Audit and improve security related tests: eliminate code duplication and implement missing tests

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This PR addresses the audit and improvement of security-related tests as requested in the issue. The main focus was on cleaning up TODO comments, eliminating code duplication, and ensuring tests are maintainable while remaining robust.

Changes Made

🔒 Eliminated Code Duplication

• Created shared constant: Added Hooks::Security::DANGEROUS_CLASSES in lib/hooks/security.rb to centralize the list of dangerous class names
• Updated implementation files: Modified lib/hooks/app/helpers.rb and lib/hooks/core/config_validator.rb to use the shared constant instead of duplicated arrays
• Enhanced test maintainability: Updated security test files to reference the shared constant with verification that categorized dangerous classes match the shared list

✅ Implemented Missing Security Tests

Completed all 8 TODO test cases in spec/unit/lib/hooks/app/auth/auth_security_spec.rb:

• Missing auth type validation: Added test for empty string auth types
• Secret configuration validation: Added tests for missing, nil, empty, whitespace-only, and non-string secret_env_key values
• Environment variable validation: Added tests ensuring generic error messages for missing secrets without leaking environment variable names

🛡️ Enhanced Security Validation

• Improved auth type validation: Enhanced lib/hooks/app/auth/auth.rb to properly validate empty string auth types
• Maintained security behavior: All configuration validation errors are converted to generic "authentication failed" messages to prevent information leakage to potential attackers

🧪 Test Quality Improvements

• Robust categorization: Security tests now verify that hardcoded dangerous class lists match the shared constant
• Clear documentation: Added comprehensive YARD documentation for the shared security constant
• Maintained coverage: All 303 existing tests continue to pass with improved code coverage (80.68%)

Example of Eliminated Duplication

Before:

# In helpers.rb
dangerous_classes = %w[File Dir Kernel Object Class Module Proc Method ...]

# In config_validator.rb  
dangerous_classes = %w[File Dir Kernel Object Class Module Proc Method ...]

After:

# In security.rb
DANGEROUS_CLASSES = %w[File Dir Kernel Object Class Module Proc Method ...].freeze

# In both files
Hooks::Security::DANGEROUS_CLASSES.include?(class_name)

Security Considerations

• All configuration errors are properly masked as generic authentication failures
• No sensitive information (like environment variable names) is leaked in error messages
• The shared dangerous classes list maintains comprehensive protection against system class exploitation

Fixes #11.

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Pull Request Overview

This PR centralizes the list of dangerous class names into a shared constant, refactors validation logic to use that constant, and fills in previously missing security tests for the auth module.

• Introduced Hooks::Security::DANGEROUS_CLASSES and removed duplicated arrays
• Refactored config_validator and helpers to reference the shared constant
• Completed all TODOs in auth security specs and added logging stub

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 7 out of 7 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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File	Description
spec/unit/lib/hooks/core/config_validator_security_spec.rb	Replaced hardcoded dangerous_configs with iteration over the shared constant
spec/unit/lib/hooks/app/helpers_security_spec.rb	Updated tests to reference DANGEROUS_CLASSES and added inclusion checks
spec/unit/lib/hooks/app/auth/auth_security_spec.rb	Implemented 8 previously TODO tests for validate_auth! and stubbed logging
lib/hooks/security.rb	Added DANGEROUS_CLASSES constant with comprehensive class list
lib/hooks/core/config_validator.rb	Refactored to use Hooks::Security::DANGEROUS_CLASSES
lib/hooks/app/helpers.rb	Refactored to use Hooks::Security::DANGEROUS_CLASSES
lib/hooks/app/auth/auth.rb	Enhanced auth type validation to reject empty or whitespace-only strings

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (2)

spec/unit/lib/hooks/app/helpers_security_spec.rb:39

• The test iterates over all dangerous classes, not just system-related ones. Consider renaming the description to "rejects dangerous class names" for accuracy.

it "rejects system class names" do

spec/unit/lib/hooks/app/auth/auth_security_spec.rb:70

• Add a test case for a missing or nil auth type (e.g., { auth: {} } or { auth: { type: nil } }) to ensure the validation path for non-string or absent types is covered.

it "rejects request with empty string type" do

[Copilot]

To prevent leading or trailing whitespace from breaking plugin lookup, use auth_type.strip.downcase when deriving auth_plugin_type.

Suggested change

	auth_plugin_type = auth_type.downcase
	auth_plugin_type = auth_type.strip.downcase

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[nitpick] Consider sorting the entries in DANGEROUS_CLASSES alphabetically to improve readability and make future additions easier to manage.

Suggested change

	File Dir Kernel Object Class Module Proc Method
	IO Socket TCPSocket UDPSocket BasicSocket
	Process Thread Fiber Mutex ConditionVariable
	Marshal YAML JSON Pathname
	BasicSocket Class ConditionVariable Dir Fiber File IO JSON Kernel
	Marshal Method Module Mutex Object Pathname Proc Process Socket
	TCPSocket Thread UDPSocket YAML