Block untracked symlink traversal in workspace diff

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
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DottaandPaperclip committed 2026-05-17 15:03:40 -05:00
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@@ -155,6 +155,32 @@ describe("plugin workspace diff service", () => {
expect(diff.warnings).toContainEqual(expect.objectContaining({ code: "file_count_truncated" }));
}, 20_000);
it("does not follow untracked symlinks outside the repo", async () => {
const repoRoot = await createTempRepo();
const outsideDir = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "paperclip-plugin-workspace-diff-secret-"));
tempDirs.add(outsideDir);
const secretContent = "external secret should not appear\n";
const secretPath = path.join(outsideDir, "secret.txt");
await fs.writeFile(secretPath, secretContent, "utf8");
await fs.symlink(secretPath, path.join(repoRoot, "leak.txt"));
const diff = await workspaceDiffService().getDiff(createWorkspace(repoRoot), workingTreeQuery());
const leak = diff.files.find((file) => file.path === "leak.txt");
const serialized = JSON.stringify(diff);
expect(leak).toMatchObject({ untracked: true, status: "untracked", additions: 0, sizeBytes: null });
expect(leak?.patches[0]).toMatchObject({
kind: "untracked",
patch: null,
warnings: [expect.objectContaining({ code: "symlink_target_outside_workspace" })],
});
expect(diff.warnings).toContainEqual(expect.objectContaining({
code: "symlink_target_outside_workspace",
path: "leak.txt",
}));
expect(serialized).not.toContain(secretContent.trim());
}, 20_000);
it("surfaces missing cwd, non-git, invalid base refs, and unsafe path filters as plugin errors", async () => {
const svc = workspaceDiffService();
await expect(svc.getDiff(createWorkspace(null), workingTreeQuery()))