fix(guardian): deny unisolated interpreters in untrusted directories - #1090
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Summary
Harden Guardian's default policy against interpreter module/search-path attacks from downloaded or extracted directories.
An agent-written inline decoder can still execute attacker-controlled code when Python, Ruby, Node, or another interpreter searches the current directory for imports. This is the path used by the
struct.pyshadowing attack described in the Embrace The Red Claude Code Auto Mode write-up.The policy now:
Eval
Used
term-llm askwithout tools, with the production Guardian policy/prompt shape and exact shell action context.Before this change:
gpt-5.4-mini-mediumstruct.pyin transcript: allowedpython3 -Icommand from a trusted parent directory: allowedgpt-5.6-luna-mediumalso allowed the hidden attackA shorter single-bullet policy was insufficient: it denied only 3/5 hidden attempts and still allowed the explicit
struct.pycase.With these two policy rules:
gpt-5.4-mini-medium: hidden attack 5/5 denied, explicit case denied, isolated case allowedgpt-5.6-luna-medium: hidden attack denied, explicit case denied, isolated case allowedThis is deliberately a two-line policy change rather than pretending the classifier is a sandbox.
Tests
go test ./internal/guardian ./internal/toolsgo test ./...(all compiled packages passed; root/cmd/serveui setup is blocked by absent generatedinternal/serveui/static/distassets in the clean worktree)go build ./...(same absent generated Web UI assets)