Detecting Catastrophic Backtracking in Regex Engines
How to find catastrophic backtracking in regex via NFA ambiguity analysis, pump-string fuzzing, and CI gates before ReDoS hits production.
apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: ApplicationSet
metadata:
name: preview-environments
namespace: argocd
spec:
generators:
- pullRequest:
github:
owner: kby-technologies
repo: platform-app
tokenRef:
secretName: github-pr-token
key: token
...
{
"action_id": "act_7f21c9",
"orchestrator_id": "spiffe://kby.internal/agent/planner-03",
"sequence_no": 44821,
"tool_manifest_ref": "s3-object-put-v2",
"claimed_ts": "2024-05-14T11:02:31.220Z",
"claimed_result_hash": "sha256:9ac0...e21f",
"credential_hash_expected": "sha256:44bd...9a0...
Systems Operational
All CI/CD pipelines and production clusters are running nominally.
[System] Listening for incoming technical documentation...
tcpdump -i br-lan -n -e udp port 67 or udp port 68 -w dhcp_capture.pcap
# Live triage without writing to disk
tcpdump -i br-lan -n -e udp port 67 or udp port 68 |
awk '{ print $2, $9 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20
graph LR A[Agent Orchestrator - SPIFFE SVID] --> B[Tool Gateway] B -->|OPA decision + task_id| C[Credential Broker] C -->|AssumeRole w/ session policy| D[AWS STS] D -->|60s scoped token| C C --> B B -->|scoped call| E[External Tool API] B -->|token fingerprint| F[Action Ledger]
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