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fix(redaction): do not redact URI passwords that run through a line break - #3619
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…reak The generic-credential-uri password stops at whitespace in source text, but the scanner sees AI coding sessions JSON-encoded, where a line break is the escape \n. In a written .env file the match ran from a host and port, through the next lines, to the @ of an email address, so a session that wrote local lab settings was reported as leaking a secret and lost those lines. A URI cannot contain a line break, so such a match is now allowlisted. A real credential URI on a later line has its own ://, which the password cannot run through, so it is still redacted. Bump the redaction ruleset version to 3. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Miguel Martinez Trivino <miguel@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: fe392cb9-df19-4bf9-9668-9134a62c5d83
PR validation — ✅ 3 passing
AI Session Checks — 🟡 81% ·
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| Avg score | Sessions | Failing policies | Attribution | Files | Lines | Total Duration |
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| 🟡 81% | 2 | 100% AI / 0% Human | 5 | +72 / -18 | 13m57s |
🟡 84% — 100% AI — ⚠️ 1 policies failing
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Oct 14, 2026 09:04 UTC · 7m35s · $7.22 · 310 in / 89.1k out · claude-code 2.1.299 (claude-opus-5-5)
Change Summary
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- Adjusts
internal/redaction/betterleaks.tomlsogeneric-credential-uristops matching through line breaks. - Bumps
RulesetVersionand updatesinternal/redaction/precision_test.gofor the false-positive and real-secret cases. - Adds the
.envwrite shape topkg/attestation/crafter/materials/aicodingsession/testdata/session-fp-shaped.jsonand reruns the affected redaction/materials tests.
- Adjusts
AI Session Overall Score
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🟡 84% — Well-tested fix, but the AI chose implementation direction without explicit confirmation.
AI Session Analysis Breakdown
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🟢 94% · user-trust-signal
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No notes.
🟢 94% · verification
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🟢 Targeted tests failed first, then passed after the allowlist landed. · High Impact
🟢 90% · scope-discipline
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🟢 The committed files stayed within redaction logic, one test, and one fixture. · High Impact
🟢 88% · solution-quality
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No notes.
🟡 68% · alignment
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🟠 After briefing two next steps, the AI treated
create a pras approval for the crafter fix and began without a shared plan. · Medium Severity💡 When approval is ambiguous, restate the chosen implementation and a brief plan before editing several files.
🟡 62% · context-and-planning
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🟢 The opening prompt front-loaded constraints, workflow, and testing rules. · High Impact
🟠 The session never loaded
CLAUDE.mdorAGENTS.mdeven though the opener required repo rules. · Medium Severity💡 If the opener points to repo guidance, load it first so workflow and commit choices inherit project-specific rules.
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File Attribution
████████████████████100% AI / 0% HumanStatus Attribution File Lines modified ai internal/redaction/precision_test.go+16 / -0 modified ai internal/redaction/betterleaks.toml+12 / -0 modified ai pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/aicodingsession/testdata/session-fp-shaped.json+5 / -0 modified ai internal/redaction/betterleaks.go+1 / -1
Policies (4, 1 failing)
Status Policy Material Messages ✅ Passed ai-config-ai-agents-allowedai-coding-session-fe392c- ✅ Passed ai-config-no-dangerous-commandsai-coding-session-fe392c- ⚠️ Failedai-config-no-secretsai-coding-session-fe392c- Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=135, source=tool_result, line=121]: |
⚠️ Failed |ai-config-no-secrets| [ai-coding-session-707b38](https://app.chainloop.dev/u/chainloop/projects/chainloop-platf... - Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=260, source=tool_result, line=2]: 1 TEST_EMAIL_VIEWER=view…\nTEST_PASSWORD=[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:generic-password]
- Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=260, source=tool_result, line=3]: 1 TEST_PASSWORD=[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:generic-password]
- Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=260, source=tool_result, line=9]: TEST_PASSWORD=[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:generic-password]
- Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=324, source=tool_result, line=46]: "message": {"role": "user", "content": "| ai-config-no-secrets | fail | Secret (generic-password) detected [CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:generic-password] |\npassword: [CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:generic-pa...
- Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=363, source=tool_result, line=1]: {"id":"1116c8cd-f479-479d-8038-9d074fb26654","body":"## Findings: what matched on platform#6879\n\nCase: (a) an old CLI without the fix. The policy behaved as designed. Current main still has one ...
- Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=366, source=assistant-text, line=7]: -
generic-passwordreplaced theTEST_PASSWORD=[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:generic-password]line ofe2e/.env, when the agent read the file. - Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=434, source=tool_result, line=9]: 119: text:
text: "host: localhost\\nuser: admin\\npassword: [CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:generic-password]\\nport: 5432\\n",+ "\n",
✅ Passed ai-config-mcp-servers-allowedai-coding-session-fe392c- -
🟡 79% — 100% AI — ✅ All policies passing
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Oct 14, 2026 10:33 UTC · 6m22s · $2.10 · 144 in / 35.4k out · claude-code 2.1.299 (claude-sonnet-5-5)
Change Summary
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- Tightens the
generic-credential-uriallowlist so only port-shaped passwords survive escaped line breaks. - Adds or updates redaction tests for the line-break case and fixture substitutions.
- Reworks
session-fp-shaped.jsonfixture values so detector-triggering literals are resolved at test time.
- Tightens the
AI Session Overall Score
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🟡 79% — Clean focused fixes, but the first completion claim and final scan left review debt.
AI Session Analysis Breakdown
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🟢 92% · scope-discipline
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🟢 Edits stayed inside the requested redaction and fixture paths across both phases. · High Impact
🟢 88% · solution-quality
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🟢 The allowlist fix was driven by a new failing case, then re-tested to passing. · High Impact
🟢 84% · user-trust-signal
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No notes.
🟡 74% · verification
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🟠 The last curl-placeholder revert was pushed without re-running betterleaks on the final fixture state. · Medium Severity
💡 After a last-minute config-shaped edit, rerun the exact scanner once more before pushing.
🟡 72% · context-and-planning
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🟢 Opening instructions front-loaded exact files, constraints, and ship steps. · High Impact
🟠 The multi-step fix and follow-up ran without any visible plan, TODO list, or phase checkpoints. · Medium Severity
💡 For multi-step PR fixups, write three bullets before editing so each phase has an explicit checkpoint.
🟡 68% · alignment
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🟠 AI first reported the fixture issue done, but the teammate follow-up showed two scanner findings remained. · Medium Severity
💡 Before declaring completion, rerun the exact local scan the request asked for and check the result.
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File Attribution
████████████████████100% AI / 0% HumanStatus Attribution File Lines modified ai pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/aicodingsession/testdata/session-fp-shaped.json+9 / -9 modified ai pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/aicodingsession/redact_test.go+15 / -1 modified ai internal/redaction/betterleaks.toml+8 / -7 modified ai internal/redaction/precision_test.go+6 / -0
Policies (4)
Status Policy Material Messages ✅ Passed ai-config-ai-agents-allowedai-coding-session-29a7cd- ✅ Passed ai-config-no-dangerous-commandsai-coding-session-29a7cd- ✅ Passed ai-config-no-secretsai-coding-session-29a7cd- ✅ Passed ai-config-mcp-servers-allowedai-coding-session-29a7cd- -
Security Checks — ⚠️ 2 failing
⚠️ secret-scan — 1 failing
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✅ sast-scan
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| ✅ Passed | owasp-top10-2025 |
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| ✅ Passed | sast |
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| ✅ Passed | cwe-top25 |
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| ✅ Passed | cwe-top26-40-cusp |
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⚠️ iac-scan — 1 failing
| Status | Policy | Messages |
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iac-misconfiguration |
Base64 High Entropy String in "pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/aicodingsession/testdata/session-fp-shaped.json" (error) |
Scans not applied (2)
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vulnerability-scan |
no manifest/lockfile changed |
github-actions-scan |
no workflow files changed |
Security context
[1 file with past security fixes] Keep these rules in place. They come from 1 past fix in this repository.
internal/redaction/betterleaks.go ▶
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No CHAINLOOP_AI_CODING_SESSION bytes may leave the machine for CAS or inline attestation storage until secret-bearing free-form fields have been scanned and rewritten; policy evaluation must still inspect the original local file.
Past fixes (1)
39176e8 · CWE-201
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39176e8 fixes a real information-disclosure flaw where AI coding session materials were uploaded or inlined with embedded secrets intact.
1 file
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What follows are PRIORS, not findings in this diff. Re-confirming an already-fixed issue
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BEGIN CONTEXT
internal/redaction/betterleaks.go - 1 past fix, peak severity high
must hold: No CHAINLOOP_AI_CODING_SESSION bytes may leave the machine for CAS or inline
attestation storage until secret-bearing free-form fields have been scanned and
rewritten; policy evaluation must still inspect the original local file.
also enforced at: 5 other entry points
grep for: aicodingsession.Redact, c.redact, withContentOverride
END CONTEXT
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Only a port followed by a line break is kept; a real password followed by a line break and a later @ is redacted again. Also build the digests of the false-positive session fixture at test time so the repository scan does not flag them. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Miguel Martinez Trivino <miguel@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: 29a7cd68-de4a-4e2a-8d13-cefbcd8d1870
…st time Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Miguel Martinez Trivino <miguel@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: 29a7cd68-de4a-4e2a-8d13-cefbcd8d1870
Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Miguel Martinez Trivino <miguel@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: 29a7cd68-de4a-4e2a-8d13-cefbcd8d1870
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What changed
AI coding session redaction no longer replaces a
generic-credential-urimatch whose password runs through a line break.The scanner sees the session JSON-encoded, where a line break is the escape
\n, and the rule's password group stops only at real whitespace. In a written.envfile the match ran from a host and port (http://localhost:48002), through the next lines, to the@of an email address on a later line. The session was then annotated as containing a secret,ai-config-no-secretsfailed, and the replaced lines were lost from the transcript.A URI cannot contain a line break, so the embedded ruleset now allowlists such a match. Only a real escape counts (an odd run of backslashes before
n,rort). A real credential URI on a later line has its own://, which the password group cannot run through, so it is still found and redacted.The redaction ruleset version goes to
3, so that policies can tell these sessions apart from earlier ones.This change was made with AI assistance (Claude Code).
🤖 Posted by Maximus bot (Claude Code) on behalf of @migmartri using the eng-autopilot skill