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Add an auto-generated unicode character category file

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Matt Corallo

73/100 · Adequate
Add an auto-generated unicode character category file

1a01b5ae4fb74bfff763b968719e362e546bd594 added detection of unicode
format characters in `PrintableString`, but used a hard-coded table
which may eventually become out of date.

Here we switch to an auto-generated table, include all
`General_Category` `Other` characters, and also ban unallocated
code points.

Finally, CI validates that the file is kept up to date.

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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit replaces a hand-maintained list of suspicious Unicode characters with an automatically generated list based on official Unicode data. It also starts blocking unassigned Unicode code points. The change is a hardening improvement for the PrintableString sanitizer, which is used to safely display untrusted strings and prevent visual spoofing attacks like 'Trojan Source'. It is not a fix for a known active vulnerability in the current code.

Recommended action

No urgent action required. Reviewers should verify that the generated `unicode.rs` matches the claimed Unicode version, that the generator script correctly handles `<..., First>` / `<..., Last>` ranges, and that the new `is_unassigned` predicate does not break legitimate use cases for `PrintableString`. Consider whether the scheduled CI job's use of `secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN` to create issues is acceptable from a supply-chain perspective.

Security signals we found

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Hardens Unicode sanitization by switching from a static, hand-curated format-character table to an auto-generated table covering all General_Category=Other assigned code points

02

Adds blocking of unassigned Unicode code points (Cn) in untrusted-string display output

03

Adds CI automation to detect stale Unicode tables and file an issue

04

References prior work on 'Trojan Source' / CVE-2021-42574 in comments, framing the existing defense

Risk score

Why this scored 32/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 5/25
Stealth signal 5/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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