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ergosteur ff9b15933d Final review pass: fix STARTTLS fallback, PS null-count bugs, badge scoping; add README
Ran a full review pass over both audit scripts and the HTML converter,
independently cross-checked against an automated code review, and fixed
everything that survived verification:

- ad_audit.py: connect() ignored the boolean return of conn.start_tls().
  ldap3 doesn't raise on STARTTLS failure by default, so a rejected/
  downgraded STARTTLS silently fell through to an unencrypted bind --
  the bind DN and password would go out in cleartext with no warning.
  Now aborts before calling bind() if start_tls() returns False.
- ad_audit.py: "Enabled accounts that have never logged on" detail rows
  weren't filtering out disabled accounts, unlike the count used to
  decide whether to show the finding at all -- so a disabled account
  could appear in a list titled "enabled accounts."
- ad_audit.py: replaced deprecated datetime.datetime.utcnow() (scheduled
  for removal) with timezone-aware datetime.now(timezone.utc); made
  FILETIME_EPOCH aware too so the stale-account comparison keeps working
  without a naive/aware TypeError.
- ad_audit.py: removed dead code (unused defaultdict import, unused
  UAC_NOT_DELEGATED constant, unused scope_bit variable, import os
  buried inside main() instead of at module level).
- Invoke-ADAudit.ps1: GroupCount/MemberCount used (@($x)).Count, which
  PowerShell evaluates to 1 (not 0) when $x is $null -- @($null) is a
  one-element array, not an empty one. This silently broke "empty group"
  detection (the report's own headline feature) for any group with
  genuinely zero members, and inflated GroupCount for users with no
  group memberships. Added Get-SafeCount to null-check before counting.
- Invoke-ADAudit.ps1: $maxDepth came back as $null (not 0) when a
  SearchBase had zero OUs, printing a blank instead of "0" in the report.
- Invoke-ADAudit.ps1 / ad_audit.py: the h4 finding-detail title wasn't
  escaped through ConvertTo-MdSafe/md_escape in one of its three
  occurrences, inconsistent with the other two -- fixed for consistency
  even though today's titles are all fixed strings.
- md_to_html.py: badge_findings_table()'s regex matched any single-word
  table cell equal to a severity name, not just the Severity column of
  the findings table -- an OS name, group name, or object class that
  happened to literally be "Critical"/"High"/etc (plausible under a
  tiering naming scheme) would get rewritten into a colored badge
  anywhere in the report. Rescoped to the one table whose header row is
  literally "Severity | Finding | Count | Notes", which only this
  generator ever emits.
- Added README.md covering both scripts' usage, what each collects, and
  a documented known limitation (finding-detection logic is duplicated
  between the Python and PowerShell implementations with no shared
  source of truth).

Every fix verified with a reproduction before and after: a mocked
start_tls() failure confirms bind() is never reached; mocked $null
MemberOf/Members confirm counts are now 0; a zero-OU domain confirms
"Maximum nesting depth: 0" instead of blank; a disabled never-logged-on
account confirms it's excluded from the enabled-accounts finding; and
AD data literally named "Critical"/"High" confirms it no longer gets
badged outside the real findings table.
2026-08-27 14:33:20 -04:00