T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices
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scripts/ip_risk_scanner.py:80- Finding
Unencrypted IP Intelligence API Permits Report and Score Manipulation
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/dev/null) if [ -n "$GEO_RESULT" ] && ! echo "$GEO_RESULT" | grep -q '"status":"fail"'; then ``` ### Technical Analysis The scanner retrieves security-relevant IP metadata from `ip-api.com` over plaintext HTTP. HTTP provides neither transport confidentiality nor server authentication. An attacker able to observe or modify traffic—such as a malicious Wi-Fi operator, compromised gateway, ISP-level interceptor, or local network attacker—can read the queried IP address and replace the returned JSON. In the Python scanner, the returned organization, ISP, country, and status fields are trusted by the scoring logic. Modified fields can therefore change deductions, displayed recommendations, and whether a report satisfies the automatic-save threshold. Response authenticity is not verified beyond JSON parsing. The flagged static pre-scan allegation that the shell script uses `curl | bash` was not confirmed. Curl retrieves JSON into a variable and does not execute the response. The actual issue is insecure transport, not remote payload execution. ### Attack Path 1. A user invokes the scanner with a target IP address. 2. The scanner requests `http://ip-api.com/json/` over an attacker-observable network. 3. A network-positioned attacker intercepts the plaintext request. 4. The attacker returns syntactically valid JSON containing favorable country, ISP, organization, and status values. 5. The scanner a ...[truncated 988 chars]- Remediation
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