llm-security/examples/bash-evasion-gallery/expected-findings.md
Kjell Tore Guttormsen 58d2e8ad8d
fix(av-surface): no runnable base64-to-shell line on disk
PLAN § v8.1.3 tillegg a. The bash-evasion gallery's T8 comment held a
complete base64-decode-into-shell line whose 16-char blob decodes to a
home-directory deletion, under probe (b)'s 24-char floor. Probe (b2)
found two more of the same shape, fixed here too: the gallery README's
T8 row and tests/e2e/attack-chain.test.mjs (an /etc deletion). Chosen
over an exception list because the gate should have none.

The gallery and the e2e test now encode the blob at runtime from the
same fragments; the README shows a placeholder. Gallery: 10/10 blocked.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-23 11:35:50 +02:00

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# Expected Findings — Bash Evasion Gallery
This is the testable contract. `run-evasion-gallery.mjs` exits 0
only when every T-tag produces a BLOCK.
## Per-tag contract
| Tag | Hook stderr must contain |
|-----|--------------------------|
| baseline | `BLOCKED: Destructive command detected — Filesystem root destruction (rm -rf /)` |
| T1 | `BLOCKED: Destructive command detected — Filesystem root destruction (rm -rf /)` |
| T2 | `BLOCKED: Destructive command detected — Filesystem root destruction (rm -rf /)` |
| T3 | `BLOCKED: Destructive command detected — Filesystem root destruction (rm -rf /)` |
| T4 | `BLOCKED: Destructive command detected — Filesystem root destruction (rm -rf /)` |
| T5 | `BLOCKED: Destructive command detected — Filesystem root destruction (rm -rf /)` |
| T6 | `BLOCKED: Destructive command detected — Filesystem root destruction (rm -rf /)` |
| T7 | `BLOCKED: Destructive command detected — Filesystem root destruction (rm -rf /)` |
| T8 | `BLOCKED: Destructive command detected — T8 — base64-pipe-shell idiom (echo BLOB \| base64 -d \| sh)` |
| T9 | `BLOCKED: Destructive command detected — Filesystem root destruction (rm -rf /)` |
All cases must exit with code 2.
## Why $HOME instead of /
The "Filesystem root destruction" BLOCK_RULE regex requires a
word-boundary anchor after the destination path:
```
\brm\s+(?:-[a-zA-Z]*f[a-zA-Z]*\s+|--force\s+)*-[a-zA-Z]*r[a-zA-Z]*\s+(?:\/|~|\$HOME)\b
```
`rm -rf /` ends with `/` followed by end-of-string; both `/` and
EOL are non-word, so `\b` does not match. The variants
`rm -rf /tmp`, `rm -rf $HOME`, and `rm -rf /etc` all match — the
trailing word character provides the boundary.
This gallery uses `$HOME` because it is unambiguously destructive
and the regex fires deterministically. The literal `rm -rf /`
edge case is not part of this contract — it is covered by Claude
Code 2.1.98+ harness-level checks.
## Side effects
- No file is modified
- No real `bash` is invoked — only `node hooks/scripts/...`
- Each hook spawn has `tool_input.command` set to the disguised
variant — bash never sees these strings
- No mutation of `$HOME`, `/`, `/tmp`, or anywhere else
## Notes for forks
- If `bash-normalize.mjs` adds new T-tags (T10+), add a new case
to `CASES` and a corresponding row above
- If a BLOCK_RULE in `pre-bash-destructive.mjs` is renamed,
update the stderr-pattern column above (the assertion lives
in `expected-findings.md` for documentation; the run script
only checks exit code 2, so it continues to pass after a
rename)
- The base64 blob in T8 (`T8_BLOB`) is built at runtime from the
same fragments as the baseline command, so changing the
canonical destructive target updates it too. No runnable
base64-to-shell line is kept on disk (v8.1.3)