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openmoat_core/engine/
taint.rs

1//! Session taint (ADR-020): what earlier calls of a session brought into it,
2//! and how that tightens later decisions.
3//!
4//! The caller keeps the session's history (the CLI reads it from the audit
5//! log) and folds [`CompiledPolicy::exposure`] over the calls that ran. The
6//! resulting [`Taint`] then goes into [`CompiledPolicy::with_taint`], which can
7//! only turn an outcome stricter.
8
9use super::{CompiledPolicy, EvalContext, checked_atoms};
10use crate::action::{Action, AtomicAction};
11use crate::pattern::{GlobPattern, any_match};
12use crate::policy::{Policy, PolicyError};
13use crate::realpath::PathResolver;
14use crate::repo::REPO_RULE_PREFIX;
15use crate::verdict::{Decision, Verdict};
16
17/// The rule group whose `fs.read` patterns name secret material, wherever the
18/// policy puts it. In the default policy it denies, so only a policy that asks
19/// for these reads lets one run and taint the session. A repository policy's
20/// group with the same base id (prefixed to `repo:secrets-paths` by
21/// `RepoPolicy::merge`) is also taint-significant.
22const SECRET_RULE: &str = "secrets-paths";
23
24/// The rule id a tightened decision carries.
25const TAINT_RULE: &str = "session-taint";
26
27/// Where secret material in a session came from.
28#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
29pub struct Secret {
30    /// What brought it in, for reasons (`read /Users/me/.ssh/id_rsa`).
31    pub source: String,
32    /// The one host the secret belongs to and may still go to. `None` for a
33    /// file read: it belongs to no host, so every host asks. The secrets
34    /// broker (ADR-020) raises a `Secret` with its own host when a brokered
35    /// value is used, so later requests to other hosts ask.
36    pub host: Option<String>,
37}
38
39/// What earlier calls of one session exposed it to.
40#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
41pub struct Taint {
42    /// Secret material the session read, de-duplicated by source.
43    pub secrets: Vec<Secret>,
44    /// The first untrusted content the session read (`fetch docs.rs`), if any.
45    pub untrusted: Option<String>,
46}
47
48impl Taint {
49    /// Add what another call exposed the session to.
50    pub fn absorb(&mut self, other: Taint) {
51        for secret in other.secrets {
52            if !self.secrets.contains(&secret) {
53                self.secrets.push(secret);
54            }
55        }
56        if self.untrusted.is_none() {
57            self.untrusted = other.untrusted;
58        }
59    }
60}
61
62/// The built-in protected paths and the ones `policy` adds, compiled for `ctx`.
63pub(super) fn compile_protected(
64    policy: &Policy,
65    ctx: &EvalContext,
66) -> Result<Vec<GlobPattern>, PolicyError> {
67    crate::taint::protected_writes(policy.taint.as_ref())
68        .flat_map(|p| ctx.spellings(p))
69        .map(|p| GlobPattern::compile(&p, ctx.case_insensitive_paths))
70        .collect()
71}
72
73impl CompiledPolicy<'_> {
74    /// What running `action` in `cwd` exposed its session to: secret material
75    /// from a read the `secrets-paths` group names, untrusted content from a
76    /// fetch or an MCP result. The caller passes only calls that ran; the parts
77    /// of an action that cannot be classified expose nothing they can name.
78    #[must_use]
79    pub fn exposure(&self, action: &Action, cwd: &str, paths: &dyn PathResolver) -> Taint {
80        let ctx = EvalContext {
81            cwd: cwd.to_owned(),
82            ..self.ctx.clone()
83        };
84        let (atoms, _) = checked_atoms(action, &ctx, paths);
85        let mut taint = Taint::default();
86        for atom in atoms {
87            match atom {
88                AtomicAction::FsRead { .. } if self.names_secret(&atom) => {
89                    taint.absorb(Taint {
90                        secrets: vec![Secret {
91                            source: atom.describe(),
92                            host: None,
93                        }],
94                        untrusted: None,
95                    });
96                }
97                AtomicAction::Fetch { .. } | AtomicAction::McpTool { .. } => {
98                    taint.untrusted.get_or_insert_with(|| atom.describe());
99                }
100                _ => {}
101            }
102        }
103        taint
104    }
105
106    /// `decision` for `action`, tightened by `taint`: after secret material,
107    /// network to any host but the secret's own, and every MCP call (its
108    /// server's hosts are unknown), asks; after untrusted content, a write to
109    /// a protected path asks. Merging keeps the strictest verdict, so this
110    /// never loosens a decision.
111    #[must_use]
112    pub fn with_taint(
113        &self,
114        decision: Decision,
115        action: &Action,
116        paths: &dyn PathResolver,
117        taint: &Taint,
118    ) -> Decision {
119        // A clean session tightens nothing; skip classifying (and listing the
120        // directories of glob operands) a second time.
121        if *taint == Taint::default() {
122            return decision;
123        }
124        self.atoms(action, paths)
125            .0
126            .iter()
127            .filter_map(|atom| self.tainted(atom, taint))
128            .fold(decision, |mut acc, next| {
129                acc.merge(next);
130                acc
131            })
132    }
133
134    fn tainted(&self, atom: &AtomicAction, taint: &Taint) -> Option<Decision> {
135        let reason = match atom {
136            AtomicAction::Net { host } | AtomicAction::Fetch { host } => {
137                let secret = taint.secrets.iter().find(|s| {
138                    !s.host
139                        .as_deref()
140                        .is_some_and(|own| own.eq_ignore_ascii_case(host))
141                })?;
142                secret_reason(secret, atom)
143            }
144            AtomicAction::McpTool { .. } => secret_reason(taint.secrets.first()?, atom),
145            AtomicAction::FsWrite { path } if any_match(&self.protected, path.as_str()) => {
146                format!(
147                    "the session read untrusted content ({}); {} changes what runs or what the agent is told later",
148                    taint.untrusted.as_ref()?,
149                    atom.describe()
150                )
151            }
152            _ => return None,
153        };
154        Some(Decision::single(Verdict::Ask, TAINT_RULE, reason))
155    }
156
157    fn names_secret(&self, atom: &AtomicAction) -> bool {
158        // A repository policy's rules are renamed to `repo:<id>` by `RepoPolicy::merge`,
159        // so match the base id and the prefixed one; `repo_ask` carries the ask rules
160        // merged in (ADR-022), so iterate it too.
161        [&self.deny, &self.repo_ask, &self.allow, &self.ask]
162            .into_iter()
163            .flatten()
164            .any(|g| {
165                let id = g.group.id.as_str();
166                (id == SECRET_RULE
167                    || id
168                        .strip_prefix(REPO_RULE_PREFIX)
169                        .is_some_and(|rest| rest == SECRET_RULE))
170                    && g.matches(atom)
171            })
172    }
173}
174
175fn secret_reason(secret: &Secret, atom: &AtomicAction) -> String {
176    format!(
177        "the session read secret material ({}); {} could carry it out",
178        secret.source,
179        atom.describe()
180    )
181}