, both fixed
An independent adversarial review found the truncated-PEM
.gitallowedentry was still only tail-anchored even after the CodeRabbit-driven fix: a real secret in an earlier, unrelated statement on the same physical line as the allowed fixture still leaked through, since.gitallowedsuppresses the whole scanner line if any allowed pattern matches anywhere in it. Fixed by anchoring the entry to the start of git-secrets' ownpath:line:contentformat (^[^:]+:[0-9]+:), closing both directions. It also found the pre-existing password/api_key/secret_key detectors inscripts/setup-git-secrets.shused\s, whichgit grep -E(what git-secrets actually invokes) does not support the same way BSD/GNUgrep -Edo locally -- a spacedpassword = "..."" scanned clean. Fixed by switching to[[:space:]]`.Added three fixtures (a real-spaced password line, and a key spliced before/after the PEM fixture on the same line) —
bash scripts/test-git-secrets-allowlist.shis now 36/36 against the real git-secrets binary. Filed #24 for two lower-risk residual items (the bare account-ID/UUID placeholder block's own lack of anchoring, and a DSN-detector coverage audit), scoped separately since neither has a demonstrated exploit.