release(0.3.2): the ReDoS fix, with both residuals measured against the v0.3.1 tag
Version sync in all four places (pyproject, __version__, README badge, README
install pin) plus the changelog entry for cff0437.
Two claims that were about to ship in the release note did not survive being
measured against a v0.3.1 worktree, and are corrected in LIMITATIONS first:
- "Report-only, so the cost is a review, not a block" was wrong twice. HIGH under
a low-trust preset is fail_secure, not a review -- report-only means the text is
never mutated, not that a finding cannot block. And the new script-tag false
positive costs no consumer a disposition at all: any text containing a literal
`<script>` already produced active:raw-html at HIGH on 0.3.1, so the same prose
disposed fail_secure under PRESET_USER_UPLOAD before this change and after it.
The fail-open that was closed is narrower for the same reason -- it existed only
in scan_lexicon called on its own; through either composed gate, raw-html
already caught the unclosed tag. What changed is the label, not the outcome.
- "The realistic long value is still caught by egress:jwt-token" was true and
hid the part that matters. Measured at the 257-char boundary: a generic long
password still trips entropy:base64-blob at CRITICAL, disposition unchanged.
A JWT used as a DB password is the case that moves -- its remaining detections
top out below CRITICAL, so the any-tier block is lost and PRESET_TRUSTED_SOURCE
drops from fail_secure to quarantine_review. PRESET_USER_UPLOAD still
fail_secures. Recorded as a behaviour change in the changelog, not buried.
The first probe for that boundary used a 300-char run of "A" and found nothing on
either version: all-same-char values are suppressed as placeholders. The probe was
wrong, not the pattern.
662 passed, coverage matrix exit 0, LIMITATIONS still 29 items = README's 29.
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pattern matches the opening tag and no longer requires `</script>`, so a
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document *about* XSS is flagged alongside a document that *carries* it. This
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is a deliberate trade made twice over: requiring the closing tag was a
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fail-open (an unclosed `<script>alert(1)` was silently missed) and it was the
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last quadratic-backtracking site on the output path. Report-only, so the cost
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is a review, not a block.
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fail-open (an unclosed `<script>alert(1)` was silently missed by *this label*)
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and it was the last quadratic-backtracking site on the output path.
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**Measured, both claims are narrower than they read.** The new label costs no
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consumer a disposition: any text containing a literal `<script>` already
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produced `active:raw-html` at HIGH on 0.3.1 — so the same prose disposed
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`fail_secure` under `PRESET_USER_UPLOAD` before this change and after it. The
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fail-open was equally confined to `scan_lexicon` called on its own; through
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either composed gate, `active:raw-html` already caught the unclosed tag. What
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changed is the *label*, not the outcome. And the outcome is not "a review":
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HIGH under a low-trust preset is `fail_secure`. Report-only means the text is
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never mutated — it does not mean the finding cannot block.
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- **A connection-string password longer than 256 chars is not matched.** The
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password run in the `*-connstr` egress patterns is bounded by
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`MAX_CONNSTR_VALUE`; unbounded, it sits in front of a mandatory `@` and makes
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crafted input quadratic. Excluding the anchor character instead — the fix the
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active-content table uses — is unavailable here because that character is `/`,
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and a password containing `/` is the common case. The realistic long value (a
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token used as a DB password) is still caught by `egress:jwt-token`.
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and a password containing `/` is the common case. **What the residual actually
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costs, measured at the 257-char boundary:** a generic long password still trips
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`entropy:base64-blob` at CRITICAL, so the disposition is unchanged. A *JWT* used
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as a DB password is the case that moves — the remaining detections
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(`entropy:base64-blob` HIGH, `egress:jwt-token` MEDIUM) top out below CRITICAL,
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so the any-tier CRITICAL block is lost: under `PRESET_TRUSTED_SOURCE` such a
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document drops from `fail_secure` to `quarantine_review`. Under
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`PRESET_USER_UPLOAD` it still `fail_secure`s. The credential is never silently
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missed; on one preset it is held for review instead of halted.
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## The six documented gaps (tracked by the coverage matrix)
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