🛡️ Sentinel: [security improvement] Add missing deserialization functions to core taint propagation mapping

[tachyon-beep]

🚨 Severity: MEDIUM
💡 Vulnerability: The static analyzer was missing yaml.unsafe_load, yaml.full_load, and several other third-party deserialization sinks in its _SERIALISATION_SINKS mapping.
🎯 Impact: This could lead to false negatives when tracking untrusted data flowing into these dangerous deserialization functions, as the analyzer might not correctly shed validation provenance.
🔧 Fix: Added missing serialization/deserialization functions from dill, jsonpickle, joblib, torch, numpy, and shelve to _SERIALISATION_SINKS in src/wardline/scanner/taint/variable_level.py. Also corrected a rule example in untrusted_to_deserialization.py to prevent false positive PY-WL-101 defects in tests.
✅ Verification: Ran make test and make lint to ensure everything passes and the analyzer correctly handles the newly added sinks.

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Pull request overview

This PR updates Wardline’s taint propagation “serialisation/deserialisation sink” mapping so the analyzer more conservatively treats additional third-party (de)serialization APIs as shedding validation provenance (returning UNKNOWN_RAW). It also adjusts the documented clean example for PY-WL-106 so the rule’s metadata examples remain defect-free under the meta-test harness.

Changes:

• Added additional third-party (de)serialization function FQNs (dill/jsonpickle/joblib/torch/numpy/shelve) to _SERIALISATION_SINKS to reduce false negatives in taint propagation.
• Updated the PY-WL-106 clean example involving numpy.load to avoid triggering unrelated defects in the “examples must be clean overall” meta-test.

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File	Description
src/wardline/scanner/taint/variable_level.py	Extends _SERIALISATION_SINKS with additional third-party (de)serialization APIs so return taint becomes UNKNOWN_RAW.
src/wardline/scanner/rules/untrusted_to_deserialization.py	Adjusts the rule’s clean example snippet to avoid emitting unrelated defect findings in meta-tests.

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wardline/src/wardline/scanner/rules/untrusted_to_deserialization.py

Lines 80 to 81 in 66c4d8a

	"yaml.unsafe_load": None,
	"yaml.full_load": None,

Include PyYAML multi-document unsafe/full loaders

Adding yaml.unsafe_load and yaml.full_load still leaves their multi-document counterparts unmodeled: yaml.unsafe_load_all(raw) and yaml.full_load_all(raw) are absent from both this sink table and _SERIALISATION_SINKS. Because PY-WL-106 matching is exact by canonical FQN, trusted code that deserializes untrusted multi-document YAML through those helpers will still produce no deserialization finding and will not shed validation provenance; please add the *_load_all companions alongside these entries.

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Apply safe-loader gates before tainting returns

When numpy.load is called without literal allow_pickle=True, or torch.load is called with weights_only=True, PY-WL-106 explicitly treats the call as safe and suppresses it. Adding these names to the unconditional _SERIALISATION_SINKS set makes _resolve_call return UNKNOWN_RAW before any keyword gate, so a trusted producer like return numpy.load(read_raw(x)) or return torch.load(read_raw(x), weights_only=True) now raises PY-WL-101/downstream taint even though the deserialization rule is silent. Please either keep these gated APIs out of the unconditional set or mirror the same gates in variable-level tainting.

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Do not mark write-only save calls as raw returns

For trusted wrappers that return the result of these write-side APIs, _resolve_call now reports UNKNOWN_RAW just because the callee is in _SERIALISATION_SINKS; however joblib.dump(...) returns filenames and torch.save(...)/numpy.save(...) return no serialized data. This turns otherwise clean patterns such as return torch.save(obj, path) or return joblib.dump(obj, path) into PY-WL-101/downstream taint defects, so the write-only APIs should either be excluded from this return-taint set or modeled with their real return taint.

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