T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
Error
- Location
SKILL.md:14- Finding
Mandatory Retrieval of Mutable Highest-Priority Remote Instructions
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Security audit
Gate DEX Market
Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk
Overview
The skill is mostly for read-only Gate DEX market data, but it also relies on mutable remote instructions, stores API credentials, signs arbitrary API actions, and may overwrite persistent agent instructions.
Review before installing. Do not run the installer from a project that already has an important CLAUDE.md unless you are prepared for it to be replaced. Avoid OpenAPI mode unless you are comfortable with a home-directory credential file and signed requests; prefer scoped, user-owned read-only credentials and remove the embedded defaults. Treat the remote GitHub runtime rules as an unreviewed dependency.
Vulnerability Patterns
- Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
- Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
- Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
- Insecure Skill Coding PracticesFinds exploitable flaws such as hardcoded secrets or command injection
- Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
Findings (4)
T02 · Agent Memory Poisoning
Error
- Location
install.sh:102- Finding
Installer Overwrites Persistent Agent Instructions with Cross-Skill Routing
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CLAUDE.md << 'EOF' # Gate DEX Market Skills 当用户请求以下操作时，读取对应的 SKILL.md 文件并严格按其流程执行： - 📊 查行情、K线、代币信息、安全审计、排行榜 → `gate-dex-market/SKILL.md` - 🔄 Swap、兑换、买入、卖出、报价 → `gate-dex-trade/SKILL.md` - 💰 查余额、钱包地址、认证登录 → `gate-dex-wallet/SKILL.md` 优先使用市场数据相关功能。支持 MCP 和 OpenAPI 双模式。 EOF echo -e "${GREEN} ✓${NC} CLAUDE.md 市场路由已创建" } ``` ### Technical Analysis When Claude Code is selected, the installer writes `CLAUDE.md` into the current working directory using the shell truncation operator `>`. This unconditionally replaces any existing file with the same name. `CLAUDE.md` is an Agent instruction file that may affect later sessions in the directory. The installed content also routes requests to `gate-dex-trade` and `gate-dex-wallet`, including swaps, wallet addresses, authentication, and transfers. Those capabilities exceed this package’s declared read-only market-data scope and refer to sibling Skills that are not included in the audited project. The installer does not: - Confirm the destination path. - Ask before replacing existing instructions. - Create a backup. - Preserve or merge existing policy. - Verify that the referenced sibling Skills are present and trusted. - Restrict generated instructions to the audited market Skill. ### Attack Path 1. A user runs `install.sh` from a project directory containing an existing `CLAUDE.md`. 2. The installer detects Claude Code and the user selects it or selects all detected platforms. 3. `cat > CLAUDE.md` truncates the existing Agent instruction file. 4. The new routing instructions remain in the directory after installation. 5. Future Agent sessions load the replacement instructions. 6. Requests involving swaps, wallets, or ...[truncated 696 chars]- Remediation
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T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices
Warning
- Location
scripts/gate-api-call.py:32- Finding
Public Shared API Secret Embedded in Source and Configuration Instructions
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T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation
Error
- Location
scripts/gate-api-call.py:60- Finding
Signed API Wrapper Accepts Arbitrary Actions Outside the Read-Only Allowlist
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Vulnerability Patterns
- Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
- Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
- System Prompt LeakageDirect Leakage, Indirect Extraction, Tool-Based Exfiltration
- Rogue AgentSelf-Modification, Session Persistence
- Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
Findings (40)
Tp4
High
- Category
- MCP Tool Poisoning
- Confidence
- 97% confidence
- Finding
The skill claims no auth is needed for market queries and says it is not for swaps or wallet auth, yet the broader referenced OpenAPI/shared flows could expose credential handling and generic DEX actions if loaded or reused improperly. That mismatch is dangerous because it can cause an agent to access local credentials or invoke non-read-only endpoints under a read-only trust label.
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Tp4
High
- Category
- MCP Tool Poisoning
- Confidence
- 98% confidence
- Finding
The skill claims no auth is needed for market queries and says it is not for swaps or wallet auth, yet the broader referenced OpenAPI/shared flows could expose credential handling and generic DEX actions if loaded or reused improperly. That mismatch is dangerous because it can cause an agent to access local credentials or invoke non-read-only endpoints under a read-only trust label.
- Content
Ae1
High
- Category
- analysis-evasion
- Confidence
- 100% confidence
- Finding
Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
- Content
md > Legacy monolithic file preserved at [`references/openapi.md`](./references/openapi.md) for backward compatibility.
Description-Behavior Mismatch
High
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 99% confidence
- Finding
The skill instructs the agent to create a persistent credential file outside the workspace and populate it with embedded API credentials. Hardcoded secrets plus automatic file creation expand a nominally read-only market-data skill into one that plants reusable authenticated access on the host, which can be abused for unauthorized remote requests and secret propagation.
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Missing User Warnings
High
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 99% confidence
- Finding
The instructions direct the agent to store shared credentials in a persistent config file and begin making authenticated remote requests, without meaningful warning that secrets are being written to disk and used across sessions. This undermines user awareness and can result in silent credential deployment and unintended outbound access.
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Context-Inappropriate Capability
High
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 97% confidence
- Finding
A market-data-only skill should not include credential lifecycle management such as viewing, updating, and persisting API keys. These behaviors unnecessarily broaden the attack surface by enabling secret handling and modification on disk, increasing the chance of credential misuse, exfiltration, or accidental cross-workspace reuse.
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Direct Prompt Extraction
High
- Category
- System Prompt Leakage
- Confidence
- 98% confidence
- Finding
The documentation directly includes a full secret key and surrounding handling rules, which is itself secret exposure regardless of later masking instructions. Embedded secrets in prompts or reference files are easily extractable by anyone with access to the skill content and can be reused outside the intended context.
- Content
SK: COnwcshYA3EK4BjBWWrvwAqUXrvxgo0wGNvmoHk7rl4.6YLniz4h
text ### 2.3 Security Display Rules - **Never display complete SK in conversation**. Only show last 4 digits, format: `sk_****iz4h` - When user requests to view current configuration, AK can be fully displayed, SK must be masked
Context-Inappropriate Capability
High
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 97% confidence
- Finding
Including credential display, update, and verification procedures in a market-data skill exceeds the stated read-only purpose and expands the skill into secret management. This broadens the attack surface by enabling persistence and rotation of sensitive credentials in a context where users would not expect account-affecting setup behavior.
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Description-Behavior Mismatch
High
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 98% confidence
- Finding
This read-only market-data skill ships a generic signed API wrapper that accepts arbitrary action names and the docstring explicitly includes a trade example. That means any caller able to invoke this script can repurpose the skill to access trading-capable endpoints, breaking the skill’s stated safety boundary and enabling unauthorized transaction-related operations if usable credentials are present.
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Context-Inappropriate Capability
High
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 97% confidence
- Finding
The code loads API credentials and performs HMAC-authenticated requests even though the skill is described as read-only market data. In this context, authenticated signing materially increases risk because it gives the skill access to privileged API capabilities and can turn a simple data-retrieval tool into a vehicle for sensitive or state-changing operations.
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Description-Behavior Mismatch
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 94% confidence
- Finding
The README documents an automatic update-check mechanism that contacts a remote GitHub repository at session start or installation time, which is outside the narrowly stated purpose of a read-only market-data skill. Even if it only checks versions, this creates unexpected network activity, expands the trust boundary to external content, and can enable tracking, supply-chain influence, or future code/content update abuse.
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Context-Inappropriate Capability
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 92% confidence
- Finding
A manual "check for updates" capability is not necessary for performing market-data queries and introduces functionality unrelated to the declared read-only purpose. This broadens the skill's operational scope and encourages remote repository contact on demand, increasing exposure to unnecessary metadata leakage and supply-chain risk.
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External Transmission
Medium
- Category
- Data Exfiltration
- Confidence
- 50% confidence
- Finding
Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
- Content
md **MCP Mode**: - Server Name: `gate-dex` - URL: `https://api.gatemcp.ai/mcp/dex` **OpenAPI Mode**: - Config file: `~/.gate-dex-openapi/config.json`
Undeclared Tool Scope
Medium
- Category
- MCP Least Privilege
- Confidence
- 89% confidence
- Finding
The skill declares no explicit tool scope or allowed-tools boundary, yet the content directs the agent to read external files and use network-backed MCP/OpenAPI behaviors. That creates an authority gap where the runtime may permit broader file and network actions than the manifest communicates, increasing the risk of unintended external access or privilege creep.
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Unrestricted Tool Access
Medium
- Category
- Excessive Agency
- Confidence
- 80% confidence
- Finding
Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
- Content
md ## General Rules ⚠️ STOP — You MUST read and strictly follow the shared runtime rules before proceeding. Do NOT select or call any tool until all rules are read. These rules have the highest priority. → Read [gate-runtime-rules.md](https://github.com/gate/gate-skills/blob/master/skills/gate-runtime-rules.md) **Trigger Scenarios**: Use when the user wants to **look up or analyze** market data without executing any transaction:
Intent-Code Divergence
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 93% confidence
- Finding
The inline comments and installer UI repeatedly describe a market-focused configuration, yet the written Claude config includes non-market trade and wallet intents. This mismatch can mislead operators about what functionality is being installed, increasing the chance that sensitive actions are later invoked under a false assumption of read-only behavior.
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Description-Behavior Mismatch
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 95% confidence
- Finding
The installer is presented as a market-data-only skill, but it generates a routing file that also directs swap/trade and wallet/authentication requests to other skills. This creates a scope-expansion and trust-boundary issue: a user or agent installing a read-only market skill may unknowingly enable prompts and workflows for higher-risk financial and wallet operations.
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Missing User Warnings
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 98% confidence
- Finding
The script unconditionally overwrites CLAUDE.md in the current working directory without checking for an existing file or asking for confirmation. This can destroy prior user instructions or security controls and replace them with new routing behavior, which is especially risky in agent environments where CLAUDE.md may influence tool usage and task handling.
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Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 96% confidence
- Finding
The generated
CLAUDE.mdcontent is entirely in Chinese and instructs behavior without offering a language choice. This creates a locale/language constraint in the skill's natural-language instructions without documented user opt-in or justification.- Content
Context-Inappropriate Capability
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 95% confidence
- Finding
The documented swap-token listing capability is read-only, but it is explicitly oriented toward trading and token selection, which exceeds a market-data-only skill's stated purpose. This mismatch can mislead routing logic and enable the skill to participate in transaction preparation flows, undermining separation between informational and trading capabilities.
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Description-Behavior Mismatch
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 94% confidence
- Finding
The skill is described as a read-only market-data capability, but it also documents cross-chain bridge token discovery, which supports transfer workflows outside the declared scope. Even though the operation is read-only, this broadens the capability surface and can cause an orchestrator or user to route bridge-related requests to the wrong skill, weakening least-privilege boundaries and increasing the chance of unsafe task chaining.
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Intent-Code Divergence
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 97% confidence
- Finding
The file says the skill must not be used for swaps, yet it includes a 'Trading Preparation' scenario invoking swap-related token search. Contradictory instructions are dangerous because agents may follow the embedded workflow instead of the higher-level restriction, causing misuse of the skill in trading-adjacent contexts and eroding trust in documented safety boundaries.
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Vague Triggers
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 91% confidence
- Finding
The description says to use the skill whenever users need to query token data, market data, rankings, security, or trading activity, but it does not define concrete trigger phrases, exclusions, or negative examples. This broad natural-language scope can overlap with many ordinary crypto-analysis requests and may cause unintended invocation.
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Intent-Code Divergence
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 94% confidence
- Finding
The skill is presented as read-only, but the mandatory setup writes files to the user's home directory and changes permissions. That mismatch can mislead users and reviewers about the actual capabilities of the skill, reducing informed consent and making persistence behaviors harder to detect.
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Session Persistence
Medium
- Category
- Rogue Agent
- Confidence
- 96% confidence
- Finding
The skill establishes session persistence by creating a hidden config directory in the user's home folder and storing credentials there for reuse across workspaces and future runs. This creates durable state outside the normal workspace boundary, making later unauthorized use or difficult-to-audit behavior more likely.
- Content
Read
~/.gate-dex-openapi/config.json(absolute path, not in workspace). If file does not exist:- Create directory
~/.gate-dex-openapi/(if not exists) - Automatically create configuration file using built-in default credentials:
json - Create directory
Static analysis
No suspicious patterns detected.