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Environment Secrets Leakage via /proc/self/environ & Process Inspection in AI Coding Agents
Attack Surface & Threat Vector
Autonomous AI agents executing bash commands (e.g. via Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf) can execute 'cat /proc/self/environ', 'cat /proc/$PID/environ', or python process inspection scripts to dump all environment variables passed down from the parent shell. In unshielded environments, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, and corporate DB passwords are automatically read into the agent's context window.
Root Cause Analysis
Default container and subshell environments expose Linux/UNIX virtual pseudo-filesystems (/proc, /sys) with inherited read permissions for host diagnostic parity, failing to treat volatile kernel process descriptors as secret exfiltration vectors.
Mitigation & Architecture Fix
AgentShield v0.2.0+ introduces an in-memory Landlock/Seatbelt virtualized /proc interceptor. Any syscall reading /proc/*/environ, /proc/*/cmdline, or inspectable process memory maps is dynamically intercepted, masked with deterministic [REDACTED_SECRET] tokens, and logged to the security audit trail.
npm install -g @ritualdev-lab/agentshield@latestCI Secret Gate Self-Neutering via Malicious Inverted Glob & Ignore Configuration Bypasses
Attack Surface & Threat Vector
In automated pull request workflows, a malicious contributor or compromised dependency could submit a PR containing a custom .agentshieldignore or .gitignore with inverted glob patterns (e.g. '!secrets/' or '**/.*') designed to silence scanner alerts and self-neuter the CI security gate.
Root Cause Analysis
Directory-level ignore file parsing evaluated repository-supplied ignore rules with higher precedence than global security constraints, allowing local repository settings to suppress critical secret audits.
Mitigation & Architecture Fix
AgentShield v0.2.0+ enforces an Immutable Security Root Policy in CI modes (--strict). High-entropy secrets, PEM certificates, AWS credentials, and .env files are designated Unignorable Base Targets. Any PR attempt to modify or bypass these rules triggers a fatal security gate violation.
npm install -g @ritualdev-lab/agentshield@latestRegular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Catastrophic Backtracking in Entropy Classifier
Attack Surface & Threat Vector
Adversarial prompts, obfuscated token sequences, or specially crafted source code files containing deeply nested, repetitive character patterns (e.g. repeated token delimiters) triggered catastrophic backtracking in custom secret regex engines, causing 100% CPU lockups and stalling agent pre-tool evaluation.
Root Cause Analysis
Use of non-deterministic finite automaton (NFA) regex engines in high-throughput stream scanning where nested quantifiers exhibit worst-case O(2^n) exponential time complexity.
Mitigation & Architecture Fix
AgentShield v0.2.0+ replaced the backtracking regex engine with a linear-time O(n) DFA scanner (RE2-compatible linear parser) and introduced a strict 25ms per-chunk circuit-breaker guard to prevent any computational lockups.
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