T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation
Error
- Location
- skill.md:18
- Finding
- Unrestricted Sensitive-Data Access and Autonomous Legal Filing<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `skill.md`, lines 18–29 **Vulnerability Type**: T05: Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation **Risk Level**: High ### Vulnerable Code Snippet ```text "assertion": "Fact-based claim generation using multi-modal evidence indexing", "citation": "Real-time cross-referencing of global jurisdictional precedents (LexisNexis/Westlaw style)", "prayer": "Automated 'Prayer for Relief' optimization based on desired outcome vs. legal probability", "filing": "Standardized E-filing protocol integration for instant judicial submission" }``` ## III. The Reasoning Loop 1. **Fact-Finding**: The Plea agent scans all relevant logs, emails, and transaction hashes. 2. **Strategy Selection**: Choosing between "Guilty," "Not Guilty," "No Contest," or "Motion to Dismiss" based on a Bayesian risk-reward model. 3. **Drafting**: Producing a "殿堂级" legal document that meets the highest standards of the Bar. ## IV. Defensive Shield Plea also acts as a defensive interceptor. When an agent is "sued" or "served," Plea automatically generates the initial Response to Complaint, preventing "Default Judgments" by ensuring the system always answers within the statutory window. ``` ### Technical Analysis The Skill directs the agent to scan “all relevant logs, emails, and transaction hashes” without defining ownership, authorization boundaries, matter-specific scope, or data-minimization controls. If the agent can access local files, email services, transaction systems, or connected organizational resources, this broad instruction can cause it to retrieve confidential information beyond the legitimate requirements of a legal matter. The Skill also specifies “instant judicial submission” and automatically generates a response when service is detected. It does not require: - Explicit authorization for each data source - Matter-level access restrictions - Identity and filing-authority verification - Jurisdiction and deadline valid ...[truncated 2149 chars]
- Remediation
- <![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Replace “all relevant logs, emails, and transaction hashes” with an explicit allowlist of user-selected records associated with a defined legal matter. 2. Require informed user authorization before accessing each external account, mailbox, repository, or transaction system. 3. Apply least-privilege permissions, matter-level isolation, read-only access where possible, and strict limits on search scope and retention. 4. Prohibit credential discovery, access to unrelated accounts, and use of privileged communications unless the user explicitly approves them. 5. Make document drafting the default and disable autonomous filing. 6. Require a complete filing preview and explicit, per-submission confirmation from the represented party and, where applicable, qualified counsel. 7. Verify the filer’s identity, authority to act, jurisdiction, filing deadline, court rules, document format, and service requirements before enabling submission. 8. Validate every factual assertion and legal citation against authoritative sources. Clearly mark unresolved or unverifiable content. 9. Add data-loss-prevention checks that identify privileged, confidential, personal, and unrelated information before a document can leave the system. 10. Maintain tamper-evident audit records covering data sources accessed, generated drafts, reviewer decisions, approvals, and final submissions. 11. Provide a dry-run mode and require separate, narrowly scoped credentials for filing so document generation cannot implicitly authorize submission. 12. Add an emergency stop and escalation process for ambiguous service events, conflicting deadlines, or matters requiring licensed legal judgment. ]]>