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What: Significantly improved security validation for sed commands to prevent dangerous operations while allowing safe read-only usage.
How it works: The validation now uses a comprehensive whitelist approach with multiple layers:
- Pre-parsing flag detection - Blocks dangerous flag combinations like
-ew,-webefore parsing - Whitelist validation - Only allows two safe patterns:
- Print-only operations with
-nflag (e.g.,sed -n '1,10p' file.txt) - Simple substitutions with safe flags (e.g.,
sed 's/old/new/' file.txt)
- Comprehensive blacklist - Blocks 15+ dangerous patterns including:
- Write commands (
w,W) - Execute commands (
e,E) - Non-ASCII characters and escape sequences
- Command chaining with semicolons in certain contexts
- Braces, negation operators, and other advanced features
Details:
- Builds upon existing sed validation from v2.0.30 (function
hoBat line 209135) - Adds four new validation helpers:
Aj8()at line 209202,Bj8()at line 209245,Qj8()at line 209254,Zj8()at line 209384 - New validation function
JtB()at line 209288 replaceshoB - Dangerous flag combination detection in
Gj8()at line 209345 - Prevents file modification and command execution while allowing safe text processing
- Evidence: Comparison of
hoB()at line 209135 in v2.0.30 vsJtB()at line 209288 in v2.0.31