⚠️ SECURITY-#29: Sanitize attachment filenames against path traversal - #73
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Clean fix. Path(decoded.replace('\\','/')).name correctly defangs both unix and windows traversal payloads, and dropping pure-traversal names (./..) is the right move. Tests cover the three meaningful payload shapes.
Minor non-blocking thoughts for follow-up (not required for merge):
- Filenames may still contain control characters or null bytes after sanitization —
\x00truncates Linux fs calls. Consider a follow-up to strip\x00-\x1fand reserved Windows names (CON,PRN, etc.) when persisting attachments to disk. Attachment.save()inparser.py:47writes topath/<file_name>— iffile_nameis now safe at parse time, that's good, but a defensiveos.path.commonpathcheck there would be cheap insurance.
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Summary
parser.pyusingPath(...).namebefore storing asAttachment.file_name\) so..\..\evil.exeis also defanged./..Closes #29
Test plan
pytest tests/test_parser.py— 13 passed