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SEC428lintai-ai-securitygovernancehardeningstablemarkdownwarn

AI markdown: unsafe Read path grant

AI-native markdown frontmatter grants `Read(...)` over an unsafe repo-external path

Public lane
governance
Category
hardening
Provider
lintai-ai-security
Scope
per-file
Surface
markdown
Tier
stable
Severity
warn
Confidence
high
Detection
structural
Remediation
message only
How to read this lane

Shared authority and workflow policy review.

How to read this category

Least-privilege, provenance, or operational hygiene signal.

Activation Model

Preset Activation

These presets explain where this rule appears in the product experience.

governancesidecar lane

Lifecycle

Stable Lifecycle Contract

State

stable

Graduation rationale

Checks AI-native frontmatter for `Read(...)` grants scoped to absolute, home-relative, drive-letter, or parent-traversing paths outside the repository boundary.

Deterministic signal basis

MarkdownSignals exact frontmatter token analysis for `Read(...)` scopes with absolute, home-relative, drive-letter, or parent-traversing path markers.

Malicious corpus
skill-read-unsafe-path-allowed-tools
Benign corpus
skill-read-unsafe-path-allowed-tools-specific-safe
structured evidence required remediation reviewed
Canonical note

Structural stable rule intended as a high-precision check with deterministic evidence.

Nearby Signals

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SEC428 / MD-READ-UNSAFE-PATH ​

SEC428 flags AI-native markdown frontmatter when allowed-tools or allowed_tools grants Read(...) over an absolute path, home-relative path, Windows drive path, or parent-traversing path.

Why It Matters ​

Shared instruction frontmatter should keep file-read authority scoped to reviewed repo-local paths. Repo-external or parent-traversing Read(...) grants quietly expand access beyond the project boundary.

Trigger Shape ​

  • AI-native markdown surface with parsed frontmatter
  • path is not fixture-like
  • allowed-tools or allowed_tools contains Read(...)
  • the inner path starts with /, ~/, ~\\, a Windows drive prefix, or contains ../ or ..\\

Clean Cases ​

  • repo-local scopes such as Read(./docs/**)
  • frontmatter without Read(...)
  • fixture-like examples under test or fixture paths

Example Trigger ​

md
---
allowed-tools: Read(/etc/**), Write(./artifacts/**)
---

Safer Example ​

md
---
allowed-tools: Read(./docs/**), Write(./artifacts/**)
---

How To Fix ​

Replace repo-external Read(...) grants with narrower repo-local scopes, or remove shared read authority outside the project boundary.