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This PR automatically cherry-picks commit 37be162 to patch version v0.23.0-preview.2 in the preview release to create version 0.23.0-preview.3.

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This pull request significantly improves the policy management system by enabling the definition of policy rules that can apply to multiple command prefixes simultaneously. This change enhances the system's ability to handle complex shell commands more granularly, ensuring that user-defined "always allow" policies can be applied to all relevant root commands within a single operation, thereby streamlining policy configuration and improving user experience.

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  • Enhanced Policy Flexibility: The commandPrefix field in policy update options and rules now supports an array of strings, allowing a single policy to cover multiple root commands.
  • Improved Shell Command Handling: The ShellToolInvocation logic has been updated to intelligently extract and utilize multiple root commands from complex shell command strings (e.g., "git status && npm test") for policy application.
  • Robust Regex for Command Matching: The regular expression used to match command prefixes in policy rules has been made more robust to ensure accurate matching of whole words (e.g., "git" but not "github").
  • Comprehensive Testing: New unit tests have been added to validate the handling of array-based commandPrefix values, including their correct application and persistence to TOML configuration files.

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Size Change: +914 B (0%)

Total Size: 22 MB

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This pull request cherry-picks a patch that enhances policy handling for shell commands by allowing commandPrefix to be an array for more granular "always allow" rules and fixes the command prefix matching regex to prevent partial matches. However, a high-severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was identified, which could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by submitting a malicious regular expression pattern when updating a policy. Additionally, two high-severity issues were found: a potential security vulnerability in packages/core/src/policy/config.ts where an empty commandPrefix could lead to an overly permissive rule, and unreachable code in packages/core/src/tools/shell.ts. Addressing these issues will make the implementation more robust and secure.

Comment on lines +286 to +288
const argsPattern = message.argsPattern
? new RegExp(message.argsPattern)
: undefined;
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security-high high

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists here. The message.argsPattern is passed directly to the new RegExp() constructor without validation. An attacker can supply a maliciously crafted regular expression that causes catastrophic backtracking, leading to a denial of service as the event loop is blocked.

Remediation: Before constructing a regular expression, validate the message.argsPattern to disallow patterns known to cause ReDoS. Consider using a library like safe-regex or a similar tool to check the pattern's safety. If users are not meant to provide complex patterns, escape the input to treat it as a literal string.

? message.commandPrefix
: [message.commandPrefix];

for (const prefix of prefixes) {
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high

An empty commandPrefix can lead to an overly permissive rule being created. The resulting regex "command":"(?:[\\s\"]|$)" would match any command that is empty or starts with a space. This could be a security risk if a malicious model tries to bypass other rules by adding a leading space to a command. It's safer to ignore empty prefixes.

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for (const prefix of prefixes) {
for (const prefix of prefixes.filter(Boolean)) {

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const command = stripShellWrapper(this.params.command);
const rootCommands = [...new Set(getCommandRoots(command))];
if (rootCommands.length > 0) {
return { commandPrefix: rootCommands };
}
return { commandPrefix: this.params.command };
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The fallback logic on line 101 appears to be unreachable. The validateToolParamValues method for ShellTool (lines 505-507 in the full file) ensures that getCommandRoots(params.command) never returns an empty array for a valid command. Therefore, rootCommands.length will always be greater than 0. The code can be simplified by removing the check and the unreachable fallback.

      const command = stripShellWrapper(this.params.command);
      const rootCommands = [...new Set(getCommandRoots(command))];
      return { commandPrefix: rootCommands };

@galz10 galz10 merged commit 703d2e0 into release/v0.23.0-preview.2-pr-15601 Dec 27, 2025
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@galz10 galz10 deleted the hotfix/v0.23.0-preview.2/0.23.0-preview.3/preview/cherry-pick-37be162/pr-15601 branch December 27, 2025 00:16
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