T08 · Insecure Dependencies
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- Location
- requirements.txt:1
- Finding
- Unpinned Third-Party Dependencies Allow Unreviewed Package Code## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `requirements.txt`, lines 1-4 **Vulnerability Type**: Supply-chain dependency risk **Risk Level**: Medium **Complete Code Snippet**: ```text psutil openpyxl pandas scikit-learn ``` ### Technical Analysis The project declares four third-party Python packages without exact versions or cryptographic hashes. Consequently, each installation may resolve to whichever compatible release is currently available from the configured package index rather than the versions originally reviewed and tested. This does not establish that any listed package is currently malicious. However, it removes reproducibility and integrity controls. A compromised package release, compromised package-index account, unsafe private-index precedence, or maliciously altered package source could introduce executable code after this Skill has been reviewed. Python packages may execute code during build or installation, and their imported modules execute with the privileges of the `monitoring.py` process. ### Attack Path 1. An attacker compromises a listed package's distribution account, package-index delivery path, or an organization's higher-priority private package source. 2. The attacker publishes a malicious release under one of the unpinned package names. 3. A user or automated installer resolves `requirements.txt` after that release becomes available. 4. `pip` downloads and installs the unreviewed release because no exact version or expected hash is specified. 5. Malicious build-time code executes during installation, or malicious runtime code executes when `monitoring.py` imports the dependency. 6. The payload operates with the installing user’s or Skill process’s permissions. ### Impact Assessment Successful exploitation could provide arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the account installing or invoking the Skill. The resulting scope may include access to files available to that acco ...[truncated 414 chars]
- Remediation
- ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Pin every direct dependency to an explicitly reviewed version, for example: ```text psutil==<reviewed-version> openpyxl==<reviewed-version> pandas==<reviewed-version> scikit-learn==<reviewed-version> ``` 2. Generate a lock file that also fixes all transitive dependencies. 3. Record SHA-256 hashes and install with: ```bash python -m pip install --require-hashes -r requirements.txt ``` 4. Generate pins and hashes from a trusted, isolated build environment rather than inserting unverified versions manually. 5. Configure an approved package index explicitly and prevent dependency resolution from untrusted or unintended extra indexes. 6. Scan locked dependencies for known vulnerabilities and review dependency updates before regenerating the lock file. 7. Install and execute the Skill under a non-privileged account with only the filesystem and system-information access required for local monitoring.