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hermes-agent/tools/approval_detection.py
konsisumer 85ce25687e fix(approval): require confirmation for package uninstalls
`npm uninstall -g`, pnpm/yarn remove, `pip uninstall` and `brew uninstall`
remove software outside the project yet matched no dangerous-command
pattern, so the agent ran them without asking (#10199). Add one
"package manager uninstall" rule per manager; installs and updates stay
unprompted.

Hand-ported from PR #64175 (the patterns moved from tools/approval.py to
tools/approval_detection.py after it was opened).
2026-09-12 08:42:43 -07:00

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"""Dangerous-command detection: normalization, tokenizing, and pattern tables.
Pure command classification for :mod:`tools.approval` — no approval state, config reads, or
prompting live here.
"""
import functools
import logging
import os
import re
import shlex
import tempfile
import unicodedata
logger = logging.getLogger("tools.approval")
# Sensitive write targets, matched via ~ / $HOME / $HERMES_HOME spellings. The resolved absolute
# home is folded into these forms at detection time by _normalize_command_for_detection(), so no
# import-time path snapshot (stale once HERMES_HOME is set after import) lives in the patterns.
_SSH_SENSITIVE_PATH = r'(?:~|\$home|\$\{home\})/\.ssh(?:/|$)'
_HERMES_ENV_PATH = (
r'(?:~\/\.hermes/|(?:\$home|\$\{home\})/\.hermes/|(?:\$hermes_home|\$\{hermes_home\})/)' r'\.env\b'
)
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml IS the security policy (approvals.mode, yolo, allowlist) and the config cache is mtime-keyed,
# so a write takes effect mid-session. Terminal-side coverage (sed -i, tee, >, cp) pairs the file_tools deny.
_HERMES_CONFIG_PATH = (
r'(?:~\/\.hermes/|(?:\$home|\$\{home\})/\.hermes/|(?:\$hermes_home|\$\{hermes_home\})/)' r'config\.yaml\b'
)
_PROJECT_ENV_PATH = r'(?:(?:/|\.{1,2}/)?(?:[^\s/"\'`]+/)*\.env(?:\.[^/\s"\'`]+)*)'
_PROJECT_CONFIG_PATH = r'(?:(?:/|\.{1,2}/)?(?:[^\s/"\'`]+/)*config\.yaml)'
_SHELL_RC_FILES = r'(?:~|\$home|\$\{home\})/\.' r'(?:bashrc|zshrc|profile|bash_profile|zprofile)\b'
_CREDENTIAL_FILES = r'(?:~|\$home|\$\{home\})/\.' r'(?:netrc|pgpass|npmrc|pypirc)\b'
# macOS: /etc, /var, /tmp, /home are symlinks to /private/*, so /private/etc/sudoers would bypass a plain
# "/etc/" check. Match both forms.
_MACOS_PRIVATE_SYSTEM_PATH = r'/private/(?:etc|var|tmp|home)/'
_SYSTEM_CONFIG_PATH = rf'(?:/etc/|{_MACOS_PRIVATE_SYSTEM_PATH})'
_SENSITIVE_WRITE_TARGET = (
rf'(?:{_SYSTEM_CONFIG_PATH}|/dev/sd|{_SSH_SENSITIVE_PATH}|{_HERMES_ENV_PATH}|{_HERMES_CONFIG_PATH}|'
rf'{_SHELL_RC_FILES}|{_CREDENTIAL_FILES})'
)
_USER_SENSITIVE_WRITE_TARGET = rf'(?:{_SSH_SENSITIVE_PATH}|{_SHELL_RC_FILES}|{_CREDENTIAL_FILES})'
_PROJECT_SENSITIVE_WRITE_TARGET = rf'(?:{_PROJECT_ENV_PATH}|{_PROJECT_CONFIG_PATH})'
# cp/mv/install: the sensitive path is a write target only as the LAST argument (destination), so
# `cp config.yaml backup.yaml` (config.yaml as SOURCE) stays out.
_COMMAND_TAIL = r'(?:\s*(?:&&|\|\||;).*)?$'
# `>`/`>>`/tee: the path is ALWAYS a write target regardless of what follows, so only require a
# shell word boundary (_COMMAND_TAIL let `echo x > .env extra` / `echo x > .env # note` slip past).
# `#` is deliberately NOT a boundary: a glued `#` is part of the filename (`.env#backup`).
_WRITE_TARGET_BOUNDARY = r'(?=[\s;&|<>"\']|$)'
# ---- Hardline (unconditional) blocklist ---------------------------------------------------
# Commands that NEVER run via the agent, regardless of --yolo, approvals.mode=off, or cron approve
# mode — a floor below yolo. Applies only to environments that can damage the host (local, ssh,
# container-host cron); containerized backends already bypass the dangerous-command layer.
# Deliberately tiny: only things with no recovery path (root wipe, raw block device writes,
# shutdown, DoS). Recoverable operations (git reset --hard, chmod -R 777, curl|sh) stay in
# DANGEROUS_PATTERNS.
# Start-of-command position: start of string, newline, subshell opener ($( or backtick), optionally consuming
# sudo/env/exec/nohup/setsid/time wrappers. Keeps shutdown/reboot rules from firing on "echo reboot" / "grep
# 'shutdown' log". Real ;/&/| separators are converted to newlines by the quote-aware _mark_command_starts pass;
# keeping them here mistakes quoted data (grep '(safe|rm -rf /)') for commands.
_CMDPOS = (
r'(?:^|[\n`]|\$\()' r'\s*' # start position, optional whitespace
r'(?:sudo\s+(?:-[^\s]+\s+)*)?' r'(?:env\s+(?:\w+=\S*\s+)*)?' # optional sudo with flags, env VAR=VAL pairs
r'(?:(?:exec|nohup|setsid|time)\s+)*' r'\s*' # optional wrapper commands
)
# Destructive-path matcher for the rm hardline rules: accept the path fully wrapped in a matching
# quote pair (`rm -rf "/"`, `rm -rf "$HOME"`) OR bare with a terminator (whitespace, end, or
# `) ` ; | &` so `$(rm -rf /)` is caught). A bare-token-only anchor lets quoted spellings slip past the floor.
def _hardline_rm_path(path_alt: str, tail: str = r'(?:\s|$|[)`;|&])') -> str:
return rf'(?:["\'](?:{path_alt})["\']|(?:{path_alt}){tail})'
# Protected system roots whose recursive deletion has no recovery path.
_HARDLINE_SYSTEM_DIRS = (r'/home|/home/\*|/root|/root/\*|/etc|/etc/\*|/usr|/usr/\*|'
r'/var|/var/\*|/bin|/bin/\*|/sbin|/sbin/\*|/boot|/boot/\*|/lib|/lib/\*')
# `rm` plus flag group, shared by the rm hardline rules (plain concatenation, not f-string:
# backslashes in replacement fields are unsupported on the 3.11 floor). _CMDPOS-anchored so `rm`
# must be an actual command word — "rm -rf /" as DATA in `git commit -m "…rm -rf /…"` must not trip the floor.
_RM_FLAG_PREFIX = _CMDPOS + r'rm\s+(-[^\s]*\s+)*'
HARDLINE_PATTERNS = [
# Root path: any root-anchored path whose components collapse to "/" in the shell ("/", "//",
# "/.", "/./", "/../..", optional trailing glob). Each inter-slash segment must be exactly "."
# or "..", so "/tmp", "/.ssh", even "/..." are literal dirs that fall through to the softer
# DANGEROUS rules. The "/ \*" alt covers `rm -rf / *` (two args: "/" plus the glob).
(_RM_FLAG_PREFIX + _hardline_rm_path(r'/(?:(?:\.\.?)?/)*(?:\.\.?)?\**|/ \*'), "recursive delete of root filesystem"),
(_RM_FLAG_PREFIX + _hardline_rm_path(_HARDLINE_SYSTEM_DIRS), "recursive delete of system directory"),
(_RM_FLAG_PREFIX + _hardline_rm_path(r'(?:~|\$\{?HOME\}?)(?:/?|/\*)?'), "recursive delete of home directory"),
# Command-name rules (mkfs, dd, kill, shutdown...) are _CMDPOS-anchored so quoted prose
# (`echo "does this use mkfs?"`) cannot trip the floor.
# See #93392.
(_CMDPOS + r'mkfs(\.[a-z0-9]+)?\b', "format filesystem (mkfs)"),
# `dd` is a command-name token, so anchor it to command position like mkfs/rm/shutdown (#93392): quoted
# prose such as `git commit -m "never dd of=/dev/sda"` is an argument, not a command. The argument tail
# ([^\n]*of=/dev/...) is kept so flag order doesn't matter.
(_CMDPOS + r'dd\b[^\n]*\bof=/dev/(sd|nvme|hd|mmcblk|vd|xvd)[a-z0-9]*', "dd to raw block device"),
# Positionless rules (no command-name token: `>` sits mid-command, the fork bomb is a function
# definition) are matched against a QUOTE-MASKED variant (_QUOTE_MASKED_HARDLINE_DESCRIPTIONS /
# _mask_quoted_prose) so quoted prose cannot trip them; sh -c / bash -c / eval payloads still scan raw.
# The redirect rule has no command-name token to anchor (`>` appears mid-command: `cat f > /dev/sda`),
# so command-position anchoring is the wrong tool. It is instead matched against a QUOTE-MASKED variant
# of the command (see _QUOTE_MASKED_HARDLINE / _mask_quoted_strings) so quoted prose (`echo "cat f >
# /dev/sda"`) cannot trip it, while shell-carrying wrappers (sh -c / bash -c / eval) still surface their
# payload as a raw detection variant — quoting is not a bypass (#93392).
(r'>\s*/dev/(sd|nvme|hd|mmcblk|vd|xvd)[a-z0-9]*\b', "redirect to raw block device"),
(r':\(\)\s*\{\s*:\s*\|\s*:\s*&\s*\}\s*;\s*:', "fork bomb"),
# Kill every process on the system — anchor the command-name token so `echo "kill -1 sends SIGHUP to
# everything"` doesn't trip (#93392).
(_CMDPOS + r'kill\s+(-[^\s]+\s+)*-1\b', "kill all processes"),
(_CMDPOS + r'(shutdown|reboot|halt|poweroff)\b', "system shutdown/reboot"),
(_CMDPOS + r'init\s+[06]\b', "init 0/6 (shutdown/reboot)"),
(_CMDPOS + r'systemctl\s+(poweroff|reboot|halt|kexec)\b', "systemctl poweroff/reboot"),
(_CMDPOS + r'telinit\s+[06]\b', "telinit 0/6 (shutdown/reboot)"),
]
# Pre-compiled at module load so the hot-path matcher never pays the cold re.compile fan-out
# (re._cache can be evicted by unrelated regex work).
_RE_FLAGS = re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL
# Positionless hardline rules matched against quote-masked variants (see above).
_QUOTE_MASKED_HARDLINE_DESCRIPTIONS = frozenset({"redirect to raw block device", "fork bomb"})
HARDLINE_PATTERNS_COMPILED = [
(re.compile(p, _RE_FLAGS), d, d in _QUOTE_MASKED_HARDLINE_DESCRIPTIONS) for p, d in HARDLINE_PATTERNS
]
# Commands that hand a quoted argument to another shell to EXECUTE: quoted text is code, not
# prose, so quote-masked hardline rules scan the raw string.
_SHELL_CARRIER_NAMES = frozenset({"eval", "sh", "bash", "zsh", "ksh", "dash", "source", "."})
def _contains_shell_carrier(command: str) -> bool:
"""Return whether any command-position word is a shell-carrying command."""
return any(
os.path.basename(_deobfuscate_shell_word_for_detection(word)).lower() in _SHELL_CARRIER_NAMES
for _, _, word in _iter_shell_command_word_spans(command)
)
def _mask_quoted_prose(command: str) -> str:
"""Blank out quoted string CONTENT for positionless hardline matching (detection-only).
Quote characters stay; inside double quotes `$(...)` and backtick spans are kept RAW because
the shell really executes them. An unclosed quote masks to end-of-string, which cannot hide a
runnable command (the shell would not run it either).
Detection-only rewrite used by the quote-masked hardline rules (redirect-to-block-device, fork bomb):
text inside single or double quotes is data the shell passes as an argument, so `echo "cat f >
/dev/sda"` must not trip the unconditional floor (#93392). Unquoted text is untouched.
"""
return "".join(
command[i:j] if quote is None or kind in ("quote", "subst") else " " * (j - i)
for kind, i, j, quote in _scan_shell(command, subst="q", naive_backtick=True)
)
# ---- Sudo stdin guard: without SUDO_PASSWORD configured, an explicit "sudo -S" is the LLM piping
# a guessed password via stdin (brute-force vector). Unconditional block.
_SUDO_STDIN_RE = re.compile(r'(?:^|[;&|`\n]|&&|\|\||\$\()\s*sudo\s+-S\b', re.IGNORECASE)
def _check_sudo_stdin_guard(command: str) -> tuple:
"""Detect ``sudo -S`` without configured SUDO_PASSWORD -> (is_blocked, description). When
SUDO_PASSWORD is set, ``_transform_sudo_command`` injects ``-S`` itself, so this guard only
fires when the LLM wrote it explicitly."""
if "SUDO_PASSWORD" not in os.environ and _SUDO_STDIN_RE.search(_normalize_command_for_detection(command).lower()):
return (True, "sudo password guessing via stdin (sudo -S)")
return (False, None)
def detect_hardline_command(command: str) -> tuple:
"""Check hardline patterns (NEVER bypassable, even in YOLO) -> (is_hardline, description)."""
if _command_parser_limit_exceeded(command):
return (True, _PARSER_LIMIT_DESCRIPTION)
normalized = _normalize_command_for_detection(command)
_, malformed_grep = _grep_safe_detection_variant(normalized)
if malformed_grep:
return (True, _MALFORMED_EXEC_DESCRIPTION)
for command_variant in _command_detection_variants(command):
variant_lower = command_variant.lower()
masked_lower: str | None = None
for pattern_re, description, quote_masked in HARDLINE_PATTERNS_COMPILED:
if quote_masked and masked_lower is None:
# Positionless rules see quoted prose as DATA, except under shell carriers
# (sh -c, eval, source) whose quoted argument is code — those scan raw. bash -c
# payloads also surface as their own raw variants via _execution_flag_findings.
masked_lower = (
variant_lower if _contains_shell_carrier(command_variant)
else _mask_quoted_prose(command_variant).lower()
)
if pattern_re.search(masked_lower if quote_masked else variant_lower):
return (True, description)
return (False, None)
# ---- Dangerous command patterns -----------------------------------------------------------
DANGEROUS_PATTERNS = [
(r'\brm\s+(-[^\s]*\s+)*/', "delete in root path"),
(r'\brm\s+-[^\s]*r', "recursive delete"),
(r'\brm\s+--recursive\b', "recursive delete (long flag)"),
# GNU rm permutes options, so flags may FOLLOW operands (`rm build/ -rf`). The operand run
# cannot cross a command separator (so `rm foo | grep -r` is not attributed to rm), a quote,
# or a bare ` -- ` end-of-options (after which `-rf` is a literal filename). The flag token
# must follow whitespace so the `r` in long options like `--registry` does not count.
(r'\brm\s+(?!--(?:\s|$))(?:(?!\s--(?:\s|$))[^\n"\';|&])*\s' r'(?:-[a-z]*r[a-z]*\b|--recursive\b)',
# GNU rm permutes options, so a recursive flag group may legally FOLLOW the operands: `rm build/ -rf`,
# `rm build/ -r -f`, and `rm build/ --recursive --force` are all equivalent to the flags-first
# spellings the two patterns above catch — without this rule they run with no approval prompt at all.
# Port of openai/codex#33464 ("recognize force options when they follow operands").
"recursive delete (flags after operands)"),
# Windows cmd/powershell destructive built-ins: gate only when executed through the shell so
# prose/filenames containing "del"/"rd" do not trip.
(r'\bcmd(?:\.exe)?\s+/(?:c|k)\s+.*\b(?:del|erase|rd|rmdir)\b', "Windows cmd destructive delete"),
# PowerShell runs the verb as default positional arg (no -Command needed); anchor the verb to command
# position (after leading -Flag switches and optional -Command/-c) so `-File c:\del-logs\run.ps1` is not caught.
(r'\b(?:powershell|pwsh)(?:\.exe)?\b(?:\s+-\S+)*\s+(?:-(?:command|c)\s+)?["\']?(?:remove-item|rmdir|erase|del|rd|ri|rm)\b', "Windows PowerShell destructive delete"),
(r'\b(?:powershell|pwsh)(?:\.exe)?\b.*\s-(?:encodedcommand|enc|e)\b', "PowerShell encoded command execution"),
# ── Windows destructive tier: native Windows EXEs/cmdlets reachable from ANY backend on a
# Windows host (incl. git-bash). Input is lowercased by the variant loop, so patterns are
# lowercase. Each requires the destructive flag/verb so benign usage (`taskkill /IM app.exe`,
# `reg query`, `icacls file`) does NOT prompt. Bare Remove-Item form (ACP clients, pwsh-default
# SSH hosts, or compound commands where `powershell` appeared earlier).
# See #69472.
(r'\bremove-item\b[^\n;|&]*\s-(?:recurse|force)\b', "PowerShell destructive delete (Remove-Item)"),
# Bare cmd builtins with /s (recurse) or /q (quiet); plain `del file.txt` is covered only by the prefixed rule.
(r'\b(?:del|erase|rd|rmdir)\s+(?:/[a-z]\s+)*/[sq]\b', "Windows destructive delete (recursive/quiet switch)"),
# Remote content piped to Invoke-Expression — PowerShell's `curl | sh`.
(r'\b(?:iwr|invoke-webrequest|invoke-restmethod|irm|curl|wget)\b[^\n]*\|\s*(?:iex|invoke-expression)\b', "pipe remote content to PowerShell (iwr | iex)"),
(r'\b(?:iex|invoke-expression)\s*\(\s*(?:iwr|invoke-webrequest|invoke-restmethod|irm)\b', "execute remote content via Invoke-Expression"),
# Force process kills — Windows analogue of pkill -9.
(r'\btaskkill\b[^\n]*\s/f\b', "force kill processes (taskkill /F)"),
(r'\bstop-process\b[^\n]*\s-force\b', "force kill processes (Stop-Process -Force)"),
# Volume/disk destruction — Windows analogue of mkfs / dd.
(r'\bformat-volume\b', "format filesystem (Format-Volume)"),
(r'\bclear-disk\b', "wipe disk (Clear-Disk)"),
(r'\bdiskpart\b', "disk partitioning (diskpart)"),
(r'\bformat(?:\.com)?\s+[a-z]:', "format drive (format.com)"),
(r'\bcipher\s+/w\b', "wipe free space (cipher /w)"),
# ACL destruction — Windows analogue of chmod 777.
(r'\bicacls\b[^\n]*\s/grant\b[^\n]*\b(?:everyone|todos|jeder|tout\s+le\s+monde|\*s-1-1-0)\b', "grant Everyone access (icacls)"),
(r'\bicacls\b[^\n]*\s/reset\b', "reset ACLs recursively (icacls /reset)"),
# Backup/recovery destruction — classic ransomware prep.
(r'\bvssadmin\b[^\n]*\bdelete\s+shadows\b', "delete volume shadow copies (vssadmin)"),
(r'\bwbadmin\b[^\n]*\bdelete\b', "delete backups (wbadmin)"),
(r'\bbcdedit\b[^\n]*\s/set\b', "modify boot configuration (bcdedit /set)"),
# Registry deletion with force flag.
(r'\breg(?:\.exe)?\s+delete\b', "registry delete (reg delete)"),
(r'\bremove-itemproperty\b[^\n]*\s-force\b', "registry value delete (Remove-ItemProperty -Force)"),
# Windows service/system stop — analogue of systemctl stop.
(r'\bstop-service\b[^\n]*\s-force\b', "force stop service (Stop-Service -Force)"),
(r'\bsc(?:\.exe)?\s+(?:stop|delete)\b', "stop/delete service (sc)"),
# Windows-form credential paths; the POSIX ~/.ssh patterns never match drive-letter or backslash spellings.
(r'\busers[\\/][^\\/\s]+[\\/]\.ssh\b', "access to SSH keys (Windows path)"),
(r'\bappdata[\\/](?:local|roaming)[\\/]hermes[^\n]*\.env\b', "access to Hermes secrets (Windows path)"),
# ── end of Windows tier
(r'\bchmod\s+(-[^\s]*\s+)*(777|666|o\+[rwx]*w|a\+[rwx]*w)\b', "world/other-writable permissions"),
(r'\bchmod\s+--recursive\b.*(777|666|o\+[rwx]*w|a\+[rwx]*w)', "recursive world/other-writable (long flag)"),
(r'\bchown\s+(-[^\s]*)?R\s+root', "recursive chown to root"),
(r'\bchown\s+--recur[a-z]*\b.*root', "recursive chown to root (long flag)"),
# _CMDPOS-anchored like the hardline twins: quoted prose mentioning mkfs/dd must not require approval to echo.
# See #93392.
(_CMDPOS + r'mkfs\b', "format filesystem"),
(_CMDPOS + r'dd\s+.*if=', "disk copy"),
(r'>\s*/dev/sd', "write to block device"),
(r'\bDROP\s+(TABLE|DATABASE)\b', "SQL DROP"),
# [^\n]* not .*: under DOTALL a WHERE on the *next* line would satisfy the lookahead and
# silently allow DELETE without WHERE.
(r'\bDELETE\s+FROM\b(?![^\n]*\bWHERE\b)', "SQL DELETE without WHERE"),
(r'\bTRUNCATE\s+(TABLE)?\s*\w', "SQL TRUNCATE"),
(rf'>\s*{_SYSTEM_CONFIG_PATH}', "overwrite system config"),
(r'\bsystemctl\s+(-[^\s]+\s+)*(stop|restart|disable|mask)\b', "stop/restart system service"),
(r'\bkill\s+-9\s+-1\b', "kill all processes"),
(r'\bpkill\s+-9\b', "force kill processes"),
# killall with SIGKILL (-9 / -KILL / -s KILL / -SIGKILL) and `killall -r <regex>` broad sweeps
# that can wipe unrelated processes.
(r'\bkillall\s+(-[^\s]*\s+)*-(9|KILL|SIGKILL)\b', "force kill processes (killall -KILL)"),
(r'\bkillall\s+(-[^\s]*\s+)*-s\s+(KILL|SIGKILL|9)\b', "force kill processes (killall -s KILL)"),
(r'\bkillall\s+(-[^\s]*\s+)*-r\b', "kill processes by regex (killall -r)"),
(r':\(\)\s*\{\s*:\s*\|\s*:\s*&\s*\}\s*;\s*:', "fork bomb"),
# Shell -c is parsed structurally by _execution_flag_findings(); a regex searching a dash-token
# for "c" also matched --norc/--rcfile/--restricted.
(r'\b(curl|wget)\b.*\|\s*(?:[/\w]*/)?(?:ba)?sh(?:\s|$|-c)', "pipe remote content to shell"),
(r'\b(bash|sh|zsh|ksh)\s+<\s*<?\s*\(\s*(curl|wget)\b', "execute remote script via process substitution"),
# eval/source/. $(curl ...) — equivalent to piping remote content to a shell.
(r'(?:\beval\b|\bsource\b|\.)\s*(?:\$\(\s*|`\s*)(?:curl|wget)\b', "execute remote content via command substitution"),
# Decode-and-execute: `echo <base64> | base64 -d | bash` carries no dangerous keywords in the
# raw text yet runs arbitrary commands.
(r'\b(base64|base32|base16)\s+(?:-[dD]|--decode)\b.*\|\s*\b(bash|sh|zsh|ksh|dash)\b', "pipe decoded content to shell (possible command obfuscation)"),
# xxd uses -r for decode, not -d.
(r'\bxxd\s+-r\b.*\|\s*\b(bash|sh|zsh|ksh|dash)\b', "pipe xxd-decoded content to shell (possible command obfuscation)"),
# `echo 'eq -pe v/' | tr 'eqv' 'rmf' | bash` decodes to `rm -rf /`.
(r'\becho\b[^|]*\|\s*\btr\b[^|]*\|\s*\b(bash|sh|zsh|ksh|dash)\b', "pipe tr-transformed output to shell (possible command obfuscation)"),
(r'\bopenssl\b.*\b(?:base64|enc)\b[^|]*\s+-[dD]\b[^|]*\|\s*\b(bash|sh|zsh|ksh|dash)\b',
"pipe openssl-decoded content to shell (possible command obfuscation)"),
(rf'\btee\b.*["\']?{_SENSITIVE_WRITE_TARGET}', "overwrite system file via tee"),
(rf'>>?\s*["\']?{_SENSITIVE_WRITE_TARGET}', "overwrite system file via redirection"),
(rf'\btee\b.*["\']?{_PROJECT_SENSITIVE_WRITE_TARGET}["\']?{_WRITE_TARGET_BOUNDARY}', "overwrite project env/config via tee"),
(rf'>>?\s*["\']?{_PROJECT_SENSITIVE_WRITE_TARGET}["\']?{_WRITE_TARGET_BOUNDARY}', "overwrite project env/config via redirection"),
(r'\bxargs\s+.*\brm\b', "xargs with rm"),
# -execdir has the same semantics as -exec (runs in each match's directory).
(r'\bfind\b.*-exec(?:dir)?\s+(/\S*/)?rm\b', "find -exec/-execdir rm"),
(r'\bfind\b.*-delete\b', "find -delete"),
# Gateway lifecycle: stopping/restarting the gateway kills all running agents. Global flags
# between `hermes` and `gateway` (`hermes -p ade gateway restart`) are allowed so a profile flag can't slip past.
(r'\bhermes\s+(?:-{1,2}\S+(?:\s+\S+)?\s+)*gateway\s+(stop|restart)\b', "stop/restart hermes gateway (kills running agents)"),
(r'\bhermes\s+update\b', "hermes update (restarts gateway, kills running agents)"),
# Docker/Podman daemon redirect — global flags or env that point the CLI at a DIFFERENT (often remote) daemon:
# `docker -H ssh://prod stop app` looks local but operates on remote infra, so any redirect requires approval
# regardless of subcommand. The flag must be in global position (before the subcommand) and -H/--host/--context
# must carry a value, keeping `docker -h` and `docker run -h <hostname>` out. Listed BEFORE the lifecycle rules so
# a redirected lifecycle command surfaces the more specific reason.
(r'\bdocker\s+(?:-{1,2}\S+(?:[=\s]\S+)?\s+)*(?:-h|--host)[=\s]+\S+', "docker with remote daemon redirect (-H/--host)"),
(r'\bdocker\s+(?:-{1,2}\S+(?:[=\s]\S+)?\s+)*(?:-c|--context)[=\s]+\S+', "docker with daemon redirect (--context: alternate daemon)"),
(r'\bdocker\s+context\s+use\b', "docker context use (switches default daemon for future commands)"),
(r'\bpodman\s+(?:-{1,2}\S+(?:[=\s]\S+)?\s+)*(?:--url|--connection|--identity)[=\s]+\S+', "podman with remote daemon redirect (--url/--connection/--identity)"),
(r'\bpodman\s+(?:-{1,2}\S+(?:[=\s]\S+)?\s+)*(?:-r\b|--remote\b)', "podman remote mode (-r/--remote: remote daemon)"),
(r'\b(?:docker_host|docker_context|container_host|container_connection)=\S+', "docker/podman daemon redirect via environment (DOCKER_HOST/CONTAINER_HOST)"),
# Container lifecycle (docker.sock mounts let the agent stop/kill containers) always needs
# consent. Global flags between docker/compose and the verb and the legacy `docker-compose`
# binary are allowed so a flag can't slip past.
(r'\bdocker(?:-compose|\s+compose)\s+(?:-{1,2}\S+(?:[=\s]\S+)?\s+)*(restart|stop|kill|down)\b', "docker compose restart/stop/kill/down (container lifecycle)"),
(r'\bdocker\s+(?:-{1,2}\S+(?:[=\s]\S+)?\s+)*(restart|stop|kill)\b', "docker restart/stop/kill (container lifecycle)"),
# Gateway protection: never start gateway outside systemd management
(r'gateway\s+run\b.*(&\s*$|&\s*;|\bdisown\b|\bsetsid\b)', "start gateway outside systemd (use 'systemctl --user restart hermes-gateway')"),
(r'\bnohup\b.*gateway\s+run\b', "start gateway outside systemd (use 'systemctl --user restart hermes-gateway')"),
# Self-termination protection: prevent agent from killing its own process
(r'\b(pkill|killall)\b.*\b(hermes|gateway|cli\.py)\b', "kill hermes/gateway process (self-termination)"),
# Self-termination via kill + $(pgrep/pidof): the substitution is opaque to the name-based
# pattern above, so catch the structural form.
(r'\bkill\b.*\$\(\s*(pgrep|pidof)\b', "kill process via pgrep/pidof expansion (self-termination)"),
(r'\bkill\b.*`\s*(pgrep|pidof)\b', "kill process via backtick pgrep/pidof expansion (self-termination)"),
# launchctl-driven gateway stop/restart on macOS (label `ai.hermes.gateway`). Two independent lookaheads, NOT a
# sequential match: a for-loop building the label from a list defined EARLIER (`for item in 'ai.hermes...'; do
# launchctl bootout "$label"`) never has "hermes" after the verb, and that slipped past and restarted 4 gateways
# with zero approval. Erring broad is correct for an approval gate: an extra prompt is cheap.
(r'(?=[\s\S]*\blaunchctl\s+(?:stop|kickstart|bootout|unload|kill|disable|remove)\b)(?=[\s\S]*\b(?:hermes|ai\.hermes)\b)', "stop/restart hermes launchd service (kills running agents)"),
(rf'\b(cp|mv|install)\b.*\s{_SYSTEM_CONFIG_PATH}', "copy/move file into system config path"),
(rf'\b(cp|mv|install)\b.*\s["\']?{_PROJECT_SENSITIVE_WRITE_TARGET}["\']?{_COMMAND_TAIL}', "overwrite project env/config file"),
# cp/mv/install OVERWRITING a credential/SSH/shell-rc/Hermes file (key implant, login-time
# injection) — pairs the tee/redirection coverage. Anchored to the command tail so only the
# DESTINATION fires; reading OUT of a sensitive path (`cp ~/.ssh/config /tmp/x`) stays safe.
# The trailing `[^\s"\']*` consumes the rest of the destination filename.
# The tee/redirection patterns above already gate _SENSITIVE_WRITE_TARGET (~/.ssh/*,
# ~/.netrc/.pgpass/.npmrc/.pypirc, shell rc files, ~/.hermes/config.yaml/.env), but cp/mv/install was
# only paired for /etc and project-relative env/config — so `cp evil ~/.ssh/authorized_keys` (key
# implant), `cp creds ~/.netrc`, and `cp evil ~/.bashrc` (login-time command injection) slipped through
# with auto-approve. Same unpaired-door rationale as #14639 / the sed-tee-redirect pairing on these
# targets. `authorized_keys` after the `~/.ssh/` fragment).
(rf'\b(cp|mv|install)\b.*\s["\']?{_SENSITIVE_WRITE_TARGET}[^\s"\']*["\']?{_COMMAND_TAIL}', "copy/move file into sensitive credential/SSH/shell-rc path"),
# In-place edits mutate the file directly, bypassing redirection/tee/cp coverage; gate the same
# startup/credential files.
(rf'\bsed\s+-[^\s]*i.*(?:{_USER_SENSITIVE_WRITE_TARGET})[^\s"\']*', "in-place edit of sensitive credential/SSH/shell-rc path"),
(rf'\bsed\s+--in-place\b.*(?:{_USER_SENSITIVE_WRITE_TARGET})[^\s"\']*', "in-place edit of sensitive credential/SSH/shell-rc path (long flag)"),
(rf'\b(?:perl|ruby)\b.*(?:^|\s)-[^\s]*i\b.*(?:{_USER_SENSITIVE_WRITE_TARGET})[^\s"\']*', "in-place edit of sensitive credential/SSH/shell-rc path (perl/ruby)"),
(rf'\bsed\s+-[^\s]*i.*\s{_SYSTEM_CONFIG_PATH}', "in-place edit of system config"),
(rf'\bsed\s+--in-place\b.*\s{_SYSTEM_CONFIG_PATH}', "in-place edit of system config (long flag)"),
# sed -i on Hermes config/.env bypasses the redirection/tee rules; pairs the file_tools
# write_file/patch deny so the terminal side is not an open door.
# In-place edit of a Hermes-managed security file (~/.hermes/config.yaml or .env). sed -i bypasses the
# redirection/tee patterns above because it mutates the file directly. See #14639.
(rf'\bsed\s+-[^\s]*i.*(?:{_HERMES_CONFIG_PATH}|{_HERMES_ENV_PATH})', "in-place edit of Hermes config/env"),
(rf'\bsed\s+--in-place\b.*(?:{_HERMES_CONFIG_PATH}|{_HERMES_ENV_PATH})', "in-place edit of Hermes config/env (long flag)"),
# perl/ruby -i: the flag may be its own token after other flags (`-p -i -e`), combined (`-pi`), or carry a backup
# suffix (`-i.bak`), so match any flag token containing `i` anywhere; `perl -e '...'` (no -i) does not trip.
# perl -i and ruby -i perform the same in-place mutation as sed -i but are not caught by the -e/-c
# script-execution pattern above (which targets code evaluation, not file mutation). Pairs the sed -i
# coverage from #14639.
(rf'\b(?:perl|ruby)\b.*(?:^|\s)-[^\s]*i\b.*(?:{_HERMES_CONFIG_PATH}|{_HERMES_ENV_PATH})', "in-place edit of Hermes config/env (perl/ruby)"),
# Interpreter heredocs are handled by _execution_flag_findings(); only shell heredocs stay
# regex-based. `bash <<'EOF'` runs arbitrary commands without triggering the `bash -c` path.
(r'\b(bash|sh|zsh|ksh)\s+<<', "shell execution via heredoc"),
# Git destructive operations. `git reset --hard` accepts any unambiguous long-flag prefix (--h,
# --ha, --har): --hard is the only reset mode starting with "h", and `--help` is special-cased
# by git before mode resolution.
(r'\bgit\s+reset\s+--h(?:a(?:r(?:d)?)?)?\b', "git reset --hard (destroys uncommitted changes)"),
(r'\bgit\s+push\b.*--forc[a-z]*\b', "git force push (rewrites remote history)"),
(r'\bgit\s+push\b.*-f\b', "git force push short flag (rewrites remote history)"),
(r'\bgit\s+clean\s+-[^\s]*f', "git clean with force (deletes untracked files)"),
(r'\bgit\s+branch\s+-D\b', "git branch force delete"),
# `-D` = `-d --force`; the long spellings are different tokens, so match delete+force in either order, bounded to
# one command segment (no `;`/`|`/`&`/newline) so an unrelated later command isn't contaminated.
(r'\bgit\s+branch\b[^;|&\n]*?(?:-d\b|--delete\b)[^;|&\n]*?(?:-f\b|--force\b)', "git branch force delete (long flags)"),
(r'\bgit\s+branch\b[^;|&\n]*?(?:-f\b|--force\b)[^;|&\n]*?(?:-d\b|--delete\b)', "git branch force delete (long flags, force-first)"),
# chmod +x then immediate run: the script content may hold dangerous commands individual patterns miss.
(r'\bchmod\s+\+x\b.*[;&|]+\s*\./', "chmod +x followed by immediate execution"),
# Sudo stdin/askpass/shell/list-privs flags. The agent has no TTY, so sudo invocations that succeed
# non-interactively read the password from stdin (-S) or askpass (-A); -s (shell) and -a (list) are gated as
# privilege chains (read SUDO_PASSWORD from .env -> sudo -S -s). Plain `sudo cmd` is TTY-bound and excluded. Input
# is lowercased, so S/s and A/a collapse. Lazy `[^;|&\n]*?` allows flag args without spanning separators. sudo
# resolves unambiguous long-flag prefixes: `--stdin` is the only long option starting with "st", `--askpass` the
# only one starting with "a".
(r'\bsudo\b[^;|&\n]*?\s+(?:-s\b|--st[a-z]*\b|-a\b|--a[a-z]*\b)', "sudo with privilege flag (stdin/askpass/shell/list)"),
# Combined short-flag form (-nS, -sa, -las).
(r'\bsudo\b[^;|&\n]*?\s+-[a-z]*[sa][a-z]*\b', "sudo with combined-flag privilege escalation"),
# Package-manager uninstall commands can remove installed software outside
# the current project (notably `npm uninstall -g`). Treat their destructive
# subcommands like other state-removing operations while leaving installs
# and updates alone.
(r'\bnpm\s+(?:-[^\s]+\s+)*(?:uninstall|unlink|remove|rm|r|un)\b', "package manager uninstall"),
(r'\bpnpm\s+(?:-[^\s]+\s+)*(?:uninstall|remove|rm|un)\b', "package manager uninstall"),
(r'\byarn\s+(?:global\s+)?(?:uninstall|remove)\b', "package manager uninstall"),
(r'\bpip(?:3)?\s+(?:-[^\s]+\s+)*uninstall\b', "package manager uninstall"),
(r'\bbrew\s+(?:uninstall|remove|rm)\b', "package manager uninstall"),
]
DANGEROUS_PATTERNS_COMPILED = [(re.compile(p, _RE_FLAGS), d) for p, d in DANGEROUS_PATTERNS]
# Preserve approvals stored under the removed interpreter regex rules.
_REMOVED_PATTERN_KEY_ALIASES = {
"script execution via -e/-c flag": "(python[23]?|perl|ruby|node)\\s+-[ec]\\s+",
"script execution via heredoc": "(python[23]?|perl|ruby|node)\\s+<<",
}
# description <-> legacy regex-derived key (the old approval key, kept for backwards compatibility
# with stored allowlist/session entries), both ways.
_PATTERN_KEY_ALIASES: dict[str, set[str]] = {}
for _canonical_key, _legacy_key in [
(d, p.split(r'\b')[1] if r'\b' in p else p[:20]) for p, d in DANGEROUS_PATTERNS
] + list(_REMOVED_PATTERN_KEY_ALIASES.items()):
_PATTERN_KEY_ALIASES.setdefault(_canonical_key, set()).update({_canonical_key, _legacy_key})
_PATTERN_KEY_ALIASES.setdefault(_legacy_key, set()).update({_legacy_key, _canonical_key})
def _approval_key_aliases(pattern_key: str) -> set[str]:
"""All approval keys for this pattern: the description plus the historical regex-derived key
older allowlist/session entries may still use."""
return _PATTERN_KEY_ALIASES.get(pattern_key, {pattern_key})
# ---- Detection ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
def _normalize_command_for_detection(command: str) -> str:
"""Normalize a command before pattern matching so ANSI escapes, null bytes, Unicode fullwidth
forms, and shell splicing tricks cannot bypass detection."""
from tools.ansi_strip import strip_ansi
command = unicodedata.normalize('NFKC', strip_ansi(command).replace('\x00', ''))
# Collapse backslash-newline continuations (`rm -rf \<newline>/` runs as `rm -rf /`). MUST
# precede the generic escape strip below, whose [^\n] class skips newlines and would leave the
# backslash wedged between tokens, defeating the structured rm/mkfs/dd patterns incl. the HARDLINE floor.
command = re.sub(r'\\\r?\n', '', command)
# Fold absolute user/Hermes home prefixes to ~/ and ~/.hermes/ so the static patterns catch /home/alice/.bashrc
# and C:\Users\alice\.bashrc. Resolved at detection time (not import time) so it tracks HOME/HERMES_HOME set
# later. MUST run before the backslash strip (which would dissolve C:\Users\alice to C:Usersalice). Hermes home
# first: on Windows it nests under the user home, and folding the user home first would eat the prefix it needs.
command = _rewrite_resolved_hermes_home(command)
command = _rewrite_resolved_user_home(command)
# Strip backslash-escapes (r\m -> rm) and empty-string literals (r''m -> rm).
command = re.sub(r'\\([^\n])', r'\1', command)
command = re.sub(r"''|\"\"", '', command)
# Collapse $IFS / ${IFS...} (incl. `${IFS:0:1}`) to a space: IFS defaults to whitespace, so `rm${IFS}-rf${IFS}/`
# runs as `rm -rf /`, and every pattern — incl. the hardline floor — anchors on literal \s between tokens.
return re.sub(r'\$\{IFS\b[^}]*\}|\$IFS\b', ' ', command)
# Shell metacharacters, quotes, and whitespace that terminate a path token.
_PATH_TOKEN_STOP = r"""\s'"`;|&<>()"""
_PATH_TAIL = r"(?P<tail>(?:[/\\][^/\\" + _PATH_TOKEN_STOP + r"]*)+)"
@functools.lru_cache(maxsize=64)
def _home_prefix_fold_regex(path: str):
"""Compile a regex matching *path* as an absolute directory prefix.
Components match with either separator so native Windows, forward-slash, and mixed forms all
fold; the caller normalizes the tail's backslashes to ``/``. A non-empty tail is required, so a
bare home is never folded. Returns ``None`` for an unset/degenerate path (fewer than two
components: ``/``, ``C:\\``, ``""``) so a stray HOME cannot rewrite unrelated prefixes."""
components = [c for c in re.split(r"[/\\]+", path) if c] if path else []
if len(components) < 2:
return None
# Optional leading root separator; a Windows drive letter is a component.
return re.compile(r"[/\\]*" + r"[/\\]+".join(re.escape(c) for c in components) + _PATH_TAIL)
def _fold_home_prefixes(command: str, paths, replacement: str) -> str:
"""Fold each resolved home prefix in *command* to *replacement* (no trailing separator; the tail
supplies it). Longest first so a deeper home folds before a shorter overlapping one that would clobber it."""
for path in dict.fromkeys(sorted((p for p in paths if p), key=len, reverse=True)):
pattern = _home_prefix_fold_regex(path)
if pattern is not None:
command = pattern.sub(lambda m: replacement + m.group("tail").replace("\\", "/"), command)
return command
def _rewrite_resolved_user_home(command: str) -> str:
"""User home (expanduser / realpath / $HOME) -> ``~/``; no-op when unset, degenerate, or unresolvable."""
try:
# expanduser, realpath, and an explicit HOME — Windows expanduser uses USERPROFILE, not HOME.
home = os.path.expanduser("~")
paths = [home, os.path.realpath(home), os.environ.get("HOME", "")]
except Exception:
return command
return _fold_home_prefixes(command, paths, "~")
def _rewrite_resolved_hermes_home(command: str) -> str:
"""Resolved HERMES_HOME (and its realpath) -> ``~/.hermes/`` so the _HERMES_CONFIG_PATH /
_HERMES_ENV_PATH rules match Docker/gateway deployments that spell the absolute path."""
try:
from hermes_constants import get_hermes_home
home = get_hermes_home().expanduser()
paths = [str(home), str(home.resolve(strict=False))]
except Exception:
return command
return _fold_home_prefixes(command, paths, "~/.hermes")
_PARAM_REPLACEMENT_RE = re.compile(r"\$\{[^}/\s]+/[^}/]*/(?P<replacement>[^}]*)\}")
_PARAM_DEFAULT_RE = re.compile(r"\$\{[^}:}\s]+:-(?P<default>[^}]*)\}")
_SIMPLE_SHELL_LITERAL_RE = re.compile(r"^[A-Za-z0-9_./:@%+=,-]+$")
_ENV_ASSIGNMENT_RE = re.compile(r"[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*=.*")
_COMMAND_WRAPPER_WORDS = {"sudo", "env", "exec", "nohup", "setsid", "time", "command", "builtin",
"nice", "timeout", "stdbuf", "ionice", "chrt", "taskset", "chroot"}
_SUDO_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG = {"-c", "--close-from", "-g", "--group", "-h", "--host", "-p", "--prompt", "-u", "--user"}
# Adapted from embwl0x's command-position work in #76063. Option operands are
# data, not executable positions; option spelling remains case-sensitive.
_COMMAND_WRAPPER_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG = {
"chroot": {"--groups", "--userspec"},
"sudo": _SUDO_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG,
"env": {"-a", "--argv0", "-C", "--chdir", "-S", "--split-string", "-u", "--unset"},
"exec": {"-a"}, "nice": {"-n", "--adjustment"},
"time": {"-f", "--format", "-o", "--output"},
"timeout": {"-k", "--kill-after", "-s", "--signal"},
"stdbuf": {"-e", "--error", "-i", "--input", "-o", "--output"},
"ionice": {"-c", "--class", "-n", "--classdata"},
}
_COMMAND_WRAPPER_NON_EXECUTING_OPTIONS = {
"command": {"-v", "-V"}, "chrt": {"-p", "--pid"},
"ionice": {"-p", "--pid", "--pgid", "--uid"}, "taskset": {"-p", "--pid"},
}
_COMMAND_WRAPPER_POSITIONAL_ARGS = {"chroot": 1, "chrt": 1, "taskset": 1, "timeout": 1}
_SHELL_COMMAND_TRANSITIONS = {"if", "then", "else", "elif", "do", "while", "until", "!"}
_SHELL_REDIRECTION_RE = re.compile(r"(?:[0-9]+)?(?:>>|<<|<>|>&|<&|>\||[<>])")
_INTERPRETER_NAME_RES = tuple((family, re.compile(pattern)) for family, pattern in (
("python", r"py(?:\.exe)?|python[23]?(?:\.\d+)*(?:\.exe)?"), ("node", r"node(?:js)?(?:\.exe)?"),
("perl", r"perl[0-9]*(?:\.\d+)*(?:\.exe)?"), ("ruby", r"ruby[0-9.]*(?:\.exe)?"), ("php", r"php(?:\.exe)?"),
("powershell", r"powershell(?:\.exe)?|pwsh(?:\.exe)?"),
))
_INTERPRETER_EXEC_FLAGS = {
"python": {"-c"}, "node": {"-e", "--eval", "-p", "--print"}, "perl": {"-e", "--eval"}, "ruby": {"-e"},
"php": {"-r"}, "powershell": {"-command", "-c", "-file", "-f"},
}
_INTERPRETER_WITH_ARG = {
"python": {"-W", "-X", "--check-hash-based-pycs"},
"node": {"-C", "--conditions", "--cpu-prof-dir", "--diagnostic-dir", "--icu-data-dir", "--import", "--loader",
"--openssl-config", "--require", "--title"},
"perl": {"-0", "-F", "-I", "-M", "-m", "-x"}, "ruby": {"-C", "-E", "-F", "-I", "-K", "-r"},
"php": {"-c", "-d", "-z"},
"powershell": {"-configurationname", "-custompipename", "-executionpolicy", "-inputformat", "-outputformat",
"-settingsfile", "-version", "-windowstyle", "-workingdirectory"},
}
_READ_TOOL_EXEC_FLAGS = {
"sort": {"--compress-program"}, "rg": {"--pre", "--hostname-bin"}, "ag": {"--pager"},
"man": {"--pager", "--html", "-P", "-H"},
}
# Required-argument options are ownership boundaries: an option-looking next token is data, not another option. These
# sets mirror the invocation grammar of the supported binaries (ripgrep 14, GNU sort, man-db, and ag 2.2).
_READ_TOOL_LONG_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG = {
"rg": {
"--after-context", "--before-context", "--color", "--colors", "--context", "--context-separator",
"--dfa-size-limit", "--encoding", "--engine", "--field-context-separator", "--field-match-separator",
"--file", "--generate", "--glob", "--hostname-bin", "--hyperlink-format", "--iglob", "--ignore-file",
"--max-columns", "--max-count", "--max-depth", "--max-filesize", "--path-separator", "--pre", "--pre-glob",
"--regex-size-limit", "--regexp", "--replace", "--sort", "--sortr", "--threads", "--type", "--type-add",
"--type-clear", "--type-not",
},
"sort": {
"--batch-size", "--buffer-size", "--compress-program", "--field-separator", "--files0-from", "--key",
"--output", "--parallel", "--random-source", "--sort", "--temporary-directory",
},
"man": {
"--config-file", "--encoding", "--extension", "--locale", "--manpath", "--pager", "--preprocessor",
"--prompt", "--recode", "--sections", "--systems",
},
"ag": {
"--ackmate-dir-filter", "--color-line-number", "--color-match", "--color-path", "--depth",
"--filename-pattern", "--file-search-regex", "--ignore", "--ignore-dir", "--max-count", "--pager",
"--path-to-ignore", "--width", "--workers",
},
}
_READ_TOOL_SHORT_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG = {
"rg": frozenset("efEmjgdtTABCMr"), "sort": frozenset("koStT"), "man": frozenset("CRLmMSserEPp"),
"ag": frozenset("gGmpW"),
}
_GREP_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG = {
"--after-context", "--before-context", "--binary-files", "--context", "--directories", "--devices", "--exclude",
"--exclude-dir", "--exclude-from", "--include", "--label", "--max-count", "--regexp", "--file",
}
_GREP_SHORT_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG = {"A", "B", "C", "D", "d", "e", "f", "m"}
_BASH_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG = {"-O", "+O", "-o", "+o", "--init-file", "--rcfile"}
_BASH_SHORT_OPTION_LETTERS = frozenset("ilrsDcabefhkmnptuvxBCEHPTOo")
_MAX_DETECTION_COMMAND_CHARS, _MAX_SEPARATOR_FREE_COMMAND_CHARS, _MAX_DETECTION_SEGMENTS = 128_000, 4_096, 25_000
_PARSER_LIMIT_DESCRIPTION = "command parser limit exceeded"
_MALFORMED_EXEC_DESCRIPTION = "command parser limit or malformed executable payload"
_GATEWAY_LIFECYCLE_SPLICE_DESCRIPTION = "stop/restart hermes gateway via shell-spliced verb (kills running agents)"
def _command_parser_limit_exceeded(command: str) -> bool:
"""Bound all parser work before normalization/tokenization. Separator counting is deliberately
conservative: quoted separators over-count, but crossing the ceiling fails closed rather than
letting an uninspected suffix execute."""
if len(command) > _MAX_DETECTION_COMMAND_CHARS:
return True
# Long separator-free input has no compound-command utility and makes every regex inspect one giant token.
if len(command) > _MAX_SEPARATOR_FREE_COMMAND_CHARS and not any(char in command for char in ";&|\n"):
return True
return sum(command.count(char) for char in ";&|\n") >= _MAX_DETECTION_SEGMENTS
def _backtick_end_from(segment: str, i: int) -> int | None:
"""Index of the backtick closing the one opened at ``i``, or None when none follows."""
j = segment.find("`", i + 1)
while j != -1 and segment[j - 1] == "\\":
j = segment.find("`", j + 1)
return None if j == -1 else j
def _shell_tokens_with_spans(segment: str, start: int):
"""Return shell words as ``(value, start, end, quoted)`` or ``None`` on malformed quoting.
Deliberately small lexer that never expands shell syntax; it exists to keep source spans (which
``shlex`` does not expose) for deciding which quoted grep operand is data, not another command.
Lexing stops at the end of the simple command that begins at *start*: an unquoted ``;``, ``|``,
``&`` or newline, or the ``)`` / backtick that closes the substitution the command sits inside.
Without that, a grep nested as ``"$(grep … | cut …)"`` was lexed together with the enclosing
command's closing quote, read as unbalanced quoting, and reported as a hardline block (546
blocked turns in one run, every one a false positive; ``sed -n "$(grep -n X f | cut -d: -f1),+3p" f``
is the canonical shape)."""
tokens, value, token_start, quote = [], [], None, None
depth = 0 # $(...) nesting opened AFTER start; a closer at depth 0 ends the enclosing substitution
# A backtick opened AFTER start is an operand substitution (``grep -e `cmd` f``); the matching
# closer belongs to it, not to an enclosing backtick the command might sit inside.
in_backtick = False
def flush(end: int) -> None:
raw = segment[token_start:end]
# Only a wholly single-quoted operand is inert shell data. Double quotes still execute $()
# and backticks; unquoted substitutions do too.
inert = (raw.startswith("'") and raw.endswith("'")) or ("='" in raw and raw.endswith("'"))
tokens.append(("".join(value), token_start, end, inert))
end_at = len(segment)
for kind, i, _, _ in _scan_shell(segment, start):
ch = segment[i]
if kind == "char" and not quote:
if ch.isspace() and ch != "\n":
if token_start is not None:
flush(i)
value, token_start = [], None
continue
if segment.startswith("$(", i):
depth += 1
elif ch == "`":
if in_backtick:
in_backtick = False
elif depth == 0 and _backtick_end_from(segment, i) is None:
end_at = i # unmatched: it closes the substitution this command sits inside
break
else:
in_backtick = True
elif ch == ")":
if depth == 0:
end_at = i
break
depth -= 1
elif ch in ";|&\n":
end_at = i
break
if token_start is None:
token_start = i
if kind == "quote":
quote = None if quote else ch
elif kind == "esc":
value.append(segment[i + 1])
elif ch == "\\" and not quote:
return None # dangling backslash
else:
value.append(ch)
if quote:
return None
if token_start is not None:
flush(end_at)
return tokens
def _quoted_grep_pattern_spans(command: str) -> tuple[list[tuple[int, int]], bool]:
"""Structurally locate quoted grep PCRE operands -> (spans, malformed). On an ambiguous or
malformed grep parse callers fail closed and use the original command: no text is hidden on
an uncertain parse."""
spans: list[tuple[int, int]] = []
offset = 0
for segment in _iter_top_level_shell_segments(command):
segment_at = command.find(segment, offset)
offset = segment_at + len(segment)
for start, _, word in _iter_shell_command_word_spans(segment):
if os.path.basename(_deobfuscate_shell_word_for_detection(word)).lower() not in {"grep", "egrep"}:
continue
tokens = _shell_tokens_with_spans(segment, start)
if tokens is None:
return [], True
args, pattern_indexes = tokens[1:], []
pcre = explicit_patterns = False
operand_index, i, options = None, 0, True
while i < len(args):
token = args[i][0]
if options and token == "--":
options = False
elif options and token.startswith("--"):
option, equals, _ = token.partition("=")
pcre = pcre or option == "--perl-regexp"
explicit_patterns = explicit_patterns or option in {"--regexp", "--file"}
takes_next = option in _GREP_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG and not equals
if takes_next and i + 1 >= len(args):
return [], True
if option == "--regexp":
pattern_indexes.append(i + 1 if takes_next else i)
i += 1 if takes_next else 0
elif options and token.startswith("-") and token != "-":
chars = token[1:]
for j, char in enumerate(chars):
pcre = pcre or char == "P"
explicit_patterns = explicit_patterns or char in {"e", "f"}
if char in _GREP_SHORT_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG:
# The first argument-taking short option owns the rest of the bundle,
# or the next token when it comes last.
attached = j + 1 < len(chars)
if not attached and i + 1 >= len(args):
return [], True
if char == "e":
pattern_indexes.append(i if attached else i + 1)
i += 0 if attached else 1
break
elif operand_index is None:
operand_index = i
i += 1
if not explicit_patterns:
if operand_index is None:
return [], pcre
pattern_indexes.append(operand_index)
if pcre:
spans.extend(
(segment_at + token_start, segment_at + token_end)
for _, token_start, token_end, quoted in map(args.__getitem__, pattern_indexes) if quoted
)
return spans, False
def _splice(command: str, edits) -> str:
"""Apply sorted, non-overlapping ``(start, end, text)`` edits to *command* in one pass
(re-slicing per edit is quadratic on 10k+ segments)."""
parts, previous = [], 0
for start, end, text in edits:
parts.extend((command[previous:start], text))
previous = end
return "".join(parts) + command[previous:]
def _grep_safe_detection_variant(command: str) -> tuple[str, bool]:
spans, malformed = _quoted_grep_pattern_spans(command)
if malformed or not spans:
return command, malformed
return _splice(command, [(start, end, " " * (end - start)) for start, end in spans]), False
def _interpreter_family(executable: str) -> str | None:
name = os.path.basename(executable).lower()
return next((family for family, name_re in _INTERPRETER_NAME_RES if name_re.fullmatch(name)), None)
def _shell_segment_tokens(segment: str, start: int) -> list[str] | None:
"""Tokenize an already-bounded command segment. ``None`` distinguishes malformed quoting from
an empty segment so callers can fail closed for a program-bearing option rather than silently
skip it."""
try:
lexer = shlex.shlex(segment[start:], posix=True, punctuation_chars="<>")
lexer.whitespace_split, lexer.commenters = True, ""
return list(lexer)
except ValueError:
return None
def _iter_top_level_shell_segments(command: str):
"""Yield top-level command segments in one left-to-right pass."""
start = 0
for kind, i, j, quote in _scan_shell(command, comments=True):
if kind == "comment" or (kind == "char" and quote is None and command[i] in ";&|\n"):
if start < i:
yield command[start:i]
start = j
if start < len(command):
yield command[start:]
def _interpreter_exec_flag(family: str, args: list[str]) -> str | None:
"""Return an execution-bearing interpreter option, if present."""
flags, with_arg = _INTERPRETER_EXEC_FLAGS[family], _INTERPRETER_WITH_ARG[family]
powershell = family == "powershell"
skip_value = False
for token in args:
if skip_value:
skip_value = False
continue
if token == "--" or (not powershell and not token.startswith("-")):
break
option, equals, _ = token.partition("=")
comparable = option.lower() if powershell else option
if comparable in flags:
return comparable
# `-Wonce` and `ruby -rjson` attach an option value; they are not short-option bundles containing an execution
# flag. PowerShell's normal long options also use one dash, so bundle parsing never applies to that family.
has_attached_option_value = any(
option.startswith(short) and len(option) > len(short)
for short in with_arg if short.startswith("-") and not short.startswith("--")
)
if not powershell and not option.startswith("--") and len(option) > 2 and not has_attached_option_value:
bundled = next((f"-{char}" for char in option[1:] if f"-{char}" in flags), None)
if bundled:
return bundled
skip_value = comparable in with_arg and not equals
return None
def _bash_exec_payload(args: list[str]) -> tuple[bool, str | None]:
"""Return whether Bash ``-c`` occurs and the command string it owns.
Bash's O/o options consume the following argument even when they precede a later ``-c`` or
share its short-option bundle; the two startup-file long options own their next token.
Parsing those first prevents both missed payloads and false ``-c`` hits."""
index = 0
while index < len(args):
token = args[index]
if token == "--" or not token.startswith(("-", "+")):
break
if token in _BASH_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG:
index += 2
continue
chars = token[1:]
# Bash option letters are case-sensitive; restricting to the documented alphabet
# preserves invalid controls such as `-Wc`.
if token.startswith("--") or not set(chars) <= _BASH_SHORT_OPTION_LETTERS:
index += 1
continue
consumed_option_arg = int("O" in chars or "o" in chars)
if "c" in chars:
payload_index = index + 1 + consumed_option_arg
return True, (args[payload_index] if payload_index < len(args) else None)
index += 1 + consumed_option_arg
return False, None
def _read_tool_exec_flag(tool: str, args: list[str]) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
"""Return (option, program) for a read-only tool's program-running flag."""
flags = _READ_TOOL_EXEC_FLAGS[tool]
index = 0
while index < len(args):
token = args[index]
if token == "--":
break
option, equals, payload = token.partition("=")
payload = payload if equals else None
matched = option if option in flags else None
if tool == "man" and token.startswith(("-P", "-H")) and len(token) > 2:
matched, payload = token[:2], token[2:]
if matched:
if payload is None and index + 1 < len(args):
payload = args[index + 1]
# The option owns its program argument regardless of spelling; the real binaries
# execute a '-'-prefixed payload rather than reparsing it.
if payload:
return matched, payload
index += 2 if payload is not None and "=" not in token else 1
elif option in _READ_TOOL_LONG_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG[tool] and payload is None:
index += 2
elif token.startswith("-") and not token.startswith("--") and len(token) > 1:
# In a short bundle, the first argument-taking option owns the rest of the token, or
# the following token when it occurs last.
shorts = _READ_TOOL_SHORT_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG[tool]
owner = next((k for k, char in enumerate(token[1:], start=1) if char in shorts), None)
index += 2 if owner == len(token) - 1 else 1
else:
index += 1
return None
def _execution_flag_findings(command: str):
"""Yield scoped execution mechanisms and any executable payloads."""
for segment in _iter_top_level_shell_segments(command):
for start, _, word in _iter_shell_command_word_spans(segment):
executable = _deobfuscate_shell_word_for_detection(word)
tokens = _shell_segment_tokens(segment, start)
executable_name = os.path.basename(executable).lower()
family = _interpreter_family(executable)
if tokens is None:
if family is not None or executable_name in _READ_TOOL_EXEC_FLAGS:
yield (_MALFORMED_EXEC_DESCRIPTION, None)
continue
if not tokens:
continue
args = tokens[1:]
if family and _interpreter_exec_flag(family, args):
yield ("script execution via -e/-c flag", None)
elif family and any(token.startswith("<<") for token in args):
yield ("script execution via heredoc", None)
else:
if executable_name in {"bash", "sh", "zsh", "ksh"}:
found, payload = _bash_exec_payload(args)
if found:
yield ("shell command via -c/-lc flag", payload)
if executable_name in _READ_TOOL_EXEC_FLAGS:
finding = _read_tool_exec_flag(executable_name, args)
if finding:
yield (f"arbitrary program execution via {executable_name} {finding[0]}", finding[1])
def _skip_shell_whitespace(command: str, pos: int) -> int:
while pos < len(command) and command[pos].isspace():
pos += 1
return pos
def _scan_shell(text: str, start: int = 0, end: int | None = None, *, subst: str = "",
brace: bool = False, stop_unterminated: bool = False, naive_backtick: bool = False,
comments: bool = False):
"""Yield ``(kind, i, j, quote)`` lexical steps over ``text[start:end]`` without expanding.
The single quote/escape state machine behind every detection scanner. ``kind`` is ``"char"``
(one char), ``"esc"`` (backslash + the char it escapes; never inside single quotes), ``"quote"``
(an opening/closing quote char) or ``"subst"`` (a ``$(...)`` / backtick / ``${...}`` span);
With *comments*, ``"comment"`` spans are skipped without interpreting their quote syntax.
``quote`` is the state the step was read in (``None``, ``'`` or ``"``). Substitutions are
recognized unquoted when ``"u"`` is in *subst*, inside double quotes when ``"q"`` is; *brace*
adds unquoted ``${...}``. An unterminated substitution falls through as plain chars unless
*stop_unterminated*, which yields ``("subst", i, None, quote)`` and ends the scan (the caller
descends to *end* itself). *naive_backtick* closes a backtick at the next backtick even if
escaped (the quoted-prose masker's historical behavior)."""
n = len(text) if end is None else end
quote: str | None = None
i = start
while i < n:
ch = text[i]
kind, j = "char", i + 1
if comments and quote is None and _is_shell_comment_start(text, i):
kind, j = "comment", text.find("\n", i, n)
if j < 0:
j = n
elif quote != "'" and ch == "\\" and i + 1 < n:
kind, j = "esc", i + 2
elif ch == quote or (quote is None and ch in "'\""):
kind = "quote"
elif quote != "'" and ("q" if quote else "u") in subst and (
ch == "`" or text.startswith("$(", i) or (brace and not quote and text.startswith("${", i))
):
if ch == "`":
close = text.find("`", i + 1) + 1 or None if naive_backtick else _scan_backtick_end(text, i)
elif text[i + 1] == "(":
close = _scan_dollar_paren_end(text, i)
else:
close = text.find("}", i + 2) + 1 or None
if close is not None:
kind, j = "subst", close
elif stop_unterminated:
yield ("subst", i, None, quote)
return
yield (kind, i, j, quote)
if kind == "quote":
quote = None if quote else ch
i = j
def _scan_dollar_paren_end(command: str, start: int) -> int | None:
"""Return the offset after a balanced ``$(...)`` command substitution."""
depth = 1
for kind, i, _, quote in _scan_shell(command, start + 2):
if kind == "char" and not quote:
depth += command.startswith("$(", i) - (command[i] == ")")
if depth == 0:
return i + 1
return None
def _scan_backtick_end(command: str, start: int) -> int | None:
# Backticks have no quote awareness: only a backslash escapes the next char.
match = re.compile(r"(?:\\.|[^`\\])*`", re.DOTALL).match(command, start + 1)
return match.end() if match else None
def _read_shell_word(command: str, pos: int) -> tuple[int, int, str]:
"""Read one shell word without executing expansions."""
start = end = _skip_shell_whitespace(command, pos)
for kind, i, j, quote in _scan_shell(command, start, subst="u", brace=True):
if kind == "char" and quote is None and (command[i].isspace() or command[i] in ";&|<>()"):
break
end = j
return (start, end, command[start:end])
def _literal_command_substitution_output(script: str) -> str | None:
"""Resolve tiny literal command substitutions without executing a shell."""
try:
tokens = shlex.split(script, posix=True)
except ValueError:
tokens = []
if not tokens:
return None
command, args = tokens[0].lower(), tokens[1:]
if command == "echo":
while args and re.fullmatch(r"-[nEe]+", args[0]):
args = args[1:]
elif command != "printf":
return None
if len(args) == 1 and _SIMPLE_SHELL_LITERAL_RE.fullmatch(args[0]):
return args[0]
if command == "printf" and len(args) == 2 and args[0] == "%s" and _SIMPLE_SHELL_LITERAL_RE.fullmatch(args[1]):
return args[1]
return None
def _replace_simple_command_substitutions(word: str) -> str:
chars: list[str] = []
i = 0
while i < len(word):
opener = 2 if word.startswith("$(", i) else 1 if word[i] == "`" else 0
end = (_scan_dollar_paren_end if opener == 2 else _scan_backtick_end)(word, i) if opener else None
replacement = _literal_command_substitution_output(word[i + opener:end - 1]) if end is not None else None
if replacement is None:
replacement, end = word[i], i + 1
chars.append(replacement)
i = end
return "".join(chars)
def _replace_simple_shell_expansions(word: str) -> str:
word = _replace_simple_command_substitutions(word)
word = _PARAM_REPLACEMENT_RE.sub(lambda match: match.group("replacement"), word)
return _PARAM_DEFAULT_RE.sub(lambda match: match.group("default"), word)
def _strip_shell_word_syntax(word: str) -> str:
return "".join(
word[i + 1] if kind == "esc" else word[i]
for kind, i, _, _ in _scan_shell(word) if kind != "quote"
)
def _deobfuscate_shell_word_for_detection(word: str) -> str:
"""Approximate how shell syntax can spell a command word: collapses quoting/escaping plus
simple literal command substitutions in the word itself. Intentionally narrow and non-executing."""
for _ in range(2):
previous = word
word = _strip_shell_word_syntax(_replace_simple_shell_expansions(word))
if word == previous:
break
return word
def _is_shell_comment_start(command: str, index: int) -> bool:
return command[index] == "#" and (index == 0 or command[index - 1].isspace()
or command[index - 1] in ";&|()<>")
def _iter_shell_command_starts(command: str):
starts = [0]
def scan(start: int, end: int) -> None:
skip = -1
for kind, i, j, quote in _scan_shell(command, start, end, subst="uq", stop_unterminated=True,
comments=True):
if kind == "subst":
# Record a nested $(...)/backtick command start and scan its body.
inner = i + (1 if command[i] == "`" else 2)
starts.append(inner)
scan(inner, end if j is None else j - 1)
elif kind == "char" and quote is None and i != skip:
if command[i] in "({;\n":
starts.append(i + 1)
elif command[i] in "&|":
repeated = i + 1 < end and command[i + 1] == command[i]
skip = i + 1 if repeated else skip
starts.append(i + 1 + repeated)
scan(0, len(command))
seen = set()
for start in starts:
start = _skip_shell_whitespace(command, start)
if start >= len(command) or start in seen or _is_shell_comment_start(command, start):
continue
seen.add(start)
yield start
_, end, word = _read_shell_word(command, start)
if word in _SHELL_COMMAND_TRANSITIONS:
starts.append(end)
def _mark_command_starts(command: str) -> str:
"""Insert a newline before each real (quote-aware) command start.
``\\n`` is already a ``_CMDPOS`` separator, so this exposes subshell ``(cmd)`` and brace-group
``{ cmd; }`` openers — which the flat pattern class omits — to the anchored patterns WITHOUT the
quoted-prose false positives that adding ``(`` / ``{`` to ``_CMDPOS`` would cause: starts inside
quotes are never produced, so ``--title "block (reboot)"`` is left as-is."""
offsets = sorted(o for o in _iter_shell_command_starts(command) if o > 0)
return _splice(command, [(o, o, "\n") for o in offsets]) if offsets else command
def _mask_quoted_newlines(command: str) -> str:
"""Replace raw newlines inside single/double quotes with a space (detection-only).
A quoted newline is DATA to the shell, yet the flat ``_CMDPOS`` class treats every raw ``\\n``
as a command start, so multi-line quoted arguments (commit messages, heredoc text) tripped the
hardline blocklist when a data line began with e.g. ``sudo reboot``. Quote tracking mirrors
``_iter_shell_command_starts``. Unquoted newlines pass through and ``_mark_command_starts``
still re-inserts newlines at genuine starts; an unclosed quote absorbs following newlines
exactly as the shell would, so masking them cannot hide a runnable command."""
if "\n" not in command:
return command
return _mask_quoted_newlines_span(command, 0, len(command))
def _mask_quoted_newlines_span(command: str, start: int, end: int) -> str:
"""``_mask_quoted_newlines`` over ``command[start:end]``. A ``$(...)`` / backtick substitution
inside double quotes is EXECUTABLE, not data: its body is re-scanned with a fresh quote state so a
newline that separates commands inside it survives as a command boundary. Masking it as quoted
data turned ``"$(grep x f\nreboot)"`` into ``... f reboot)``, which no later stage can tell from an
operand; the pre-fix scanner only caught it by refusing the whole command as malformed."""
out: list[str] = []
for kind, i, j, quote in _scan_shell(command, start, end, subst="q"):
if kind == "subst":
# j is the index just past the closer; keep the opener and closer, recurse into the body.
body_start = i + (2 if command.startswith("$(", i) else 1)
body_end = j - 1
out.append(command[i:body_start])
out.append(_mask_quoted_newlines_span(command, body_start, body_end))
out.append(command[body_end:j])
elif quote and kind == "char" and command[i] == "\n":
out.append(" ")
else:
out.append(command[i:j])
return "".join(out)
def _iter_shell_command_word_spans(command: str):
"""Yield command-position words that may be executable names."""
for pos in _iter_shell_command_starts(command):
wrapper, positionals = None, 0
options, skip_arg = True, False
while pos < len(command):
redirect = _SHELL_REDIRECTION_RE.match(command, _skip_shell_whitespace(command, pos))
if redirect:
_, pos, _ = _read_shell_word(command, redirect.end())
continue
word_start, word_end, word = _read_shell_word(command, pos)
if word_start == word_end:
break
pos = word_end
deobfuscated = _deobfuscate_shell_word_for_detection(word)
name = os.path.basename(deobfuscated).lower()
if skip_arg:
skip_arg = False
continue
if wrapper and options and deobfuscated == "--":
options = False
continue
if wrapper and options and deobfuscated.startswith("-"):
option = deobfuscated.split("=", 1)[0]
if wrapper == "env" and (option == "--split-string" or deobfuscated.startswith("-S")):
# The split string and remaining argv form ONE command, handled
# by _env_split_payload; the suffix is not a new executable.
break
queries = _COMMAND_WRAPPER_NON_EXECUTING_OPTIONS.get(wrapper, set())
if option in queries or (wrapper == "command" and not option.startswith("--")
and set(option[1:]) & {"v", "V"}):
break
skip_arg = "=" not in deobfuscated and option in _COMMAND_WRAPPER_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG.get(wrapper, set())
continue
if positionals:
positionals -= 1
continue
if _ENV_ASSIGNMENT_RE.fullmatch(word):
continue
yield (word_start, word_end, word)
if name not in _COMMAND_WRAPPER_WORDS:
break
wrapper, options = name, True
positionals = _COMMAND_WRAPPER_POSITIONAL_ARGS.get(name, 0)
def _shell_command_segment(command: str, start: int) -> str:
"""Bound a candidate to its command, preserving quoted argument bytes."""
end = len(command)
for kind, i, _, quote in _scan_shell(command, start, subst="uq", brace=True, comments=True):
if kind == "comment" or (kind == "char" and quote is None and command[i] in ";&|\n)`"):
end = i
break
return command[start:end].strip()
def _split_env_string(payload: str) -> list[str] | None:
r"""Project GNU env -S literal argv, not POSIX shell words.
Dynamic ${NAME} expansion is deliberately not evaluated: the execution
backend's environment need not be this process's environment.
"""
escapes = {"f": "\f", "n": "\n", "r": "\r", "t": "\t", "v": "\v",
"#": "#", "$": "$", "\"": "\"", "'": "'", "\\": "\\"}
args, word = [], []
quote, started, index = None, False, 0
while index < len(payload):
char = payload[index]
index += 1
if char == "\\":
if index == len(payload):
return None
escaped = payload[index]
if quote == "'" and escaped not in ("'", "\\"):
word.append(char)
started = True
continue
index += 1
if escaped == "c":
if quote:
return None
break
if escaped == "_" and quote is None:
if started:
args.append("".join(word))
word, started = [], False
continue
if escaped not in escapes and escaped != "_":
return None
word.append(" " if escaped == "_" else escapes[escaped])
started = True
continue
if char in ("'", '"') and (quote is None or char == quote):
quote = char if quote is None else None
started = True
continue
if quote is None and char in " \t\n\r\v\f":
if started:
args.append("".join(word))
word, started = [], False
continue
if quote is None and char == "#" and not started:
break
if char == "$" and quote != "'":
return None
word.append(char)
started = True
if quote:
return None
if started:
args.append("".join(word))
return args
def _env_split_payload(tokens: list[str]) -> str | None:
index = 1
while index < len(tokens):
token = tokens[index]
if token == "--" or not token.startswith("-"):
return None
option, equals, value = token.partition("=")
if option == "--split-string" or token.startswith("-S"):
attached = equals if option == "--split-string" else len(token) > 2
if not attached:
index += 1
payload = (value if option == "--split-string" else token[2:]) if attached else (
tokens[index] if index < len(tokens) else "")
args = _split_env_string(payload)
# Protect literal separators when reusing command-position detection;
# only a real shell -c carrier may turn these argv bytes into code.
return shlex.join(args + tokens[index + 1:]) if args is not None else None
index += 2 if not equals and option in _COMMAND_WRAPPER_OPTIONS_WITH_ARG["env"] else 1
return None
def _deny_command_variants(command: str):
"""Add executable projections without reparsing normalized argument data.
Whole-input matching is retained for existing globs. New projections parse
the original quote state, preserve path-specific rules, and fold only the
executable basename (never arbitrary argument paths).
"""
yield from _command_detection_variants(command)
pending, seen = [command], set()
while pending:
source = pending.pop()
if source in seen:
continue
seen.add(source)
for start, end, word in _iter_shell_command_word_spans(source):
segment = _shell_command_segment(source, start)
executable = _deobfuscate_shell_word_for_detection(word)
tail = segment[end - start:]
# Collapse only unquoted inter-word whitespace; quoted prose is data.
parts = []
for kind, i, j, quote in _scan_shell(tail):
if kind == "char" and quote is None and tail[i].isspace():
if not parts or parts[-1] != " ":
parts.append(" ")
else:
parts.append(tail[i:j])
tail = "".join(parts)
for name in dict.fromkeys((executable, os.path.basename(executable))):
candidate = name + tail
yield candidate
# Apply the existing text matching semantics only AFTER locating
# executable positions; never parse its rewritten quotes again.
yield _normalize_command_for_detection(candidate)
if os.path.basename(executable) == "env":
tokens = _shell_segment_tokens(segment, 0)
if tokens:
payload = _env_split_payload(tokens)
if payload:
pending.append(payload)
for _, payload in _execution_flag_findings(source):
if payload:
pending.append(payload)
def _command_detection_variants(command: str):
# Mask quoted newlines BEFORE normalization: normalization strips escapes (\" -> ") and ""
# pairs, corrupting quote tracking (`echo "a\""` becomes an unterminated quote) so masking
# afterwards could swallow a REAL unquoted newline separator. The raw command carries faithful quote state.
normalized = _normalize_command_for_detection(_mask_quoted_newlines(command))
# Quote-aware grep parsing hides only structurally identified pattern operands; malformed or
# ambiguous input stays byte-for-byte intact.
grep_safe, _ = _grep_safe_detection_variant(normalized)
seen = {grep_safe}
yield grep_safe
def fresh(variant: str) -> bool:
if not variant or variant in seen:
return False
seen.add(variant)
return True
# Windows-path variant: normalization strips backslashes as shell escapes, so `del C:\Users\me\.ssh\id_rsa`
# reaches the patterns as `del C:Usersme.sshid_rsa`. When the RAW command has a drive-letter or UNC backslash
# path, also yield a variant with backslashes flattened to `/` BEFORE normalization. Gated on a real path shape so
# POSIX escape semantics (`echo a\"b`) are untouched elsewhere.
# See #69472.
if re.search(r"(?:[A-Za-z]:|\\\\)[\\\\]", command) or re.search(r"[A-Za-z]:\\", command):
win_variant = _normalize_command_for_detection(_mask_quoted_newlines(command.replace("\\", "/")))
if fresh(win_variant):
yield win_variant
# Program-bearing options are parsed in their owning command's context; surfacing only the payload lets the
# hardline floor inspect what will actually run without promoting similar flags or quoted prose.
pending = [normalized]
while pending:
for _, payload in _execution_flag_findings(pending.pop()):
if fresh(payload):
yield payload
# A payload may start with an option-looking program and then invoke a hardline command
# after a separator; mark its starts.
marked_payload = _mark_command_starts(payload)
if marked_payload != payload and fresh(marked_payload):
yield marked_payload
pending.append(payload)
# Subshell `(cmd)` / brace-group `{ cmd; }` openers put `cmd` at a real command position the flat `_CMDPOS`
# patterns can't see (adding `(`/`{` there would match quoted prose like `--title "(reboot)"`). Insert a newline
# at each start the QUOTE-AWARE tokenizer found instead; this covers every `_CMDPOS` rule in one place.
marked = _mark_command_starts(grep_safe)
if marked != grep_safe and fresh(marked):
yield marked
# Quoting/escaping can spell an executable in pieces (r\m, r''m). Keep that deobfuscation scoped
# to command words so arguments don't false-positive.
for word_start, word_end, word in _iter_shell_command_word_spans(normalized):
deobfuscated = _deobfuscate_shell_word_for_detection(word)
if deobfuscated and deobfuscated != word:
variant = normalized[:word_start] + deobfuscated + normalized[word_end:]
if fresh(variant):
yield variant
def _is_verification_artifact_cleanup(command: str) -> bool:
"""Return whether *command* only removes one Hermes ad-hoc temp script."""
try:
argv = shlex.split(command, posix=True)
except ValueError:
return False
if len(argv) != 3 or argv[0] != "rm" or argv[1] != "-f":
return False
operand = argv[2]
temp_dir = os.path.realpath(tempfile.gettempdir())
basename = os.path.basename(operand)
return (
operand == os.path.join(temp_dir, basename)
and os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(operand)) == temp_dir
and re.fullmatch(r"hermes-(?:verify|ad-hoc)-[A-Za-z0-9_.-]+", basename) is not None
)
def _is_shell_token_spliced_gateway_lifecycle(command: str) -> bool:
"""Catch gateway-lifecycle verbs spelled with quote splicing.
Backslash splicing (``kick\\start``) is undone by normalization, but quote splicing is not:
``_deobfuscate_shell_word_for_detection`` is deliberately scoped to command-position words
(widening it would let quoted prose like ``git commit -m "rm -rf /"`` match), and the spliced
verb is an ARGUMENT, so ``launchctl kick"start" -k gui/501/ai.hermes.gateway`` auto-approved.
Delegates to ``cron.lifecycle_guard`` (shlex-tokenized, anchored on a hermes-gateway
identifier). Runs last so an ordinary pattern match keeps its more specific reason; this layer
only prompts — the non-bypassable block still lives in ``cron.lifecycle_guard``.
``_normalize_command_for_detection`` strips backslash escapes, so ``kick\\start`` already reaches the
launchctl pattern above. See #80269.
"""
try:
from cron.lifecycle_guard import contains_gateway_lifecycle_command
except Exception:
return False
return contains_gateway_lifecycle_command(command)
def detect_dangerous_command(command: str) -> tuple:
"""Check dangerous patterns -> (is_dangerous, pattern_key, description)."""
if _command_parser_limit_exceeded(command):
return (True, _PARSER_LIMIT_DESCRIPTION, _PARSER_LIMIT_DESCRIPTION)
if _is_verification_artifact_cleanup(command):
return (False, None, None)
for command_variant in _command_detection_variants(command):
command_lower = command_variant.lower()
for pattern_re, description in DANGEROUS_PATTERNS_COMPILED:
if pattern_re.search(command_lower):
return (True, description, description)
normalized = _normalize_command_for_detection(command)
for description, _ in _execution_flag_findings(normalized):
return (True, description, description)
if _is_shell_token_spliced_gateway_lifecycle(command):
return (True, _GATEWAY_LIFECYCLE_SPLICE_DESCRIPTION, _GATEWAY_LIFECYCLE_SPLICE_DESCRIPTION)
return (False, None, None)