{"repo_url":"https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/defenseclaw","overall_status":"completed","scanned_at":"2026-10-15T00:17:01.008Z","scan_summary":{"total_components":6,"worst_case_severity":"CRITICAL","repo_trust_score":{"score":40,"tier":"low","capability_band":"extreme","score_confidence":"medium","score_interval":{"low":17,"high":63},"factors":["ATR-M0005 CRITICAL","ATR-C0004 MEDIUM","ATR-C0007 HIGH","ATR-C0012 MEDIUM"]}},"components":[{"artifact_version":"2.0","component":{"component_type":"mcp-server","component_name":"mcp-server","component_path":".","metadata":{"transports":["streamable_http"],"entry_point":"internal/gateway/api.go NewAPIServer/Run"}},"scan_provenance":{"scanned_at":"2026-10-15T00:17:01.008Z","resolved_ref":"14f245d2023e53a01574d1000b23371d333990c7","resolved_ver":null},"repo_context":{"repo_url":"https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/defenseclaw","languages":["Go","Python","TypeScript"],"transports_detected":[],"deployment_artifacts":[],"provenance":{"publisher":"cisco-ai-defense","publisher_verified":false,"signed_build":true,"dependency_cve_count":19,"maintenance_active":true,"declared_policy":false}},"component_findings":[{"rule_id":"ATR-M0001","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Tool Definition Integrity & Versioning (ETDI-style)","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"The gateway sidecar does not itself register/serve MCP tool definitions to an LLM client (no @mcp.tool/registerTool/server.tool pattern anywhere in the repo, confirmed by repo-wide grep). It is a REST management/inspection API consumed by DefenseClaw's own hook scripts, CLI, and TUI -- its job is to scan and govern OTHER agents' MCP tool definitions (via /v1/mcp/scan), not to publish its own tool manifest to a model. There is therefore no tool-definition hot-reload/signature surface for this rule to evaluate on this component.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"N/A.","why_this_matters":"Prevents rug-pull tool poisoning.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":2813,"end_line":2836,"snippet":"func (a *APIServer) handleToolsCatalog(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {\n\tif r.Method != http.MethodGet {\n\t\thttp.Error(w, \"method not allowed\", http.StatusMethodNotAllowed)\n\t\treturn"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0002","rule_version":"1.1.0","rule_name":"Unrestricted Tool Permissions (Overprivileged Tools)","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"This component exposes no MCP tools of its own to an LLM client (see ATR-M0001); its REST endpoints are a management surface for DefenseClaw's own CLI/hooks/TUI, all gated by a single shared bearer token with per-route scoping (hook-scoped, ACP-scoped, OTLP-scoped credentials) rather than per-tool capability scoping. The rule's 'overprivileged tool' model (generic exec tool reachable by any request) does not map onto this architecture.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"N/A.","why_this_matters":"Limits blast radius and privilege escalation.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":1105,"end_line":1110,"snippet":"func (a *APIServer) Run(ctx context.Context) error {\n\tmux := http.NewServeMux()\n\tmux.HandleFunc(enterprisepolicy.ForeignHookSessionPathPrefix+\"{connector}\", a.handleForeignHookSession)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0003","rule_version":"1.3.1","rule_name":"CORS / Origin / Host Validation (DNS Rebinding Defense)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The gateway sidecar's HTTP management API (internal/gateway/api.go) binds loopback by default (viper default gateway.api_port with APIBindHost() returning 127.0.0.1 when unset) and validates Origin/Sec-Fetch-Site/Content-Type/X-DefenseClaw-Client on every mutating request. apiCSRFProtect rejects any Origin that is not localhost/127.0.0.1/::1 and rejects cross-site Sec-Fetch-Site values outright, which defeats DNS-rebinding/browser-hijack attempts even if a non-default bind were configured.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required; continue documenting that a non-default gateway.api_bind requires operator-managed firewalling, as the docs already state.","why_this_matters":"Prevents DNS rebinding/browser hijack of local or remote MCP.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":4078,"end_line":4127,"snippet":"func (a *APIServer) apiCSRFProtect(next http.Handler) http.Handler {\n\treturn http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {\n...\n\t\tif sfs := r.Header.Get(\"Sec-Fetch-Site\"); sfs != \"\" {\n\t\t\tif sfs != \"same-origin\" && sfs != \"none\" {\n\t\t\t\ta.emitHTTPAuthFailure(ctx, r, route, gatewaylog.ErrCodeAuthCSRFMismatch, \"sec_fetch_site_rejected\")\n\t\t\t\thttp.Error(w, `{\"error\":\"cross-site request rejected\"}`, http.StatusForbidden)\n\t\t\t\treturn\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}"},{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":4249,"end_line":4256,"snippet":"func isLocalhostOrigin(origin string) bool {\n\tu, err := url.Parse(origin)\n\tif err != nil {\n\t\treturn false\n\t}\n\thost := u.Hostname()\n\treturn host == \"127.0.0.1\" || host == \"localhost\" || host == \"::1\"\n}"},{"path":"internal/config/config.go","start_line":2434,"end_line":2438,"snippet":"func APIBindHost(cfg *Config) string {\n\tif cfg == nil || cfg.Gateway.APIBind == \"\" {\n\t\treturn \"127.0.0.1\"\n\t}\n\treturn cfg.Gateway.APIBind\n}"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0004","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Binding to 0.0.0.0 Without Auth/TLS","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Default bind for both the management API (gateway.api_bind) and the guardrail proxy (guardrail.host) is 127.0.0.1; guardrailListenAddr() canonicalizes any loopback-spelled host to 127.0.0.1. Every mutating / sensitive route requires a bearer token (tokenAuth) compared with constant-time SHA-256 compare, so even an operator-chosen non-default bind is not auth-less. Managed-enterprise deployments additionally hard-fail config load if the bind is not exactly 127.0.0.1 (validateManagedEnterpriseListenerBindings).","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Continue documenting (as docs-site/reference/gateway-api.mdx already does) that a non-loopback gateway.api_bind requires firewalling; consider also hard-refusing non-loopback binds outside managed_enterprise unless TLS is configured, since there is currently no TLS option on these listeners.","why_this_matters":"LAN/Internet exposure enables remote exploitation.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/proxy.go","start_line":65,"end_line":75,"snippet":"func guardrailListenAddr(port int, effectiveHost string) string {\n\th := strings.TrimSpace(effectiveHost)\n\tif h == \"\" {\n\t\th = \"localhost\"\n\t}\n\tswitch strings.ToLower(h) {\n\tcase \"localhost\", \"127.0.0.1\", \"::1\", \"[::1]\":\n\t\treturn fmt.Sprintf(\"127.0.0.1:%d\", port)\n\tdefault:\n\t\treturn fmt.Sprintf(\"%s:%d\", h, port)\n\t}\n}"},{"path":"internal/config/config.go","start_line":3355,"end_line":3383,"snippet":"func validateManagedEnterpriseListenerBindings(cfg *Config) error {\n\tif cfg == nil || !managed.IsManagedEnterprise(cfg.DeploymentMode) {\n\t\treturn nil\n\t}\n\tapiBind := cfg.Gateway.APIBind\n\tif apiBind == \"\" {\n\t\tcfg.Gateway.APIBind = \"127.0.0.1\"\n\t\tapiBind = cfg.Gateway.APIBind\n\t}\n\tif apiBind != \"127.0.0.1\" {\n\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\n\t\t\t\"config: managed_enterprise gateway API must bind to exact canonical 127.0.0.1, got %q\",\n\t\t\tapiBind,\n\t\t)\n\t}"},{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":3835,"end_line":3849,"snippet":"\t\texpected := \"\"\n\t\tif a.scannerCfg != nil {\n\t\t\texpected = a.scannerCfg.Gateway.Token\n\t\t}\n\t\tif expected == \"\" {\n\t\t\ta.emitHTTPAuthFailure(ctx, r, route, gatewaylog.ErrCodeAuthMissingToken, \"no_token_configured\")\n\t\t\thttp.Error(w, `{\"error\":\"sidecar misconfigured: no gateway token\"}`, http.StatusServiceUnavailable)\n\t\t\treturn\n\t\t}"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0005","rule_version":"1.4.0","rule_name":"OAuth 2.1 + PKCE Correctness (MCP Authorization)","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":"CRITICAL","confidence":"medium","rationale":"The gateway sidecar's management API is a configurable TCP HTTP surface (not stdio-only); ATR-M0005 applies to any remote HTTP transport and treats bearer-only authorization without OAuth 2.1 + PKCE as vulnerable. This component authenticates every management request with a single shared bearer token (see ATR-M0010) and exposes no OAuth protected-resource metadata endpoint, no authorization-code flow, and no PKCE implementation anywhere in the codebase (confirmed by repo-wide grep for oauth/PKCE/code_verifier, finding zero hits in internal/gateway). Because the component serves a remote-capable HTTP transport without implementing the MCP Authorization spec's OAuth 2.1 + PKCE requirement, the rule's remote-transport condition is violated rather than inapplicable.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Implement MCP Authorization (OAuth 2.1 + PKCE) for the gateway's HTTP management surface -- or restrict it to a transport the rule exempts (e.g., stdio-only) -- rather than relying solely on a shared bearer token for a remote-capable HTTP listener.","why_this_matters":"Misconfig enables token theft and confused-deputy attacks.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-M0005 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals CRITICAL.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/config/config.go","start_line":2430,"end_line":2438,"snippet":"// APIBindHost returns the address the gateway REST API listens on: an explicit\n// gateway.api_bind, else loopback. Every listener, hook/plugin address, and\n// health probe (upgrade, watchdog, status, the Python CLI's api_bind_host)\n// derives the API host from here so they cannot disagree.\nfunc APIBindHost(cfg *Config) string {\n\tif cfg == nil || cfg.Gateway.APIBind == \"\" {\n\t\treturn \"127.0.0.1\"\n\t}\n\treturn cfg.Gateway.APIBind"},{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":1321,"end_line":1328,"snippet":"\n\tserveTCP := func(ln net.Listener) {\n\t\tgo func() {\n\t\t\tfmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, \"[sidecar-api] listening on %s\\n\", a.addr)\n\t\t\tif err := srv.Serve(ln); err != nil && err != http.ErrServerClosed {\n\t\t\t\terrCh <- err\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}()"},{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":3764,"end_line":3776,"snippet":"// tokenAuth wraps a handler with Bearer token authentication. Management\n// clients may use Authorization, X-DefenseClaw-Token, or the proxy-compatible\n// X-DC-Auth header; all are compared against the same gateway token.\n// GET /health is exempt to allow unauthenticated health checks. In the\n// standalone profile the listener proof route answers before authentication\n// and never reaches next.\nfunc (a *APIServer) tokenAuth(next http.Handler) http.Handler {\n\treturn http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {\n\t\tif r.URL.Path == \"/health\" && r.Method == http.MethodGet {\n\t\t\tnext.ServeHTTP(w, r)\n\t\t\treturn\n\t\t}\n\t\tif r.URL.Path == connector.UserScopedListenerProofPath && a.userScopedCredentialsRequired() {"},{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":1105,"end_line":1112,"snippet":"func (a *APIServer) Run(ctx context.Context) error {\n\tmux := http.NewServeMux()\n\tmux.HandleFunc(enterprisepolicy.ForeignHookSessionPathPrefix+\"{connector}\", a.handleForeignHookSession)\n\tmux.HandleFunc(\"/health\", a.handleHealth)\n\tmux.HandleFunc(\"/status\", a.handleStatus)\n\tmux.HandleFunc(\"/api/v1/admin/shutdown\", a.handleShutdown)\n\tif a.servesOpenClawRoutes() {\n\t\t// These routes proxy the OpenClaw gateway RPCs."}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0006","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Tool Name Collision / Spoofing","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"This component publishes no MCP tool names to a model (see ATR-M0001); there is no tool namespace for a spoofing/collision attack to target. (Note: DefenseClaw's product purpose elsewhere is precisely to detect tool-name collision/spoofing in OTHER agents' MCP servers via its scanner, e.g. cli/defenseclaw/scanner/mcp.py, but that is the scanner CLI/feature, not this component's own tool surface.)","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"N/A.","why_this_matters":"Prevents malicious tool shadowing.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":2793,"end_line":2811,"snippet":"func (a *APIServer) handleMCPs(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {\n\tif r.Method != http.MethodGet {\n\t\thttp.Error(w, \"method not allowed\", http.StatusMethodNotAllowed)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0007","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Prompt/Metadata Injection in Tool Descriptions","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"This component has no tool descriptions of its own presented to a model (see ATR-M0001); there is no tool-description metadata surface for prompt injection to target on this component.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"N/A.","why_this_matters":"Prevents covert model manipulation.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":1105,"end_line":1110,"snippet":"func (a *APIServer) Run(ctx context.Context) error {\n\tmux := http.NewServeMux()\n\tmux.HandleFunc(enterprisepolicy.ForeignHookSessionPathPrefix+\"{connector}\", a.handleForeignHookSession)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0008","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"CORS Misuse: Wildcard with Credentials","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"No Access-Control-Allow-Origin header is ever set by the gateway (grepped repo-wide: zero occurrences in internal/gateway/*.go outside tests/vendor), so there is no wildcard-with-credentials CORS configuration to misuse. The gateway instead rejects any non-localhost Origin outright (see ATR-M0003 evidence) rather than reflecting/wildcarding it.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required.","why_this_matters":"Prevents credentialed cross-origin abuse.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":4160,"end_line":4167,"snippet":"\t\tif origin := r.Header.Get(\"Origin\"); origin != \"\" {\n\t\t\tif !isLocalhostOrigin(origin) {\n\t\t\t\ta.emitHTTPAuthFailure(ctx, r, route, gatewaylog.ErrCodeAuthOriginBlocked, \"origin_blocked\")\n\t\t\t\thttp.Error(w, `{\"error\":\"non-localhost Origin rejected\"}`, http.StatusForbidden)\n\t\t\t\treturn\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0009","rule_version":"1.3.0","rule_name":"Transport Security: TLS Everywhere (Remote)","finding":"VULNERABLE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":"MEDIUM","confidence":"medium","rationale":"The gateway's HTTP servers (management API on gateway.api_port, guardrail proxy on guardrail.port) are created with plain net/http.Server and no crypto/tls.Config, certificate, or ListenAndServeTLS call anywhere in internal/gateway. There is no TLS option exposed in config.yaml for these inbound listeners. By default both bind loopback-only, which is the primary mitigating control, but an operator who sets gateway.api_bind or guardrail.host to a non-loopback address (permitted on unmanaged/BYOD installs; only managed_enterprise is hard-blocked to 127.0.0.1) gets a plaintext HTTP listener carrying a bearer token in Authorization headers with no transport-encryption option.","vulnerability_details":"internal/gateway's management API and guardrail proxy listeners are plain-HTTP http.Server instances with no TLS configuration surface. If an operator (permitted on unmanaged/BYOD installs) sets gateway.api_bind or guardrail.host to a non-loopback address to reach the sidecar from another host, the bearer token that authenticates every management request (Authorization: Bearer / X-DefenseClaw-Token) travels in cleartext; a network attacker on path between the remote caller and the gateway can capture it and replay it to gain full management-API authority (block/allow assets, read audit/alerts, trigger scans) with no code path able to enable TLS to stop them.","fix_guidance":"Add an optional TLS listener (cert/key config keys) for gateway.api_bind and guardrail.host, and require TLS (or refuse to start) whenever either is configured to a non-loopback address outside managed_enterprise.","why_this_matters":"MitM can steal tokens and tamper responses.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:-40%|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-M0009 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. Realized severity MEDIUM (from HIGH: 40% context relief -- mitigation_present -40%).","within_declared_contract":false,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":1258,"end_line":1266,"snippet":"\tsrv := &http.Server{\n\t\tAddr:    a.addr,\n\t\tHandler: handler,\n\t\tBaseContext: func(_ net.Listener) context.Context {\n\t\t\treturn baseCtx\n\t\t},\n\t\tConnContext: acpPeerConnContext,\n\t}"},{"path":"internal/gateway/proxy.go","start_line":779,"end_line":802,"snippet":"\tsrv := &http.Server{Addr: addr, Handler: handler}\n\terrCh := make(chan error, 1)\n\tgo func() {\n\t\terrCh <- srv.ListenAndServe()\n\t}()"},{"path":"internal/config/config.go","start_line":3350,"end_line":3358,"snippet":"// validateManagedEnterpriseListenerBindings keeps every inbound enterprise\n// surface on loopback. ... This is enterprise-only:\n// canonical numeric IPv4, so the API listener must be exactly 127.0.0.1 rather\n// than another loopback spelling or address. This is enterprise-only:\n// unmanaged/BYOD deployments retain their existing remote-bind behavior.\nfunc validateManagedEnterpriseListenerBindings(cfg *Config) error {\n\tif cfg == nil || !managed.IsManagedEnterprise(cfg.DeploymentMode) {"},{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":3744,"end_line":3751,"snippet":"// requestGatewayToken is the credential a management request presents:\n// Authorization: Bearer, X-DefenseClaw-Token, or X-DC-Auth: Bearer.\nfunc requestGatewayToken(r *http.Request) string {\n\ttoken := \"\"\n\tif auth := r.Header.Get(\"Authorization\"); strings.HasPrefix(auth, \"Bearer \") {\n\t\ttoken = strings.TrimPrefix(auth, \"Bearer \")\n\t}"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0010","rule_version":"1.4.0","rule_name":"No Authentication or Authorization Checks (General)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Every route registered in APIServer.Run is wrapped by tokenAuth, which requires a bearer credential (Authorization: Bearer / X-DefenseClaw-Token / X-DC-Auth) compared via constant-time SHA-256 digest comparison (constantTimeStringMatch) against the gateway token generated with crypto/rand at first boot (EnsureGatewayToken). The only unauthenticated route is GET /health. Fail-open is explicitly rejected: tokenAuth fails CLOSED (503) when no token is configured rather than falling back to 'trust loopback' (the code comment calls out that this was a prior local-IDOR risk it fixed). Default bind is loopback (127.0.0.1); a non-default remote bind still requires the same token. Scoped credential paths (OTLP, hook, ACP) each perform their own secret comparison (constantTimeStringMatch / HMAC) rather than accepting an identifier alone.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required; consider also enforcing per-caller RBAC for the few routes (e.g. /enforce/block, /policy/evaluate) that currently trust any holder of the single shared gateway token equally.","why_this_matters":"Prevents unauthorized tool use and data access.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":3770,"end_line":3776,"snippet":"func (a *APIServer) tokenAuth(next http.Handler) http.Handler {\n\treturn http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {\n\t\tif r.URL.Path == \"/health\" && r.Method == http.MethodGet {\n\t\t\tnext.ServeHTTP(w, r)\n\t\t\treturn\n\t\t}"},{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":1236,"end_line":1258,"snippet":"\thandler := apiBodyLimitMiddleware(mux, apiRequestBodyMaxBytes, otlpRequestBodyMaxBytes)\n\thandler = a.apiCSRFProtect(handler)\n\thandler = a.tokenAuth(handler)"},{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":3839,"end_line":3847,"snippet":"\t\texpected := \"\"\n\t\tif a.scannerCfg != nil {\n\t\t\texpected = a.scannerCfg.Gateway.Token\n\t\t}\n\t\tif expected == \"\" {\n\t\t\t// Fail closed when no token is configured. ...\n\t\t\ta.emitHTTPAuthFailure(ctx, r, route, gatewaylog.ErrCodeAuthMissingToken, \"no_token_configured\")\n\t\t\thttp.Error(w, `{\"error\":\"sidecar misconfigured: no gateway token\"}`, http.StatusServiceUnavailable)\n\t\t\treturn\n\t\t}"},{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":4033,"end_line":4037,"snippet":"func constantTimeStringMatch(a, b string) bool {\n\tha := sha256.Sum256([]byte(a))\n\thb := sha256.Sum256([]byte(b))\n\treturn subtle.ConstantTimeCompare(ha[:], hb[:]) == 1\n}"},{"path":"internal/gateway/firstboot.go","start_line":50,"end_line":83,"snippet":"func EnsureGatewayToken(dotenvPath string) (string, error) {\n...\n\tif _, err := rand.Read(buf); err != nil {"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"mcp-server"},{"rule_id":"ATR-M0011","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"OAuth Proxy Per-Client Consent (Confused Deputy Defense)","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"The gateway does not implement an OAuth proxy / confused-deputy-prone token-exchange pattern on behalf of multiple downstream MCP clients; it has no OAuth client-registration or token-issuance code at all (see ATR-M0005). 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Audit logging is pervasive via internal/audit and gatewaylog packages with structured, per-action invocation logging. 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It uses a slim base image, creates and chowns a dedicated non-root user (uid 10001), and switches to USER exporter before ENTRYPOINT. Trivy config scan flagged only one LOW misconfiguration (DS-0026: missing HEALTHCHECK), with 26 passing checks. No USER root, no privileged mode, no hostNetwork, no writable-rootfs issue found. 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These modules are shipped in the release binary: golang.org/x/net is a direct/transitive dependency of the gateway's net/http-based HTTP client/server stack (internal/gateway/webhook.go, provider.go, api.go). 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github.com/defenseclaw/defenseclaw\n\ngo 1.2x\n\nrequire (\n\tgolang.org/x/net ...\n\tgolang.org/x/mod ...\n\tgolang.org/x/image ...\n\tgolang.org/x/crypto ...\n)"},{"path":"go.mod","start_line":1,"end_line":1,"snippet":"module github.com/defenseclaw/defenseclaw -- trivy fs identified CVE-2026-78669 (HIGH) present in the resolved golang.org/x/net version in go.sum, with no replace/exclude directive removing it, so the vulnerable HTTP/2 code is compiled into the shipped gateway that terminates webhook, API, and model-router HTTP traffic, exposing it to remote exploitation of that CVE's impact class."}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0008","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Missing or Inadequate Input Validation","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"Reviewed the gateway's HTTP API surface (internal/gateway/api.go) and webhook/skill-fetch handlers: handleSkillFetch validates req.Target is non-empty, rejects Windows-unsafe paths via rejectWindowsGatewayPath, and enforces directory containment after symlink resolution (see ATR-C0011 finding) before any filesystem operation. JSON body decoding uses json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode into typed request structs (e.g. skillFetchRequest, mcpScanRequest) rather than accepting raw untyped maps, which constrains the shape of accepted input. Config-level credential names are validated against an explicit allowlist pattern (ValidEnterpriseCredentialName, internal/config/enterprise.go) rejecting any value that is not 'lowercase letters, digits and dashes'. No handler was found that passes raw, unvalidated request fields directly into exec/fetch/fs sinks (cross-referenced with ATR-C0001/C0003/C0011 findings).","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Frontline control to prevent multiple classes of vulns.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/config/enterprise.go","start_line":1305,"end_line":1310,"snippet":"\tif ai.Enabled {\n\t\tif !ValidEnterpriseCredentialName(ai.Credential) {\n\t\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"config: enterprise.inspection.ai_defense.credential %q must be a protected credential name (lowercase letters, digits and dashes)\", ai.Credential)\n\t\t}\n\t} else if strings.TrimSpace(ai.Credential) != \"\" && !ValidEnterpriseCredentialName(ai.Credential) {\n\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"config: enterprise.inspection.ai_defense.credential %q is not a valid credential name\", ai.Credential)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0009","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Insecure Deserialization","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"Manual review of the gosec 'go-unsafe-deserialization-interface' findings and the plugin-manifest YAML loading path found no code-executing deserialization sink. The reviewed plugin-manifest loader (cli/defenseclaw/scanner/plugin_scanner/scanner.py) binds yaml.load to CSafeLoader/SafeLoader and only accepts dictionary results; no pickle.loads or unsafe PyYAML Loader is used against untrusted input. The Go gosec findings decode into ordinary typed data mappings rather than instantiating attacker-controlled interface values through gob or an equivalent gadget-capable mechanism.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Can lead to arbitrary code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0010","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Lack of Output Encoding/Sanitization","finding":"SECURE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"The interactive code editor (docs-site/components/policy-creator/ui/code-editor.tsx) is the component handling attacker-controlled input among the flagged sites: its textarea value is tokenized by rego-highlight.ts, and each token's &, <, and > characters are escaped before the resulting markup reaches dangerouslySetInnerHTML. The remaining flagged Go and React sites construct static deployment/documentation data rather than reflecting request input, so no unescaped attacker-controlled content reaches an HTML sink.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Prevents UI-level injection and operator compromise.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0011","rule_version":"1.4.0","rule_name":"Path Traversal & Symlink Bypass (Filesystem Tools)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The one HTTP endpoint found accepting a caller-supplied filesystem path, POST /v1/skill/fetch (internal/gateway/api.go handleSkillFetch), resolves symlinks on BOTH the caller-supplied target and every configured allowed root via filepath.EvalSymlinks + filepath.Abs, then requires the resolved target to equal or be a path-separator-prefixed child of one of the configured SkillDirs()/PluginDirs() roots -- rejecting any path outside those roots even via symlink indirection. A code comment references a prior finding (Avarice F-3287) that this exact containment was added after a previous version lacked it, confirming deliberate remediation. No other HTTP handler in internal/gateway/*.go was found reading/writing an arbitrary caller-supplied path without this pattern.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Traversal exposes arbitrary host files; can lead to code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":3237,"end_line":3269,"snippet":"\tresolvedTarget, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(req.Target)\n\tif err != nil { ... }\n\tresolvedAbs, err := filepath.Abs(resolvedTarget)\n\t...\n\tfor _, root := range allowedRoots {\n\t\t...\n\t\trr, rerr := filepath.EvalSymlinks(root)\n\t\t...\n\t\tif resolvedAbs == rrAbs {\n\t\t\trootOK = true\n\t\t\tbreak\n\t\t}\n\t\tif strings.HasPrefix(resolvedAbs, rrAbs+string(os.PathSeparator)) {\n\t\t\trootOK = 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An agent capable of generating a long stream of distinct tool-call arguments can therefore drive an unbounded number of sequential billed provider requests.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add a per-user/session request-rate limiter and/or a spend budget (daily call count or cost ceiling) on the tool-judge dispatch path in internal/gateway/llm_judge.go, so that a sustained stream of distinct tool calls cannot generate unbounded billed provider invocations.","why_this_matters":"Prevents cost-based disruption.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0012 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/inspect.go","start_line":1444,"end_line":1462,"snippet":"\t// The generic /inspect handlers run under a 200ms deadline\n\t// (inspectScanTimeout) — no judge round-trip fits, and blowing\n\t// that deadline would 504 the whole verdict. Skip unless the\n\t// caller's remaining budget can plausibly carry an LLM call. 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This is the product's core function (detecting and blocking un-contained tool-output-driven prompt injection for the agents it governs), not a gap in its own architecture.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Tool outputs are a primary prompt-injection vector. Third-party content (web pages, files, API responses) may contain text crafted to override instructions or impersonate system/tool messages. 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The connector-live-e2e.yml workflow has pull_request and workflow_dispatch triggers, but the live-matrix jobs that contain the flagged shell-injection sites are gated to workflow_dispatch only (a manual trigger requiring repo write access) and interpolate only fixed/trusted values (github.sha, github.repository, prior step outputs such as steps.package.outputs.artifact_id) -- no attacker-controlled event field reaches a shell sink. The release.yaml hit is inside a workflow_dispatch-only release job using $VERSION/$GH_TOKEN env vars as quoted data, not re-parsed by eval/sh -c. 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The YARA scanner (timed out repo-wide) flagged dozens of files; manual review of representative files from each flagged cluster confirms consistently defensive/detective purpose: internal/gateway/llm_judge.go implements an LLM-based exfiltration/injection/destructive-command CLASSIFIER used to BLOCK malicious agent actions (not perform them); benchmark_normalize_cochise.py and its tests are dataset normalizers that label known-malicious trajectories for the product's OWN detector evaluation; cmd_setup.py is the product's own legitimate CLI configuration tool; internal/scanner/clawshield_secrets.go contains regex PATTERNS to DETECT private keys in scanned content (a secrets scanner), not a key itself; flagged test files contain malicious-looking strings solely as fixture/input data asserting the gateway correctly blocks/detects them. 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Audit logging is pervasive via internal/audit and gatewaylog packages with structured, per-action invocation logging. 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These modules are shipped in the release binary: golang.org/x/net is a direct/transitive dependency of the gateway's net/http-based HTTP client/server stack (internal/gateway/webhook.go, provider.go, api.go). 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github.com/defenseclaw/defenseclaw\n\ngo 1.2x\n\nrequire (\n\tgolang.org/x/net ...\n\tgolang.org/x/mod ...\n\tgolang.org/x/image ...\n\tgolang.org/x/crypto ...\n)"},{"path":"go.mod","start_line":1,"end_line":1,"snippet":"module github.com/defenseclaw/defenseclaw -- trivy fs identified CVE-2026-78669 (HIGH) present in the resolved golang.org/x/net version in go.sum, with no replace/exclude directive removing it, so the vulnerable HTTP/2 code is compiled into the shipped gateway that terminates webhook, API, and model-router HTTP traffic, exposing it to remote exploitation of that CVE's impact class."}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0008","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Missing or Inadequate Input Validation","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"Reviewed the gateway's HTTP API surface (internal/gateway/api.go) and webhook/skill-fetch handlers: handleSkillFetch validates req.Target is non-empty, rejects Windows-unsafe paths via rejectWindowsGatewayPath, and enforces directory containment after symlink resolution (see ATR-C0011 finding) before any filesystem operation. JSON body decoding uses json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode into typed request structs (e.g. skillFetchRequest, mcpScanRequest) rather than accepting raw untyped maps, which constrains the shape of accepted input. Config-level credential names are validated against an explicit allowlist pattern (ValidEnterpriseCredentialName, internal/config/enterprise.go) rejecting any value that is not 'lowercase letters, digits and dashes'. No handler was found that passes raw, unvalidated request fields directly into exec/fetch/fs sinks (cross-referenced with ATR-C0001/C0003/C0011 findings).","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Frontline control to prevent multiple classes of vulns.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/config/enterprise.go","start_line":1305,"end_line":1310,"snippet":"\tif ai.Enabled {\n\t\tif !ValidEnterpriseCredentialName(ai.Credential) {\n\t\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"config: enterprise.inspection.ai_defense.credential %q must be a protected credential name (lowercase letters, digits and dashes)\", ai.Credential)\n\t\t}\n\t} else if strings.TrimSpace(ai.Credential) != \"\" && !ValidEnterpriseCredentialName(ai.Credential) {\n\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"config: enterprise.inspection.ai_defense.credential %q is not a valid credential name\", ai.Credential)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0009","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Insecure Deserialization","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"Manual review of the gosec 'go-unsafe-deserialization-interface' findings and the plugin-manifest YAML loading path found no code-executing deserialization sink. The reviewed plugin-manifest loader (cli/defenseclaw/scanner/plugin_scanner/scanner.py) binds yaml.load to CSafeLoader/SafeLoader and only accepts dictionary results; no pickle.loads or unsafe PyYAML Loader is used against untrusted input. The Go gosec findings decode into ordinary typed data mappings rather than instantiating attacker-controlled interface values through gob or an equivalent gadget-capable mechanism.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Can lead to arbitrary code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0010","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Lack of Output Encoding/Sanitization","finding":"SECURE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"The interactive code editor (docs-site/components/policy-creator/ui/code-editor.tsx) is the component handling attacker-controlled input among the flagged sites: its textarea value is tokenized by rego-highlight.ts, and each token's &, <, and > characters are escaped before the resulting markup reaches dangerouslySetInnerHTML. The remaining flagged Go and React sites construct static deployment/documentation data rather than reflecting request input, so no unescaped attacker-controlled content reaches an HTML sink.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Prevents UI-level injection and operator compromise.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0011","rule_version":"1.4.0","rule_name":"Path Traversal & Symlink Bypass (Filesystem Tools)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The one HTTP endpoint found accepting a caller-supplied filesystem path, POST /v1/skill/fetch (internal/gateway/api.go handleSkillFetch), resolves symlinks on BOTH the caller-supplied target and every configured allowed root via filepath.EvalSymlinks + filepath.Abs, then requires the resolved target to equal or be a path-separator-prefixed child of one of the configured SkillDirs()/PluginDirs() roots -- rejecting any path outside those roots even via symlink indirection. A code comment references a prior finding (Avarice F-3287) that this exact containment was added after a previous version lacked it, confirming deliberate remediation. No other HTTP handler in internal/gateway/*.go was found reading/writing an arbitrary caller-supplied path without this pattern.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Traversal exposes arbitrary host files; can lead to code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":3237,"end_line":3269,"snippet":"\tresolvedTarget, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(req.Target)\n\tif err != nil { ... }\n\tresolvedAbs, err := filepath.Abs(resolvedTarget)\n\t...\n\tfor _, root := range allowedRoots {\n\t\t...\n\t\trr, rerr := filepath.EvalSymlinks(root)\n\t\t...\n\t\tif resolvedAbs == rrAbs {\n\t\t\trootOK = true\n\t\t\tbreak\n\t\t}\n\t\tif strings.HasPrefix(resolvedAbs, rrAbs+string(os.PathSeparator)) {\n\t\t\trootOK = 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An agent capable of generating a long stream of distinct tool-call arguments can therefore drive an unbounded number of sequential billed provider requests.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add a per-user/session request-rate limiter and/or a spend budget (daily call count or cost ceiling) on the tool-judge dispatch path in internal/gateway/llm_judge.go, so that a sustained stream of distinct tool calls cannot generate unbounded billed provider invocations.","why_this_matters":"Prevents cost-based disruption.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0012 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/inspect.go","start_line":1444,"end_line":1462,"snippet":"\t// The generic /inspect handlers run under a 200ms deadline\n\t// (inspectScanTimeout) — no judge round-trip fits, and blowing\n\t// that deadline would 504 the whole verdict. Skip unless the\n\t// caller's remaining budget can plausibly carry an LLM call. 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This is the product's core function (detecting and blocking un-contained tool-output-driven prompt injection for the agents it governs), not a gap in its own architecture.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Tool outputs are a primary prompt-injection vector. Third-party content (web pages, files, API responses) may contain text crafted to override instructions or impersonate system/tool messages. Without a host-enforced envelope, sanitization, and an explicit untrusted-return signal, the model can be coerced into executing attacker-controlled directives, leaking secrets, or chaining further tool calls on behalf of the adversary.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/llm_judge.go","start_line":1930,"end_line":1940,"snippet":"const toolJudgeTruncationMarker = \"\\n...[tool arguments truncated; beginning and end retained]...\\n\"\n\nconst toolJudgeUserIntentTruncationMarker = \"\\n...[user intent truncated; beginning and end retained]...\\n\"\n\nconst toolJudgeMiddleExcerptMarker = \"\\n...[mechanically selected middle excerpts]...\\n\"","vulnerability":{}}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0014","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"CI/CD Workflow Script Injection","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Semgrep flagged run-shell-injection in connector-live-e2e.yml (3x) and release.yaml (1x), plus mutable-action-tag in e2e.yml (6x) referencing maintainer-controlled float tags, not attacker-controlled data. The connector-live-e2e.yml workflow has pull_request and workflow_dispatch triggers, but the live-matrix jobs that contain the flagged shell-injection sites are gated to workflow_dispatch only (a manual trigger requiring repo write access) and interpolate only fixed/trusted values (github.sha, github.repository, prior step outputs such as steps.package.outputs.artifact_id) -- no attacker-controlled event field reaches a shell sink. The release.yaml hit is inside a workflow_dispatch-only release job using $VERSION/$GH_TOKEN env vars as quoted data, not re-parsed by eval/sh -c. 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The YARA scanner (timed out repo-wide) flagged dozens of files; manual review of representative files from each flagged cluster confirms consistently defensive/detective purpose: internal/gateway/llm_judge.go implements an LLM-based exfiltration/injection/destructive-command CLASSIFIER used to BLOCK malicious agent actions (not perform them); benchmark_normalize_cochise.py and its tests are dataset normalizers that label known-malicious trajectories for the product's OWN detector evaluation; cmd_setup.py is the product's own legitimate CLI configuration tool; internal/scanner/clawshield_secrets.go contains regex PATTERNS to DETECT private keys in scanned content (a secrets scanner), not a key itself; flagged test files contain malicious-looking strings solely as fixture/input data asserting the gateway correctly blocks/detects them. 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Catching malicious PURPOSE is a distinct safety control, and it must be conservative because offensive capability is dual-use: legitimate pentest, CTF, defensive, and research work must abstain (UNKNOWN), never block -- unless the artifact itself hides from the people who install, run or audit it.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/llm_judge.go","start_line":1662,"end_line":1673,"snippet":"const exfilSystemPrompt = `You are a data-exfiltration safety classifier. Your task is to decide whether a USER prompt is trying to read or exfiltrate sensitive files, credentials, secrets, or system data...\\n- Exfiltration Channel: requests to ship data to an attacker-controlled or out-of-band destination (curl/wget POST of file contents to an external host, base64+upload, dns-tunnel, \"email me the file\"). 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An operator on an unmanaged/BYOD install who points gateway.api_bind or guardrail.host at a non-loopback address gets a cleartext channel carrying the shared management bearer token with no code path able to enable TLS to protect it (ATR-M0009, HIGH, VULNERABLE).","HIGH: golang.org/x/net is pinned (go.sum) to a version trivy flags with a HIGH-severity CVE (CVE-2026-78669), underlying the gateway's own net/http client/server stack -- no replace/exclude directive upgrades past it, so the vulnerable code ships in the release binary (ATR-C0007 VULNERABLE).","UNKNOWN: gosec flagged 10 unsafe-deserialization-interface sites and semgrep flagged dozens of Go ResponseWriter-write sites requiring deeper per-site source-to-sink tracing to resolve (ATR-C0009 Insecure Deserialization, ATR-C0010 Output Encoding).","The repository's actual MCP-relevant attack surface is the Go gateway/sidecar's local REST management API rather than a classic tool-registering MCP server; most MCP-tool-specific rules (ATR-M0001/0002/0005/0006/0007/0011) are NOT_APPLICABLE as architected, though auth, CSRF, and origin handling on the API itself are strong.","cmd_setup.py's _show_splunk_credentials() prints locally generated secrets to the terminal without an explicit --reveal/confirm flag, creating terminal-capture exposure risk."],"top_remediations":["Add an optional TLS listener (certificate/key config) for gateway.api_bind and guardrail.host, and require TLS or refuse to start whenever either is configured to a non-loopback address outside managed_enterprise, closing the one remaining gap on the gateway's HTTP surface (ATR-M0009).","Document and consider hard-enforcing that gateway.api_bind/guardrail.host must stay loopback unless the operator has independently firewalled the host, since no in-process control currently prevents a non-loopback bind on unmanaged/BYOD installs.","Upgrade golang.org/x/net, golang.org/x/mod, golang.org/x/image, golang.org/x/crypto, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/* to patched versions (go get -u && go mod tidy) to clear the HIGH-severity trivy CVE findings (ATR-C0007).","Complete deeper per-site tracing of the 10 gosec go-unsafe-deserialization-interface findings and the Go ResponseWriter-write semgrep findings to resolve the UNKNOWN verdicts (ATR-C0009, ATR-C0010).","Consider gating cmd_setup.py's _show_splunk_credentials() behind an explicit --reveal/confirm flag to reduce terminal-capture exposure of locally generated secrets.","No action needed on the evaluated skill/plugin artifacts (codeguard, defenseclaw-add-connector, defenseclaw-develop, defenseclaw-tui, rulepack_artifact_parity); 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Audit logging is pervasive via internal/audit and gatewaylog packages with structured, per-action invocation logging. 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These modules are shipped in the release binary: golang.org/x/net is a direct/transitive dependency of the gateway's net/http-based HTTP client/server stack (internal/gateway/webhook.go, provider.go, api.go). 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github.com/defenseclaw/defenseclaw\n\ngo 1.2x\n\nrequire (\n\tgolang.org/x/net ...\n\tgolang.org/x/mod ...\n\tgolang.org/x/image ...\n\tgolang.org/x/crypto ...\n)"},{"path":"go.mod","start_line":1,"end_line":1,"snippet":"module github.com/defenseclaw/defenseclaw -- trivy fs identified CVE-2026-78669 (HIGH) present in the resolved golang.org/x/net version in go.sum, with no replace/exclude directive removing it, so the vulnerable HTTP/2 code is compiled into the shipped gateway that terminates webhook, API, and model-router HTTP traffic, exposing it to remote exploitation of that CVE's impact class."}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0008","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Missing or Inadequate Input Validation","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"Reviewed the gateway's HTTP API surface (internal/gateway/api.go) and webhook/skill-fetch handlers: handleSkillFetch validates req.Target is non-empty, rejects Windows-unsafe paths via rejectWindowsGatewayPath, and enforces directory containment after symlink resolution (see ATR-C0011 finding) before any filesystem operation. JSON body decoding uses json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode into typed request structs (e.g. skillFetchRequest, mcpScanRequest) rather than accepting raw untyped maps, which constrains the shape of accepted input. Config-level credential names are validated against an explicit allowlist pattern (ValidEnterpriseCredentialName, internal/config/enterprise.go) rejecting any value that is not 'lowercase letters, digits and dashes'. No handler was found that passes raw, unvalidated request fields directly into exec/fetch/fs sinks (cross-referenced with ATR-C0001/C0003/C0011 findings).","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Frontline control to prevent multiple classes of vulns.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/config/enterprise.go","start_line":1305,"end_line":1310,"snippet":"\tif ai.Enabled {\n\t\tif !ValidEnterpriseCredentialName(ai.Credential) {\n\t\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"config: enterprise.inspection.ai_defense.credential %q must be a protected credential name (lowercase letters, digits and dashes)\", ai.Credential)\n\t\t}\n\t} else if strings.TrimSpace(ai.Credential) != \"\" && !ValidEnterpriseCredentialName(ai.Credential) {\n\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"config: enterprise.inspection.ai_defense.credential %q is not a valid credential name\", ai.Credential)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0009","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Insecure Deserialization","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"Manual review of the gosec 'go-unsafe-deserialization-interface' findings and the plugin-manifest YAML loading path found no code-executing deserialization sink. The reviewed plugin-manifest loader (cli/defenseclaw/scanner/plugin_scanner/scanner.py) binds yaml.load to CSafeLoader/SafeLoader and only accepts dictionary results; no pickle.loads or unsafe PyYAML Loader is used against untrusted input. The Go gosec findings decode into ordinary typed data mappings rather than instantiating attacker-controlled interface values through gob or an equivalent gadget-capable mechanism.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Can lead to arbitrary code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0010","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Lack of Output Encoding/Sanitization","finding":"SECURE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"The interactive code editor (docs-site/components/policy-creator/ui/code-editor.tsx) is the component handling attacker-controlled input among the flagged sites: its textarea value is tokenized by rego-highlight.ts, and each token's &, <, and > characters are escaped before the resulting markup reaches dangerouslySetInnerHTML. The remaining flagged Go and React sites construct static deployment/documentation data rather than reflecting request input, so no unescaped attacker-controlled content reaches an HTML sink.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Prevents UI-level injection and operator compromise.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0011","rule_version":"1.4.0","rule_name":"Path Traversal & Symlink Bypass (Filesystem Tools)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The one HTTP endpoint found accepting a caller-supplied filesystem path, POST /v1/skill/fetch (internal/gateway/api.go handleSkillFetch), resolves symlinks on BOTH the caller-supplied target and every configured allowed root via filepath.EvalSymlinks + filepath.Abs, then requires the resolved target to equal or be a path-separator-prefixed child of one of the configured SkillDirs()/PluginDirs() roots -- rejecting any path outside those roots even via symlink indirection. A code comment references a prior finding (Avarice F-3287) that this exact containment was added after a previous version lacked it, confirming deliberate remediation. No other HTTP handler in internal/gateway/*.go was found reading/writing an arbitrary caller-supplied path without this pattern.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Traversal exposes arbitrary host files; can lead to code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":3237,"end_line":3269,"snippet":"\tresolvedTarget, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(req.Target)\n\tif err != nil { ... }\n\tresolvedAbs, err := filepath.Abs(resolvedTarget)\n\t...\n\tfor _, root := range allowedRoots {\n\t\t...\n\t\trr, rerr := filepath.EvalSymlinks(root)\n\t\t...\n\t\tif resolvedAbs == rrAbs {\n\t\t\trootOK = true\n\t\t\tbreak\n\t\t}\n\t\tif strings.HasPrefix(resolvedAbs, rrAbs+string(os.PathSeparator)) {\n\t\t\trootOK = 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An agent capable of generating a long stream of distinct tool-call arguments can therefore drive an unbounded number of sequential billed provider requests.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add a per-user/session request-rate limiter and/or a spend budget (daily call count or cost ceiling) on the tool-judge dispatch path in internal/gateway/llm_judge.go, so that a sustained stream of distinct tool calls cannot generate unbounded billed provider invocations.","why_this_matters":"Prevents cost-based disruption.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0012 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/inspect.go","start_line":1444,"end_line":1462,"snippet":"\t// The generic /inspect handlers run under a 200ms deadline\n\t// (inspectScanTimeout) — no judge round-trip fits, and blowing\n\t// that deadline would 504 the whole verdict. Skip unless the\n\t// caller's remaining budget can plausibly carry an LLM call. 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This is the product's core function (detecting and blocking un-contained tool-output-driven prompt injection for the agents it governs), not a gap in its own architecture.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Tool outputs are a primary prompt-injection vector. Third-party content (web pages, files, API responses) may contain text crafted to override instructions or impersonate system/tool messages. Without a host-enforced envelope, sanitization, and an explicit untrusted-return signal, the model can be coerced into executing attacker-controlled directives, leaking secrets, or chaining further tool calls on behalf of the adversary.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/llm_judge.go","start_line":1930,"end_line":1940,"snippet":"const toolJudgeTruncationMarker = \"\\n...[tool arguments truncated; beginning and end retained]...\\n\"\n\nconst toolJudgeUserIntentTruncationMarker = \"\\n...[user intent truncated; beginning and end retained]...\\n\"\n\nconst toolJudgeMiddleExcerptMarker = \"\\n...[mechanically selected middle excerpts]...\\n\"","vulnerability":{}}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0014","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"CI/CD Workflow Script Injection","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Semgrep flagged run-shell-injection in connector-live-e2e.yml (3x) and release.yaml (1x), plus mutable-action-tag in e2e.yml (6x) referencing maintainer-controlled float tags, not attacker-controlled data. The connector-live-e2e.yml workflow has pull_request and workflow_dispatch triggers, but the live-matrix jobs that contain the flagged shell-injection sites are gated to workflow_dispatch only (a manual trigger requiring repo write access) and interpolate only fixed/trusted values (github.sha, github.repository, prior step outputs such as steps.package.outputs.artifact_id) -- no attacker-controlled event field reaches a shell sink. The release.yaml hit is inside a workflow_dispatch-only release job using $VERSION/$GH_TOKEN env vars as quoted data, not re-parsed by eval/sh -c. 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The YARA scanner (timed out repo-wide) flagged dozens of files; manual review of representative files from each flagged cluster confirms consistently defensive/detective purpose: internal/gateway/llm_judge.go implements an LLM-based exfiltration/injection/destructive-command CLASSIFIER used to BLOCK malicious agent actions (not perform them); benchmark_normalize_cochise.py and its tests are dataset normalizers that label known-malicious trajectories for the product's OWN detector evaluation; cmd_setup.py is the product's own legitimate CLI configuration tool; internal/scanner/clawshield_secrets.go contains regex PATTERNS to DETECT private keys in scanned content (a secrets scanner), not a key itself; flagged test files contain malicious-looking strings solely as fixture/input data asserting the gateway correctly blocks/detects them. 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Catching malicious PURPOSE is a distinct safety control, and it must be conservative because offensive capability is dual-use: legitimate pentest, CTF, defensive, and research work must abstain (UNKNOWN), never block -- unless the artifact itself hides from the people who install, run or audit it.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/llm_judge.go","start_line":1662,"end_line":1673,"snippet":"const exfilSystemPrompt = `You are a data-exfiltration safety classifier. Your task is to decide whether a USER prompt is trying to read or exfiltrate sensitive files, credentials, secrets, or system data...\\n- Exfiltration Channel: requests to ship data to an attacker-controlled or out-of-band destination (curl/wget POST of file contents to an external host, base64+upload, dns-tunnel, \"email me the file\"). 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An operator on an unmanaged/BYOD install who points gateway.api_bind or guardrail.host at a non-loopback address gets a cleartext channel carrying the shared management bearer token with no code path able to enable TLS to protect it (ATR-M0009, HIGH, VULNERABLE).","HIGH: golang.org/x/net is pinned (go.sum) to a version trivy flags with a HIGH-severity CVE (CVE-2026-78669), underlying the gateway's own net/http client/server stack -- no replace/exclude directive upgrades past it, so the vulnerable code ships in the release binary (ATR-C0007 VULNERABLE).","UNKNOWN: gosec flagged 10 unsafe-deserialization-interface sites and semgrep flagged dozens of Go ResponseWriter-write sites requiring deeper per-site source-to-sink tracing to resolve (ATR-C0009 Insecure Deserialization, ATR-C0010 Output Encoding).","The repository's actual MCP-relevant attack surface is the Go gateway/sidecar's local REST management API rather than a classic tool-registering MCP server; most MCP-tool-specific rules (ATR-M0001/0002/0005/0006/0007/0011) are NOT_APPLICABLE as architected, though auth, CSRF, and origin handling on the API itself are strong.","cmd_setup.py's _show_splunk_credentials() prints locally generated secrets to the terminal without an explicit --reveal/confirm flag, creating terminal-capture exposure risk."],"top_remediations":["Add an optional TLS listener (certificate/key config) for gateway.api_bind and guardrail.host, and require TLS or refuse to start whenever either is configured to a non-loopback address outside managed_enterprise, closing the one remaining gap on the gateway's HTTP surface (ATR-M0009).","Document and consider hard-enforcing that gateway.api_bind/guardrail.host must stay loopback unless the operator has independently firewalled the host, since no in-process control currently prevents a non-loopback bind on unmanaged/BYOD installs.","Upgrade golang.org/x/net, golang.org/x/mod, golang.org/x/image, golang.org/x/crypto, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/* to patched versions (go get -u && go mod tidy) to clear the HIGH-severity trivy CVE findings (ATR-C0007).","Complete deeper per-site tracing of the 10 gosec go-unsafe-deserialization-interface findings and the Go ResponseWriter-write semgrep findings to resolve the UNKNOWN verdicts (ATR-C0009, ATR-C0010).","Consider gating cmd_setup.py's _show_splunk_credentials() behind an explicit --reveal/confirm flag to reduce terminal-capture exposure of locally generated secrets.","No action needed on the evaluated skill/plugin artifacts (codeguard, defenseclaw-add-connector, defenseclaw-develop, defenseclaw-tui, rulepack_artifact_parity); maintain existing check_skill_fresh.py-style drift checks and PR review to preserve their no-exec/no-network/no-concealment posture."]},"rollup":{"component_findings_count":{"vulnerable":0,"secure":7,"not_applicable":1},"repo_findings_inherited_count":{"vulnerable":3,"secure":12,"not_applicable":0},"component_tools_count":{"read_only":1},"worst_case_severity":"HIGH"},"trust_scores":{"repo_level":{"score":40,"tier":"low","capability_band":"extreme","score_confidence":"medium","score_interval":{"low":17,"high":63},"factors":["ATR-M0005 CRITICAL","ATR-C0004 MEDIUM","ATR-C0007 HIGH","ATR-C0012 MEDIUM"]},"component_level":{"score":100,"tier":"high","capability_band":"minimal","score_confidence":"high","score_interval":{"low":96,"high":100},"factors":[]}}},{"artifact_version":"2.0","component":{"component_type":"skill","component_name":"skills-plugins/.claude/skills/defenseclaw-tui","component_path":".claude/skills/defenseclaw-tui","metadata":{"manifest":"SKILL.md"}},"scan_provenance":{"scanned_at":"2026-10-15T00:17:01.008Z","resolved_ref":"14f245d2023e53a01574d1000b23371d333990c7","resolved_ver":null},"repo_context":{"repo_url":"https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/defenseclaw","languages":["Go","Python","TypeScript"],"transports_detected":[],"deployment_artifacts":[],"provenance":{"publisher":"cisco-ai-defense","publisher_verified":false,"signed_build":true,"dependency_cve_count":19,"maintenance_active":true,"declared_policy":false}},"component_findings":[{"rule_id":"ATR-P0001","rule_version":"1.0.0","rule_name":"Capability Transparency: Declared Purpose vs. Actual Behavior (Shadow Features)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"SKILL.md explicitly discloses that the TUI runs the DefenseClaw CLI as a subprocess, and demo.py's --real-exec option is clearly labeled as an opt-in mode that isolates HOME while invoking confirmed CLI commands. 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Audit logging is pervasive via internal/audit and gatewaylog packages with structured, per-action invocation logging. 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These modules are shipped in the release binary: golang.org/x/net is a direct/transitive dependency of the gateway's net/http-based HTTP client/server stack (internal/gateway/webhook.go, provider.go, api.go). 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github.com/defenseclaw/defenseclaw\n\ngo 1.2x\n\nrequire (\n\tgolang.org/x/net ...\n\tgolang.org/x/mod ...\n\tgolang.org/x/image ...\n\tgolang.org/x/crypto ...\n)"},{"path":"go.mod","start_line":1,"end_line":1,"snippet":"module github.com/defenseclaw/defenseclaw -- trivy fs identified CVE-2026-78669 (HIGH) present in the resolved golang.org/x/net version in go.sum, with no replace/exclude directive removing it, so the vulnerable HTTP/2 code is compiled into the shipped gateway that terminates webhook, API, and model-router HTTP traffic, exposing it to remote exploitation of that CVE's impact class."}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0008","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Missing or Inadequate Input Validation","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"Reviewed the gateway's HTTP API surface (internal/gateway/api.go) and webhook/skill-fetch handlers: handleSkillFetch validates req.Target is non-empty, rejects Windows-unsafe paths via rejectWindowsGatewayPath, and enforces directory containment after symlink resolution (see ATR-C0011 finding) before any filesystem operation. JSON body decoding uses json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode into typed request structs (e.g. skillFetchRequest, mcpScanRequest) rather than accepting raw untyped maps, which constrains the shape of accepted input. Config-level credential names are validated against an explicit allowlist pattern (ValidEnterpriseCredentialName, internal/config/enterprise.go) rejecting any value that is not 'lowercase letters, digits and dashes'. No handler was found that passes raw, unvalidated request fields directly into exec/fetch/fs sinks (cross-referenced with ATR-C0001/C0003/C0011 findings).","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Frontline control to prevent multiple classes of vulns.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/config/enterprise.go","start_line":1305,"end_line":1310,"snippet":"\tif ai.Enabled {\n\t\tif !ValidEnterpriseCredentialName(ai.Credential) {\n\t\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"config: enterprise.inspection.ai_defense.credential %q must be a protected credential name (lowercase letters, digits and dashes)\", ai.Credential)\n\t\t}\n\t} else if strings.TrimSpace(ai.Credential) != \"\" && !ValidEnterpriseCredentialName(ai.Credential) {\n\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"config: enterprise.inspection.ai_defense.credential %q is not a valid credential name\", ai.Credential)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0009","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Insecure Deserialization","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"Manual review of the gosec 'go-unsafe-deserialization-interface' findings and the plugin-manifest YAML loading path found no code-executing deserialization sink. The reviewed plugin-manifest loader (cli/defenseclaw/scanner/plugin_scanner/scanner.py) binds yaml.load to CSafeLoader/SafeLoader and only accepts dictionary results; no pickle.loads or unsafe PyYAML Loader is used against untrusted input. The Go gosec findings decode into ordinary typed data mappings rather than instantiating attacker-controlled interface values through gob or an equivalent gadget-capable mechanism.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Can lead to arbitrary code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0010","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Lack of Output Encoding/Sanitization","finding":"SECURE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"The interactive code editor (docs-site/components/policy-creator/ui/code-editor.tsx) is the component handling attacker-controlled input among the flagged sites: its textarea value is tokenized by rego-highlight.ts, and each token's &, <, and > characters are escaped before the resulting markup reaches dangerouslySetInnerHTML. The remaining flagged Go and React sites construct static deployment/documentation data rather than reflecting request input, so no unescaped attacker-controlled content reaches an HTML sink.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Prevents UI-level injection and operator compromise.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0011","rule_version":"1.4.0","rule_name":"Path Traversal & Symlink Bypass (Filesystem Tools)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The one HTTP endpoint found accepting a caller-supplied filesystem path, POST /v1/skill/fetch (internal/gateway/api.go handleSkillFetch), resolves symlinks on BOTH the caller-supplied target and every configured allowed root via filepath.EvalSymlinks + filepath.Abs, then requires the resolved target to equal or be a path-separator-prefixed child of one of the configured SkillDirs()/PluginDirs() roots -- rejecting any path outside those roots even via symlink indirection. A code comment references a prior finding (Avarice F-3287) that this exact containment was added after a previous version lacked it, confirming deliberate remediation. No other HTTP handler in internal/gateway/*.go was found reading/writing an arbitrary caller-supplied path without this pattern.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Traversal exposes arbitrary host files; can lead to code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":3237,"end_line":3269,"snippet":"\tresolvedTarget, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(req.Target)\n\tif err != nil { ... }\n\tresolvedAbs, err := filepath.Abs(resolvedTarget)\n\t...\n\tfor _, root := range allowedRoots {\n\t\t...\n\t\trr, rerr := filepath.EvalSymlinks(root)\n\t\t...\n\t\tif resolvedAbs == rrAbs {\n\t\t\trootOK = true\n\t\t\tbreak\n\t\t}\n\t\tif strings.HasPrefix(resolvedAbs, rrAbs+string(os.PathSeparator)) {\n\t\t\trootOK = 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An agent capable of generating a long stream of distinct tool-call arguments can therefore drive an unbounded number of sequential billed provider requests.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add a per-user/session request-rate limiter and/or a spend budget (daily call count or cost ceiling) on the tool-judge dispatch path in internal/gateway/llm_judge.go, so that a sustained stream of distinct tool calls cannot generate unbounded billed provider invocations.","why_this_matters":"Prevents cost-based disruption.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0012 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/inspect.go","start_line":1444,"end_line":1462,"snippet":"\t// The generic /inspect handlers run under a 200ms deadline\n\t// (inspectScanTimeout) — no judge round-trip fits, and blowing\n\t// that deadline would 504 the whole verdict. Skip unless the\n\t// caller's remaining budget can plausibly carry an LLM call. 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This is the product's core function (detecting and blocking un-contained tool-output-driven prompt injection for the agents it governs), not a gap in its own architecture.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Tool outputs are a primary prompt-injection vector. Third-party content (web pages, files, API responses) may contain text crafted to override instructions or impersonate system/tool messages. Without a host-enforced envelope, sanitization, and an explicit untrusted-return signal, the model can be coerced into executing attacker-controlled directives, leaking secrets, or chaining further tool calls on behalf of the adversary.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/llm_judge.go","start_line":1930,"end_line":1940,"snippet":"const toolJudgeTruncationMarker = \"\\n...[tool arguments truncated; beginning and end retained]...\\n\"\n\nconst toolJudgeUserIntentTruncationMarker = \"\\n...[user intent truncated; beginning and end retained]...\\n\"\n\nconst toolJudgeMiddleExcerptMarker = \"\\n...[mechanically selected middle excerpts]...\\n\"","vulnerability":{}}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0014","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"CI/CD Workflow Script Injection","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Semgrep flagged run-shell-injection in connector-live-e2e.yml (3x) and release.yaml (1x), plus mutable-action-tag in e2e.yml (6x) referencing maintainer-controlled float tags, not attacker-controlled data. The connector-live-e2e.yml workflow has pull_request and workflow_dispatch triggers, but the live-matrix jobs that contain the flagged shell-injection sites are gated to workflow_dispatch only (a manual trigger requiring repo write access) and interpolate only fixed/trusted values (github.sha, github.repository, prior step outputs such as steps.package.outputs.artifact_id) -- no attacker-controlled event field reaches a shell sink. The release.yaml hit is inside a workflow_dispatch-only release job using $VERSION/$GH_TOKEN env vars as quoted data, not re-parsed by eval/sh -c. No workflow uses pull_request_target, issue_comment, workflow_run, or repository_dispatch as an actual trigger on a privileged job.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"CI/CD script injection can execute attacker-controlled commands with workflow tokens, repository secrets, trusted-runner access, artifact or cache authority, and release or deployment privileges.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":".github/workflows/e2e.yml","start_line":35,"end_line":33,"snippet":"    if: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' || github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository }}\n    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, ARM64, e2e]\n    timeout-minutes: 30\n    env:\n      DEFENSECLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN }}\n      ..."},{"path":".github/workflows/connector-live-e2e.yml","start_line":1219,"end_line":1235,"snippet":"      - name: Real official-client E2E\n        shell: pwsh\n        run: |\n          ./scripts/live-connector-e2e/run-windows.ps1 `\n            -ExpectedPackageSourceCommit '${{ github.sha }}' `\n            -ExpectedPackageRunID '${{ inputs.windows_package_run_id }}' `\n            -ExpectedPackageArtifactID '${{ steps.package.outputs.artifact_id }}' `\n            -ExpectedWorkflowRepository '${{ github.repository }}' `"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-R0001","rule_version":"1.3.0","rule_name":"Weaponization: Malicious-Purpose Artifact (Offensive Capability by Design)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"DefenseClaw is a defensive security-governance product. The YARA scanner (timed out repo-wide) flagged dozens of files; manual review of representative files from each flagged cluster confirms consistently defensive/detective purpose: internal/gateway/llm_judge.go implements an LLM-based exfiltration/injection/destructive-command CLASSIFIER used to BLOCK malicious agent actions (not perform them); benchmark_normalize_cochise.py and its tests are dataset normalizers that label known-malicious trajectories for the product's OWN detector evaluation; cmd_setup.py is the product's own legitimate CLI configuration tool; internal/scanner/clawshield_secrets.go contains regex PATTERNS to DETECT private keys in scanned content (a secrets scanner), not a key itself; flagged test files contain malicious-looking strings solely as fixture/input data asserting the gateway correctly blocks/detects them. No file advertises an offensive purpose, directs generation of malware/exploits for a named target, or evades oversight/attribution of its own actions.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"An artifact whose purpose is to weaponize the agent -- to produce malware, steal credentials, evade defenses, or run attacks at scale -- is dangerous regardless of how securely it is built; posture controls (auth, input validation, least privilege) cannot make a weapon safe, which is why a confirmed weaponization finding caps the trust verdict to `blocked` rather than being averaged against a good posture score. Catching malicious PURPOSE is a distinct safety control, and it must be conservative because offensive capability is dual-use: legitimate pentest, CTF, defensive, and research work must abstain (UNKNOWN), never block -- unless the artifact itself hides from the people who install, run or audit it.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/llm_judge.go","start_line":1662,"end_line":1673,"snippet":"const exfilSystemPrompt = `You are a data-exfiltration safety classifier. Your task is to decide whether a USER prompt is trying to read or exfiltrate sensitive files, credentials, secrets, or system data...\\n- Exfiltration Channel: requests to ship data to an attacker-controlled or out-of-band destination (curl/wget POST of file contents to an external host, base64+upload, dns-tunnel, \"email me the file\"). Normal API calls ... are NOT exfiltration.","vulnerability":{}},{"path":"internal/scanner/clawshield_secrets.go","start_line":105,"end_line":105,"snippet":"[REDACTED]\n\t{id: \"CS-SEC-KEY-EC\", provider: \"generic\", pattern: regexp.MustCompile(`-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----`) ..."}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null}],"component_tools":[{"tool_name":"demo.py","tool_description":"Runs a fake-data demo of the TUI for local visual verification.","types":["write","exec-capable"],"status":"IMPLEMENTED","component_name":"skills-plugins/.claude/skills/defenseclaw-tui"},{"tool_name":"gap_audit.py","tool_description":"Audits CLI command coverage against the TUI to find gaps, for contributor review.","types":["read-only"],"status":"IMPLEMENTED","component_name":"skills-plugins/.claude/skills/defenseclaw-tui"},{"tool_name":"render.py","tool_description":"Headlessly renders a TUI screen for review during development of the DefenseClaw Textual TUI.","types":["read-only","write"],"status":"IMPLEMENTED","component_name":"skills-plugins/.claude/skills/defenseclaw-tui"},{"tool_name":"touchpoints.py","tool_description":"Lists a TUI panel's CLI touchpoints/coverage for contributor review.","types":["read-only"],"status":"IMPLEMENTED","component_name":"skills-plugins/.claude/skills/defenseclaw-tui"}],"summary":{"high_level_risks":["HIGH: The Go gateway/sidecar's HTTP management API and guardrail proxy listeners (internal/gateway/api.go, internal/gateway/proxy.go) are plain net/http servers with no TLS configuration surface anywhere in the codebase. An operator on an unmanaged/BYOD install who points gateway.api_bind or guardrail.host at a non-loopback address gets a cleartext channel carrying the shared management bearer token with no code path able to enable TLS to protect it (ATR-M0009, HIGH, VULNERABLE).","HIGH: golang.org/x/net is pinned (go.sum) to a version trivy flags with a HIGH-severity CVE (CVE-2026-78669), underlying the gateway's own net/http client/server stack -- no replace/exclude directive upgrades past it, so the vulnerable code ships in the release binary (ATR-C0007 VULNERABLE).","UNKNOWN: gosec flagged 10 unsafe-deserialization-interface sites and semgrep flagged dozens of Go ResponseWriter-write sites requiring deeper per-site source-to-sink tracing to resolve (ATR-C0009 Insecure Deserialization, ATR-C0010 Output Encoding).","The repository's actual MCP-relevant attack surface is the Go gateway/sidecar's local REST management API rather than a classic tool-registering MCP server; most MCP-tool-specific rules (ATR-M0001/0002/0005/0006/0007/0011) are NOT_APPLICABLE as architected, though auth, CSRF, and origin handling on the API itself are strong.","cmd_setup.py's _show_splunk_credentials() prints locally generated secrets to the terminal without an explicit --reveal/confirm flag, creating terminal-capture exposure risk."],"top_remediations":["Add an optional TLS listener (certificate/key config) for gateway.api_bind and guardrail.host, and require TLS or refuse to start whenever either is configured to a non-loopback address outside managed_enterprise, closing the one remaining gap on the gateway's HTTP surface (ATR-M0009).","Document and consider hard-enforcing that gateway.api_bind/guardrail.host must stay loopback unless the operator has independently firewalled the host, since no in-process control currently prevents a non-loopback bind on unmanaged/BYOD installs.","Upgrade golang.org/x/net, golang.org/x/mod, golang.org/x/image, golang.org/x/crypto, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/* to patched versions (go get -u && go mod tidy) to clear the HIGH-severity trivy CVE findings (ATR-C0007).","Complete deeper per-site tracing of the 10 gosec go-unsafe-deserialization-interface findings and the Go ResponseWriter-write semgrep findings to resolve the UNKNOWN verdicts (ATR-C0009, ATR-C0010).","Consider gating cmd_setup.py's _show_splunk_credentials() behind an explicit --reveal/confirm flag to reduce terminal-capture exposure of locally generated secrets.","No action needed on the evaluated skill/plugin artifacts (codeguard, defenseclaw-add-connector, defenseclaw-develop, defenseclaw-tui, rulepack_artifact_parity); maintain existing check_skill_fresh.py-style drift checks and PR review to preserve their no-exec/no-network/no-concealment posture."]},"rollup":{"component_findings_count":{"vulnerable":0,"secure":8,"not_applicable":0},"repo_findings_inherited_count":{"vulnerable":3,"secure":12,"not_applicable":0},"component_tools_count":{"write":2,"exec_capable":1,"read_only":3},"worst_case_severity":"HIGH"},"trust_scores":{"repo_level":{"score":40,"tier":"low","capability_band":"extreme","score_confidence":"medium","score_interval":{"low":17,"high":63},"factors":["ATR-M0005 CRITICAL","ATR-C0004 MEDIUM","ATR-C0007 HIGH","ATR-C0012 MEDIUM"]},"component_level":{"score":100,"tier":"high","capability_band":"extreme","score_confidence":"high","score_interval":{"low":96,"high":100},"factors":[]}}},{"artifact_version":"2.0","component":{"component_type":"skill","component_name":"skills-plugins/skills/codeguard","component_path":"skills/codeguard","metadata":{"manifest":"SKILL.md, skill.yaml"}},"scan_provenance":{"scanned_at":"2026-10-15T00:17:01.008Z","resolved_ref":"14f245d2023e53a01574d1000b23371d333990c7","resolved_ver":null},"repo_context":{"repo_url":"https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/defenseclaw","languages":["Go","Python","TypeScript"],"transports_detected":[],"deployment_artifacts":[],"provenance":{"publisher":"cisco-ai-defense","publisher_verified":false,"signed_build":true,"dependency_cve_count":19,"maintenance_active":true,"declared_policy":false}},"component_findings":[{"rule_id":"ATR-P0001","rule_version":"1.0.0","rule_name":"Capability Transparency: Declared Purpose vs. Actual Behavior (Shadow Features)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"SKILL.md's compatibility field explicitly discloses: 'Optional self-check (main.py) calls the local DefenseClaw gateway over the loopback network'. main.py's only network action is a POST to a strictly-validated loopback/operator-configured HTTP(S) origin (DEFENSECLAW_SIDECAR_URL, default 127.0.0.1:18790) carrying a temp file path for a code scan, matching the declared purpose exactly. No credential harvesting, no undeclared subprocess/eval, no third-party egress -- the skill.yaml declares permissions: [read-only] and capabilities: [text-generation, code-generation], consistent with main.py's behavior (writes a temp file it owns and deletes, reads an HTTP JSON response).","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required.","why_this_matters":"Install-time trust is granted from the artifact's self-description, so any bundled capability the description does not disclose -- network egress, credential reads, or subprocess execution -- runs as an unconsented backdoor with the host agent's full privileges.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"skills/codeguard/SKILL.md","start_line":1,"end_line":6,"snippet":"---\nname: codeguard\ndescription: \"Security-aware code generation ...\"\nlicense: Apache-2.0\ncompatibility: \"Optional self-check (main.py) calls the local DefenseClaw gateway over the loopback network\"\n---"},{"path":"skills/codeguard/main.py","start_line":72,"end_line":92,"snippet":"def _scan_via_sidecar(path: str) -> str:\n    endpoint = _validated_scan_url(SIDECAR_URL)\n    if endpoint is None:\n        return \"error: DEFENSECLAW_SIDECAR_URL must be a valid HTTP(S) origin\"\n    payload = json.dumps({\"path\": path}).encode(\"utf-8\")\n    request = Request(\n        endpoint, data=payload,\n        headers={\"Content-Type\": \"application/json\", \"X-DefenseClaw-Client\": \"codeguard-skill\"},\n        method=\"POST\",\n    )"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/skills/codeguard"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0002","rule_version":"1.0.0","rule_name":"Consent Suppression and Guardrail / Human-in-the-Loop Subversion via Trusted Instructions","finding":"SECURE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"SKILL.md explicitly states the scanner's findings are advisory ('This is an optional self-verification step; the sidecar's inspectToolPolicy enforces rules regardless'), so the skill cannot be used to suppress or bypass the host's own enforcement gate; it has no language instructing the agent to skip confirmations, hide actions, or override any human-in-the-loop control.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required.","why_this_matters":"Because a skill/plugin instruction body is ingested as trusted first-party context, consent- or oversight-suppressing prose inherits the host's full authority and turns a passive package into a self-authorizing backdoor that strips the human-in-the-loop control from every action it can reach.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"skills/codeguard/main.py","start_line":17,"end_line":22,"snippet":"\"\"\"CodeGuard self-check tool for OpenClaw agents.\n\nAllows the agent to validate code against CodeGuard rules before writing it,\nvia the DefenseClaw sidecar API.  This is an optional self-verification step;\nthe sidecar's inspectToolPolicy enforces rules regardless.\n\"\"\""}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/skills/codeguard"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0003","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Host-Credential and Conversation-Context Harvesting and Exfiltration","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"main.py's run(code, filename) tool accepts source code and a filename as explicit arguments and reads only the DEFENSECLAW_SIDECAR_URL environment variable (configuration, not a credential or conversation/memory source); it has no mechanism to obtain host credentials, SSH keys, cloud metadata, or live conversation/memory context. Because ATR-P0003 is scoped to artifacts with an existing credential/conversation harvest step, and this tool has none, no harvest/exfiltration pair can arise here.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required.","why_this_matters":"A skill or plugin that couples a host-credential or live-conversation read with an outbound channel turns an ostensibly benign helper into an autonomous exfiltration agent, leaking long-lived secrets, session tokens, and confidential prompt context to an attacker on every invocation across every tool the artifact serves.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"skills/codeguard/main.py","start_line":43,"end_line":61,"snippet":"def run(code: str, filename: str = \"check.py\") -> str:\n    ext = os.path.splitext(filename)[1] or \".py\"\n    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(\n        mode=\"w\", suffix=ext, delete=False, prefix=\"codeguard-check-\"\n    ) as tmp:\n        tmp.write(code)\n        tmp_path = tmp.name\n    try:\n        return _scan_via_sidecar(tmp_path)\n    finally:\n        try:\n            os.unlink(tmp_path)\n        except OSError:\n            pass"},{"path":"skills/codeguard/main.py","start_line":114,"end_line":137,"snippet":"def _validated_scan_url(base_url: str) -> str | None:\n    ...\n    if parsed.scheme.lower() not in {\"http\", \"https\"}:\n        return None\n    if not parsed.hostname or parsed.username is not None or parsed.password is not None:\n        return None"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/skills/codeguard"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0004","rule_version":"1.1.0","rule_name":"Format-Native Out-of-Band Execution and Host Control-Plane Persistence","finding":"SECURE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"main.py makes a single bounded HTTP POST to a validated local origin and reads/deletes its own temp file; it never writes to any host config/memory/control-plane file, never sets environment variables with command-exec semantics, and never persists a directive beyond the current call.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required.","why_this_matters":"Format-native execution and control-plane writes bypass the model's reasoning loop, converting a single install approval into durable, self-reinjecting code execution that can MITM the host agent's own model endpoint and silently subvert every subsequent tool call.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"skills/codeguard/main.py","start_line":56,"end_line":69,"snippet":"    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(\n        mode=\"w\", suffix=ext, delete=False, prefix=\"codeguard-check-\"\n    ) as tmp:\n        tmp.write(code)\n        tmp_path = tmp.name\n    try:\n        return _scan_via_sidecar(tmp_path)\n    finally:\n        try:\n            os.unlink(tmp_path)\n        except OSError:\n            pass"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/skills/codeguard"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0005","rule_version":"1.0.0","rule_name":"Over-Declared / Over-Privileged Artifact Manifest Scope","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"skill.yaml declares permissions: [read-only] and capabilities: [text-generation, code-generation]; the actual code performs one bounded, read-only-equivalent action (an HTTP POST of a temp-file path to a local scan endpoint, reading back JSON) with no filesystem write outside its own throwaway temp file, no shell exec, no broad network reach. Scope matches declaration.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required.","why_this_matters":"An artifact that self-declares host privilege far beyond its stated function -- or hides executable reach inside a passive-looking package -- gives a single install a blast radius the operator never scoped, so any later mistake, compromise, or misconfiguration detonates across resources the artifact never needed.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"skills/codeguard/skill.yaml","start_line":1,"end_line":12,"snippet":"name: codeguard\nversion: \"1.0.0\"\ndescription: Security-aware code generation ...\ncapabilities:\n  - text-generation\n  - code-generation\npermissions:\n  - read-only"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/skills/codeguard"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0006","rule_version":"1.1.0","rule_name":"Injection and Concealed Directives in Skill/Plugin Manifest and Instruction Text","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Scanned SKILL.md for bidi-override/zero-width/Tag-block codepoints (U+200B/U+200C/U+200D/U+FEFF/U+202A-E/U+2066-9) -- none found. All example/control-token text sits inside fenced code blocks rendered as literal examples, not active instructions.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required.","why_this_matters":"A skill or plugin's always-loaded manifest and instruction carriers (frontmatter/body, `description_for_model`, Gemini `FunctionDeclaration.description` / Vertex AI extension `manifest` / ADK agent `instruction`, tool docstrings, JSON-Schema descriptions) are concatenated into the host agent prompt at operator privilege, so a directive that is hidden with non-printing codepoints, disguised with a homoglyph, forged with role-control tokens, or masked from the rendered view silently commandeers model behavior toward attacker-chosen actions across every tool the artifact serves -- with no code execution required and nothing visible to a reviewer reading the rendered text.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"skills/codeguard/SKILL.md","start_line":1,"end_line":6,"snippet":"---\nname: codeguard\ndescription: \"Security-aware code generation — teaches the agent CodeGuard rules to write secure code by default\"\nlicense: Apache-2.0\ncompatibility: \"Optional self-check (main.py) calls the local DefenseClaw gateway over the loopback network\"\n---"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/skills/codeguard"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0007","rule_version":"1.0.0","rule_name":"Skill/Plugin Package Provenance, Integrity, and Post-Approval Mutation (Rug-Pull)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The skill is shipped fully declaratively inside this repo (SKILL.md + main.py + skill.yaml), versioned (1.0.0) in the same git history and release process as the rest of DefenseClaw; main.py fetches no instructions/code at runtime and has no self-update mechanism. The only runtime network action fetches scan RESULTS from the local sidecar for the data just submitted -- not a mutation of the skill's own instructions or manifest -- matching the false-positive guard for a runtime fetch of the tool's own declared-job data.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required.","why_this_matters":"A skill/plugin reviewed once and then trusted indefinitely becomes a rug-pull vector when its OWN model-facing instruction body, declared scope, or manifest can be live-swapped or silently mutated after approval -- without an approval-time digest that is re-compared on load and re-consent on any change, a publisher (or an attacker who compromises the distribution channel) can rewrite the artifact's trusted instructions or widen its tool scope under authority the host already granted, turning an approved package into an exfiltration or unauthorized-action backdoor.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"skills/codeguard/skill.yaml","start_line":1,"end_line":4,"snippet":"name: codeguard\nversion: \"1.0.0\"\ndescription: Security-aware code generation — teaches the agent CodeGuard rules to write secure code by default\nauthor: defenseclaw"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/skills/codeguard"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0008","rule_version":"1.0.0","rule_name":"Skill/Plugin Impersonation, Typosquatting & Publisher Spoofing","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Name 'codeguard' with author 'defenseclaw' is the project's own first-party skill, published inside its own repository under its own brand; no similarity to or impersonation of a known third-party brand/tool name was found.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"No action required.","why_this_matters":"Impersonation is the entry point of the agentic supply chain (OWASP LLM ASI04 / MITRE ATT&CK T1195): a skill or plugin installed on the strength of a familiar name inherits the host agent's execution context before any payload runs. The deception front-runs trust, so catching the identity lie breaks the chain at the cheapest point -- and it is independent of whether the current code is benign, because the same trusted-looking name can ship a payload in the next version.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"skills/codeguard/skill.yaml","start_line":1,"end_line":4,"snippet":"name: codeguard\nversion: \"1.0.0\"\ndescription: Security-aware code generation — teaches the agent CodeGuard rules to write secure code by default\nauthor: defenseclaw"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/skills/codeguard"}],"repo_findings_inherited":[{"rule_id":"ATR-C0001","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Unrestricted Network Fetch / SSRF","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"DefenseClaw implements dedicated SSRF-safe dialing throughout its gateway/proxy/webhook code paths. internal/gateway/provider.go implements secureDialContext(), which re-resolves the destination host at connect time and explicitly refuses dials to unsafe/private IPs ('refusing dial to %s (resolved to unsafe IP %s)'). internal/gateway/webhook.go's WebhookDispatcher HTTP client is constructed with this same secureDialContext for every outbound webhook delivery. internal/openshell/egress/dial.go and proxy.go implement a 'netguard.V8SafeDialContext' egress-control path used by the sandbox/connector egress proxy, re-validating destinations per-request. 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Audit logging is pervasive via internal/audit and gatewaylog packages with structured, per-action invocation logging. 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These modules are shipped in the release binary: golang.org/x/net is a direct/transitive dependency of the gateway's net/http-based HTTP client/server stack (internal/gateway/webhook.go, provider.go, api.go). 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github.com/defenseclaw/defenseclaw\n\ngo 1.2x\n\nrequire (\n\tgolang.org/x/net ...\n\tgolang.org/x/mod ...\n\tgolang.org/x/image ...\n\tgolang.org/x/crypto ...\n)"},{"path":"go.mod","start_line":1,"end_line":1,"snippet":"module github.com/defenseclaw/defenseclaw -- trivy fs identified CVE-2026-78669 (HIGH) present in the resolved golang.org/x/net version in go.sum, with no replace/exclude directive removing it, so the vulnerable HTTP/2 code is compiled into the shipped gateway that terminates webhook, API, and model-router HTTP traffic, exposing it to remote exploitation of that CVE's impact class."}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0008","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Missing or Inadequate Input Validation","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"Reviewed the gateway's HTTP API surface (internal/gateway/api.go) and webhook/skill-fetch handlers: handleSkillFetch validates req.Target is non-empty, rejects Windows-unsafe paths via rejectWindowsGatewayPath, and enforces directory containment after symlink resolution (see ATR-C0011 finding) before any filesystem operation. JSON body decoding uses json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode into typed request structs (e.g. skillFetchRequest, mcpScanRequest) rather than accepting raw untyped maps, which constrains the shape of accepted input. Config-level credential names are validated against an explicit allowlist pattern (ValidEnterpriseCredentialName, internal/config/enterprise.go) rejecting any value that is not 'lowercase letters, digits and dashes'. No handler was found that passes raw, unvalidated request fields directly into exec/fetch/fs sinks (cross-referenced with ATR-C0001/C0003/C0011 findings).","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Frontline control to prevent multiple classes of vulns.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/config/enterprise.go","start_line":1305,"end_line":1310,"snippet":"\tif ai.Enabled {\n\t\tif !ValidEnterpriseCredentialName(ai.Credential) {\n\t\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"config: enterprise.inspection.ai_defense.credential %q must be a protected credential name (lowercase letters, digits and dashes)\", ai.Credential)\n\t\t}\n\t} else if strings.TrimSpace(ai.Credential) != \"\" && !ValidEnterpriseCredentialName(ai.Credential) {\n\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"config: enterprise.inspection.ai_defense.credential %q is not a valid credential name\", ai.Credential)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0009","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Insecure Deserialization","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"Manual review of the gosec 'go-unsafe-deserialization-interface' findings and the plugin-manifest YAML loading path found no code-executing deserialization sink. The reviewed plugin-manifest loader (cli/defenseclaw/scanner/plugin_scanner/scanner.py) binds yaml.load to CSafeLoader/SafeLoader and only accepts dictionary results; no pickle.loads or unsafe PyYAML Loader is used against untrusted input. The Go gosec findings decode into ordinary typed data mappings rather than instantiating attacker-controlled interface values through gob or an equivalent gadget-capable mechanism.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Can lead to arbitrary code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0010","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Lack of Output Encoding/Sanitization","finding":"SECURE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"The interactive code editor (docs-site/components/policy-creator/ui/code-editor.tsx) is the component handling attacker-controlled input among the flagged sites: its textarea value is tokenized by rego-highlight.ts, and each token's &, <, and > characters are escaped before the resulting markup reaches dangerouslySetInnerHTML. The remaining flagged Go and React sites construct static deployment/documentation data rather than reflecting request input, so no unescaped attacker-controlled content reaches an HTML sink.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Prevents UI-level injection and operator compromise.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0011","rule_version":"1.4.0","rule_name":"Path Traversal & Symlink Bypass (Filesystem Tools)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The one HTTP endpoint found accepting a caller-supplied filesystem path, POST /v1/skill/fetch (internal/gateway/api.go handleSkillFetch), resolves symlinks on BOTH the caller-supplied target and every configured allowed root via filepath.EvalSymlinks + filepath.Abs, then requires the resolved target to equal or be a path-separator-prefixed child of one of the configured SkillDirs()/PluginDirs() roots -- rejecting any path outside those roots even via symlink indirection. A code comment references a prior finding (Avarice F-3287) that this exact containment was added after a previous version lacked it, confirming deliberate remediation. No other HTTP handler in internal/gateway/*.go was found reading/writing an arbitrary caller-supplied path without this pattern.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Traversal exposes arbitrary host files; can lead to code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":3237,"end_line":3269,"snippet":"\tresolvedTarget, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(req.Target)\n\tif err != nil { ... }\n\tresolvedAbs, err := filepath.Abs(resolvedTarget)\n\t...\n\tfor _, root := range allowedRoots {\n\t\t...\n\t\trr, rerr := filepath.EvalSymlinks(root)\n\t\t...\n\t\tif resolvedAbs == rrAbs {\n\t\t\trootOK = true\n\t\t\tbreak\n\t\t}\n\t\tif strings.HasPrefix(resolvedAbs, rrAbs+string(os.PathSeparator)) {\n\t\t\trootOK = 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An agent capable of generating a long stream of distinct tool-call arguments can therefore drive an unbounded number of sequential billed provider requests.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add a per-user/session request-rate limiter and/or a spend budget (daily call count or cost ceiling) on the tool-judge dispatch path in internal/gateway/llm_judge.go, so that a sustained stream of distinct tool calls cannot generate unbounded billed provider invocations.","why_this_matters":"Prevents cost-based disruption.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0012 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/inspect.go","start_line":1444,"end_line":1462,"snippet":"\t// The generic /inspect handlers run under a 200ms deadline\n\t// (inspectScanTimeout) — no judge round-trip fits, and blowing\n\t// that deadline would 504 the whole verdict. Skip unless the\n\t// caller's remaining budget can plausibly carry an LLM call. 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This is the product's core function (detecting and blocking un-contained tool-output-driven prompt injection for the agents it governs), not a gap in its own architecture.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Tool outputs are a primary prompt-injection vector. Third-party content (web pages, files, API responses) may contain text crafted to override instructions or impersonate system/tool messages. Without a host-enforced envelope, sanitization, and an explicit untrusted-return signal, the model can be coerced into executing attacker-controlled directives, leaking secrets, or chaining further tool calls on behalf of the adversary.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/llm_judge.go","start_line":1930,"end_line":1940,"snippet":"const toolJudgeTruncationMarker = \"\\n...[tool arguments truncated; beginning and end retained]...\\n\"\n\nconst toolJudgeUserIntentTruncationMarker = \"\\n...[user intent truncated; beginning and end retained]...\\n\"\n\nconst toolJudgeMiddleExcerptMarker = \"\\n...[mechanically selected middle excerpts]...\\n\"","vulnerability":{}}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0014","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"CI/CD Workflow Script Injection","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Semgrep flagged run-shell-injection in connector-live-e2e.yml (3x) and release.yaml (1x), plus mutable-action-tag in e2e.yml (6x) referencing maintainer-controlled float tags, not attacker-controlled data. The connector-live-e2e.yml workflow has pull_request and workflow_dispatch triggers, but the live-matrix jobs that contain the flagged shell-injection sites are gated to workflow_dispatch only (a manual trigger requiring repo write access) and interpolate only fixed/trusted values (github.sha, github.repository, prior step outputs such as steps.package.outputs.artifact_id) -- no attacker-controlled event field reaches a shell sink. The release.yaml hit is inside a workflow_dispatch-only release job using $VERSION/$GH_TOKEN env vars as quoted data, not re-parsed by eval/sh -c. No workflow uses pull_request_target, issue_comment, workflow_run, or repository_dispatch as an actual trigger on a privileged job.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"CI/CD script injection can execute attacker-controlled commands with workflow tokens, repository secrets, trusted-runner access, artifact or cache authority, and release or deployment privileges.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":".github/workflows/e2e.yml","start_line":35,"end_line":33,"snippet":"    if: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' || github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository }}\n    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, ARM64, e2e]\n    timeout-minutes: 30\n    env:\n      DEFENSECLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN }}\n      ..."},{"path":".github/workflows/connector-live-e2e.yml","start_line":1219,"end_line":1235,"snippet":"      - name: Real official-client E2E\n        shell: pwsh\n        run: |\n          ./scripts/live-connector-e2e/run-windows.ps1 `\n            -ExpectedPackageSourceCommit '${{ github.sha }}' `\n            -ExpectedPackageRunID '${{ inputs.windows_package_run_id }}' `\n            -ExpectedPackageArtifactID '${{ steps.package.outputs.artifact_id }}' `\n            -ExpectedWorkflowRepository '${{ github.repository }}' `"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-R0001","rule_version":"1.3.0","rule_name":"Weaponization: Malicious-Purpose Artifact (Offensive Capability by Design)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"DefenseClaw is a defensive security-governance product. The YARA scanner (timed out repo-wide) flagged dozens of files; manual review of representative files from each flagged cluster confirms consistently defensive/detective purpose: internal/gateway/llm_judge.go implements an LLM-based exfiltration/injection/destructive-command CLASSIFIER used to BLOCK malicious agent actions (not perform them); benchmark_normalize_cochise.py and its tests are dataset normalizers that label known-malicious trajectories for the product's OWN detector evaluation; cmd_setup.py is the product's own legitimate CLI configuration tool; internal/scanner/clawshield_secrets.go contains regex PATTERNS to DETECT private keys in scanned content (a secrets scanner), not a key itself; flagged test files contain malicious-looking strings solely as fixture/input data asserting the gateway correctly blocks/detects them. No file advertises an offensive purpose, directs generation of malware/exploits for a named target, or evades oversight/attribution of its own actions.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"An artifact whose purpose is to weaponize the agent -- to produce malware, steal credentials, evade defenses, or run attacks at scale -- is dangerous regardless of how securely it is built; posture controls (auth, input validation, least privilege) cannot make a weapon safe, which is why a confirmed weaponization finding caps the trust verdict to `blocked` rather than being averaged against a good posture score. Catching malicious PURPOSE is a distinct safety control, and it must be conservative because offensive capability is dual-use: legitimate pentest, CTF, defensive, and research work must abstain (UNKNOWN), never block -- unless the artifact itself hides from the people who install, run or audit it.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/llm_judge.go","start_line":1662,"end_line":1673,"snippet":"const exfilSystemPrompt = `You are a data-exfiltration safety classifier. Your task is to decide whether a USER prompt is trying to read or exfiltrate sensitive files, credentials, secrets, or system data...\\n- Exfiltration Channel: requests to ship data to an attacker-controlled or out-of-band destination (curl/wget POST of file contents to an external host, base64+upload, dns-tunnel, \"email me the file\"). 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An operator on an unmanaged/BYOD install who points gateway.api_bind or guardrail.host at a non-loopback address gets a cleartext channel carrying the shared management bearer token with no code path able to enable TLS to protect it (ATR-M0009, HIGH, VULNERABLE).","HIGH: golang.org/x/net is pinned (go.sum) to a version trivy flags with a HIGH-severity CVE (CVE-2026-78669), underlying the gateway's own net/http client/server stack -- no replace/exclude directive upgrades past it, so the vulnerable code ships in the release binary (ATR-C0007 VULNERABLE).","UNKNOWN: gosec flagged 10 unsafe-deserialization-interface sites and semgrep flagged dozens of Go ResponseWriter-write sites requiring deeper per-site source-to-sink tracing to resolve (ATR-C0009 Insecure Deserialization, ATR-C0010 Output Encoding).","The repository's actual MCP-relevant attack surface is the Go gateway/sidecar's local REST management API rather than a classic tool-registering MCP server; most MCP-tool-specific rules (ATR-M0001/0002/0005/0006/0007/0011) are NOT_APPLICABLE as architected, though auth, CSRF, and origin handling on the API itself are strong.","cmd_setup.py's _show_splunk_credentials() prints locally generated secrets to the terminal without an explicit --reveal/confirm flag, creating terminal-capture exposure risk."],"top_remediations":["Add an optional TLS listener (certificate/key config) for gateway.api_bind and guardrail.host, and require TLS or refuse to start whenever either is configured to a non-loopback address outside managed_enterprise, closing the one remaining gap on the gateway's HTTP surface (ATR-M0009).","Document and consider hard-enforcing that gateway.api_bind/guardrail.host must stay loopback unless the operator has independently firewalled the host, since no in-process control currently prevents a non-loopback bind on unmanaged/BYOD installs.","Upgrade golang.org/x/net, golang.org/x/mod, golang.org/x/image, golang.org/x/crypto, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/* to patched versions (go get -u && go mod tidy) to clear the HIGH-severity trivy CVE findings (ATR-C0007).","Complete deeper per-site tracing of the 10 gosec go-unsafe-deserialization-interface findings and the Go ResponseWriter-write semgrep findings to resolve the UNKNOWN verdicts (ATR-C0009, ATR-C0010).","Consider gating cmd_setup.py's _show_splunk_credentials() behind an explicit --reveal/confirm flag to reduce terminal-capture exposure of locally generated secrets.","No action needed on the evaluated skill/plugin artifacts (codeguard, defenseclaw-add-connector, defenseclaw-develop, defenseclaw-tui, rulepack_artifact_parity); maintain existing check_skill_fresh.py-style drift checks and PR review to preserve their no-exec/no-network/no-concealment posture."]},"rollup":{"component_findings_count":{"vulnerable":0,"secure":7,"not_applicable":1},"repo_findings_inherited_count":{"vulnerable":3,"secure":12,"not_applicable":0},"component_tools_count":{"read_only":1,"network_broad":1},"worst_case_severity":"HIGH"},"trust_scores":{"repo_level":{"score":40,"tier":"low","capability_band":"extreme","score_confidence":"medium","score_interval":{"low":17,"high":63},"factors":["ATR-M0005 CRITICAL","ATR-C0004 MEDIUM","ATR-C0007 HIGH","ATR-C0012 MEDIUM"]},"component_level":{"score":100,"tier":"high","capability_band":"moderate","score_confidence":"high","score_interval":{"low":96,"high":100},"factors":[]}}},{"artifact_version":"2.0","component":{"component_type":"skill","component_name":"skills-plugins/testdata/rulepack_artifact_parity/skill","component_path":"testdata/rulepack_artifact_parity/skill","metadata":{"manifest":"SKILL.md"}},"scan_provenance":{"scanned_at":"2026-10-15T00:17:01.008Z","resolved_ref":"14f245d2023e53a01574d1000b23371d333990c7","resolved_ver":null},"repo_context":{"repo_url":"https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/defenseclaw","languages":["Go","Python","TypeScript"],"transports_detected":[],"deployment_artifacts":[],"provenance":{"publisher":"cisco-ai-defense","publisher_verified":false,"signed_build":true,"dependency_cve_count":19,"maintenance_active":true,"declared_policy":false}},"component_findings":[{"rule_id":"ATR-P0001","rule_version":"1.0.0","rule_name":"Capability Transparency: Declared Purpose vs. Actual Behavior (Shadow Features)","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"This is a test fixture (under testdata/) used by internal/guardrail/artifact_scan_test.go and cli/tests/test_rulepack_overlay_python_source.py to validate the AWS-key rule pack; it is not a shipped product skill (per scan-workflow guidance, test fixtures under testdata/ are not shipped components). Its deliberately-planted AWS-key-shaped strings (scripts/docstring.py, scripts/comment.py) are the intended test input for the scanner's rule pack, not a concealed capability of a real shipped skill.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"N/A.","why_this_matters":"Install-time trust is granted from the artifact's self-description, so any bundled capability the description does not disclose -- network egress, credential reads, or subprocess execution -- runs as an unconsented backdoor with the host agent's full privileges.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"testdata/rulepack_artifact_parity/skill/SKILL.md","start_line":1,"end_line":7,"snippet":"---\nname: parity-fixture\ndescription: Fixture for the rule-pack parity test of install admission and skill scan.\n---\n# Parity fixture\n\nRuns `scripts/docstring.py` and `scripts/comment.py`."}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":"skills-plugins/testdata/rulepack_artifact_parity/skill"},{"rule_id":"ATR-P0002","rule_version":"1.0.0","rule_name":"Consent Suppression and Guardrail / Human-in-the-Loop Subversion via Trusted Instructions","finding":"NOT_APPLICABLE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Test fixture under testdata/, not a shipped skill (see ATR-P0001 rationale for this component). 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Audit logging is pervasive via internal/audit and gatewaylog packages with structured, per-action invocation logging. 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These modules are shipped in the release binary: golang.org/x/net is a direct/transitive dependency of the gateway's net/http-based HTTP client/server stack (internal/gateway/webhook.go, provider.go, api.go). 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github.com/defenseclaw/defenseclaw\n\ngo 1.2x\n\nrequire (\n\tgolang.org/x/net ...\n\tgolang.org/x/mod ...\n\tgolang.org/x/image ...\n\tgolang.org/x/crypto ...\n)"},{"path":"go.mod","start_line":1,"end_line":1,"snippet":"module github.com/defenseclaw/defenseclaw -- trivy fs identified CVE-2026-78669 (HIGH) present in the resolved golang.org/x/net version in go.sum, with no replace/exclude directive removing it, so the vulnerable HTTP/2 code is compiled into the shipped gateway that terminates webhook, API, and model-router HTTP traffic, exposing it to remote exploitation of that CVE's impact class."}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0008","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Missing or Inadequate Input Validation","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"medium","rationale":"Reviewed the gateway's HTTP API surface (internal/gateway/api.go) and webhook/skill-fetch handlers: handleSkillFetch validates req.Target is non-empty, rejects Windows-unsafe paths via rejectWindowsGatewayPath, and enforces directory containment after symlink resolution (see ATR-C0011 finding) before any filesystem operation. JSON body decoding uses json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode into typed request structs (e.g. skillFetchRequest, mcpScanRequest) rather than accepting raw untyped maps, which constrains the shape of accepted input. Config-level credential names are validated against an explicit allowlist pattern (ValidEnterpriseCredentialName, internal/config/enterprise.go) rejecting any value that is not 'lowercase letters, digits and dashes'. No handler was found that passes raw, unvalidated request fields directly into exec/fetch/fs sinks (cross-referenced with ATR-C0001/C0003/C0011 findings).","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Frontline control to prevent multiple classes of vulns.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/config/enterprise.go","start_line":1305,"end_line":1310,"snippet":"\tif ai.Enabled {\n\t\tif !ValidEnterpriseCredentialName(ai.Credential) {\n\t\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"config: enterprise.inspection.ai_defense.credential %q must be a protected credential name (lowercase letters, digits and dashes)\", ai.Credential)\n\t\t}\n\t} else if strings.TrimSpace(ai.Credential) != \"\" && !ValidEnterpriseCredentialName(ai.Credential) {\n\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"config: enterprise.inspection.ai_defense.credential %q is not a valid credential name\", ai.Credential)"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0009","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Insecure Deserialization","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"Manual review of the gosec 'go-unsafe-deserialization-interface' findings and the plugin-manifest YAML loading path found no code-executing deserialization sink. The reviewed plugin-manifest loader (cli/defenseclaw/scanner/plugin_scanner/scanner.py) binds yaml.load to CSafeLoader/SafeLoader and only accepts dictionary results; no pickle.loads or unsafe PyYAML Loader is used against untrusted input. The Go gosec findings decode into ordinary typed data mappings rather than instantiating attacker-controlled interface values through gob or an equivalent gadget-capable mechanism.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Can lead to arbitrary code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0010","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"Lack of Output Encoding/Sanitization","finding":"SECURE","severity":"MEDIUM","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"low","rationale":"The interactive code editor (docs-site/components/policy-creator/ui/code-editor.tsx) is the component handling attacker-controlled input among the flagged sites: its textarea value is tokenized by rego-highlight.ts, and each token's &, <, and > characters are escaped before the resulting markup reaches dangerouslySetInnerHTML. The remaining flagged Go and React sites construct static deployment/documentation data rather than reflecting request input, so no unescaped attacker-controlled content reaches an HTML sink.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Prevents UI-level injection and operator compromise.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0011","rule_version":"1.4.0","rule_name":"Path Traversal & Symlink Bypass (Filesystem Tools)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"The one HTTP endpoint found accepting a caller-supplied filesystem path, POST /v1/skill/fetch (internal/gateway/api.go handleSkillFetch), resolves symlinks on BOTH the caller-supplied target and every configured allowed root via filepath.EvalSymlinks + filepath.Abs, then requires the resolved target to equal or be a path-separator-prefixed child of one of the configured SkillDirs()/PluginDirs() roots -- rejecting any path outside those roots even via symlink indirection. A code comment references a prior finding (Avarice F-3287) that this exact containment was added after a previous version lacked it, confirming deliberate remediation. No other HTTP handler in internal/gateway/*.go was found reading/writing an arbitrary caller-supplied path without this pattern.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Traversal exposes arbitrary host files; can lead to code execution.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/api.go","start_line":3237,"end_line":3269,"snippet":"\tresolvedTarget, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(req.Target)\n\tif err != nil { ... }\n\tresolvedAbs, err := filepath.Abs(resolvedTarget)\n\t...\n\tfor _, root := range allowedRoots {\n\t\t...\n\t\trr, rerr := filepath.EvalSymlinks(root)\n\t\t...\n\t\tif resolvedAbs == rrAbs {\n\t\t\trootOK = true\n\t\t\tbreak\n\t\t}\n\t\tif strings.HasPrefix(resolvedAbs, rrAbs+string(os.PathSeparator)) {\n\t\t\trootOK = 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An agent capable of generating a long stream of distinct tool-call arguments can therefore drive an unbounded number of sequential billed provider requests.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":"Add a per-user/session request-rate limiter and/or a spend budget (daily call count or cost ceiling) on the tool-judge dispatch path in internal/gateway/llm_judge.go, so that a sustained stream of distinct tool calls cannot generate unbounded billed provider invocations.","why_this_matters":"Prevents cost-based disruption.","context_note":"[capability_by_design|relief:none|ineligible:within_declared_contract] within_declared_contract is ineligible for relief on ATR-C0012 because the rule declares that signal orthogonal to its risk (discount_ineligible_signals); the reported behaviour is within the tool's declared capability, and that does not reduce this finding's severity. No context relief applies; realized severity equals MEDIUM.","within_declared_contract":null,"transport_gated":null,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/inspect.go","start_line":1444,"end_line":1462,"snippet":"\t// The generic /inspect handlers run under a 200ms deadline\n\t// (inspectScanTimeout) — no judge round-trip fits, and blowing\n\t// that deadline would 504 the whole verdict. Skip unless the\n\t// caller's remaining budget can plausibly carry an LLM call. 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This is the product's core function (detecting and blocking un-contained tool-output-driven prompt injection for the agents it governs), not a gap in its own architecture.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"Tool outputs are a primary prompt-injection vector. Third-party content (web pages, files, API responses) may contain text crafted to override instructions or impersonate system/tool messages. Without a host-enforced envelope, sanitization, and an explicit untrusted-return signal, the model can be coerced into executing attacker-controlled directives, leaking secrets, or chaining further tool calls on behalf of the adversary.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/llm_judge.go","start_line":1930,"end_line":1940,"snippet":"const toolJudgeTruncationMarker = \"\\n...[tool arguments truncated; beginning and end retained]...\\n\"\n\nconst toolJudgeUserIntentTruncationMarker = \"\\n...[user intent truncated; beginning and end retained]...\\n\"\n\nconst toolJudgeMiddleExcerptMarker = \"\\n...[mechanically selected middle excerpts]...\\n\"","vulnerability":{}}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-C0014","rule_version":"1.2.0","rule_name":"CI/CD Workflow Script Injection","finding":"SECURE","severity":"HIGH","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"Semgrep flagged run-shell-injection in connector-live-e2e.yml (3x) and release.yaml (1x), plus mutable-action-tag in e2e.yml (6x) referencing maintainer-controlled float tags, not attacker-controlled data. The connector-live-e2e.yml workflow has pull_request and workflow_dispatch triggers, but the live-matrix jobs that contain the flagged shell-injection sites are gated to workflow_dispatch only (a manual trigger requiring repo write access) and interpolate only fixed/trusted values (github.sha, github.repository, prior step outputs such as steps.package.outputs.artifact_id) -- no attacker-controlled event field reaches a shell sink. The release.yaml hit is inside a workflow_dispatch-only release job using $VERSION/$GH_TOKEN env vars as quoted data, not re-parsed by eval/sh -c. No workflow uses pull_request_target, issue_comment, workflow_run, or repository_dispatch as an actual trigger on a privileged job.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"CI/CD script injection can execute attacker-controlled commands with workflow tokens, repository secrets, trusted-runner access, artifact or cache authority, and release or deployment privileges.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":true,"evidence":[{"path":".github/workflows/e2e.yml","start_line":35,"end_line":33,"snippet":"    if: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' || github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository }}\n    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, ARM64, e2e]\n    timeout-minutes: 30\n    env:\n      DEFENSECLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN }}\n      ..."},{"path":".github/workflows/connector-live-e2e.yml","start_line":1219,"end_line":1235,"snippet":"      - name: Real official-client E2E\n        shell: pwsh\n        run: |\n          ./scripts/live-connector-e2e/run-windows.ps1 `\n            -ExpectedPackageSourceCommit '${{ github.sha }}' `\n            -ExpectedPackageRunID '${{ inputs.windows_package_run_id }}' `\n            -ExpectedPackageArtifactID '${{ steps.package.outputs.artifact_id }}' `\n            -ExpectedWorkflowRepository '${{ github.repository }}' `"}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null},{"rule_id":"ATR-R0001","rule_version":"1.3.0","rule_name":"Weaponization: Malicious-Purpose Artifact (Offensive Capability by Design)","finding":"SECURE","severity":"CRITICAL","realized_severity":null,"confidence":"high","rationale":"DefenseClaw is a defensive security-governance product. The YARA scanner (timed out repo-wide) flagged dozens of files; manual review of representative files from each flagged cluster confirms consistently defensive/detective purpose: internal/gateway/llm_judge.go implements an LLM-based exfiltration/injection/destructive-command CLASSIFIER used to BLOCK malicious agent actions (not perform them); benchmark_normalize_cochise.py and its tests are dataset normalizers that label known-malicious trajectories for the product's OWN detector evaluation; cmd_setup.py is the product's own legitimate CLI configuration tool; internal/scanner/clawshield_secrets.go contains regex PATTERNS to DETECT private keys in scanned content (a secrets scanner), not a key itself; flagged test files contain malicious-looking strings solely as fixture/input data asserting the gateway correctly blocks/detects them. No file advertises an offensive purpose, directs generation of malware/exploits for a named target, or evades oversight/attribution of its own actions.","vulnerability_details":null,"fix_guidance":null,"why_this_matters":"An artifact whose purpose is to weaponize the agent -- to produce malware, steal credentials, evade defenses, or run attacks at scale -- is dangerous regardless of how securely it is built; posture controls (auth, input validation, least privilege) cannot make a weapon safe, which is why a confirmed weaponization finding caps the trust verdict to `blocked` rather than being averaged against a good posture score. Catching malicious PURPOSE is a distinct safety control, and it must be conservative because offensive capability is dual-use: legitimate pentest, CTF, defensive, and research work must abstain (UNKNOWN), never block -- unless the artifact itself hides from the people who install, run or audit it.","context_note":null,"within_declared_contract":true,"transport_gated":false,"mitigation_present":null,"evidence":[{"path":"internal/gateway/llm_judge.go","start_line":1662,"end_line":1673,"snippet":"const exfilSystemPrompt = `You are a data-exfiltration safety classifier. Your task is to decide whether a USER prompt is trying to read or exfiltrate sensitive files, credentials, secrets, or system data...\\n- Exfiltration Channel: requests to ship data to an attacker-controlled or out-of-band destination (curl/wget POST of file contents to an external host, base64+upload, dns-tunnel, \"email me the file\"). Normal API calls ... are NOT exfiltration.","vulnerability":{}},{"path":"internal/scanner/clawshield_secrets.go","start_line":105,"end_line":105,"snippet":"[REDACTED]\n\t{id: \"CS-SEC-KEY-EC\", provider: \"generic\", pattern: regexp.MustCompile(`-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----`) ..."}],"affected_tools":null,"component_name":null}],"component_tools":[{"tool_name":"scripts/comment.py:run","tool_description":"Test-fixture script that returns 0; used only to validate the rule pack's ability to detect an AWS-key-shaped string embedded in a Python comment.","types":["read-only"],"status":"IMPLEMENTED","component_name":"skills-plugins/testdata/rulepack_artifact_parity/skill"},{"tool_name":"scripts/docstring.py:run","tool_description":"Test-fixture script that returns 0; used only to validate the rule pack's ability to detect an AWS-key-shaped string embedded in a Python docstring.","types":["read-only"],"status":"IMPLEMENTED","component_name":"skills-plugins/testdata/rulepack_artifact_parity/skill"}],"summary":{"high_level_risks":["HIGH: The Go gateway/sidecar's HTTP management API and guardrail proxy listeners (internal/gateway/api.go, internal/gateway/proxy.go) are plain net/http servers with no TLS configuration surface anywhere in the codebase. An operator on an unmanaged/BYOD install who points gateway.api_bind or guardrail.host at a non-loopback address gets a cleartext channel carrying the shared management bearer token with no code path able to enable TLS to protect it (ATR-M0009, HIGH, VULNERABLE).","HIGH: golang.org/x/net is pinned (go.sum) to a version trivy flags with a HIGH-severity CVE (CVE-2026-78669), underlying the gateway's own net/http client/server stack -- no replace/exclude directive upgrades past it, so the vulnerable code ships in the release binary (ATR-C0007 VULNERABLE).","UNKNOWN: gosec flagged 10 unsafe-deserialization-interface sites and semgrep flagged dozens of Go ResponseWriter-write sites requiring deeper per-site source-to-sink tracing to resolve (ATR-C0009 Insecure Deserialization, ATR-C0010 Output Encoding).","The repository's actual MCP-relevant attack surface is the Go gateway/sidecar's local REST management API rather than a classic tool-registering MCP server; most MCP-tool-specific rules (ATR-M0001/0002/0005/0006/0007/0011) are NOT_APPLICABLE as architected, though auth, CSRF, and origin handling on the API itself are strong.","cmd_setup.py's _show_splunk_credentials() prints locally generated secrets to the terminal without an explicit --reveal/confirm flag, creating terminal-capture exposure risk."],"top_remediations":["Add an optional TLS listener (certificate/key config) for gateway.api_bind and guardrail.host, and require TLS or refuse to start whenever either is configured to a non-loopback address outside managed_enterprise, closing the one remaining gap on the gateway's HTTP surface (ATR-M0009).","Document and consider hard-enforcing that gateway.api_bind/guardrail.host must stay loopback unless the operator has independently firewalled the host, since no in-process control currently prevents a non-loopback bind on unmanaged/BYOD installs.","Upgrade golang.org/x/net, golang.org/x/mod, golang.org/x/image, golang.org/x/crypto, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/* to patched versions (go get -u && go mod tidy) to clear the HIGH-severity trivy CVE findings (ATR-C0007).","Complete deeper per-site tracing of the 10 gosec go-unsafe-deserialization-interface findings and the Go ResponseWriter-write semgrep findings to resolve the UNKNOWN verdicts (ATR-C0009, ATR-C0010).","Consider gating cmd_setup.py's _show_splunk_credentials() behind an explicit --reveal/confirm flag to reduce terminal-capture exposure of locally generated secrets.","No action needed on the evaluated skill/plugin artifacts (codeguard, defenseclaw-add-connector, defenseclaw-develop, defenseclaw-tui, rulepack_artifact_parity); maintain existing check_skill_fresh.py-style drift checks and PR review to preserve their no-exec/no-network/no-concealment posture."]},"rollup":{"component_findings_count":{"vulnerable":0,"secure":1,"not_applicable":7},"repo_findings_inherited_count":{"vulnerable":3,"secure":12,"not_applicable":0},"component_tools_count":{"read_only":2},"worst_case_severity":"HIGH"},"trust_scores":{"repo_level":{"score":40,"tier":"low","capability_band":"extreme","score_confidence":"medium","score_interval":{"low":17,"high":63},"factors":["ATR-M0005 CRITICAL","ATR-C0004 MEDIUM","ATR-C0007 HIGH","ATR-C0012 MEDIUM"]},"component_level":{"score":100,"tier":"high","capability_band":"minimal","score_confidence":"high","score_interval":{"low":96,"high":100},"factors":[]}}}]}