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🔒 fix: prevent loose type comparison vulnerability in Insee validator#208

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🔒 fix: prevent loose type comparison vulnerability in Insee validator#208
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🎯 What: The vulnerability fixed is the loose type comparison (==) when matching the departement part of the French Social Security Number (INSEE) extracted via regex.
⚠️ Risk: In PHP versions older than 8.0, loose type comparisons like '2A' == $return['departement'] could result in true due to unexpected type coercion (e.g. '2A' == 2 evaluating to true if $return['departement'] was evaluated as integer 2 somehow, or through magic hashes and other Type Juggling vulnerabilities). While preg_match limits the input, using === prevents this entire class of bugs.
🛡️ Solution: The fix replaces all instances of == with === within the switch(true) block in src/IsoCodes/Insee.php. Integer comparisons (97, 98, 99) are properly wrapped in quotes as they are checked against a string value. Redundant type casting was also removed.


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This commit fixes a potential security issue in `src/IsoCodes/Insee.php` where loose type comparisons (`==`) were used to check string values extracted from regex (`$return['departement']`). This can lead to PHP type juggling vulnerabilities (CWE-697). - Changed `==` to strict comparison `===`. - Cast integer comparison values (97, 98, 99) to strings ('97', '98', '99') since `$return['departement']` evaluates to a string. - Removed the redundant `(string)` cast before `$return['departement']` in the `'00'` case. Co-authored-by: ronanguilloux <313677+ronanguilloux@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ronanguilloux ronanguilloux merged commit 42893cd into master Mar 20, 2026
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