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rUv 9b126e927e harden(assist security): bound untrusted utterance (DoS); cmd-injection/ReDoS/NaN/fail-open all proven clean with evidence (#1086)
* fix(homecore-assist): bound untrusted utterance length, fail closed (ADR-133 security)

The intent recognizers accept utterances from untrusted callers (voice
transcripts, the WebSocket `assist` command). Neither the regex nor the
semantic path bounded utterance length, so a pathological multi-megabyte
utterance forced an unbounded `to_lowercase()` clone plus a per-registered-
pattern scan (and, in the semantic path, full tokenisation + feature-hash
embedding) — an allocation/CPU amplification on attacker-controlled input.
The `regex` crate is linear-time (no catastrophic backtracking), so this was
a throughput/memory DoS rather than a hang, but it was still unbounded.

Fix: introduce MAX_UTTERANCE_BYTES (4 KiB — far above any real spoken
command) and check it at both recognizer boundaries BEFORE any allocation or
scan. An over-length utterance fails closed: Ok(None) (no intent, no action),
identical to an unrecognised phrase. No legitimate command is affected.

Pinned by fails-on-old tests:
  - recognizer::over_length_utterance_fails_closed — an over-length utterance
    that contains a valid command resolves to None (would have matched before)
  - semantic_recognizer::over_length_utterance_fails_closed_semantic

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>

* test(homecore-assist): pin clean security dimensions with evidence (ADR-133)

Adds regression tests documenting the dimensions reviewed and found clean,
so the properties cannot silently regress:

  - runner: no subprocess surface exists. RufloRunnerOpts.{script_path,env}
    are inert and never executed; even a hostile script_path/env spawns
    nothing. And the entity_id capture class [a-z0-9_ .] strips every shell
    metacharacter, so a resolved slot can never carry ; | & $ ` / etc into a
    (future) argv — sanitisation by construction.
    (shell_metachars_never_survive_into_a_resolved_slot,
     runner_opts_are_inert_no_process_spawned)
  - recognizer: the regex crate is a linear-time finite automaton; a classic
    catastrophic-backtracking shape (a+)+$ on adversarial input completes in
    bounded time — no ReDoS.
    (pathological_backtracking_pattern_completes_in_bounded_time)
  - embedding: embeddings are structurally finite (FNV feature-hash + guarded
    L2 normalise, no external float input, no unguarded division), so a crafted
    utterance cannot inject NaN/Inf to poison cosine k-NN; cosine against the
    zero vector is a finite 0.0, never NaN.
    (embeddings_are_structurally_finite, cosine_with_zero_vector_is_finite_not_nan,
     empty_utterance_against_empty_index_no_panic_no_match)
  - pipeline: injection-shaped utterances never deliver a metacharacter into a
    service call; the worst case resolves to a clean entity token, and an
    unrecognised utterance fails closed to not_understood (no action).
    (pipeline_injection_shaped_utterance_carries_no_metachars_to_service)

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>

* docs(homecore-assist): record ADR-133 security review (HC-ASSIST-01 + clean dims)

CHANGELOG [Unreleased] Security entry + ADR-133 section 6 review notes for the
homecore-assist voice/intent pipeline review.

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
2026-06-14 21:34:38 -04:00

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//! Intent recognizer trait + P1 regex-based implementation.
//!
//! Mirrors `homeassistant.helpers.intent.IntentRecognizer` and the
//! `homeassistant/components/conversation/default_agent.py` regex pattern
//! approach used in HA's classic intent matching.
//!
//! ## P1: `RegexIntentRecognizer`
//!
//! Tries each registered pattern in order; the first match wins.
//! Slot values are extracted from named capture groups.
//!
//! ## `SemanticIntentRecognizer` (real, HNSW-backed)
//!
//! Embeds the utterance with [`crate::embedding`] (deterministic feature
//! hashing) and compares it against a ruvector-core HNSW index of enrolled
//! intent exemplars. When the nearest exemplar's cosine similarity clears a
//! configurable threshold (default `0.75`), its intent is returned with slots
//! extracted by the paired regex pattern. Below threshold it falls back to the
//! regex recognizer. Gated behind the default-on `semantic` feature.
use std::collections::HashMap;
use async_trait::async_trait;
use regex::Regex;
use thiserror::Error;
use crate::intent::{Intent, IntentName};
/// Maximum accepted utterance length, in bytes.
///
/// Utterances arrive from untrusted callers (voice transcripts, the WebSocket
/// `assist` command). A pathological multi-megabyte utterance would otherwise
/// be cloned by `to_lowercase()` and scanned by every registered pattern (and,
/// in the semantic path, fully tokenised + embedded) — an unbounded
/// memory/CPU amplification on attacker-controlled input. Real spoken
/// utterances are tiny; 4 KiB is far above any legitimate command yet caps the
/// blast radius. An over-length utterance fails **closed**: the recognizer
/// returns `Ok(None)` (no intent, no action), exactly like an unrecognised
/// phrase. The `regex` crate itself is linear-time (no catastrophic
/// backtracking), so this bound is purely an allocation/throughput guard.
pub const MAX_UTTERANCE_BYTES: usize = 4096;
#[derive(Error, Debug)]
pub enum RecognizerError {
#[error("regex compile error: {0}")]
BadPattern(String),
#[error("recognizer internal error: {0}")]
Internal(String),
}
/// Core trait every recognizer must implement.
///
/// Returns `Ok(None)` when no intent matches (pipeline falls through to
/// the "not understood" path).
#[async_trait]
pub trait IntentRecognizer: Send + Sync + 'static {
async fn recognize(
&self,
utterance: &str,
language: &str,
) -> Result<Option<Intent>, RecognizerError>;
}
/// A single registered intent pattern.
#[derive(Clone)]
struct IntentPattern {
name: IntentName,
/// Pre-compiled regex. Named capture groups become slot keys.
regex: Regex,
/// Language tag this pattern applies to. `"*"` means any language.
language: String,
}
/// P1 recognizer that matches utterances against pre-registered regex patterns.
///
/// Thread-safe: patterns are stored in a `Vec` behind an `Arc<RwLock<_>>` so
/// that `register` can be called from multiple tasks.
#[derive(Clone, Default)]
pub struct RegexIntentRecognizer {
patterns: std::sync::Arc<tokio::sync::RwLock<Vec<IntentPattern>>>,
}
impl RegexIntentRecognizer {
pub fn new() -> Self {
Self::default()
}
/// Register a regex pattern for the given intent name and language.
///
/// Named capture groups (e.g. `(?P<entity_id>\w+\.\w+)`) become slot keys.
/// `language` may be a BCP-47 tag (`"en"`) or `"*"` to match any language.
///
/// # Errors
///
/// Returns `RecognizerError::BadPattern` if the regex fails to compile.
pub async fn register(
&self,
name: impl Into<String>,
pattern: &str,
language: impl Into<String>,
) -> Result<(), RecognizerError> {
let regex = Regex::new(pattern).map_err(|e| RecognizerError::BadPattern(e.to_string()))?;
self.patterns.write().await.push(IntentPattern {
name: IntentName::new(name),
regex,
language: language.into(),
});
Ok(())
}
}
#[async_trait]
impl IntentRecognizer for RegexIntentRecognizer {
async fn recognize(
&self,
utterance: &str,
language: &str,
) -> Result<Option<Intent>, RecognizerError> {
// Fail-closed on an over-length utterance before any allocation/scan.
// Untrusted input must not be able to force an unbounded `to_lowercase`
// clone + per-pattern scan. Bound first, then normalise.
if utterance.len() > MAX_UTTERANCE_BYTES {
return Ok(None);
}
let normalised = utterance.trim().to_lowercase();
let patterns = self.patterns.read().await;
for pattern in patterns.iter() {
if pattern.language != "*" && pattern.language != language {
continue;
}
if let Some(caps) = pattern.regex.captures(&normalised) {
let mut slots: HashMap<String, serde_json::Value> = HashMap::new();
for name in pattern.regex.capture_names().flatten() {
if let Some(m) = caps.name(name) {
slots.insert(name.to_owned(), serde_json::Value::String(m.as_str().to_owned()));
}
}
return Ok(Some(Intent {
name: pattern.name.clone(),
slots,
language: language.to_owned(),
}));
}
}
Ok(None)
}
}
// `SemanticIntentRecognizer` lives in [`crate::semantic_recognizer`]; this
// module owns only the regex recognizer.
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
async fn turn_on_recognizer() -> RegexIntentRecognizer {
let r = RegexIntentRecognizer::new();
r.register(
"HassTurnOn",
r"turn on (?:the )?(?P<entity_id>[a-z_][a-z0-9_ ]*(?:\.[a-z_][a-z0-9_]*)?)",
"*",
)
.await
.unwrap();
r.register(
"HassTurnOff",
r"turn off (?:the )?(?P<entity_id>[a-z_][a-z0-9_ ]*(?:\.[a-z_][a-z0-9_]*)?)",
"*",
)
.await
.unwrap();
r
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn recognizes_turn_on_entity() {
let r = turn_on_recognizer().await;
let intent = r
.recognize("turn on the kitchen light", "en")
.await
.unwrap()
.unwrap();
assert_eq!(intent.name.as_str(), "HassTurnOn");
assert!(intent.slots.contains_key("entity_id"));
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn recognizes_dotted_entity_id() {
let r = turn_on_recognizer().await;
let intent = r
.recognize("turn on light.kitchen", "en")
.await
.unwrap()
.unwrap();
assert_eq!(intent.name.as_str(), "HassTurnOn");
assert_eq!(intent.entity_id(), Some("light.kitchen"));
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn unrecognized_utterance_returns_none() {
let r = turn_on_recognizer().await;
let result = r.recognize("play jazz music", "en").await.unwrap();
assert!(result.is_none());
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn over_length_utterance_fails_closed() {
// SECURITY (DoS / fail-closed): an utterance larger than the bound must
// return Ok(None) WITHOUT being normalised or scanned. Crucially, even
// an over-length utterance that *contains* a matching command must NOT
// resolve — fail closed, never open.
//
// This FAILS against the pre-fix recognizer: there, a giant prefix
// followed by "turn on the kitchen light" would still match HassTurnOn
// (and force a multi-megabyte `to_lowercase` clone + scan first).
let r = turn_on_recognizer().await;
let huge = format!("{} turn on the kitchen light", "a ".repeat(MAX_UTTERANCE_BYTES));
assert!(huge.len() > MAX_UTTERANCE_BYTES);
let result = r.recognize(&huge, "en").await.unwrap();
assert!(
result.is_none(),
"over-length utterance must fail closed (no intent, no action)"
);
// And a just-under-bound utterance still works, so the cap doesn't
// break legitimate (tiny) commands.
let ok = r
.recognize("turn on the kitchen light", "en")
.await
.unwrap();
assert!(ok.is_some(), "normal-length command must still resolve");
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn pathological_backtracking_pattern_completes_in_bounded_time() {
// SECURITY (ReDoS): the `regex` crate is a linear-time finite automaton,
// so even a classic catastrophic-backtracking shape `(a+)+$` cannot hang
// on a crafted adversarial input. This proves the recognizer terminates
// promptly on the worst-case input the regex engine is asked to run.
let r = RegexIntentRecognizer::new();
r.register("Evil", r"(a+)+$", "*").await.unwrap();
// Just under the length bound: all 'a' then a 'b' — the classic input
// that destroys a backtracking engine. Linear-time regex shrugs.
let evil = format!("{}b", "a".repeat(MAX_UTTERANCE_BYTES - 1));
let start = std::time::Instant::now();
let _ = r.recognize(&evil, "en").await.unwrap();
let elapsed = start.elapsed();
assert!(
elapsed < std::time::Duration::from_secs(2),
"linear-time regex must not hang on adversarial input; took {elapsed:?}"
);
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn language_filter_skips_non_matching() {
let r = RegexIntentRecognizer::new();
r.register("HassTurnOn", r"turn on (?P<entity_id>\S+)", "de")
.await
.unwrap();
// German-only pattern must not match an English utterance.
let result = r.recognize("turn on light.kitchen", "en").await.unwrap();
assert!(result.is_none());
// But it must match a German-tagged utterance.
let result = r.recognize("turn on licht.kueche", "de").await.unwrap();
assert!(result.is_some());
}
}