The generalised sweep found what 0.3.2's hand-written rows missed. All three are
the documented class -- a run in front of a required literal that never arrives,
so every start position rescans the tail -- and all three are worse than the
0.3.3 findings, because `sanitize`, `neutralize`, `scan_active_content` and the
okf link graph apply NO input cap. `scan_lexicon`/`scan_output` are the only
entry points that do, so there is no ceiling to extrapolate to.
sanitize._HTML_COMMENT_RE `<!--`*100_000 20.1s, exponent 1.96-2.14
active_content.URL_IN_TEXT_RE `<a `+`A`*100_000 12.99s / 14.9s, exponent ~2.0
okf._MD_LINK_RE `[`*100_000 7.1s, exponent 1.99-2.05
Each fix is the one the pattern's own shape allows, not a copied choice:
- The comment stripper drops the regex for `str.find`. Excluding `<` would lose
every comment containing markup; bounding the run would be a carrier bypass
of the exact construct the stripper exists to remove.
- `URL_IN_TEXT_RE` bounds its scheme run to an RFC 3986 scheme (`{0,63}`).
Bounding is safe *here* only because it is a defanger inside a tag already
flagged `active:raw-html`. A lookbehind was measured too and rejected: it
drops `-http://evil.com`, a one-character evasion. Bounded: 0.185s at 1M.
- `_MD_LINK_RE` excludes `[`, matching `active_content.MD_LINK_RE` exactly,
including the nested-label trade already documented there.
`sanitize` claimed "no catastrophic backtracking" in a comment; that claim was
wrong in the same way `output`'s was before 0.3.2, and is corrected in place.
676 tests (+10), coverage 128/128 + 6/6 gaps, sweep clean across 150 patterns.
The okf destination run gets no row: `[^)\s]+` cannot fail, so a row for it
could never go red.
Three consumers reconstructed is_ordinary_url from prose we sent in coordination
messages and each produced a different wrong number on a real corpus: one omitted
the base64 20-char floor and fired on path words like /blog/; one omitted the
opaque-token condition entirely and undercounted; one computed Shannon entropy
over whole filenames instead of tokens and concluded the 4.4 floor over-blocks
ordinary documents. Same cause each time -- our prose described the rules without
their tokenizer.
docs/URL-SHAPE.md states the algorithm in order, spells out the separator class
and all three length floors, and lists the three reconstruction errors as worked
counter-examples. Its example table is parsed and asserted against the real
predicate by tests/test_url_shape_doc.py, so the reference cannot drift from the
code -- all 18 rows verified load-bearing.
LIMITATIONS.md brought current with the field measurements:
- Percent-escape is no longer zero. Two English corpora measured 0; a 389-file
Norwegian/Microsoft corpus found 10, all Norwegian (%C3%B8, %C3%A5 are just
o-slash and a-ring). It is a non-ASCII-language tax, and both zero-measuring
corpora being English was a sampling bias invisible from inside.
- The query over-block now has THREE disjoint benign populations: utm_* tracking,
content identity (?v=, ?channel_id=), and Microsoft Learn's ?view= version
selector. No parameter-level remedy covers any two, which moves this from a
conclusion to a settled constraint on 0.4.0.
- Legitimate CDN asset ids trip the hex branch permanently; the branch is otherwise
precise (no other FP in 2401 distinct URLs) and stays.
- Raw HTML with a relative URL attribute is HIGH though it reaches no external
host, and end tags are counted.
- OKF frontmatter: a one-key block-sequence item is silently misparsed to a string
where two keys hard-reject, so a pointer can ride past the resource allowlist.
Consequence: a conformant OKF v0.2 concept cannot traverse door C at all, since
both backward-breaking migration targets are nested. Fail-secure, but a
compatibility wall that needs a deliberate parse-safety decision.
- A persist gate cannot cover execution risk, and that boundary is unowned.
New behaviour claims are pinned by tests so a closed concession fails and forces
this doc to be updated. 593 -> 631 passed.
v0.3.0 made the untrusted upload path unusable: measured on both doors, an
ordinary remote image fail_secure'd and an ordinary link/autolink/refdef
quarantined, so only documents without external references persisted.
Two independent defects compounded; neither fix works alone:
1. `markdown-image: HIGH` fired on any external image. The exfil primitive is a
URL that moves bytes outward, not an image. `is_ordinary_url` now grades on
shape - http(s)/protocol-relative, no query, no userinfo, no percent-escape,
no opaque host label or path segment -> LOW; anything data-carrying keeps the
carrier's severity. raw-html and data: URIs stay HIGH unconditionally.
Opacity reuses entropy's primitives; floors calibrated against real doc URLs
(worst legit token H=4.08, exfil segments 4.36-4.54) and frozen in
calibration.
2. The quarantine_default floor fired on ANY finding, a premise that broke when
every ordinary link became a finding. It now fires at MEDIUM+ - a no-op for
every detector that shipped before 0.3.0 (no LOW/INFO exists), which is what
makes this a patch rather than a minor.
The corpus blind spot that let this pass 522 green tests is closed: the FP
corpus carries realistic markdown and is asserted on the OUTPUT gate under
PRESET_USER_UPLOAD, with a counter-corpus of exfil-shaped URLs that must still
block. Beaconing and short opaque segments are conceded in LIMITATIONS and
asserted by the coverage matrix rather than papered over.
No new public API; no new preset (0.4.0 work); allow_reserved default unchanged.
Close the EchoLeak wiring hole (CVE-2025-32711 class): markdown images/
links, reference definitions, autolinks, raw active HTML and data: URIs
now surface as report-only findings (active:*, OWASP LLM05) in
scan_output step 6, so screen_output and okf.import_bundle dispose of
them instead of admitting them with findings=[].
- new active_content.py: canonical home of the shared pattern table +
scan_active_content; neutralize refactored to import it (mutating API
and behavior unchanged, all neutralize tests pass as-is)
- images/links flagged only for absolute/protocol-relative URLs:
relative in-bundle links are legitimate wiki/OKF mechanism (principle 5)
- evidence carries defanged URLs only (hxxps://evil[.]example)
- EchoLeak vectors planted in both showcases; detach proofs cover them
- README export list + checklist step 6, CLAUDE.md context line updated
Suite: 321 -> 341 passed. Core invariant intact (dependencies=[]).
