[Audit] High — Self-update can remove the working install and still report success
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 72/100
Research direction
Read user_scanner/utils/update.py and the update branches in user_scanner/__main__.py and user_scanner/utils/updater_logic.py to trace installation and success reporting. Then inspect the update tests, if present, and reproduce an installation failure. Done means failure preserves the existing installation, reports no success, and returns a nonzero exit status.
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Description
- Location:
user_scanner/utils/update.py:12-29,user_scanner/__main__.py:239-242(update
branch), anduser_scanner/utils/updater_logic.py:39-42. - Defect / trigger: update first uninstalls the package, then separately installs it. Failure is
caught and converted to a normal return; both callers unconditionally print “Update successful”. - Impact / root cause / evidence: network or installer failure leaves the tool absent/broken and
gives the operator a false success signal. - Smallest robust correction: use one
pip install --upgrade user-scanneroperation, return a
typed success/failure result, and exit nonzero on failure. - Proving test: make installation fail after update begins; assert the previous installation is
still importable, success is not printed, and exit status is nonzero. - Confidence: high.
- LLM-agent warning: Keep investigating. Review updater provenance, environment selection,
rollback, permissions, and package-index trust; this finding covers only the obvious failure path.
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- Python
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