Cybersecurity false positive blocks legitimate C software quality testing
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Domain
- security, testing-qa
Research direction
Start by reviewing uploaded thread 019f5123-7a4e-7a53-b5e1-cc76fb3ca2f3 and the Codex CLI 0.145.0 behavior it documents. Reproduce the classification with the described libFuzzer, sanitizer, coverage, parser-robustness, and compiler-verification work; done means legitimate software-quality testing proceeds without being blocked.
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Description
What version of Codex CLI is running?
0.145.0
What subscription do you have?
Pro
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.6-sol
What platform is your computer?
No response
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
No response
Codex doctor report
What issue are you seeing?
While implementing standard C software quality tests for a private PostgreSQL Bot project, legitimate work involving libFuzzer, sanitizers, code coverage, parser robustness tests, and compiler verification was repeatedly classified as
cybersecurity-related content.
The system displayed “This content can't be shown” multiple times and terminated legitimate subagent turns. The work does not involve attacks, vulnerability exploitation, malware, credential access, network scanning, or third-party systems.
Expected behavior: Normal software quality and robustness testing should proceed without triggering the cybersecurity classifier.
Uploaded thread ID: 019f5123-7a4e-7a53-b5e1-cc76fb3ca2f3
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019f5123-7a4e-7a53-b5e1-cc76fb3ca2f3
What is the expected behavior?
No response
Additional information
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