T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices
- Location
SKILL.md:82- Finding
Sensitive Webhook URLs and Response Bodies May Be Exposed in Logs
- Content
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md, line 82
Vulnerability Type: Sensitive information exposure through excessive logging
Risk Level: MediumComplete Code Snippet:
markdown - Log every attempt: URL, status code, response time, response bodyTechnical Analysis
The skill directs implementers to record complete webhook URLs and response bodies for every delivery attempt without requiring redaction or data minimization.
Webhook URLs commonly contain opaque endpoint credentials, signatures, API keys, tenant identifiers, or bearer-like tokens in query parameters or path segments. Response bodies may contain confidential application data, personal information, internal diagnostics, or credentials. Recording these values verbatim expands their exposure to log aggregation systems, operational dashboards, backups, support personnel, and other users with log-reading permissions.
Although line 48 separately recommends redacting sensitive fields when logging failed inbound payloads, that safeguard is not included in the delivery-tracking instruction at line 82.
Attack Path
- An application follows the skill guidance and stores the complete destination URL and response body for every webhook delivery.
- A webhook endpoint contains an authentication token or signature in its path or query string, or returns sensitive content in its response.
- The complete value is forwarded to application logs, an observability service, a debugging dashboard, or a log backup.
- A lower-privileged operator, compromised logging account, malicious support user, or attacker with read access to exported logs retrieves the sensitive value.
- Where the exposed value remains valid, the attacker reuses it to access or impersonate the webhook endpoint. Sensitive response content may also be disclosed directly.
Impact Assessment
Exploitation requires access to the affected logs or logging infrastructur ...[truncated 523 chars]
- Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions
- Replace full destination URLs in logs with a non-sensitive endpoint identifier and, when operationally necessary, the normalized scheme and host only.
- Remove URL user information and redact query values, signatures, tokens, secret path segments, authorization headers, and other credentials before logging.
- Do not record webhook response bodies by default. Prefer status codes, response times, body sizes, and correlation identifiers.
- If limited response content is necessary for diagnostics, use an explicit field allowlist, enforce strict size limits, and apply structured redaction before storage.
- Apply least-privilege access controls to webhook delivery logs and audit access to them.
- Encrypt logs in transit and at rest, define short retention periods, and ensure that backups and third-party observability platforms receive the same protections.
- Add automated tests with representative secret-bearing URLs and sensitive response fields to verify that logging filters cannot expose them.
