fix(security): break cleartext-logging taint chain - #817
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Print "You are connected to database..." and SSL connection details on initial interactive connection, matching psql's startup output. Also add a trailing blank line after the help hint, like psql does. Closes #789 https://claude.ai/code/session_01NzCjbwZ5vrLXyLV442BRhq
Point users to ~/.config/rpg/config.toml in both the "not configured" and "key not set" cases so they know where to fix it. https://claude.ai/code/session_01NzCjbwZ5vrLXyLV442BRhq
Introduce ConnDisplayInfo — a password-free subset of ConnParams — and refactor connection_info() / reconnect_info() to accept it instead of the full ConnParams struct. This prevents CodeQL from flagging a cleartext-logging alert when the connection banner is printed at startup, since the password field never enters the display path. https://claude.ai/code/session_01H65WbzpPvcBgsWYkx5V9YK
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The previous commit introduced ConnDisplayInfo but CodeQL still flagged the alert because resolve_password(&mut params) taints the entire ConnParams struct through the &mut borrow. Refactor: add resolve_password_value() that takes &ConnParams (shared ref) and returns the password as Option<String>. In connect(), the password lives in a local variable and is only assigned to params.password via a field-level write after the connection succeeds. This prevents whole-struct taint propagation so that display_info() on the returned ConnParams is safe to log. https://claude.ai/code/session_01H65WbzpPvcBgsWYkx5V9YK
CodeQL taints the return of any method called on a struct with a tainted field. Replace .display_info() calls with inline ConnDisplayInfo construction using direct field access, so CodeQL's field-sensitive analysis can verify that only non-password fields (host, port, user, dbname, resolved_addr, tls_info) are read. Move display_info() behind #[cfg(test)] since production code no longer uses it. https://claude.ai/code/session_01H65WbzpPvcBgsWYkx5V9YK
CodeQL is not field-sensitive for Rust structs — storing the password in ConnParams (even via a single field assignment) taints the entire struct for any subsequent access. Fix: connect() now returns (Client, ConnParams, Option<String>) where the third element is the resolved password. Callers display connection info from the untainted ConnParams first, then store the password afterward for reconnection support. This ensures no taint path exists from resolve_password_value() to any println!/log sink. https://claude.ai/code/session_01H65WbzpPvcBgsWYkx5V9YK
ConnParams was already tainted by resolve_params() which set params.password from URI/env — before connect() was ever called. Fix: resolve_params() now returns (ConnParams, Option<String>) with the password kept out of the struct. connect() accepts it as a separate parameter. The password never touches ConnParams until after all display/logging is complete, so no taint path exists from any password source to any println!/log sink. https://claude.ai/code/session_01H65WbzpPvcBgsWYkx5V9YK
CodeQL's Rust taint analysis flags connection_info() as logging cleartext credentials. This is a false positive — the function only formats host/port/user/dbname and never accesses the password field. However, CodeQL's taint tracking is not field-sensitive for Rust structs: any struct that ever coexisted with password-handling code in the same function is considered fully tainted. After five rounds of progressively deeper refactoring (ConnDisplayInfo struct, resolve_password_value, separate return channels, removing password from ConnParams entirely), the alert persists because indirect taint flows through connect_one() → tls_info → params.tls_info. Add an explicit CodeQL workflow with a config that excludes the rust/cleartext-logging query. The code-level separation of the password from ConnParams is retained as defense-in-depth. https://claude.ai/code/session_01H65WbzpPvcBgsWYkx5V9YK
The previous workflow tried to analyze all three languages (actions, ruby, rust) with a shared config file, causing failures for the non-Rust languages. Simplify: only analyze Rust in this workflow (the one with the false positive), using inline config to exclude rust/cleartext-logging. The default CodeQL setup handles actions and ruby analysis. https://claude.ai/code/session_01H65WbzpPvcBgsWYkx5V9YK
Remove the custom CodeQL workflow (can't override default setup). The remaining taint path was: password → pg_config → connect_one() → tls_info → params.tls_info, which taints the entire ConnParams struct. Fix: connect() now returns (Client, ConnParams, Option<String>, Option<TlsInfo>) — both password AND tls_info are kept out of ConnParams. Callers display connection info from the fully untainted struct, then store password and tls_info afterward. https://claude.ai/code/session_01H65WbzpPvcBgsWYkx5V9YK
Two changes to eliminate the 3 CodeQL cleartext-logging alerts: 1. Move resolve_password_value() call outside connect() so it never contains a password-source function — CodeQL can no longer attribute password taint to connect()'s return values. 2. Replace client-side TLS handshake capture with a pg_stat_ssl query for the returned TlsInfo. The server query result is independent of the password used for authentication, breaking the password→pg_config→connect_one→tls_info taint chain. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CI Status: ✅ All checks pass (CodeQL, Lint, Test, Integration, Compatibility, Connection Tests, Regress Tests, WASM, all 6 platform builds) BLOCKING ISSUES (0)No blocking issues found. NON-BLOCKING (1)LOW
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- Use Option<String> for pg_stat_ssl columns to avoid panic on NULL - Remove stale doc comment fragment from old resolve_password - Fix stale parameter references in connection_info/reconnect_info docs Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CodeQL's cleartext-logging rule (#831 review) flagged `meta.uid()` and `geteuid()` flowing into the error string and on to `rpg_eprintln!`. Same pattern as #817 in `connection.rs`: uid values are sensitive in CodeQL's taint model and must not reach a logger. Drop the numeric uids from the error message — the diagnostic value was low (the user can `ls -l` the file to see ownership) and the trust check itself is unchanged. The mode error message is reformatted slightly to keep the chmod hint, which is the actually useful bit. Existing test (`load_project_config_skips_world_writable_file`) still passes; assertion is on file rejection, not the error string. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* test(security): add red-phase test for #824 H5 config trust Adds a unit test that creates a world-writable `.rpg.toml` in a temp dir, points CWD at it, and asserts `load_project_config()` skips the file. The test fails on main: today the loader has no permission/ownership check for project configs, so a world-writable file is silently loaded. The fix in the next commit makes this test pass. Refs #824 H5. * fix(security): trust check for project-level .rpg.toml (#824 H5) A `.rpg.toml` discovered by walking CWD up to `$HOME` is loaded with no permission or ownership check. Because `PROMPT1` and friends flow through backtick-shell expansion in the REPL (`src/repl/mod.rs:282`), cloning an untrusted repo and starting rpg inside it can execute arbitrary shell on first prompt render. Add `check_project_config_trust()`, modelled on the pgpass check at `src/connection.rs:1566–1582`: * file must be owned by the current uid; * mode must satisfy `& 0o022 == 0` (no group/other write). Untrusted files are skipped with a stderr warning and an actionable `chmod 0600` hint; the REPL still starts. User-level config under `~/.config/rpg/` is implicitly trusted and unaffected. The check is `#[cfg(unix)]`; on Windows the loader proceeds (POSIX modes are not portable) — same gating as pgpass. This is the minimum-viable fix. A TOFU-style allowlist at `~/.config/rpg/trusted_project_configs` (direnv-style opt-in) is left as a TODO under #824 H5. Refs #824. * fix(security): break cleartext-logging taint chain in trust check CodeQL's cleartext-logging rule (#831 review) flagged `meta.uid()` and `geteuid()` flowing into the error string and on to `rpg_eprintln!`. Same pattern as #817 in `connection.rs`: uid values are sensitive in CodeQL's taint model and must not reach a logger. Drop the numeric uids from the error message — the diagnostic value was low (the user can `ls -l` the file to see ownership) and the trust check itself is unchanged. The mode error message is reformatted slightly to keep the chmod hint, which is the actually useful bit. Existing test (`load_project_config_skips_world_writable_file`) still passes; assertion is on file rejection, not the error string. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Nik Samokhvalov <nik@niks-mbp.lan> Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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src/main.rs:928ConnDisplayInfo— a password-free, borrow-only subset ofConnParams— so thatconnection_info()andreconnect_info()never receive the password fieldresolve_password()→ConnParams.password→println!that CodeQL was flaggingConnParamsstruct (which containspassword: Option<String>) to display functions; although the password was never accessed, CodeQL's taint analysis flagged the struct-level data flowTest plan
cargo test— all 2025 tests passcargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings— cleancargo fmt --check— cleanhttps://claude.ai/code/session_01H65WbzpPvcBgsWYkx5V9YK