T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation
Error
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SKILL.md:29- Finding
Unauthenticated Issuance of a Long-Lived Privileged Bearer Token
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Content-Type: application/json ``` The same token is subsequently used for account enumeration, analytics access, audience-profile retrieval, content publication, publication cancellation, and progress-stream access. ### Technical Analysis The Skill documents `POST /galic/v1/auth/token` as the first authentication step, but it does not specify any existing credential or authorization check required to invoke that endpoint. Consequently, any process capable of connecting to the gateway may be able to mint its own bearer token. The gateway is documented as listening on `127.0.0.1:3456`. Loopback binding limits direct network exposure but is not an authentication boundary. Other local users, compromised applications, malicious browser-mediated requests where applicable, or untrusted Agents operating on the same host may still reach the service. A bearer token grants access based solely on possession. If an unauthenticated caller can mint a long-lived token, the later JWT checks do not establish that the caller was authorized by the account owner ...[truncated 1958 chars]- Remediation
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