CodeQL (py/incomplete-url-substring-sanitization) flagged the "https://schema.org/"
in flattened check because it pattern-matches on URL-ish strings tested with `in`.
flattened is always a list here, so the check was already exact membership, not a
substring test on untrusted input, but the ambiguous idiom tripped the scanner.
Rewrite as an explicit equality comparison so the intent is unambiguous.
Moves a concise version of the system-level vs. foundation-model
explainability clarification up next to the opening pitch, so it's
visible before readers scroll to the high-stakes-domains section.
Adds a consistent scope note to README and docs (concepts, FAQ, index)
stating Semantica does not expose or reconstruct an LLM's internal
reasoning/chain-of-thought. It explains and audits the AI system
around the model: context, provenance, policies, decisions, and
execution history.
* docs(contributing): formalize issue assignment and duplicate-PR triage workflow
Comments are no longer required before an issue can be assigned - maintainers
may assign directly based on recent activity. Also documents the duplicate-PR
priority order for triage (contributor PR, claimed issue, activity tiebreak,
late duplicates, overlapping scope).
* docs(contributing): clarify assignment precedence and define activity tiebreak
Addresses Qodo review feedback on PR #1030: the duplicate-PR priority list
now states these rules apply on top of the assignment workflow (opening a PR
pre-assignment doesn't grant priority), and the "most active" tiebreak now
specifies a concrete 60-day window and signals instead of being subjective.
CORSMiddleware doesn't cover WebSocket handshakes at all (Starlette's CORS
support only wraps HTTP), so under SEMANTICA_ALLOW_ANONYMOUS=true --
the mode docker-compose.dev.yml ships -- is_valid_api_key's anonymous
bypass accepted a /ws/graph-updates connection from any origin. Loopback
binding isn't a boundary against a browser: any page the operator has
open can still reach ws://localhost:8000/ws/graph-updates directly, and
ConnectionManager.broadcast sends every graph_mutation to every
connected socket with no per-connection scoping. Combined with
/api/import accepting multipart/form-data (a CORS-safelisted content
type that skips preflight), a hostile page could write to the graph
over REST and read the result back over the unauthenticated WebSocket
-- demonstrated end-to-end in the report with a real client.
Not affected: any deployment with SEMANTICA_API_KEY configured -- the
handshake already rejects without a valid key in that mode. This is an
anonymous-mode-only, development-configuration exposure.
Fix: check the handshake's Origin header against
app.state.explorer_settings['allowed_origins'], the same list
CORSMiddleware already enforces for HTTP, before the key check. A
missing Origin (native/CLI clients, which never set the header --
only browsers do) is still allowed through, since the browser is the
only threat this closes.
4 new tests in test_explorer_auth.py: hostile Origin rejected under
anonymous mode; hostile Origin rejected even with a correct key
(Origin is checked before the key, so a leaked key alone can't
hijack the socket); an allowlisted Origin still connects under
anonymous mode; a missing Origin still connects under anonymous mode
(native clients keep working). Full explorer suite: 226 passed.
Co-authored-by: Sameer Kadam <sskadam6305@gmail.com>
* security: sanitize Cypher labels/relationship types/property keys (GHSA-482h-hw99-h62p)
Node labels and property keys passed to create_node/create_relationship
were interpolated directly into Cypher strings in the Neptune, Neo4j, and
FalkorDB graph stores. Property values are parameterized, but labels and
keys can't be bound as parameters, and nothing validated them, so a
document-derived entity type or property name could close the current
Cypher token early and append arbitrary statements (e.g. DETACH DELETE),
running with the application's database credentials.
- New shared semantica/graph_store/query_sanitize.py: sanitize_identifier()
generalizes age_store.py's existing _sanitize_label/_sanitize_rel_type
(the only backend that already validated this) into a helper the other
backends can import without an import cycle with graph_store.py/methods.py.
- Applied at every label/relationship-type/property-key interpolation site
in amazon_neptune.py, neo4j_store.py, falkordb_store.py, graph_store.py
(degree_centrality's own query builder), and methods.py
(update_relationship's own query builder) — create_node, create_nodes,
create_relationship, get_nodes, get_relationships, get_neighbors,
shortest_path, update_node, create_index, and all relationship-type
filters.
- depth/max_depth path-length parameters are also cast to int before
interpolation as defense-in-depth (they're already typed int, but
Python doesn't enforce that at runtime).
Added tests/graph_store/test_cypher_injection.py (12 tests covering the
sanitizer directly and reproducing the advisory's injection payload
against Neptune/Neo4j/FalkorDB create_node/create_relationship — asserts
the malicious query is never built or sent), plus regression tests for
graph_store.py's degree_centrality and methods.py's update_relationship.
Full graph_store test suite (224 tests) passes with no regressions.
* fix(graph-store): prevent depth-based Cypher injection
* test(graph-store): tighten injection regression assertions
* docs(changelog): add PR #910 (GHSA-482h Cypher injection) entry
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Co-authored-by: Sameer6305 <sskadam6305@gmail.com>
* security: require API-key auth on all Explorer API routes (GHSA-j4mq-hprp-987v)
Every Explorer route (bulk import/export, delete, LLM-backed ontology
generation, SPARQL, etc.) was mounted with no authentication, and both
server entrypoints bind 0.0.0.0 by default. Anyone reaching the port got
full read/write/delete on the graph.
- Add require_auth dependency (explorer/dependencies.py): checks
X-API-Key against SEMANTICA_API_KEY, fails closed with 503 if
unconfigured (not silently anonymous), 401 on wrong/missing key.
SEMANTICA_ALLOW_ANONYMOUS=true opts out explicitly for local dev.
- Wire dependencies=[Depends(require_auth)] into all 11 API routers in
both explorer/app.py and server.py. /health, /api/info, static assets,
and the SPA catch-all stay public.
- /ws/graph-updates handshake now checks the same key via header or
?api_key= query param (browsers can't set custom WS headers) before
accepting the connection.
- Default bind changed from 0.0.0.0 to 127.0.0.1 in server.py's main()
and cli.py's `server start`; the CLI warns if a non-loopback host is
passed explicitly without a key configured.
- Startup logging reports the resolved auth mode in both app factories.
- Document/generate SEMANTICA_API_KEY in the deploy recipes that expose
a public endpoint by default: docker-compose, Railway, Fly, Render.
Added tests/explorer/test_explorer_auth.py covering fail-closed default,
wrong/missing/correct key, anonymous opt-in, public-route exemptions, and
the WS handshake. Added tests/explorer/conftest.py defaulting the
pre-existing ~200 explorer tests to SEMANTICA_ALLOW_ANONYMOUS=true so
they keep exercising route logic without needing a key.
* fix CORS
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Co-authored-by: Zohaib Hassnain <109234410+ZohaibHassan16@users.noreply.github.com>
Mohd Kaif