CVE-2026-45539: Microsoft APM: Symlinks under `.apm/prompts/` and `.apm/agents/` are dereferenced during `apm install`, copying host-local file contents into the project tree
Two primitive integrators in apm-cli enumerate package files with bare Path.glob() / Path.rglob() calls and read each match with Path.read_text(), transparently following symbolic links.
A symlink committed inside a remote APM dependency under .apm/prompts/<x>.prompt.md or .apm/agents/<x>.agent.md is preserved verbatim into apm_modules/ on clone and then dereferenced during integration, with the resolved content written as a regular file into the project’s deploy directories.
The package content_hash, the pre-deploy SecurityGate scan, and apm audit do not flag this. The deploy roots are not added to the auto-generated .gitignore, so the resulting files are staged by git add by default.
This was reproduced via the standard owner/repo#tag install flow against a real bare git repository. No --force or special flags were used.
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