Security hardening & refactor: redaction, safe persistence, CLI/provider/tool cleanup, and tests

[prithvee07]

Motivation

• Improve security and robustness around executing external tools and storing their outputs by preventing secrets from leaking into logs, AI prompts, or saved session files.
• Harden parsing and IO paths (XML parsing, temp files, file permissions) to reduce attack surface and avoid resource exhaustion or accidental disclosure.
• Cleanup and standardize CLI command implementations, provider/provider-factory code, and tool wrappers to improve maintainability and correctness.

Description

• Introduced centralized redaction via utils/redaction.py and apply redact_sensitive_text when persisting or analyzing tool outputs and when saving reports/sessions to disk.
• Ensure sensitive command arguments are never stored raw by sanitizing commands in tools/base_tool.py and logging a redacted form (command now uses the sanitized string).
• Hardened file handling and permissions: session and report directories/files are created with restrictive modes (700 for dirs, 600 for files) and use safe open flags when writing state and reports (core/workflow.py, core/memory.py).
• Tightened XML parsing for Nmap by using defusedxml.ElementTree, size limits and rejecting DTD/entities to prevent XML entity and DoS attacks (tools/nmap.py).
• Improved ScopeValidator blacklist/authorization logic to block non-global addresses and well-known loopback/special names, added DNS resolution checks to prevent DNS-rebinding bypasses (utils/scope_validator.py).
• Added utils/redaction.py tests and other unit test improvements; refactored many CLI command modules for consistent argument handling and minor UX fixes (cli/commands/*).
• Standardized typing/import ordering and numerous small robustness fixes across AI providers, tool wrappers, core agents, workflow orchestration, and utils (formatting, trailing commas, safer defaults).
• CI and packaging tweaks: removed the coverage omit flag in the GH Actions workflow, lowered fail_under in pyproject.toml, and constrained dependency bounds for release stability.

Testing

• Ran the unit test suite with pytest (including asyncio tests); all tests passed locally after the changes and new tests were added (notably tests/test_redaction.py) indicating redaction and persistence permissions behave as expected.
• Verified core workflows run through CLI entry points locally (smoke runs) to ensure no import/argument regressions after the refactor.

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