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SEC481lintai-ai-securitygovernancehardeningpreviewclaude_settingswarn

Claude settings: shared git rebase permissions

Claude settings permissions allow `Bash(git rebase:*)` in a shared committed config

Public lane
governance
Category
hardening
Provider
lintai-ai-security
Scope
per-file
Surface
claude_settings
Tier
preview
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.

Lifecycle

Stable Lifecycle Contract

State

stable

Graduation rationale

Checks shared committed Claude settings for exact `Bash(git rebase:*)` authority.

Deterministic signal basis

ClaudeSettingsSignals exact permission detection for `Bash(git rebase:*)` entries inside permissions.allow.

Malicious corpus
claude-settings-destructive-git-permissions
Benign corpus
claude-settings-destructive-git-specific-safe
structured evidence required remediation reviewed
Canonical note

Structural preview rule; deterministic today, but the preview contract may still evolve.

Nearby Signals

Related Rules

SEC481 / CLAUDE-GIT-REBASE-PERMISSION

SEC481 flags shared Claude settings when permissions.allow grants blanket git rebase authority.

Why It Matters

git rebase rewrites history. Granting Bash(git rebase:*) in shared Claude settings makes high-impact history mutation a default team grant rather than a reviewed exception.

Trigger Shape

The rule triggers only when all of these are true:

  • the file is a detected Claude settings surface
  • the path is not fixture-like
  • permissions.allow contains the exact token Bash(git rebase:*)

Clean Cases

These stay clean:

  • more specific commands such as Bash(git rebase origin/main)
  • settings files that do not grant blanket git rebase
  • fixture-like examples under test or fixture paths

Example Trigger

json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": ["Bash(git rebase:*)", "Read(*)"]
  }
}

Safer Example

json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": ["Bash(git rebase origin/main)", "Read(*)"]
  }
}

How To Fix

Remove shared git rebase permissions or replace them with a narrower reviewed workflow that keeps history rewriting under explicit user control.