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.
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Michael Bolin authored and GitHub committed 2026-01-08 21:19:34 -08:00
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@@ -1156,7 +1156,6 @@ dependencies = [
"codex-execpolicy",
"codex-login",
"codex-mcp-server",
"codex-process-hardening",
"codex-protocol",
"codex-responses-api-proxy",
"codex-rmcp-client",
@@ -1166,7 +1165,6 @@ dependencies = [
"codex-utils-absolute-path",
"codex-utils-cargo-bin",
"codex-windows-sandbox",
"ctor 0.5.0",
"libc",
"owo-colors",
"predicates",