hermes-agent/tests
fr33d3m0n 976d8e27ad fix(approval): catch sudo with stdin/askpass/shell privilege flags
Adds the only #17873 category not covered by the in-flight PRs #17962
(briandevans, reverse shell + download-execute) and #7993 (SHL0MS,
credential reads + curl/wget exfiltration): sudo invocations that an
LLM-driven agent can drive without TTY interaction.

The agent has no TTY, so the sudo forms that succeed without human
involvement are those reading the password from stdin (`-S` / `--stdin`)
or via an askpass helper (`-A` / `--askpass`). The shell-launch (`-s`)
and list-privileges (`-a`) flags are also gated since they are
privilege-relevant invocations the agent can chain after acquiring the
password (e.g. read SUDO_PASSWORD from .env -> sudo -S -s -> root shell).
Plain `sudo cmd` (no flag) is TTY-bound and excluded.

Two patterns:

  1. Direct flag: `\bsudo\b[^;|&\n]*?\s+(?:-s\b|--stdin\b|-a\b|--askpass\b)`
     The lazy `[^;|&\n]*?` consumes flag-arguments without spanning
     command separators, so `sudo -u root -S whoami` matches (a textbook
     offensive form that a strict `(?:\s+-[^\s]+)*` "leading flags only"
     pattern would have missed because `root` is a flag-value not a flag).

  2. Combined short flags: `\bsudo\b[^;|&\n]*?\s+-[a-z]*[sa][a-z]*\b`
     Catches packed forms like `sudo -nS id` where multiple flags share
     a single `-X` token.

`_normalize_command_for_detection` lowercases input before pattern
matching (tools/approval.py:340), so case variants of S/s and A/a
collapse — both letter-pairs are gated since each is a privilege-
relevant invocation.

Tests: 21 new cases in TestDetectSudoStdin (12 positive covering all
flag-order permutations including herestring source and printf-piped
forms; 9 negative including TTY-bound `sudo whoami`, interactive
`sudo -i`, env-var reference `$SUDO_USER`, doc lookup `man sudo`,
package install, and the `pseudosudo` word-boundary edge case).

Empirical coverage: 11/11 attacks matched, 0/10 false positives.

Refs: #17873 category 4. Adjacent: #17962 (reverse shell + download-
execute), #7993 (credential reads + curl/wget exfiltration).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-11 06:56:30 -07:00
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acp fix(acp): preserve assistant reasoning metadata in session persistence 2026-05-05 10:18:28 -07:00
acp_adapter fix: make session search initialize session db 2026-05-09 14:36:58 -07:00
agent fix(auxiliary): cache 402'd providers as unhealthy with TTL to stop per-call retry storms (#23597) 2026-05-10 22:43:14 -07:00
cli test: stabilize quick-command redaction test against xdist ordering 2026-05-10 22:12:23 -07:00
cron fix(cron): avoid github skill false positives in scanner 2026-05-09 11:11:45 -07:00
e2e fix(gateway): move quick-command dispatch before built-in handlers 2026-05-04 01:39:23 -07:00
environments/benchmarks
fakes
gateway fix(discord): typing indicator task not cleaned up after API error 2026-05-10 22:41:26 -07:00
hermes_cli fix(kanban): restore HERMES_KANBAN_BOARD after scoped slash override 2026-05-11 06:44:58 -07:00
hermes_state
honcho_plugin feat(honcho): explain why when honcho_profile returns an empty card 2026-04-27 12:37:33 -07:00
integration
openviking_plugin fix(openviking): pre-check fs/stat to route file URIs before hitting directory-only endpoints 2026-04-30 02:35:29 -07:00
plugins test(kanban): remove stale t.summary assertion from search test 2026-05-10 21:44:37 -07:00
providers feat(openrouter): wire Pareto Code router with min_coding_score knob (#22838) 2026-05-09 14:47:00 -07:00
run_agent fix(kanban): call kanban_block on iteration-budget exhaustion to prevent protocol violation 2026-05-11 06:44:58 -07:00
skills Add unit tests for hyperliquid skill functionality 2026-05-10 22:15:04 -07:00
stress fix(kanban): gate claim + unblock on parent completion 2026-05-09 11:07:37 -07:00
tools fix(approval): catch sudo with stdin/askpass/shell privilege flags 2026-05-11 06:56:30 -07:00
tui_gateway fix(tui): close slash parity gaps with CLI (#20339) 2026-05-05 15:42:39 -05:00
website docs(skills): explain restoring bundled skills 2026-05-05 13:46:20 -07:00
__init__.py
conftest.py test(conftest): plug every gateway-kill leak path (#23486) 2026-05-10 18:55:28 -07:00
run_interrupt_test.py
test_account_usage.py
test_atomic_replace_symlinks.py refactor: consolidate symlink-safe atomic replace into shared helper 2026-04-28 04:58:22 -07:00
test_base_url_hostname.py
test_batch_runner_checkpoint.py
test_cli_file_drop.py
test_cli_manual_compress.py test(cli): regression test for manual /compress system_message 2026-04-28 05:21:49 -07:00
test_cli_skin_integration.py fix(ci): stabilize main test suite regressions (#17660) 2026-04-29 23:18:55 -07:00
test_ctx_halving_fix.py
test_empty_model_fallback.py
test_evidence_store.py
test_get_tool_definitions_cache_isolation.py fix(tools): isolate get_tool_definitions quiet_mode cache + dedup LCM injection (#17335) 2026-04-30 04:32:06 -07:00
test_hermes_bootstrap.py fix(entry-points): guard hermes_bootstrap import so partial updates don't brick hermes (#22091) 2026-05-08 14:43:13 -07:00
test_hermes_constants.py test(hermes_constants): cover parse_reasoning_effort() 2026-05-07 09:59:07 -07:00
test_hermes_home_profile_warning.py fix(constants): warn once when get_hermes_home() falls back under an active profile (#18746) 2026-05-02 01:49:55 -07:00
test_hermes_logging.py
test_hermes_state.py fix(session): route OR-combined short CJK tokens to LIKE fallback (#20494) 2026-05-09 17:53:02 -07:00
test_hermes_state_wal_fallback.py fix(sqlite): fall back to journal_mode=DELETE on NFS/SMB/FUSE (#22043) 2026-05-09 02:09:35 -07:00
test_honcho_client_config.py
test_install_sh_pythonpath_sanitization.py fix: harden install.sh against inherited Python env leakage 2026-05-06 04:02:02 -07:00
test_install_sh_setup_wizard_tty_probe.py fix(install): widen /dev/tty open-probe to sibling gates (#16746) 2026-04-28 06:45:55 -07:00
test_install_sh_termux_network_prereqs.py fix: strengthen termux install network prerequisites 2026-05-07 13:04:08 -07:00
test_ipv4_preference.py
test_lazy_session_regressions.py fix: resolve lazy session creation regressions (#18370 fallout) (#20363) 2026-05-06 01:11:49 +05:30
test_lint_config.py lint: enable PLW1514 as a blocking ruff rule 2026-05-08 14:27:40 -07:00
test_live_system_guard_self_test.py test(conftest): plug every gateway-kill leak path (#23486) 2026-05-10 18:55:28 -07:00
test_mcp_serve.py fix(mcp): unwrap platforms key in channels_list 2026-05-07 13:41:16 -07:00
test_mini_swe_runner.py
test_minimax_model_validation.py
test_minimax_oauth.py test(cli): cover minimax-oauth resolution, refresh, menu wiring 2026-04-29 09:53:42 -07:00
test_minisweagent_path.py
test_model_picker_scroll.py
test_model_tools.py fix(plugins): stop firing pre_tool_call hook twice per tool execution (#17611) 2026-04-29 12:43:39 -07:00
test_model_tools_async_bridge.py fix(model_tools): cancel coroutine on timeout so worker thread exits + log full traceback 2026-04-29 05:00:40 -07:00
test_ollama_num_ctx.py
test_packaging_metadata.py
test_plugin_skills.py fix(skills): support category-qualified local skill names 2026-05-05 10:15:31 -07:00
test_process_loop_event_loop_warning.py fix(cli): replace get_event_loop() with get_running_loop() to silence RuntimeWarning in process_loop thread (#19285) 2026-05-07 06:35:54 -07:00
test_project_metadata.py
test_retry_utils.py
test_sql_injection.py
test_subprocess_home_isolation.py
test_termux_all_extra_compat.py fix: add termux-all install profile and safe fallbacks 2026-05-07 13:04:08 -07:00
test_timezone.py
test_toolset_distributions.py
test_toolsets.py fix: merge plugin tools into builtin toolsets 2026-05-05 10:14:17 -07:00
test_trajectory_compressor.py
test_trajectory_compressor_async.py
test_transform_llm_output_hook.py test+docs: cover transform_llm_output hook + release author map 2026-05-07 05:46:05 -07:00
test_transform_tool_result_hook.py
test_tui_gateway_server.py Merge pull request #20942 from NousResearch/austin/fix/personality 2026-05-07 18:54:29 -04:00
test_utils_truthy_values.py
test_yuanbao_integration.py
test_yuanbao_markdown.py
test_yuanbao_pipeline.py
test_yuanbao_proto.py