T08 · Insecure Dependencies
Warning
- Location
- SKILL.md:43
- Finding
- Unpinned Third-Party Advertising Plugin Installation## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md`, lines 43–47 and 55–57 **Vulnerability Type**: Unpinned third-party dependency installation **Risk Level**: Medium ### Vulnerable Code ```yaml install: - id: openclaw-adspirer kind: node label: "Adspirer Ad Management Plugin" ``` ```bash # Install the plugin openclaw plugins install openclaw-adspirer ``` ### Technical Analysis The skill declares and instructs users to install the third-party `openclaw-adspirer` Node plugin without specifying an audited version, immutable source revision, package checksum, or cryptographic signature. Consequently, the code installed at execution time may differ from the code originally reviewed. The plugin implementation and its transitive dependencies are not included in this project, so their security properties cannot be verified from the available artifact. This is particularly significant because the plugin is advertised as authenticating with multiple advertising platforms, accessing live campaign data, and performing campaign write operations. This finding does not establish that the current plugin release is malicious. It identifies a supply-chain weakness through which a compromised publisher account, replaced package, malicious future release, or dependency confusion event could deliver unauthorized code. ### Attack Path 1. An attacker compromises the package publisher, registry entry, release pipeline, or a transitive dependency associated with `openclaw-adspirer`. 2. The attacker publishes a malicious release under the same unversioned package identifier. 3. A user follows the documented command `openclaw plugins install openclaw-adspirer`. 4. The package manager resolves and installs the attacker-controlled release because no version or integrity value is enforced. 5. The plugin executes with the permissions of the OpenClaw process. 6. When the user authenticates advertising accounts, the malici ...[truncated 851 chars]
- Remediation
- ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Pin `openclaw-adspirer` to a specific, reviewed version rather than resolving the latest available release. 2. Record and verify a cryptographic checksum, package-manager integrity value, or trusted publisher signature before installation. 3. Document the authoritative package registry and source repository so users can detect typosquatting or registry substitution. 4. Use a lockfile or equivalent immutable dependency manifest to pin all transitive dependencies. 5. Audit the plugin source and dependency tree for each upgrade, and deploy updates through a controlled review process. 6. Run the plugin in a restricted sandbox with minimal filesystem, network, and process permissions. 7. Grant only the minimum OAuth scopes required for the requested advertising operations and separate read-only access from write access where supported. 8. Enforce write confirmation and paused-by-default campaign creation outside the plugin, such as through a trusted policy layer, rather than relying solely on the external dependency. 9. Monitor advertising-platform audit logs and alert on unexpected campaign, bid, targeting, creative, or budget changes.