T07 · Tool Hijacking and Spoofing
Note
- Location
- scripts/healthcheck.sh:1
- Finding
- Unconditional and Misidentified Health-Check Result## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `scripts/healthcheck.sh`, lines 1–2 **Vulnerability Type**: Health-check spoofing and component identity mismatch **Risk Level**: Low **Complete Code Snippet**: ```bash #!/usr/bin/env bash echo "ok: pipiwu-benchmark-beta-skill 1.2.0" ``` ### Technical Analysis The health-check script always prints an `ok` result and exits successfully without validating the availability, configuration, dependencies, or operation of the declared Skill. It also reports the identity `pipiwu-benchmark-beta-skill`, while the package metadata identifies the component as `support-queue-operations`. This creates a spoofed health signal: monitoring or orchestration software invoking the script may treat the package as healthy solely because the shell process returns success. The identity mismatch can additionally cause operators or automated systems to associate the result with the wrong component. ### Attack Path 1. An operator, deployment process, or monitoring system invokes `scripts/healthcheck.sh`. 2. The script performs no substantive health or integrity validation. 3. It prints a successful result for an unrelated component name. 4. The script exits with status code zero because the `echo` command succeeds. 5. Downstream automation accepts the package as healthy or records the incorrect identity, potentially allowing a broken or substituted artifact to remain undetected. ### Impact Assessment Exploitation does not directly grant additional operating-system privileges or enable arbitrary code execution. The affected scope is the integrity of local health monitoring, package validation, deployment decisions, and component identification. Systems that rely on this script may incorrectly accept an unavailable, misconfigured, or incorrectly packaged Skill as operational.
- Remediation
- ## Remediation Suggestions - Replace the unrelated identifier with the declared component name, `support-queue-operations`. - Validate concrete requirements, such as the presence and readability of required templates and scripts. - If the Skill depends on external commands, verify that they are installed and executable. - Print diagnostic failures to standard error and return a nonzero exit status whenever a check fails. - Consider verifying the declared version against `SKILL.md` rather than duplicating an unchecked hardcoded value. - Add automated tests confirming that the health check fails when required files or dependencies are absent and that its reported identity matches package metadata.