CVE-2026-48036: @hulumi/drift: Drift classifier fails open on adapter errors and over-promotes Mixed verdicts
@hulumi/drift runs four adapters that each ask a different question about whether a resource has drifted (Pulumi-state diff, provider-version change, CloudTrail event, etc.). A classifier combines the adapters’ answers into a verdict like None / none, ConsoleBreakGlass / high, or Mixed / high, and caches the verdict for 6 hours by default.
Two related bugs from one root cause — the classifier only read each adapter’s detected: true/false field and ignored whether the adapter itself succeeded:
- Cached “all clear” on adapter failure. When an adapter failed (e.g. transient network error from the Automation API), the classifier read
detected: false, concluded “no drift”, and cached the verdict asNone / nonefor 6 hours. A single transient failure could mask real console-break-glass mutations for the rest of the window. - Mixed verdicts without real evidence. The
Mixed / highandConsoleBreakGlass / highverdicts (incident severity) could fire on the “the CloudTrail probe round-tripped successfully” signal rather than actual evidence that anything had been changed via the console. Normal provider-API churn could end up falsely escalated to incident severity.
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