T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation
- Location
SKILL.md:12- Finding
Unnecessary Unrestricted Network Permission
- Content
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md, lines 12-13
Vulnerability Type: Excessive network permission
Risk Level: MediumVulnerable Configuration:
yaml network: allowed: trueTechnical Analysis
The skill requests unrestricted network access even though its documented workflow only requires local operations: monitoring the screen, capturing slide images, performing OCR, and writing notes under
~/Documents/Notes/SlideSniper.No network destination, protocol, or network-dependent feature is documented. The permission therefore violates the principle of least privilege by granting a capability beyond the skill's stated operational requirements. Because the skill processes screenshots and extracted screen text, misuse of this capability could create an exfiltration channel for potentially sensitive visual information.
The reviewed file does not contain an instruction to transmit data, an external endpoint, or executable code that performs exfiltration. Exploitation would consequently require malicious or compromised runtime instructions, implementation logic, or execution context to misuse the granted permission.
Attack Path
- A user activates the slide-monitoring functionality.
- The skill captures video frames and extracts text from the displayed slides.
- Sensitive information may enter the skill's processing context through screenshots or OCR output.
- Malicious or compromised runtime logic takes advantage of the unrestricted network permission.
- The captured images or extracted text are transmitted to an attacker-controlled destination without requiring an additional network authorization boundary.
Impact Assessment
Successful exploitation could expose slide screenshots, OCR text, course materials, meeting content, or other information inadvertently visible within the monitored screen region. The permission does not itself provide shell execution, filesystem ...[truncated 161 chars]
- Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions
Disable network access because the documented functionality is local:
yaml network: allowed: falseIf a future feature legitimately requires network connectivity:
- Allow only explicitly documented and trusted destinations.
- Restrict permitted protocols, ports, and request types.
- Require informed user consent before transmitting screenshots or OCR output.
- Minimize or redact captured data before transmission.
- Prevent access to private, loopback, link-local, and cloud metadata addresses.
- Record visible audit logs describing what data was transmitted and where.
