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SEC483lintai-ai-securitygovernancehardeningpreviewclaude_settingswarn

Claude settings: shared git cherry-pick permissions

Claude settings permissions allow `Bash(git cherry-pick:*)` 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 cherry-pick:*)` authority.

Deterministic signal basis

ClaudeSettingsSignals exact permission detection for `Bash(git cherry-pick:*)` 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

SEC483 / CLAUDE-GIT-CHERRY-PICK-PERMISSION

SEC483 flags shared Claude settings when permissions.allow grants blanket git cherry-pick authority.

Why It Matters

git cherry-pick applies commits into the current branch and mutates history. Granting Bash(git cherry-pick:*) in shared Claude settings makes broad commit-application authority part of the default team policy.

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 cherry-pick:*)

Clean Cases

These stay clean:

  • more specific commands such as Bash(git cherry-pick abc1234)
  • settings files that do not grant blanket git cherry-pick
  • fixture-like examples under test or fixture paths

Example Trigger

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

Safer Example

json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": ["Bash(git cherry-pick abc1234)", "Read(*)"]
  }
}

How To Fix

Remove shared git cherry-pick permissions or replace them with a narrower reviewed workflow that keeps commit application under explicit user control.