Eric Hare d3b60fa898 fix(security): use CodeQL-recognized sanitizer for path-injection alerts #205-213 (#12841)
* fix(security): use CodeQL-recognised sanitiser for path-injection sinks

Addresses CodeQL alerts #205-213 (py/path-injection, high). All three
modules already contained path-containment logic, but relied on
``pathlib.Path.resolve()`` + ``Path.is_relative_to`` / ``startswith``,
which CodeQL's dataflow model does not recognise as a sanitiser — so
the alerts kept firing on ``.exists()``/``.resolve()`` sinks.

Rewrites the sanitisers using ``os.path.realpath`` + ``startswith`` —
the pattern documented by CodeQL as the recognised traversal
sanitiser — without changing the security guarantees. ``realpath``
canonicalises and follows symlinks, so the containment check is
robust against both ``..`` sequences and symlink escapes.

Files touched (one sanitiser per file):

* ``agentic/services/helpers/flow_loader.py`` — replace
  ``_validate_path_within_base`` with ``_safe_resolved_path`` that
  returns the canonicalised path, then have ``resolve_flow_path`` use
  that canonicalised path for all downstream ``.exists()`` calls.
* ``api/v1/files.py`` — rewrite the profile-picture lookup to derive
  the candidate path from ``realpath`` of base + user components and
  verify containment before any filesystem access.
* ``api/v1/flows_helpers.py`` — collapse the absolute/relative
  branches of ``_get_safe_flow_path`` into a single
  ``realpath`` + ``startswith`` containment check. Drops the now-
  unused ``pathlib.Path as StdlibPath`` import.

No behavioural changes: all 92 existing path-validation/flow-loader
unit tests and 54 ``files.py`` tests still pass.

* fix(security): don't leak resolved base path in flow path error detail

The containment-failure branch for absolute paths returned the fully
resolved flows base directory (e.g. /var/lib/langflow/flows/<user-uuid>)
in the HTTP 400 detail, exposing server filesystem layout and the user's
internal path component. Replace with a static message — the specific
resolved path adds no diagnostic value for the client and leaks internal
detail.
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