T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation
Warning
- Location
SKILL.md:74- Finding
Unbounded Monitoring and Automated Response Instructions
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md, lines 74–89; related instructions at lines 103–107 and 194–198
Vulnerability Type: Excessive system monitoring and consequential response actions without mandatory authorization controls
Risk Level: MediumVulnerable Content
The following is an English translation of the relevant instructions:
text ### Real-Time Monitoring - Process monitoring: Detect abnormal process launches - Network monitoring: Detect suspicious connections - File monitoring: Detect access to sensitive files - Resource monitoring: Detect abnormal CPU or memory usage ### Automated Response Playbooks Playbook 1: Prompt injection → Identify → Isolate → Block → Alert → Record Playbook 2: Abnormal login → Identify → Verify → Lock → Notify → Audit Playbook 3: Malicious file → Detect → Isolate → Analyze → Remove → RepairRelated activation and persistence-of-operation language states:
text User: Enable real-time monitoring → Trigger Security Guardian → Start threat-monitoring mode Continuous monitoring: Security is a prolonged effort; monitor 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.Technical Analysis
The skill directs an agent to monitor processes, network connections, sensitive-file access, and resource utilization. It also defines automated actions including blocking activity, locking accounts, quarantining files, removing files, and performing repairs.
These instructions do not establish:
- A mandatory authorization check before monitoring begins.
- A defined target, directory, account, host, or network scope.
- A least-privilege execution boundary.
- A dry-run or report-only default.
- Human approval before account locking, file quarantine, file removal, or remediation.
- Protected-path and protected-account exclusions.
- A rollback mechanism for destructive or disruptive actions.
- A defined monitoring duration or explicit stop cond ...[truncated 2091 chars]
- Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions
- Require explicit, informed authorization before starting any monitoring operation.
- Require the user to define the exact hosts, accounts, directories, processes, interfaces, data classes, and monitoring duration.
- Default to report-only or dry-run behavior. Do not treat a request to monitor as authorization to alter system state.
- Require separate, explicit confirmation before blocking activity, locking an account, quarantining or removing a file, or applying repairs.
- Run monitoring with a dedicated least-privilege identity and separate read-only detection privileges from response privileges.
- Introduce protected-account, protected-process, and protected-path deny lists that automated responses cannot affect.
- Require corroborating signals and documented confidence thresholds before proposing consequential actions.
- Preserve evidence before remediation and generate an audit record containing the requesting identity, approved scope, observations, decisions, and actions.
- Implement reversible quarantine rather than immediate deletion, including integrity metadata, retention limits, and tested restoration procedures.
- Add transaction-safe rollback procedures for account and configuration changes.
- Define a finite monitoring period, visible status reporting, resource limits, and an immediate stop mechanism.
- State clearly that claimed monitoring or remediation must not be reported as active or completed unless the host provides the required tools and verifiable execution evidence.