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Account for os.PathSeparator in Go sanitizer and remove CreateTemp from valid sinks

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Pull Request Overview

This PR updates the Go path injection query to improve sanitization detection and removes a false positive. The changes account for os.PathSeparator as a valid path sanitizer alongside hardcoded "/" and remove CreateTemp from path injection sinks due to proper built-in sanitization.

  • Updates path injection sanitizers to recognize os.PathSeparator usage
  • Removes CreateTemp from path injection sinks in the os package model
  • Adds test coverage for the new sanitizer pattern

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go/ql/test/query-tests/Security/CWE-022/TaintedPath.go Adds test case for os.PathSeparator sanitization pattern
go/ql/test/query-tests/Security/CWE-022/TaintedPath.expected Updates expected test results for line number changes
go/ql/lib/ext/os.model.yml Removes CreateTemp from path injection sinks
go/ql/lib/change-notes/2025-07-15-path-injection-sanitizers.md Documents the changes in release notes

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⚠️ The head of this PR and the base branch were compared for differences in the framework coverage reports. A recent commit removed the previously reported differences.

@Kwstubbs Kwstubbs requested a review from owen-mc July 16, 2025 21:33
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Sorry, I somehow forgot to add the actual CodeQL change.

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You'll also have to update the test expectation here since CreateTemp is no longer a sink.

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concatNode.getOperand(0).asExpr().(StringLit).getValue() = "/"
or
exists(DeclaredConstant dc |
dc.hasQualifiedName("os", "PathSeparator") and
dc.getAReference() = concatNode.getOperand(0).asExpr().getAChildExpr*()
)
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If we use getStringValue on any reference of os.PathSeparator then we'll get its actual string value (the compiler knows what value a constant has). On Windows of course this is "\". So we can simplify this to:

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concatNode.getOperand(0).asExpr().(StringLit).getValue() = "/"
or
exists(DeclaredConstant dc |
dc.hasQualifiedName("os", "PathSeparator") and
dc.getAReference() = concatNode.getOperand(0).asExpr().getAChildExpr*()
)
concatNode.getOperand(0).getStringValue() = ["/", "\"]

The above code allows using the string literal "\" as well, which seems sensible for any code which is written to only be run on Windows. What do you think?

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I have added concatNode.getOperand(0).getStringValue().prefix(1) to account for cases where there is additional text but the first element is still appropriate.

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Thanks for these improvements. I've taken the liberty of rewording the change note directly as I'm about to go away for 4 weeks so you'd be waiting a long time for a review otherwise.

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Kwstubbs commented Sep 2, 2025

@owen-mc just want to send a reminder for possibly merging soon 😄

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owen-mc commented Sep 3, 2025

Oops. Thanks for the reminder. I think I forgot that you can't merge it yourself.

@owen-mc owen-mc merged commit 2a45b28 into github:main Sep 3, 2025
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