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SecurityOctober 23, 2026, 06:45

OpenShell's Z3 policy prover misses the cloud metadata address in 29 checks

A developer built Nvidia's openshell-prover CLI from source and ran 29 candidate/boundary policy pairs against it. The SMT-based check catches most privilege escalations but passes access to 169.254.169.254 and other link-local and loopback addresses, which are excluded from the containment model in ip.rs.

OpenShell's Z3 policy prover misses the cloud metadata address in 29 checks
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