T08 · Insecure Dependencies
Warning
- Location
- requirements.txt:1
- Finding
- Unpinned Third-Party Dependency Allows Unreviewed Package Versions## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `requirements.txt:1` **Vulnerability Type**: Unpinned third-party dependency **Risk Level**: Medium **Complete Code Snippet**: ```text requests ``` ### Technical Analysis The `requests` dependency is declared without an exact version or integrity hash. Each installation may therefore resolve to a different package release, preventing reproducible builds and bypassing assurance that the installed code is the same version that was audited. This does not establish that the current `requests` package is malicious. However, if a future resolved release or its distribution channel were compromised, package code could execute during installation or when imported by `marketplace.py`. Because the application reads `AUTOSYNTHETIX_API_KEY` from its environment, malicious dependency code running in the same process could potentially access that credential. ### Attack Path 1. An attacker compromises a future dependency release or its distribution path. 2. A deployment installs dependencies from `requirements.txt` without a lock file or hash verification. 3. The package manager resolves and installs the compromised release because no reviewed version is pinned. 4. Malicious code executes during installation or when `requests` is imported. 5. The code operates with the installer or application process privileges and may access environment variables, including `AUTOSYNTHETIX_API_KEY`, network resources, and files available to that process. ### Impact Assessment Successful exploitation could permit arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the account installing or running the Skill. The accessible scope could include the AutoSynthetix API credential, marketplace request and response data, readable local files, and network access available to the process. It would not inherently provide privileges beyond those already granted to that process.
- Remediation
- ## Remediation Suggestions - Pin `requests` to an explicitly reviewed version using an exact version constraint, such as `requests==<reviewed-version>`. - Generate and commit a dependency lock file containing all transitive dependency versions. - Require cryptographic hashes during installation, for example through a hash-locked requirements file and `pip install --require-hashes`. - Install packages only from an approved package index over authenticated TLS. - Add automated dependency vulnerability and integrity scanning to the build pipeline. - Run installation and the Skill with a minimally privileged account, exposing only the environment variables and filesystem paths required for operation. - Establish a controlled update process in which dependency upgrades are reviewed, tested, and re-locked before deployment.