[Pouyanpi]

Description

Fix occurrence-order bypasses in the Python, Jinja, and XSS rules. Preserve legacy detections while avoiding newly introduced Python prose false positives.

Remove matched byte ranges safely, recheck omitted output against all configured rules, and block unsafe results or processing errors. Cover both Colang dialects and IORails.

Related Issue(s)

NGR-1073

Verification

• Ad hoc differential check: 157,878 synthetic token sequences, zero lost detections, comparing d708147033 with 679bfa78a3 using YARA 4.5.4. Script and results are available separately. This checks prior detection coverage, not false-positive rates or downstream safety.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Injection detection now removes matched content by its exact byte ranges, then checks the result again. Output is blocked if removal fails, nothing is removed, or a detected pattern remains.
  • Improved detection of code imports, template injections, and script-based links, including content assembled through omission.
  • Blocked responses now consistently show a readable refusal message across supported flow versions. Streaming with LLMRails is documented as unsupported.
• Documentation
  • Clarified omission behavior, detection limitations, and the possibility of matches in quoted code or examples.

[github-actions]

Staged Fern docs preview: https://nvidia-preview-pr-2559.docs.buildwithfern.com/nemo/guardrails

[greptile-apps]

Confidence Score: 5/5

[Medium impact] The PR appears safe to merge; no actionable new issues were found.

Summary

The PR strengthens Python, Jinja, and XSS detection and adds security regression tests.

• Python imports, Jinja blocks, and XSS links stay detectable after earlier text.
• The injection guide explains omission limits and streaming support.

No actionable new issues were found.

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Walkthrough

Injection detection rules now cover additional import and delimiter patterns. The omit action removes matched byte ranges, checks the modified output again, and blocks output when removal or validation fails. Colang flows, tests, and documentation reflect the updated behavior.

Changes: Injection Detection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Detection pattern updates nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/yara_rules/code.yara, nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/yara_rules/template.yara, nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/yara_rules/xss.yara, tests/test_injection_detection_security.py	YARA rules expand import matching and compare template and XSS positions against the last relevant match. Tests cover import forms, benign text, and detections after prefixes.
Byte-range omission and rescanning nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/actions.py, tests/test_injection_detection.py, tests/test_injection_detection_security.py	_omit_injection removes matched byte ranges. The omit action rescans the result and blocks on omission errors, unchanged output, or remaining matches. Tests cover UTF-8 ranges, overlapping matches, and failure cases.
Blocked-output handling and integration coverage nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/flows.co, nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/flows.v1.co, tests/test_injection_detection_security.py, tests/test_runtime_flow_gate_equivalence.py, docs/configure-rails/guardrail-catalog/agentic-security.mdx	Blocked output follows the rejection path when rail exceptions are disabled. Integration tests and documentation describe output handling, streaming, and the second check for omit.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• Issue 2045: The issue describes injection detection passing text after a YARA-match UTF-8 decode error. This PR blocks on omission and validation errors in the injection detection omit path.

Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails#2257: This PR changes the same rail’s fail-closed handling and injection outcome metadata.

Suggested labels: bug

Suggested reviewers: erickgalinkin

Merge Risk: Low · up to 679bf

Some benign text containing “import” may be rejected or altered. This is a bounded risk that should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 18.18% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Test Results For Major Changes		The PR is major and documents testing, including a differential check over 157,878 sequences and added regression tests. However, it can affect performance: the omit path now performs an additional fu…	Add before-and-after performance results for the changed injection-detection paths. Include the action and rule configuration, input sizes and workload, runtime or hardware context, and the measurement method. Cover at least omit processing…

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title names the main change: fixing detection bypasses and unsafe omission in the injection_detection library. The changeset covers the YARA rule fixes for Python imports, Jinja, and XSS, plus the…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

The title names the main change: fixing detection bypasses and unsafe omission in the injection_detection library. The changeset covers the YARA rule fixes for Python imports, Jinja, and XSS, plus the safer byte-range omission and rescan logic. The title is specific and matches the changes in the summary and objectives. The 83-character length is slightly long but acceptable.

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Docstring coverage is 18.18% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 11 functions across 4 files. (6 skipped: 6 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Explanation

The PR is major and documents testing, including a differential check over 157,878 sequences and added regression tests. However, it can affect performance: the omit path now performs an additional full rules.match(data=result_text) scan, and the YARA rules add matching logic. The description has no before-and-after performance numbers or benchmark configuration and context.

Resolution

Add before-and-after performance results for the changed injection-detection paths. Include the action and rule configuration, input sizes and workload, runtime or hardware context, and the measurement method. Cover at least omit processing with the new rescan and the updated YARA rules.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at
@nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/yara_rules/code.yara:
- Around line 30-33: Constrain the `$import_token` occurrence-order check so it
only matches when a module substring occurs after that same lowercase `import`
occurrence, rather than combining an earlier `os` in “Most” with a later one in
“cost.” Keep the existing substring detections for `urllib3`, `httpx`,
`_socket`, and `posix` unbounded, and add a regression test confirming the
standalone-prose example is not detected.

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Commits

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Files selected for processing: 10

• docs/configure-rails/guardrail-catalog/agentic-security.mdx
• nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/actions.py
• nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/flows.co
• nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/flows.v1.co
• nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/yara_rules/code.yara
• nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/yara_rules/template.yara
• nemoguardrails/library/injection_detection/yara_rules/xss.yara
• tests/test_injection_detection.py
• tests/test_injection_detection_security.py
• tests/test_runtime_flow_gate_equivalence.py

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[tgasser-nv]

Looks good, please check the new accidental match cases before merging. The rest are nits