From 352b30b96cc74c8ce95cc4c682fadf6a89d9eb63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aiqiao Yan <55104035+aiqiaoy@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:05:42 -0400
Subject: trim only ascii whitespace for branch (#2521)

* trim only ascii whitespace for branch

* rebuild
---
 src/input-helper.ts | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/input-helper.ts')

diff --git a/src/input-helper.ts b/src/input-helper.ts
index 87b2800..9a98b86 100644
--- a/src/input-helper.ts
+++ b/src/input-helper.ts
@@ -59,6 +59,23 @@ export async function getInputs(): Promise<IGitSourceSettings> {
 
   // Source branch, source version
   result.ref = core.getInput('ref')
+  // core.getInput()'s default trim strips a range of Unicode characters such as a
+  // leading BOM (U+FEFF) or NBSP (U+00A0). Those are valid in a git ref name, so
+  // a fork branch named "<BOM>" + 40 hex chars would trim down to a bare SHA and
+  // be silently reclassified as a commit, bypassing the unsafe fork PR checkout
+  // guard.
+  //
+  // The trim below strips only the ASCII whitespace characters which are all forbidden
+  // in a git branch name.
+  //   \t  U+0009  horizontal tab   - ASCII control, forbidden in ref names
+  //   \n  U+000A  line feed        - ASCII control, forbidden in ref names
+  //   \v  U+000B  vertical tab     - ASCII control, forbidden in ref names
+  //   \f  U+000C  form feed        - ASCII control, forbidden in ref names
+  //   \r  U+000D  carriage return  - ASCII control, forbidden in ref names
+  //   ' ' U+0020  space            - forbidden in ref names
+  const asciiTrimmedRef = core
+    .getInput('ref', {trimWhitespace: false})
+    .replace(/^[\t\n\v\f\r ]+|[\t\n\v\f\r ]+$/g, '')
   if (!result.ref) {
     if (isWorkflowRepository) {
       result.ref = github.context.ref
@@ -72,8 +89,8 @@ export async function getInputs(): Promise<IGitSourceSettings> {
     }
   }
   // SHA?
-  else if (result.ref.match(/^(?:[0-9a-fA-F]{40}|[0-9a-fA-F]{64})$/)) {
-    result.commit = result.ref
+  else if (asciiTrimmedRef.match(/^(?:[0-9a-fA-F]{40}|[0-9a-fA-F]{64})$/)) {
+    result.commit = asciiTrimmedRef
     result.ref = ''
   }
   core.debug(`ref = '${result.ref}'`)
-- 
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