🛡️ Sentinel: [HIGH] Harden Publish Flow and Fix Regex Injection

[calionauta]

🚨 Severity: HIGH
💡 Vulnerability:

1. Broken File Exclusion: The custom _ignore_func in git_publish.py failed to exclude sensitive files like models.json or sessions/.
2. Symlink Content Leakage: shutil copy operations followed symlinks, potentially leaking sensitive files from outside the source directory.
3. Regex Newline Injection: _is_valid_skill_name used $ which allows trailing newlines, potentially bypassing validation.

🎯 Impact: Unauthorized disclosure of sensitive configuration files or host filesystem content during the public "share" process.

🔧 Fix:

• Standardized file exclusion using shutil.ignore_patterns.
• Hardened all copy operations in publish/ to use symlinks=True or follow_symlinks=False.
• Updated regex anchors from $ to \Z.

✅ Verification: Verified using dedicated reproduction scripts for each vulnerability and confirmed no regressions with the full pytest suite.

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Code Review

This pull request hardens file copy operations by preventing symlink traversal (using follow_symlinks=False and symlinks=True) and secures skill name validation regexes using \Z instead of $ to prevent newline injection. The reviewer identified a missed agent copying block in git_publish.py that still lacks symlink hardening and name sanitization, which could lead to security vulnerabilities or runtime errors.

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[gemini-code-assist]

While the copy operations for skills have been successfully hardened here, the agent copying block inside the publish_all function (lines 181–186 of this file) was missed. It still uses unhardened copy operations and lacks name sanitization:

            for agent_name in agents_selected:
                agent = all_agents.get(agent_name)
                if agent:
                    dest = agents_dir / f"{agent_name}.md"
                    shutil.copy2(Path(agent.path), dest)

This introduces two issues:

1. Security Vulnerability (Symlink Content Leakage): shutil.copy2 is called without follow_symlinks=False, which can leak sensitive host files if the agent path is a symlink.
2. Runtime Bug (FileNotFoundError): agent_name is not sanitized and can contain slashes (e.g., claude-code/agents/test-reviewer.md), which will cause shutil.copy2 to fail with a FileNotFoundError because the nested subdirectories under agents_dir are not created.

Please update that block to match the implementation in agents_source.py:

            for agent_name in agents_selected:
                agent = all_agents.get(agent_name)
                if agent:
                    safe_name = agent_name.replace("/", "_").replace(" ", "_")
                    dest = agents_dir / f"{safe_name}.md"
                    shutil.copy2(Path(agent.path), dest, follow_symlinks=False)