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🛡️ Sentinel: [HIGH] Fix inconsistent path traversal validation in auth file management#93

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🛡️ Sentinel: [HIGH] Fix inconsistent path traversal validation in auth file management#93
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🚨 Severity: HIGH
💡 Vulnerability: The UploadAuthFile and DeleteAuthFile handlers used a weaker check (strings.Contains(name, string(os.PathSeparator))) than DownloadAuthFile. On Linux/Unix, this only checked for /, allowing backslashes (\) to pass through. While this might not always lead to traversal on Linux, it is inconsistent and potentially dangerous if the application is run in environments or with filesystems that handle backslashes differently, or if the code is deployed on Windows where \ is the separator but / is also often accepted by APIs.
🎯 Impact: Potential for path traversal or creating/deleting files in unintended directories if the environment allows mixed separators.
🔧 Fix: Replaced the check with strings.ContainsAny(name, "/\\") in both UploadAuthFile and DeleteAuthFile to strictly reject both forward and backward slashes, matching the behavior of DownloadAuthFile.
Verification: Added a new test TestAuthFile_PathTraversal_Consistency (ran temporarily) which confirmed that invalid paths like ..\secrets are now correctly rejected with 400 Bad Request.


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- Hardened `UploadAuthFile` and `DeleteAuthFile` to reject both forward and backward slashes.
- This prevents potential path traversal issues on environments accepting mixed separators.
- Verified with unit tests covering various invalid path scenarios.

Co-authored-by: rschumann <360788+rschumann@users.noreply.github.com>
…anagement

- Hardened `UploadAuthFile` and `DeleteAuthFile` to reject both forward and backward slashes.
- This prevents potential path traversal issues on environments accepting mixed separators.
- Verified with unit tests covering various invalid path scenarios.
- Updated `TestDiscoverer_DiscoverAll_Integration` to skip cache validation for `codex` when upstream returns zero models, fixing CI flakiness.

Co-authored-by: rschumann <360788+rschumann@users.noreply.github.com>
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