Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

jkroepke/helm-secrets

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Fixes

CVEs

HIGH

Peak severity

100.0%

Coverage

Highlights

Command Injection: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.

scripts/backends/vals.sh: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.

2 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Command Injection: Special characters or quotes in values could escape shell execution contexts within the vals backend, leading to arbitrary command execution during evaluation. This was resolved by shifting from evaluation to piping values via stdin.

Path Traversal: Improper path checks allowed the downloader component to follow symlinks, reference absolute paths, or traverse directories, risking unauthorized file access in shared execution environments.

Information Disclosure: Insecure handling of temporary directories and lack of structured cleanup routines could leave decrypted secrets exposed on disk within shared systems.