T08 · Insecure Dependencies
Warning
- Location
- requirements.txt:4
- Finding
- Unbounded Third-Party Dependency Version## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `requirements.txt:4` **Vulnerability Type**: Unbounded dependency version and missing integrity verification **Risk Level**: Medium ### Vulnerable Code ```text web3>=6.0.0 ``` The installation instructions repeat this unconstrained dependency specification in `SKILL.md:160-163` and `SKILL.md:301-304`. ### Technical Analysis The project accepts any current or future `web3` version greater than or equal to 6.0.0. It does not provide an upper version boundary, lockfile, or package integrity hashes. Consequently, the exact code installed cannot be determined from the audited project. Python package installation can execute package build logic with the privileges of the user running `pip`. Moreover, imported dependency code executes with the same filesystem, environment, and network access as the Skill. The broad constraint also allows future incompatible releases to be selected automatically. The implementation directly imports `requests`, but `requests` is not explicitly declared in `requirements.txt`; its availability currently depends on the transitive dependency graph. This weakens dependency reproducibility further. ### Attack Path 1. An attacker compromises a permitted future release of `web3` or one of its transitive dependencies. 2. The compromised version continues to satisfy `web3>=6.0.0`. 3. A user follows the documented installation process and runs `pip install -r requirements.txt`. 4. The package manager resolves and installs the compromised version because no reviewed version or hash is enforced. 5. Malicious installation or import-time code executes with the installing or invoking user's privileges. This path depends on an upstream supply-chain compromise; no malicious dependency payload was found in the audited project itself. ### Impact Assessment A compromised dependency would execute with the same privileges as the user installing or running th ...[truncated 295 chars]
- Remediation
- ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Pin `web3` and all direct dependencies to specifically reviewed versions. 2. Declare `requests` explicitly rather than relying on transitive installation. 3. Generate and commit a reproducible lockfile containing the complete transitive dependency graph. 4. Require package hashes during deployment, for example through a hash-locked requirements file and `pip install --require-hashes`. 5. Use an automated dependency scanner and a controlled process for reviewing and updating pinned versions. 6. Install dependencies in an isolated virtual environment under a non-privileged account.