fix: remove existing process hardening from Codex CLI (#8951)

As explained in https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/8945 and
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/8472, there are legitimate cases
where users expect processes spawned by Codex to inherit environment
variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` and `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH`, where
failing to do so can cause significant performance issues.

This PR removes the use of
`codex_process_hardening::pre_main_hardening()` in Codex CLI (which was
added not in response to a known security issue, but because it seemed
like a prudent thing to do from a security perspective:
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/4521), but we will continue to use
it in `codex-responses-api-proxy`. At some point, we probably want to
introduce a slightly different version of
`codex_process_hardening::pre_main_hardening()` in Codex CLI that
excludes said environment variables from the Codex process itself, but
continues to propagate them to subprocesses.
This commit is contained in:
Michael Bolin
2026-01-08 21:19:34 -08:00
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commit d3ff668f68
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@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ codex-exec = { workspace = true }
codex-execpolicy = { workspace = true }
codex-login = { workspace = true }
codex-mcp-server = { workspace = true }
codex-process-hardening = { workspace = true }
codex-protocol = { workspace = true }
codex-responses-api-proxy = { workspace = true }
codex-rmcp-client = { workspace = true }
@@ -38,7 +37,6 @@ codex-stdio-to-uds = { workspace = true }
codex-tui = { workspace = true }
codex-tui2 = { workspace = true }
codex-utils-absolute-path = { workspace = true }
ctor = { workspace = true }
libc = { workspace = true }
owo-colors = { workspace = true }
regex-lite = { workspace = true }