Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
pecan/pecan
master @ 5cbd61b
4
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
66.7%
Coverage
Highlights
Auth Bypass: 2 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
pecan/scaffolds/__init__.py: most-fixed (2 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
2 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Auth Bypass: Routing logic in secure.py mishandled the remainder tuple, allowing security checks to be skipped in REST controllers. This was fixed once but the pattern suggests similar comparison bugs could persist in routing traversal.
Auth Bypass: Security checks were originally placed too late in the routing flow, allowing unauthorized access. The fix moved checks into routing traversal, but any future routing changes could reintroduce this placement issue.
Path Traversal: Scaffold generation copies directories using a destination path that remains user-controlled, even after package name sanitization. The fix is explicitly partial, leaving a persistent traversal risk.