[Nachiket-Roy]

What changed and why

Disables SQLite's trusted_schema pragma (PRAGMA trusted_schema = OFF) when initializing local advisory databases in LocalAdvisoryDatabase.

Context & Threat Model

When running scans with --offline-db <path>, the CLI opens an externally-provided SQLite database. In SQLite 3.31.0+, trusted_schema defaults to ON for legacy compatibility. If an untrusted database file contains triggers, views, or generated column expressions attempting to execute helper functions or virtual tables, setting trusted_schema = OFF ensures SQLite disables execution of non-innocuous SQL functions and virtual tables.

This provides standard, low-cost defense-in-depth against malicious SQLite database payloads.

Changes

• src/advisory/local-db.ts: set this.db.pragma("trusted_schema = OFF");.
• tests/local-advisory-source.test.ts: test asserting trusted_schema is disabled (0) for both read-write and read-only database connections.

Closes #1567

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Summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Local advisory database connections now use a more restrictive SQLite configuration for both read-write and read-only access.
• Tests
  • Added checks that this configuration is applied to both connection types.
  • Expanded pre-release range coverage to include stable lower bounds, inclusive upper bounds, and explicitly declared pre-release lower bounds.

Offline advisory database connections now disable SQLite trusted-schema processing before the schema runs. Tests verify the setting on read-write and read-only connections and type OSV range-event fixtures.

Changes: Trusted-schema setting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Set and verify trusted-schema mode src/advisory/local-db.ts, tests/local-advisory-source.test.ts	The constructor sets trusted_schema to OFF before executing the schema. Tests verify that it is 0 for read-write and read-only connections. Range-event helpers use an explicit OSV event type.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to d30b6

The change hardens local advisory database connections and adds coverage for writable and read-only modes. No actionable merge-blocking issue was identified; merge readiness remains subject to normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 5 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Title check		The title describes the change, but it uses fix(security): instead of the required fix: format.	Change the title to fix: disable SQLite trusted_schema for local advisory databases. The type must be one of the allowed values without a scope in parentheses, and the description must remain lowercase with no trailing period.
Out of Scope Changes check		The pragma change and its read-write/read-only test support #1567. The test change also replaces generic range-event records with a RangeEvent type for pre-release range tests. That type change conc…	Remove the unrelated range-test helper typing change from this pull request, or link it to a directly relevant active issue.

Passed checks: 5 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check		The description includes the required “What changed and why” section, explains the change and its context, lists the affected code and tests, and identifies the linked issue.
Linked Issues check		For users, opening an offline advisory database now disables SQLite trusted_schema. LocalAdvisoryDatabase sets the pragma after opening the connection and before executing SCHEMA_SQL. The constr…
Linked Issue		I found Closes #1567 in the pull request body.
Closes Keyword Matches Scope		I found that offline database scans get the requested defense-in-depth setting. Issue #1567 asks for trusted_schema = OFF when LocalAdvisoryDatabase opens a database. The constructor now sets it b…
No New Runtime Dependency		Users get the security change without a new runtime dependency. I confirmed that the reviewed changes do not modify any package.json file.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

For users, opening an offline advisory database now disables SQLite trusted_schema. LocalAdvisoryDatabase sets the pragma after opening the connection and before executing SCHEMA_SQL. The constructor uses this path for both read-write and read-only connections. The test checks that both connections return 0. This meets #1567.

Full details: Closes Keyword Matches Scope

Explanation

I found that offline database scans get the requested defense-in-depth setting. Issue #1567 asks for trusted_schema = OFF when LocalAdvisoryDatabase opens a database. The constructor now sets it before executing the schema, and the offline scan path uses that constructor. The added tests check both read-only and read-write connections.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The pragma change and its read-write/read-only test support #1567. The test change also replaces generic range-event records with a RangeEvent type for pre-release range tests. That type change concerns version-range test fixtures and has no connection to trusted-schema hardening. The whole-PR summary identifies this edit, although the repository diff was unavailable for direct confirmation.

Resolution

Remove the unrelated range-test helper typing change from this pull request, or link it to a directly relevant active issue.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

Nitpick comments: 1

tests/local-advisory-source.test.ts: 1

205-207: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Test the offline scan connections.

If an offline scan later uses an unprotected connection, this wrapper test can still pass. I suggest adding a CLI-level regression test that checks trusted_schema on the connections used by --offline-db.

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Review comment at @tests/local-advisory-source.test.ts around lines 205 - 207:
Extend the offline-scan test coverage beyond the LocalAdvisoryDatabase wrapper
by adding a CLI-level regression test for --offline-db. Verify that the
connections used during the offline scan have trusted_schema disabled, using the
existing test setup and connection-inspection mechanisms.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @tests/local-advisory-source.test.ts:
- Around line 213-214: Ensure the read-write database connection is closed even
if the trusted_schema assertion fails: wrap the pragma check and assertion using
rwDb in a try/finally, and close rwDb in the finally block before opening roDb.
- Around line 205-207: Update the stable, inclusive, and canary fixtures passed
to detects so each conforms to its events parameter type, fixing the test-file
type errors without widening the fixture types. Keep the existing test behavior
and fixture values unchanged.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @tests/local-advisory-source.test.ts:
- Around line 205-207: Extend the offline-scan test coverage beyond the
LocalAdvisoryDatabase wrapper by adding a CLI-level regression test for
--offline-db. Verify that the connections used during the offline scan have
trusted_schema disabled, using the existing test setup and connection-inspection
mechanisms.

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Nitpick comments: 1

tests/local-advisory-source.test.ts: 1

274-274: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Preserve the range-event type check

These annotations allow arbitrary event keys. That conflicts with CONTRIBUTING.md’s rule against widening types to fix errors. I recommend using the OSV event shape for the fixtures and helpers.

Suggested fix

+type RangeEvent = { introduced?: string; fixed?: string; last_affected?: string };
+
 function seedRange(
   db: LocalAdvisoryDatabase,
   pkg: string,
-  events: Array<Record<string, string>>,
+  events: Array<RangeEvent>,
   id = "OSV-RANGE-1",
 ): void {
   db.upsertVulnerability({
     id,
     affected: [{ package: { ecosystem: "npm", name: pkg }, ranges: [{ type: "ECOSYSTEM", events }] }],
-  } as OsvVuln);
+  });
 }
 
-async function detects(pkg: string, version: string, events: Array<Record<string, string>>): Promise<boolean> {
+async function detects(pkg: string, version: string, events: Array<RangeEvent>): Promise<boolean> {
@@
-  const stable: Array<Record<string, string>> = [{ introduced: "1.2.0" }, { fixed: "1.3.0" }];
+  const stable: Array<RangeEvent> = [{ introduced: "1.2.0" }, { fixed: "1.3.0" }];
@@
-    const inclusive: Array<Record<string, string>> = [{ introduced: "1.2.0" }, { last_affected: "1.2.9" }];
+    const inclusive: Array<RangeEvent> = [{ introduced: "1.2.0" }, { last_affected: "1.2.9" }];
@@
-    const canary: Array<Record<string, string>> = [{ introduced: "15.0.1-canary.0" }, { fixed: "15.6.0-canary.61" }];
+    const canary: Array<RangeEvent> = [{ introduced: "15.0.1-canary.0" }, { fixed: "15.6.0-canary.61" }];

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Review comment at @tests/local-advisory-source.test.ts at line 274:
Replace the arbitrary Record event types in seedRange, detects, and the stable,
inclusive, and canary fixtures with the project’s OSV range-event type. Remove
the OsvVuln cast in seedRange and ensure the fixture data satisfies the actual
OSV vulnerability shape without widening types.

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Review comments at @tests/local-advisory-source.test.ts:
- Line 274: Replace the arbitrary Record event types in seedRange, detects, and
the stable, inclusive, and canary fixtures with the project’s OSV range-event
type. Remove the OsvVuln cast in seedRange and ensure the fixture data satisfies
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[sonukapoor]

Thanks @Nachiket-Roy, this is a sensible bit of hardening and the change itself is right. The advisory database is only ever opened through this one constructor, for the scan reader, advisories init and the sync writer alike, so the one line covers every read and write connection, and it lands before the schema statement or any query touches the file.

I did want to be clear about what it buys us today so the release note does not oversell it. I ran a view over each of the risky cases on the bundled SQLite (3.53.2) with the setting on and off. load_extension(), fts3_tokenizer() and the dbstat virtual table are already refused either way, and the ordinary built-ins behave the same. The only thing that changes is a function the application registers itself, and we do not register any. So nothing a crafted --offline-db file can do right now is blocked by this; what it does is stop that becoming a problem the day someone adds a db.function(...). That is worth having, and I am happy to take it on those terms.

The one thing I need before it can go in: it now conflicts with main. #1559 landed this morning and retyped those same range-event helpers in this test file (it derives the type from OsvVuln rather than declaring it by hand). Could you rebase and keep main's version of that part, so the PR comes down to the pragma line and your new test? I resolved it that way locally and everything passes: 224 suites, 3,386 tests, build clean, and an offline scan against a real synced database gives the same result as before.

The test does its job, by the way: with the pragma line removed it fails, and nothing else does.

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- Title check:
Change the title to `fix: disable SQLite trusted_schema for local advisory
databases`. The type must be one of the allowed values without a scope in
parentheses, and the description must remain lowercase with no trailing period.

- Out of Scope Changes check:
Remove the unrelated range-test helper typing change from this pull request, or
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[sonukapoor]

Thanks @Nachiket-Roy, this is exactly what I was after. The rebase took main's version of the range-event helpers, so the PR is down to the pragma, the comment explaining it, and your test.

I ran it again on the new head: 224 suites and 3,386 tests pass, the build is clean, and an offline scan against a real synced database gives the same result as before. Removing the pragma still fails your test and nothing else. I also planted a view and a trigger calling an app-registered function into a database and opened it through this class: with the pragma both are refused with "unsafe use of", without it both run. So the hardening does what it says for the day we register a function of our own.

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Merged - thank you @Nachiket-Roy!