Ruby: Do not distinguish between symbols and strings in hash keys

ruby/ql/lib/codeql/ruby/dataflow/internal/DataFlowPublic.qll

@@ -829,7 +829,28 @@ class ContentSet extends TContentSet {
     this.isAny() and
     exists(result)
     or
-    result = this.getAnElementReadContent()
+    exists(Content elementContent | elementContent = this.getAnElementReadContent() |
+      result = elementContent
+      or
+      // Do not distinguish symbol keys from string keys. This allows us to
+      // give more precise summaries for something like `with_indifferent_access`,
+      // and the amount of false-positive flow arising from this should be very
+      // limited.
+      elementContent =
+        any(Content::KnownElementContent known, ConstantValue cv |
+          cv = known.getIndex() and
+          result.(Content::KnownElementContent).getIndex() =
+            any(ConstantValue cv2 |
+              cv2.(ConstantValue::ConstantSymbolValue).getStringlikeValue() =
+                cv.(ConstantValue::ConstantStringValue).getStringlikeValue()
+              or
+              cv2.(ConstantValue::ConstantStringValue).getStringlikeValue() =
+                cv.(ConstantValue::ConstantSymbolValue).getStringlikeValue()
+            )
+        |
+          known
+        )
+    )
   }
 }
 

ruby/ql/lib/codeql/ruby/frameworks/ActiveSupport.qll

@@ -121,16 +121,6 @@ module ActiveSupport {
      * Extensions to the `Hash` class.
      */
     module Hash {
-      private class WithIndifferentAccessSummary extends SimpleSummarizedCallable {
-        WithIndifferentAccessSummary() { this = "with_indifferent_access" }
-
-        override predicate propagatesFlow(string input, string output, boolean preservesValue) {
-          input = "Argument[self].Element[any]" and
-          output = "ReturnValue.Element[any]" and
-          preservesValue = true
-        }
-      }
-
       /**
        * Flow summary for `reverse_merge`, and its alias `with_defaults`.
        */
@@ -167,8 +157,9 @@ module ActiveSupport {
         }
 
         override predicate propagatesFlow(string input, string output, boolean preservesValue) {
-          input = "Argument[self].Element[any]" and
-          output = "ReturnValue.Element[?]" and
+          // keys are considered equal modulo string/symbol in our implementation
+          input = "Argument[self].WithElement[any]" and
+          output = "ReturnValue" and
           preservesValue = true
         }
       }