False positive Cyber security notifications
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100
Research direction
Start by reviewing the uploaded thread 019fc840-11d3-7512-a04b-e944a9bdf849 and the false-positive behavior described in this issue. Determine where defensive reviews of user-owned repositories are classified, then validate the expected behavior against the reported workflow. Done means safe local security reviews are no longer incorrectly blocked while the relevant safeguards remain intact.
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Description
What version of Codex CLI is running?
codex-cli 0.145.0
What subscription do you have?
Pro x5
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.6-sol xhigh
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 arm
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
tmux
Codex doctor report
What issue are you seeing?
During a defensive security audit of my own bird_exporter fork, responses are incorrectly blocked as cybersecurity content. The task is to identify and fix DoS, panic, race-condition, parser, and supply-chain issues using safe local testing. I am not requesting malicious code or instructions for exploiting third-party systems. Please review this false positive and allow this secure code review workflow.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019fc840-11d3-7512-a04b-e944a9bdf849
What is the expected behavior?
The assistant should allow defensive security reviews of user-owned repositories and provide findings, remediation guidance, patches, and local validation steps without triggering a cybersecurity-content block.
Additional information
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