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timothyandClaude Opus 5 f523fc535d fix(698): bind the base, constrain the bot exemption by content, re-derive unattributable successes
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The `review-verdict/h10` exemption path decided from mutable or unattributed PR
state, and a machine-written `success` was never revalidated. Three routes, one
root cause, so one change.

Route 1 (reproduced live as probe PR #703, closed unmerged): `/pulls/{n}/files`
diffs against the PR's LIVE base, so retargeting moves the answer without moving
the head sha. A PR opened into `main` and retargeted mid-run enumerated docs-only
and was granted `h10=success` while its diff against `main` carried a C# file;
retargeting back reclassified nothing. `scripts/pr-changed-files.sh` now takes the
expected base branch as a REQUIRED 5th argument (optional would be a silent
opt-out) and checks it before and after paging; the workflow passes it from the
`pull_request_target` payload, which a retarget cannot rewrite, and `edited` is in
`types:` so a retarget reclassifies.

A pinned two-sha diff would close route 1 outright but Gitea 1.25.4 cannot serve
one: `compare/{base}...{head}` returns no `files`, and a `--depth=1` fetch of the
two shas has no merge base. Measured, not assumed. The residual window is stated
in the code and the record rather than papered over.

Route 2: `pull_request.user.login` is the PR's immutable CREATOR while its head is
not, so pushing code onto an open Renovate branch kept the exemption. The bot
exemption now also requires EVERY path to be a dependency manifest — a set measured
across all 11 Renovate PRs this repo has had, not guessed.

Route 3: the never-overwrite short-circuit exited on ANY `success`, so a forgery
obtained once was inherited forever. It now fires only for a status positively
identified as a human verdict (non-null `.creator.login` AND a `Review-verdict:`
description — measured: user-posted statuses carry a creator, Actions-posted ones
carry null). Written in the positive direction so an unrecognised shape is
re-derived rather than trusted.

The two exemptions are composed, not chained: as an `elif` chain a Renovate
docs-only PR lost the docs-only exemption. Caught before commit and pinned by a
test.

Tests: 17 new cases in scripts/tests/test_pr_changed_files.py, each verified by
mutating the clause it covers (8 mutations, 8 kills). Both records trimmed under
the 60-line prose ceiling so the corpus tail-boundary check stays calibrated.

Does NOT close the class: anyone who can POST a status directly can still
impersonate a verdict — that is #697, deliberately left open.

Refs: #698
Decisions-Edit: yes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 19:52:00 +02:00
timothy 5e7623b8d5 fix(648,649): security-review round 2 — close the version-parse hole and the untested caller contract
Two real defects, and three docs claims that were simply wrong.

jq-preflight.sh parsed the version by stripping around the first `-` and `.`, which
assumed the format is exactly `jq-X.Y`. A build printing `jq version 1.6` left major
empty; the sanity check concatenated major+minor into "6", which is non-empty and
all-digits, so it PASSED. The floor comparison then ran `[ "" -lt 1 ]`, which errors —
and `set -e` exempts a failing command in an `if` condition, so the conditional read
false and the script exited 0 having asserted nothing, after printing a plausible
"parsed" line. The silently-untested-axis failure this script exists to eliminate,
reproduced inside the script itself. Now parsed by explicit regex, failing closed with a
diagnosis when there is no <digits>.<digits> match. Also: `--expect` with no value exited
1 with empty output on both streams.

The hook's exit-status check was pinned by nothing: mutating `if files=$(...)` into
`files=$(...) || true; files_complete=yes` left the ENTIRE suite green. It survived only
by redundancy — the script writes stdout once, right before exit 0, so failures also
happen to yield empty stdout and `[ -n "$files" ]` catches it. Safe by accident, which is
the exact criticism this branch levels at the old code. Four tests now pin it, with a
stub that FAILS while emitting a docs-only list (the one case redundancy cannot absorb)
plus a positive control proving the harness can see the difference. Verified: the
mutation now turns exactly those tests red.

Docs corrections. The record claimed the --expect pin was safe because script-tests is
"advisory, not a required check" — false. The merge-consent hook reads the COMBINED
status (ci.advisory-red-blocks-the-merge-gate, #598), so firing the tripwire blocks every
non-docs-only merge until someone re-pins. Kept anyway, for a stated reason, but no
longer described as free. The record also asserted in the present tense that
review-verdict.yml checks out the base ref; it has no checkout step at all, so that is
now a future-tense requirement on the follow-up. And the documented .status allow-list
named GitHub's `removed`, which the code rejects.

The drift-guard regex anchored on `?limit=`, so a re-inlined copy written
`files?page=1&limit=50` would have walked past it.

Decisions-Edit: yes
2026-07-26 22:21:07 +02:00
timothy 2fd798cccf fix(648,649): one shared PR-file enumeration + an explicit jq version contract
#649 — the enforced review-verdict.yml guard had drifted strictly WEAKER than the
advisory merge-consent hook: four rounds of #643 hardening landed on the copy whose
failures produce a human prompt, and never reached the copy that writes the
branch-protection-required review-verdict/h10 status. Its fail-closed behaviour on a
garbage response was also incidental (an empty `n` erroring a bash conditional to
false), not designed.

Extract scripts/pr-changed-files.sh as the single implementation both call. Shared
MECHANISM, not policy: the two docs-only allow-lists differ deliberately and stay
separate. review-verdict.yml now checks out the BASE ref, never the PR head, so a PR
cannot rewrite the gate that judges it.

#648 — baking jq into docker/ci/Dockerfile provably cannot cover the gate that broke:
review-verdict.yml is runs-on:small with no toolchain pin, so it gets the host's jq 1.6
(checked, not assumed). Add scripts/jq-preflight.sh: floor+observable everywhere, and a
--expect tripwire on script-tests only — pinning the required merge check would deadlock
every merge on a jq bump.

Verified by mutation: six guards individually broken, each turning exactly its own test
red, then restored byte-identical.

fixes #648
fixes #649
2026-07-26 22:21:07 +02:00