T08 · Insecure Dependencies
- Location
SKILL.md:878- Finding
Unpinned Third-Party Python Dependencies
- Content
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md, lines 878 and 883
Vulnerability Type: Supply-chain risk from mutable, unverified dependencies
Risk Level: MediumComplete Code Snippet
bash pip install opencv-python numpybash winget install TesseractOCR.Tesseract pip install pytesseractTechnical Analysis
The Skill instructs users or an executing agent to install third-party packages without pinning reviewed versions or verifying package hashes. Consequently, each installation resolves to whatever package release and dependency graph the configured package index serves at execution time.
This makes installation non-reproducible and creates a supply-chain exposure. If a package release, maintainer account, package-index route, or transitive dependency is compromised, installation or subsequent import could execute attacker-controlled code in the user's Python environment. The documented
wingetcommand is similarly unpinned, although the primary finding concerns the Python packages installed throughpip.No evidence in the reviewed file demonstrates that these packages are currently malicious. The vulnerability is the absence of dependency integrity controls.
Attack Path
- An attacker compromises an upstream package, maintainer account, distribution channel, or transitive dependency.
- The attacker publishes a malicious release that satisfies the unbounded dependency request.
- A user or agent follows the installation commands in
SKILL.md. pipresolves and installs the attacker-controlled release without checking a project-supplied version lock or expected hash.- Malicious code runs during an applicable installation hook or when the dependency is imported by the referenced image-processing workflow.
- The payload operates with the privileges of the user running
pipor the associated Skill.
Impact Assessment
Successful exploitation could permit ...[truncated 632 chars]
- Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions
- Pin every direct dependency to a reviewed, exact version.
- Record and pin the complete transitive dependency graph in a lock file.
- Require cryptographic hashes during installation, for example:
bash python -m pip install --require-hashes -r requirements.txt - Configure an approved package index or internally controlled mirror rather than relying on an unspecified index configuration.
- Pin the Tesseract package version in the
wingetcommand and verify its publisher and installer integrity. - Run installation and image processing in an isolated virtual environment or restricted container without unnecessary credentials.
- Add automated dependency vulnerability and provenance scanning to the release process.
- Commit the referenced scripts and dependency manifest to the audited package so their imports and actual dependency usage can be reviewed together.
