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🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
πŸ’‘ Vulnerability: Weak regex validation allowed overly large input strings (e.g., '9999999999') which caused as.integer() to return NA, crashing the subsequent if conditions and causing a Denial of Service.
🎯 Impact: Attackers or malformed scripts could crash the interactive session or downstream automated workflows relying on this interactive function by supplying out-of-bounds numbers.
πŸ”§ Fix: Tightened regex validation to strictly accept single exact digits 1 or 2 (the actual valid menu options) to guarantee safe coercion and prevent runtime crashes.
βœ… Verification: Ran Rscript -e 'devtools::test()' and confirmed all 58 tests passed successfully including the newly added regression/security test suite for mocked interactive prompts.


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This commit addresses a critical DoS vulnerability where excessively large string inputs to `readline` prompts were coercing to `NA` through `as.integer()`, leading to unhandled exceptions downstream. The fix replaces the weak `^[0-9]+$` regex with a strictly bounded exact-match `^[12]$` regex.

Also includes rigorous mocked test cases.
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The three grepl("^[12]$", n) sites are the right contract for the documented 1/2 menus. Do not merge this head.

Blocking: the new test adds mockery without declaring it, and the new-form case cannot reach the BILOG prompt.

Land instead: #249 already has the same regex, namespace bindings for local_mocked_bindings(), testthat >= 3.2.0, and three real prompt-path tests (including a fitted mirt old-form model for the new-form prompt). Close this PR and #255 as duplicates once #249 is current.

This is interactive robustness, not a network DoS. as.integer() on an oversized digit string becomes NA_integer_ and the later if aborts; the menu should reject that input and retry. CodeRabbit GitHub was rate-limited on this head; these defects are from the diff and DESCRIPTION.

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# verify oldformBILOGprior validation protects against large integer inputs

mockery::stub(aFIPC::autoFIPC, 'interactive', function(...) TRUE)

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mockery is not in DESCRIPTION Suggests (only testthat >= 3.0.0). R CMD check will fail on mockery::stub unless the runner happens to have a leftover install. Do not add mockery for this slice β€” #249 already mocks interactive / readline with testthat::local_mocked_bindings(..., .package = "aFIPC") after adding NULL namespace bindings.

Comment on lines +67 to +71
mod <- new("SingleGroupClass")
mod@OptimInfo$converged <- TRUE
mod@OptimInfo$secondordertest <- TRUE
mod@Data$data <- data.frame(A=c(1,0))
mockery::stub(aFIPC::autoFIPC, 'mirt::mirt', function(...) mod)

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This case does not reach checknewformBILOGprior().

  1. new("SingleGroupClass") plus slot writes is not a fitted model. isRealMirtModel() requires mirt::mod2values() to succeed; a dummy S4 object is rejected if used as data, and here the call still passes a 1-column data.frame.
  2. mockery::stub(..., "mirt::mirt", ...) does not intercept the mirt::mirt() calls in R/aFIPC.R. Old-form estimation on 1–2 rows will fail, then surveyFA, then Estimation failed. Please check test quality. β€” not Too many invalid newform BILOG prior attempts.

#249 reaches this prompt by passing a fitted 2PL mirt object as oldformYData and mocking only interactive / readline.

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