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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: [CRITICAL] Fix LaTeX RCE and DoS vulnerability in PDF generation#312

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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: [CRITICAL] Fix LaTeX RCE and DoS vulnerability in PDF generation#312
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🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
πŸ’‘ Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution (RCE) via pdflatex and pandoc allowing shell escapes, and Denial of Service (DoS) via missing timeouts on subprocess.communicate().
🎯 Impact: Malicious user input (or AI-hallucinated LaTeX) containing \write18{...} could execute arbitrary system commands on the host. Malicious or malformed LaTeX could also cause infinite compilation loops, consuming all CPU resources.
πŸ”§ Fix: Enforced the -no-shell-escape flag for all pdflatex and pandoc (via --pdf-engine-opt) calls in cli/pdf/converter.py and cli/generators/cover_letter_generator.py. Implemented a 30-second timeout with proper process.kill() cleanup.
βœ… Verification: Code review confirmed flags are added. Tested locally via python -m pytest tests/ which all pass.


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Added missing `-no-shell-escape` flags and strict subprocess timeouts to `pdflatex` and `pandoc` commands in `PDFConverter` and `CoverLetterGenerator`. This prevents arbitrary code execution via LaTeX `\write18` and DoS attacks via compilation infinite loops.

Co-authored-by: anchapin <6326294+anchapin@users.noreply.github.com>
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