Eric Hare cb06a666d0 fix(security): reject symlinks/hardlinks in BaseFileComponent TAR extraction (GHSA-ccv6-r384-xp75) (#12945)
`BaseFileComponent._unpack_bundle._safe_extract_tar` accepted any TAR member
type and only checked that `output_dir / member.name` did not escape the
extract dir. That check was performed before extraction, so a symlink whose
*target* was an absolute path (or `../` escape) was extracted untouched.
Once on disk the link was iterated by `temp_dir_path.iterdir()` and handed
to `process_files()`, whose concrete implementations (FileComponent,
DoclingInline/Remote, NvidiaIngest, VideoFile, Unstructured) call
`path.read_bytes()` and follow the link to read arbitrary host files.

The reporter's exploit chain leaks `~/.langflow/secret_key`, forges a JWT
for an admin user, and then runs arbitrary code through the Python
interpreter node, achieving RCE.

Python's `tarfile` only defaults to the safe `data` filter on Python 3.14,
which langflow's `requires-python = ">=3.10,<3.14"` excludes — so every
supported interpreter was vulnerable.

Fix:
- `_safe_extract_tar` now rejects symbolic-link, hard-link, FIFO, and
  device-node members with a `ValueError` and only extracts regular files
  and directories.
- `_unpack_and_collect_files` skips any `is_symlink()` entries from the
  extracted bundle directory and from recursive directory walks as
  defense-in-depth in case a future bundle format slips a link through.
- New `tests/unit/base/data/test_base_file_unpack.py` covers symlink (abs
  + relative escape), hardlink, FIFO rejection, benign tar/zip extraction,
  the post-extraction symlink filter, and an end-to-end repro mirroring
  the advisory PoC (real filesystem symlink → tarfile.add).

Refs: https://github.com/langflow-ai/langflow/security/advisories/GHSA-ccv6-r384-xp75
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