Two of the three confirmed v8.x-A evasions are closed; the third (attribute
padding) stays open by operator decision and is documented, not silently left.
Recall fix. hybrid-xss required a closing </script>, so `<script>alert(1)` and
`<script src=x.js>` both passed scanForInjection() with found: false, while the
closed form returned high. A src= tag has no body to close in the first place.
The opening tag alone is the signal, and matching it is strictly linear: one
negated-class run whose excluded character is its own terminator, so there is
no backtracking surface that could re-introduce v7.8.3 #24.
ReDoS gate. The #24 test covered six html-obfuscation patterns against the two
shapes that defect was found on. A catastrophically backtracking regex added
anywhere else in the four tables would have failed no test at all - which is
why #24 had to be found by hand. The new gate times every exported pattern and
asserts its own coverage, so it cannot be narrowed silently.
It has two classes because the blowup shapes need opposite inputs, and because
a synchronous RegExp.test() cannot be interrupted: an exponential pattern met
with a 512KB input would HANG the run rather than fail it. Class 1 uses a
28-char ambiguous-run ladder, where exponential costs ~1s and anything sane
costs microseconds; on a hit the 512KB sweeps refuse to run. Class 2 uses the
hook's real read cap to catch the polynomial #24 class. Proven to fire: an
injected exponential regex was named by label and the hang guard held.
Measured clean: worst single pattern 17ms, full large sweep 218ms.
Golden gate went red as expected and was re-blessed - diff is exactly two
lines, the regex source and the source-file digest. The 61-payload reference
run is byte-identical, so no showcase behaviour moved.
Suite 2073/2073 (was 2063; +5 recall tests, +5 gate tests).
Still open, unchanged: all 7 bounded HTML patterns evade on >256 chars of
padding, in two positions - before the attribute and inside the style value.
Wider than STATE recorded, which named only aria-label.
The `coverage` block never looked at the 61 hook invocations. It probed every
payload STRING against every injection regex in-process, so `47/83` meant
"if you threw all 61 strings at all 83 patterns, 47 would match" - not "the
reference run exercised 47". The pre-bash-destructive payloads never reach
injection-patterns at all, yet their strings were in the probe set and could
mark a pattern exercised.
That number was asserted as reference-run coverage in three places that
instruct a future session: tests/golden/README.md, the STATE golden-gate
section, and the generator's summary line. In a repo whose v7.8.2 lesson was
"the check reported success without running", a figure that measures one
thing while labelled another is the same defect wearing a different hat.
Relabelled rather than re-measured - the probe still honestly bounds the gate
(an unreachable pattern is one the corpus cannot protect under ANY
attribution), it just has to say what it is:
coverage.kind = 'static-reachability', with the caveat in a `note` field.
patternsExercised -> patternsReachable
uncoveredPatterns -> unreachablePatterns
tablesExercised -> corpusContains (a payload CONTAINS a homoglyph; it
does not say the run folded one)
The gate now pins both the `kind` and the note, so the honest label cannot be
dropped quietly by a later edit.
Also surfaced the gap the old wording hid: the four OWASP maps have NO
behavioural coverage - they are scanner-side and no hook in this corpus
reaches them. They are precisely the tables the dump was widened to cover, so
the table digest is their only protection. Stated in the README next to the
47/83 line, where a reader was previously left to infer the reference run
backed them.
Flakiness check for the new gate (61 sequential spawns, ~12s, the most
process-heavy file in the suite, added to a suite npm test runs concurrently):
three consecutive full runs, 2053/2053, 0 fail. The three known
timing-sensitive files did not destabilise.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BB4vXvwvtW4dxbPRd6vsez
Records the reference artifacts Phase 5 swaps will be measured against, and
the gate that reads them. No extraction yet: this is the "before" picture,
and it had to land first or every later comparison would be confounded.
Typed test/ rather than feat/ deliberately - the only production change is
one widened export; the rest is gate, artifacts and generator.
Written failing-first (7 red on missing artifacts), then generated.
Three layers, because the plan's "assert .source/.flags of every regex" is
necessary but not sufficient:
1. regex records - .source/.flags off the COMPILED object. After a swap a
pattern is new RegExp(jsonString, flags), so the plan's named hazard
(JSON backslash-doubling on 83+18 regexes) is visible here and nowhere
else. Source-text comparison cannot see it.
2. table records - key/value digests. Most of what Phase 4 moves is not a
regex at all: HOMOGLYPH_MAP (x3, AS-IS), the typosquat tokens and the
four OWASP maps are char->char and string->string data. A regex-only
dump is blind to a broken homoglyph swap, i.e. to the bulk of the
payload. Operator decision: widen the dump.
3. file records - sha256 of the five moving-set sources. This dissolves
STATE's open question (how to enumerate every regex): it is complete by
construction, covering inline regexes in function bodies that no export
walk reaches, with no JS parser in a zero-dep repo. A lexical count
would have pinned a lie - severity.mjs scores 4 "regexes" that way and
exports none.
Both layers were proven to fire, not assumed to: mutating one HOMOGLYPH_MAP
entry reddens the table layer, and widening an inline regex inside
decodeHexEscapes (unreachable by any export walk) reddens the file layer.
HOMOGLYPH_MAP is now exported from string-utils.mjs. That export is a source
change the plan already flags as a surface hazard ("private tables become
loaded"), so it is pre-paid here rather than confounding the before/after.
Reference run: the 61 showcase payloads through the real hook entry points,
sequentially - array order is semantic and the plan forbids key-sorting, so
concurrency is removed rather than sorted away. 61/61 match expectation,
which also settles the plan's open assumption that payloads.json expectations
match current behaviour. Coverage is recorded, not assumed: 47/83 patterns,
with the other 36 listed by key so the gate never implies coverage it lacks.
Suite counts are per-file, each file run alone - a total is unattributable,
and the three known timing-sensitive files flake only under concurrency.
2045 pass / 0 fail across 91 files, matching the pre-existing count exactly.
The gate's own file is excluded (it reads the artifact the run produces) and
that exclusion is named in the artifact.
Suite: 2053/2053, 0 fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BB4vXvwvtW4dxbPRd6vsez
