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Hardens security validation in internal/config/resolver_validation.go by rejecting ASCII control characters in environment variable values and warning when container security isolation controls are explicitly disabled. Adds dedicated unit tests in internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go.


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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved environment variable validation by rejecting unsafe ASCII control, DEL, null, and C1 control characters while allowing standard formatting characters.
    • Validation errors now identify the position of invalid characters.
    • Added warnings when container security isolation features are disabled, including seccomp, AppArmor, labeling, and no-new-privileges protections.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for accepted and rejected environment values.
    • Added checks confirming warnings for unconfined security configurations.

… for unconfined security options

Hardens security validation in internal/config/resolver_validation.go:
1. Rejects ASCII control characters (C0 and C1) and null bytes in environment variable values inside validateEnvSecurity.
2. Logs warning messages in validateSecurity when security options disable default security controls (e.g. seccomp=unconfined, apparmor=unconfined, label=disable, systempaths=unconfined, no-new-privileges=false).
3. Adds dedicated unit test coverage in internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go.

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The resolver rejects unsafe environment control characters and warns when security options disable container isolation. Tests cover accepted characters, rejected characters, indexed errors, warning output, and logger-state restoration.

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Security validation hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Environment control-character validation
internal/config/resolver_validation.go, internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go
Environment validation accepts newline, carriage return, and tab. It rejects null bytes, other ASCII control characters, DEL, and C1 control characters with indexed errors.
Unconfined security-option warnings
internal/config/resolver_validation.go, internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go
validateSecurity warns for security options that weaken container isolation. Tests verify individual warnings, the aggregate warning, successful validation, and restoration of the global logger state.

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The change rejects control characters in environment values and warns when security isolation is explicitly disabled. The PR is mergeable with owner awareness that the validation error position format should be explicitly documented or covered by a multibyte-input test.

Possibly related PRs

  • Tei1988/cderun#513: Both changes add warnings for weakened container isolation and logging-focused validation tests.
  • Tei1988/cderun#543: Both changes update security validation and environment-value checks, including null-byte rejection coverage.
  • Tei1988/cderun#685: Both changes update resolver validation and tests for control characters and unconfined security options.
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In `@internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go`:
- Line 102: In the test invoking validateSecurity, replace assert.NoError with
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before inspecting log output.

In `@internal/config/resolver_validation.go`:
- Around line 585-592: Update the control-character validation loop in the
environment-value validation logic to reject the C1 control range U+0080 through
U+009F in addition to the existing C0 and DEL checks, preserving the current
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…re.NoError in tests

Hardens environment variable security validation and improves test assertion safety:
1. Rejects C1 control characters (U+0080 through U+009F) in environment variable values in validateEnvSecurity with position reporting.
2. Updates TestValidateSecurity_UnconfinedWarnings to use require.NoError to halt execution immediately on error.
3. Adds unit test coverage for C1 control character rejection in TestValidateEnvSecurity_ControlChars.

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94-97: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

@jules Restore the complete global logger configuration.

logging.Init changes the global logger level, format, and timestamp. The cleanup restores only the writer to io.Discard. Save and restore all four values: level, format, timestamp, and writer.

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In `@internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go` around lines
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In `@internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go`:
- Around line 77-90: Strengthen the validateEnvSecurity test for the FOO
environment value to assert the diagnostic reports the control character at
position 7 and includes its escaped representation, while retaining the existing
invalid C1 control character check.

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t.Run("C1 control char in env value rejected", func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
rv := &resolver{
res: &ResolvedConfig{
Image: "alpine:latest",
Env: []string{
"FOO=bar\u0085baz",
},
},
}
err := rv.validateEnvSecurity()
require.Error(t, err)
assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "invalid C1 control character")
})

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

@jules Assert the reported C1 position.

The test checks only "invalid C1 control character". A regression that removes or misreports at position %d will pass. Assert the reported position for FOO=bar\u0085baz, and include the escaped character in the assertion if that diagnostic is part of the contract.

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 		require.Error(t, err)
 		assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "invalid C1 control character")
+		assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "at position 3")
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t.Run("C1 control char in env value rejected", func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
rv := &resolver{
res: &ResolvedConfig{
Image: "alpine:latest",
Env: []string{
"FOO=bar\u0085baz",
},
},
}
err := rv.validateEnvSecurity()
require.Error(t, err)
assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "invalid C1 control character")
})
t.Run("C1 control char in env value rejected", func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
rv := &resolver{
res: &ResolvedConfig{
Image: "alpine:latest",
Env: []string{
"FOO=bar\u0085baz",
},
},
}
err := rv.validateEnvSecurity()
require.Error(t, err)
assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "invalid C1 control character")
assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "at position 3")
})
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In `@internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go` around lines
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…ogger state in tests

Hardens security validation and test isolation:
1. Rejects C1 control characters (U+0080 through U+009F) in environment variable values with character position diagnostic in validateEnvSecurity.
2. Captures and restores all global logger configuration (level, format, timestamp, writer) in TestValidateSecurity_UnconfinedWarnings.
3. Strengthens assertions in TestValidateEnvSecurity_ControlChars for C1 control character diagnostic position reporting.

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In `@internal/config/feature_security_hardening_validation_test.go`:
- Around line 89-90: Clarify the position-unit contract for validateEnvSecurity
validation errors: document that reported positions are UTF-8 byte offsets, or,
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…eEnvSecurity errors

Documents that position offsets reported in validateEnvSecurity error messages represent 0-based UTF-8 byte indices in environment variable value strings, and adds test coverage for multibyte-prefix control character positioning in TestValidateEnvSecurity_ControlChars.

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