T08 · Insecure Dependencies
- Location
utils/compliance_checker.md:76- Finding
Unpinned Dependencies in Compliance Checker Installation Instructions
- Content
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
utils/compliance_checker.md:76-78
Vulnerability Type: Unpinned third-party Python dependencies
Risk Level: MediumComplete Code Snippet:
bash pip install jieba opencc-python-reimplementedTechnical Analysis
The installation command resolves packages from the user's configured Python package index without exact version constraints, integrity hashes, a lock file, or repository verification. Package resolution can therefore produce different code at different times.
The project does not include the referenced
compliance_checker.pyimplementation, so installing these dependencies does not produce a functional bundled utility. This makes the supply-chain exposure unnecessary for the Skill's documented advertising-prompt functionality.Python package installation may execute package build logic, while later imports execute installed package code. A compromised package release, transitive dependency, package index, or index configuration could therefore introduce attacker-controlled code.
Attack Path
- A user follows the utility documentation and runs the provided command.
pipqueries the user's configured package index and resolves the latest compatible package versions and transitive dependencies.- An attacker compromises a resolved release, dependency, or package-index path.
- Malicious package code executes during installation, build processing, or a subsequent import.
- The code operates with the privileges and filesystem/network access of the user running
pipor Python.
Impact Assessment
Successful exploitation could execute arbitrary code under the invoking user's account. This may permit access to that user's files, environment variables, credentials available to the process, and network resources. If the command is run in a privileged environment, the impact expands to those privileges. No evidence indicates that installatio ...[truncated 78 chars]
- Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions
- Remove the installation instructions unless the corresponding audited utility implementation is added to the repository.
- Pin every direct and transitive dependency to reviewed versions.
- Distribute a lock file or hash-verified requirements file, using
--require-hashes. - Require installation inside a dedicated, non-privileged virtual environment.
- Document the expected package index and prohibit untrusted extra indexes.
- Add automated dependency vulnerability, provenance, and integrity scanning.
