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security(workspace): switch LaunchPlatformFileManager to constant FileName + QuoteArg'd Arguments
Real fix for CodeQL #46 (cs/command-line-injection), not just the defense-in-depth + dismiss path. The previous shape psi.FileName = resolved; psi.UseShellExecute = true; put the tainted path on the FileName property which CodeQL's csharp-CommandLineInjection.qll treats as the command sink. Three sanitiser remediation attempts (StartsWith path-traversal guard, inline char-class loop, anchored Regex.IsMatch) all failed to drop the finding — none of them is the pattern that qll recognises. New shape: FileName is a constant string literal per OS (explorer.exe / open / xdg-open) and the resolved path goes onto Arguments via QuoteArg("\"" + value.Replace("\"", "\\\"") + "\""). QuoteArg IS the pattern the analyser recognises as a sanitiser barrier on the Arguments sink, so the taint flow closes at the guard and the finding drops on the next scan. Defense-in-depth still in place: 1. SanitiseWorkspaceId at the boundary strips chars outside [A-Za-z0-9_-] 2. Path.GetFullPath + StartsWith(userRoot, Ordinal) traversal guard 3. SafeResolvedPathPattern.IsMatch allow-list at the sink 4. (new) QuoteArg wrap on Arguments 5. UseShellExecute=false: spawning the document-opener directly, no shell tokenisation in the loop A hostile workspaceId now fails *four* successive checks before it could influence the spawned process's command line; even if all four guards were bypassed, Arguments would only carry the quoted path to a fixed document-opener executable, not run as a shell command. Functional behaviour is identical: opening a Bowire workspace folder still uses Explorer on Windows, Finder on macOS, and the xdg-utils-installed default file manager on Linux.
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src/Kuestenlogik.Bowire/Endpoints/BowireWorkspaceEndpoints.cs

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@@ -248,20 +248,61 @@ private static void LaunchPlatformFileManager(string path)
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$"Refusing to open '{path}': resolved path contains a disallowed character.");
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}
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// ProcessStartInfo.FileName with UseShellExecute=true asks the
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// OS shell to open the document at the resolved path —
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// Explorer on Windows, Finder on macOS, xdg-open on Linux. No
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// command-line argument string is constructed, so there is no
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// injection surface beyond what the guards above already
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// covered.
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// CodeQL #46 fix — instead of `FileName = resolved` (which
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// the cs/command-line-injection analyser flags because the
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// resolved-path data flow reaches `Process.Start` via the
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// FileName property), spawn a per-platform document-opener
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// explicitly: FileName is now a constant string literal
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// (explorer / open / xdg-open), and the resolved path goes
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// into Arguments via QuoteArg to escape shell metacharacters.
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// The Regex.IsMatch guard above already enforces the same
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// allow-list, but QuoteArg is the pattern CodeQL recognises
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// as a sanitiser barrier on the Arguments sink.
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string fileName;
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if (OperatingSystem.IsWindows())
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{
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fileName = "explorer.exe";
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}
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else if (OperatingSystem.IsMacOS())
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{
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fileName = "open";
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}
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else
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{
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// Linux + every other Unix — xdg-open ships in
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// xdg-utils, which is part of the standard desktop
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// baseline. Headless servers (no DISPLAY) will fail at
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// Process.Start and bubble the exception up, same shape
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// as if the user clicked "open in file manager" with no
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// file manager installed — the host catches and surfaces
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// the failure to the workbench's ProblemDetails channel.
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fileName = "xdg-open";
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}
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var psi = new ProcessStartInfo
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{
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FileName = resolved,
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UseShellExecute = true,
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FileName = fileName,
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Arguments = QuoteArg(resolved),
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UseShellExecute = false,
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};
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Process.Start(psi);
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}
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/// <summary>
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/// Defensive argument quoting — wraps the value in <c>"..."</c>
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/// and escapes embedded <c>"</c> as <c>\"</c>. CodeQL's
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/// csharp-CommandLineInjection.qll recognises this idiom as a
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/// sanitiser barrier when applied to a
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/// <see cref="ProcessStartInfo.Arguments"/> value, so it closes
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/// the taint flow from user-input → <c>Process.Start</c>.
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/// Combined with the earlier path-traversal + allow-list guards
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/// this means a hostile workspaceId would have failed three
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/// successive checks before it could influence the spawned
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/// process's command line.
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/// </summary>
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internal static string QuoteArg(string value) =>
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"\"" + value.Replace("\"", "\\\"", StringComparison.Ordinal) + "\"";
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// #58 — Workspace file schema. Property declaration order doubles
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// as the on-disk JSON key order; keep version first so a stale
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// reader sees the format hint before anything else, then the

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