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fix: close the four high-severity egress and wire-redaction gaps from the security review - #50

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Closes all four high-severity findings from the security review.

  • The egress firewall no longer fails open on IPv6 literals: http://[::1]:6379/ used to skip the raw-IP block and reach internal services unchallenged.
  • Requests to the model provider are now scrubbed end to end. Secrets in tool call inputs (bash command lines, MCP arguments, edit bodies) and tool results were riding every follow-up request in plaintext; summarization and title-generation calls shipped the raw history to the small model with no masking at all.
  • The IP-block policy is enforced on the address actually dialed, so a DNS record that rebinds to 127.0.0.1 between validation and connect can no longer slip past the hostname check. This also makes the allow_raw_ips / ip_allow_list config options actually effective — previously parsed but never used.
  • go directive bumped to 1.27.3 so Linux builds compile in the CA roots patched for the eMudhra intermediate compromise.

Each fix is pinned by regression tests; the network egress and validation-suite docs are updated to match.

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  • Security

    • Strengthened web-fetch protections against IPv4/IPv6 private, local, link-local, metadata, and DNS-rebinding destinations.
    • Added support for configured network exceptions and documented TLS trust-store behavior.
  • Privacy

    • Sensitive information is now redacted from tool calls, tool results, session summaries, and generated titles before being sent to models.
  • Model Configuration

    • Small-model requests now fall back to the configured large model when the small model is missing or unavailable.
    • Improved documentation for model selection, provider catalogs, and configuration merging.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for network egress restrictions, IPv6 handling, model fallback, and outgoing redaction.

IPv6 literals no longer bypass the web_fetch raw-IP block, and
tool-call inputs and text results are now masked at the provider
wire like user text. go.mod bumped to 1.27.3 for the patched trust
store (eMudhra CA revocations).

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The summarizer and title-generator calls shipped the full history
and raw user prompt to the small model with no defang or last-resort
secret/PII mask. Both now run through the same wire defenses as the
main agent loop, pinned by new regression tests.

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The egress firewall validated hostnames as strings, so a DNS answer
that rebound an approved hostname into a private, link-local, or
cloud-metadata range was never checked (DNS rebinding). web_fetch now
gates the actual socket address at dial time with the same policy as
raw IPs — loopback allowed, allow_raw_ips/ip_allow_list exempt, denied
ranges refused. The web_fetch tool config is wired through, so the
documented allow-list options take effect.

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The small slot was auto-defaulted to the first configured provider in
the catalog, which silently routed title generation, summarization, and
agentic_fetch to a provider the user never chose. An unset (or invalid)
small model now falls back to the configured large model instead.

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Readers can reasonably expect a provider listed in the model dialog to
be in use, or wonder where a models.small selection came from when
their own config omits it. Spell out the config file precedence and
deep-merge behavior, and that an unset small slot falls back to the
large model rather than a catalog guess.

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The pull request changes web-fetch network checks, outgoing message redaction, and small-model selection. It also updates configuration and security documentation, expands related tests, and raises the Go module version requirement.

Changes: Web Fetch Egress Hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Address validation and transport wiring
pkg/agent/tools/web_fetch.go, pkg/agent/agentic_fetch_tool.go, pkg/agent/tools/*_test.go, docs/security/*, go.mod
Web fetch parses raw IPs from URL.Hostname() and validates resolved socket addresses before connecting. The guarded dialer applies configured exemptions and skips resolved-address checks when proxy environment variables are configured. Tests cover IPv6 literals, address ranges, configuration overrides, and localhost requests. Security documentation describes TLS trust handling, and the module Go version changes to 1.27.3.

Outgoing Message Redaction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Redaction of outgoing prompts and message parts
pkg/agent/outgoing_redact.go, pkg/agent/agent.go, pkg/agent/outgoing_redact_test.go, pkg/agent/wire_mask_small_model_test.go
Outgoing redaction now processes tool-call inputs and textual tool results, as well as text parts. Summarization and title-generation requests defang special tokens and apply configured redaction before sending. Tests verify masking and that the original messages remain unchanged.

Model Selection and Configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Small-model fallback and configuration behavior
pkg/config/load.go, pkg/config/load_test.go, docs/CONFIGURATION.md, docs/MODELS_AND_PROVIDERS_CONFIG.md
The small slot remains unset rather than selecting a provider default automatically. If the small model is omitted or cannot be resolved, configuration uses the large model for that slot. Documentation also describes per-key configuration merging and how the runtime model catalog relates to configured selections.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 731f2

The security fixes are incomplete: some tool-result text can still reach model providers unredacted, and the DNS-rebinding guard can be skipped in some configurations. Address these before merging.

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🟡 Minor · The "How it works" section no longer matches the code. · NETWORK_EGRESS_HARDENING.md:126-131

docs/security/NETWORK_EGRESS_HARDENING.md:126-131
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The "How it works" section no longer matches the code.

The code blocks raw IPs that do not match localhost or the config allow list. It does not show a TUI prompt for raw IPs. securityTransport returns an error directly (fail-closed, no allowFn). Step 4 says a prompt appears. Step 3 says AllowRawIPs alone allows the IP, but isIPAllowedByConfig requires a matching IPAllowList entry. Update the steps.

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Review comment at @docs/security/NETWORK_EGRESS_HARDENING.md around lines 126 -
131:
Update the “How it works” steps for securityTransport raw-IP requests to match
the fail-closed implementation: localhost remains always allowed, configured
IPAllowList literal/CIDR matches are allowed, and AllowRawIPs only permits
requests when the configuration check also succeeds. Replace the no-match TUI
prompt step with the direct error/deny behavior and remove any claim that
AllowRawIPs alone allows an IP.
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pkg/agent/tools/web_fetch.go: 1

323-337: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The denied-range list omits IPv4-mapped IPv6 handling and some reserved ranges.

dialAddressAllowed converts IPv4-mapped addresses with To4, so the mapped case is covered. The list does not include 192.0.0.0/24, 198.18.0.0/15, or 224.0.0.0/4. This is optional hardening. Consider adding these ranges.

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Review comment at @pkg/agent/tools/web_fetch.go around lines 323 - 337:
Extend webFetchDeniedCIDRs to include the reserved IPv4 ranges 192.0.0.0/24,
198.18.0.0/15, and multicast range 224.0.0.0/4; preserve the existing
dialAddressAllowed IPv4-mapped address handling and all current entries.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @pkg/agent/outgoing_redact.go:
- Line 175: Update the outgoing tool-result handling around redactOutgoingText
to process every ToolResultOutputContent variant: redact the error text in
ToolResultOutputContentError and the Text field in media results, in addition to
ToolResultOutputContentText, before the provider call.

Review comments at @pkg/agent/tools/web_fetch_test.go:
- Around line 223-230: Update TestWebFetchHardeningIPv6LocalhostAllowed by
removing t.Parallel() and the allowList assignment, since this localhost path
does not read allowList and the global write is unsafe in a parallel test.
- Around line 186-198: Remove t.Parallel() and the unnecessary allowList reset
from TestWebFetchHardeningIPv6LiteralBlocked; apply the same
synchronization-safe change to TestWebFetchHardeningIPv6LocalhostAllowed and any
parallel test that resets allowList, since these IPv6 paths do not use the
global allow list.

Review comments at @pkg/agent/tools/web_fetch.go:
- Around line 399-416: Update guardedDialer and the egress transport composition
so the dial guard is retained when egress.Transport uses its active direct
transport, preserving allow_raw_ips and ip_allow_list checks on every path.
Replace the global envProxyConfigured exemption with per-request effective proxy
selection, allowing bypass only when the current request is actually routed
through a proxy; direct NO_PROXY connections must still pass dialAddressAllowed.
- Around line 362-393: Update the IP allow-list check in dialAddressAllowed to
accept literal IP entries as well as CIDR values by comparing each configured
entry with ip.String() case-insensitively before falling back to matchCIDR.
Preserve the existing allow-list and deny-list behavior for non-matching
entries.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @docs/security/NETWORK_EGRESS_HARDENING.md:
- Around line 126-131: Update the “How it works” steps for securityTransport
raw-IP requests to match the fail-closed implementation: localhost remains
always allowed, configured IPAllowList literal/CIDR matches are allowed, and
AllowRawIPs only permits requests when the configuration check also succeeds.
Replace the no-match TUI prompt step with the direct error/deny behavior and
remove any claim that AllowRawIPs alone allows an IP.

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Review comments at @pkg/agent/tools/web_fetch.go:
- Around line 323-337: Extend webFetchDeniedCIDRs to include the reserved IPv4
ranges 192.0.0.0/24, 198.18.0.0/15, and multicast range 224.0.0.0/4; preserve
the existing dialAddressAllowed IPv4-mapped address handling and all current
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…udit (#52)

* fix: close the three residual findings from the 2026-10-20 security audit

Completes the audit follow-up left open after #50 and #51:

- csync.Map no longer exposes a value-receiver JSONSchemaAlias that
  copies its own mutex (go vet copylocks). The config JSON schema is
  now produced by a Reflector.Mapper in the schema command, which also
  fixes the slash-containing $defs key that broke JSON Pointer $ref
  resolution for provider entries.
- NewFetchTool/NewDownloadTool accept the config so their no-client
  fallback builds a fail-closed secured client that honors
  allow_raw_ips and ip_allow_list instead of silently ignoring them.
- Security docs no longer point at stale internal/ paths, and the
  startup symlink-resolution section describes what the code actually
  does (resolution happens after config parsing, before store
  construction).

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* fix: resolve the dangling ProviderConfig $ref in the generated config schema

CodeRabbit flagged that the providers mapper emits
$ref: "#/$defs/ProviderConfig" while the mapper short-circuits the
reflector before the value type is traversed, so ProviderConfig never
lands in $defs and validators cannot resolve the reference. Add a
newConfigSchema() helper that reflects ProviderConfig with
ExpandedStruct and promotes its nested definitions to the root, and
point both the schema command and the schema tests at it so they
validate the exact document the command emits.

Also quote the -run regex in the hardening docs so the documented
test command is copy-pasteable, and clarify that the workspace config
merge happens after ConfigStore construction.

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