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🚨 Severity: MEDIUM
πŸ’‘ Vulnerability: A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition could occur during the generation of index.html. External processes might read a partially written file because Files.move with just REPLACE_EXISTING does not guarantee atomic operation across all filesystems.
🎯 Impact: Partially written HTML indexes could be served to users, potentially causing broken pages or unexpected behavior in automated systems parsing the directory index.
πŸ”§ Fix: Upgraded the Files.move operation to use StandardCopyOption.ATOMIC_MOVE. To maintain cross-platform compatibility and prevent crashes on filesystems that do not support atomic moves, wrapped the call in a try-catch block that gracefully falls back to a standard REPLACE_EXISTING move if an AtomicMoveNotSupportedException is thrown.
βœ… Verification: Tested via unit tests ensuring 100% JaCoCo instruction coverage of the fallback logic. All tests pass successfully.


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Pull request overview

This PR hardens html4tree’s index.html generation by attempting an atomic replace (to avoid readers seeing a partially updated index) and providing a safe fallback path when the filesystem does not support atomic moves.

Changes:

  • Updated write_index_file to prefer Files.move(..., ATOMIC_MOVE, REPLACE_EXISTING) and fall back to REPLACE_EXISTING when AtomicMoveNotSupportedException is thrown.
  • Added a unit test that forces the atomic-move-not-supported path to exercise the fallback logic.
  • Documented the β€œatomic move + fallback” learning in .jules/sentinel.md.

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File Description
src/main/kotlin/html4tree/main.kt Uses ATOMIC_MOVE for index replacement with a fallback when atomic moves aren’t supported.
src/test/kotlin/html4tree/MainTest.kt Adds coverage for the AtomicMoveNotSupportedException fallback path.
.jules/sentinel.md Records the atomic move mitigation guidance for future prevention.

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Comment on lines +711 to +712
val testFile = File(tempDir, "testWriteIndexDir")
testFile.mkdir()
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try {
moveFile(tempPath, indexPath)
} catch (e: AtomicMoveNotSupportedException) {
Files.move(tempPath, indexPath, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING)
}
Comment thread .jules/sentinel.md
Comment on lines +88 to +90
**Vulnerability:** 파일이 μ“°μ—¬μ§€λŠ” λ™μ•ˆ(예: `index.html` 생성 쀑) λΆ€λΆ„μ μœΌλ‘œ μ™„μ„±λœ νŒŒμΌμ„ λ‹€λ₯Έ ν”„λ‘œμ„ΈμŠ€κ°€ 읽게 λ˜μ–΄ λ°œμƒν•  수 μžˆλŠ” 레이슀 μ»¨λ””μ…˜ 및 TOCTOU 취약점.
**Learning:** 정적 파일 생성 κ³Όμ •μ—μ„œ μž„μ‹œ νŒŒμΌμ„ μ΄λ™μ‹œν‚¬ λ•Œ λ‹¨μˆœνžˆ `REPLACE_EXISTING`만 μ‚¬μš©ν•˜λ©΄ 파일 μ‹œμŠ€ν…œμ— 따라 μ™„μ „νžˆ μ›μžμ μœΌλ‘œ 볡사/μ΄λ™λ˜μ§€ μ•Šμ„ 수 μžˆμŠ΅λ‹ˆλ‹€.
**Prevention:** `Files.move` μ‹œ `StandardCopyOption.ATOMIC_MOVE`λ₯Ό μ‚¬μš©ν•˜κ³ , ν•΄λ‹Ή μ˜΅μ…˜μ„ μ§€μ›ν•˜μ§€ μ•ŠλŠ” 파일 μ‹œμŠ€ν…œμ„ μœ„ν•΄ `AtomicMoveNotSupportedException` λ°œμƒ μ‹œ `REPLACE_EXISTING`으둜 λŒ€μ²΄ν•˜λŠ” Fallback λ‘œμ§μ„ κ΅¬ν˜„ν•˜μ—¬ μ•ˆμ „ν•œ 파일 μ—…λ°μ΄νŠΈλ₯Ό 보μž₯ν•΄μ•Ό ν•©λ‹ˆλ‹€.
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