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🔒 Fix loose type comparison vulnerability in Insee validation#206

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🔒 Fix loose type comparison vulnerability in Insee validation#206
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🎯 What: The IsoCodes\Insee validator contained loose type comparisons (== and !=) when evaluating the departement code extracted via regex and when comparing the calculated clef against the provided clef.

⚠️ Risk: Loose comparison allows for PHP type coercion, leading to potential type juggling vulnerabilities (CWE-697). An attacker could bypass validation by supplying an unexpected payload that evaluates to true due to PHP's implicit type conversion rules (e.g. 0 == '0abc'). While the initial preg_match limits the input somewhat, this is an important defense-in-depth measure.

🛡️ Solution: Updated the switch statement in src/IsoCodes/Insee.php to use strict comparisons (===) with string literals (since preg_match returns strings). Also updated the clef comparison to explicitly cast both values to strings before strictly comparing them ((string) $clef !== (string) $return['clef']). Added a test case in InseeTest.php for a wrong checksum to ensure the logic remains intact.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 6045279218361980663 started by @ronanguilloux

* Replaced `==` and `!=` with strict `===` and `!==` in `src/IsoCodes/Insee.php`.
* Fixed type coercion vulnerabilities when checking department codes extracted via regex.
* Ensure both sides of the `clef` check are strings before strict comparison.
* Added a test case in `tests/IsoCodes/Tests/InseeTest.php` to verify the logic remains robust and correctly invalidates wrong checksums.

Co-authored-by: ronanguilloux <313677+ronanguilloux@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ronanguilloux ronanguilloux merged commit 626281c into master Mar 20, 2026
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