On Windows, Node refuses to spawn .bat and .cmd files without a shell
(CVE-2024-27980), so REA_APKTOOL_COMMAND pointing at Chocolatey's
apktool.bat or a java -jar wrapper failed its version probe with EINVAL,
reported as "did not report a usable version".
Move Ghidra's conservative cmd.exe invocation (no AutoRun, no delayed
expansion, every token quoted, interpreter metacharacters rejected) into
src/process/WindowsBatchCommand.ts. Ghidra keeps its error type, wording
and length limit. apktool now uses it for both the version probe and the
decode run when the launcher is a batch file on Windows. A launcher that
cmd.exe would reinterpret reports launcher_unsupported (not_configured)
with remediation instead of version_unresolved.
Fixes#1774
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* feat(apktool): decode Android resource tables through a caller-supplied launcher
Add an Apktool family with two operations over the caller's apktool
launcher (REA_APKTOOL_COMMAND, absolute, or apktool on PATH):
- inspect_apktool_client: resolved launcher, selection source, and
version; decodes nothing.
- decode_android_resources: apktool d --no-src in a provider-owned
workspace that is removed before the result returns. Projects the
decoded AndroidManifest.xml (bounded at 512 KiB), apktool.yml version
and SDK facts exactly as printed, string resources verbatim (default or
one locale, bounded at 2000 entries, nested-markup entries counted as
unparsed), available string locales, and the decoded file count with a
hard cap. The target APK is digested with SHA-256 before decoding so
Evidence binds the observation to the exact input.
Smali production is skipped by design: Java-source recovery belongs to
the JADX family. Workspace cleanup happens before results return; an
unremovable workspace is named in the limitations instead of abandoned.
Verified against apktool 2.7.0-dirty (Debian packaging) on Linux with
OpenJDK 25 against a signed aapt2-built probe APK with two resource
locales: launcher version, on-disk digest agreement, metadata projection,
manifest package agreement, and both string tables (default and de).
Parser goldens come from the same decode. READMEs carry the new
'Android resources' row in every supported language.
* fix(apktool): own snapshots and bound decoded resource reads
* docs(apktool): describe owned resources and bounded projection
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Co-authored-by: REA Contributor <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: morluto <[email protected]>
