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Fix shell injection vulnerability in branch name handling (CWE-78)#16121

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Fix shell injection vulnerability in branch name handling (CWE-78)#16121
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Add branch name sanitization to prevent shell injection (CWE-78)

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Add defense-in-depth sanitization for base_branch configuration

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Address PR review feedback: add actual null byte test and fail on baseBranch changes

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